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Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
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Unidentified text, in Hebrew script.
No Scholarship Records
Invitation from the union of Jewish religious institutions to the general public for the foundation of a cooperative enterprise for kosher meats – 25 April …
Recipes. In Hebrew. A mixture of magical spells, many medical, combined with domestic advice, e.g., how to remove urine stains. This fragment may be older …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a rayyis and Ibn al-Ḥarbash (this family name appears also in T-S 16.271, T-S Misc.28.129, and …
Verso (secondary use): Letter which consists entirely of a versified Grace after Meals for Shabbat in Hebrew (this identification is from FGP) and the closing …
Business letter from Abū l-Surūr b. David to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Fragment. Mentions the late Abū Saʿīd and the Muslims who claimed they …
Minute fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions some words (al-khayr... al-barakāt... Allāh...), all of which might be part of names. On verso …
Leaf from a literary work in Hebrew, mentioning bodies, sins, and Mars.
Mercantile letter from the Ibn ʿAwkal dossier. Dating: early 11th century. Includes great complaints about bad treatment by addressee. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Letter from the judge Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen, apparently in or near Ashqelon, to ʿAmram b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Ḥusayn), apparently in …
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Letter addressed to Hodaya b. Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed …
Letter from a woman (possibly the wife of al-Ramlī named on verso) to Rabbenu [...] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. She thanks him for …
Two pages of accounts of transportation. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mid-11th century. On one side, there are apparently the writing exercises of a schoolboy: he copied …
Fragment of a letter from Nāshī b. Thābit ha-Kohen to the ḥaver Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1084-1090 CE. Nāshī b. Thābit sends …
IB I, 12. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
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Legal document related to Nahray b. Nissim. This record refers to the lower fragment of the two in the enclosure. it was photographed upside-down; in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the Ḥaver Natan b. Yoshiyyahu ha-Kohen, in Tiberias, to Yaʿaqov b. David, approximately 1050. The writer asks the recipient for support on behalf …
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Accounts in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged. Dating: likely late Mamluk or Ottoman-era.
A father Netanʾel b. Yefet ha-Levi stands security for the income from 14/24 shares in a house which he had given to his daughter at …
List of books compiled by Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli as part of the introduction to the commentary on Saʿadya Gaʾon’s Siddur. Mentions works and commentaries …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in Hebrew. Late. Some accounts are related to building expenses(?). One entry on the verso mentions a Jewish legal "apotropos" guardianship for …
Letter from Umm ʿAzīza to a certain Natan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century. Discusses family news, neglect, and various other things. Nearly completely preserved. …
A letter, almost complete, from Shelomo b. Shem Tov, who served as a proxy of the Jerusalemite community in Egypt. The writer admonishes the addressee …
Bifolio containing a copy of a formal communal letter. There is a folio number "12" on the lefthand side of recto. It is not clear …
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Unidentified text in Arabic script. Perhaps aphorisms or advice? The tone is informal ("aysh lil-nās minnī?"). There are هs separating different sentences or sections.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: May 14, 1238. Written in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (identified by Goitein), teacher and court scribe. Concerning a …
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Ownership note on a page probably originally from a quire of piyyuṭ. "Purchased by Shelomo b. Nissim Beḥir ha-Parnasim."
Document covered with Arabic script going every which way. A disease (maraḍ) is mentioned in one place. There is one line in Hebrew (a phrase …
Recto: Letter fragment from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat. Only the tarjama with Yehuda's name is preserved.
Business letter from Abū l-Khayr(?) Yeshuʿa b. [...] to Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa. Dating: 11th century. Mentions various ships including אלמכרב אללובי (the Libyan …
Account statements – 1943-1944CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 288) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
Minute fragment of an Arabic document, possibly. Requires further examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. The basmala and the beginning of the first line are preserved.
Business letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi, a wholesale silk-dealer, to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Nissim ha-Levi in Fustat, dealing with goods …
Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …
عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
ومملوكه حسين…
The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,
the blessings of God be upon him and upon hi…
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Legal query requesting a ruling in a commercial disagreement between two merchants. The two parties settled and wrote out a power of attorney, but then …
Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Thursday, 12 Kislev [5318 AM], which is 1557 CE (see A. David's article …
Letter from David b. Azarya (Gil: David b. Daniel) to a personality in Fustat asking him to settle the matter between Mufarraj b. Sulayman and …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Marriage contract. Five lines from the middle are preserved: only detail that survives is the gift of a 1/4 dār to the bride. [RR]
Small fragment of Arabic accounts on recto. Barely readable Hebrew text on verso.
Part of a ketubba for Shelomo (groom), in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (1014-57 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper part). Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to Sulaymān Maymūn al-Qazzāz(?). Asking him to purchase the headdress (kūfiyya) they had previously spoken …
Receipt of some sort, with the glyph at the top, mentioning a sum of 200-something, and the name Sulaymān. Needs examination.
Colophon mentioning the name Yefet b. ʿAllān. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter to Elḥanan "Rosh ha-Seder of all Israel." In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Most of what remains is formulaic. Mentions …
Accounts in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu or his father Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. Dating: late 12th or early 13th century. Mentions people such as …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed ha-Bavli, in Bilbays, to Abū Isḥāq b. Bū l-Rabīʿ and a judge named Eliyya, in Fustat. (Goitein's index card says that …