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Letter of appeal in the name of an old woman, whose mantle was stolen while she was about to wash it in the Nile, asking …
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Letter in Ladino. From Daniʾel Elyaqim to Shelomo Elyaqim (? אליקם). Dated 19 Ṭevet. Mentions Ḥayyim Mizraḥi. Needs further examination.
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List of expenses (מצרוף) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating is 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination for content.
Literary - rabbinic or legal discussion in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. The addressee is a notable and has a son named Moshe (ושלום רבינו משה …
Arabic translation of Psalms 19.
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
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Recto: Draft of a power of attorney written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Names: ʿImrān; Ḥalfon (the agent - אפטרופא); and [...] b. …
Small fragment of a letter/petition. Recto is probably the tarjama: [aṣghar] mamalīkihī Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. Verso is probably part of the address: hadrat... (Information …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Makārim one and a half dinars. Dated …
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat. Dating: July 30 (26 Av), 1057, …
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Letter from a man to his brother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1529 Seleucid = 16 October 1217 CE. Might be in the handwriting …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. There is a detailed and well-preserved heading on the recto that merits further examination.
Recto: letter or note mentioning al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī and a request to "not make us go up."
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Rabīʿ II and perhaps something colored (al-mulawwan).
Letter from a Sicilian who had come to Egypt in order to study with Moses Maimonides and with Yiṣḥaq b. Sason. Despite his long sojourn …
Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry (qaṣīḍ). Late.
Homily addressed to a group of learned people, 'the holy congregation... and in their midst David החכם השלם נר המערבי עמוד הימני פטיש החזק. Signature …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment …
Letter from Alexandria in which Abu al-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi asks the Ra'is to use his influence against local expressions of anti-Semitism and in particular to rescue …
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Beginning of a letter from [Ba]qāʾ Ibn al-ʿAjamī to a higher-ranked person, with several lines of Hebrew blessings, several lines of formulaic Judaeo-Arabic, then the …
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh and one other person, in Ashqelon, to Avraham b. Elʿazar, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1130 CE. Bottom missing. …
Informal notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto: Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. The writer asks the addressee to write a note to R. Ḥananel regarding the writer's …
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Fragment of a court notebook containing a legal record (or records) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Mentions the daughter of …
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi, unknown location, to Binyamin de Curiel, in Cairo. In Ladino. Dated: Adar 5552(?) AM = February/March 1792 CE. Complete. Needs examination.
Letter from a woman, in Jerusalem, to her brother, in Egypt. In Hebrew, with several Judaeo-Arabic terms mixed in. Dating: Probably late 15th or early …
78 minute fragments (8 vellum; 70 paper), of which one is possibly part of a letter in Arabic (row 4, no. 8). (Information from CUDL)
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
IB VII, 27. Recto: Legal document. On parchment. In the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan. In which Bū Saʿd Moshe b. Yefet the head Parnas …
Letter from the son or descendant of Yeshuʿa he-Ḥaver b. Ṣabgha (צבגה), who moved from Jerusalem to Fustat with his family, asking for help from …
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Brief official letter, or report in Arabic script. Late/ With a stamped seal in the margin next to the name of the issuer/sender (Muṣṭafā Agha/Ağa). …
Fragment of a statement by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Sibāʿ al-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith) that he has received 75 dirhams from his maternal uncle Abū Naṣr Ibn …
Small fragment of a Hebrew letter. Dating: Ca. 16th or 17th century. Mentions the addressee's wife on recto and Alexandria in the address on verso. …
Letter from an unknown writer to his 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Consisting mostly of eloquent blessings.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? al-tatar). "As for the woman who came, …
Fragment mostly consisting of pen trials and alphabet exercises in Hebrew and Arabic script. There are a few notable features: (1) On verso a drawing …
Small fragment with some Judaeo-Arabic text (lā man tawallā. . ."). Unidentified.
IB I, 31b. Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly of legal …
This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]
known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…
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List of names in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly part of a letter. Mentions the cantor Abū l-Majd, al-Shaykh Abū Naṣr, [Saʿ?]īd and his sons, Abū l-Baqā', Abū …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Very faded.
Amulet for Sahlān b. ʿAzīza.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter, probably 11th century. Mentions Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Yūsuf b. Bishr, and a purchase that the writer made in al-Maḥalla.
Letter of appeal from Moshe to R. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Address of an (official-looking) letter for David ben Naʿim in Fustat/Cairo, mentioning his capacity as [...] of the looms (al-anwāl) in Alexandria ( يصل الى …
Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Safāqusī, probably in Būṣīr, to Abū l-Ḥayy Khalīla (the father of Mūsā), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1048 CE. Deals …
תקדם כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך
ונעמאף ואעלמתך פיה חאל בוציר וגמהא ותעבהא ואנה
בלד אן כתיר אלשגב ואלתעב ולו חלפת …
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