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LetterENA NS 63.6
Letter in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic, 1839 CE (?). The letter is mainly a screed against evildoers and women who dress immodestly.
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Unknown typeENA NS 77.2
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters, likely the end of a late legal document. There is an inked seal.
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Legal documentENA 2634.13 + ENA 2634.14
Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 1
Official document in Arabic script. Dated: 1231 AH, which is 1815/16 CE. On a printed template perhaps from the customs bureau (ديوان كمرك . . …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 806
Two legal documents concerning the same case. The first is a Muslim legal query together with the ruling/fatwā, in Arabic script. The second is a …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 110
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: 26 Jumādā II 1205 AH, which is 1791 CE. Involves Mīkhāʾīl Nāyūtī(?) al-Kātib(?) and Yaʿqūb Ḥarrāf(?). There are four …
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Legal documentAIU XII.172
Recto: Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Madhhab: Mālikī. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: The main two text blocks appear to be dated 18 Dhū …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 57
Legal or official document. In Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 1240 AH, which is 1825 CE. (But note that the year 1241 appears at the bottom …
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Legal documentENA NS 35.29
Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, late. Mentions an Amīr Yūsuf [...] and "all the demands and all the debts. . . " incumbent on …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.34.157
Legal document or receipt or a similarly formal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 17 Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1013 AH, which is September 1604 CE. Signed: Ibrāhīm …
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LetterENA 1822a.90
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. Conveying regulations for merchants (?תקנת סוחרים) in the name of the heads of the congregation. On verso, …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 79
Debenture bond / promissory note (ورقة سند). An adorned printed template states that this is "a debenture bond for the sum of less than 100 …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 205
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 1248 AH, which is 1832/33 CE.
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Legal documentBL OR 12344.10
Official-looking document. In Arabic script. Dating: late, 18th or 19th century.
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Legal documentBL OR 12344.12
Official-looking document. In Arabic script. Dated (on verso): 1235 AH, which is 1819/20 CE.
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LetterMoss. VII,167
Letter fragment from Seʿadya Abū Saʿd to Shelomo (Sulaymān) אבוסטרה(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Most of the content of …
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Legal documentJRL SERIES A 792
Document in Arabic script from the year 1823/4 CE (1239). Needs further examination.
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Legal documentJRL SERIES B 3630
Some sort of receipt or legal documentation in Arabic. Late. Mentions a building and various sums of money and bears a seal.
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Legal documentENA NS 71.5
Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal, probably late Ottoman based on the Indic numerals, 18th/19th century.
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Legal documentT-S Ar.19.5
Document in Arabic script. Appears to be dated 28 Rajab 123[.] = 1814–24 CE. Needs examination.
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LetterT-S Ar.39.370
Letter from Muḥammad Jāwīsh(?). In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman era. Asking the addressee (al-ʿāmil bi-Miṣr al-Qadīma?) to return the burda(?) that he took from ʿAṭiyya …
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Legal documentENA NS 71.20
Legal document, most probably Ottoman. Contains a seal (part of which reads علوالهمة) and two signatures, one in cartouche form. Needs examination for content.
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LetterHalper 222
Business letter in Arabic script. Dated: 1119 AH, which is 1708 CE. Concerning a property dispute in Damietta. On verso there is a seal as …
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- [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وصلوات الله على سيدنا محمد اما]
- بعد وان سالتم عنا فاننا بخير وخاطرنا عندكم والذي نعرفكم به ان وصل الي عندنا …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 218
Legal document, late, in Arabic script, issued in Fusṭāṭ. Concerns al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ajhūrī and the Rabbinic Jew Murād. Needs examination.
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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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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 9
Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent for the shop he rented from the month of …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 53
Ottoman-era rental receipt, in Arabic script written on a bifolio. The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer …
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Legal documentMoss. 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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LetterT-S 12.522
Perhaps three letters of recommendation for Yaʿaqov b. Yehuda. The first was written in Istanbul and signed by Nissim Yaʿaqov [...]. The second is difficult …
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Legal documentENA 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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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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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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LetterAIU XII.37
Letter in Arabic dated 1737 CE (Ramadan 1149 Hijri). There is a seal on verso. Merits further examination.
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Legal documentCUL Or.1081 1.73
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā [ben?] Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (Muḥar1240H).
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List or tableAIU VII.F.99
Document in Yiddish. Dated: 5637 AM, which is 1876/77 CE. Recto: This fragment is a page of the accounts book of the Bikur Holim [Visiting …
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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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Legal documentENA 3904.2
Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …
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LetterL-G Misc. 67
Letter from a man, in Damascus, to his father, perhaps in Fustat. The sender expresses his longing and desperation in this foreign land, especially after …
Recto:
- כי ייי יהיה בכסליך וגו
- בלכתך לא יצר צעדיך וגו
- אשרי איש ירא ייי וגו
- אשרי האיש לא הלך וגו
- ואמרתם כה לחי וגו
- וצל כתאב ואלדי אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקא…
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