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Maimonides autograph.
No Scholarship Records
Mysterious fragment, probably in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Verso: Fatimid decree fragment. Three words preserved. (MR)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Commercial letter from the owners of a commercial company in lumber to the Bar Būḥay Institute in the Jewish quarter – November 30 1945CE – …
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Hibatallāh b. Ṣadaqa. Also refers to a period of time ending on the 10th of [...].
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Sivan 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. Groom: …
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Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Abū l-Wafāʾ al-Simsār (the broker); Ibn al-Mū (?? בן …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …
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State document, probably Fatimid. Closing formula of a decree, possibly, or another state document written in a thick pen. The preserved text is a ṣalwala …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. 15th- to 17th-century based on the paleography. Both sides feature an entry for "מעלמיין". Requires further examination.
Letter addressed to "the two congregations." In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Moderately wide space between the lines. Almost all of …
Karaite bill of debt. Not complete and lacking the date.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or early 13th century. Concerning a trip of the addressee and a third person, and mentioning 80 dirhams …
Letter of recommendation for charity, probably. Describing an unfortunate man. "... in this city... in all places, because... his condition... he was robbed (nuhiba) of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 514 AH = February/March 1121 CE. Mentions Fustat, ḥikr (ground rent), and repeated references to renting (ijāra, …
Legal document concerning a sale of an enslaved person, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Two fragments comprising the left side of recto. The handwriting is …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Rayyis Abū l-Riḍā; the word pig (khinzir); and greetings. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Order in Judaeo-Arabic. "I (already) owe you 7/8 dirhams. Send me a pomegranate syrup for 5/8 and jujube (syrup?) for 1/8 and mastic and a …
Verso: Two lines of Arabic, possibly from a broader set of accounts. Reused for a liturgical text in Hebrew.
Legal document written in dense small letters. It looks like a deed of agency. There is a remnant of a name in l. 6 ([...] …
Letter from a community in an unknown location addressed to the community in Fustat. Fragment: bottom part only. In Hebrew. Written by a scribe. The …
Letter or note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 14th or 15th century based on handwriting. Regarding dealings with 200 dirhams and various quantities of commodities; Arabic …
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to his father Isma’il, Fustat. October 22, 1050. Short letter about the money that Farah sent to his …
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאואלדי אטאל אללה בקאך וכאן לך ומעך עדה ולם ארא(!)
ארגו שגל כיר אעלמך בוצול מרכב אבי עלי אלשאמי ווצל פיה
רזמה לבן אלתיהרת…
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Legal document with the testimony of Natanʾel b. Tamīm concerning a signature he witnessed for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf, who releases Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma b. Saʿīd …
I, Netanʾel bar Tamīm, testify that I have guaranteed
for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf the delivery of his signed document, which
he owes to Mufaḍḍal …
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4 pages of late magical prescriptions in Hebrew.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of …
(1-5) . . . and in the sukka. . . the conflict broke out, and they erected mangonels against the city. On the day of Simḥat Tora they took the …
Letter fragment (upper left corner) concerning financial transactions. The addressee is called 'ḥaḍrat rabbenu.' Mentions selling something at a profit of 1 dinar. (Information in …
State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from …
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Letter or legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Faḍl and [Abū] l-Barakāt, and garments such as a thawb and ʿamāma (turban), "wrapped" (malfūfīn). (Information in …
Deed of sale of a part of a house. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1514 Seleucid = 1202/03 CE. …
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Calligraphically written and on parchment. Likely a deed of sale specifying landmarks, but it needs further examination. Mentions a …
Lease contract involving al-Khazzān al-Yahūdī, dated A.H. 569 (= 1173-74 C.E.). - needs examination.
Recto: prenuptial agreement dated Sunday, 29 Kislev 1426 Sel. (= 1114 CE), mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥusayn, Ibrahīm al-Wajʿ, and the wife of Abū Saʿīd al-Ḍarīr. …
Letter to the community of Mahalla, two lines of the opening. Only the poetical praises survived. On verso part of the address.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (upper right corner). Mentions someone or something arriving in אלתסלך(?). Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on verso.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Outline of a deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Ibtidāʾ. Seller: Sitt al-Banīn …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 26 Ḥeshvan 5342 AM, which is 1581 CE. In which Budayrī acknowledges that he owes ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn …
Business letter from Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov (fattore) to a certain Shelomo (employer). In Hebrew with occasional Ladino words (docenas, magazin, partidos). Spanish and/or Venetian coinage …
Fragment from the top of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to 'sayyidnā al-rayyis.' Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part …
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and groom. Date and location are not preserved but the witnesses are known from mid-11th century Fusṭāṭ. …
Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...]. Dating: …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for talmudic text on recto.
Fragment of or postscript to a letter requesting a visit or a letter from the recipient. (Information from Goitein's typed texts)
Letter from Meḥmed Çavuş (Muḥammad Jāwīsh) to an unidentified Jewish tax farmer (ʿāmil) in Old Cairo. In Arabic script. Dating: late sixteenth or early seventeenth …