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Court record concerning a prozbol. Dated on both sides of the bifolio, with the fully preserved date on the right: Sunday 28 Elul 1852 Seleucid …
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Verso (original use): Legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Portions of 9 lines are preserved. Involves Mūsā b. ʿĀdī(?). Dating: Mentions the year 42[.] …
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Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Responsum written in a late hand.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Beginning of Shevat 5306 AM = January 1546 CE. Concerning financial arrangements between a wife (Siwār) and husband …
Letter fragment. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some interesting phrases but difficult to make sense of anything given the fragmentary nature. (Information in part from …
Fragmentary letter (on vellum) from Tunisia by Manashe b. Ammar to Joseph b. Salman b. Ya'ish, expressing the wish to give up the hard "service …
Verso: Autograph note from Moshe Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Wathīq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
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Letter asking for financial help, sent from Jerusalem to Bilbays and signed by Yosef b. Gershon and Yeḥiel ha-Ṣarfati (the Frenchman). For a discussion in …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions 5 arṭāl; pepper; Abū ʿAlī; and al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs. Recto: Unidentified, maybe piyyuṭ.
Letter or 2 letters. The handwriting is different between recto and verso, which suggests that one might be the response to the other. The letter …
Three minute fragments, two of which are blank. The third retains a few letters in Hebrew script on the recto and verso.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions the term 'istikhrāj.' In the margin there are pen trials and/or endorsements, …
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Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic magical work.
Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions pomegranate seed; marjarom; Ibn al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Dhahabī; Ibn Shaʿyā; Dār al-Qāḍī; Barakāt; Faraj; Ibn Ghālib; …
A drash written by Shemuʾel Ben Sid on the occasion of the birth of his son (דרש שדרש החכם השלם מורי ורבי כמחה׳׳ר שמואל ן׳ …
Beginning of the ketubah of Avraham b. Yosef and Husn. Some of the dowry list is preserved. AA
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة
Legal queries and responsa. Late.
Legal document, Qaraite. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tuesday, 16 Tevet 5525 AM, which is 1765 CE. Venue: House of Shelomo Kohen nin Aharon Kohen known as …
Legal fragment. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions the terms khulṭa, lādan, and musk.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Eliyyahu Turki to Yūsuf Yaʿīsh Ḥadād. Dated 1 Iyyar 5601 AM which is
Bifolio from a magical text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Including medical, magical and alchemical recipes, e.g. for making a woman love her husband, for producing …
IB VI, 44. Letter from a certain Yosef, in Alexandria, to his brother, an India trader. Mentions Aden (verso, right margin, l. 15) and people …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The name [...]r b. Dā'ūd appears in the address. The body of the letter mentions pullets (farārīj) and a …
Very faded Arabic document. On verso what looks like a drawing - needs examination.
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: 12 Adar 1420 Seleucid = 14 February 1109 CE. In which Nāshī b. Menaḥem acknowledges receipt from Mevorakh b. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning a sum owed to Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī; an amount he owes for cotton; his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Hiba; …
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: 12th century, under the reshut of the Gaon Netan'el ha-Levi. Needs examination for content. Witnesses: Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi and …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1493 Seleucid, which is 1181 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
Trousseau list recording a washed skullcap worth one dinar and a secondhand kerchief worth one-half dinar, amongst other items. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Possibly a literary letter.
Recto: Arabic love poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: One very faded line in Arabic, then in Hebrew characters, "Abu Sa'id b. Muslim." ASE.
Letter from an unknown writer, either in Gaza or near Jerusalem, to Yishmaʿel, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The …
Two responsa written by Yosef Hakohen b. Ya'aqov from Tyre (Date 1011-1037). AA
Verso: Order of payment in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 13th century. From Abū l-Riḍā to Burhān al-Dīn. Headed with the glyph-basmala, the total of money …
Fiscal register. (Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S NS 198.61, T-S 8H22.18, Moss. IV,151.1, Moss. IV,252.1, …
Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. Dated Monday the 27th of Shaʿbān. See …
Legal document, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Involves Sason b. Efrayim.
Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 16th century, based on the mention of Avraham Shānjī. Concerning business matters, mentioning the writer’s brother Shemuel, Alexandria and a …
Literary text in Judaeo Persian (?)
Legal note in Arabic script mentioning "one of the elders of Islam" (شيخ مشائخ الاسلام) mawlānā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī (?) al-muʿallim, and a woman named …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century. Needs examination for content.
Recto: bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Yosef b. Shelomo. Bride: Karīmā bt. Nuṣayr known as Elʿazar. The end of her dowry list is …
Recto: A passage from an Arabic treatise on love and lovers (ʿishq, ʿāshiq, maʿshūq). Verso: Scattered Arabic text, possibly list or accounts. Needs further examination.