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Prayer. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late.
No Scholarship Records
Bottom part of an illuminated ketubba. Location: Rashid (Rosetta), l. 2. Dating: late 18th century based on the presence of Aharon Ṭawīl's signature, where he …
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Letter from Labrat b. Yishaq from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Dunash, Fustat, in the handwriting of Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq b. al-Sahl. Both the sender and …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fiscal account dated 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 AH = 11 May 1014 CE if read correctly. Apparently for military spending (nafaqāt), mentioning the Baḥrī and …
Drawing of a turbaned person riding a horse, surrounded by Arabic text.
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. The sender owes capitation tax (jizya) payments for himself and for his son. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Measures for the founding of a Jewish association in Egypt as a branch of the overarching association by the name of Kinisat Israel, and they …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt, probably in al-Ramla. Dating: ca. 1051 CE at the beginning of Daniel's gaonate …
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וצלת רסאלה מולאיי אלשיך אלגליל שר העדה פאר הכהונה יברכהו אלהינו ויחנהו
ושכרת אחסאנה ואמא מא גרי ביומנא פמעלום משהור אן לם יכון לי…
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Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 22 lines are preserved along with part of a witness signature at the bottom. The first line …
Several of the psalms in Judaeo-Arabic (לא לנו... אהבתי כי ישמע...). 19th century. The paper has red vertical lines, including one squiggly line.
Document in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
List of prospective contributors. The persons whose names are crossed out probably already had been approached. Notice that most of the numbers are added above …
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Elegy on the death of the wife [actually: the mother] of the Nagid Mevorakh by Sedaqa b. Yehuda in which condolences to the Nagid and …
Accounts in Arabic script, with some interesting details, e.g., mentioning a ḥaver and possibly food items such as mulūkhiyya and zirbāj (a type of stew) …
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Blessings for the caliph or sultan in Judaeo-Arabic. Presumably practice for a petition (cf. Moss. IV,56.1 and T-S NS 110.26).
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman named Bahiyya and a partnership (sharika). (Information in …
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter. …
Letter from Barakāt b. Manṣūr, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Arabic script, with the address on verso written once in Arabic …
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Small fragment of a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There is a first-person declaration, mentioning "this sum" and "unemployment."
Narrative text in Judaeo-Arabic. At least two stories are here, both involving legal matters. The second one involves a man with 10 sons and something …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. Thin vertical strip preserving the first word (or few letters) of each line. Cut into a vertical strip …
Record detailing the action of a court in Fustat in preparing a claim to an estate in Aleppo, made by a man name Sālimو residing …
Small fragment probably from a list of rentals- a name followed by number of months. Mentions the in-law of Yaʿaqov; Musallam; Abū Makhlūf; al-Kohen; Umm …
Small fragment in Aramaic, perhaps from a rabbinic literary work.
Order of payment. Hand of Eliyyahu the Judge? Al-Shaykh al-Kohen is asked to pay a pound of something. The name Hibatallāh appears on verso.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya. Fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Yefet …
Letter fragment (from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) with elaborate praise and good wishes for the recipient Abū l-Faraj and his children.
Tax receipt?
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1058. Mentions several goods including silk, copper, and seashells. Mentions family …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמהדיה מסתהל אלול ערפך אללה
ברכתה ען סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא אלחמד [ ] ו…
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Bill of sale for a female slave, probably a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya sells a Nubian female slave ([...]da) and her daughter …
Recto: Hebrew document listing important personalities, including [...] b. Yefet and Yosef b. Avraham (who also have many more titles). In the hand of Ḥalfon …
Two words in Arabic script.
Bifolio with fiscal accounts. One page begins: "waṣala ilā [bayt al-māl?] al-maʿmūr min jihat Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-wakīl fī [...]," then the date: 413 or …
Engagement deed dated June 1760 CE (15 Tammuz 5520 AM). Moshe b. Avraham ha-Levi Caraso is engaged to Mlīḥa bt. Yosef Najjār. 100 arayōt (groom's …
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Probably a record of payment to the bureau of silk looms "dīwān anwāl l-ḥarīr". Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿish, in Constantinople/Istanbul. Dating: Probably Ottoman era; Avraham David suggests 16th century. He refers numerous times to the holy congregation(s) and …
Pen trials, repeating "תגרבת אלקלם" and mentioning the names Avraham and Yiṣḥaq.
Letter or petition, probably. Small fragment. The text on verso is in a different hand and is written at 90 degrees and might be a …
Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.
A manuscript of the Five Books of Moses (incomplete), which was once continued in RNL Yevr. II B 42 (PGPID 38536). Three colophons, one at …
A much faded legal deed written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, p, 217). On recto description of a legal suit …
Letter from Barakāt b. Hibatallāh al-Jaʿfarī to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā (ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the parnas in Fustat). Complete letter containing personal and …
Legal document in Arabic script. Might be about a marital dispute. Large and relatively well-preserved. Needs examination. On verso there is piyyut.
Validation (qiyyum) of a legal document written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq and one other person. The witnesses …