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Bifolio from an account ledger. In Arabic script. Dated: 1286 AH, which is 1869/70 CE. Various accounts and short notes including names and numerals, possibly …
אין רשומות קשורות
Minute preprinted document issued in August (Aoút) 1894 CE.
Bifolio of accounts. Dated on the verso Adar II-Tammuz 5627 AM (March-July 1867 CE). Many of the names are abbreviated beyond direct recognition but a …
Sums on lined paper and in purple ink. Dating: Probably 19th century.
Calendar of roshey ḥodashim including for the year 1834/35 CE (5595 AM).
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
תעתוק אחד
Writing exercises mostly of the Hebrew alphabet in a large notebook of 12 folios on lined paper. The latter feature helps to estimate the dating …
Letter from Mordekhai b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥayyim Avraham Levi. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 22 Iyyar 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE.
Copies of letters in Ladino dated 9 December 1811 (23 Kislev 5572), likely a fragment from a broader letter copybook. Senders and recipients are unclear …
Replacement ketubba dated 12 September 1802 (15 Elul 5562 AM) from "Kafr al-Nāqir" on the Nile. Line 6 notes that the couple's original ketubba is …
Legal document from Cairo, dated March 1802 CE (Adar II 5562 AM). Me'ir ben Naʿim had borrowed 150 reals from the old woman Raḥel known …
Partnership agreement dated 1821 CE (Sivan [55]81) between Shelomo b. ידע (?) and Shelomo ha-Levi [here there is an unfortunately placed archival sticker] and Moshe …
Legal document from Cairo, dated September 1829 (end of Elul 5589). Missing a large chunk from the upper left, but the remnant details an investment …
Partnership agreement from Cairo, dated 13 October 1800 CE (24 Tishrei 5561 AM), between David Dayyan, Eliyyahu Palombo, and Avraham Ḥaqīm. The context of the …
A ledger containing copies of about ten business letters in Judaeo-Arabic from 1814–16 CE (5575–76). On verso, most are to Yosef Shammāʿ (or Shamānī?) & …
Letter in Ladino from Av[raham?] Til[?] in Alexandria to Efrayim 'Ada in Cairo dated 11 March 1814 (19 Adar 5574). Within the letter David Dayan …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Eliyyahu Turki to Yūsuf Yaʿīsh Ḥadād. Dated 1 Iyyar 5601 AM which is
Late letter in Hebrew to Yishmaʿel ha-Kohen dated November 1829 (Heshvan 5590).
Letter in Ladino to Efrayim [...] dated 1806/7 CE (20 Sivan[?] 5567 AM). Requires further examination.
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ (like AIU VII.F.68). Dated D[hū] l-Ḥijja 1240 AH (1825 CE).
List of communal contributions or perhaps "sales of wheat[?]" (עלם מביע קמח) for the year 5589 AM which is 1828/29 CE (התקפט). Although the year …
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic from 1829/30 CE (1245 Hijri). The top heading labels the accompanying entries as "מצרופ" which may indicate expenses or outgoing payments. The …
List of payments in Judaeo-Arabic dated as 14 Shvat 5595 or 13 February 1835CE. In both headings on the recto and verso Ḥayyim Griyani is …
List of honors purchased for the services on various Shabbatot along with how much money paid or to be paid. Probably early 19th century, since …
List of donations (?) collected dated 1820/21 CE (5581 AM). Surnames include Pinto, Yagi.
List of donations collected on various Shabbatot of the year 5567 AM (1806/7 CE).
Late accounts mentioning a variety of incoming payments and goods (many recto entries state "מן קוסטא" but it is unclear whether this should be read …
16 pages of calendrical writing with molad calculations for years in the 19th century.
12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.
Late accounts in Arabic in a neat blue/red/black grid. Dated on the first page as J[umada] I[?] 1246 AH which is 1830/31 CE.
Ketubba for David Farāsh known as Buqji (?) b. Avraham and Esther bt. Yaʿaqov Medina. Currency: medin. Dated 2 April 1802 CE (29 Adar II …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Eliyyahu b. Moshe Riman/Diman/DeMan (?) of Manṣūra and Raḥel known as Kuḥla bt. Ḥassūn. The bride's father is no longer living, …
Legal document dated April 1822 (beginning of Iyyar 5582), Fustat. Probably a partnership agreement between David Dayyan and Moshe אלפרון.
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sara bt. Aharon Ḥedef (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 5591 AM = 23 …
A magnificent illuminated certificate/amulet for a circumcision. Assuming we're meant to add up all the red numbers at the bottom to find the year, it …
Investment partnership agreement (עסקא) for one month dated 1 Av 5575 AM (1815 CE), in Cairo (מצרים). Between Khalīfah b. Ḥayyīm Najjār and Ḥabibah bt. …
Partnership in sarraflık business between two groups: (1) Mordekhay Bialobos, Moshe ha-Levi Ṣanūʿa, Raḥamīm b. Eliyahu Najjār, Yiṣḥaq ʿAfīf, Avraham ha-Levi aka Skandarī and (2) …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 21 December 1876 (5 Tevet 5637), with a handwritten note at the bottom, "this is the form …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 16 September 1891 (13 Elul 5651), with a note at the bottom, "this is the form of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Ṣ[afar] 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.24. There are multiple …
Communal accounts for two synagogues in Cairo. Dated 5584 AM (1823/24 CE). The right side of the bifolio mentions the Ḥayyīm Capoussi Synagogue and the …
Ketubba dated 15 September 1847 CE (5 Tishrei 5608 AM) from Tangier for Ḥayyim Naḥmias b. Avraham b. Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Ordueña bt. Menaḥem …
Ketubba from Cairo dated 22 November 1822 (8 Kislev 5583), for Khalīfa Pipa and Sulṭāna bt. Nissim Qanini (?). The grand sum of the ketubba …
Recto: Legal agreement between Nissim b. Ḥayyim Mosseri and Yosef al-[...] b. [...]. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5589 AM = August/September 1829 CE. The document …
Ketubba, beautifully illuminated, from Cairo, dated 16 April 1821 CE (14 Nisan 5581 AM) for (Benyamīn) Ḥayy Dayyān b. David Dayyān and Mazal Ṭov bt. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Poem in elegant Arabic script followed by a curious note: (the poet and/or scribe?) "Mukhliṣ al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Hādī l-Islām Iyādi (?) was …
From a diwan of Arabic poetry dating from 1847/48 CE.
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1817 CE (end of Heshvan 5578) in which David Dayyan declares an investment partnership with Barakha Goren. A specific profession …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mentioning R. Petro and Se. Shemuel, and the holidays of Sukkot, …