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Verso: Trousseau list draft or appraisal of clothing and jewelry. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Letter from Yeshu'a b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmuri, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions the safe arrival of (probably) relatives to Fustat; a female slave who …
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תקדמת כתבי לחצרה מולאי גדול החברים אטאל אללה
בק[א]ה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה אעלמת מא וצל
אלי מן שדה אלוחשה אסל אללה קרב אלגמע עלי…
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Letter addressed to Aharon ha-Memunne b. Efrayim Ibn Ṭarsūn. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The first five lines of the letter are in a different hand …
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Marriage contract in which a widow contributes one sixth of a house from a previous marriage and stands surety for her husband in case he …
Opening of a letter/petition to a Jewish dignitary: ימלטהו ייי . . . אלגלילה ויבקיהא לישראל . . . דהא ויוצל איאמהא . . . …
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hillel al-Ḥalabī. The sender reports that he arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday after …
Literary text, mainly in Ladino.
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
Account. Late
Minute fragment from a ketubah written by Yosef b. Shelomo Halevi (date: ca. 1170-1210)
Verso: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Exhorts the addressee not to be forgetful and mentions an amīr and a loan. Reused on recto …
Fragment of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. May mention Ismāʿīl b. Sibāʿ.
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Av 1476 (16 July 1165). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Legal document faded and fragmented, mentioning Eli ha-kohen ha-parnas and Yefet ha-Kohen.
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. For the days Thurday the 8th of Rajab and Friday the 9th of Rajab. Possibly for different …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Berakhot b. [...]. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Fragment, fainted, and unreadable script. Might have a numeral in which case it would be accounts. Needs further examination.
Petition-like text (al-ḥāja dāʿiya ilā...).
Letter sent from Fustat by a father to his son, settling business accounts with him. The handwriting is that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Yiddish from Rachel b. Avraham of Prague in Jerusalem to her son Moshe in Cairo.
Too little text remains to identify, possibly a letter? (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment. In Aramaic. Portions of five lines are preserved, with abbreviations, indicating that this is a draft or formulary. On verso there are geomancy …
Legal document from the high court (al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī) in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 17 Ṣafar 1228 AH = 19 February 1813 CE. Judge: Muṣṭafā …
Letter of appeal for assistance. In Hebrew. From a woman. "I cannot. . . what I wrote you... a loaf of bread... two silver pieces... …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. One side looks like a letter, the other like a legal document. Very little remains.
Three different text blocks. (1) Recto: qinnot. (2) Note in Judaeo-Arabic possibly in the same hand as the qinnot. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ tells "my rabbi and …
Verso: Account of some sort in Arabic script. Recto is Hebrew/Aramaic literary text.
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of an internal government document, possibly fiscal ("māl ḍamānih li-shuhūr sana..."), dated 412 AH (1021/22 CE). Reused for Hebrew …
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Accounts with many different names listed by corresponding quantities in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the …
Jotting of an account in Arabic script. Gives the date (but not the year), the name ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā, and the sum 1/2 dinar. On …
Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) "ha-sofer ha-mahir" acknowledges a debt of 287 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣedaqa …
Communal letter likely originating from Jerusalem. In which the sender states that he has appointed the cantor Moshe b. Khalaf to a position of authority …
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Two pages (four columns) of poetic praise for Yehosef ha-Levi Rosh Negidei ha-Golah. Information from Goitein's note card.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100–1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter from the lepers of Tiberias to Mukhtar and his brother.
Accounts or list with items such as saffron, dates and sums in dirhams. Expenses are itemized by days of the week. Most of the items …
Letter sent to Cairo to the house of a ḥaver from the Ibn Qaṭāʾif family, dated Friday, middle of Shevat, describing the writer’s anger over …
Piyyuṭ in Hebrew; an opening formula of letters in Aramaic; exercises in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 10.5 dinars. Dating: Mentions Shaʿbān [5]73 AH = January/February …
Fragment from the top of a state document in Arabic script. There is a basmala, possibly a remnant of a tarjama at upper left, and …
End of a document about pledges (rahāʾin) signed by Moshe b. Binyamin ha-Sefaradi and Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by Elʿazar …
Verso: Letter of appeal from a poor man [...] ha-Levi addressed to the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300) or David II Maimonides (r. 1355–1410). …
Legal document or documents. In Hebrew. Mentions the city of Fez (verso, line 2). Involves a woman and her husband Yiṣḥaq. Mentions the dowry (nedunya) …
Long fragment of a letter mentioning dignitaries and members of the Yeshiva.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Small receipt or order, for Sulaymān, for a sum of 199 + 1/2 + 1/8. The scribe's name appears at the bottom (as in several …
Document of sale for real estate, a quarter of a house, between Shelomo b. Moshe and Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. Elʿazar ha-Levi. Possibly in the hand …