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Letter from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Istanbul. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman-era. The purpose of the letter is to request …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Small strip from the top a ketubbah of Sason b. [...] (groom), in Fusṭāṭ. No further details are preserved. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
Draft of the beginning of a dirge possibly in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli addressed to the 'congregation of Fustat' (עדת צוען מצרימה) for …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of the prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs. Small fragment.
Small fragment from a ketubah.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk or early Ottoman-era. The one on recto (the secondary use) is a power of attorney drawn up …
Letter to Shemuel ha-Hazzan with a long Hebrew poem and a few lines of Judaeo-Arabic containing a request for the Kitāb al-ʿAnṣara by Ibn Ghiyāth. …
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Letter from Farah b. Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)
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Three court record entries, two dated Tevet 1339/December 1027 and one Shevat 1339/January 1028.
יהודי אנדלוסי תובע שבית דין של שלושה שנקבע לעיין בדינו יתכנס. אסיפת
Business letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. [Dāʾūd?]. The hand appears to be identical with that of Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq (not the Tāhartī one) …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. To 'the dear brother,' reporting on a messy situation (rajj ʿaẓīm) involving various other people, and telling him to go …
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State document, small fragment. Written in enormous script, which seems most suited to a decree except that the formula bears resemblance to standard petition formula …
Note on the back of a literary text: "copied for his son Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen ha-Meʿulle ha-Dayyan ha-Muflaʾ."
Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe literary or a letter. Mentions Rabbi Moshe. Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and …
Fragment of a list of pledges to charity made at a wedding. The bridegroom, styled "the elder, the scholar Abu al-Baha" (written in larger letters, …
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Fiscal account. Needs examination.
Letter from a man of communal standing, perhaps Daniel b. Azarya (1051-1062) bestowing the title 'Hod Ha-Zeqenim' upon the worthy elder and physician Avraham Ha-Kohen, …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Rabbanite ketubah from Cairo that may have been preserved in the Dār Simḥa Synagogue geniza, although it seems more likely that Avraham Firkovich acquired it …
Declaration in court by Abū l-Ṭāhir b. Elʿazar regarding a business of timber for building belonging to Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Moshe. Dated: Heshvan 1543 Seleucid …
Bifolio with Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the four pages contains various jottings in Arabic script, including phrases from the beginning of a letter and a …
Verso: Legal document. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 48[..], which corresponds to the range 1040–1139 CE. Involves [...] b. Muvḥar (possibly Berakhot …
Literary; Zohar.
Letter, small fragment. Preserves part of the opening blessings in Hebrew for multiple addressees.
One of the three fragments here (BL OR 10599.19A?) is a small fragment containing Arabic script.
Damaged fragment from the bottom part of a pre nuptial agreement (or a ketubah). The future husband is taking upon himself not to harm his …
Legal document. A small fragment, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), regarding a settlement between a couple, probably after their divorce (a …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The paper is well-preserved, but almost all of the text is extremely faded; might be legible …
Upper part of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Yaʿ[aqov]/Yaʿ[īsh] Mshīsh. The recto mentions prices in various currencies and at least two people by …
Writ of release signed by three witnesses and dated end of Av 1414/July-August 1103 (a word is missing between 'one thousand four hundrer and four' …
Fatimid-era rent receipt of 10 dirhams for a shop. The renter is Abī al-Naṣr and the property owner is Jamāl al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʾAʿaz. The property …
Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. The writer urges the addressee to come back …
Recto: a medical prescription in Arabic for ʿAlī b. [..]Allah. Verso: scribal practice in Hebrew. ASE.
Legal document. In Arabic script (and language). The handwriting is striking (diwani?). Appears to be dated 8 Ramaḍān 1053 AH, which would be November 1643 …
Legal document: Qaraite ketubba from Ramla, part only. Yaʿaqov b. David al-Shulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). Location: Ramla. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul …
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Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.
Draft of a note or draft in the hand of Avraham b. Moshe b. Maymūn (Abraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237) addressed to Yehuda Hakohen (b. Tuviahu) …
Unidentified list in Arabic script, likely business accounts, since it seems to list people's names, commodities, and sums.
Recto: Letter from Bū Manṣūr b. Abī Saʿd to Abū Isḥāq al-Talmid al-Muʿallim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Conveying good wishes for the high holidays. The content of …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …
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Ownership note for Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver ha-Kohen. At the bottom of the page there are also two lines in Arabic script.
Several drafts of an order of payment addressed to "al-qāḍī al-ajall." In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. The handwriting resembles that …
Small fragment from an engagement deed, written under the authority of Netanel Halevi, based on the phrase נסיכנו ונשיא אלהים ב[תוכנו]. AA
Erotic poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. "O if only my eye were inflamed (ramidat). . . O if only it were blinded," etc. ASE
Recto: Fragment (lower left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document involving division of money between Abū l-Faḍl, Yaʿaqov, and Abū l-Ḥasan. Verso: Fragment (lower left …
Fragment mostly consisting of pen trials and alphabet exercises in Hebrew and Arabic script. There are a few notable features: (1) On verso a drawing …