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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 6 Elul 5576 AM, which is 1816 CE. Groom: Refael Tortos b. Merkado. Bride: Esther Tantan (? תנתן) …
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Accounts for the synagogue at Dammūh. "That which Mevorakh al-[...] the khādim of Dammūh collected from Saʿīd b. Mevorakh." (The word דמוה is not written …
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Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā ha-Tāhartī, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: about 1045 (Gil). Business letter discussing trade in silk and …
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Letter about the birth of David, the grandson of Maimonides, early 13th century (ca. 1226). Description from PGPID 6237: A list with details about the …
Verso: Account in Arabic script containing dinars and numbers. Maybe fiscal. Merits examination.
Late accounts. On the recto the title al-qādi appears as part of the only full account listed. Based on the scribal hand, this document is …
Fragment of a letter to a dignitary in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Refers to Tāj al-Dawla the son of Abū …
Literary work on the blowing of the shofar.
Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Arabic script. Has the glyph. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The first 4 lines are completely preserved and …
Arabic script (Naïm Vanthieghem; description to come).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Private account of Yosef b. Eli Kohen al-Fasi. Dating: around 1057 (Gil). Contains details about partnership between the writer and Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ regarding purchasing …
بسم
אלדי אכרגת בבוציר ען מא יכצני מן אלורק
קיח דר //וכרג// אלי בן אללכלאכי יג ותולת
פי תמן…לעבד אללה וזנה יז קיר וחבה
כז …
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Legal record (#89) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 30v-31r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Kislev 5325 …
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Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
List of names and numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Entires include: Jamāl Ṣāʾigh; Shemuʾel [...] Kohen; Najm(?) al-Shāmī; [...]; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū ʿAlī; …
IB V, 8. Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham Ibn al-Majjānī, probably in Aden, to (Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions: brokerage (samsara); Bū l-Faḍl; Bū l-ʿIzz al-Jabbān(?); Bū l-Faḍl Bayyāʿ; Ibn Masmūṭ(?); Barakāt; al-Naḥḥās (or al-nuḥās). On …
Leaves from Maimonides' Judaeo-Arabic draft of his Arabic treatise on sexual intercourse, commissioned by the Ayyubid prince Taqī al-Dīn Umar. Maimonides prescribes various concoctions to …
Probably literary.
Accounts. Three pages. See also ENA 3770.8. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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New discovery of a copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of purchase from the Mamluk period, according to the Baker/Polliack catalogue. On verso there is a letter (see alternate …
Literary text, predominantly in Aramaic, discussing Jerusalem and the Temple.
See PGPID 15879
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto there is Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Religious commentary and exegesis – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 187) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Bill of sale for property. Dated: Jumādā al-Ūlā 394 [Feb.-March 1004]. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 250 x 300 mm. Upper edges mutilated and several …
Letter in Arabic script. Only a few lines from near the beginning are preserved. Mentions "the son of my paternal uncle Jibrīl," who may have …
Account or list in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions raisins, dye, and pomegranate.
Fragment of a fiscal account. Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry …
Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused on recto for Qiddush for the Shabbat evening service. (Information from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script. A late Fatimid report The verso is probably annotations or reply to the report mentioning the caliphal ʿalāma: al-ʿalāma al-sharīfa …
State document, possibly. In Arabic script in a chancery hand. A few words preserved from 2 lines, including "waḥdahu" and "al-mamlūk." On verso there is …
Fragment, few lines a very faded script. Mentions silver pieces (waraq). Needs examination.
Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money …
Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1020. Mentions a shipment of money and papers, …
Ledger of disbursement of funds listing expenditures for the Yūsufī mosque and a military commander (qāʾid).
الموذن بالمسجد اليوسفي
دينار واحد
سهلان بن داود
ربع وثمن دينار
القاىد اعزه اللـه
ربع وسدس وحبتين
سمير بن بو الخير
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Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Complete but unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid, which is 1100 CE. Seller: Sayyida bt. Ṣadaqa Ibn …
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
Recto: poem in Hebrew. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a legal document. Damaged and faded. Might be a bill of release. One party may be named Nissim al-[...].
Literary text in Judaeo Persian (?)
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an agent, ships, and oil. Verso: Calendrical fragment? Gives the date of Rosh Hashana 1363 Seleucid = 4812 AM …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1392 Seleucid, which is 1081 CE. Husband: Ṣedaqa b. Avraham. Wife: Rashīda bt. Yeshuʿa. Witnesses: Mevorakh …
Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …
Legal document (shetar) mentioning a partnership and a certain Berakhot ha-Kohen. Dating: Early 12th century. The deed was written in two copies. Signatories: Yiṣḥaq b. …
Letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter contains instructions about money to be received and/or paid; mentions the army (al-ʿaskar); mentions Abū l-Maḥāsin …
Leaf from a court ledger. At the top of recto: Contract of debt. Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Manṣūr ha-Kohen owes Abu al-Makārim b. Barakāt al-Khāmī …
List of people to be excommunicated ('by name'/באסם). On T-S NS 226.145 left halves of ~7 entries are preserved. "In the bar (mashraba) with... and …