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Recto: text in Hebrew, probably piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
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Two questions addressed to Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205-1237 CE, about milking sheep on Shabbat. (Information from Goitein's index card). VMR
שתי שאלות אל רבנו אברהם בן הרמב"ם בענין חליבת צאן בשבת.
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Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
Legal record (#69) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …
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Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a draft letter in the name of the community of Fustat regarding the imposition of an excommunication a certain Avraham, ca. 1035. Gil …
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Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses …
شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا
جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة
صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون
حاله…
The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,
honourable and good Muslim men, testified,
together …
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Letter to Yiṣḥaq Ḥevroni on financial matters. Dated: 1559 CE [?]. This date from FGP is likely incorrect given that the month listed is Shawwāl …
Book of Legal deeds by Saadya Gaon, 8-9, 12-13, contains bil of partnership, deathbed declaration, and a will. (Data from FGP by Dan Greenberger)
Almost complete but faded and damaged business letter. To Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. [...]. Dating: 11th century. Handwriting of Nahray b. Nissim? Mentions buying something …
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Sulaymān and Bū l-Majd al-ʿŪdī.
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise with some corrections in a different hand.
Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …
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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso). Refers to a woman's separation from the addressees; "your accompanying …
Letter from the judge (qāḍī) Hibat Allāh b. Makīn, in al-Marāgha, to his "brother" Abū l-Ḥasan Zuhayr. Concerning the case of Maryam bt. Yuḥannis the …
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Medical recipes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, including one powder (dharūr) for children and several ophthalmics (ashyāfāt).
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to "distress" (shidda). Everything else is too faded to read.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains mostly praises and blessings. (Information from CUDL)
Private account of Barhun b. Yishaq ha-Tāhartī. Around 1050. Contains financial report with Abu al-Khayr, who is Musa b. Barhun ha-Tāhartī, the writer’s uncle. (Information …
אלבאקי עלי מולאי אלשיך אבי אלכיר בעד
אלמחאסבה תקכו ותלתיי וקיר וען צרף ק דינ מה שאמיה מדורה דינ>
וען יד דינ ותלת אטראבלסיה יב…
Small fragment from the top of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Mūsā b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh. Dating: Maybe late Mamluk or Ottoman, based …
Unidentified text in Hebrew that appears to be signed by Avraham Monson (cf. T-S AS 204.256 (PGPID 32076) and T-S 18J3.24 (PGPID 17064)).
Legal document in Arabic script. Agreement between Ḥasan b. Hārūn and his father-in-law Ḥasan b. Isḥāq b. Mūsā concerning Ḥasan's fiancee Maḥfūẓa bt. Ḥasan b. …
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Bill in which Shelomo b. Hakim promises to pay back to Nissim b. Yaʿaqov a sum of thirty 'pieces of gold' (dinars). The latter is …
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Letter addressed to a certain Shemuʾel. In Hebrew. Large but very damaged. Goitein identifies the hand as "European." Mentions Yehoshuaʿ and Moshe. Also mentions a …
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning a shop.
Small fragment of a document in Arabic. The word "dīnār" appears. Recto is partially crossed out with diagnoal lines.
Accounts with Coptic numerals, mentioning Shelomo Baḥbāḥī. (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Alexandria (possibly drawn up there) and the authority of …
Business letter from the North African merchant Benāya b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Shelomo b. Mevorakh (Fustat), containing inter alia information about the movement of ships …
Minute fragment with a few Hebrew letters visible in a well-rendered stylized script. Perhaps 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Accounts.
Legal record (#132) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 43r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 5 Tishrei [5329 …
Recto: List of names on recto, many of which are crossed out. Medieval-era. This list of and the recycled Arabic document on the verso may …
Upper part of a petition/letter in Arabic from Yaḥyā b. Yusuf, asking the recipient to fulfill the request of "mawlay al-qāʾid" and to send a …
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Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, based on the reference to the Ashrafī dinar. Acknowledgement of debt in the …
Letter from an unknown writer, unknown location, to his brother-in-law al-Shaykh al-Fakhr al-Khāzin and his wife (the writer's sister), in Jerusalem. The addressees are asked …
Tiny fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). The remaining text consists mostly …
State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال
الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف
الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان
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Ketubba. Groom: Meʾir b. Yakhin (a well-known cantor and communal official). Bride: Muʿazzaza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. Location: Fustat. Dating: the 4th of a month, …
Translation of Song of Songs 8:11-14 with Hebrew incipits; Judaeo-Arabic final note and marginal notes. (Information from Shivtiel/Niessen.)
Letter to the community of Jerusalem from Elhanan b. Shemarya, 1013 CE.
Very faded document in Hebrew, likely a letter.
Letter draft or formulary in Judeo-Arabic that makes use of the common Hebrew abbreviation "אחדש׳׳ו" which appears at the opening of many early modern letters. …
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Giving details on the sale of silk.
End of a calligraphic business letter copied by Masliah b. Eliyyahu. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Informal note in Arabic script. Has the glyph, signifying a basmala. The handwriting is relatively straightforward but the subject matter is difficult to figure out. …
Letter from Mevasser b. David, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 22 Elul (25 August [1068 — Gil's inference]), with …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
וכלאיתך ורעאיתך מן תניס יום אלב לז בקין מן אלול ערפה אללה ברכה
כאתמתה ואסעדה במא …
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