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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks like an account mentioining fabric goods (mandīl, shuqqa, and fūṭa) and also Alexandria, but at the bottom "wa-l-nāʾib(?) bi-smī …
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IB VI, 2. Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein …
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Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official.
Incomplete Karaite bill of sale for six shares in a house. Dated Friday 1 Nisan 5405 AM (1645 CE). Involving the buyer Yaʿaqov b. Avraham …
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Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script. On recto, Hebrew piyyut.
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Netanel ha-Levi b. Moshe ha-Shishi, in which he complains about his father paying him 25 dinars to stay home and study instead of …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.. Each page (recto and verso) begins with a ḥamdala followed by the day of the week.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning al-Maḥallī, loans from Ibrāhīm and Bū l-Maʿānī, trash collection, a carpenter, an apartment.
Letter from the nephew of a Ḥaver (whose eldest son is Abū l-Maʿānī), mentioning the 13th-century judge Anatoli. (Information from CUDL.) The sender might be …
verso: Legal document in Hebrew. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Reused for a different Hebrew (literary?) text on recto.
Legal fragment on parchment in Hebrew. Late, but potentially pre-sixteenth century based on the paleography. Inheritance-related document following a woman's death. Mentions the inheritor Yaʿaqov …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides? About communal affairs, specifically a site of pilgrimage (ziyāra) that has fallen into disrepair (kharāb), in …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …
ghurūsh
[ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
15,000 .3
Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.
The reason for its [the document’s] compos…
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Mentions Aḥmad; locks; qirats; various numbers; quantities in ounces (ūqiyya).
Large account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing many types of garments. Also mentioning the word Mahdawī (the nisba of al-Mahdiyya).
Letter fragment in the hand of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Nisaburi about his cost in an affair concerning Abu Sa‘id Makhlūf al-Nafusi. (Information from Goitein's index cards; …
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IB V, 36a. Money order. In Arabic script with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Faraj is asked to pay 2.5 dirhams to the …
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Bifolio containing narrations in Judaeo-Arabic, with some interspersed Arabic script, about the prophet Muḥammad and his companions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
Yosef ibn ʿAqnīn's (d.1220) Inkishāf al-Asrār wa-Ẓuhūr al-Anwār (commentary on the Song of Songs). There are numerous joins. Information from FGP.
Legal record (#19) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r
Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …
State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
Fragments of rhyming Hebrew lines.
Memorial list, or a dirge, not mentioning the dead by name, but by title or profession, e.g. ‘the Damascene doctor' or ‘the Babylonian baker'. Included …
Liturgical.
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. On verso there are also piyyuṭ drafts and …
A hastily written list of 37 contributors whose names are provided in abbreviated form. Perhaps a collection for a singer at a minor family event; …
Bifolium from an Arabic work, mostly consisting of prayers and verses from the Quran and names of God, but also including a line of probably-magical …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions acquiring a muʿtaṣimī (a wooden tray with small compartments, named after the Abbasid Caliph al-Muʿtaṣim) from Bū ʿAbdallāh and pawning it …
IB IV, 65 (ח85). Letter of condolence from Saʿdān b. Thābit ha-Levi to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanʾel on the death of his niece. Alexandria, ca. …
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Calligraphic letter by Mubarak b. Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment, containing only the opening and part of the address. The sender is M[...] b. Ḥassūn(?).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On verso, a few words in Hebrew added later.
Small fragment of an unidentified Arabic document.
Letter apparently from Avraham b. Saʿda, who complains about his brother Ṣibyān. Mentions Shemarya b. Elḥanan. Dating: around 1000. The addressee is unknown. It seems …
Letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan al-Sabīʿī (aka Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi). The sender's name may include Yosef. Only the address is preserved …
Unidentified list in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Maybe a distribution list (e.g. Sibāʿ maʿrifat X. . .)
List of names and accounts for the week of Mishpaṭim. Names include Ṣefanya Kohen, Yaʿīsh Shāmī, Shalom Sambari, Raḥamīm Maghribī, Khiḍr Barakāt, al-Ḥaver Khiḍr Kohen, …
Letter to the Nagid (or at least to a dignitary titled [...] ha-Yeshiva, probably the same Yaḥyā ha-Sar named in line 7). The sender asks …
Accounts/sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: a jotting of an account ("owed to me") in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Small strip from the left side of a legal deed of an unknown nature. One of the anonymous parties if referred as 'the great minister'. …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Regarding shipment of clothes and scarves. The writer asks for the prices of …
ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידי אן כתבת אליך כתב אן עדה ולם נרא לואחד
מנהא גואב …
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 …