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Draft of a ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid = 1089 CE. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanʾel. …
דיון אחד
Upper text: piyyuṭim by Yannai, qedushtaʾot for the reading of two sedarim in the Palestinian triennial cycle, Leviticus 15:1 and 15:25, part of a maḥzor …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh (l. 2). The sender reports that "these lands" are just as he heard in terms of …
Legal query draft regarding a man who willed his executor to buy landed property worth 500 dinars, the proceeds of which were to be divided …
תעתוק אחד
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Partnership agreement. May be a join with ENA NS 77.247.
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Fragment of a state document in Arabic. Beautiful hand. Mentions الحاج . . . واحضر الحجة على . . .
Verso: Megillat Miṣrayim
Fragment of a marriage-related legal document. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. The witness signatures include the names Ḥiyya ha-Melammed and Shemuel
Lower fragment: Letter fragment from a certain Ṣadoq to an unknown addressee.
Extremely fragmentary text, mentions "ilā l-Qāhira", probably part of a letter.
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 304 Kāmilī dirhams. See …
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
Private account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions dates and days of the week; al-dallāl; al-dukkān. Needs further examination.
Letter from al-Fayyumi b. Saadia, probably addressed to Moses Maimonides.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Mentions: that the addressee is to remind a teacher that he should hide the …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dating: First decade of the 19th century ([..]התק). Involving Shabbetay Skandarī and Yiṣḥaq Ḥanūn. Signed by Nissim Romano, Aharon …
List of parashot - needs examination. Image not available
Maimonides autograph
List of names on recto and verso with corresponding figures expressed in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th-16th-century based on the paleography. …
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 …
Document (receipt?) in Arabic script, remarkably calligraphic and carefully-written. Involves Friday, the 9th of some month, ʿAbdallāh b. Fallāḥ, wheat, 3 dinars.
A manuscript containing a Judaeo-Arabic interpretation of the minor prophets. The colophon is that of Mevōrakh b. Moshe, a scribe known from other colophons in …
Legal document mentioning 20 dinars and people including Ibn Bundār (likely one of the prominent merchants of Aden known from the India Book documents), Abū …
Instructions of some sort in Arabic script. Small fragment. On verso jottings in Hebrew script.
Unidentified text in Hebrew.
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46v: A renewed betrothal contract dated Tammuz 1493 Seleucid = June/July 1182 CE. Groom: Abū l-Baqāʾ Sheʾerit b. Yefet. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Inventory of the items from a dead man's estate that are in Alexandria, mainly books (two pages) and various household items (last page). In Judaeo-Arabic …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Hebrew poetry. In a familiar hand. There is one line of Arabic script at the bottom of each page; one of them is clearly Arabic …
Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife (or co-wives?). Dating: ca. 16th century.
Accounts, late, at least partially in Hebrew in and Ashkenazi(?) scribal hand. Also has words such as קארטה. Detailed but difficult to understand -- needs …
Ayyubid chronicle. Recto (the second page) is headed "[...] wa-l-Salāṭīn wa-Ibtidāʾ al-Dawla al-Nāṣiriyya" (referring to al-Malik al-Nāṣir a.k.a. Saladin). The time-span covered in the fragment …
Literary text, in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses the Hebrew language and the language of the Bible. Could be theology or Bible exegesis. Needs examination.
Recto: Incomplete legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides, with the title "Nagid," thus post-1213 CE. concerning a partnership in a moneychanging shop. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand …
Dedication note for a quire of piyyuṭim for "the dear boy" Nafīs b. Abū Ṭāhir. Beautiful calligraphy.
List of names and Hebrew alphanumerical values, extensive and well-preserved. Dating: 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. The list may be communal given that …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay on account of the household of Amīn …
Original use (both sides): Accounts in Arabic script, with very wide line spacing, headed by the glyph and mentioning the names ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (unless this …
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
Letter in Ladino from Reʾuven Miris or Mires and addressed to Avraham Krispin (Crespin) who on the address section is listed as being in "Mitzraim" …