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Debate poem between hashish and wine. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The narrator is a partisan of wine: "Hashish has a way / …
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Literary. The book of Numbers with targum.
No Scholarship Records
Recto: biblical verses. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters. Might say רבינו היי ורבינו שרירא followed by מסלה אל . . . .
A few words in Hebrew script. On papyrus.
Recto and verso: Memorial list for the family of Abū l-ʿIzz containing names such as Ḥalfon, ʿUlla, Solomon, Yefet, ʿUzziel, Gūlā, and Saʿadya. Some names …
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Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or ninteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …
Tiny fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning al-Talmid and Ḥalfon ha-Sar. Verso has some text in Arabic, perhaps accounts.
Legal document. Partnership agreement in a press (maʿṣara). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 4 Tamuz 5275 AM, which is 1515 CE. Currencies: Peraḥim. The …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Dāʾud b. Efrayim(?) in Fustat for the year 526(?) AH.
Small and damaged fragment. On recto few lines from a legal deed. On verso an identified list.
Unidentified document or text in Arabic. There are also two lines of calendrical calculations in Hebrew script.
Description from T-S 12.148: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: Under the authority of Mevorakh (b. Seʿadya). Mentions: Syria (al-Shām); Abū Isḥāq... Avraham known as Ibn …
Drafts of dozens of documents including letters/petitions to amīrs, mostly in Arabic script. There is also a recipe or prescription.
Fragment of a private letter reporting the death of an individual named Najm al-Dawla (probably a state official based on the title), followed by conventional …
Recto: Probably Arabic poetry. Verso: Bottom of a document in Arabic script. Concludes (l. 2) with in shāʾa allāh followed by a taṣliya. Underneath there …
Legal fragment. Dating: mentions Av 1486 of the Seleucid Era = July/August 1175 CE. Describing how after lengthy litigation it was determined that [...] known …
Verso: Outline of a deed of sale. Elʿazar b. Yaʿaqov sells to Shelomo b. Avraham ha-Kohen Peʾer ha-Kohanim 2.25 shares of the maṭbakh known by …
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Sums of money donated by members of the Jewish community in Cairo. ENA 2348.4 mentions Ibn al-Abraṣ, who may be the grandfather of the physician …
Letter from Yaʿaqov Ibn ha-Nagid to a notable named Shelomo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card identifies the sender as "Yaʿaqov b. David Maimonides" …
Not digitized.
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Containing blessings for Yakhin ha-Sar (the same as in T-S 12.57 + T-S AS 150.23 (PGPID 3182)?) and also mentioning the …
Small scrap with a few words in Hebrew script.
Letter fragment addressed to ʿAbd al-[Karī?]m (or al-Raḥīm?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; uses the currencies medin and ashrafī. The bullk of …
Remains of a legal deed in Hebrew. AA
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "kharaja... mablagh... al-mustakhdamīn..."
The fragment almost at upper right (three boxes above the yellow label) looks like part of a letter "min ʿind al-Muwaffaq," ca. 12th or 13th …
Letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Ṭuviyyahu, probably in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat. Recommending his nephew Avraham b. Moshe for charity. …
Folio from a dream interpretation manual in Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting in part because it includes geographical and medical information -- it expounds the meaning of dreams …
Fragment (top) of a letter to [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Levi ‘Av Bet Din of the House of Meeting (שלבית הועד).' On parchment. (Information from CUDL …
28 pages from a cookbook in Catalan. The hand is 15th-century according to Eleazar Gutwirth. Many recipes for dishes containing meat and fish. Soups and …
Accounts list a shop (דוכאן) in one of the headings, with columns for weights of goods (אוקה // וקייה), names, and prices. Dating is 18th- …
Botanical work in the handwriting of Maimonides. See partial transcription and translation in Friedman, Dictionary, p. 563.
Business and/or administrative letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than the reign of al-Afḍal (based on the titulature of the petition in T-S Ar.40.38) …
Court record written by Shemuel b. Avṭalyon (active in Fustat ca. 1007–55). Dealing with a dispute between Yeshuʿa b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen and Yoshiyya b. Maymūn. …
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Najiya bt. Yūsuf (aka Sitt Hidhq), releases her husband Abū al-Surūr (aka Sasson) b. Natan from all obligations and resulting from her marriage contract, and …
Accounts related to commerce in silk on a bifolium that is undated yet can be estimated as late-18th to early-19th-century given the mention of Meʾīr …
19 small scraps, more or less neatly cut from a literary work. Many of them have Arabic on one side and Syriac on the other, …
Fragment with unidentified Arabic script, possibly poetry.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Hebrew. Perhaps a letter of appeal for charity: the writer seems to be describing his poverty and pawning possessions. Scattered phrases: הטורח ואשר …
Letter from Barhūn b. Isḥāq al-Tāhartī, from al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Alexandria. Around 1045 (Gil). Nahray is sending goods to the Maghrib …
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Small fragment from a ketubah
Minute fragment. Only few words
Letter from Avraham b. Seʿadya he-Ḥaver the Hebronite to (his son-in-law?) Moshe b. Ghulayb in Cairo. Dating: beginning of the twelfth century. Avraham orders the …
Magical fragment in Arabic script. It seems "throbbing of the joints" (ḍarabān al-mafāṣil).
Letter fragment (middle part) in which the writer describes how he was insulted in the synagogue by the scholar, Sheikh al-Najib, but expresses no resent …
List of debtors. Names on recto: Sulaymān b. ʿIwāḍ; Abū l-Khayr; Abū l-Riḍā. Verso and a few lines on recto are in Arabic script. A …