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Legal documentBL OR 5542.1
Legal documents from 17th century Egypt, regarding a widow named ריקא (??), the daughter of Hanan She'eltiel. The document on verso is dated the 3rd …
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LetterENA NS I.97
Letter or monumental sign with a greeting text (ברוך אתה בבואך ברוך אתה בצאתך) and then the name Shemuel ashkenazi is mentioned from Qehilat qodesh …
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Legal documentBL OR 5561A.4–4a
BL OR 5561A.4 seems to preserve only the imprint of BL OR 5561A.4a; the relationship between these two fragments and how they were folded is …
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Legal documentBL OR 5561B.14
Legal document dated Nisan 1651 CE (5411) involving Yiṣḥaq Castro and Ya'aqov al-Darqon. The scribe Shelomo b. Shemuel Somekh ha-Kohen has a remarkable signature. See …
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Legal documentENA NS 47.11
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 29 Tammuz 5437 AM, which is 1677 CE. Concerning the moneychanging (ṣarf) partnership between Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. …
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Legal documentENA NS 49.23
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 22 Adar II 5456 AM, which is 1696 CE. Currency: muayyadi/medin. The first few lines are lost/damaged. …
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Legal documentAIU VII.D.60
Legal document in Hebrew. Involves Moshe Kolon making a deposit including a pair of khalākhil with Zayn Shabābo (שבאבו). 1655 CE. There is a filing …
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LetterENA NS 29.22
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5439 AM, which is 1679 CE. Mentions several people, including Yaʿaqov b. Ḥabīb. Needs examination.
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Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16
Court notebook. In Hebrew. Dated: 5443 AM, which is 1682/83 CE. Signatures written at the ends of the entries include Shelomo Somekh ha-Sofer, Avraham ha-Kohen …
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Legal documentT-S 20.164
Partnership agreement from Fustat/Cairo, dated 1668 CE (״חכתה״ = 5428) between Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and a certain Yosef and a certain Refa'el.
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Legal documentT-S 8J6.23
Legal document from Jerusalem dated 417 according to ‘Pereq the lesser’ (= 1657 CE) concerning a disputed inheritance. Jacob Espadil (אישפדיל) made a statement before …
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Legal documentT-S 10J13.28
Legal document. Various draft legal documents on recto and verso (possibly from a court notebook), including one completely crossed out. People mentioned include Menaḥem Ṣarfati …
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LetterT-S Misc.28.258
Late business/family letter in Hebrew from Shelomo Binyamin to his brother-in-law, also named Shelomo. He reports that ships from Messina and Ancona have arrived, but …
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LetterT-S 10J12.35
Letter from Abraham to Ṭurkiyya and his sister Masʿūda, concerning money. He sends greetings to his mother and to Aaron al-Ḡarbī. Mordechai sends greetings to …
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LetterT-S 13J34.7
Letter from Shemuel b. Khalīfa, in Damascus, to Yosef Abū l-[...], in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps ca. 17th century. Specifically Friday, Erev Rosh Ḥodesh …
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LetterT-S 13J9.19
Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or early 17th …
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LetterT-S 16.59
Court record with several signatures, dated 1622, mentioning an appeal by several poor men who are imprisoned in iron chains. Signatures include those of Shemuʾel …
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LetterENA 3728.1
Letter in Ladino to Shelomo Almanas or Almatango[?] on verso from Aharon ha-Kohen dated [54?]78 or [53?]78. The latter year seems more likely because the …
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LetterAIU III.D.31
Letters in Ladino and Spanish reused for an index to the Teshuvot of the Rosh. ASE. Letter in Ladino on III.D.31 (3) of scan is …
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List or tableENA 1822a.97
List of accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated at the opening of each entry, for example, 15 Shvat 5450 or 25 January 1690CE. …
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Legal documentBL OR 5544.12
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5440 AM, which is 1679 CE. Concerning Yaʿaqov Re'uven who had employed Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ b. …
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List or tableJRL SERIES C 26
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated as [Dhu] al-Qa'da 1013AH which is 1605CE. The date appears in the first line of the recto in a somewhat uncommon …
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Legal documentAIU VII.E.187
Long legal document in clear Hebrew with four signatures, dated 1695 CE. One of the signatures is that of Gavriel Conforte.
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LetterAIU VII.E.102
Letter in Ladino in which most of the heading has been damaged but could indicate the year [5]419CE or given that the latter two digits …
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LetterENA 1846.1 + ENA 1846.2
Series of (copies of) letters sent from Hebron to Egypt, mainly asking for financial assistance. First half of the 17th century. Information from FGP.
