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Geographical text, referring to India.
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Official-looking document in Arabic script. Mentions dīwān in the first line, fiscal-related. Needs examination.
Verso: Informal but deferential note from Ḥananel b. Shemuel (cf. ENA 2808.53), informing the addressee that he has sent something for (? bi-rasm) the qiddush. …
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Mentions details about money exchange and shipments of pepper and silk to and from Palermo. (Information from Gil, …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: Tuesday, 17 Elul 16[29?] Seleucid, which would be 1318 CE. The first and final letter of the missing digits are clearly …
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Halakhic text text on betrothal and marriage. Damaged
Letter of praises for Yehuda b. Saʿadya, mentioning also his brother the future Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal fragment, mentioning Abū l-Karam. (Information from CUDL.)
Popular love poetry in Arabic script. ...سحر بابل... الظبي الاحور من الكوثر... قد سباني وسبا الاخوان. Some of the same stock images as appear in …
Legal document. Court record. Dating: 8 Iyyar 1406 (16 April 1095) (Lieberman reads 1410, but it's fairly clear it's 1406; or could potentially be 1407). …
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Small fragment from the opening of a letter to a Nagid.
Verso: Unidentified text in faded Arabic, may be documentary.
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan (aka Musāfir b. Wahb), in Alexandria, to the Nagid Mevorakh, in Fustat. The sender and addressee are not named in …
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Palimpsest. Lower text: Aquila’s Greek translation of II Kings 23:11–27, copied in the 6th century. Uses paleo-Hebrew characters for the tetragrammaton. This word was apparently …
Letter from an unidentified merchant to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports on a shipment that he has sent with Jaʿfar: 62 wax …
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
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List of commodities and prices headed ' [Bara]kat b. Sayyid al-Ahl.
Ketubba fragment. The groom is Avraham. Probably a draft or formulary given the layout and that it is written on paper.
Letter from Yosef b. Yehuda b. Simḥa (Alexandria) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. The writer mentions a number of deals in …
אטאל אללה יא[שיכי] וסידי וריסי בקאך וצאנך בנפסך ואמואלך וא[ ]ך ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאך [ ]
נעלמך אן וצלת אלי רקעתך ווגדת פיהא ראחה כת…
Business letter from Yiṣḥāq Luria (=the Ari) to Shimʿon. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. The business dealings include purchase of 'khiyār' (cassia fistula?). Mentions Yehuda …
The beginning of a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to the communities of Egypt, through al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL)
Upper fragment: Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto, left side: Mentions paying a bribe for coral (וכנת וזנת עלי אלמרגן …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 1465 Seleucid = September/October 1153 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Debt contract between Abū …
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body). The writer cites …
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an …
Recto: Probably an astronomical table with text in red and blank ink. The readable words are "al-layālī", "al-tawqīʿāt", "mutawassiṭ" and "mutawassiṭ radī." Verso: an elegant …
Earlier document: Accounts in Arabic script. State document? Needs examination.
IB I, 30. In this incompletely preserved contract written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), Yosef Lebdi provided merchandise worth 460 dinars with which …
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Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Location: Fustat. Dated: First third of …
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Document, either a legal fragment or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat and the cantors David b. Shekhanya and Meir, …
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Dealing with various financial transactions and settling of accounts. Mentions someone named Saʿīd. Excerpts: . . . رسوال لا …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Lower right corner. Signed by Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo ha-Levi.
Letter to Eli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas dealing with money owed.
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Letter addressed to Avraham ʿAmram. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Draft, abandoned mid-line.
Legal record containing a story about Abū l-ʿIzz, the sale of wine, Abū l-Faḍl, a judge [...] b. Zekharya, a prior document which was not …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (?), mentioning someone who died in Balad al-Rūm and licorice (sūs). The handwriting is …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Four lines are preserved of the main text and some additional text in the margins. On verso there …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A scholar is asked for the hand of his daughter in a complete letter (written calligraphically by a scribe) asking the …
Minute fragment. A list of items belonging to a Jew, including a table cover (sufra) and an iron pan (ṭājin). (Information in part from FGP.)
Legal document concerning an inheritance. Location: Fustat. Dated: first third of Iyyar, 1414 Seleucid, which is 1103 CE. Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī …
Legal document. Signed and written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Av 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Concerns the same case as …
Calendar list/calculations and a book list
Monograph; from Saadias formulary of legal documents (near end); published by Ben-Sasson in Shenaton Hamishpat Ha-Ivri. (Info from FGP)
Mainly pen trials in a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script. Dating: probably 13th century. There is a section that might be …
Ottoman-era accounts.
Legal documents from 17th century Egypt, regarding a widow named Riqa (ריקא), the daughter of Ḥanan She'eltiel. The document on the verso is dated 3 …
Letter appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a header and some phrases in Hebrew.
Genealogical list at beginning of letter from Masliah Ha-Kohen Gaon ca. 1120. Circular letter from Maṣliaḥ to the community of Damsīs.