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Ketubba, probably. Small fragment from the lower right corner. Bride: [...] bt. Peraḥya. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. [...].
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Recto: Accounts, listing names of people and amounts of money. Verso: A sum of money is requested from Avraham Dayyan. (An Avraham Dayyan is named …
Recto: Distribution list in Judaeo-Arabic. In a Byzantine hand? Lists dozens upon dozens of people, including a large proportion of women and people such as …
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province (or port?) of Damietta (thagr Dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in …
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State document, possibly a decree fragment, two lines, with wide spacing. The second line reads as "was kutiba li-sitt khalawn min Shawwāl ʿaẓẓama-llāhu". Reused widely …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, praising the addressee and complaining about a Fusṭaṭ man, probably Sahlan b. Abraham, particularly concerning …
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Letter from Yosef b. Kulayb, Ramla, to the gaonic pretender (here titled ra's al-mathība) Natan b. Avraham, probably in Tyre, May 1041. He reports the …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of …
Three lines in Arabic, possibly from the end of a document. Needs examination.
Accounts of Moshe Mizraḥī (or at least in his hand - perhaps these are communal accounts). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Adar I 5589 AM, which is …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Yosef b. David b. Shaʿyā, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1056 CE. The writer deals with selling …
[ ] מולי אלשיך מן מליג יום אל
[ ] ען סלאמה ללה
[תקדמת כת]בי עדה אליך אעלמתך
[ ]ין קבל וצול סידי אבו
[ ] ונצף ורבע ואתנין
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Incomplete Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Monday 15 Iyyar 5414 AM (1654 CE). Location: Cairo. Bride: Hana bt. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Rofe. Groom: Avraham b. Moshe …
Torn Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Elisha. The bride is Esther d. Ishaq Halevi the cantor.
Verso: Accounts, possibly, in Arabic script. On both recto and verso there is Judaeo-Arabic love poetry. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl Sukkarī. The two also corresponded in T-S 8J27.13 (PGPID 3747), ca. 1056 …
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Dense jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. All of these appear to be a mixture of religiously and erotically inflected panegyric, addressing "the king of the …
Small fragment, mentions the Nasi. The nature is unknown.
Cryptic note that may be in Judaeo-Arabic, with a formal-looking layout and מצריים at the bottom left (Cairo or Egypt). This may be a small …
Late accounts probably in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 1117 AH (1705/06 CE).
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Summer 1030. The writer arranges shipments from and to …
Two statements in Arabic characters about small sums owed by Jaʿfar b. Rajāʾ al-Jawdarī to Mubārak b. Avraham (also the addressee of the letter at …
Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed …
Original use: Closing of a state document, in Arabic script. Contains a ḥasbala and a ṣalwala. Dating: mentions 25 Shawwāl 446 AH = 27 January …
Letter from Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Perhaps a responsum. The text seems to be entirely a discussion of talmudic matters, including condolences.
Documentary per FGP - needs examination. IIIF unavailable for this fragment in CUDL as of October 2026.
Gigantic and calligraphically written account by Abū l-Bishr regarding the sale of merchandise in Ifrīqiyya from the beginning of the 11th century, probably for Yaʿaqov …
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Letter fragment concerning trade, in mixed Judaeo-Persian and Arabic. The fragment is labeled "L6" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts.
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State document, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. A fiscal document, mentioning several sums of money including 600 dirhams, and "min al-khidma al-saʿīda". On verso, there …
End of a legal document, signed by David b. Mevorakh, Abraham b. Caleb and others. Below is a colophon written by Elʿazar b. Joseph b. …
Legal document dated 1819 CE (Shevat 5579) in which Yosef Yuʿbaṣ makes a declaration about 400 gurush that had been invested with him. The day …
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals in the margin of a rabbinic text. Items named include sīraj (sesame oil) and ḥawāʾij naql (sweets?).
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1220. A double leaf of a notebook. The list contains mainly expenditures, mostly for the synagogues and for scholars and …
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Recto: letter or note with a request to reckon up 20 raṭl of white rice and other business matters, mentioning the names Binyamin and Bishr. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria.
Recto: Short Judaeo-Arabic poems with some Arabic titles written at the beginning, such as ghayruhu (`another one) and sawt (`song) Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poem and an …
Bifolio of accounts, mostly blank. Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography. Mentioning Moshe Poreykh and probably an Ottoman military officer Khayr al-Dīn bölük başı …
Letter fragment to a brother conveying good wishes. The addressee is apparently an accomplished cantor and had studied with a notable and "his brother the …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sum of 28 (dinars? dirhams?); [...] b. Yoshiyahu; Mevorakh; and Aharon. Dating: probably 11th century. Verso is in a …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Dated 13 Elul [5]569 AM (August 1809 CE). Information from Wagner, …
Letter from the wife of Maʿānī. Desperate letter of appeal to the 'courts' (judges) from a blind woman whose husband had fled to Alexandria and …
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List of quantities of commodities, including 1/2 ratl of tamarind. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Shivtiel/Nissen catalog.
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, in which the nagid asks the community in Fustat to take up a charity collection for a …
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State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …
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Small fragment from the top of the ketubba of Karīma bt. Yosef. Dated: [13]68 or [14]68 Seleucid. Another ketubba for a bride bearing the same …
Official (tax?) receipt for a payment of 2 dinars in Fustat for Abū l-Fakhr b. Yūsuf. Needs examination. The date is preserved (6[..] AH?). Cf. …
Karaite Ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Nahum Halevi b. Aharon. The deflowered bride is Esther Dona d. Elya Halevi.