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Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.
No Scholarship Records
Mentions names such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. On recto there is piyyuṭ.
Minute fragment of a state document. Only one full word (al-nāḥiya) is preserved. Reused for piyyuṭ.
Recto: letter or note mentioning al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī and a request to "not make us go up."
In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Mentions 'all kinds of merchandise' (in the margin).
Namer ha-Kohen to [...] ha-Kohen, mentioning an Ibn al-Ḥaver and a synagogue.
Small fragment. Mentions a hotelier (al-funduqānī) (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning a certain Yiṣḥaq al-[...] and claims about sums of money. (Information from CUDL)
Letter addressed to Ibn Shemarya al-Siqillī (the Sicilian). Little of the content remains.
Accounts and expenditures of the synagogue, including removal of rubbish, the collection of alms (jibāya) and the cantor. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentioning al-Iskandaranī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Small fragment of an official Arabic document, mentioning al-ṣadaqa. Unidentified Hebrew text on recto.
Mentioning that the writer had arrived in Rashīd and al-Mahdiyya. (data from CUL)
Small fragment of a bill of sale for a slave, probably. Mentions ḥaqq al-sūq. No names or details preserved.
A legal document regarding a poor man called Ishaq Nafisi (נפיצי) dated Rabi’ al-Akhir.
Small fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers.
Asks to be sent something and refers to "shughl al-ṣulṭān," government work.
Small fragment of an 11th or 12th century letter from [...] b. Avraham. May mention al-Barqī.
Fragment from the top of a deed of engagement (shiddukhin). Fiancee: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Mentions wine and pressing.
"The rose said, 'I am the ruler of all the flowers. My thorn...'"
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Fiscal document mentioning an official titled Wajīh al-Dawla. Reused for an account (see separate entry).
Tax-related accounts in Arabic script. The word "al-mustakhraj" appears at least twice. Needs examination.
Deed of sale for a property on Darb al-Ḥudayjī in Fustat. Mentions [...] b. Ghulayb.
At the bottom at 90 degrees the name Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn appears.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One column is headed "al-maṣrūf" (expenditures).
List of spices in Judaeo-Arabic with quantities in Greek/Coptic alphanumerals: pepper, cinnamon, and saffron. Medieval-era.
List in Judaeo-Arabic, mentions Badr al-Dīn in the heading. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.
Writing exercises in which a student practiced the Hebrew alphabet. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Barhūn al-Tāhartī. Two folios.
Bifolium from Saadya Gaon's Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq. Information from FGP.
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List of payments in dirhams, mentioning Ibn al-Ṭaffāl and Abū l-Qāsim. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The word "al-ijtihād" is legible, but not much else.
Fragment of a business letter to Barhūn b. Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī from his 'brother.'
Mentions Saggitarius (burj al-qaws) several times.
Refers to a half-dinar; Avraham; Abū ʿAlī; and the house where they live together.
]א ואפילו על ידי גלגול ואפילו חרם סתם ואלתזם כל
] אלינא פי אלפאידה ופי צד אלפאידה ופי אכד אלנצף דינ
].א דלך משרוח לעילא ופי…
Only a few enormous words are preserved, including ʿalayhi. Reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Piyyuṭ, calendar calculations, and draft of the opening lines of a letter/petition in Arabic script to Saʿīd al-Dawla.
Fragment of an 11th-century mercantile letter mentioning Ifriqiyyah, Markab al-Amīr, and Abu Avraham Ismail.
Beginning of a petition beginning "mamlūk al-ḥaḍra. . . ." This seems to be pasted on to a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary hand.
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Referring to al-muqṭaʿīn, and then dīwān. Needs examination.
Fragment from a prayerbook headed "siddur ṣalawāt al-yaḥid mukhtaṣar" (abbreviated book of prayers for an individual).
Treatise on alchemy in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuel (active from the end of 12th century – ca. 1249).
A very interesting glossary for materia medica, giving correspondences between different terms. Join: Alan Elbaum.
In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to 'mawlāy al-dayyān Abū [...].' Mentions Fustat and selling something.
Mentions Abū l-[...] b. Yehuda and a [ṣā]ḥib al-shurṭa.
Moshe who was a dayyan in al-Maḥalla 1127–50 CE.
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Mentions [...] b. Mufarrij(?) al-Isrāʾīlī.
The header refers to "my brother-in-law ʿAbd al-Karīm"