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Recto: part of a ketubba for Ḥusnā bat [...] and Khalaf b. Hiba ha-Levi (ליואה). Dated Thursday, 27 Shevaṭ 1[..]6 (c. 11th century CE?). Location: …
דיון אחד
Financial settlement between Shela b. Yoel Ibn al-Sofer and his divorced wife and the mother of his child, Ḥusn bt. Avraham ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably second …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
אין רשומות קשורות
List of sales "מוביע" and purchases "מושתרא" in Judeo-Arabic that is dated solely as 68/٦٨ or 67/٦٧ with Hijri months (frequently Muḥarram). The document may …
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso) . Very few words remain. ASE.
Historical or literary narrative in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Maimonides, responsa
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Medical recipes in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. One is for a child's cough, another for dysentery.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. From several people, probably addressed to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. The senders are currently being held in prison and it …
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment. Mentions the brother of the Rayyis Abu l-Najm, Ibn Munajja, Zayn al-Din b. al-Sawwaf. In the margin, "abstain from soft bread and water." …
Four pages of responses from R. Ḥananel b. Ḥūshīʼel (so first half of 11th century), concerning a child born "from an Egyptian woman", probably an …
Letter from Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen (possibly b. Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu), a recently appointed judge in al-Mahalla and Sammanūd, to Shemuel the cantor, praising the community for …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Monday, 3 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid, which is 1214 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involves Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Manṣūr …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman [...] bt. Natan and a man who has been …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, maybe ca. 16th century. Mentions various commodities including fish coming in from Rashīd and Abū Qīr. Also mentions "the maghhribīs" …
Letter probably from the leaders of the Jewish community in Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ (fl. 1007–1055 CE), describing the ransoming and generous …
Damaged legal deed, probably a bill of release. If one of the parties will try to take the other party to gentile court he will …
Formulary for a memorial prayer for someone whose name has been left blank (peloni).
Arabic, literary. Cites Galen.
Fragment of a legal document; concerning alimony and other marital matters between spouses; [...] Kohen b. Shelomo appears at the bottom. In the hand of …
Letter from Sibāʿ b. Surūr to Avraham b. Shemaʿya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. All that is preserved here is formulaic blessings and the standard complaint …
Letter in Ladino dated September 1777 (Elul 5537), from Yiṣḥaq Sigan or Bigan (?) in Alexandria to [address torn] in Rashid. Among the individuals mentioned …
Verso: fragment of a letter addressed to Moshe ha-Levi, head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov. He was appointed as Gaʾon already around 1140, when Yehuda ha-Levi …
Legal document(s), probably. In Arabic script. Late. Needs further examination.
Recto: Business letter in Arabic script. Mentioning various small transactions and giving instructions. Verso: Barely legible Hebrew text
Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …
אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו
ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל
החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך
אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד
אנפצלת מן בין …
I (would like to) inform the august,
exalted and gracious presence of our master
and teacher Elijah the enlightened,
wise and understa…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning things like soap and firewood, as well as 'my brother' and the synagogue. Rudimentary hand. Dating: Probably 11th century.
Bottom part of a letter written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. AA
Official report in Arabic script. Small fragment. Mentions the caliph (… ين الله), probably al-Ẓāhir (li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh), al-Ḥāfiẓ (li-Dīn Allāh), or al-ʿĀḍid (li-Dīn Allāh). …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Likely a draft or formulary, since there are several abbreviations used.
Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part …
Letter in Hebrew, late. Addressed to a certain Avraham. About a woman who received payment to do something but didn't. Also mentions: her sister and …
Calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Dated the 19th of Kislev 5422 AM (1661 CE). Location: Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known …
Note on parchment concerning a purchase. The main text talks about 25 nuqra coins being given to Najīb for the order of a proper Byzantine …
Fragment of a calendar in Hebrew, comprising the lower right corner of the page. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Most …
Letter addressed to a mother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. The sender was happy to learn that Farajallāh is well. Mentions Umm Yaʿqūb, Umm Mūsā, …
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (apparently the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaon) in Ṣahrajt,, to Ibrāhīm b. Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf (aka Avraham b. Ḥaggay), in Fustat. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in Arabic script. Mentions an administrator/supervisor (nāẓir); a Muslim judge: al-qāḍī al-ajall Muḥammad al-[...] Ibn al-Khalīlī; advice to the addressee that if business dries …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning someone the sender does not like (לענה אללה) and urging the addressee to come (פאחרץ פי כרוגך …
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Large, well-preserved, and essentially unstudied. Sender and addressee are unidentified; the sender is probably writing from Ifrīqiyya. …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a fiscal document. Mentions a date: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 612 H, but this should be verified. Reused for …
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …