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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably communal in nature– there are many communal lists from the turn of the 19th century matching this format (some of which …
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Page from a compilation in Ottoman Turkish of excerpts of elegant letters and poetry attributed to specific authors (whose names are indicated in red ink). …
Recto: Perhaps a letter or brief legal document? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver [medin]) received from Eliyyahu Nābī(?) …
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Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 7 November 1791 (10 Heshvan 5552), Cairo, for the cantor Khalīfa ʿAfīf b. Aharon and Simḥa bt. Yaʿaqov b. Barukh. …
Fragment of a calendar mentioning the year 5555 AM (1794/1795 CE). A variety of equivalent years are provided for the Ḥijrī , Gregorian, and Coptic …
Letter in Ladino. Dated 21 Sivan 5486 AM which is 1726 CE. Mentions Yaʿaqov Lanyado in l. 3.
Lists related to communal contributions that are organized in a format according to the weeks of the liturgical calendar and their corresponding parshas as well …
Lists of weekly communal contributions given before various Shabbatot that are organized according to the weeks of the liturgical calendar and their corresponding parshas. In …
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot. Each list is designated by individual contributors and specific weeks of the liturgical calender …
Accounts and calculations in Ladino which may be in silver reales based on the note at the bottom of the verso "kuento de los reales". …
Communal accounts related to the "ק׳׳ק סקאליין"– possibly the "Sicilian" congregation, but the spelling seems incorrect for that to be the case. Dated Tishrei 5481 …
Immense list of communal contributions for Pesaḥ 5553 AM (March-April 1793 CE). The list contains 397 entries that comprise at least 449 individuals. MCD.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mostly dealing with commercial activities of Ḥayyīm and Moshe Bibas. Dated halfway down the recto as Shaʿbān 1193 AH which is 1779 …
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest …
Accounts related to various coinage types such as dirham, fiḍḍa, and gold zingirli (here spelled as "גנזרלי"). The latter helps date this fragment as no …
Large communal register fragment, the paper was folded uniformly into eight sections. Dated in many of the headings, for example: 16 Tevet 5541 AM (1781 …
Engagement deed dated June 1760 CE (15 Tammuz 5520 AM). Moshe b. Avraham ha-Levi Caraso is engaged to Mlīḥa bt. Yosef Najjār. 100 arayōt (groom's …
End of a legal document from Cairo dated in the first third of Adar 5502 AM which is 1742 CE. From what little can be …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic or perhaps a calendar. Dated 5495 AM which is 1734/35 CE. The Nile is referenced on a couple occasions as "אלניל אלסעיד".
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic the recipient of which is unknown, but this individual is referred to with an honorific form of address (l.2-3). The letter is …
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Hebron, to his 'brother' Yeḥezqel Ḥefeṣ, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Sunday, 17 Av [5]529 AM, which is 1769 …
Letter from Moses Ghaylioun (גאילייון) to Meʾir ben Naʿim, mentioning Abū Simeon. Dating: ca. late 18th century. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Ladino to Yosef Melamed from Yiṣḥaq Molkho(?) in Cairo, mentioning ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān and Marseille (l. 9, מארסילייאה). Dated: 15 Shevaṭ 5488 AM = …
Recto: Legal document in Hebrew. Unsigned. Mentioning the following individuals: Jacob Bonsenior (בונשיניור), Nissim Noah and his brother-in-law Raḥamim b. Avraham Noah. Nissim bought books …
Legal document, identified internally as a "gift deed" in line 28. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5509 AM = 17 June 1749 CE. Location: Cairo. David ben …
Letter in Ladino from Sidon from Joseph b. Joyya and Masʿūd Bunan to Abraham Monson and Judah Aseo in Cairo concerning community financial matters. Dated …
Accounts in Italian on recto and verso. Dated 29 February 1747 CE. The entry under this date states: "oggi mi presto [sic?] Sre. Samuel Butler …
Large communal register fragment, the paper was folded uniformly into eight sections according to the same format as JRL SERIES C 179 (PGPID 32029). Dated …
Fragment of a Hebrew legal document from Cairo dated 1771/2 CE ([5]532 AM) certifying that Yaʿaqov Katāḥ (?) b. Avraham ______[lacuna] and Me'ir Saporte/Saporti(?) b. …
Recto: Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Dated: Sunday, 4 Heshvan 5488 AM = 2039 Seleucid, which is 1727 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Naḥum ha-Levi b. Yosef b. …
Karaite engagement document. Dated: 14 Adar (Purim) 5525 AM, which is 7 March 1765 CE. (Note that the year is covered by a paper flap …
Long deed of sale involving many members of the Karaite community in Cairo. Line 13 mentions the communal waqf (qodesh) and much of the document …
Karaite bill of debt. Dated Thursday, 8th Adar II, 5529 Era of creation (1769). The document was issued in the residence of R. Shelomo b. …
Karaite bill of debt. Dated 5 Shevat 5409 AM (1649 AM). Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Levi Qudsī and his business partner Eliyahu Levi acknowledge a debt …
Karaite bill of release of a debt, dated 30 Shevat 5594 AM (1734 CE). The document was recorded in the home of the brothers Eliyahu …
Divorce agreement, Qaraite. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Nisan 5488 AM, which is 1728 CE. This does not seem to be a ketubba, per Ktiv, but rather …
Karaite commercial agreement regarding debts between: Yosef b. Shemuel Levi, Moshe b. Yisraʾel aka Ḥakīm, Yosef b. Yeshūʿa Hītī Levi, Moshe b. Mordekhay Levi, Liyahu …
Legal document draft laying out the terms for the division of a a house given to four brothers by their mother ʿAzīza bt. Elishʿa Levi …
Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …
Letter in Spanish from Eliezer Bisque[?] to Sig. Mose Bisque, sent in June "Giunio" 5480 AM which is Sivan 1720CE. The year is slightly fragmented …
Betrothal document dated 25 June 1789 (1 Tammuz 5549) between Yaʿaqov Rosano b. Avraham Rosano and the widow Miryam bt. [...]ti Sakkāḥ (?).
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1777 CE (end of Tamuz 5537 AM) in which Menaḥem Abzaradel (אבזראדיל) makes arrangements for his 7 1/3 qirats that …
1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בא היקר נשא ומאד נעלה להתהלה כה׳׳ר מנחם אבזרדיל יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו הוא עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני ק…
Legal document, investment partnership. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: middle third of Kislev 5555 AM, which is 1795 CE. (The signing of the document was …
Recto: Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (1 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving a debt of 5000 diwani medins owed by Moshe Benvenist to Shabbetay …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yaʿaqov Roẓano, Damietta, to Yehuda Karo, Fustat/Cairo, dated 19 January 1798 (2 Shevat 5558). The margins are filled with sums …
Verso (original use): Legal document, draft. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5494 AM, which is 1734 CE. Avraham Delmar (דילמאר) leases a property …
Legal document mostly in Ladino, with some Hebrew and Aramaic that affirms a transaction for a sum of 100 "pataqas" ("סומה די פטקאס") from Shemuel …
Letter in Ladino from Mordechai Mir to Avraham Crespin (or Krispin) in Cairo. Dated 15 Cheshvan [5]550 or 4 November 1789CE. A number of other …
List of charity received, probably, by dozens of people, arranged in a curiously alphabetical way, with sections devoted to orphans and wives and daughters and …
Recto: Ladino accounts of sales involving Ḥayyim Alarcon b. Ḥayyim Yūsufī. Verso: Ladino accounts mentioning "the deceased" several times and 6 June 1788 (1 Sivan …