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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 29 Tammuz 1590 Seleucid = 11 July 1279 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active …
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Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]). Needs examination.
Judaeo-Arabic biblical discussion/commentary.
List of accounts(?) with many alphanumerical figures and some names. Medieval era. Most of the entries on the verso are crossed out. Requires further examination.
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to be delivered to the Square of the Perfumers, probably to R. Elazar ha-Dayyan who is named three lines …
Bottom of a legal document. Needs examination.
List of contributions in both JA and Arabic - needs examination. Names: Bū l-Faraj Shammash; Maḥāsin; Avraham; al-Najīb; Bū l-Mjad; al-Dayyan; Ibn al-Ahuv; Bū Saʿīd; …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Good chance of finding a join or other fragments in the hand of the same scribe. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Ḥazzan. Gives at …
Minute fragment probably from the bottom of a legal document, signed by Avraham b. Shlo[mo]. AA
An official order/letter from the head of the Jewish community or a high-placed dignitary. The main document is in Judaeo-Arabic, and the message is repeated …
IB IV, 9 (ח6). Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanʾel, writing from Aden. This is the preliminary draft of a letter, written …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for household expenses (nafaqat al-bayt). Late. Many of the items listed are foodstuffs. There are also pen trials on verso.
Fragment of a literary text, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning different family relations.
Accounts, mentioning Muslim month names. Associated with T-S 147.131. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the beginning of a letter to a dignitary. In Hebrew for the introduction, Judaeo-Arabic for the body, and Arabic for the address on …
Formulary for a marriage contract, Qaraite/interdenominational. Dated: 1036 CE, at the time of Ṣemaḥ Nasi. One sheet is possibly missing in between, and with it …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Monograph; recto: formulary of legal documents, including part of שטר הלואה, numbered ג(?) (info from FGP)
Draft of a halakhic question. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Might concern a group of people who haven't received …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. May be late. Concerning a business transaction.
Ketubba. Date: 1[.] Sivan 1420 Seleucid = 1109 CE. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Tamīm ha-Zaqen. Bride: Sitt al-B[ayt?], not her first marriage. Marriage payments: 5 + …
Business letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen informing its recipient of the purchase of a certain commentary ('al-perush') for fifty dirhams. The writer …
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Letter 2, of which only one folio is preserved, is a pro-Babylonian response to a Palestinian polemic on the calendar of 921/2 and on the …
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter, mentioning Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. 11th century.
Informal notes on the settlement of a legal dispute (or several), involving [...] ha-Ḥazzan b. Avraham, Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa, Yūsuf b. Barakāt, Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq, …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions Ibn al-Dajājī(?). Orders אבר (needles? lead?); gum (ṣamgh); …
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal [b. al-Dayyān?], instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 1000 Kāmilī …
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1099–1187, under the authority of Moshe ha-Rav ha-Gadol. …
Bifolium from a book of prognostications structured on the calendar and astronomical events, in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: likely 18th or 19th century. Large and neatly written. Each column is headed by a name.
Account in Arabic script, probably fiscal based on the hand and the extravagant line spacing. The top line mentions al-jarīda al-madkhūra. L. 6 refers to …
Genealogy lists for the families of Ibn al-Shavuy ('son of the captive') and the in-law of Nuṣayr. In the first family there is someone named …
Manuscript, well-preserved, of Taqwīm al-Adyān by Daniel ibn al-Māshiṭa, of the generation of Avraham Maimonides. Pertaining to the 'Maimonidean controversy.' See FGP for detailed identifications …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a 12th-century Spanish hand.
Medical prescription in Arabic script. Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6). Diet: chicken. Recto is blank.
Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: the Samaritan (al-Sāmirī). See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).
Possibly a communal letter or legal query in rhymed Hebrew. Needs examination.
Bottom of a private letter in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …
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Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings …
Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices …
Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat, to his relative and in-law Abū l-Faraj, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with the usual …
Accounts of a druggist. In Arabic script. Items include tamarind, various pastilles (aqrāṣ), chebulic myrobalan (kābulī).
Poem in stanzas. In Ladino. There is also some different text in Hebrew.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. 6 lines well preserved, with portions of 2 more lines. Mentions ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and the arrival of Sayyidnā al-Ajall (l. …
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Accounts in a crude hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef). The writer's son is named Abū Saʿd. (Information in part from CUDL.)