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Ruling in absentia obligating Maʿtūq Dāūd al-Jamāl to pay the amount of 985 pounds toward the rent of a store in the inheritance of the …
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Damaged fragment from a betrothal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE), and signed by [Is'haq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, so can …
List in Judaeo-Arabic, neat and well-preserved, with quantities of food items and materia medica on the recto. There are three columns from right to left …
Informal note. Mercantile. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Asking the addressee to arrange for one of the writer's representatives or colleagues in Alexandria or …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Sivan 5568 AM, which is 15 June 1808 CE. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic - from the end of the 12th or first half of 13th century. Mentions "Sayyidnā may he live forever," which may be …
The main text consists of prayers in Judaeo-Arabic. The blank space on verso was reused for a medical recipe and an account in Arabic script.
Recto: Order from al-Shaykh al-Makīn of endive seed (bizr hindibāʾ), purslane seed (bizr rijla), unripe dates (busr), and sugar. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
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Letter possibly from Manṣūr b. Lāmʿ b. Ḥasan by the order of Khalīfa b. Ḥasan to Abū Muḥammad ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan. Concerning the …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Netanʾel ha-Shulḥani (the moneychanger), in Fustat, to Ṣadoq b. Levi ha-Levi, president of the court. Dating: ca. 1030, according to Gil. …
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Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .
Legal fragment in Hebrew. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 seem to be two different legal documents …
Letter from Petaḥya b. (abū al-?)Maḥāsin, a refugee from Palestine, to Avraham b. Shelomo, his relative in Fustat, shortly after the Crusader conquests at the …
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Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abu ʿImrān Moshe "The Pride of the Priests" (Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic …
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Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile, probably 11th century. Needs examination.
An interesting begging letter by Yosef, the Samaritan priest, who apparently belonged to the Samaritan congregation in Fusṭāṭ. The letter has been edited, translated, and …
Small fragment of an official-looking document in Arabic script. Damaged. Some numbers are mentioned (e.g., 700).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Neatly arranged. Mentions Yaḥyā; builders; and woodworkers (khashshāb). On verso payments arranged according to days of the week.
One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter. …
Letter in Hebrew. Needs examination. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a disorderly scribal hand. Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman …
Investment agreement (ʿisqa). Dated: Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. In which Joya bt. Yehuda Ashiyahu invests 100 riyāls with Meir ben Naʿim …
One line, in Arabic script, "الحكيم الاجل اسعد ....سعاد". Probably literary.
Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably technical/literary, but maybe a letter. Mentions the use of vitriol (zāj) in prescriptions and a certain year.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 11th century. The handwriting may be known. Mentions 15 dinars and 27 qintars of something and ships that are …
Recto: End of a legal document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/1134 CE.
Karaite betrothal deed between Esther bt. Moshe Fūlādī and Avraham b. David Feyrūz aka Revaḥ. Dated on Purim 24 Adar 5509 AM (1749 CE). The …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. The parties are Sitt al-Dār and Maymūn. The nature of the agreement is not clear. The date is [4]9[..] = 12th …
A ruling board (masṭara), made from layers of paper stuck together, incorporating what is probably a medical work in Arabic. There is Hebrew, probably originally …
Few jottings in Arabic script. Document too fragmentary to glean any content.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. In the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya?
Calligraphic copy of release in which a grandson confirms having received from his grandmother, named Sitt al-Rida bat Saadya, the estate of his father. Dated …
Fragment from a formula of bill of divorce (get)
Damaged text in Hebrew script, requires further examination.
Possibly a letter - needs examination.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
[כתאבי אט]אל אללה בקא מולאי אלסיד אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
[וסעאדת]ה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה לי מצא מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלי
מולאי באחסן כאתמה וע…
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Family letter in Arabic script. Mentions transactions of small sums of money and a malḥafa (type of garment). Mentions Makārim and Abū Isḥāq. Greetings from …
Folio from a book of astrological prognostications in Arabic script. Mentioning things such as Palestinian oil and soap, lightning, and the Byzantine emperor.
Small fragment (upper left corner) of an official receipt. Might refer to dyeing (ṣabgh).
Letter in Ladino, small fragment.
Recto: geomantic designs consisting of series of horizontal dashes organised in groups of 4 lines each and laid out in two columns. At the end …
Writing exercises
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. Mentions the 'confusion of the kingdoms of the land.'
End of a letter. Needs examination
IB V, 34g. Verso: Cheque written and signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Dated: Tishrei 1454 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to …
Two fragments mentioning a few names, probably from the same document: Natan b. Ḥalfōn, ..]n b. Yaʾīr, Nissim b. Yosef ha-Dayyan. Requires further examination.