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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination.
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A notary's draft concerning three houses and two ruins forming the object of a settlement. Among the most detailed description of houses in Cairo. Description …
Her name is both Sitt al-Rutab and Sitt al-Fakhr. He releases Sitt [al-Rutab] from all claims and concedes to her…
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Brief note in Arabic script addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir, asking him to 'go down with [...]' and do something as a favor. Reused on verso …
Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177–95) in which the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan the miller (al-Ṭaḥḥān) Ibn alMaghāzilī requests that he not …
Late accounts in Arabic.
Letter from Abū l-Riḍā to his brother Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Asking for …
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Mainly copious pen trials. Verso also has drafts of phrases from a letter written in an elevated register.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
IB II, 47 (12ח). Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1131 CE. Ḥalfon …
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IB VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend …
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State or legal document beginning with a basmala, then احضر ابو ياسر(؟) احد المزارعين بال . . . . . من جملة ال . . …
Letter addressing a communal leader, a certain ʿOvadya. Other names mentioned are Yaʿaqov b. Aba Mari Moshe, and [...] b. David the judge. There is …
Fol. 5v: Letter in Arabic script with two Hebrew words mixed in (סתום in l. 2 and המעשה in the margin). Wide line spacing. May …
Letter from Shelomo b. Netanʾel ha-Shulḥani (the moneychanger), in Fustat, to Ṣadoq b. Levi ha-Levi, president of the court. Dating: ca. 1030, according to Gil. …
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Letter from Abū l-Najm to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a …
4 entries in a court register. (a) Record of marriage conditions. Groom: Abū Zikrī al-Kattanānī b. Aharon. Bride: Sitt al-Nās bt. Isḥāq. Delayed marriage payment: …
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Discussion from a broadcast about Shabbat – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 72) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals; unclear if private or state. On verso mentions Bū l-Faraj in an additional note.
Karaite betrothal agreement draft in a less-experienced scribal hand than is normally the case for this document type. The document was abandoned in line 8 …
Small fragment with Arabic script. There is a significant amount of faded/damaged text that may become legible through Hierax digital restoration.
Leaf from a literary work discussing magic, medicine, demons.
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender congratulates the addressee on the holidays, alludes to the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: first decade of Tammuz 1425 Seleucid = June 1114 CE, with the signing postponed …
Letter from Yisraʾel b. Natan b. Nahray, in Fustat, to Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1048. Pending more complete description. (Information from …
כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך מן מצר
לסתה כלון מן שבט ערפך אללה ברכתה ומא יליה מן אלאשהר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק א…
Mostly pen trials and jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. One of the Arabic sections refers to Ḥārat Zuwayla, Abū Saʿd al-Yahūdī (address of a letter?).
Minute Bible fragment, with part of Genesis 1:28 visible on the recto and Genesis 2:10 on the verso.
Booklet containing literary text in Hebrew. One of the blank pages has accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals.
Verso (original use): Very faded document in Arabic script. Recto (secondary use): Small fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-F[araj?]
IB V, 37, folio 14v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl …
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Verso: Upper part of a letter. The handwriting looks like that of Berakhot b. Shemuel. There are copious introductory blessings in Hebrew followed by the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Sayyidnā and then a woman whose husband is unemployed—so perhaps this is a letter recommending this woman …
Letter from a certain ʿAbd al-Karīm possibly to someone named Ḥasan or Iḥsān (margin, line 1). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th or 14th century, based …
Multifragment. Fragment 1: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably medieval. Only one line, very faded, is preserved. Fragment 2: Business letter, fragment. In Ladino.
Document(s) in Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for charity. Prefaced with biblical verses and ornate praises. On the side that also has Arabic script, …
Letter from Yosef b. ʿEli ha- Kohen al-Fāsī, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. In the handwriting of Salmān b. Hārūn. Yūsuf b. …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
מן אלמסתקר ערבה אלסכות אדרכך אללה אמתאלה אעיאד כתירה שמיח וטוב ל…
Letter from Salāma Ḥāmī, Jerusalem, to Yeshuʿa Ḥāmī, in Fustat or Cairo, more likely, based on the dating/paleography. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
A Hebrew poem probably in honor of the wedding of Netanʾel b. Meʾir (named 6 lines from the bottom). A later scribe has emended some …
Verso: fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Similar content as recto. Ordering pepper, a raṭl of marjoram (bardaqūsh), a qadaḥ of anise (anīsūn), a …
Verso (original use): ḥamdala, ṣalwala, and ḥabala from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script.
Receipt.
State document. Response to endorsement of a petition written by Yuḥannā b. Abī l-Layth (a Christian), who referred the case to the office of al-Afḍal. …
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراى العالي السامي في ذلك ان شا الله
وكتب في العشر الاخر من شهر رمضان سنة ار…
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To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty and exalted resolution concerning that, if God wills.
It was written in …
Mostly torn and effaced memorial list of well-known families. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Accounts.
Court proceeding from the court of Yoshiyyahu Gaon, approximately 1010. Testimony of two business partners who quarreled. Original document of their partnership done in Fustat …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto the two columns ʿalayhi (debits) and lahū (credits). Dated: Shawwāl 538 AH = April May 1144 …
Astrological or astronomical text in Arabic. Describing various "degrees" (darajāt) and naming celestial entities such as Cancer and Saturn
Probably a late business letter
Letter mentioning merchandise sent to Palermo and Mazara, ships, and business dealings with Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ibn Awkal and the Tustaris. Dating: early 11th century. …