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Small fragment with Arabic script. State document? ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with calculations that draw on both the Hebrew alphanumerical and Arabic numerical systems. The paleography suggests that these accounts date to the …
Letter from Abū al-Thanāʾ Ḥāmid al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh in Ibrīm. This letter demonstrates the significant legal and commercial functions that …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اعلم الحضرة السامية الاجلية الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه وادام
نعمته وتوفيقه وحراسته وسلامته وادام بالسعادة…
In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the exalted and glorious presence, the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses—may God …
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Letter sent to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay in Fustat by his assistant in Bilbays, describing his journey from Syria to Egypt and saying that …
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Form letter from the community of Hebron. In Hebrew. Dated: 5539 AM, which is 1778/79 CE. The name Refa'el Ḥannuka is filled in in big …
List of calculations and possibly accounts in eastern Arabic numerals. Very faded yet with some legible text in the upper portion of the recto. MCD.
Legal fragment. Court records. In Hebrew. Dating: 11th century, based on Goitein's assessment and perhaps based on the reference to the higher authority of the …
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IB V, 27. Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. See Goitein's notes for further information and transcription.
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Palimpsest. Underneath there are faint traces of an Arabic book hand, and on top there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in at least two different hands …
Fragment of a draft letter in the name of the community of Fustat regarding the imposition of an excommunication a certain Avraham, ca. 1035. Gil …
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Hebrew poetry. Many or all verses end with הנשמה לך.
IB V, 33b. Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay 10 dinars to the family of Rayḥān. Dated Sivan …
Recto: Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26f. Verso: Arabic jottings, possibly a maxim or poetry; the lower text block is a copy of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. List of dozens of items for a druggist's store. Quantities and prices (the latter in Greek/Coptic numerals). Items include Indian myrobalan and …
IB VI, 12. Recto (written later): Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: last decade of …
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Ḥesed, a divorcee. Groom:Daniel b. Ṭahōr. Date not preserved, but probably early 12th century. Rich trousseau. The …
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Ḥananel to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Arajawānī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. Concerning business matters, …
Arabic script (VMR)
Legal deed in Aramaic copied three times, partially written and signed by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen and signed by Moshe b. Yahya Majjani. Ca. 1060.
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Responsa by ROSH.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a 'brother.' There are 4 lines of standard introductory material, then 3 lines of the sender's annoyance that the addressee …
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his 'father.' In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he arrived in Qalyūb. He suffered a setback (izʿāj... qāsaytu shidda...) en …
Recto: letter or note with a request to reckon up 20 raṭl of white rice and other business matters, mentioning the names Binyamin and Bishr. …
Two tiny legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). The upper fragment mentions someone's wife, Sitt al-[...]. The lower fragment mentions ʿAsqalān.
Letter addressed to Makhlūf al-Maghribi in Jerusalem, in the 'house of Natan,' about various commercial matters. Yehuda al-Ashkenazi and Abu Khalifa are also mentioned. EMS
Legal deeds, fragments on parchment, most of which do not contain enough text to be described. The bottom right fragment joins the top left fragment …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Looks late. There are several likely joins in T-S NS 305.
Letter from a woman to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon containing an update on a lawsuit between her and a male family member (possibly her son). She seems …
Account of Nahray b. Nissim for three bales sent from Busir to Fustat, ca. 1045-1096.
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Legal document. Court record (copy). This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. Avraham …
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, the Karaite, Jerusalem, to one of the Karaite notables in Fustat, around 1040. He reports having received one dinar that …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the horrific tortures inflicted on the writer and his colleagues in the citadel at the hands of four jailers and …
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl and his mother, perhaps in Fustat, to his father Abū Naṣr, in Asyūṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Much of the letter is in …
Unidentified text in Ladino. Mentions words such as "la kandila" and "fuego" and "la yerba." The Hebrew word אפילו also appears. Faded and damaged. Needs …
Legal documents, one each on recto and verso. Both are from "the capital" Constantinople/Istanbul, both are signed by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ashkenazi and Yosef b. …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. Around 1060. The addressee is not Nahray, as Nahray’s name is mentioned in …
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Letter draft from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. Regarding a marriage-related legal case that reached …
Small fragment(s) of legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Receipt of payment, in Arabic script. Contains the glyph which could mean "addā" here. "yadfaʿu al-Shaykh Hibat Allah..........". Needs examination.
Letter fragment to the writer’s mother, possibly from Hiba b. Abū […]. Mentions a ship and travel. In Judaeo-Arabic, with unusual spellings. (Information in part …
Verso (original use): Unidentified Arabic document, probably official. Mentions al-Faḍl b. ʿAlī and an agent (al-wakīl). Mostly crossed out. Needs further examination.
Deed of debt. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: 2[.] Tevet 5338 AM = January 1578 CE. Involves the guarantors Yehuda Serrano and David אאילייון (perhaps …
Letter from a man to his father or teacher. On a bifolium. The first half is in Hebrew and the second half in Judaeo-Arabic. The …
Recto: Excerpts from Ecclesiastes. Verso: A list of books that the writer was asked to prepare (or obtain?) for somebody. The Talmud, printed in Salonica …
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