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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."
No Scholarship Records
Legal document, in Arabic script. Quite faded. Witness clauses on verso with a partially preserved date: 3rd Rabīʿ I. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 80 dirhams or dinars. In the margin: ‘to/on the house of Khalaf b. Mawhūb’. (Information in part from …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Presumably related to recto and also by Abū Zikrī Kohen. The header says "in the name of …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Not completed. In the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Dated: Friday, 2 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid, which is 4 …
Literary. Small fragment.
Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written …
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Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
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Informal note from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu, presumably in Bilbays, to a certain Sheʾerit, who may also be called Ṣāliḥ, and who is probably a cantor, …
Recto: fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Verso: fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender gave or paid something to the son of …
IB VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend …
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Minute fragment. Unidentified, only few words are visible (might be Biblical commentary). AA
Recto: document, mentioning Hillel and Elʿazar. Verso: Arabic document; possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba) in the Palestinian style, probably from Tyre, ca. 1089–99. Mann notes that the Greek term אקוליתוס (ἀκωλύτως), "without hindrance," appears in the …
Recto: memorial list for the family of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Hananya ha-Nagid: - Shemarya ha-Shishi - Shemarya's three sons: Ṣedaqa, Seʿadʾel, and Ḥananya - …
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Letter from Avraham b. Hillel to Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Talmid. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. Beginning with a biblical quotation (Shemuel I 25:6). …
Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yūsuf, presumably in Fustat, to his 'brother' Zekharya the son of the Rayyis (= Abū Zikrī the son of Eliyyahu the judge?), in …
Literary text on the laws of sheḥiṭa.
Recto: Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Mentions 11 dinars, something related to the government (al-[...] al-maḥrūsa), the year 610 (=1213/14 CE) or 620 AH (= …
Legal record (#35) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:Left side of bifolio 5r (Documents 35-37)
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Multifragment. (a) Legal fragment. Involves a woman [...] bt. Avraham and Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. [...]. (b) Tiny legal fragment. Probably a release. There are only …
Accounts for the transport of a bale of purple cloth belonging to Abū l-Afrāḥ b. Yosef, from Old Cairo to Sfax. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document mentioning [...] b. Menashshe and Shelomo and [...] b. Faraḥ and sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a legal …
Letter fragment from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a fūṭa.
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Possibly a literary letter.
Document concerning financial issues. Mentions a sum of money, and says that if the parties take an oath they will incur the guilt of violating …
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Legal document. Debt contract. Date not preserved. The names of debtor and creditor are very effaced. The sum of money is given in Kāmilī dirhams, …
Printed treatise in Ladino. Glosses on Isaiah.
Prayer in Arabic script. Contains Quran allusions such as قل هو الله احد (r1) and ولا الاه الا الله. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to al-Rayyis Rabbenu Eliyya (might be the judge Eliyya b. Zekharya). Fragment (top part only). About work on a Bible codex (muṣḥaf) in …
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: late, looks Ottoman-era.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or early 13th century. Concerning a trip of the addressee and a third person, and mentioning 80 dirhams …
Small fragment of Arabic accounts on recto. Barely readable Hebrew text on verso.
Literary text in Hebrew. Late. Questions and answers, numbered.
Fol. 5: Small scrap that is either blank or has very faded Hebrew text.
Bottom of a letter in Ladino from Damascus to Cairo, addressed to Yosef Pisho (?) the student of Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (very possibly Isaac Luria). The …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely 11th century. Mentions Ibn Tammām. The hand is known from many similar fragments.
Beginning of a court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1402 of the Seleucid Era (1091 C.E.). Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi is mentioned, no other details …
Interesting, late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "the land of the Christians" to al-Muʿallim Yūsuf, the shammas of the synagogue, Cairo. The writer narrates in brief …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Opening blessings (. . . الله عزها وادام تمكينها . . .), then possibly a query about a technical procedure …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Yaḥyā.
Request presented by the president of the religious school in Jerusalem to the director of one of the synagogues in Egypt asking especially for monetary …
Palimpsest, Sifra 11d-12c, with 2 Kings 2:4 written in the lower margins in a different hand, over an unidentified Syriac text containing a quotation from …