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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks late.
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Sefaradi-influenced hand. Dating: likely 12th century. Mentions not being able to send something until now; a letter for Ibn S[...]; possibly …
Agreement made by Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Allan with his business partner Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, who takes care of his commercial interests …
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Verso, with the address at the top of recto: Family letter addressed to 'my child, Rivqa.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 14th century. Likely sent from …
Unidentified document with the name or signature Moshe b. Ḥizqiyya at the bottom.
Verso: Various text blocks in Arabic script probably in an Ayyubid-era chancery hand. One is the name Sālim b. Ḥasan; another is [Sham]s al-Dīn Aḥmad …
A legal deed 1180. NO IMAGE. (data from FGP)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso in the first row of entries: 6 Ramaḍān _43 AH but the scribe omitted the hundreds digit. The …
Midrash of Solomon's throne. Joins: Oded Zinger. Cf. T-S NS 260.39, T-S Ar.16.25, and T-S Ar.18(2).115.3.
Tables in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mainly foods and materia medica and amounts.
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to …
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Arabic translation of the Gospel of Matthew 22:21–39. Written over for scribal practice on recto. ASE
Letter about naval warfare off the Ifrīqiyan coast (1100).
I am writing this letter- -may God prolong the life of my lord, the
Sheikh and. make permanent his honoured position, his- success and hap…
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts of a bookseller. In Judaeo-Arabic. A note in the margin mentions Avraham ha-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle ba-Ḥavura and "I, Yefet b. Netanel."
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: transfer of the debt detailed on recto. Dated: last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid = November 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. …
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Legal document. Deed of partnership. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? The names are left blank, and the text is very damaged. Concerning a …
Verso: Letter from a father, unknown location, to his son Baqāʾ, in Fustat. The letter was sent to the shop of Meshullam/Musallam to be held …
Literary text or philosophical jottings in Hebrew. Late.
Verso: Some sort of note in Arabic script, maybe an order of payment. Headed by the glyph. Recto is covered with later jottings in Hebrew …
Letter or letter draft from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet ha-Kohen addressed to two people. Introduction in Hebrew and body in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 10 dinars and various …
Beginning of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (or at least one of the later Maimonidean Nagids) directing the beadle Sulaymān to summon …
Long strip from the right side of a letter written and signed by Yosef b. Arah.
Receipt, with a bunch of names of the contributors, dates, and days of the week on both sides. A few Hebrew characters also appear in …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is Ya'aqov Helevi and the bride is Esther. Faded and damged.
Two legal documents (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān makes a declaration. Needs examination. Dating: Mamlūk era.
Recto: Letter opening with phrases in Hebrew rhyme. Psalms 119:165 is written in a smaller script in two short lines preceding the letter proper. No …
Letter from Muslim/Musallam, reporting the arrival of a letter from Saʿadya the cantor and mentioning business matters and a certain Barukh, who is coming to …
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Drafts of two legal documents, the first a declaration by a father regarding bequests to his sons. Incompletely drafted in Fustat. Dated 155?/1238-1248. (Information from …
4 pages containing permutations of YWHW with various vowels, and on the last page, God's 13 attributes along with a prayer designed for invoking any …
Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The …
End of a short letter or note. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. This portion contains only effusive praises for the addressee (e.g. ("the lamp of the umma, east and west") and …
Small fragment containing random jottings including the name of the city of al-Maḥalla surrounded by letters and radiating lines and the name of the Nagid …
Marriage document. Damaged and creased document. Contains list of items, commonly found in dowry lists included or attached to a ketubah. Here, not as usual, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late (uses the currency cedid). Mentions tailoring (khiyāṭa). The primary text on this fragment is an exegetical work in Hebrew.
Late accounts with Hebrew numerals. Mentions names such as Sirāj al-Dīn (שראג אלדין); ʿUbayd b. Abū ʿUbayd; Masʿūd; ʿAbd al-Qādir. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment (right side) of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. (Krakowski and Rustow, Formula as Content, JSS 20, p. 141 n. 34 …
Mercantile account mentioning goods (e.g. oil and garments such as shuqqa) and prices. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Verso: Small piece of an Arabic document, mentioning Cairo (من كل بد فقال له …
Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Sayyidnā. Needs examination for content.
Ketubba fragment. A line of holes on the side.
Three columns of a literary text in Arabic script retelling the conquests of Joshua b. Nun. This narrative ends with a second-person address, perhaps directed …
Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Possibly a letter of appeal or a divorce document narrating the writer's circumstances. He was married for 14 years until …
Family letter in Arabic, in Arabic script. There are a handful of Hebrew words, also in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th century, based on the …
Letter mentioning the currency ashrafī. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …