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Magical text in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment.
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Fragment of a letter regarding someone in need.
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: Bible in Hebrew language, Arabic script (Arabo-Hebrew). Bible: Michah 6:6 – 8; Hosea 6:6; Proverbs 21:3. On verso there are Hebrew jottings from Jeremiah …
Legal document. Release. Location: Fustat. Regarding partners, a sum of 400 dinars, and every party receiving his due in full. Names mentioned include Avraham b. …
A few words from a state document (decree? fiscal register?). Specifically a number: 3[.]7, maybe 347. The text on recto is a mirror-image imprint from …
Letter of appeal for charity from Avraham b. Yitro of Damascus (al-Dimashqī). He opens with lengthy Hebrew blessings, then describes his sufferings (poverty, dependents, capitation …
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Quran, verses 9:108 and 111.
Mercantile in Arabic script. Each column is headed with a date. Each entry is in a box. Each entry begins with a name. E.g., Ṣadaqa, …
Instructions for the halakha/etiquette of comporting oneself during the ʿamida, including for eventualities such as needing to cough or urinate or developing a nosebleed. In …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Sahl b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 530 AH = 1135/36 CE.
Fragment containing copies of two different legal documents. The second involves a loan from Abūl-Maʿālī to a certain Yeshaʿya.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening greetings are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late. Needs examination.
Letter from Shemuel Sidi, in Damietta, to his brother-in-law and business partner Gabriel (likely Gabriel Conforte, son of the famous David Conforte). In Ladino. See …
Business letter in Arabic script from Mubārak b. Isḥāq to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī (or al-Baṣīr), expressing longing for the addressee and sending …
Legal document in which [...] b. Yosef [...] acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver medin. The paleography supports of dating estimate of …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Contains some typically legal phrases (mā yaswā shayʾ... mustawiya jamīʿ mā.... baʿd yamīnihī aʿnī... ʿalā... wa-jarā baynī wa-baynahū...)
Birth records. In Italian. Dated: 1721 CE through 1743 CE.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The ends of 10 lines are preserved. Some phrases: ידכרני . . . ואלי יומנא . . . פלא יקסי . …
Document mentioning Ibrahim and his family. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Opening only. The writer is pained because someone is sick (perhaps al-Rashīd?).
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Bāb Zuwayla in Cairo. The heading on the verso is dated in the month of Shaʿabān with a year that incorporates …
Bottom of a legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 23 Rajab 596 AH = 9 May 1200 CE. (A previous description stated 13 Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Hebrew literary text. There is also the remnant of a Latin-script text at 90 degrees, possibly the remnant of a manuscript that was recycled and …
Fragments of responsa, at least one of which deals with property division between brothers. The paleography supports a dating estimate between the 15th-17th centuries. The …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bifolio of accounts. Dated on the verso Adar II-Tammuz 5627 AM (March-July 1867 CE). Many of the names are abbreviated beyond direct recognition but a …
Letter from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Sulaymān to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī al-ʿAṭṭar, in the perfumers' market, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The top of …
Letter from the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. Narrow strips were torn from both the left and right …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Maghribī hand. Dating: ca. 11th century. Mentions "not fearing anyone" (laysa khawf min aḥad). Merits further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolio. Probably 11th century. Difficult to read. Mentions the neighbor of Ibn Juḥā and Dār al-Ṭarf(?) al-Maghribī.
Accounts list a shop (דוכאן) in one of the headings, with columns for weights of goods (אוקה // וקייה), names, and prices. Dating is 18th- …
Fatimid state document, most likely a decree, in Arabic script. Reused for a bifolio of a larger historiographical text in Arabic, see different entry.
Remnant from a large cluster of calligraphic rabbinic signatures. This fragment is likely the lowest section from an important legal document given the high concentration …
Fragment of a Torah codex. In the space between columns at the binding, the name Hillel b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal Resh Kalla appears.
Scribal exercises and signature practice. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. On the recto the signature Yiṣḥaq b. Eliyahu Israel is …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Note in the binder at JTS says ENA 3948.3 and ENA 3948.4 were detached from …
Legal document. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: [..]99 AM, most likely 4799 AM (=1038/39 CE) or 4899 AM (=1138/39 CE). The document mentions Elʿazar ha-Zaqen …
Note from David b. Yehuda ha-Ḥaver, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1532 Seleucid, which is 1220/21 CE. He asks to receive the …
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Recto: portion of the beginning of a Syriac hymn ‘My bones shall cry out’. This hymn is also found in the Book of Beth Gazo. …
Drafts of documents - needs examination.
Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …
Business letter from Ṭāhir b. Sālim to Abū Saʿd b. Hiba, in Damietta. In Arabic script. Concerning the textile and garment trade. Greetings to people …
Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa. The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?). See …