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Order of payment. Mainly in Arabic script, with an אמת in Hebrew in the upper margin. Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay the bearer 10 …
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List of collections, all crossed out. Recto contains a letter requesting payment or distribution of bread to various young women?
שוליים: ומן אלרנע אלכביר תכון אל…
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Formulary for a legal document, for an abandoned wife (ʿaguna) to appoint a representative (called אפטרופא/"guardian") to receive her bill of divorce and ketubba payment …
Letter addressed to a dignitary, possibly the Nagid. Possibly a preface to an appeal for charity.
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps ca. 1150–1250. Mentions 3 dirhams; "to Qalyūb"; "the remaining dirhams"; [al-shaykh] al-Makīn; and greetings and a …
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Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …
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Bill of divorce (get). On vellum. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Monday, 10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 1143 CE. Husband: Abū Naṣr b. Dinar(??). Wife: …
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic asking the addressee ("Rabbenu") to give the books to Abū l-Barakāt.
Talmudic.
Business letter in Hebrew mentioning maritime shipping with Ragusa (Dubrovnik). 16th-17th-century based on the paleography. Only the left border of the letter is preserved but …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions, presumably sarcastically, that "I am grateful to him for how he insults me... I don't know what I've ever done …
Astrological or astronomical table.
Letter concerning a reconciliation, presumably between husband (Maḥfūẓ al-Qudsī) and wife. Signed by the judge Avraham b. Natan Av Bet Din (in New Cairo, dated …
Small and very faded fragment from a letter, probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Letter from Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108) to his son Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel al-Baghdādī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic. In which …
Literary text with a colophon. "I, Yehuda b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi in Egypt/Fustat, wrote this for the mighty prince Efrayim ha-Levi Ḥakham ha-Yeshiva."
Recto: Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning an amir and someone saying "O dogs and sons of dogs!" (יאכלאב יאולאד אלכלאב). Reused on verso for …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to trustworthiness (neʾemanut). The remnant of a very faded …
Top part of a ketubba. Dated: Thursday, 25 Adar 1770 Seleucid = 1 March 1459 CE. Location: Cairo. Two lines of the reshut formula are …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Each page is for a different date. Dated: 744 AH = 1343/44 CE.
Letter from Shelomo ha-[...] to semarya [...]. The writer informs him that he (or perhaps someone else) has reached Hanes (Tannis). (Information from the Cambridge …
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Decree of investiture(?); two lines widely spaced. Contains rhymed prose in praise of someone: "the stars in the sky.......in their rotation like the order of …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: [14]59 Seleucid = 1147/48 CE. The century digit is missing, but can be filled in based on the reference to …
State or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions R. Shelomo. And "[if you h]ear that the city is good, come, and if you hear that the …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Could be literary (e.g. tafsīr), could be a letter.
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 13[..] Seleucid, which is 989–1088 CE. The bride's name appears in l. 3 but is difficult …
Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides—[the son] of our Lord and Rabbi Moshe the Great Rabbi (ZL). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is written on a reused …
Literary. Piyyutim.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script.
Recto: Letter, mentioning Yehosef the Nagid of the Diaspora, and Spain. This is probably Yehosef b. Shemuel ha-Nagid (date: 11th century). Cf. ENA 3765.8–9 and …
Ownership or authorship note: Ḥalfon b. Sheʾerit b. Yaʿaqov.
Recto: Recipes for preparing different kinds of kohl. Verso: In a different hand, apparently alchemical recipes -- or at least they use many toxic minerals. …
Letter from Ismā'īl al-Tāhartī, Ifrīqiya, to Abū l-Bishr Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, Egypt. Mentions "the remnants of an illness" (athar al-ʿilla, l. 4.
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Fiscal document. Headed with an abbreviated basmala followed by the name Bū Manṣūr Wakīl al-Dīwān. There follows a list of four names accompanied by a …
Letter in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Letter from a certain Yefet to a certain Bū l-Ḥajjāj. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a childlike, large, square script. The address is in Arabic script on …
Communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Opens with blessings for the addressee, then reports that a letter arrived from the Jews …
Two fragments from a ledger of accounts concerning ships arriving in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Ramaḍān 946 AH = 29 January 1540 CE. Oddly …
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. From Abū Saʿd(?) to Moshe, Yaʿaqov and Avraham. Mentions various business matters. There is an unusual simile at the top of …
Recto: Court record dated Adar II 5334 AM. Involves Yosef b. Yehuda al-Naqqāsh and perhaps his elderly mother. He says he can't support two houses …
Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the …
Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of lemon and one ūqiyya (of lemon) …
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