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Agreement between Yiṣḥaq b. Yefet ha-Kohen and his divorcee al-Ḥasana bt. Moshe ha-Kohen, from Tinnīs. She releases him from something. Signed by A[...] and Yaʾir …
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Legal document involving Abū l-Ḥasan and Refaʾel and Abū l-Muʿāfā (who may be the same as Refa'el), possibly a dissolution of a partnership. The pressing …
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List of people who have donated to the synagogue (? the second line of the header is a little unclear). Dating: ca. 1505 CE based …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is [...] b. Shlomo. The bride is Esther known as Rama d. Yosef. AA
Letter (headed "tadhkira"/memorandum) from Hibatallāh b. Khalaf al-Ḥamawī to Barakāt b. Khulayf, complaining that he couldn't sell the resin and mentioning a transport by the …
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Deed of sale. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Ṣemaḥ Alanj (? אלנג׳) sells Shemuel Cordoba 19 pounds of a particular kind of coral …
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Ownership note: Berakhot b. Eliyya (= Shelomo b. Eliyyahu).
Recto: Leviticus 13:1-2. Verso: indistinct text, probably part of the same legal document as T-S AS 28.170. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for …
……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك [
]يعمل به ……. يعرض ويؤمر منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها
]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry. About the beauty of the Levant (ll.1–3) and the destruction of the Temple (l. 8f). Perhaps to be read on Tisha b'Av.
Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and …
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Fragment of an illuminated late marriage document. The name Benyamin Moshe Meyuḥas appears in l. 2, probably indicating the groom or the groom's father. The …
Legal record (#52) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Tishrei 5323 …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of names. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on the hand and typical names. Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]; …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed with partial signatures.
Letter, fragment, in Arabic script. Beginning of a basmala and few honorifics preserved on recto. The text on verso has faded out and not very …
Business letter from [...] b. Yeḥezqel or possibly b. Yaḥyā. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions indigo (nīl) and bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and a merchant named Yiṣḥaq.
IB III, 29. Letter written by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju after his arrival in Aden, to his brothers and sisters in al-Mahdiyya or …
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Large bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic accounts. Late.
Very faded document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter or petition (כבוד גדולת קדושת . . . ללמולא . . . ממלוך . . . יכדם …
List of names followed by numbers, possibly contributions to the poor. May be related to T-S AS 202.369. Mentions Ṣedaqa; Ibn Saʿīd al-[...]; the boys …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Nissim(?) b. Bū l-Faḍl(?) in New Cairo. Payment: 1 dinar. This receipt is squatter and sloppier than most.
Small scrap with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic: אלמוצע . . . ען אליתומ[ים] . . . תלמוד. Probably literary but could be documentary.
Letter from Avraham b. Shelomo b. Yehuda perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Complains about a Coptic kātib (הסופר הערל, lit. "the uncircumcised scribe") …
Letter from Nissim b. Shela to the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Contains detailed information about the sending and selling of books. People …
Letter from the wife of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat, to her husband Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria. The letter was …
על שמך
וצל כתאבך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וען שוק אלי[ך]
גמע אללה ביננא עלי אשר(!) חאל במנה וכרמה אנה ולי דלך וא[לקאדר עליה]
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Several obscure sentences in Judaeo-Arabic. Recognizable phrases are "expel the superfluity of the food" and "Levantine apple" (?) and "sick people," suggesting that these may …
Legal document dated April 1822 (beginning of Iyyar 5582), Fustat. Probably a partnership agreement between David Dayyan and Moshe אלפרון.
Table of names related to communal fundraising or alms. Several of the entries seem to concern al-Muʿallim Moshe b. Shemuʾel b. Yosef al-Kohen al-ʿŪdī. On …
Fragment with several lines of Greek/Coptic numerals.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, perhaps a brief piece of correspondence. Dated 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE). The signature of ʿAlī ___[?] Agha Kapūdān Būlāq is …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only a thin vertical sliver is preserved. Mentions Fustat (or Egypt) four lines from the end and Almeria three lines from …
Two legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) with his autograph responsa (r. 1205-1237 CE as Rayyis al-Yahūd and also with the title Nagid after …
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Decree. Only part of one line is preserved, mentioning the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ, "...wa-waliyyihi ʿAbd al-Majīd Abī l-Maymūn al-Imām..."
Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tishrei 1424 Seleucid = September/October 1112 CE. Same case as T-S …
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Mysterious text, partially rhyming in -ar, which begins "I washed my clothes, may I be your ransom..." (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: grammatical text on the notion of unvocalised and vocalised consonants, shewa, and on weak letters, mentioning Abū Zakariyyā (= Ḥayyūj). Spanish hand. Verso: unidentified …
The beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to an important woman addressed in hyperbolic terms: she who confounds minds and blinds gazes, al-mutafaḍḍila, al-ʿazīza, al-rashīda, al-mufīda, …
Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land. Dated Rabīʿ I 1032 AH (1623 CE). Verso: Ottoman legal contract
Fragment of a geographical study discussing some of the parts of Africa concerning Angola and Mozambique – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number …
Letter. Mentions a broker or brokerage (דלאלה). (Information in part from CUDL)
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems from a man to his brother Shemuel (or less likely his father, if the letter is read as …
Upper fragment of a ketubba, very faded. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Reused on recto for calligraphic biblical text in two columns.
Small fragment of business accounts, mentioning the name Yosef. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL)
Geomancy primer in Judaeo-Arabic.
India Book (IB), II, 73. Quittance by the rabbinical court of Fustat for the sum of 173 and 7/24 mithqāl dinars, sent by Maḍmūn II …
למא כאן יום אלאתנין תאני ע[שר] חדש ניסן ש[נת ...]
בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה [רשותיה ראדוננו אברהם ...]
הפטיש החזק נר המערבי דגל הרבנים…
On Monday, 12 Nisan [...]
in Fustat Egypt, situated on the Nile river, [in the jurisdiction of our lord Abraham . . .]
the strong hammer, the w…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yoshiyahu ha-Nasi to a dignitary whom he addresses as "Sar ha-Teʿuda" and "Nagid Ereṣ Yisraʾel ve-Yehuda." Dating: probably 13th century. After …
Private accounts in a mixture of Judaeo Arabic and Arabic. Mentions Ibn al-Qābila. Needs examination.
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Reused for piyyuṭ.