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Letter from someone calling himself Raʾs al-Kull (a title of the yeshiva, in the address) to somebody in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
IB VI, 43. Letter probably sent from a man in Alexandria to his brother in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely second half of the 12th …
2 نسخين
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh (l. 2). The sender reports that "these lands" are just as he heard in terms of …
Fragment of an administrative document, probably a report, concerning the finances of the dīwān al-aḥbās. The recto mentions the Bayt al-Māl and refers to sums …
1 نسخ
Late accounts with many names, for example the elder Manṣūr and Muḥammad b. the elder, and Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter in which the sender addresses a cantor, who has been sick, and whom the writer has not recently seen, and from whom he now …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer wants the addressee to meet with somebody. The writer may be a teacher. He describes what a certain mother …
Accounts in Arabic script. On recto there are Hebrew poems by Yehuda b. Efrayim (according to the Arabic-script header), including three verses that are palindromes …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (lower right piece). Involves ʿAllun and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and possibly a business dispute. Needs further examination.
Petition formula in Arabic on recto, perhaps a draft or writing exercise. Medieval-era. Only the opening formula is visible (المملوك يقبل الارض). The scribe's ink …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: Sunday, 21 Adar 1408 Seleucid (March 1097 CE). Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. This document …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Business letter mentioning Ismāʿīl and conveying greetings to him (on recto). The writer informs the addressee that he has sent him some wares and instructs …
Verso: Top part of a letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of condolence based on the opening verses. In the margin the sender …
Fiscal receipt, in Arabic script. May contain a registration mark. Needs examination.
Legal record (#2) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 1v-2r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Agreement between spouses Mahja …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Kohen, probably in Minyat Ghamr, to Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports …
ש'צ' מן ממלוכה ושאכר תפצ'לה יוסף אבן יעקב אלכהן
אלדי נעלמך בה סלמך אללה אן כרגנא מן ענדכם…
To the dignity of the honorable, great and holy master and teacher R. Elijah the judge
(may his) R(ock) p(reserve him), from his slave, who…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment from the end of a legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5286 AM = November/December 1525 CE, One of the signatories is …
Karaite agreement regarding the lease of a perfume shop. Dated 28 Tevet 5425 AM (1665 CE). Moshe b. Shemuʾel Ḥazan leases the shop to Yeshuʿa …
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Only the upper left corner is preserved. Involving a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) and "to the Jewish woman Fāḍila bt. Abū …
Ledger with many distinct entries in Italian, perhaps copies of letters. Needs examination.
Entry in court notebook (#58). Legal query. Regarding a partnership in which one party has contributed all the capital and in which the ṣāḥib al-māl …
Power of attorney written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Elul 1447 of the Seleucid Era (= July/August 1136 CE). Also …
Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 'ha-Rav Rabbenu Yeḥiel.' Dating: probably 13th century. Alludes to a dispute (waqaʿa fī hādhā kalām). Verso: …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1432 Seleucid, which is September-October 1120 CE. Court record concerning a father’s will. Abū …
Story from Kalīla wa-Dimna, with a large illustration, in color, of a lion cub and his mother. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
1 مناقشة
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." …
Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear if state or private.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic ("qāʾima mubāraka..."). Dated: Muḥarram 957 AH = 1550 CE. Mentions the term jāmakiyya.
Letter drafts in Judaeo-Arabic from an unknown sender to Yaʿaqov Maṣlīaḥ. Dated 15 Tammuz 5578 AM which is 1818 CE. There is writing on Page …
Recto, and lower part of verso: Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Location: Fustat. Drawn up under the authority of …
Release given by Karīma bt. Ṣedaqa the teacher to Avraham b. Ḥujayj. Signed by many people, but only four of the signatures preserved. (Information from …
Literary text in a beautiful Arabic hand. Seems to be about the son of the king of India who narrates a dream to a wise …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Qayrawan. Around 1045. The writer is still in Egypt (before he moved to Byzantium) …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), mentioning the elder Avraham and 92 dinars. Verso: legal document in the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter or petition from a group of people in Fustat. Headed by a biblical verse, then the rest is in Judaeo-Arabic. "We the undersigned of …
Two very fragmentary lines of a state document, in Arabic script with wide line spacing and large script. A huge margin has been left to …
Secondary use: Court record in Judaeo-Arabic. An inventory of something (a trousseau? a dead person's estate?). Many valuable goods are listed along with their values, …
Leter fragment, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Verso: Informal note addressed to 'my lord and master al-rayyis.' Unclear what the content is. Ends "waffaqahu allāh taʿālā in shāʾ allāh." On recto there …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Mentions Yehuda קאשטורו, perhaps a variant of the surname Castro. Possibly mentioning an enslaved …
Legal document in Arabic script. Only the beginning is preserved. Involving "Sulṭāna the Jewish woman" and Makārim and [...] b. Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib. This may be …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Torn and damaged. Recto is difficult to read, while verso contains mostly greetings. Mentions people such …