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Fiscal account (?). There are numbers and possibly dates. Ductus seems like someone high-up in the administration. Needs examination, and comparison with similarly structured documents. …
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Recto: Geomancy castings. May be related to AIU VII.F.32. Includes two questions about the illness of David b. Esther: Is it earthly or from God? …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality. Dating: ca. 1035 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
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Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions saffron and a raṭl of lemon.
Minute fragment from engagement deed written by Halfon b. Menashsh Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The groom's name is Shelomo. The bride is a widow, daughter …
Epistolarium fragment in Hebrew. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS Part of a letter, with widely-spaced lines, probably 11th century and from Iraq. It addresses …
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Letter to a dignitary. Opens with a long preamble in Hebrew singing the praises of Nissim b. Levi. The substance of the letter then continues …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). Concerning the son of the late Abū l-Faḍl. …
Small receipt or order for 2 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Unidentified text in Arabic script in a book hand, possibly literary. Hebrew script on recto.
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Legal document, in Arabic script. A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Needs examination.
Liturgy for the marriage ceremony, along with part of a copy of a Karaite ketubba for Muʾammala bat Ḥayyim. Dated: 1324 Sel. (= 1012-13 CE). …
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Announcement by the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Cairo for the opening of a public clinic in the neighborhood of the communal synagogue on Rosette Gardens …
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Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb and [...]b al-Ḥakīm. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Fragment of a will (upper left corner). Testator: Abū l-Faraj Wahb al-Muʿallim (aka the teacher and ḥaver Natan b. Avraham). No details preserved. (Information from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto: Shaʿbān 958 AH (נח׳׳ץ), which is 1551 CE. At least three entries mention …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Document concerning the sale of shares in sugar refinery. At the top appears the name Saʿadya b. Shelomo b. Yefet ha-Levi (all given titles such …
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 …
Legal document. Mutual release upon the dissolution of a partnership in a shop. Involves Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Shemuel. Needs further examination.
Late accounts, mentioning Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ and an Aghion.
Letter from the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan (a.k.a. Avraham b. Natan) who is titled Ḥemdat ha-Qahal. Fragment (upper part …
Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning ‘golden dinars’. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a marriage document of a freedwoman named Nāshiya (likely the same as in T-S 8J12.2 (PGPID 1882)). A few words from her …
Fragment (lower part) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with two large words in Arabic remaining from an earlier document. The subject matter is difficult to …
Late list of money received.
Fragment of a ketubba written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel ha-Levi from the year 1195/96 CE. The bride's name is Sitt al-Furs. Only the groom's father's …
Address of a letter from Nahray b. Natan to his cousin (ibn ʿamma) Nahray b. Nissim. On recto: Court record in Arabic script, maybe a …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …
A ketter to Ishaq b. Ya'aqoc from Shalom b. Simha Ishaq
Possibly a responsum. Legal discussion, but doesn't seem to be a legal deed.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Parties: Abū l-Khayr and Avraham. Dated Iyyar 4[...] AM, so prior to 1240 CE.
Fragment of a letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal in Fustat. Mentions some information about the Sultan …
Marriage document. A large damaged piece from a ketubah, from the 12th century, 1127 onward, based on the title יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם, …
Original use: Small fragment from the bottom of a Fatimid decree. Dating: No later than 1077 CE.
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Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to David b. Aharon, Fustat, probably fall 1025. Avraham gives brief details of a recent visit to Damascus, …
Damaged and torn, only a few words remain, but seems to be from a ketubbah. AA
Fragmentary court record(s). The main entry involves an Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon and Netanʾel and family relationships (someone refers to "my sister"). The text at 90 …
Petition in Arabic script. The sender's name may appear between lines 2 and 3 (ʿabduhu Khalaf....?). May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise and …
Verso: three recipes in Arabic script. The first may be medical ("Smear it on the place. Effective.") The second, which occupies the bulk of the …
Note on parchment concerning a purchase. The main text talks about 25 nuqra coins being given to Najīb for the order of a proper Byzantine …
Tax receipt. Needs examination for details. Written on the back of an earlier (legal?) document in Arabic script, of which only the upper right corner …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Possibly this could be narrowed based on the reshut clause naming ha-Nagid ha-Gadol (Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic on verso. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The addressee is Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Hibatallāh b. Q[...]. …
Legal deed, fragment. None of the main document is preserved, but two signatures are present: the cantor Yoshiyya b. Neḥemya and Sahlān b. Avraham. On …
Legal queries and responsa of Shelomo ibn Aderet. All having to do with marriage laws. Late.