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Upper fragment: Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yefet. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1094–1111 CE. About a sum of dinars which Mevorakh …
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Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (active 1190s–1212 CE), in Qalyūb, to a family member in Fustat. Moshe requests a silver mirwad (stick for applying …
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, mentioning an Abū l-Maʿālī. Probably a deed of gift of a house or part of a house in Qaṣr …
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Responsum of the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051 CE) concerning a woman who proselytized for a man.
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Fragment of a literary anecdote containing ten pieces of marital advice to a daughter. The ten pieces of advice given by a mother to her …
(1-5) (The first) and the second: accepting advice and acquiescing for they are hearing and obeying. The third and the fourth: takin…
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Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham, in Ḥevron, to Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin (aka Yeshuʿa b. Thābit), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE (Gil) or 1075 CE …
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Verso (original use): Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Concerning the synagogue at Dammūh and asking for orders/guidance (waṣāh). Perhaps having to do with …
Legal document in Arabic script. Appears to contain the phrase "al-ḥāḍir al-ghāʾib" (the present, the absent"). Needs examination for content.
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
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Fragment of a letter from Avraham b. Natan Av (identification on the basis of handwriting), Tyre, to Yehuda ha-Kohen ha-Rav ve-Rosh ha-Seder b. Yosef regarding …
Recto: "The remainder of an epistle to an important dignitary. The first four lines preserved are in verse but the metre is very faulty. . …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List in Judaeo-Arabic, medieval-era. A quantity of five Dabīqī is mentioned, probably a type of linen produced in and/or named after Dabīq (a town in …
Legal document in Hebrew on parchment. Involving [...]DYA known as Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (spelled בן אצבג); the mother of Yefet b. S[...]; Yefet's father, who was …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Contains mostly blessings for family members. The margin of recto contains some business instructions ("do not sell it for that price …
Verso: On verso there is a list of names and Greek/Coptic numerals, with R. Avraham as the title at the top; likely a contributions list.
Record of testimony about a deposit of a modaʿ, with only fragmentary date surviving. Dated Elul 14[..] Seleucid = 1088–1188 CE.
Large list of names and sums of money (probably donations) dated Passover [Nisan 15-22] 5555 AM (April 1795 CE). The right column lists 43 full …
Signatures of eight people from the end of a legal document: Menashshe b. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, Binyamin b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen (known also from T-S 16.33), …
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Bifolio of prayers or poetry in Hebrew. There are interesting Arabic annotations in two different hands, including pious formulae at the bottom of recto and …
Letter from Muḥammad and Jamīl. In Arabic script, formatted like an official document. In which they report that they have met with Abū Makhlūf according …
Personal letter of correspondence on the arrival of beer, zaʿatar, and the like – 27 Elul 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 190) …
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 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of folio T-S NS 264.39v and T-S Ar.34.270: Jumāda al-Awwal 960 AH (1553 CE). Mentions many …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Maqāniʿī. The hand may be known.
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and the groom Barakāt, dated Monday 11th (month and year not preserved), probably in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from …
Letter from the Nagid Shelomo b. Yosef to the community of Alexandria. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1470s or 1480s. The letter reports that …
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary handwriting and spellings. The parties are Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen and Elʿazar. Also mentions a Manṣūr and may involve a …
Recto: part of a ketubba for [...] bat Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Shelomo. Date not preserved. Mentions Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. ʿA[…]. Witnesses are [Ḥal]fon ha-Levi …
Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …
Beginning of a court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1402 of the Seleucid Era (1091 C.E.). Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi is mentioned, no other details …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī? The text is very faded. In the margin, there is an update …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script.
Petition in Arabic script from a physician employed in the hospital in Cairo who had a government stipend of 5 dinars per month. This stipend …
وانه من جملة الطب المستخدمين بالبيمارستان بالقاهرة المحروسة بحارة . . . . . [ليس له الا]
قوت يسير لا يقوم باوده وانه كان حصل له من المجلس ا…
Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had previously sent a …
List of accounts in Judeo-Arabic in which each heading is marked by elongated ligatures either as extensions of final letters or as independent lines drawn …
IB I, 22. Draft of an oath to be taken by Yosef Lebdi in which he enumerates his assets. Due to the litigation between Yosef …
Joseph b. David—may he rest in Eden!—will swear, on behalf of David, the son of his brother Solomon—may he rest in Eden!—
that he never ch…
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Note in Arabic script from Bū Saʿd Ibn al-Dayyān(?) to a woman. The words כשני עדים כשרים נאמנת are written in Hebrew. Goitein's translation (Med …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Magical spells, probably, in Arabic script. The name of the target is left blank: fulān b. fulāna. Needs further examination.
A few words from a state document in Arabic script (... al-dawla ...). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Letter from Sulaymān to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. There is also a basmala in Arabic script …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Isolated words are legible (the basmala at top. . . kitāb. . . taʿālā. . . ṣāhib. . .). Seems …
Lists of goods and sums of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Likely related to T-S AS 145.241 (PGPID 18215).
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning legal matters. Mentions a half-mould of cheese; purchasing; Alexandria; and slander (tashnīʿ).
Secondary use: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, scattered throughout the remainder of the fragment. Late. The calligraphic practice on the verso includes the signatures of multiple members …
Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic. The work (...ʿalā madhhab al-[???]...) was completed in Rabīʿ I 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE, in the synagogue of al-Ḥakham ʿAṭiyya. …