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Trousseau list (taqwīm). Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Mevorakh ha-Kohen. Groom: Netanel b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Dating: Between Nisan and Sivan 1470 Seleucid, which is 1159 CE …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to sums of money; pounds of silk; …
Recto: letter, dated [.]3 of Kislev. Mentions ʿImrān and Musāfir. Dating: probably 11th century. Verso: part of the address, including [Nahray? b. Ni]ssim ZL. (Information …
Legal or an official document, or a draft in Arabic script. Mentions a long name on verso "......Yūsuf b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā". …
State document, in Arabic script. A Mamlūk-era order (marsūm) from two amīrs to the overseer of the peasants' affairs in their area (al-fallāḥiyya was l-muzāraʿa …
المرسوم بالامر الكريم العالي المولوي الاميري الكبيري السيدي
المالكي المخدومي السيفي طقطباي…انجزهم الله تعالى الى [جمـ]ـاعـ[ـة ] المشائخ
والفلاح…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute fragment, only two words, but might be from a ketubah. AA
Dedication inscription, draft: "He dedicated this case with the book inside it, to the memory of his brother, Elazar [b. ?] Netanel, year 1528 Seleucid …
A letter dealing with Halakhic issues sent to Yosef Shakraji
Probably a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. The word ʿalā is abbreviated as an ʿayin with a dot over it (ע̇ אחסן חאל). …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
Letter in Ladino. Mentions Moshe Samariyya (שמרייה), the first name or surname Palonba, the niece (sobrina) of Curiel. Requires further examination.
Collection of biblical verses about the triumphs of David, then in Judaeo-Arabic, “the composition (תאלפיה seems to be an error for תאליפה) was completed at …
Karaite engagement deed. Dated on the night of Purim 14 Adar I, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yiṣhaq b. Aharon Ḥakīm engages the previously unmarried Qamr …
Autograph poems by someone named Aharon ha-Kohen, possibly a poetic letter, as it says at upper left "from the one who loves him, Aharon ha-Kohen."
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew written in a formal style and script, with wide space between the lines. Mentions the ḥaver Yeshuʿa b. Natan …
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Beginning of a letter to Shelomo ha-Sar ('ha-Sofer ha-Mahir'). The sender complains about difficult circumstances. Dating: 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew giving a detailed account of a dispute, apparently in the Muslim courts, regarding the flax trade, a legal document, and the validity …
Unusual document containing meeting minutes relating to the business dealings of someone whose name is too faded to read (r2). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th …
Recto (secondary use): Court record written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (1125–50). Wherein it is stipulated that a husband who travels to the …
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Late.
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Groom: Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo. Bride: Khalīfa bt. Avraham. Dating: Probably no later than 1032 CE, because Ḥalfon's father is not …
Part of a legal document; much of the date is lost. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The name Abū Saʿīd is …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1770 Seleucid, which is 1458/59 CE. Lines 4–11 are an elaborate reshut clause, but it is not clear if the …
Legal fragment written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house …
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Notes possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mainly lists of names, numbers, and days of the week. Unclear significance.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Presumably related to recto and also by Abū Zikrī Kohen. The header says "in the name of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Naṣr and Ḥalfon Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva as well as a vessel (zīr). Phrases: כם אלא עדאב אלקלב ושגל אלסר . …
IB VII, 65. Long letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm, in al-Juwwa (near Aden, Yemen), to the judge and parnas Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, in Fustat. …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Maimonides autograph of the Mishneh Torah.
Letter addressed to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions a caravan; meeting with Ibn al-Ghardīs (there was a judge by this …
IB V, 37, folio 15v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved. Mentions "we are worried" (naḥnu masghūlīn)...
Synagogue/communal document. Dated: 5554 AM, which is 1793/94 CE. Lists of parshiyot and names (e.g. Frances, Yaʿaqov Aripol, Ḥayyim b. Hini, and dozens more).
Recto: Probably a legal query. Verso: The responsum? A discussion based on rabbinic literature. Damaged
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reports on a legal dispute. Includes the phrase "he arrested me," followed by the sender asking the addressees to …
Letter from Meʾir (b. Yakhin) to the ḥaver Abu al-Ghayth, apologizing for not being able to come to Minyat Zifta because he has been detained …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The topoi include weakness of vision and hearing and "all day long I sit in the corner of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and an unclear numeral system (Coptic?). Mentions several obscure terms; sour grapes (ḥiṣrim); sugar; tutty; al-ḥakīm; jars of wine
Fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script. The beginnings of ~7 lines are preserved. Mentions Ibn Khālawayh and his Grammar; then some phrases which …
Faded legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid = 28 April 1096 CE. Parties: Meshullam …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.