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Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq in Alexandria to Yahya b. Ismail in Fustat. The sender inquires about a shipment of tin sent to the addressee. …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Upper right corner. Moderately wide spacing between the lines. Might be legal or a letter (may begin with the word …
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Verso: accounts in Arabic with Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Muṭrib and Hiba al-Khādim. Recto: probably piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (upper right corner). Mentions someone or something arriving in אלתסלך(?). Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on verso.
Legal document in the hand of and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-ʿIrāq. (Information in part …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1452 Seleucid = April/May 1141 CE. Regarding the sale of a house in Minyat Zifta costing 9 dinars. Between …
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Letter. Polite, refers to addressee repeatedly as אלמולא. Fragment from toward the end, including the end of business matters involving dirhams and then the greetings-to-the-family …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Dated the 19th of Kislev 5422 AM (1661 CE). Location: Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known …
Lower part of a list of contributors, with 21 persons to be solicited, each carefully described by his family name or profession or both. With …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning various garments. There are remnants of an earlier Arabic document.
Account in Arabic script. On parchment. Begins as follows: الاصل تسعة دراهم وايضا درهم وثمن وتسبعة دراهم ونصف بيد الصبي وايضا بيده دينار واحد وايضا …
Palimpsest. Undertext: Bohairic Coptic, probably liturgical. Overtext: Writing practice of the Hebrew alphabet, and a Judaeo-Arabic list of birds, perhaps a translation of the unkosher …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small slip from the beginning of a document, probably never completed. A certain Maymūn appeared before …
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Mentions al-muʿallim Yaʿaqov several times; an epidemic (המגפה); and money.
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm to his brother Qāsim. Containing reports or instructions about sending small sums of money, and greetings to various family members.
Accounts, in Arabic script with Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Letter from Meir b. Naʿim to the community of Cairo/Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. Conveys a detailed story about Meir's …
Order of payment to the elder Ibrahim, ordering him give to the bearer of the note the donkey that his father had promised. Signed and …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists goods such as mastic; tartar; labdanum; marjoram; pepper.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Eliyyahu Turki to Yūsuf Yaʿīsh Ḥadād. Dated 1 Iyyar 5601 AM which is
Draft of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the textile trade, mentioning the Syrian cities of Lādhiqiyya (Latakia), Anṭākiyya (Antioch), Maʾarrat al-Nuʿmān, and Aleppo. It …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee, one Ibrāhīm, had asked the writer to copy out the "ṣadr" (in context probably meaning "protocol") of the letter …
Cryptic fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems literary.
Letter, late, writtenb by Yom Tov Qashtiel, with a Hebrew signature stamp. Addressed on verso "to the hand of the dear modest Masʿūda מב׳׳ת, to …
Fragment of a letter of request from an anonymous proselyte, who requests charity from "the two communities" (probably Fustāt?) in a rather demanding tone, threatening …
Accounts (?) divided by horizontal lines. 11th c (?), written on parchment, thus Sicilian? Mentions silver ingots (fiḍḍa sabāʾik). Several of the entries begins "wa-qia …
Collections of liturgical poems (reshut) associated with specific parshiyot. T-S 10H9.13 is for Vayera, and Halper 291 is for Aḥarey Mot. Each of them has …
Circular by the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya to all the authorities in the Rif to bring to court in Fusṭāṭ one Avraham b. Manṣūr who …
Fragment from a late letter in Hebrew. Mentions payments and something "in the hand of the gentile."
Small fragment in Arabic script, maybe a letter.
Letter from Yūsuf b. Hārūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with idiosyncratic spellings. Addressed to Qayrawān, it seems. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with trade in ṭabarī cloth, …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded.
Verso (original use): Probably a letter, in Arabic script. Eight lines are preserved, with wide line spacing and a large right margin. Dating: likely no …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involving an agreement between two parties. Dating: written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and …
Documentary/administrative record? One page (verso is blank) with a Hebrew-script header and 8 lines of Arabic in a jagged/coarse hand--maybe from a badly cut nib? …
Letter from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 23 Nisan 1532 Seleucid, which is 1221 CE. There …
Legal record (#100) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 33v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 18 Elul 5324 …
Very blurred text, the month of Muḥarram is readable. Needs examination.
Arabic, literary. Looks like a treatise on the medicinal use of minerals.
First three pages: Medical recipes in Arabic script. Fourth page (verso of BL OR 5565G.39): Document in Arabic script in a different hand. Needs examination.
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Chronological work, very similar to Seder ʿOlam Zuṭṭa. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.
Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Official document in Arabic script. Dated: 1231 AH, which is 1815/16 CE. On a printed template perhaps from the customs bureau (ديوان كمرك . . …
Islamic legal text, in Arabic script. Mentions the order of wilāya of a woman for nikāḥ.