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Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. MCD/ASE
No Scholarship Records
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dealing with mercantile affairs. Mentions Yosef b. Iyov / Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, al-Maḥalla, …
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Upper left corner of a document, referring to someone titled Majd al-Khilāfa ʿIzz al-Mulk....
Dated inscription of an owner's name in a book ('if the book gets lost, and you don't know who owns it, return it to me'). …
Letter from Yosef b. Gershon (a French scholar appointed by the Nagid Avraham Maimonides to be one of the three judges of the Jewish community …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides, referenced with the title "Nagid" (post-1213 CE). One involves a man who confesses to adultery with the wife of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks old, maybe 11th century.
Qiyyum (legal approval of court record). AA
]הכהן ביר יוסף נע
כתיב הכא
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Letter probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat in the early 13th century. Flattering greetings are sent to Eliyyahu the Judge and his son Abū Zikrī. …
Legal deed, draft, regarding the estate of Avraham ha-Levi the teacher b. Yosef b. ʿAnan, which had been deposited by the Beit Din with ʿEli …
State document (fragment) in Arabic script, perhaps a decree. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved, with very wide space between them. Reused on recto …
On recto a poem in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso a sample letter to a notable. AA
Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter: واما الثالثة ان واعوذ بالله ولم يوفق(؟) مملوك سيدنا من حسن رايه وكثرة رحمته ورافته وبركة تدبيره …
Invitation from the Keter Torah association for the tefillin ceremony of Elijah for ten of the students – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Letter from Abū Naṣr, in Alexandria, to his 'brother' al-shaykh al-ajall al-thiqa [...] al-Sharābī, in Fustat. In Arabic, with the address in Judaeo-Arabic. There are …
Documentary per FGP - needs examination.
IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. In …
Your two servants took note of
what you h…
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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 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is distressed: "If the girl is alive, I wish you to send me the letters, and if she has died, …
Bilingual hymn in Greek and (Bohairic?) Coptic, modified to serve as healing text (recto). On verso there are a few lines of illegible (Coptic?) text. …
Minute fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Somewhat wide line spacing. The only phrase preserved is צרה פלפל ("bundle of pepper"). Likely India Book-related …
Tax receipt. Beginning "tadhkira bism..." For Ibrāhīm b. Menashshe. For his capitation tax payment in Fustat. Receipts sharing the same administrative note/hand at upper left …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Legal? Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic …
Rent receipt (? اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. Dated: …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. The main legible part consists of prayers citing God's blessings for the patriarchs and prophets (e.g., 'save us like you saved …
Fragment of a legal document written in large calligraphic letters. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Hārūn (?).
Two columns of accounts, business or private, for Naṣr b. Simwāl, one under "lahu" 'he is owed' and second under "ʿalaihi" 'he owes'. 'ʾAjr' in …
Accounts. Mentions Abū l_Faraj and Ṭayyib. Mentions sums in dinars and dirhams. Mostly crossed out.
Kashrut certificate for a cheese shipment imported by Maymūn b. Nissim of Syracuse, Sicily. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Sivan 5001 AM = June …
אלדי עאינא ונשהדו בה [פי
קנטאר ונצ' גבן ג'רוי [
מן אלגבן אלדי כאן קסמתנא
ישועה בר שמואל נע
טהור בר זכריה ס'ט'
וצל גבן מע מימון ברבי…
We have examined and testify that [
a qint'a'r g'arawi' and a half of cheese [
of the cheese which was our share [
Yes'u'ah b. Samuel (…
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Document in Arabic script, maybe an official/fiscal account. "... bi-mablagh al-mustakhraj wa-l-maṣrūf...." Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Muharram 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.25. Mentions Da'ūd (?) …
Small fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq Luria (the Ari). In Hebrew. Only the first two lines of the letter and the address are preserved.
Letter to Masliah ha-Kohen Gaon from a woman, the daughter of Abraham the cantor and the wife of Abu 'l-Ma`ali Khalaf b. Harun, describing her …
Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in a very small script, mentioning the family of Abū Sahl and Abū ʿ[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Extremely faded letter in Hebrew, with wide line spacing. Portions of four lines preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry for a wedding.
In the upper margin, draft of the beginning of a legal document in Arabic script. "On Monday, in Ramaḍān '35. . . ." The century …
Booklist. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
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Fatimid state document, fragment, probably an investiture. The document is written in the dual, addressed to two officials: "Hurry up with it and report what …
Ketubba from Yemen. Date unknown. The first two lines, which included the date and the place, are now missing. The city Ṣanʿā' is mentioned in …
Personal letter. In Arabic script. After complaining about the lack of responses, the substance of the letter begins around line 10. Al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm sent something …
Letter fragment. Not much is preserved. The sender says "I make you take an oath" (anā astaḥlifuka).
Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender wishes to borrow the addressee’s riding animal (dābba) for transporting "some of my stuff" (baʿḍ qumāshī). He should send …