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Ottoman-era iqrār document, in Arabic script. al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms …
ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه
سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها
جواب(؟) لما كان في يوم الاثنين خمسة ايام مضت في شهر
رجب الفرد ١٢٣٨…
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Letters of recommendation for an unnamed man, drawn up by the Sephardic community of Vienna in 1861. This man was from Mosul (Nineveh) and brought …
No Scholarship Records
One phrase from the first line of a legal document.
Verso (original use): Fatimid state report from a government official: "The deceased was an employee in the western caravan. He returned and lost his mind …
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Court record. A settlement between a brother and his two sisters concerning their late father’s inheritance. Dated: 1440 Seleucid (1128/9 CE). In the hand of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of expenses?
Ladino magical recipes.
Letter fragment (from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) with elaborate praise and good wishes for the recipient Abū l-Faraj and his children.
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 …
Recto: draft of a legal document involving business, mentioning coral, and Menaḥem Abū l-Saʿd. In Hebrew. Dating: late. A partial date is preserved on verso; …
IB VI, 33 (ח86). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, probably in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, probably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1142–45 CE. …
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise.
Letter fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda?
Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ to Abū l-Ṭayyib Sa'id reporting on transactions and asking for news of the addressee. Also asking for shipment of some …
עלקת אליך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך הדה אלרקעה אעלמך קד
אנפדת אליך מע חאמלהא עשרין כישה בראני כמא סאלת אשתרית
לך בדינ ואן טלבת זאיד או חאגה א…
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Note to Umm Bū Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer tells her to pack her belongings and to come immediately with the bearer of the letter …
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P23: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a house, Avraham, and his mother.
..................................................] זקן ביר ......
] ממא יוסקט אלי אלדאר אלמדכורה ולא אדעא פיהא
]לאדה בעדה ומ…
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Arabic script (VMR)
Court record fragment of the transfer of part of a house as a gift from a mother to her daughter Khibāʾ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, …
Fragments of citations from al-Mutanabbī in Judeo-Arabic. (Information from Cecilia Palombo)
Partnership contract. Dated: Tammuz 1460 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Tamīm b. Natan receives from Abū …
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Nearly complete family and business letter from a father Mawhūb b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-[...] to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …
Letter sent from Damietta to Khalīfa [...], in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Document(s) in Arabic on recto and verso, wide line spacing. Medieval era. Probably a fiscal register. The end of three lines are preserved on each …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). On parchment. Fragment (long vertical strip from the left side). An elaborate deed …
Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known.
Calendar fragment[?] for the year 53__ which provides a possible range of 1539-1638 CE. Although the text from the first line is incomplete, the exact …
Prices and accounts, in dinars and quarter dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender may be named Abū l-Ḥ[asan]. Written on a reused scrap torn from an Arabic (state?) account. The sender seems …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Late. Some of the entries repeat the mysterious term קיסטרומל or perhaps קוסטרומל(?). Requires further examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly consists of expressions of longing and greetings. The sender was happy at the news of the arrival of the addressee …
Several folios from the Torah in Samaritan script.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only 2–3 lines are preserved on each side. Dating: Likely 13th century. The handwriting may be known. On one side, the …
Letter from Bū l-Khayr to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. About the sending of garments and an artisan and other matters. (Information in part from …
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. People include: Moshe Dammuhi and Moshe Abudarham. The currency cedid may appear.
Decree fragment, probably. Two lines partially preserved: ليكونوا على اشغالهم(؟) بها متوفرين و . . . مجتهدين . . . Reused on verso for Birkat …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Reports that Abū l-Maḥāsin is healthy and that the addressee's daughter is heartsick and fasting.
Letter sent by Musa b. Abu Ali b. Salah to Abu al-Faraj Yeshua b. Hananya. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Arabic poetry, probably.
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Something involving a woman and her father; profit; half of a house. Dated: Monday, 18 …
Letter from "the Jewish national bank in Egypt at 14 Abū al-Sabāʿa Street with the slogan of access to "Erets Israel" (the Land of Israel) …
Legal document. Release between Araḥ b. Natan (Musāfir b. Wahb) and Shelomo b. Shemuʾel. Dating: ca. 1100 CE, as the scribe is Avraham b. Natan …
Deed of release. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Fragment (right side only). Written on parchment. Regarding a woman’s ketubba. Involves Ibrāhīm and …
Arabic translation of Genesis 14:17 – 41:10. Approximately 9 folios of this beautiful codex are preserved.
Validation (qiyyum) of a legal document. The witnesses to the original document were Avraham b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. Natan 'ha-Gevir.' On verso there …
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic fractions. Mentions Rashīd b. Naṣr; Abū Naṣr; Barakāt; Ibrāhīm; his brother; Sulaymān Ibn al-Ḥazzān; ʿAbd Allāh [...]; Samawʾal [...]; …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dealing almost entirely with the sale of small quantities of silk. Mentions doing business in upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd, and also mentions wheat …
Letter fragment from Avraham(?) to Abū Saʿīd, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. The sender describes his sorry state and probably asks for …