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An important and extremely unusual Arabic legal/communal document using Jewish legal formulae and invoking Moses (Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Rasūl), appointing Sahlān b. Barhūn […] al-Mumḥe …
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Late account
Minute fragment with 1-2 lines of damaged text in Hebrew script on the recto and verso.
Not clear. very little text remaining. also dots on the verso. Seems to be also from the same fragments. same type of late paper and …
Fragment, middle part of orderly accounts in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In addition to items known from previous accounts, many new ones appear, …
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Bible translation; unidentified On both sides, there is an (older) text in the main body of the page in faint script, while there is another …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand appears to be that of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Possibly a draft, …
Document in Arabic, maybe the bottom of a receipt.
Deed of engagement (shiddukhin). In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Dated: Monday evening, 30 Kislev 1460 Seleucid, which is 1148 CE, under the …
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Letter addressed to the writer's 'father' Abū l-Faraj. Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Only the first two lines are preserved.
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps ca. 1150–1250. Mentions 3 dirhams; "to Qalyūb"; "the remaining dirhams"; [al-shaykh] al-Makīn; and greetings and a …
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Possibly calendrical: consists mainly of a list of dates in the months of Shawwāl, Dhū l-Qaʿda, and Dhū l-Ḥijja.
Legal documents in Arabic script. Main document on recto and a faṣl on verso. Very difficult to read. The faṣl may be dated Ramaḍān 940 …
A 247-year calendar. Composed by Josiah b. Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī. Dating: Josiah b. Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī lived in the second half of the 10th century; CUDL dates …
Legal resolution by the Karaite community regarding the issue of marriage before the completion of the betrothal period. Dated: 18 Adar I 5398 AM (1638 …
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Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to someone titled al-amīr al-ajall reporting on a ship bearing wood (markab al-ḥaṭb) that arrived at the port of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اعلم حضرة مولاي الامير
الاجل ادام الله عزه رب(؟)
انتق….. اقول لك فيما يتعلق
مركب الحطب الذي وصل
الى الصناعة المحرو…
In the name of God, the most merciful and benevolent
I inform my master, the illustrious Amīr
may God perpetuate his glory
I report to you re…
Deed of sale of an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably …
Business letter fragment, sent from Alexandria to Fustat, based on FGP, but more lively Cairo given the dating. Dating: post-1415 CE, based on the reference …
Recto: unidentified. Verso: opening of a short letter in Hebrew.
Letter, possibly a draft, from a certain Avraham to an addressee whose name is not preserved. The content is not clear, but the Pasha and …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions iron (ḥadīd) and lead (raṣāṣ). Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef?
Will, fragment. Preserves the middle part of the last 5 lines. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: The hand looks late, probably no …
Legal testimonies before a beit din in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: 26 Kislev 5418 AM (verso) and Tishrei 5411 AM (recto) but the other verso …
Order in Arabic script. Ṣadaqa is to give the bearer two raṭls of meat. Cf. T-S As 177.466.
Family letter in Arabic script. In a rudimentary hand. Addressed to a woman, Umm [...], in Fustat.
Some sort of index arranged by Hebrew roots, alongside other very damaged text.
Top of an iqrār for ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd al-Naqqār.
Verso: Note in Arabic-script which starts with a taqbīl clause and mentions the arrival of goods from Qūṣ and a donation of (oil?) for the …
Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. Refers to Ḥasan b. Ḥayyūn and his cousins who wish the sender to travel with …
Verso (earlier side): Letter from Yaḥyā to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. Opens "aṣghar al-mamālīk [...] Yaḥyā yujaddidu khidmata sayyidinā l-qāḍī al-ajall al-awḥad al-qāʾim al-mutafakkir(?)...." …
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 …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Biblical glossary, mainly in Hebrew but with many Ladino words.
Latin-script list, difficult medieval paleography. Dated perhaps in the upper lines of the recto: anno/annum[?] xx__[?]. The list continues on the verso but is extremely …
Business letter in Ladino. Very faded but the paper is fully preserved. Mentions Yisraʾel Ashkenazi. Needs examination.
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir to the Nagid (Moshe b. Mevorakh, based on T-S 24.55 (PGPID 1806)). Fragment. Mentions conflict over the …
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List in Hebrew with at least one Ladino word (פיקוס), mentioning a diwan and sums of money. The exact meaning of the term "fico/pico" is …
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman named Simḥa; Sutayta; the addressee;s mother; and the addressee's brother-in-law Menaḥem.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged.
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sale; reneging; 2 years; and a deposit. …
Beginning of a letter, sent by Rav Sherira Gaon to Qayrawan. Dated ca. 970. (Information from Gil)
Letter of petition to Saʿadya the great prince, probably the father of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. The writer complains that he and his family are hungry. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
IB IV, 65 (ח85). Letter of condolence from Saʿdān b. Thābit ha-Levi to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanʾel on the death of his niece. Alexandria, ca. …
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Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
Hebrew phrases to be addressed to a judge or Nagid. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …
Recto: beginning of a draft of a marriage document from Fusṭāṭ dated 1091 CE. Verso: Writing practice in Hebrew and Arabic script.
Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, …