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Recto: Letter by Shemuʾel to his brother Abū l-Rabīʿ Shelomo. Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script and the draft of another letter (introduction only) …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand appears to be that of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Possibly a draft, …
No Scholarship Records
Statement from an appointee to a charitable organization on the assistance for the educational level of Jewish students who are learning prayer and interpretation together …
Acknowledgement of the receipt of an amount for a period of use – January 31 1944CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 263) in …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Mentions ʿUbayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm and Ḥasan b. Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf.
Letter addressed to Sālim b. Yaḥyā. Yemeni. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 19th century. Needs examination.
Unidentified Arabic text, probably literary.
Personal letter to Kẖawaja David al-Jalālī from a person named Elli Ġozlān in it asking for him to fetch some of books and discussing commercial …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 12 Muḥarram 52[.] AH = 1126–34 CE.
Recto (original use): Trousseau list, small fragment, possibly from a ketubba.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shemuel Muslim to his uncle (ʿamm) Dāwud b. Berakha. It seems that the writer recently received a letter to the …
Esoteric instructions for the uses of animal products. To protect yourself from frights and madness and devils: hang a chicken's gizzard stone on your person. …
Bifolio of commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving silk. The term צפקה seems to be used as a unit of measure. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Account of the flooding of the Nile. Dated: Elul 1550 Seleucid, which is 1239 CE. The entries are arranged according to the Coptic calendar. See …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various weights in raṭls, the name Jaʿfar, and the phrase "that which is in the hand of the Jews."
Court notebook from the Qaraite court of Cairo that was based in the Dar Simḥa synagogue. Spanning the dates 1560–75 CE. 69 pages. Contains 190 …
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for …
……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك [
]يعمل به ……. يعرض ويؤمر منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها
]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة …
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Calligraphic letter by a community leader who found out that the son of a scholar had married four couples, writing their marriage contracts and performing …
Fragment in Arabic script. Possibly astronomical/calendrical (mawḍiʿ al-shams...) describing different positions of the Sun in the sky, especially its ascension. Needs examination.
Fragment from the top of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Dated, but much of the date broken …
Small fragment, maybe from a letter. Yemeni hand. Probably recycled in a bookbinding. Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda al-Kohen and at least one other name.
Tadhkira (memorandum, bill of lading) drawn up by Nahray b. Nissim for Yehuda b. Khalfa. Complete and well preserved. Needs to be edited.
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tamuz 14[60] Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). It is crucial to …
Recto: Qaraite legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 5335 AM, which is 1575 CE. The context is a communal struggle over who would …
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Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed. AA
IB I, 34a. Legal proceedings whereby two friends of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt al-Ahl b. …
מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא
לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אסחק מר' | ור' אברה…
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Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged and faded. Maybe a letter.
Verso (probably original use): fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small vertical strip from the left side. Mentions [Avraha]m b. Yiṣḥaq and a niṣāfī (a …
Accounts with Greek/Coptic numerals expressing quantities or prices of goods, such as: coal and salt. The dating is late medieval or perhaps as late as …
Ketubba or marital dispute resolution involving a Rabbanite wife and Karaite husband (Sarah bt. Efrayim and Yosef b. Avraham). Location: Fustat. Dated 24 Kislev 1364 …
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Calligraphic list of 29 persons (to be solicited), professions ranging from butcher to physician. A list of potentially related names in Arabic script appears on …
Small fragment of a partnership agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document, in Arabic script. Acknowledgement of a debt. The debtor agrees to repay the debt or submit to tarsīm (house arrest), taḥbīs (imprisonment), or …
Maḥzor fragment, requires further examination.
Book list. In Judaeo-Arabic. The entries include: al-Uṣūl; the Maqāmāt, both in Arabic and "Hebrew" (this could mean either Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic); a book of …
Small fragment from a letter in Arabic (ونعماه وتمكينه . . . )
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: 1528 Seleucid = 1216/17 CE. Al-Nuṣayr b. al-Ḥakīm, a Muslim, declares before Yosef b. Yefet the teacher (who wrote the …
Legal document in Arabic script. The bottom ~7 lines are preserved. Mentions ḍamān and daʿwa, and maybe a partnership (shirka). The parties include Mūsā b. …
Beginning of a court record. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Dated: Thursday night, 14 Ḥeshvan 1578 Seleucid = 14 October 1266 CE, under the authority of [David …
Rough draft of a question probably sent to a Gaon in Palestine.
Business letter from the druggist Binyām to Zayn Ibn al-Ger. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early to mid-12th century. For the same sender, see also DK 232.2 …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The handwriting looks like that of Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); …
Letter from Hārūn b. Binyām to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Same sender and addressee as T-S AS 153.193 (PGPID 17823). He states that …
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.
Fragment of a letter. Mentions Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge (the writer?), who was a teacher and scribe in Fustat during the first half of …
Book of Seliḥot. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Official letter to a communal leader. In Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow page. Wide space between the lines. The sender asks the addressee to deliver an enclosed letter …