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Letter from Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin the cantor, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and phonetic spellings throughout, …
תעתוק אחד
Calendrical text with a related calculation table on the verso. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paloegraphy.
אין רשומות קשורות
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.2 - Accounts, in Arabic script.
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …
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Legal record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Munajjā has received from Hiba al-Zaki 108 qinṭārs of "red glass" (zujāj aḥmar) and 105 qinṭārs of "local glass" (zujāj baladī). …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing names and some monetary values. In a rudimentary hand. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th or 14th century.
Letter from Khiḍr and Sulaymān to their landlord. In Arabic script. Possibly informing him that they are moving out at the end of the month …
المماليك خضر وسليمان
يقبلون الارض وينهون ان المدة
الذي في اجارت المالك لم يبقا فيها
الا الى اخر هاذا الشهر فنشتهي
من احسان المولا يقف على …
Legal case from 1100. Shemuel b. Natan he-haver - a well known figure in the Jewish court - now appears as a litigant and sues …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
List of angels that are likely to intervene in particular circumstances. (Information from CUDL.)
דיון אחד
Complete, but very faded late letter in Hebrew from Jerusalem to ha-Ḥakham ha-Shalem ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓūyan Raysh Metivta Qedishta [...] Shemuel Sid[i?], Cairo. There are several …
Legal document in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. On recto there is poetry in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
End of a medical treatise regarding different kinds of food and drinks, their tastes and their influences on the body depending on the time and …
Recto: late letter prefaced by בס''ד and concluding with an elaborate (and illegible) signature. It politely addresses a friend, Yaʿaqov al-Tilimsānī, (from Tlamcen, Algeria), asking …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Shawwāl 899 H, which is 1494 CE. Mentions a state official: walī Amīr l-Muʾminīn Abī ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī. …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 24 Kislev 5568 AM, which is 25 December 1807 CE.
Opening of a letter or state document in Arabic script, written in a chancery hand and with wide line spacing, but might in fact be …
Recto: A gripping tale of King Solomon battling the demons. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poetry, probably related to the same story (lots of precious gems are mentioned …
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan, also known as Musāfir b. Wahb, in Fuwwa, to his brother Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan (Wahb) the Seventh, probably …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Fragment of an Arabic (official?) document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides.
Commercial account in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Itemizing expenses including for the rent of …
Letter from Moshe b. Ya'qub, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Prayer/invocation in Arabic script. This piece begins with Sūrat al-Nās and ends with Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (with some errors), then yā Allāh yā Muḥammad. In between …
Two fragments of a dowry list (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes a female slave named Waṣl ("Union") valued at 13 dinars. Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar): 60 …
Fragment of a literary text in Latin script, probably Spanish ("poder de enemigos... muy gran..."). Needs examination.
Incomplete draft of a Karaite betrothal deed. Dated: 17 Sivan 5423 AM (1663 CE). Location: Cairo. Bride: Zahra bt. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq Rofe. Groom: Yosef …
Receipt in Arabic script. For al-ḥākhām Yaʿaqov Castro (يعقوب كاشترو), so this document probably dates to the 16th century (the precise date probably appears toward …
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension); two partially preserved folios: (1) Mosseri I 81b + 81c, containing passages 4.2–5.7 …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
IB II, 7. Letter from Amram b. Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1075. Regarding a shipment of palm leaves that …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Bifolio of well-preserved accounts in Arabic, probably state-issued. Medieval-era.
Legal record (#54) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 52-55) Folio 14v
Letter from Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to his father-in-law, Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060s CE according to …
List of names with corresponding quantities expressed in Hebrew alphanumerals, possibly communal. Organized by parshiyot. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th or 15th century. Mentions …
Small fragment of a legal deed. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel? Dated: [14]56 Seleucid = 1144/45 CE. Involves Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abū l-Faraj b. Menaḥem, and …
Two letters of recommendation in Italian for a certain rabbi Barukh Löb Heilpern, apparently the former head of the old Universita Israelitica in Livorno, the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, the recordkeeping method is terse and somewhat unclear in terms of content. 16th-17th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Verso: Informal note to al-Nezer (Natan b. Shemuel), active 1128–1164 CE, in which the writer bemoans his state (e.g. mā baqiya lī khāṭir), and writes, …
Distribution of 150 pounds of bread to 39 households, in the same hand as T-S Misc.8.61. The large number of households receiving 3 loaves was …
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Bifolio of accounts, mostly blank. Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography. Mentioning Moshe Poreykh and probably an Ottoman military officer Khayr al-Dīn bölük başı …
Fragment of a legal document. In Hebrew. Mentions Yehuda, a sale, and an oath. Dating: probably ca. 16th century.