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Bottom of a legal document. No details preserved. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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Formal letter or petition. In Arabic script. 11.5 lines of praise and blessings, followed by 1 line containing a request. Opens: "Marḥaban bi-qudūm al-fāris al-muḥaqqaq..." …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a disorderly scribal hand. Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman …
Responsum or commentary on Shemot Rabba 31. Join with ENA 1069.45
Mainly a literary text with other jottings in Judaeo-Arabic (including references to mutakallimīn, kalām philosophers). There is also marginal text in Arabic script, including a …
Letter in Hebrew from Yosef, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …
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Legal document. A large damaged שטר אביזריה (= Bill of compensation), written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). A certain Yosef is mentioned and also …
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, in the name of "the two sides" (communities?) in Tiberias, to Eli Ha-Ḥaver Ha-Me'ulle (b. Amram ?) in …
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Narrative poem in Judaeo-Arabic involving a certain Abū l-Riḍā, told in rhyming hemistichs. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. A lament at his prolonged absence …
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Fol. 1v: Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery-esque hand. Likely business-related. There are some deferential phrases (versions of the raʾy formula). Needs further examination.
Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings …
Small fragment from the top of a letter, from Manṣūr b. [...].
Letter to the community of Jerusalem from Elhanan b. Shemarya, 1013 CE.
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …
State document. Dating: Beginning of 12th century CE. Appointment of a Christian dignitary by the government and confirmation that the ordinances of previous caliphs are …
... the noble, prophetic (dynasty), may (God) extend its life, over
all the Christians dwelling in his dominion and living
[in ] the province…
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Legal document, possibly dealing with debt in the sabbath year as it mentions a seven year period and the sum of one dinar. Refers to …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 …
Recto: unidentified jottings in Arabic script. Verso: Qiddush for Passover and Shabbat. (Information from CUDL.)
Judaeo-Arabic tafsīr on Job 3:4 – 9; 18 – 23 (identification from FGP). There are numerous joins. Refers to a 'jilwāz' (chamberlain, officer).
Minute fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Taharti probably from al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. ʿAwkal from Fustat. Dating: August 3, 1011. The writer expected to …
Fragment of a literary source.
Likely business accounts. In Arabic.
Business letter in Arabic script from Mubārak b. Isḥāq to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī (or al-Baṣīr), expressing longing for the addressee and sending …
Accounts in Ladino that are part of much broader chain of related fragments. Dated Heshvan 5633 AM (November 1872 CE). For related fragments see: T-S …
Replacement of the original contract of marriage between Abū Manṣūr Elazar and his wife Sitt al-Sāda daughter of Abū Karām Nadīv, by a new one, …
Letter ending written from Fustat to Alexandria about a dispute between Yehuda (al-'Ammani?) and Yusuf al-Ifranji in the days of Avraham Maimonides. Apparently Hananel did …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad [......]. Part of the date is visible Dhū l-Ḥijja xx4. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter or legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or 13th cnentury.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved. Mentions "this month."
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān (Alexandria), ca. 1055. Only the bottom part of the letter is preserved. Refers to a incident/misfortune (فجيعة) involving the wares …
אלפגיעה [ ] פכונא נכתב אלי [
וולדה נעלמהם בהדה אלנובה וכאן וצל מן טראבלס אלגרב צחֿבה [
אבו אלטרור צאחב שמעה אלחל[י]סי ק[ ] וימ[ ] מאלה וח…
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Detailed letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Naysābūrī, Alexandria, to Abū l-ʿAlā Sā'id (i.e. ʿŪllā) b. Yosef ha-Levi the Trustee of the rabbinical court of Fustat …
הדרת אדוני ורבי הנכבד אבו אלעלא צאער הלוי נאמן .... רצוי הישיבה בר יוסף נ"ע, יתמיד אלוהים את גדולתו ואת חסריו לו.
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Medical treatise in Arabic script, probably. Mentions lavendar (اسطوخودس) and spinach (اسفنج). Needs further examination.
IB III, 39. Unfinished draft of a letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Aydhab, to a member of Khalaf b. Bundār's family in Aden, probably …
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Small receipt or order for 5 raṭls of something.
Minute blank fragment
Minute fragment from a end of a letter
Business letter. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Origin: Cairo (פה מצרים) in line 6. Mentions Shemuʾel b. ____[?] in the …
Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.
Legal document concerning a trousseau. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (1150–81). Wife: Sitt al-Jamīʿ. Husband: Yeshaʿya ha-Levi. On verso there are pen trials. …
Verso (original use): Fragment of an account in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might include the term ḍumanāʾ. Reused for a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Draft of the beginning of a legal query addressed to Ḥisday who is referred to not only as "our master" and "our gaʾon" but …
Account. Computation of sums handled by a Parnas, ca. 1151. An anonymous parnas apparently farmed out the revenue of a certain section of the estates …
Calendar (moladot).
Several medical recipes in Arabic by the title "صفة معجون نافع للارواح".
Accounts in Arabic script.