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Legal record (#66) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 14 Elul 5324 …
1 نسخ
Marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid, which is 1298 CE. The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, …
1 مناقشة
Announcement regarding the program of ceremonies for the Ibn Yuḥay Institute for Culture and Righteousness in which the Minister of Social Affairs, the Chief Rabbi …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Document in Arabic script. Dating: likely ca. 13th century Ayyubid. An official account of some sort, probably related to state produce, "مما يتحصل من الغلات …
Letters to Yosef b. Moshe the Cantor.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side only). Dating: 12th or early 13th century. Mentions Waliyy al-Dawla, Fustat, and a shop.
Fragment from the middle section of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination for content.
Recto: poetry or rhymed prose probably by Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (active ca. 1300). In Arabic script. The content of recto is difficult to figure out …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
Arabic, literary. Very faded.
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Fragment of a Hebrew letter, mentioning copying a Torah scroll and selling it or other books.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Raʾs al-Seder. One word in Arabic script on verso (خط).
List of donations to the fund for clothing for the poor for the year 550[9] AM = 1747/8 CE. The list of contributors' names is …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-third and …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Medical recipe, including list of spices, including sesame and pepper.
Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Ḥanūn ibn ʿAlūn, the Christian clerk in the Dār al-Dībāj, states that: I have sold …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a dowry. Possibly also a condition ("and if there is no child").
Small fragment from the beginning of a commercial letter. 11th-century Maghribī hand. Might mention Ibn al-Yamānī. A few words from the address in Judaeo-Arabic and …
IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a teacher (ha-melammed); a girl (al-ṣabiyya); a request for assistance; the father of the …
Letter from Yeshuʿa al-Ḥāmī to Namir ויריוטי (?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Deals with business matters. Mentions the a "gold …
Legal document in Arabic script.
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, recommending a man who is “poor but from a good family.” The community of Fustat is asked …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Probably the top of a petition or report addressed to the mutawallī of something.
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (b. ca. 1310–d. 1355) to the community of Fustat asking them to arrange a charitable collection (Information from …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Probably rhymed poetry. Might be riddles. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or early 12th century. Most of the content is lacking context and somewhat obscure but refers to various …
List of gabela kashrut tax collection for Shevat and Adar [5]600 AM = 1840 CE. Family names include Bibas and Mosseri and Ḥaqīm, among many …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the names: Manṣūr Shāmī, ʿImānī Ḥazan. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century.
Fragment of popular narrative poetry (as evidenced by the פז on verso), featuring dialogue, someone intent on going up to the house of the qāḍī, …
Fragment of a document of sale in which Nahray b. Nissim, the well-known banker and communal lender (d. 1096), buys from his brother-in-law and the …
Bill of gift and release granted to grandchildren. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One of the parties name is …
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
Small fragment of a letter, probably.
Letter from Me’ir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq to a prominent figure in Fustat, probably Sar Shalom ha-Levi Gaʾon. The identification of the writer is based …
2 نسخين
Accounts in Arabic script. Very damaged.
There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further …
Letter from Bayān to his 'father' Abū l-Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender reminds the addressee that he had promised …
Small receipt or order. Needs examination. Dated: 3(?) Dhū l-Ḥijja.
Odd-looking legal document. On parchment. In Hebrew. Involving a lease (שכירות). Dated: Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 AM, which is 4 September 1449 CE. Almost nothing …
Brief official letter in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The addressee is to give the bearer Yūsuf and ʿInān(?) 100 silver pieces "for Minyat …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a medical prescription: the word sharāb (syrup) appears in the first line, and words for weights (dirham and ūqiyya) appear …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon. Mentions: "my master Aaron... his lineage... the other tribes of the sons of (Israel)... in the Torah... (Moses …
Legal document in Arabic script, probably Ottoman-era based on handwriting and layout. (The date may appear explicitly.) With a huge ʿalāma at the top. There …