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Recto: small fragment from a document. Mentions 'the city' and 'my sister.' Verso: mentions [...] bt. Mubāraka. May be a magical fragment, which would explain …
Lower fragment: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to "our master the noble judge, the judge of judges (sayyidnā al-qāḍī al-ajall qāḍī al-quḍāh); a fight (munāzaʿa) …
Verso: Scribal exercises in Arabic, extremely dense in distribution/paper usage. Medieval-era. At least two different scribal hands are visible. The Mishnaic commentary on the recto, …
Letter from a man, in Minyat Zifta, to his cousin (walad al-ʿamm), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has sent 40 wariq dirhams and he …
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Bifolium from Saadya Gaon's Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq. Information from FGP.
Love poetry in Judaeo-Arabic, with at least one word written in Arabic script inside of the Judaeo-Arabic text. There are writing exercises in the margin …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. Mentions materia medica such as asarabacca (asārūn), quince (safarjal), and musk. Mentions people such as al-Ḥazzān al-Gharbī …
A formula of bill of partnership.
Tax receipt issued for the mutawallī of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Jumādā II 403 (). Tax year: …
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Literary text, mainly in Persian. Also with some Arabic, including two lines of poetry on verso before it reverts to Persian. يا ليلة اللذات... عودي …
Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly state or fisc-related.There is a ḥasbala at the top, marking the end of the previous section. It looks like there …
Legal record (#101) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 34r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Kislev 532[.] …
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in …
Letter sent by the manager of a farm far away from the capital, named Abū l-Faraj b. Hillel, to the landlord, the Nagid Mevorakh (in …
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Part of a letter or document in Arabic script (might mention al-Ramla and a date). Reused for writing exercises in Hebrew and for piyyuṭ on …
Letter from Mevasser b. David (Tinnis) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1052. Mevasser b. David appears to have recently arrived from the Maghreb (al-Mahdiya). …
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Recipe in Arabic script for compounding hiera picra. ASE
IB IV, 20 (ח61). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria to Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh in Almeria. Ḥalfon requests Yiṣḥaq's help with a shipment that …
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Letter draft addressed to a Nagid who has two sons. The opening titles and blessings fill 12 lines. The remainder of the page is filled …
Talmudic discussion.
Petition from a certain Manṣūr to an unidentified addressee (though Goitein assumed that "Sayyidnā" meant "the Nagid"). In Arabic script. The sender is a poor …
List of accounts. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. At least two entries mention iron, the more detailed instance is in …
First-person narrative in Arabic script, probably literary. Describing a lavish 'majlis.'
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Recording something which Umm Abū l-Ḥusayn said, possibly involving her children.
Letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Ṭuviyyahu, probably in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat. Recommending his nephew Avraham b. Moshe for charity. …
List of tenants. In Judaeo-Arabic. "My tenants in the house in Ḥārat al-Zuwayla in the Alley of the Christians: Abū l-Faḍl Natan b. Yeshuʿa; Abū …
Recto: Fiscal document, in Arabic script, headed with a basmala and beginning in a petition format. Followed by many lines of sums of money, written …
Names of persons and quantities and commodities in Arabic (FGP) - needs examination. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū ʿAbdallāh.
Legal record (#137) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 45r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). If the entry was …
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Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Approximately 8 lines of unidentified Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a book list since the last two lines seem to begin with the word "tafsīr."
Poem/piyyut, the last 10 lines alternating between Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from FGP.) See also T-S NS 306.8 (PGPID 38275).
Legal document (iqrār) concerning receiving payments for crops. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "contrat du prince Saragah Mache (mamelouk) avec les cultivateurs"]. Loss …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas, in Rosetta, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Cairo. Dated 10 Heshvan 5568 AM (1807 CE). The letter …
Legal document in Arabic script. Only the beginning is preserved. Involving "Sulṭāna the Jewish woman" and Makārim and [...] b. Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib. This may be …
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard …
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Small fragment from the beginning of a legal deed written by Halfon. b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Avraham the judge b. Shabetay is mentioned. …
Accounts in Arabic script, requires further examination.
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faraj and al-Naṣrānī (‘the Christian’). In the hand of the scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs. (Information in part from …
A letter from Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he …
Marriage contract from Ramla, ca. 1062 or 1070. The groom is Avraham b. Sedaqa. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, p. 358-61) EMS
List of payments and debts with a variety of individuals mentioned: Moshe b. Ḥayyīm, Benyamin Morisico[?], and Moshe Buelyero (בַוִילְייֵרו). The scribe chose to vowel …
Writing exercises.
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī. The letter is addressed to someone who is younger than the writer (he calls him “my son”). Mentions …
[ ] קלבי פי הדה אלאיאם אללה יאתי [
[ ] ומא בקי לאני אנא אלי אלאן מא נערף מא [
[ ] אללה פי נפסי…
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment in the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju addressed to Avraham b. Aharon ha-Kohen, with greetings to sons Abū ʿAlī and Abū l-Surūr. …
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Accounts.