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LetterENA 1846.2 + ENA 1846.1
Series of (copies of) letters sent from Hebron to Egypt, mainly asking for financial assistance. First half of the 17th century. Information from FGP.
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LetterCUL Or.1080 15.19
Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …
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Legal documentT-S 13J25.22
Legal document concerning houses that are part of the estate of the deceased Abraham Castro. At the time of writing, Mordechai רקאק is renting one …
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LetterBL OR 10110.23
Late, formal, communal letter, likely from the community of Jerusalem, mentioning their shaliaḥ R. Ḥananya b. Barhūn (l.6), to a group of people including R. …
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LetterT-S NS 99.35
Hebrew letter dated dated 1687/8 CE (5448), addressed to "the Judges," regarding business transactions. Contains several words in Ladino that are marked with two dots: …
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Literary textAIU VI.C.10
Two different fragments. First fragment: An abridgement of some of the dietary and lifestyle advice from Chapter 4 of the Hebrew plague treatise "Moshiaʿ Ḥosim" …
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Literary textAIU VI.B.3
44 pages, some of which are instructions for kabbalistic kavanot, some of which are a Sabbatean tract (see especially pp.15–16, 19–22, and 25–27 = 8r–8v, …
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LetterJRL SERIES B 2868
Recto and first line of verso: Hebrew letter to Gabriel Conforte. The author of the letter mentions a number of books he has received, among …
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Legal documentAIU VII.E.232
Legal document from Rashid dated 1693 CE (1 Kislev 5454). Needs examination.
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LetterENA 1846.3–4 + ENA 1846.3 + ENA 1846.4
Letter mostly consisting of praises for the addressee, then a request for personal assistance. The writer is Avraham ha-Yakhini (f.3, l.12), in Istanbul, to ʿAzarya …
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Legal documentBL OR 5534.1
Calligraphic get (bill of divorce) dated the 19th of Kislev 1661 CE (5422) from Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known as …
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LetterT-S Misc.11.110
Recto: A very formal letter (resembling a legal document or legal query) to an authority in Fustat, regarding the daughter of [...] ha-Levi, known as …
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Literary textAIU XI.127
Torah with Targum, Rashi, and Or ha-Ḥayyim commentaries. Printed. In Italian. Dated: 1742 CE. The fragment here is the statement of inquisitorial permission from the …
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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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LetterT-S 10J16.24
Letter from Shemuʾel to his father, David Conforte, in Ladino, which was then reused for a draft of a halakhic treatise on divorce. (Information from …
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Legal documentAIU VII.D.53
Interesting legal document probably from 1682 CE (at least after Adar 5442) involving a businesswoman apparently named Mazal Tov and at least two famous rabbis, …
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LetterENA 1846.4 + ENA 1846.3
Letter mostly consisting of praises for the addressee, then a request for personal assistance. The writer is Avraham ha-Yakhini (f.3, l.12), in Istanbul, to ʿAzarya …
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LetterENA NS 47.13
Letter of recommendation, likely a draft, from Fustat. Dated: 5735 (מעֿשֿהֿ) AM, which is 1614/15 CE. The bearer, Avraham b. Shemuel Ashkenazi, fell into Ottoman …
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List or tableCUL Or.1080 14.47
Calendar (astronomical/agricultural) for Eygpt for four of the Coptic months (Hātūr, Kiyāk, Ṭūba, and Amshīr), also giving the names of the corresponding Gregorian months (in …
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LetterAIU VII.E.53
Page 2 is a calligraphic letter in Hebrew to the elders of Alexandria, dated 1697/8 CE (5458), signed by three men, on behalf of a …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/2
Letter in Hebrew dated 1688/89 CE (תגילו = 449), from the Jewish community of Izmir to the Jewish community of Pisa, following the economic distress …
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LetterT-S 20.67
Letter from R. Azarya Zeevi of Jerusalem to R. Yizhaq Castro in Egypt, 1640. Should be read together with AIU VII.D.102—same writer and same addressee. …
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Legal documentENA NS 47.24
Court register fragment containing the remnants of 14 documents, most of which are fully intact. Dated Tevet-Kislev 5460 AM which is1699-1700CE. On the recto two …
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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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LetterAIU VII.D.102
Letter in Hebrew from Azarya Zeevi, Jerusalem, to Yiṣḥaq Castro, Cairo/Fusṭāṭ. Dating: mid-seventeenth century. Should be read together with T-S 20.67—same writer and addressee. The …
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