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Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Shelomo b. Natan ha-Levi, in Fustat. Mentions that there is only a single Torah scroll at …
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Legal document. Dated: 1424 Seleucid = 1112/13 CE. Sason b. Yefet and his wife Hilāla bt. Hiba each claimed ownership rights over a small house. …
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Draft of a ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid = 1089 CE. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanʾel. …
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Literary
Arabic script (VMR)
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة
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Bifolio containing a magical spell in Judaeo-Arabic for extracting venom from a person's body. Invokes the angel Gabriel. There is an additional page written in …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Confirming the arrival of 10 dirhams with Abū ʿImrān, …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, with the continuation written at an angle in the margin. Some phrases: ...فضلا عما . …
Letter addressed to Yedidya Shelomo Yisrael. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Also mentions a R. Navon. The writer mentions wishing to copy a manuscript from a …
Responsum by Yosef Tawazi concerning religion and marriage
Prayers, probably. For assistance in time of persecution. (Information in part from FGP).
Letter probably from Nissim b. Ḥalfon to Abū Saʿīd Nissim b. Nahray. Dating: 11th century. Opens with a report on "difficulties... and the fear that …
Probably literary: two lines in Hebrew/Aramaic mentioning four reshuyot and two reshuyot.
Small fragment in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, torn vertically down the middle. It is difficult to extract any information from what remains. Ends אن شا الله …
Colophon of a Bible
Booklist? Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
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Address of a letter sent to al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-M[...].
Legal record (#64) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Iyyar [5324 …
Accounts, probably. Mentions a date - 5th Rabīʿ II.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerns someone ha-Zaqen ha-Levi titled Rosh ha-Qahal and someone's mother and sister.
Letter of greetings written and signed by Abraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237), to Anatoli b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL)
Colophon of a book written by Shaʾul b. Avraham b. Natan for Yeḥezqel b. Maṣliaḥ b. Shela. (Information from CUDL.)
Mamluk or early Ottoman petition.
Letter fragment from the Yeshiva directed to 'all the communities of Israel in Palestine and in its fortresses, its town and villages...which have remained in …
Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Fragment of a beautifully written business letter, dealing with the sale of various items. The sender reports on his arrival to Alexandria, where he purchased …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The first 7 lines are preserved. Made by al-muʿallim Aḥmad(?) b. [...] b. ʿUthmān al-[...] the sugar seller …
Folio from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise, giving several recipes.
Mercantile letter reporting that everyone at home is well and giving the prices of different goods. Wheat: 1 dinar per 9 waybas. Honey: 5 dinars …
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Small fragment with Hebrew script. Extremely faded.
Fiscal document. The beginnings of the first two lines are preserved. At least in part concerning the revenue from the capitation tax. "Waṣala ilā bayt …
Legal document in which the rabbinical court in Fustat, having to evaluate a workshop for purple making left to an orphan, invites non-Jewish experts to …
Part of a letter from a man to his son, Abū l-Ḥasan Wahb b. ʿImrān, who requests that next time he should write in Hebrew. …
Small strip of parchment with various notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Recto may be for a memorial list: …
The frontispiece and the first daf of the Sabbioneta Kiddushin (printed Elul 5313 = 1543 CE), under the rule of Vespesiano Gonzaga and in the …
Fragmentary list of names with Coptic numerals. AA
Technical instructions of some kind in Arabic.
Minute fragment from a marriage deed. On recto probably from a marriage agreement or ketubah, with monogamy clause and probably a stipulation about domicile. On …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the …
Nearly complete letter from Muḥammad al-Jamāʿī(?) to Muḥammad ʿĀbidīn. Late. Needs examination.
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 …
Arabic, literary.
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shimʿon to Yosef. In Hebrew. Probably late and related to the northern Iraqi material in the rest of the HUC collection.
Numbered list of halakhot, probably for a book’s table of contents. (Information from CUDL)