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Receipt for a sum of wariq dirhams.
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Fragment from the beginning of a legal document. Dating: probably ca. 16th–17th century. Mentions names such as Shemuel ערילה(?), the family name Krispin, and Yehuda.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].
Ketubba for the marriage of Sahlān and his bride. Ca. mid 11th century CE. Written by Yefet b. David. Signed by Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen ha-Parnas b. …
Fragment conveying good wishes for the holidays and reporting on the sale of indigo (nil) in al-Mahalla which had been successful but which had been …
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Arabic script (VMR)
IB III, 24. Avraham Ibn Yiju's inventory of baggage for journey from India to the west. Written in India, probably in 1140 or 1149. Elizabeth …
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Writing exercises in Hebrew with the signature of a certain Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq Bahlūl. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. MCD.
Debt contract for a sum of 300 dirhams. One of the parties is Hiba. Written and signed by Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen. There is an …
Formulas of letters to VIPs.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts (mentioning, for example, Umm Muhammad). ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together
Accounts.
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions saffron; pepper; mastic; rice; raisins; dates; four chickens; 25 eggs; Ibrāhīm.
Late accounts in Arabic.
Letter of complaint to Maimonides regarding funds for the Qodesh. Written in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Dating ca. 1168–1204 CE, …
. . . (R. Isaiah ha-Levi was appointed to be in charge of the qōdesh since he excelled in)
piety and trustworthiness in his administration o…
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Report or petition fragment, addressed to a higher state official regarding the matters in southern Upper Egypt, contains the taqbīl clause towards the end. The …
للحضور صحبة النايب مقتفي؟ الرجال…. ريب؟
وعبد الغني وان رفعت الرخصة لهم وكثر طمعهم وقل بذاك عدالتهم؟
والمملوك يشكر الانعام عليه بخروج الا…
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Letter in Ladino. From Daniʾel Elyaqim to Shelomo Elyaqim (? אליקם). Dated 19 Ṭevet. Mentions Ḥayyim Mizraḥi. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a table listing names and grave locations in Nāblus (Shekhem) and perhaps other cities. A few partial gravesite entries are visible alongside an …
A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above …
Magical prayer for protection (from every evil, evil eye and impious persons) written (by an unskilled, possibly Hebrew rather than Coptic) hand in the Bohairic …
Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 1221 CE, as that is the year Anatoli died. He sends …
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Fol. 1: Recto contains two names, perhaps Avraham ha-Rav ha-Gadol Yesod ha-Yeshiva b. Natan Av Bet Din she-le-Kol Yisrael and Ḥiyya b. Meshullam, perhaps witnesses …
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks Abū Isḥāq to obtain for (?bi-rasm) Abū l-ʿAlā' a piece of fabric of high quality (jayyid rafīʿ) and …
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in at least two distinct scribal hands. Dated toward the middle of the verso as 1253 AH which is 1837/38 CE.
Letter of request in which the widow of Abu Sa'id b. Shalom, writing to a Nagid, expresses a cry for help on behalf of her …
Letter from the wife of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat, to her husband Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria. The letter was …
על שמך
וצל כתאבך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וען שוק אלי[ך]
גמע אללה ביננא עלי אשר(!) חאל במנה וכרמה אנה ולי דלך וא[לקאדר עליה]
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Calendar. In Hebrew. For the years 5316 AM (=1555 CE) onward.
Hebrew blessings for bereavement and funerals; on verso the name Isaac b. Saʿadya is mentioned. CUDL
Recipes and/or technical instructions in Ladino. Medical? Needs further examination.
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
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Accounts in Hebrew script. Contributors list? There are names in one column and numbers in another. Dating: Probably 16th century. One of the names is …
Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. He opens, "How long will you remain a widow?" …
כתאבי אלי בנת אלאך אלעזיזה ופקהא אללה תע
ולא ווחש מן טלעתהא ולא מן אכותהא ויא
בנת אכי אלי כם תקעדי ארמלה פמא בקא
יחלקני(?) . . נא . …
Badly damaged text in Hebrew script, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Some of the ligatures have the appearance of abbreviated accounts, but the text is so effaced …
Fiscal document, Ayyubid. Bifolio. There are holes in various configurations indicating where the thread for the binding used to be. Three of the four pages …
Recto: Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni Nagid, though, it should be noted that he is not named directly among the many honorific titles. Written …
Upper part of a letter. Likely addressed to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (שר השרים ונגיד הנגידים). Probably an appeal for charity. The introductory praises are in …
Pen trials, repeating "תגרבת אלקלם" and mentioning the names Avraham and Yiṣḥaq.
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …
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Fragment of a legal document, involving someone named Salāma. There may also be citations from rabbinic sources. (Information in part from CUDL and AA.)
Letter addressed to Abū ʿImrān, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Reporting that the addressee's son (also named Abū ʿImrān?) arrived with nothing but [...] and …
Letter from Fāris b. Ibrāhīm, probably in Jerusalem, to Elishaʿ Fayrūz and Yūsuf Sanbūlī (=Sṭanbūlī?, of Istanbul), probably in Fustat/Cairo. In (rudimentary) Hebrew. Dated: 11 …
Legal record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1077–1055 CE). Khallūf makes a claim on the inheritance of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. The document …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on a legal dispute in a provincial town involving the redemption (from captivity?) of the sisters of Abū l-Najm for 50 …
Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Only the recto was photographed. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Ga'on. Location: …
Accounts, mentioning sums of money and dates. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). Very faded. Mentions a shop and Abū l-Faḍl.
Legal document or account. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ottoman era. Mentioning a purchase made by Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī al-Dajājī.
Accounts in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged. Dating: likely late Mamluk or Ottoman-era.