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Praise poem for Maimonides (FGP)
No Scholarship Records
Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the …
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Calendrical calculations. In Judaeo-Arabic. Referring to the year 629 AH, which is 1231/32 CE.
Late accounts including for part of 1824 CE (1239 Hijri).
Digest of a marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: 14 Elul 1405 Seleucid, which is August 1094 CE. Groom: Yakhin the cantor. Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a …
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Minute fragment with partial names, one of them is Berakhot and one probably Nuʿmān, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)
Agreement made by Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Allan with his business partner Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, who takes care of his commercial interests …
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From a medical treatise in Arabic.
Hebrew poetry composition with other jottings, including long lists of rhyme words. The hand has features in common with that of Maimonides but is probably …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentioning Fusṭāṭ; the arrival of a ship from Tripoli, Libya; Muslims; and sums …
Unidentified, only few words are visible
Poetic work involving the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn) and enslaved women (jawārī). Merits examination.
Liturgical text (qiddush?) for Passover. Signed: Shelomo b. [...]. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1606 Seleucid, which is 1295 CE.
Various jottings, including the draft of the beginning of a letter to the judge Yiṣḥaq ( "know that I miss you...")
Original use: Unidentified text in Arabic, likely a letter. (Information from CUDL)
In Hebrew. Appointment of a cantor. Late. AA
Three minute fragments, one or two of which retain printed text in Hebrew script.
Draft of a legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Only the introduction & titles were written; "Nagid" is not listed among them thus the dating …
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Deed of release in Hebrew. Location: Damascus. Dated: Sunday, 13 Nisan 4755 AM = 17 March 995 CE. Yaḥya b. Zekharya the judge and Zūrʿa …
Fragment of a letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria. Around 1060. Describes the situation in Alexandria that is not safe, and the influence …
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Fol. 1: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks late.
Deed of sale in Arabic script. It "records on its recto the purchase of a portion of a house in Cairo (referred to as al-Muʿizziyyah …
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Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions debts owed to various women, including [...] bt. ʿImrān someone's mother-in-law and Umm ʿAzīz the mother-in-law of Manṣūr b. Furayj (this …
Deed of release. Dating: ca. 1232 CE, as the same Elʿazar b. Karmī appears in T-S NS 321.79 + T-S 13J4.5 and T-S Misc.25.2. The …
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Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Not digitized?
Letter from the future Gaon Daniel b. ʿAzarya, in al-Mahdiyya, to the leader of the Babylonian community Sahlān b. Ibrāhīm (aka Abū ʿAmr Sahlān b. …
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This manuscript, T-S Ar 29.129, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1. It provides as much information as is needed for an individual …
Fragment of a late legal document involving Shelomo b. Elʿazar Skanda (?) and Yehuda Marājī (?). The third line features a phrase with at least …
Legal document. Dated: 1529 Seleucid, which is 1217/18 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. In which Abū al-Barakāt/Berakhot al-Sukkarī releases his maternal aunt Sitt …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 1046. The writer describes his conflict with an Iraqi named Ibn al-Wāsiṭī. The …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תניס יום אלערובה אעאד אללה עליה האדה אלאוקאת
אלמבארכה סנין בכתרה ואעוא…
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Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. A woman named ʿAzīza makes a declaration. "My husband Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen" is mentioned three lines from the bottom. On …
Recto: letter (to judge by the words من مولاي), three lines and the top half of a fourth from the right side. Cut and reused …
Recto, with address on verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to al-muʿallim Yehuda KR[...]. Verso and margins of recto: Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, involving the …
Small bifolio with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand. Listing names such as Abū Nāṣir; Zuhayr; Yūsuf; Ibn Ḥusayn; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm; …
Literary. The book of Numbers with targum.
Ketubba or prenuptial agreement in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. Groom: Berakhot ha-Levi. …
Accounts. Looks late.
Legal document, fragment. Mentions [Avraham?] b. Natan Av Bet Din and seems to be some sort of release. There is a list of items covered: …
Small fragment from a ketubah.
Literary account of a man who was shipwrecked in France and found an 80-year-old man who spoke to him in Hebrew and turned out to …
Letter addressed to Yeshua b. Shabbetay in Alexandria from Elazar b. Ḥalfon in which the writer expresses his condolences, and those of his father, for …
Legal record (#113) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 5326 …
Upper fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters, including dealings …