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Recto: A brief note in Arabic addressed to David ben Naʿim and signed by [...] ʿUmar [...] Nāẓir al-Amwāl. There are also accounts/sums at the …
No Scholarship Records
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 …
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Very narrow vertical strip of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Power of attorney in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A husband, [...] b. Yefet ha-Levi, appoints his wife Sitt [...] …
Legal fragment in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Involves the wife of Abū l-Maḥāsin al-ʿAṭṭār.
Legal testimony concerning Ibrahim b. Futūḥ b. Ṭayyib, who spread heretical interpretations of the Torah, and who was opposed by the judge Ḥayyim. Goitein writes, …
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Part of a letter in Arabic script, probably regarding a commercial account. Mentions "al-dīwān". Needs examination. Reused for a tax receipt (PGPID 10292).
Draft of the beginning of a legal record. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Location: Fustat. Dated: 9 Elul 1533 Seleucid = 18 August 1222 CE, …
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Fragment of a letter in Hebrew, containing praises for an exilarch: ונסיך . . . הוצק חן . . . אומר על ברי . . …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Geonic text discussing legal deeds, formulae, and validation procedures. The joins are from FGP attributed to Simcha Assaf and Ezra Chwat.
State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Mentioning sending things with different people, including cheese. (Information in part from CUDL)
Sermon mentioning the acquisition of wisdom, the covenant with Israel, and keeping the commandments. Quotes Prov. 8:34. Includes discussion from BT Soṭa 48b concerning Hillel …
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Fragment from a letter, mentioning Sitt Mubārak. (Information from CUDL.) Looks like the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef (cf. T-S 8J27.8 (PGPID 3757)).
Two fragments stuck to each other. The upper one looks like a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions charity and quotes Ezekiel …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business accounts in a mixture of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Most of recto is crossed and scribbled out. Mentions the unit raṭl numerous times. The bottom …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning various people's names, food items, and sums of nuqra dirhams.
Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Draft of a legal document. Involves Abū l-Maʿālī; Rabbenu Yeshʿyahu; 400 dinars; a period of 3 years; a house; Hebrew and Arabic documents; a …
Recto: Calendrical treatise in Arabic script.
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Bill of divorce. Calligraphic. Signed: Yeḥezqel b. Gavri[el?]; Shelomo b. Yaḥyā.
Court record of an excommunication ban pronounced against Sulayman the blacksmith after he insulted the court when it failed to take his side in a …
Letter from Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo, to his mother, in Damietta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. He is …
Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary and his entire community. In Hebrew. A few words from ~12 lines are preserved. Reused on recto …
Court record, calligraphically written, from a lawsuit about changing the configuration of the main hall of a house. During the dispute a Muslim judge was …
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Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic scirpt. Dated: Rabiʿ II 448 AH = June/July 1056 CE. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. …
Recipe, alchemical. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
A magical deed of divorce (geṭ), from ʿImrān b. Mordekhay of Muʿizziyya (= New Cairo?) to Ḥabība bt. [...] followed by a spell to open …
Notes on the preparation of food. The medical purpose of the foodstuffs described is not made explicit. The text includes pickling of vegetables in vinegar, …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five …
Verso: Draft of a deathbed will in which a man gives two houses to two distant relatives, forestalls the possible claims of two other female …
Lists of names in Hebrew and in Arabic script, among them Efraim b. Shemarya. The others include Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuʾel b. Yosef; YKBR(?) …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Looks late. There are several likely joins in T-S NS 305.
IB VI, 10. Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …
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Minute fragment, possibly from a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning a cantor and an inheritance. But almost nothing is preserved.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to pay the bearer, the judge, 10 dirhams out of the rent of the …
Recto: Hebrew (entitled ‘Our lord, Chronicles’) and unidentified Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: list of parashot from Genesis and jottings in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Someone named [...] b. Yefet makes a declaration. (Information …
Letter mentioning a certain Joseph. Arabic jottings on the other side. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: legal document, mentioning Surūr, Abū l-Ghayth and [...] b. Yiṣḥaq; dated Nissan 15[..] of the Seleucid Era (12th–13th century, probably second half of that …
Testimony regarding the proselytizing of two sisters. A new edition with English translation to be published by Amir Ashur
Legal formulary. Late. Among the types of formulaic documents mentioned there are: (T-S AS 207.21 1r) [copy of ...] the bill of divorce from the …
Recto: trousseau list. Verso: unidentified document. (Information from CUDL.)
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
Family letter, likely from a father to a son. (Based on v13–16: "If only I had never been created so that people would not look …
ענך ויקולוא איאך יכגל [ ]
אכוה ורדנא ורד רוחה כל[ ]
בל גם והם ותעס ואתם פא[ ]
מנך יכון פי קלבך ולו חרף אל[ ]
Fragments of a text in an elegant Hebrew square script with decorative designs, possibly the upper section of a ketubba. Requires further examination.