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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning incense and mercury and a donkey and many other items.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be from Natan b. Shemuel to [Abū l-Ḥa]san b. Rabbenu Shemuel. Mentions the capitation tax several times. Mentions al-Maḥalla, but …
Commercial accounts in Arabic script and some Greek/Coptic numerals mentioning various names, commodities, and relatively large sums of money. Names include al-Rayyis Saʿīd, al-Rashīd Abū …
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله ع…
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Power of attorney granted to ʿEli b. Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen, and referring to the woman Mulk bt. Moshe. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Three …
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several letters by this writer: see tag. This letter …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …
עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי
אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך
מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<
למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד
וצלו וצחה אלעדה …
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Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1044 SH [11-12-86] Fragment of a leaf written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya, torn at its upper …
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. . . dir. which, he said, are a balance from the days.
. . . dir. And this is the account of what was spent by Mushrif for
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Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed …
Verso: Betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated: 7 Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= …
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Piyyuṭ, calendar calculations, and draft of the opening lines of a letter/petition in Arabic script to Saʿīd al-Dawla.
Ladino Talmudic work.
Cover letter for the Arabic-script letter on verso addressed to Eliyyahu, saying that Yosef b. Mukhtar had left with a friend a turban ('imama) worth …
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Arabic script (VMR)
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised …
Recto: List of books that have been pawned. With Abū Saʿīd b. Levi: three booklets (ajzāʾ) for 2 dirhams. With Bū l-[...]: some books of …
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in …
Family letter addressed to a certain Ibrāhīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. The spellings are so unusual that the letter is hard to understand. …
Lower middle part of a ketubba in which the groom renounces his rights to the bride's earnings. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean …
Verso: opening lines of an Hebrew letter addressed to a dignitary written in a different hand from recto. There is also one line of Arabic …
Informal note in Arabic script. Addressed to a certain 'al-shaykh al-fāḍil.' Possibly from a woman? The sender's information looks like "al-ʿabdatuhā" (which would be ungrammatical …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. One side deals with routine business matters. The other side reads, ". . . out of your favor (inʿāmak), prescribe for …
Recto: Draft of a legal declaration in which Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz b. ʿImrān the Jew swears on the head of the sultan al-Malik …
Literary work in Judaeo-Persian. Perhaps related to the stories of Genesis?
IB VI, 5. Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Amat al-Qādir, widow of …
[............] ... גמיעה ודפ[ע ...............................]
[...]א צחאחא מנהא מאית [...........] . מר יפת .. מאיה דינאר ....
אנ. אמה אלקאדר…
[…] … in total and pa[id…]
[…] good … from which one hundred […] Mr. Japheth .. hundred dinars …
… Amat al-Qādir concerning the judgment of tha…
List. Damaged. List of revenues from house rentals for unknown period. Also revenues for the months of Rabi’ and Dhu al-Qa’da. The names of houses …
List in Judaeo-Arabic of at least seven of the "blemishes" (ʿuyūb) a woman can have, such as a bad odor, a propensity to sweat, a …
Minute fragment of a legal document. Practically the only information preserved is that it was drawn up in Egypt in the year 1444 Seleucid, which …
Blessings (mi sheberakh) for the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Adir Tifʾeret ha-K[ohanim] Hemdat ha-Sarim Neʾman ha-Soḥerim ʿAyn ha-ʿEda.
Letter fragment from an unknown writer to his son (probably). Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The introduction is preserved, wherein the writer says he is proud of …
Karaite betrothal document with faded ornamental designs along the upper border. Date: 14 Adar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is …
Fragment from the top of the ketubba of Muʾammala bt. David. In the hand of Yefet b. David (early 11th century). AA/ASE
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing the addressee to send a ream (dast) of 25 pieces of paper, and also to sell some quires (dafātir) on behalf …
Letter fragment (lower part) probably from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in Qalyub to his father in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses sundry small business dealings (in …
القماح اردب بثمنطعشر
واردب بخمسطعشر
دفعت له ثلاثين درهم
خرج منها درهم الى ثمن
بخامس(؟) النافي(؟) له اربعة
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Letter from Avraham b. Rav Shelomo the Yemeni, in Jerusalem, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written not long after T-S 8J16.3 (same sender, same …
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Accounts for house rents and repairs. Dating: mentions various months of the year טפתק, which is 589 AH = 1193/94 CE. Each section is headed …
Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-Da…
From a volume of piyyuṭim. On parchment. Verso was a blank page that has been filled in with a medical prescription for chest and rib …
Letter; with citation from Isaiah 26:19. Might be a letter formulary, as it is headed "mukātaba" and contains no identifying details (at least in the …
Legal query addressed to Rabbenu Ḥananʾel (b. Shemuel). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who became sick and had some mental confusion (ikhtibāl al-ʿaql wa-shughl al-dhihn) …
State document, probably Fatimid, fragmentary. In Arabic script. "Al-mustakhdam bi l-ṣaʿīd(?)". The name of the official could be Munjiz al-Dawla. Merits further examination.
Postscript to a letter, probably. The addressee is asked to continually convey greetings to Abū l-Faḍl al-Ṣayrafī al-Kāzarūnī.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: (Ramaḍān?) 721 AH = 1321/22 CE. With signatures. Refers to someone's demand as worthless and null and void (وطلبه …
Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Top portion only. Needs examination.
Letter fragment. Looks like a join with T-S AS 177.259.