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Receipt of rent/wage, in late Arabic script. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. The writer mentions the addressee's forgiving nature; his own good intentions; a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla). …
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Letter from the head of the Spanish community in Egypt to the Rosh ha-Ḥakhamim, discussing schisms between the Tripolitan (אלטראבלסיין), Tunisian (התונסיין) and Maghrebi (מערביים) …
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Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they …
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What purports to be a copy of an excerpt from a letter of appointment to the attendant of the synagogue at Ezra's tomb north of …
Bill of release (draft or copy). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Tishrei 1356 Seleucid, which is 1044 CE. Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo …
Late list of commodities, with one entry instead listing the name: Ibrahīm al-Fīlālī. The dating is likely 16th or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …
A representative appointment deed. Deed in the hand of Ḥalfon ben Menashshe ha-Levi (there are documents in his hand from 1100-1138) in which the bride …
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Jottings of a hamdalah Verso: Part of an official state document? - Needs examination
Legal document dealing with inheritance issues (a gift followed by a release). The parties are Eliyya b. Shelaḥya and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. …
Legal document, in Arabic script, late. Receipt of payment of Dawūd al-Yahūdī.
Letter in Hebrew between brothers discussing the travel of the sender's son to Mandatory Palestine and request for sixty pounds (ששים פונט). Based on the …
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Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical work giving prescriptions and including a list of the 10 bodily fluids.
A damaged fragment. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably technical/literary, but maybe a letter. Mentions the use of vitriol (zāj) in prescriptions and a certain year.
Not clear. very little text remaining. also dots on the verso. Seems to be also from the same fragments. same type of late paper and …
Verso: Informal note to al-Nezer (Natan b. Shemuel), active 1128–1164 CE, in which the writer bemoans his state (e.g. mā baqiya lī khāṭir), and writes, …
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With several expressions of deference and petition-like language. Might be a request for a loan of 2 dinars …
A booklet containing copies of eight letters by Rav Sherira Gaon and one letter by Rav Hayye Gaon. End of the 10th century. The letter …
Late letter draft (fragment) in Judaeo-Arabic that is probably 18th or 19th c. The contents of the draft include the common opening phrase that appears …
Bifolio of accounts.
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems. Fragmentary. Mentions wax; a butcher; a wakīl;
List of contributors - needs examination. No image
Beginning of a letter sent to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. S[alāma]. (Information from CUDL)
Arabic script (VMR), literary.
Postscript to a letter, probably. The addressee is asked to continually convey greetings to Abū l-Faḍl al-Ṣayrafī al-Kāzarūnī.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭa'if to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Yefet has sent with Efrayim a vessel containing 20 …
Literary text in Spanish, in a Castilian hand. Legible words include "contraparte" and "a pagarle." Dating: 14th century. Information kindly provided by Lluís Sales i …
State document, one line. "خارجا عما حمل للدار وسلم بحر". Needs examination.
Recto (secondary use): Business accounts in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū mentioning Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Refers to a Barbarī slave (i.e., from Berbera, Somalia) …
Legal document. The bottom part of a quittance from Fusṭāṭ, ca 1150s, in which the trader Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuʾel b. Yehuda Ibn Asad is released …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts. 7 pages. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Letter from the teacher Dāʾūd Ibn al-Ḥaver of Qalyub to the judge Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1225 CE. Complaining about his meager …
ינהי אלממלוך אלי מגלס אלולד
אלעזיז אלפרע אלנביל אלעאלם
אלעאמל מ'רור' ברכות התלמיד
החכם המלמד יהי שמו לעולם
ואעלמ…
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life."
The servant informs the domicile of the dear
young man, the noble branch, the one who (bo…
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Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. May be literary. Might be a prayer with an apostrophe to Muḥammad (yā Mūḥammad...). Probably not a state document …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions testimonies and a "father" (ḥaḍrat al-ab al-muḥtaram). Dated: 26 April 1791 CE (٢٦ شهر ابريلس ١٧٩١). (Information in part …
Document in Arabic script (VMR). Some sort of receipt? Reused for a Hebrew literary text.
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef Ibn al-Haniyy al-Andalusī, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Faḍl Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
One line (plus the glyph) in Arabic script.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1563 Seleucid = 1251/52 CE. (The last digit of the year is quite faded but the letters ותל …
Small fragment of a legal document or documents. Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother." Likely …
Small fragment in Arabic script. Unidentified.
The main text is a long list of greetings, probably originally appended to a letter: Recto, left side: Rabbenu Moshe (this is Maimonides); his brother …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender cites his debts in Fustat as an excuse for his delay. Refers to Abū Zikrī ha-Kohen (perhaps the well-known trader …
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: Refers to the beginning of Ḥeshvan 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117 …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Shemuel b. Aharon to Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Moshe in Fustat, explaining why he could not send the silk which …
Informal note from Faraj Allāh to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: only the right side is preserved. The addressee is asked to give something to …
Fragmentary list of names with Coptic numerals. AA