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Verso: Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals in the blank space on verso. Mentions silver; Abū l-Munā, leek, licorice, sugar candy, and maybe pepper. The …
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Recto: 4 lines of Arabic at the top of the page comprise a bill for building material with Coptic numerals. Recto and verso: Psalms 92:1-93:5. …
Fragment of a letter from the Yeshiva in Sura. Regarding donations to the Yeshiva. Mentions the relationships between the community and the Yeshiva in the …
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Judaeo-Arabic tafsīr on Job 3:4 – 9; 18 – 23 (identification from FGP). There are numerous joins. Refers to a 'jilwāz' (chamberlain, officer).
Unidentified text in Hebrew, probably literary: הני נשיר גנכם פ שבעליהן נתלין ודרך המלך להפקיר בית ונשיהם ופסקיה מעברא פ הנהר הפסקו שהיתה ספינת המע …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic. Stating that a basket arrived.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Archival note at the back "حجة ضاع مضمونها وصارت الان لا تدل على شي". Probably indicating towards the document …
Fragment of a marriage-related document. In Judaeo-Arabic. These are the scribe's notes for drawing up a proper document, containing the details of the early and …
Probably from a divination booklet in Judaeo-Arabic. On the righthand page of verso there is a table of Hebrew letters/numerals. On the other pages there …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yosef b. Mathāb(?) to Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī (=Eliyyahu the Judge). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. The orthography …
Bifolio in which two of the four pages have entries that sound like language from (state?) receipts, and a third page has a legal-sounding formula.
Literary. Discussing angels, lightning, the revelation of Isaiah.
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ṭevet 1504 = December 1192 CE, under the …
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Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is ʿAlāʾ bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿīd (Khan suggests this is …
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Poetry. Extract from Abu l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1058) al-Luzūmiyyāt.
A few lines from the beginning of a hastily written report or petition: ان سبب هذه الخدمة الى جلالها ان عبدها قد . . . …
Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. לך כתיר אללה תעאלי יתם עליך מא אנת פיה ויזידך מזיד כל כיר ויעינך עלי פעל אלזכיות …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Fiscal register, dated 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja of an unmentioned year, mentions several sums of money (Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, …
Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
Recto: Deed of sale, probably, for real estate. Some of the details of the property are preserved, including mention of a latrine (mirḥāḍ, l. 4). …
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for Hebrew pen trials.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. This may have been appended to a letter written on a separate sheet. "After I had already written this letter, your letter …
State document. An order from the military administration: "min Majlis al-Ḥarb al-Saʿīd." There is an ʿalāma, scribbled out, between lines 1 and 2 of the …
One page out of the six folios preserved here contains Arabic poetry (rhyming -hī). Two of the other pages contain poetry of Yehuda b. Ḥarizi …
Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic that express figures in western Arabic numerals. Dated 19 Kislev [54]97 or less likely 55[97]– so 1736CE or 1836CE. Some …
Announcement calling for enrollment in the Cicurel Industrial School in which the studies have begun since 7 September 1956 – 14 September 1956 – Museum …
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 …
Legal document in Arabic script. Probably a receipt of payment for Binyāmīn al-Ukūrand(?) in Alexandria. Dated: 21 Rabīʿ II 1184 AH (1770 CE). Needs examination.
74 minute fragments (paper), of which one contains jottings in Arabic (row 1, no. 4), and one is probably part of a letter in Arabic …
List in Judeo-Arabic from which only the bottom right corner of the page is portrayed in this fragment. The paleography helps to estimate the dating …
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī to ʿUlla Dimashqī. Mentions Alexandria, Ashqelon, shipments of rhubarb, and a business dispute brought to court. (Information in part from …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a mercantile letter of the 12th century. The main text seems to be rhymed Hebrew blessings from the introduction. The …
Possibly a letter or draft of one. In Arabic script. Unusual format. The sender encourages the addressee to come spend Shabbat with them: ... اعلمني …
Small and damaged fragment from a letter in Hebrew, with some Judaeo-Arabic at the end. Reporting the arrival of "our brother Yefet ha-Levi ha-Ahuv" and …
Official letter in Arabic script. The sender received a letter from ʿAlī b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Aysar delivered by the ghulām of one of the Baghdādī …
Bifolio. Original use: Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Several entries list the value of ruqʿas (orders of payment?) either "in my hand" (bi-khaṭṭī) …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear if private or official.
Fragment of a power of attorney in Hebrew. No details preserved.
Bifolio of business accounts. Mentions many sūsiyyas and other kinds of garments; Mawāhib al-Jamrī; al-Ḥājj; Ḥasan; Nūr al-Dawla; al-Bayrūtī; ʿAbd Allāh al-Razīn(?); Ḥasan Ibn al-Qaṣṣār; …
Recto: Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The word "al-ijtihād" is legible, but not much else.
Recto: Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni Nagid, though, it should be noted that he is not named directly among the many honorific titles. Written …
Very long letter dated ca. 1100, issued by the two judges of the capital in the name of the Nagid Mevorakh, in which a circuit …
A strongly worded letter by the head of a yeshiva to Yakhin ha-Levi b. Mevorakh demanding assistance for its cantor. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, …
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Legal query concerning Jews who have been lent 100 pereḥīm with 1% monthly interest by a non-Jew. The query is anonymous, only using the formulaic …
Horizontal strip from the middle of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. "Al-Parnas al-Kohen went to Bilbays two years ago and lived there and made a living with …