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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tuesday night, 1 Adar 1539 Seleucid = 9 February 1228 CE. The writer advises the addressee to resort to the …
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Bifolio containing piyyuṭ and scribal practice. One of the pages contains a brief petition-like note addressed to a woman (al-sitt al-jalīla) with a taqbīl and …
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Letter from Manṣūr(?) b. [...] possibly to a younger relative Yūsuf (وينهي ان المملوك مشتاق الى خدمة ولده يوسف). In Arabic script. Looks like a …
Mercantile letter fragment mentioning Yehuda b. [...], previous correspondence and quantities of dinars. Dating: 11th century. On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)
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One fragmented line, probably from a state document, in Arabic script. "عه دعواه على ا".
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Dating: possibly 841 AH = 1437/38 CE (l. 4), but this is uncertain. In which Maymūn b. Ṭālib al-Dalāṣī acknowledges …
Recto: Legal document from Cairo, dated March 1819 CE (last third of Adar 5579 AM), in which Yiṣḥaq Zamiro acknowledges receipt of an investment of …
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Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …
Verso: Jotted accounts in judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning exchange rates and the terms נחל and אלנחליה. There are also jottings in a different hand, and on recto …
Responsum? Discussing legal issues with two lines in a different hand at the bottom, including a signature which includes the name Yeḥiʾel.
IB II, 57. Part of a copy of the same letter that is preserved in full in IB II, 56 (T-S 16.345, PGPID 5447), a …
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Begining of a commentary on RIF's commentary of tractate Baba Maṣi'a of the Babylonian Talmud. Authored by judge Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq as described in the …
Literary. Beginning of Chapter 7 from a late ethical treatise ("The letter that Aristotle wrote to Alexander of Macedon on the behavior of kings"). It …
Formulary for a legal document for the appointment of a ritual slaughterer (shoḥeṭ). Location: Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th–15th century.
Document(s) in Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for charity. Prefaced with biblical verses and ornate praises. On the side that also has Arabic script, …
Part of the beginning of a ketubba, dated 13[..] (10th-11th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs further examination for the details.
List of persons on payroll of the community, headed by Sayyiduna al-Nasi, referring, it seems, to the head of the Jews David b. Daniel (ca. …
A folio from a Judaeo-Arabic epistle/treatise on Hebrew grammar, listing the Masoretic pedigree of Aharon b. Moshe b. Asher, also mentioning R. Moshe Moheh and …
Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly dated: looks like 527 AH, which would be 1132/33 CE. But this needs confirmation.
Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …
Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Sitt ʿAnbar is very sick, and she has developed a delusion …
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the …
Letter, anonymous, saying that a certain Sefaradi (اندلسى) gave a sermon in synagogue and failed to mention the gaon. Gil speculatively dates it to 1038, …
Legal document or receipt, late, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 14 __78 AH. The dating is likely 1178 (1765 CE) or 1278 (1862 CE). The …
List of communal accounts, some of which are dated Pesaḥ 5554 AM (April 1794 CE) on the recto. Requires further examination. One of the subheadings …
Petition from Avraham al-Qushāshī to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He says that he used to work and earn a living like everyone else [but now he is …
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Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, naming goods in numerous colors. Dated on the verso, left side: 23 Jumād[a] I 960 AH(?) (סץ?), possibly with the hundreds …
Recto: Letter to a man in Qalyūb. The writer excuses himself for not coming to Qalyūb, for he thought the addressee would not be there, …
Family letter in Arabic script. It seems the sender is congratulating his father on his move to New Cairo, together with the sender's mother and …
List of forty-five contributors, mostly referred to in an abridged and informal way, with coptic numerals. Ca. 1235. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 503, …
Legal record (#17b). Alimony owed. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. The wife (and cousin, ibnat ʿamm) of Bū ʿImrān al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū l-Murajjā Sālim …
Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …
Monetary sales papers from the Nadā, Ḥalfūn, and Partners Bank in Cairo for Kẖawaja Elli Kohen in al-Ẓāhir in Cairo – February 24 1940CE – …
Mishneh Torah. Maimonides autograph. There are joins: see FGP.
Letter from an unknown sender, in Jerusalem, to Samḥūn b. Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Spanish" layout, including shape of the right margin and …
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Letter from Bū l-Majd b. Thābit (=Meir b. Yakhin) to Bū l-Manṣūr al-Mutaṭabbib Ibn al-Kharazī. This fragment contains only the address (in both Judaeo-Arabic and …
Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).
Power of attorney in Hebrew. Someone is appointed to sue Yeshuʿa. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Persian.
Order of payment. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ is to pay the bearer a sum of money. There is additional very faded Arabic text on verso.
Accounts, mentioning several purses, sums in dinars and names such as al-Anṣārī. Including an entry for the faqīh al-Muʿtamid and mentioning Umm Ghālib. Dating: likely …