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Communal accounts. For Yaʿqūb and Badr. Perhaps from a place other than Fustat. Thursday collection (pesiqa). See Med Soc II, App. A, section 159. (Information …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
No Scholarship Records
Letter to a 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly blessings and complaints about financial hardship. Regards are sent to Maḥāsin and his mother
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
Legal document; vertical strip of parchment. Location: probably Fustat. Dating: [14]5[.] Seleucid under the authority of the Nagid [Shemuel b. Ḥananya]. Mentioning Ḥalfon the cantor; …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). On parchment. Bill of compromise. No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and …
Legal document in Arabic script. Seems like a contract of depositing a sum of money for the duration of someone's travel. On verso, in a …
Poem to celebrate the circumcision of a son of a government official (l. 8), calligraphically written in hemistichs, with the final seven lines narrowing to …
Letter, very faded. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 14th century, based on handwriting and abbreviations. The letter mentions various sums of money.
Ketubba fragment. The location, date, and names do not appear to be preserved on this portion. The bride is a virgin. The non-formulaic portion is …
Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
State fragment of some kind. Small and damaged. Mentions "al-kharājiyya" and may have the ʿalāma "Allāh ʿawnī." Needs further examination.
Letter from David b. Nahum b. Hakhmon, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1053. The letter contains several topics: details about the ships …
עלי אללה תוכלת
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסלאמתך מן אלאסכנ[דריה] //ליד כלון מן [ ]// ען סלאמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אל…
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Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Recto is very faded and difficult to read. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter in Hebrew by a bibliophile from Byzantium, whose family name is Pinhasi, to a scribe in a provincial town in Egypt, named Perahya (probably …
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4 Nisan 1377 (2 April 1066). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Four fragments comprising most of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 16th century, or possibly 15th century. Ashtor edited T-S NS J332 and suggested …
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Recto: letter addressing a Nagid (Negid ha-Gola) with many titles and flattering epithets. The opening is extensive and rhymed, and only the letter’s oratory remains. …
Possibly a medical recipe in Arabic script, but covered with copious other jottings and difficult to read.
two specimen contracts for unequal partnerships (FGP)
IB V, 26. Abū Zikrī Kohen, representative of merchants in Fustat, settles accounts with his banker Khiyār b. Nissim. Dating: 1134 CE. The two had …
List of names of poor persons, without numbers. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 456.) On the smaller piece (T-S AS 146.218), names include Abū …
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Letter in which an ophthalmologist named Moshe blames his assistant who was also his relative for having left without giving him details about the various …
Letter from the cantor [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to his maternal uncle Bū Ibrāhīm(?), in Shubrā Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …
Colophon of a piyyuṭ. The scribe is Yefet b. Shelomo ha-Levi. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts of commodities and their prices, mentioning Abū l-Faḍ[l]; Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: One of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's many small notes in which he orders small quantities of materia medica to be given to the bearer. In …
Probably a commercial letter, citing a dispute. In Arabic script. Large, but faded/damaged. mentions Damietta. Needs examination. On verso, there are drafts of Hebrew poetry, …
Halakhic discussions.
Recto: legal document, or letter concerning a legal affair. There is a list of witnesses' names on verso: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dayyān, Abū Saʿd b. …
Legal document dated [...] Sivan […], in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Top portion only. Needs examination.
Header of a ketubba, with large colorful letters and fleurs-de-lis and micrography.
Verso: Legal document (quittance). Mentions "my daughter Bahiyya" twice. Otherwise unclear if any of the substance is preserved.
Fragment of a literary text, in Arabic script. Bifolio of a larger Arabic text, mentioning a conversation between ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān (646-705; the fifth …
Small fragment - needs examination.
Letter addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ajal al-Raʾis Abū ʿĪmrān Mūsā (Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdāwī in al-Mahdiyya) from his business associate (Peraḥya b. Yosef in Fusṭāṭ) regarding …
مملوكه
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الريس ابو
عمران موسى اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك ونعماك
ومن حسن التوفي…
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Letter from a teacher to a certain Moshe informing him that his son, Abū Saʿīd, read his Torah portion with a translation (tafsīr; likely refers …
Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar 14[.]3 Seleucid. The tens digit may have still been preserved at the time …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Baqā' (or perhaps Abū l-Baqā') to a certain teacher (melammed). The writer conveys his sympathies for some bad news and asks …
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
Arabic writing exercises, probably the word "fī" hundreds of times.
Verso: Legal document. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 48[..], which corresponds to the range 1040–1139 CE. Involves [...] b. Muvḥar (possibly Berakhot …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties (...wāḍiḥ al-jabha...). Verso: Probably records …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, fragment containing right margin (angle parking) and right part of some lines. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions clove (qurunful). Greetings to …
Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script. Written in the bottom margin of a Hebrew literary/legal text.