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On recto piyyut. On verso fragment from a ketubbah contains mostly the dowry list. AA
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Letter to Eliyyahu concerning the thirty-dirham balance of the capitation tax (jizya) owed by Abu al-Makarim, who is in great need of it because he …
כאן קד תקדם קולי ללמולי אלשיך אלאגל מר' ור' אליה ש'צ'
פי מעני אלשיך בו אלמכארם באנה קד בקי עליה מן אלגזיה
ל' דרהם והו פי שדה וכ…
In your n(ame), Oh Merci(ful)!
I have previously written to the august elder and patron our mas(ter) and tea(cher) Elijah (may his) R(ock) …
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Two minute fragments with faint text on the recto and verso, possibly red ink.
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised …
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Late account in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolio. Probably the same scribal hand as JRL B 4158 (PGPID 28642). Requires further examination. MCD.
Deed of lease. Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. …
Note addressed to Yaʿaqov Abū l-Munā. The sender, a scribe, already sent with Abū Manṣūr the cantor what he needed to send, and asks the …
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Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Apparently a letter in Ladino, per FGP.
Note of a person confined to his house owing to illness this evening, requesting a friend to lend him the Book of Creation by Saadya. …
Business letter in Hebrew. Dating: 16th c? On a consignment of semolina. Information from JRL online catalogue.
Narrow bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The left page of verso is headed with his motto ברכאת ייי היא תאעשיר. …
Writing exercises. Mentions Moshe, David, and Yiṣḥaq, but these may not be actual people.
Verso (original use): Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic formatted like an order of payment. In which the addressee (mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl) is asked to provide something …
A letter in Judeo Arabic? No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Legal document written for a woman and signed by Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181), both known from …
Legal document. Dated: 1156. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in the Fayyūm, …
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Small and much faded. Dinars are mentioned, seems to be from a legal deed.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 5 Ṣafar 520 AH = 2 March 1126 CE. Sayyid al-Kull b. Jaʿfar, a clothier in Fustat …
Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the …
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Family or business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Addresses somebody named Abū l-Riḍā and exhorts him to help somebody, "first because he is …
Letter from Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing the top of recto and the address on verso. Dating: Goitein dates it to ca. 1210 CE, based on the …
Table of contents for a volume of responsa, including one about a marital problem of people in Toledo.
Will in which a dyer setting out for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem makes provisions for his wife and children in the event that something should …
A few lines in Arabic script, very faded. The rest of the bifolium is occupied with Hebrew literary text of various kinds.
Recto: Unusual Aramaic-Hebrew legal document, or rather an addendum to a legal document, perhaps describing irregularities in certain words? Each entry refers to a portion …
Accounts in Arabic script. Bifolio. Numbers written out in full rather than as numerals. Several numbers are in the hundreds. Mentions Thursday. Mentions people such …
Recto: Letter from Ṭurfa, in Fustat, to her sister Esther in the house of Subayʿ (?), unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1422 …
Account.
Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to a notable, in Fustat. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1130s CE. Concerning the withholding of money …
Bifolio of business accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Shevat 5312 AM (1552 CE). The main heading on the recto states that the accounts are in the name …
Probably a fiscal account.
Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.
Fragment of a legal document in which the signature of Toviyya b. Daniel appears.
א ב י מ ק ת
ו א ס ב מ נו ר י ש שמ
צ ר ח ה ו ג י קן עי עיה
Ownership note on a literary text, for Shela (b.?) Nissim. אנתקל בחכם אלרת(?) לשלה נסים קכלב(?)
Fragment of a fiscal document referring to the annual budget of the Dīwān al-Abwāb (aka Dīwān al-Kharājī wa-l-Hilālī) "من مال ضمان ديوان الابواب". Cf. ENA …
Provincial fiscal account. Provincial because the scribal hand is less sophisticated than the documents produced in the capital. Mentions "dīwān bi-rasm" and maybe "al-muqṭaʿyn". Could …
Fragment of a page in lovely handwriting mostly dealing with stories from the Bible. Deut 20:16 is quoted; Jericho is named, along with Sulayman ibn …
Probably a petition addressed to al-Mansur ʿImād al-Dīn and various sums; several Hebrew and Aramaic words are written between the Arabic text, including jottings - …
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Damaged, few details preserved. May be …
Possibly from a historical chronicle. Headed, "One of the governors (ʿāmil min ʿummāl) of Homs wrote to ʿUmayr(?) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz(?). . . ." This is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. Refers to a request from al-Shaykh al-Jalīl to hasten something... someone's honor... someone's safe arrival... and …
List of items including 'Iraqi purple (dye)'.
Account of building operations ca. 1240. A double leaf taken from a notebook, written in Arabic script. The document mentions work on a dome and …
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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer traveled safely from Rashid to Alexandria, after he …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Legal record (#41) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 40-42) Folio 10v
Recto: Fragments of two lines of a grand state document, perhaps a decree. The word ملاحظتك is discernible.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Concerning business in saffron and ambergris. Mentions Baqāʾ.