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Geographical text, referring to India.
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Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 8 lines from near the top are preserved. Written in a chancery-esque hand and in an elevated register. The sender …
Drafts of documents and jottings. There are some intriguing phrases, including "al-ʿabda" (usually a female petitioner) and report of something that people said to the …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late.
Opening of a letter addressed to the heads of the community (שלום ממובא עד הלום . . . אל הקהל הקדוש קה[. . .] וראש …
Small strip from the left side of a legal deed of an unknown nature. One of the anonymous parties if referred as 'the great minister'. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Sayyidnā. Mentions a copy; confirming something; Rosh ha-Dor(?); a request; an orphan boy (al-ṣabiyy al-yatom); and Sar ha-[Sarim?], i.e., …
Legal document. Power of attorney, Fusṭāṭ. A freedman, Mukhtār, is named as one of the parties. He was formerly an attendant of the Gaon Ebiathar …
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Rabbanite responsum or polemical text about the term "aviv."
A damaged bill of divorce (get). The top part is missing. The woman is Hilala d. Nathan. Signed by […] b. Avraham ha-haver, […] b. …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Dāwūd b. Yehuda ha-Kohen asking him to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen …
לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט
אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.
But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
The sl…
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List of names and families, mentioning Alexandria, Umm Saʿīd al-Kohen, the family, Elijah and Isaac. (Information from CUDL) Faded Arabic script on verso.
Small and damaged fragment, probably from an opening of a letter to a notable who is referred to as אלחבר.
Legal document. Mutual release upon the dissolution of a partnership in a shop. Involves Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Shemuel. Needs further examination.
Trousseau list. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Contains some terms that are not found in earlier documents. Items preserved total 61 dinars, but …
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From a ledger of donations arranged by the parshiyot of the year 1803/1804 CE (5564 AM). See joins.
Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard …
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Fragment of a private letter, sending regards to a certain man and his son Yosef.
Letter from a woman named Hayfāʾ bt. Sulaymān Ibn al-ʿArīq to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat. The addressee was the leader of the Jerusalemite congregation …
Letter – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 109) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …
Literary, probably. Mainly in Hebrew, but with some Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be a list of maxims.
Letter in Arabic, from a state official within Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration detailing a variety of transactions involving individuals with the title Effendi. Dated 16 …
Documentary per FGP, but all fragments look literary. Mainly Maimonides, plus a Qaraite siddur.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Large communal register fragment, the paper was folded uniformly into eight sections. Dated in many of the headings, for example: 16 Tevet 5541 AM (1781 …
Legal formulary, probably.
Letter from Yusha` b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.
תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה [ואדאם עזה וס]עאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה עדה ואכ'רהא עלי יד[י וכנת מ]נתטר
לוצול כתאב…
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Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. Partial transcription on Goitein's index card. On recto there is a poem …
Deposition by Yosef ha-Kohen b. Nataniel recording that he would not honor an agreement according to which 25 dinars out of a debt owed to …
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥāq ʿAmmānī (i.e. from the Ibn al-ʿAmmānī family), who calls himself "the small" (קטן) to Elʿazar ha-Levi ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th …
Lower part of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated 5 Jumādā I 556 AH = 2 May 1161 CE. Mentions Aḥmad the agent (al-wakīl); …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 508? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
IB V, 45. Legal record (#7). Alimony received. Dated: End of Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (or shortly thereafter). Concerning the maintenance/alimony (mezonot) that the late Abū …
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Note referring to the late "teacher and master Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil ha-Muflaʾ ha-Ḥakham ha-Meʿuelle Bet Din Hagun Nezer ha-Maskilim." This is probably Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya …
Legal drafting in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions someone called Dalāl and the phrase "the instruments of ʿM[..." (אלאת אלעמ).
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon, with a partial …
Complete letter of the 15th or later centuries, with a ב״ה in the top margin. It mentions Shemuʾel Jerbi (the sender?), and two others, David …
Fragment of a letter in Ladino.
Unidentified document in Arabic script (accounts?). Used as structural support (part of the binding of the book?) for a bifolio containing piyyut.
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov probably addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. In Hebrew. Probably related to the same communal controversy described in …
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Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city …
Formulary for a marriage contract, Qaraite/interdenominational. Dated: 1036 CE, at the time of Ṣemaḥ Nasi. One sheet is possibly missing in between, and with it …
Possibly a letter to a notable (or model letter) in a very elevated register.
Calendar calculations
Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 143[.] Seleucid. Fragment (the upper left corner is missing). Husband: [...] b. Tamīm. Wife: [...] bt. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. The …
Letter from an unknown writer, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Isḥāq al-Talmid, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic and the …
Document in Arabic script. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. The same scribe reused numerous Arabic-script documents (e.g., T-S NS 111.63; see Joins Suggestions).