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Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
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لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
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Letter from Abū Ibrāhīm b. Ṭībān to his brother-in-law(?) Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 11th century. Shortly after these two parted …
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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a complete and well-preserved letter, which is rare …
Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very …
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Business letter, fragment, from Abū Naṣr b. Ibrāhīm, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Ending only. Dating: Early 1130s CE. The letter includes …
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Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. VMR
IB IV, 3 (ח13). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel (here called Abū Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh al-Dimyāṭī), which opens / …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Qalyūb, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with various small business matters and ordering …
Late letter from Yehuda Levi, mentioning people including Yosef, several women including Rika and Qamr, and Raḥamim Buḥayrī. (Information in part from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Book list in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38). T-S NS 190.1 mentions: וטריפות וניקוי... לרבנו סעדיה זל... דרג לבני פאס …
Petition addressed to Masliah Gaʾon, requesting that he allow Abū l-Riḍā b. Yehuda he-Ḥaver to lead services in the synagogue of the Palestinians (אלשאמיין), because …
Letter from Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq to Netanel b. Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: second half of the 12th century (this can probably be narrowed). …
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Panegyric (madḥ) in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Addressed to Abū Saʿīd al-Dāʾūdī (a Nasi). In Hebrew with the heading in Arabic script. Calligraphic. …
Letter in Hebrew from a man with the unusual name of Revaya (? רויה) to a ḥaver who was the leader of the Fustat community, …
Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel al-Dani in Palermo to Isma’il b. Avraham in Damsis. The first part of the letter deals with the tragedy that …
My elder and master, may God prolong your life and make your welfare and happiness permanent. May he augment his bounty and spiritual gifts gra…
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Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥusayn Ṣedaqa b. Nissim al-Mukallifī (אלמכלפי ?) in Alexandria. The letter is written on a fragment torn from …
An Instruction to Avraham (b. Sahlan) to find money for a poor man.
Letter from the Rosh ha-Seder to a cantor named Aharon, instructing him to appoint Ghalib b. Faraj as agent for the wife of Abu l-Ḥasan …
Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Safāqusī, probably in Būṣīr, to Abū l-Ḥayy Khalīla (the father of Mūsā), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1048 CE. Deals …
תקדם כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך
ונעמאף ואעלמתך פיה חאל בוציר וגמהא ותעבהא ואנה
בלד אן כתיר אלשגב ואלתעב ולו חלפת …
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Memorandum by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. The addressee in unknown; it might be Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Contains instructions about payment deduction …
This is a memorandum from your close associate Nahray ben Nissim: A letter arrived from the amir saying: ‘Send someone t…
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Letter from Avraham b. Seʿadya he-Ḥaver the Hebronite to (his son-in-law?) Moshe b. Ghulayb in Cairo. Dating: beginning of the twelfth century. Avraham orders the …
Recto: Letter from Natan, a foreigner from Jerba (the island off the coast of Ifrīqiyya), who claims that he has been unjustly placed under house …
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Verso, and possibly also the Arabic script on recto: Elaborate medical prescription(s) in Arabic script.
Letter of complaint to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat (mid 11th century) about the Christian governor Ibn Gorgas, who built a church next to …
Verso: note of a merchant reporting his sale of commodities in ʿAydhāb in the month of Adar II 1440 Seleucid = February/March 1129 CE. Commodities …
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Adar II [1]440 Seleucid = February/March 1129 CE, under the …
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Damascus. Dated: Tuesday, [..] Adar II 1752 Seleucid, which is 1441 CE. (1) Eliyyahu ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. (2) Avraham b. (3) …
Maimonides, Mišne Tora, closing paragraph of Sefer Zemanim (recto) and beginning of Sefer Našim (verso). A colophon in Judaeo-Arabic at the end of Sefer Zemanim …
Letter from Shemuʾel b. Eli gaʾon in Baghdad. Contains the names Gūlā (גולא) b. Khalaf and Manṣūr b. Kūtā (כותא). Partially written in Aramaic. Gil …
Ottoman-era legal document (or letter with legal content?) addressed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 19 Shaʿbān 930 = 1524 CE. Mentions …
Verso: Legal document (bill of sale?) involving a Nubian female slave and the daughter of R. Yosef and someone's wife. Very faded. Dated: 1 Elul …
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Three consecutive entries on the same fragment, related to a property sold by the Jewish community of Cairo in the early 15th century. The fragment …
الحمد الله رب العالمين والصلوة على ساير الانبيا والمرسلين
يشهد من يضع خطه اخره بمعرفة الخط العبراني المكت…
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Legal document. Karaite court record in Judaeo-Persian from 951 CE signed by [...] b. Ismāʿīl, Abraham b. Padāwī (פדאוי) and Saʿīd ha-Le[vi]. "The present document …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Eliyyahu Turki to Yūsuf Yaʿīsh Ḥadād. Dated 1 Iyyar 5601 AM which is
Late accounts in Arabic in a neat blue/red/black grid. Dated on the first page as J[umada] I[?] 1246 AH which is 1830/31 CE.
Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v
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 …
Qaraite bill of divorce formulary. Dated: 1347 Seleucid (1035/36 CE).
This is the Egyptian bill of divorce for the Karaites.
This is the Bill of Divorce which N. M. the son of N. M. has writ…
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Legal document. Record of release. Dated: 1480 Seleucid (1168/69 CE). Location: Fustat. Likely in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. Onetime business partners …
Original use: Verses from Leviticus. Secondary use: The margins are entirely filled with Arabic-script text from documents, mostly or entirely petitions or official-sounding letters. The …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in several locations according to the Islamic calendar, probably in the year 968 AH (חסץ) but this alphanumerical designation is backwards …
Recto: Legal notes, or maybe formularies and legal procedure. The top entry is a bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE. Location: …
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
Recto: fiscal document or state memorandum mentioning a ḍamān and the name Maʿālī b. Yūnā (?). Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
Legal document. Fragment (upper right piece). Faded. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1492 Seleucid = 1180/81 CE. Possibly a debt contract for the repayment of 1 dinar. …
Legal deed in Aramaic. Dated: 133[.] Seleucid = 1018–29 CE. Shemuel b. Avraham ha-Levi ha-Sefaradi is appointing Mevorakh b. Yosef ha-Kohen. as his agent. Above …
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Bifolium. Two of the pages contain rhyming and/or poetic Hebrew text, calligraphically written. Apparently the colophon to the book this used to belong to. It …
Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal. Dated [1]256 AH which is . Issued to Hārūn al-Yahūdī and another name appears with the title Hoca.
Minute fragment of accounts, possibly dated in the ninth century Hijrī on the recto (סנת לטץ) but there may be a fourth letter after לטץ. …