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Letter of condolence from a certain Yaʿaqov to Eliyyahu the Judge ("wherever he is"). Dating: Early 13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The orthography, including …
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Recto: Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Opens with the date (Tuesday the 5th of [...]) and then a long genealogy of Moshe ha-Sar b. …
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Letter containing a legal opinion/responsum in the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Against a claim of orphans against the …
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Accounts in Arabic script. On verso, in Hebrew script, the name Mūsā b. Ibrāhim al-Kohen.
IB VII, 38. Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brother, probably in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender urges him to return quickly; their …
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Fragment of a book of cosmetics written on parchment. It deals with the hair (the fall of the hair, curled hair, half-curled hair, and straight …
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Two lists in an unusually large cursive script with a postscript in another, small and neat script. a) The superscription 'I[n Your] N[ame]' shows that …
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Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle. …
Letter from Yehuda b. Simḥa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The writer trades in pearls and coral. He …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
End of a communal letter with signatures. The surviving signatures are [..]riya b. Ḥasan, [...] b. Ḥasan, Daniel b. Yishaq Shaʾul. [...] Kohen b. Bundar. …
Fragment of a ketubba written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel ha-Levi from the year 1195/96 CE. The bride's name is Sitt al-Furs. Only the groom's father's …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in which the writer reports how he left al-Maḥalla, either taking or intending to take 'the little ones' with …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. On verso there are gnomic sayings or verses of poetry in Hebrew (e.g. שקוד דלת תוחלת אזי תמצא …
Legal document. Bill of release after collection of a sum of money. No names or amounts preserved.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Mūsā Hārūn. Occupying one page of a tall/narrow bifolium, of the kind seen in account books. The other three …
Accounts, mentioning several sums of dinars and the name Yosef and al-Naṣrānī. Small fragment. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Interesting grids with Judaeo-Arabic writing, presumably for casting lots.
IB III, 50. Letter from Perahya Yiju, in Egypt, to the Nagid complaining about Avraham Ibn Yiju, probably around 1156.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Folio(s) from the Sīra of Sayf b. Dhī Yaqdhān, probably adapted from al-Ṭabarī's "Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk". Needs examination.
Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The writer is about to …
וצלני כתאבך יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ פי גמיע אמורך ווקפת מנה עלא
מא דלני מן חסן סלאמתך ועאפיתך אדמה…
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Magical fragment. Written in Hebrew and either Judaeo-Greek or Greek words that had simply become magical words.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, quite damaged. Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Refers to a rescript from the government (tawqīʿ al-sulṭān, verso l. 3).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated in Shawwal 1237AH which is January/February 1834CE. All of the monetary figures are expressed in "פצה /silver" and a variety of …
Unidentified document in Arabic, Hebrew, and possibly one other script.
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1409 Seleucid, which is February 1098 CE. Dealing with a lawsuit of Mevasser/Bishāra b. Ḥalfon against Shelomo …
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See PGPID 18645
Decree. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved (...waṣala ilā thaghr...). The word "kiswa" appears - referring to the covering of the Kaʿba? Reused for …
Recto: Letter criticizing someone's behavior, also cryptically referring to the engagement of a woman. Greetings to Abū l-Wafāʾ.
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Groom: Ghālib b. Shelomo. Bride: Jamīla bt. ʿEli. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to his in-law (גיס) Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Thursday 28th Maṭmonim (=the Omer), which is …
Legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto and verso appear to be in different hands. Recto mentions the Qāḍī Ibn ʿAmmār and R. Yiṣḥaq. Might mention business …
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī …
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Petition or letter in Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew liturgical text. (Information in part from CUDL)
ا]لذي بيده منحـ[
الوكالة ليدل و[
ومملوكها [
يتصـ[
عزي والشريف[
يتعلوه وان[
ولا يجدد[
Bifolio mainly with Hebrew poetry or liturgical text, but with two sections in Arabic script. The one on verso appears to be a note about …
Minute fragment of an Arabic document. On parchment. Probably legal.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Beginning of a letter of Neḥemya ha-Kohen b. Kohen Ṣedeq, a self-proclaimed gaon of Pumbedita, written before August 960. The letter is a polemic against …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1735/36 CE (496 = קרן לעמו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew jottings. Dating: Maybe 13th or 14th century based on handwriting.
Letter fragment. Wide space between the lines. Only a few words of blessings and honorifics are preserved, including the name Yosef ha-Levi ha-Ḥaver.
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: probably 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography and coinage mentioned. Concerning a certain Shemuel; an enslaved woman (שפחה), a …
Illustration, possibly a landscape scene with a figure floating in the sky. Requires further examination.
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
IB VII, 54. Mercantile letter, possibly sent from Aden to India. Reports that Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥalābū (?) was in a shipwreck at Dahlak, …
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Letter from a man entitled “segan ha-yeshiva” to Aharon the Cantor. Dating: Possibly ca. 1035 CE, based on Goitein identification of the addressee with Aharon …
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Recto: Legal deed (part) for the sale of a house with an orchard on the Jazīra, "between the two rivers and the two bridges." Sold …
Legal record (#41) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 40-42) Folio 10v