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Much damaged. Seems like a legal deed reagrding marriage, probably a ketubah. The word לאינתו is readable. AA
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Letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (dated documents 1125-50), in Fustat, to his cousin Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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Bottom part of a deed of indemnity. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1351 Seleucid = 28 May 1040 CE. In which Ḥasan b. ʿAllūn …
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Letter from a scribe to a certain Yosef. (The names Yosef and Avraham appear in the address on verso, but the surrounding text is very …
Unidentified text, possibly a letter, quoting Job 1:21. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew addressed to a notable, referring to bread. Verso: Leviticus 1:5, in large letters, vocalised. (Information from CUDL)
Letter by Shelomo b. Yeshuʿa ha-ḥaver, in Damīra, to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. The writer raises charges …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that his …
Legal fragment, either a will or something to do with the disposition of the property of a certain Ibn al-Raqyan (בן אלרקיין) who is now …
Business note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the arrival of the merchants and a request that the addressee write something in his …
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Four lines from near the top are preserved. Addressed to a military wazīr in the late Fatimid period. …
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Large list, probably 18th or 19th c, of names and numbers arranged according to holidays and shabbatot, perhaps charitable donations pledged/received.
Recto: Unusual Aramaic-Hebrew legal document, or rather an addendum to a legal document, perhaps describing irregularities in certain words? Each entry refers to a portion …
Legal document describing that Avraham b. Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations. Shelomo still owes 12 dinars, of which …
Small fragment of a legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Name mentioned: [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan.
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Secondary use: list of books in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, with a note stating "owed to me by Abū Saʿd." (Information from CUDL …
Opening of a letter written by Daniel b. Azarya, Jerusalem, to Aviram ha-Kohen b. Yitzhak b. Furat. Daniel b. Azarya writes that he is sorry …
Four lines from a Hebrew letter. Dating: probably 11th century.
Likely a tax receipt, maybe involving sugar. Very hastily written.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nothing preserved apart from some release formulae.
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …
Legal fragment. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: [14]26 Seleucid = 1114/15 CE. Involves Zakkay b. Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts. Signed …
Beginning of a letter addressed Saʿadya Peʾer ha-Soḥrim and the father of the addressee. Jottings on verso include Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)
Eight rough drafts of a petition to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir from the followers of Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably the end of 1041 (according to …
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Letter from an unknown writer, in Qūṣ, to al-Shaykh al-Asʿad, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century, based on Goitein's assessment. The writer reports …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably.
Letter from Yeshua b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī from Alexandria, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1056. In the handwriting of Yeshua b. Isma’il, with an …
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Minute fragment with a doodle or illustration of some kind on the recto. The verso may contain the Hebrew letter ע, but the text(?) is …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in one of the diagonal entries in the middle of the recto: Tammuz 5404 AM (1644 CE), but the exact day …
Accounts. Headed "li-l-shaykh Dāʾūd."
Letter/petition for assistance in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide line spacing. The addressee ([al-ḥaḍra] al-ajalliyya) is asked to investigate the sender's situation (yanẓur fī umūrī...).
Communal note probably from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids to R. Avraham. The matter of ‘Yosef the son of the beadle’ …
Commercial account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions Bū Muḥammad. Mentions ʿAkkāwī and Ḥamāwī and "רודי" and "תרשי" bales
Probably a fiscal document or receipt, in Arabic script. Dated: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 545 H. Mentions total sum, "al-Jumla". Contains jottings in Hebrew script. Reminiscent …
Minute fragment from am Arabic document - needs examination.
Legal testimony, draft or abandoned. Needs examination.
Letter fragment (bottom half). In Hebrew. It is not entirely clear how this relates to the letter on verso. Both recto and verso are appeals …
Letter from Simḥa Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Manṣūr. Dating: ca. 1205 CE. The writer complains about the extortions of a tax farmer who …
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Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in a book hand. Opens with two verses of poetry, then probably a taqbīl ([... al-a]rḍ), then greetings for the …
Legal document. Court proceedings. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf claims that Da’ūd and Ṣedaqa, sons of Ṣemaḥ b. Da’ūd al-Raqqī, have withheld profits from a partnership in …
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State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
Fragmentary opening formula of a legal document written in Shīrābād (שיראבד). The fragment is labeled "L19" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. …
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest …