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Accounts with names and numerals, mentioning Abū Saʿd [...] al-Ḥasīd, Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Nafīs and Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Nafīs. (Information from CUDL)
Letter of recommendation from Bū l-Barakāt to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking for assistance for the bearer. The writer mentions an earlier conversation that took …
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Commercial accounts (or receipt of some sort?) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Late account, names and numbers. The heading of each side of the bifolio is dated sequentially 6-7 Ṣafar s[ene] __38 AH. Based on the paleography …
Tiny fragment in Arabic script, with wide line spacing and chancery script. Official Correspondence. On verso, there is mirror image text, probably from a letter …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1204-1237. Partnership agreement in cloth trade between Pinhas b. Elazar ha-Kohen and Moshe ha-Levi. Both partners seem to …
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Letter from Mūsā to his maternal uncle Eliyyahu the Judge. Conveying flowery greetings for the New Year.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, the mother of al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Faraj Ṣabbāgh, and Abū l-Ṭāhir Ḥarīrī.
Letter fragment from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim. In Hebrew.
Fragment from al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda by Rabbenu Nissim (information from Oded Zinger). On recto a man is telling another man, "I would like to marry …
Recto: commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "That man... to you, you said to me several times... I don't know what he needs, and if he asks …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.
Magical text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions items such as galangal (khalanjān), applicators (marāwid), vessels (barānī), …
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Communal? Mentions Dammūh and "in the hand of the foreign teacher."
Verso: Legal document, possibly. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era, based on the hand. Mentions various people including Yehuda b. Yaqar. Needs examination.
T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to …
Fragment of a quittance document (שטר אביזארי). Written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Ṭevet 4837 AM = 14 December 1076 CE. …
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The closing of a family letter in Arabic script from ʿAzīza to her daughter Zubayda, dated the 23rd of Sha'ban [ ]57. ʿAzīza sends regards …
Amulet to protect Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen gaʾon b. Shelomo gaʾon (1127–39 CE), destroy his political enemies, and succeed before the government. (Information from CUDL)
Two or three different documents stuck together. One of the larger pieces is a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …
Fragment (a strip) of a legal deed concerning real estate (al-dār al-madhkūra). Mentions a ladder, a Muslim legal deed (kitāb al-'arabī). The remaining legal text …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Everything is crossed out with vertical lines. Headed "with Isḥāq al-Qazzāz." Other names mentioned: Ibrāhīm; Ibn Abū …
Fragment in Ladino, probably from a business letter. Needs further examination. Very faded accounts on verso.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, late.
Unidentified Arabic text, likely documentary.
Confirmation of the payment of a loan of 22 'half silvers' (muʾayyadīs), from Yosef, followed by an instruction to return the pledged copy of the …
Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …
… from where it stops, it starts. And from which place does it stop? From
Tuesday noon. Open
your eyes, col…
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List of something. In Arabic script. On the recto, there is a note: "wa-ʿamiltu hādha l-fihrist fī hādha". On the verso, there is a mention …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband …
Parchment fragment with pen trials and drawings. Recto: monumental Hebrew characters with full masoretic vocalization and decorative flourishes; a sun or other concentric shape with …
Will of Na’ima bt. Yaʿaqov stating that one-half of a house with a store in Malij that she bought from her son for six dinars, …
צוואת נאעמה בת יעקוב בעיר מליג
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Talmudic.
Probably literary.
The Nagid R. Yehoshuaʿ warns against disqualified kosher butchers. Middle of the 14th century.
Legal formularies for marriage contracts. In large, square script.
Letter addressed to a certain Seʿadya or the son of Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the …
Halakhic work on forbidden sexual relations and yibbum. Possibly from a collection of legal queries and responsa.
Letter addressed to a dignitary (ha-rav ha-gadol, ha-maʿoz ha-migdol—a title usually reserved for Maimonides or his son). The handwriting is distinctive (especially the curly זs). …
Minute fragment of an extremely faded text in Hebrew script on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.
Booklist
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Astrological text in Arabic script, with interspersed words transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (late hand) in the spaces between the lines. This demonstrates that even some Jews …
من يوم الاحد وان اردت الهياجان
ففي ساعة المريخ من يوم الجمعة وهي
سادس ساعة منه وان اردت
تحرق قلبه ففي ساعة الزهرة من
يوم الثلاثا وهي …
On Sunday. If you intend to provoke/agitate (him/someone)
then in the hours of Mars on Friday which is
The sixth hour of the day and if y…
Fragment of a text in Latin script, possibly Castilian Spanish. Requires further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (including li-ʿAbbās adāma llāhu ʿizzahu). Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Headed (recto left page) "the account of my …
Literary text; on recto there is a fragment from a letter (or rather colophon?). Dated: 1 Tammuz 4870 AM = 1421 Seleucid = 21 June …
List of books that [...] al-Dawla Abū l-Barakāt inherited from the late Abū l-[...]. The first two items are difficult to read (except for maqāla …