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Informal note in Arabic script. Evidently from an Arabic teacher to another teacher charged with teaching the same pupils earlier in the day. On a …
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Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abū Zakariyyā Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī ("Palermitan"), in Fustat. Dating: ca. March 1055 CE, according …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Late.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (ca. 1007–55 CE). Address on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: letter with another fragment of a document stuck to it; letter mentions [...] ha-Kohen ‘the wise judge’. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Describes his tribulations due to the winter; mentions business in flax; the animals …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם
עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה מן אל[א]סכנדריה ליב בקין מן טבת כתמה
אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ע…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From 'their brother' al-Mumḥe Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Surūr and [...] Ibn Ṭaybūs(?). Also mentions the names Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and al-Kohen al-Dimashqī …
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Trousseau list, probably part of a ketubba, mentioning items such as cushions (makhādd). On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Possibly a letter in Hebrew, though might also be literary with an unusual format. Dated: first third Tammuz 5358 AM. Needs examination.
Divination. In Judaeo-Arabic. Different responses to the client's query are tagged to different numbers. The scribe has a very distinctive hand and downsloping lines. Joins: …
Document in Arabic script. Faded/damaged. Needs examination.
A note concerning a debt to the synagogue.
Magical and astrological text. There are numerous folios from the same book and even more in the same hand (see Joins Suggestions). The scribe often …
Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described …
Legal record (#68) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …
Legal document. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: [..]99 AM, most likely 4799 AM (=1038/39 CE) or 4899 AM (=1138/39 CE). The document mentions Elʿazar ha-Zaqen …
Recto: Letter from a physician named Abu Zikri to a senior colleague, Abu 'Ali. Abu Zikri writes, apparently from the Rīf, seeking advice on the …
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Minute fragment, may be documentary.
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Few details preserved.
Recto: List of items and quantities, such as saffron, aṭrāf ṭīb. potash (ushnān). Verso: Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is asked to pay 7 of something …
Poem/letter in Arabic script, probably from a client to a patron expressing gratitude and servitude. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at the bottom.
Bifolio of business accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …
Recto: legal document concerning debt. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso: probably a subsequent legal document in a different hand, mentioning Abū Yaʿaqov, 10 dinars, …
Literary? Small fragment from an Halakhic treatise or responsum? AA
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a Hebrew beginning to (probably Shemuel b.) Hananya. The opening contains an interesting blessing: "(May God) make your wife at home …
Accounts in a medieval hand.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Consists of rubricated tables filled with names and numbers. The table on recto appears to be headed by …
Literary. Small fragment.
Colophon of a Karaite Bible from Jerusalem
Various pen trials in both Hebrew script and Arabic script. In the upper right corner there is a remarkably mangled rendition of the standard opening …
Book, ownership page, in Arabic script: "this is the copy of Abu al-hasan" in small Hebrew script: "This is what Shemarya b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi bought …
List of names, including Yaʿaqov, Yosef, Hibatallāh b. al-[...], Sulaymān. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Yaḥyā al-[...]. State document? A nameʿĀmir al-S(ʿā?)d also appears on the top left corner, and numerical …
Legal document concerning business matters, particularly the price of wax (thaman al-sham’), and citing various sums of money. Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Fasi, Ibn Ishaq al-Andalusi, …
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Ayyubid-era. Opens with a taqbīl. Mentions "that he went . . . to Cairo"; …
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal report in Arabic script (اطلق سلامة فخر ال… وال… على ال…. السلطانية...). At the top there is an endorsement with …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like a Spanish or Maghribī hand and layout (the address (...al-jalīl al-ḥakīm al-fāḍil) at the top of recto).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Letter from Toviyya to Eliyyahu the judge. Sent to Fustat, to the qāʿa of the faqīh Abū Manṣūr. Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no …
I greet the dignity of the august patron, the great scholar, the honor and holiness of our master and teacher Elijah, the dear prince,
the …
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Fol. 1 verso: List of names in two columns, accompanied by various sums. Fol. 2 verso: accounts of the elder Shalom Ṣughayyir. Fol. 2 recto: …
ذ אסחקסקטר.. הרט? אסוד
List in monumental cursive, contemporary with ENA 2591.1, several names being identical. Six contributing two (dinars it seems); five contributing one; twelve contributing one-half; Total, …
Letter from Ibrahīm b. Yosef al-Ṣabbāgh (Fustat) to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī (Alexandria), ca. 1050. Avraham b. Yosef al-Ṣabbāgh, one of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. …
Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen
List of forty-five contributors, mostly referred to in an abridged and informal way, with coptic numerals. Ca. 1235. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 503, …
Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly dated: looks like 527 AH, which would be 1132/33 CE. But this needs confirmation.
Recto: Accounts of a bookseller (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?). In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. "The four copies from Cairo sold for.... Al-Rayyis Mufaḍḍal has books for …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Ḥalfon to his cousin Menashshe ha-Ḥazzan b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ḥazzan. Not a great deal of the content remains. Ḥalfon wishes …