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Court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left piece). Regarding 20 dinars and involving Peraḥya the elder, Avraham b. …
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Letter from Hārūn b. Yosef Ibn al-Ghazzāl, in Qayrawan, to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.
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Literary text, or less likely a letter. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, based on handwriting. Dealing with the relationship between a wife and her husband with …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic. The beginnings of three lines are preserved. Wide line spacing.
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise, including some obstetrics/gynecology.
Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1188–1288 CE. Probably in the second half of this range, to judge by handwriting (which …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a brother. Mostly formulaic content is preserved.
Mysterious fragment, possibly a letter fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th–19th century based on the paleography. A signature appears at the bottom that …
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). Dated: 18 Shevaṭ 1326 Seleucid, which is 1015 CE. Location: Fustat. For Farjiyya bt. Sahlān. Her husband Yehoshuaʿ …
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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions: brazilwood (baqqam); other business deals; regards …
Business letter in Arabic script containing an order for lac and pepper. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Ṣārifī, Masʿūd, and ʿAbd al-Karīm. Also requests …
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Letter of appeal for assistance from a dignitary. Begins in Hebrew, including a Hebrew taqbīl (העבד מנשק . . . . ידיו ורגליו), and ends …
Fragment in Ladino, probably from a business letter. Needs further examination. Very faded accounts on verso.
Recto: liturgy for the concluding Neʿila service on Yom Kippur (צלוה נעילה), consisting of seliḥot by ʿEli b. Amram, in his own handwriting (according to …
IB V, 41d. Tiny fragment containing an order for an ounce of ʿaqīd (a dense sugar syrup). In Judaeo-Arabic. From Abū Zikrī Kohen? There is …
Jottings, including verses of Hebrew poetry, a trial incipit of a letter in Arabic script, and lines of writing arranged in circular patterns. Information from …
Possibly a letter in Hebrew, though might also be literary with an unusual format. Dated: first third Tammuz 5358 AM. Needs examination.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
Accounts in an awkward script, mentioning amounts of currency (dinars) and names such as Yosef and Yesha'yahu. (Information from CUDL)
Note from a teacher (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to (his brother?) Abū Zikrī, complaining, "The master promised to talk to our lord Ḥananel and tell him …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Accounts, mentioning some interesting commodities (e.g., kibrīt ʿirāqī, sweet pomegranate, quince, jasmine, salt, meat, breat).
Horoscopes. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Partnership in sarraflık business between two groups: (1) Mordekhay Bialobos, Moshe ha-Levi Ṣanūʿa, Raḥamīm b. Eliyahu Najjār, Yiṣḥaq ʿAfīf, Avraham ha-Levi aka Skandarī and (2) …
Communal note probably from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids to R. Avraham. The matter of ‘Yosef the son of the beadle’ …
First three lines of a legal document in Arabic script, likely a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Zayn b. Barakāt the Jewish banker.
Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 238-240
Late letter or drafts or records of letters in Judaeo-Arabic, on lined paper. May be a continuation of the preceding shelfmark (both contain poetic lines …
Verso: note from an invalid begging for oil for the synagogue lamp (al-tamid) for the sabbath to be sent with the carrier of the note. …
Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, draft. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon. …
Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei …
Verso: Compound prescription/recipe (ṣifa murakkab). In Arabic script. Contains the glyph. Ingredients include oak gall, gum, vitriol, Andarānī salt, lapis lazuli, saffron, and camphor. Needs …
Note in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, related to the financial instrument of ḥawāla (begins with the verb aḥāla, subject Sayyidunā, object ʿalā al-Shaykh [...]). …
Verso: Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive large hand with loops on the ends of the lameds. The witnesses attest "that we know …
Jottings of a rebuke for somebody who has forgotten everything the speaker taught him of grammar, algebra, poetry, respect, and piety. On verso, another literary …
List of names and numbers. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but that is a guess.
Letter, probably written by Elazar ha-Kohen b. Shelomo, who worked for(?) the addressee, sending condolences for the death of the dowager and asking for assistance. …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the name ʿAyyāsh. Written on a reused piece of an earlier Arabic-script document.
Letter/petition in Arabic script from Isḥāq al-Qāriʾ. In Arabic script. Reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support. (Information in …
Legal document connected with the tax-farmer of Atfīḥ. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1450 Seleucid, which is approximately February …
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Letter of appeal to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi from a person newly arrived in Fustat requesting some food by way of charity.
Recto: unidentified text in Hebrew and Aramaic. Verso: letter or letters in Judaeo-Arabic. אלממלוך ינהי לחצרתהא . . . . (Information in part from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script, not completed. "Collected from Samawʾal b. Mūsā (=Shemuel b. Moshe) on..." The header might be a ḥamdala.
Part of a legal document dealing with inheritance, mentioning debts and an administrator. Dated 479[.] (= 1029-39 CE). The body of the text mentions Saʿīd …