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Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. The writer urges the addressee to come back …
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Letter from Judge Eliyyahu to his colleague David ha-Kohen in Bilbays addressing a query; asks whether one Bushr, daughter of Asad, had formally dissolved a …
אל הדרת כבוד גדולות קדושת מרנא ורבנא דוד הכהן החבר המעולה
הח' והנ' שמצו מן אוהבו כנפשו אליהו ברבי זכריה ת'נ'צ…
I am a companion to all who fear Thee.
To the dignity, honor, greatness and holiness of our master and teacher David ha-Kohen, the exalted …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Very faded and damaged. One of the only clear words is "her …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly foods and quantities: cake, chickpea, raisin, pepper, qirṭās, saffron, sugar, כיזאן. Verso: Possibly the end of the letter. The signature Eliyya …
Verso: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Menaḥem, Majd b. אלעזריזי(??), a scribe and judge (al-sofer al-dayyan), Sason, Ibn al-מדור, Hilāl the blind (al-ḍarīr), Bū …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso (original use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic presenting a Hebrew poem in honor of the addressee's wedding. Calligraphic. The addressee may be ʿArūs b. Yosef, as …
Leaf from a treatise on divination in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks pre-1500 (unlike most of the material in the AIU collection).
Incomplete letter to Moses Maimonides congratulating him on becoming the Head of the Jews of Egypt. Maimonides held this post briefly in the early 1170s …
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State/fiscal document. Dated: 403 kharājī = ca. 1012/13 CE. "Account of the revenue extracted from government estates (ḍiyāʿ al-sulṭāniyya)...mablagh …… fī l-ṣināʿa al-sulṭāniyya bi-nāḥiyat …… …
A 16-page Ottoman-era notebook with diverse contents. Pages 1–2: Judaeo-Arabic translation of Daniel 1:4–10. "Chief of the eunuchs" is translated as "Sārī l-Aghawāt." There follow …
Letter in Hebrew. The writer of the letter sends his apology and emphasizes he did not intend to offend the addressee. The writer ends (lines …
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State document, in Arabic script. Petition formulary (?) mentions al-Ḥākim but is written as a literary text. Needs further examination.
Legal document, quite faded. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Concerning the purchase and subsequent dedication of a property in the town of al-ʿAlāqma (near …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably official. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic headings פזמאן and גירה (pizmān, ḡayruhu). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script, fragment, 7 lines. Dating: Ottoman or possibly late Mamluk era. Mentions people such as Niʿmat (or Nūr?) al-Dīn, [...] b. …
Pen trials, in an Arabic chancery hand. Contains words like "ʿabd mawlāya", "yā sayyidī."
Verso: Account of some sort, unclear if private or official. In Arabic script. It seems to be specifying the amounts owed to Abū l-Faraj. Mentions …
Letter from Musa b. Yiṣḥaq b. Hisdai, Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes his difficulties with shipping flax. He is …
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Book list in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli. (Information from CUDL)
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Informal note probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan, asking him to furnish a slip (wurayqa) detailing what the addressee owes Shelomo. …
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139) in which a man …
Letter to Nahray b. Nissim. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost complete. Mentions flax; Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Kohen; "the beads of al-Tustari"; Av[raham] b. Sughmār and Abū …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. No names preserved. Refers to a period of 12 months, an …
Business account in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan several times.
Release granted by Hiba al-Labbān b. Abū Naṣr, the brother and heir of the late Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mustaʿmal, to his sister-in-law Bushr bt. Abū l-Faraj, …
Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …
فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد
]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)
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Release granted by the wife of Abū l-Makārim al-Kātib to Abū l-Ḥasan, whom she releases from all obligations after having received from him three deeds …
Fragmentary record of testimony (left half missing). Dated: [..]68 Seleucid, so probably 1056/57 CE or 1156/57 CE. Signed by Moshe b. Shelomo and [...] b. …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, probably accounts. Hebrew on verso, literary. Needs examination.
Page from a book of legal formulas of a marriage contract by a proxy probably from Siddur R. Nathan if Sijilmasa. Written by Shelomo b. …
Entry in court notebook (#40). Note stating that a letter shall be written to Ibn al-Zurzūr(?) Bū l-Faraj ha-Ḥazzan informing him not to raise any …
Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician (known as 'the effective'), in Shamṭūniyya, near Kūfa, Iraq, to his pupil and perhaps son-in-law Yūsuf, in Jūma Mazīdat (unidentified …
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Literary, Arabic.
Recto: document, mentioning Hillel and Elʿazar. Verso: Arabic document; possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
A pregnant woman, seemingly well-to-do, complains to her sister in the city about neglect and expresses apprehension that part of her house will be taken …
Probably accounts or possibly jottings. Includes names such as Muḥammad and Abū Naṣr. (Information from CUDL.) Late.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Ḥasan b. Yefet. Bride: Rayyisa bt. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 [...] 1345 Seleucid = 1033/34 CE. The marriage gifts …
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …
Fragment of an amuletic text in Hebrew on parchment. Blessings for the medical treatment/healing of Maʿtūqa bt. Roza. Dating: perhaps 16th-century or later based on …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Some of the opening greetings are preserved and part of the address (...dukkān...). It seems to have been reused for …
Document in Arabic script. Small fragment. Maybe a receipt.
Family letter. In Arabic script. Addressed to the mother of Abū l-ʿIzz (Sitt Abū l-ʿIzz), in Fustat. Reports on something to do with ʿAbd al-Salām; …
Letter of recommendation for a poor man from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides.
Annotations in Ladino in the margin of a printed work. Significance unclear.
Letter in Arabic script from [...] al-Ḥazzān, in Damascus, to Abū l-Faraj Yashūʿ (?) b. Barhūn al-Ḥibr (= the ḥaver). Dated: Tuesday, 10 Shaʿbān (year …
Capitation tax receipt for Ibrāhīm b. [...] al-Yahūdī. Location: Damietta. Dated: 603 AH = 1206/07 CE.
Legal document. Palestinian ketubba. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …