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Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
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Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
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Letter fragment in Ladino. Seems to be discussing somebody's (Eliyya's?) illness for the last 6 months: סון 6 מיזיס קי נו איי ריפואה קון אילייא …
Letter from the office of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. Moshe ha-Levi (in office ca. 1170/71 and 1173–95) to a certain community. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Medical prescription with the order of what to do after the medicine has worked: sweet rose water, cold water, and a boiled chicken. (information from …
Official letter from either the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355) or his father Avraham II Maimonides (served 1300 to ca. 1316). (Goitein …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Official document in Arabic script. Certifying that the teacher Gedalya Eliyyahu the Jew will pay (or has paid?) the ground rent (ḥikr) of a certain …
1 نسخ
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment torn from the margin, since the text is diagonal. Mentions some people looking after some other people (yakūnū murāʿiyyīn lahum) …
Original use: Official correspondence in Arabic script, mentioning Ibn al-Salār (vizier of al-Ẓāfir, 1149–53 CE). Needs examination for content. Secondary use: Literary text in Arabic …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Legible phrases: "... worse than... a terrible danger... in other news... R. Natan... to Fustat with a letter... …
Mostly a liturgical text, but on verso remains of few words from an Arabic document - needs examination.
Two minute fragments, a few letters in Hebrew script are visible on the recto and verso.
Very faded text in Hebrew script. Unidentified. A few words in Arabic script on verso.
Recto: the ending of a letter, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, likely to the Nagid Avraham (Maimonides) (see verso margin), mentioning R. Yehuda …
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
A Ṣūfī Fiyyashiyya poetry in a Moroccan colloquial dialect, in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic paraphrase of Genesis 22 (the binding of Isaac). Very small bifolio on parchment with two binding-holes at the fold.
אחר
Possibly a receipt beginning 'tadhkira...'
Power of attorney written by a Muslim notary, beginning [ ]هذا كتاب وكالة كتبه يبن هتم لعـ, with اليهودي added above the missing name in …
Petition from Dalāl bt. Masʿūd/Seʿadya (Umm Ibrāhīm), in Bilbays, to the dignitary Abū l-Barakāt Yehuda b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen (titled "ha-Sar" and "Sofer ha-Malkhut," i.e., a …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
1 مناقشة
Letter in Arabic script. Beginning only. Might be a draft. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yaʿīsh Ḥarrār in Alexandria from Yaʿaqov ha-Levi.
State report? Three lines preserved, wide space between them: واحضار . . . ال . . . من جزيرة بني [عمـ؟]ـر فالذي اعتمده في ذلك(؟) …
Record of a division of an estate detailing the items included, including 74 dinars, jewelry, clothing, and bedding. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid = July/August 1102 …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand and layout suggest that this is a letter from Avraham b. Farah. the letter is addressed to a certain …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Sālim, Ṣafiyy, Hiba, Abū l-Ḥasan, Abū l-Murajjā, and Khalaf. Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
Extremely faded—unreadable. Mirror image text only.
Recto looks like a letter fragment in Arabic script, while verso looks like a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Needs further examination.
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon, with a partial …
Pen trials in Arabic script, most likely. Needs examination.
Accounts.
Testimony, in Arabic script, on parchment, written in paragraphs of two lines which is a common feature of some marriage documents. Begins هذا ما شهد …
Bifolio of accounts, probably from a merchant's notebook. Written in a mix of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. (It is also possible that these are legal …
Announcement of the Jewish community in establishing a religious institution for the training of faith leaders, kosher slaughterers, and mohelim beginning with the sending forth …
Arabic, literary.
Small fragment (beginnings of 3 lines) of official correspondence. The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on …
Minute blank fragment.
Top portion of a court record from the court of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237), who held the title Nagid after 1213 CE, specifically (l. 4). …
Large fragmentary list of ca. 70 men; possibly people who are unable to pay the capitation tax. Many individuals are mentioned together with their brothers …