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Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 241
Small fragment in Arabic script, possibly literary. Mentions a place in the first line followed by "حماها الله تعالى". Stamped with a particularly ornate seal …
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Paraliterary textYevr. II A 814
Numerous pages of a handbook filled with someone's exercises for learning to write either Arabic or Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, probably Ottoman era. Of documentary interest …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 335
Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …
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Legal documentAIU XII.169
Legal document, ishhād, in Arabic, dated 1831 CE (18 Jumāda l-Awwal 1247 Hijri). Ibrāhim al-Yahūdī owes 700 Rūmī Kuruş and has to pay the Dīwān …
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List or tableAIU XII.159
Three unrelated fragments. Pages 1 and 2: A private account in (quite legible) Arabic, naming Yūsuf al-Yahūdī, Makārim al-Yahūdī, al-Qazzāz Abū l-Qāsim, and others. Written …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 91
Ottoman-era iqrār document, in Arabic script. al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms …
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ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه
سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها
جواب(؟) لما كان في يوم الاثنين خمسة ايام مضت في شهر
رجب الفرد ١٢٣٨…
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LetterJRL SERIES B 2067
Recto: Two late letter drafts (or two versions of the same letter?), one in Arabic and one in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts. The …
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Legal documentAIU XII.52
Legal document in Arabic signed by three Muslim witnesses and dated 1823/4 CE (1239 Hijri). Merits further examination.
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List or tableAIU XII.38
Writing exercises in Arabic, helpfully giving the date: August-September 1822 CE (Dhu l-Hijja 1237 AH).
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Credit instrument or private receiptBL OR 12344.10
Receipt issued issued in connection with a wikala in Arabic. Dated: Muḥarram-Rabīʿa al-Awwal 1182 AH which is May-July. The receipt is signed and stamped by …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 87
Seven sides of elaborate accounts in form of a ledger, in Arabic Siyaket script. Dated Ramadan 1229 (1814 CE). Potential join to AIU VII.F.24 and …
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State documentAIU XII.33
State document, Ottoman, dated Jumada I 1238 H. Ledger page connected to the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria (most of the institutional title is in …
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Legal documentAIU XII.82
Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …
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Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 64
Receipt or order of payment issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated 25 Ramadan[?] 1235 AH which is 1819 CE. A …
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LetterAIU XII.85
Arabic business letter sent from Istanbul (or written by someone named Constantine??), with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE. Needs further examination.
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Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.19
Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.
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LetterAIU XII.124
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan. The writer's name is difficult to read, as is the date, which may …
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Unknown typeAIU XII.89
Image 1: The end of an account in Arabic, along with what might be a fragment of a legal document discussing buildings in ḥārat al-yahūd. …
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Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 33.30
Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of …
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Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.42
Probably a receipt for a rent payment by Yashūʿ (?) al-Yahūdī for his store (? ḥānūt) in ḥārat al-yahūd, mentioning the date Dec 1832/Jan 1833 …
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Legal documentENA 3982.55
A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
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List or tableT-S Misc.11.29
Accounts in Arabic dated June/July 1824 (Dhū l-Qaʿda 1239).
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List or tableAIU XII.106
4 pages. 3 of them are brief notes, along with accounts, signed and sealed by Anṭūn al-Wakīl aka Anṭūn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf to a certain muʿallim …
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LetterAIU XII.118
Recto: A brief note in Arabic addressed to David ben Naʿim and signed by [...] ʿUmar [...] Nāẓir al-Amwāl. There are also accounts/sums at the …
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State documentT-S Ar.19.5
Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt. Dated 28 Rajab 1237 AH which …
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LetterAIU XII.87
Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAttar in Fustat/Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAthari (?) al-Attar. Appears to be dated 5 April 1809 …
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Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 71.5
Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal. Dated [1]256 AH which is . Issued to Hārūn al-Yahūdī and another name appears with the title Hoca.
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LetterT-S NS 266.113
Printed. Arabic invitation to a wedding on 10 June 1881 CE. See Nick Posegay's Fragment of the Month, June 2020.
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- أبشر أحبابي وآل مودّتي [ ] وكل حبيب قدير يد مسرتي
- أفراحنا قد أقبلت أوقاتها [ ] ولذيذ أفراحي وجود أحبتي
- منو اوجودوا بالحضور وشرفوا [ ] أنتم مرا…
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- Rejoice, my beloved friends and family, and every dear friend who may bring me joy!
- The time of our wedding festivities has drawn near, and th…
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LetterJRL SERIES B 2925
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 5 July 1836 (20 Tammuz 5596), from Rashid, addressed to Moshe Bunān, Fusṭāṭ. The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and …
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Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VIII,479.8
Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 54
State document in Arabic, an order of payment from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr), a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated …
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State documentCUL Or.1081 1.73
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā [ben] Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the …
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Legal documentAIU XII.173
Recto: Long, calligraphic legal document in Arabic, from Fustat (مصر المحروسة), dated October 1649 CE (7 Shawwal 1059). It bears seven signatures along the side, …
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List or tableAIU XI.188
28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 …
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