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Formulary
Instructions for writing legal documents, in particular those dealing with debts, with formulaic examples in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.…
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Piyyut
Recto: beginning of a seliḥa, מקדש תפארתיך וקרית אריאל. Verso: alphabetical writing exercise, in a different hand and ink.
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Piyyut
Parts of four piyyuṭim: (a) a zulat by Qallir, אויביכם בעשר אגנה; (b) שוטיח לגוים ושוחקים, headed מי כמוכה, by Samuel the Third, acrostic שמואל; (c…
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Unidentified
Unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text, neatly written in square script.
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Medical
Page from a pharmacopoeia, dealing with various medical problems and symptoms, including black bile. Substances mentioned are sweet violet, cheese…
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Letter
Part of the beginning of a letter from a Nagid of the Maimonides family, referring to a stay in Cairo, and mentioning ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.…
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Letter
A small piece from a letter mentioning the elder Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi.
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Babylonian Talmud
BT Yoma 4b–5a.
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Halakhah
The laws of šeḥiṭa, including a quotation from BT Ḥullin 9a.
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Sermon
Sermon on Šabbat (probably 17th–18th century).
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Letter
Letter from a father to his son, mentioning Fusṭāṭ and Cairo.
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Ruling board
Ruling board (masṭara), made from layers of paper stuck together, incorporating what is probably a medical work in Arabic. There is Hebrew,…
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letter
Business letter to Nissim, probably not earlier than the 14th century, referring to trade in Syria and Egypt. A man named Zechariah is mentioned.…
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Legal document
Recto: testimony given by Moses b. Ṭahor concerning the sale of a Nubian slave girl, written in Fusṭāṭ, Marḥešvan 1542 (= 1231 CE), under the…
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Commentary
Tiny fragment, probably from Maimonides’ Mišna commentary.