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Birth record. On the final page of a copy of copy of Kitāb al-Tawriyyah, the Book of Covert Ambiguity, by the 11th-century Qaraite scholar Jeshuʿah …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
אין רשומות קשורות
Long-form work, fragment of a page mentioning (on verso) enslaved people (jawārī). MR
Letter to [...] b. Yosef, mentioning names such as [...] b. Ibrahim and Abū l-Karam, and Damietta. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Fragment (a strip) of a legal deed concerning real estate (al-dār al-madhkūra). Mentions a ladder, a Muslim legal deed (kitāb al-'arabī). The remaining legal text …
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Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:(Documents 8-10) Right side of bifolium 1r
תעתוק אחד
Writing exercises in Hebrew with the student's surname in the headings (מצליח Maṣliaḥ). The instructor provided model handwriting at the top of each page for …
Fragment (very faint) in Latin script (unless all we are seeing is the impression of the facing fragment).
Probably a medical recipe or prescription in Arabic (yuʾkhadh. . . )
Oficial letter in Arabic script (وما القول الان الا ان . . . له عن تفضله فيجعل ادام الله عزه . . . وافضاله فوالله …
Letter concerning legal matters. In Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …
דיון אחד
Letter to Rafael Mamon חרוק in Dimyat from Shabbetay Skandarī in Cairo, mentioning Ḥayyim Barukh and Abraham Ḥefeṣ. The dating is likely early nineteenth century …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half). Involves [...] b. Yehuda al-Rāb and Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm, both Jews. Needs examination for content.
Legal record (#51). Disposition of inheritance. Dated: Monday, 13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Skandarānī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney …
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 …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Elʿazar Shammāʿ (candle maker or seller) to Abū l-Fakhr b. Abū l-Maʿālī. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening and the …
Recto (verso as catalogued): Accounts in Arabic, including the line "[...] that went with the fleet." Verso: Magical instructions in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Involving Bū l-Faḍl b. Hiba b. Faḍāʾil the Jewish banker (ṣayrafī).
Legal document. Barhun confirms in court that he holds or gives over merchandise including a bale of pepper and an amount of sugar. Names mentioned: …
An appeal from the Karaite community of Qal'a to the community of Kafa/Kana
IB VI, 47. Judge Elijah orders a white "burda", some handwriting exercises at the bottom
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Composition concerning business partnerships. Dating: ca. 16th century, according to Avraham David.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 1465 Seleucid = September/October 1153 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Debt contract between Abū …
List in Judaeo-Arabic, written with a graphite pencil. The writing method and paleography help date this fragment to the 19th-century. The list names חנין סמען …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The name ʿAllūn b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīlī al-[...] appears in the last line of the …
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content. Verso: The report was torn and reused for an order of a …
Formulary for a legal document involving marriage and a sum of ducats (peraḥim). Late.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a lovely hand; the same scribe seems to have reused numerous Arabic-script documents for literary/liturgical text (see Joins Suggestions). This letter …
Account entry or receipt in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Mentions the Nile port of Būlāq, specifically the loading docks (bi-isqelīt …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely a prayer (recto) and/or something magical (verso).
Legal record (#50). Deathbed will. Dated: Wednesday, end of Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Deathbed will of Abū ʿImrān al-Ṣā'igh b. Yūsuf. He leaves the little that …
Two long vertical strips from an account ledger in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Some of the …
Prognostications, probably.
Fragment of a ketubba. Eight lines from the trousseau list, mentioning such things as necklaces of yellow amber (salāsil kārib, which Goitein understands as kahrubāʾ), …
Copy of Maimonides' letter to Yosef b. Yehuda which comprises the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel …