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Accounts, mentioning Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Menashshe and Abū Saʿīd al-Rubbān. Accounts are in dirhams and fractions of dirhams. Commodities referred to include wood, oil, almonds, …
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Recto: Small fragment from a legal document, probably. Describing mercantile affairs. Verso: Recipe of some sort, maybe a medical prescription.
Letter or letter draft, preserving only the copious opening praises for the addressee. Probably from the archive of Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: last quarter of …
Letter addressed to Abu al-Ḥasan Yedutun ha-Levi asking for help to collect money owed the writer by his brother so he can open a store …
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Responsum or commentary on Shemot Rabba 31. Join with ENA 1069.45
Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, …
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List of ingredients (or rather commercial goods?) with their weights. In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from …
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, perhaps in Alexandria, to his 'brother' Abū Saʿd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Probably …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Neatly written. Dating: probably ca. 13th century on paleographic grounds. The top row reads Abū l-Ḥasan, awwal al-hiṣāb, …
Minute fragment, probably from a letter.
Letter in Hebrew, with part of the address preserved in Arabic script on verso. Mentions Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen ha-Za[qen], the wife of R. Yehuda, and in …
Clockwise from upper left: (c) Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Almost everything preserved is formulary.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts with names such as Barakāt and [Abū l]-Faḍl al-Parnas and al-Peʾer, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Large fragment of a letter with accounts, especially of goods brought from Syria. “You have received from Muhammad al-Shami 1-1/6 for the price (‘an qimat) …
Small fragment of an (official?) letter in calligraphic Arabic script, wide space between the lines: [ادام الله] سلامته ونعمته ان يكون في . . . …
Verso: Fragment of recycled paper with a single line of Arabic text (basmala), possibly from a larger document.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The sender may be named Abū l-F[...]. Unclear if any of the content …
Legal query to a Muslim jurisconsult regarding certain houses that have been made pious foundations by Jewish people and that should preserve their status until …
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Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) regarding a collection (jibaya), ordering that the addressee's 'wife' (bayt) and the wife of …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 15 Shevat 5450 AM (1690 CE). Bride: Sulṭāna bt. Yosef ha-Rofe b. Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzan ha-Rofe. Groom: Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham …
Fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid = 1088–1188 CE. Mentions [...] b. Moshe. In the upper …
Verso: Last two lines of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥasbala + ṣalwala.
Deed of release. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Fragment (right side only). Written on parchment. Regarding a woman’s ketubba. Involves Ibrāhīm and …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Two court entries in the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver, unclear if they are related. Above, the court orders Abū l-Faraj Ibn …
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Aharon the Cantor the physician b. El'azar the Cantor the physician. The bride is Esther known as Sultana …
Letter addressed to a commander titled Ḥiṣn al-Dawla, possibly Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī from MIAC 23973.21 (PGPID 40162). Contains mainly blessings and expressions of brotherhood. Note that …
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faḍl; someone's brother in al-Maḥalla; a woman named [...]l …
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
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List of names of very prominent people of the house of "the Meʿutad." On the back are lists of different houses—one name jumps out: "the …
Document in Arabic, medieval-era. Two partial lines of text are preserved. Requires further examination.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1518 CE, since on recto (probably the side of later use) appears to mention the year 924 kharājī.
Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Ibn al-Muʿallim Yaʿqūb.
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Damaged, difficult to extract much. (Information in part from …
Legal document. Location: Tyre. Dated: Thursday, 25 Shevaṭ 15[07] Seleucid, which is 1196 CE if reconstructed correctly. Muʿāfā/Yiṣḥaq b. Shemarya ha-Levi sued his brother Ibrāhīm …
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Accounts in Hebrew. Late. People include: Moshe Dammuhi and Moshe Abudarham. The currency cedid may appear.
Talmudic text.
A leaf completely filled with mostly unconnected Arabic letters. It does appear to say things once the letters are connected, but it would take a …
Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known.
Minute fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
Mysterious text in Hebrew and Aramaic. "I, Moshe...." Looks more magical than legal.
Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …
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Tiny fragment in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various weights and someone named Jaʿfar.