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Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Few lines of not very readable text, in Arabic. Blank verso. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document written and signed by Avraham b. Natan Av, concerning financial matters and payments in monthly installments. Fragment (lower left corner). No names preserved. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the …
Accounts mentioning people such as Ṣāfī, the brother-in-law ṣāḥib rabʿ, and Muḥammad.
Fragment of a capitation tax receipt, probably. Needs examination.
Fragment of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly medical or culinary. The recto mentions measured amounts of ginger, seeds of אלכר.ס, and cinnamon. Requires further examination.
Small note in Arabic script referring to "a ruqʿa on Abū Saʿīd...."
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Letter from an unidentified sender to his 'brother' the dyer (al-ṣabbāgh) Abū l-Manṣūr b. ʿIwāḍ (he is also referred to as Bū Manṣūr), in Alexandria. …
Ownership note: Aharon b. Peraḥya.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties (...wāḍiḥ al-jabha...). Verso: Probably records …
Fragment (bottom) of a document, possibly a legal testimony. Two lines at the bottom of the document indicate witness signatures. The first one reads "shahida …
הסכם בין חלפון לשותף כנראה תימן, לפני כסלו אתמ"ב לשטרות, שהוא 4 בנובמבר–2 בדצמבר 1130 גויטיין תיאר מסמך זה כך: 'קטע מהרשאה, שנכתבה בעדן, והמזכירה …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions shipments and prices and the names Abū l-Faraj and 'al-shaykh' and Marwān and al-Sīrajī.
Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ II 504 or 540 AH. Maybe a partnership agreement. Describing an arrangement between two men …
דיון אחד
The upper part of recto is a Hebrew panegyric in praise of a scholar named Yiṣḥaq. The other text blocks are all drafts of a …
Legal document in Arabic script. About 10 lines are preserved and one witness clause. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 957 AH, which is November 1550 CE. …
Recipes for פתיחת לב, to quell a storm at sea, to heal scorpion-bites, for a headache, to send a fever upon your enemy, and for …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Nahray b. Nissim and Yūsuf b. al-Ghazzāl.
Letter mentioning real estate and rent in Cairo, the writer's son, qarārīṭ (carats). Folded once vertically then rolled and folded horizontally. Wormholes. Item 14 in …
Letter/petition of appeal for charity from a woman ("al-mamlūka"). Very damaged; unclear if any of the substance of the request is preserved. Mentions an appeal …
Late accounts in Ladino.
Recto: part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, complaining about the lack of letters from the addressee and explaining that a letter had been sent to the …
Incomplete Karaite bill of sale for six shares in a house. Dated Friday 1 Nisan 5405 AM (1645 CE). Involving the buyer Yaʿaqov b. Avraham …
תעתוק אחד
Accounts.
Detailed accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. One entry: "al-mutaʾakhkhir ʿalā arbāb al-jawāmik..." The year is then given but is …
Letter in the hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya (who refers to himself as "Head of the Row / Rosh ha-Seder") addressed to a cantor named …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
State document in Arabic script with a large ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāh ʿalā niʿmatih wa-[........]). There are several different text blocks. One of them on verso …
Fragment of an official document, probably. (Tax receipt?) Little is preserved beyond the date: 12 Ramaḍān 634 AH = 9 May 1237 CE.
Likely a Fatimid fiscal account. Difficult to read. As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
Legal deed. In Hebrew, with some Babylonian vocalization. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 4787 AM = November/December 1026 CE. Maymūn b. Efrayim receives a loan of …