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Legal record (#26b). Loan contract, addendum. Bū l-Barakāt, the creditor, makes Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf vow that he will make his repayments in front of two …
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Legal fragment mentioning people such as Abū l-Barakāt, Peraḥya b. Binyamin the elder, and the elder Abū Yaʿqūb. Also mentions 3 qinṭārs of something, maybe …
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Shevat 5535 AM = 30 January 1775 CE. Groom: Eliyyahu Goren b. Nissim. Bride: Hermoza bt. Nissim Navaro. Total …
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Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to his partner Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen Fāsī, Fustat, ca. 1052. This was Avraham's first sojourn …
Legal document in the form of a letter. Fragment (bottom part only). Refers to various legal conditions, might mention sugar, and specifies a fine of …
A long text, probably contains moral guidance.
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 52[.] AH = …
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Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Last two lines only, blessing the addressee's children and the enitre congregation with prosperity. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Baqā' (or perhaps Abū l-Baqā') to a certain teacher (melammed). The writer conveys his sympathies for some bad news and asks …
A court record written and signed by Avraham b. Nathan Av, at the year 1420 Era of documents (= 1109) regarding a quarrel over a …
Recto: Legal document, in Arabic script. Fragment (the right halves of ~7 lines) of a marriage contract. Mentions the mahr (dower). Needs examination.
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Legal fragment in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1180s–1210). Probably a bill of release. Involving 500 dirhams, Sitt al-Tujjār, and …
Brief note in Arabic script instructing the addressee to help the bearer.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic whose paleography helps to date this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth-century. In the opening lines a Muslim qadi (אלקאצי) is mentioned but …
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), 9 September 1056. Confirms the arrival of goods and letters and sends information about …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא ואחאלה דונך
ברחמתה ואלחאל סלאמה לו בקין מן אילול כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כ…
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List of commodities or recipe. Mentions the dish mulūkhiyya, pepper and saffron. Also contains Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Most likely a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The ink is mottled in many places, at times bearing the appearance that a scribe wrote over a …
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, probably from Qayrawan. Around 1040. The addressee in unknown, maybe it is Israel’s brother – Nahray, or another younger relative. …
וצל כתאבך [יא אכי] וסיידי ורייסי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן תופיקה
לא אכלאך ב[אלקאפ]ל[ה ווקפת מנה עלי מ]א אסרני מן חסן חאלך וסלא…
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic; either a fragment preserving only the greetings, or a letter that consists entirely of greetings. Addressed to Raḥamīm Qaznī (קזני), also …
Legal record (#32). Bill of sale, outline. Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the sale of the slave wailing woman …
Minute fragment from a ketubba. Only a few words have preserved, among them the name Netanʾel ha-Levi and part of the monogamy clause. AA
IB II, 74. Letter from Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. Alexandria, probably 1214-1215. Yosef's brother Futūḥ had died recently on a ship on …
אלממלוך יוסף בן עואץ
אלאסכנדרי
יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי
ר' חננאל החכם והנבון בר כבוד גדולת קדושת מר
ור' שמואל …
In God’s name. His servant Joseph b. ʿAllān {read: ʿIwāḍ}, the Alexandrian kisses the earth before the lofty seat of his illustrious lordship
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Fragment from the top of a letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Containing blessings for the high holidays. Mentions ʿAmram and …
Legal deed. Only the date is preserved: Kislev 1454 Seleucid, which is 1133 CE.
Account including names, numerals and various jottings
Business letter from Avraham b. Farah in Alexandria to Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhun al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions a shipment of cosmetic oils, …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Account for Nisan and Iyyar 1494 sel. ca. 1183. The revenue from only eleven apartments and compounds of the qodesh for two months is listed …
The accounting of the collection of the parnās Bayān for two months namely, Nisan and Iyyar
1494, corresponding to Dhūʾl- ḥijja (578) and …
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Beginning of a letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Only basmala and a few words preserved.
Small fragment, probably a document. In Arabic script. Very faded/damaged. Needs examination.
Small and very faded fragment from a letter, probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and …
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Qaraite contract of betrothal (erusin). In Hebrew. Bride: Mubāraka. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEli. He paid the first installment of 30 dinars at the time of …
Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Crete, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: 1484 CE (written in the document in the Italian …
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Letter/announcement addressed to the entire Jewish community of Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from the office of the Nagid. Bears an 'emet' motto at the top. …
Court notebook, possibly. A bifolium. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One entry is a deed of sale for a house …
Letter fragment from Avraham אלגדיאני. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th century. With greetings to Yosef al-Ashqar (see T-S NS 304.1 (PGPID 24958)).
Small receipt or order, for Maʿālī, for 6 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script.
ccounts.
Letter of condolence in Judaeo-Arabic, containing lines typical of dirges in Hebrew.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Probably Cairo. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Mikha'el b. Moshe appoints Refa'el b. Shuʿa Berakha as his agent for …
Hebrew poetry.
Verso: Arabic (fiscal?) account for Dhū l-Ḥijja.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveying a report of a communal conflict which took place in the beginning of the thirteenth century, during the tenure of …
Fol. 5: Small scrap that is either blank or has very faded Hebrew text.
List of items "in her possession before its/this date," including a Venetian shirt (קמיץ בנדקי). Information in part from Goitein's note card.