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Recto (secondary use): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, one entry lists an amount as a quarter kharrūba. Medieval-era.
No Scholarship Records
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat lines. Headers include terms such as "al-aṣl" "al-iḍāfa" and maybe "al-ṭārima." On recto there is …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
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Verso: Beginning of a literary treatise on 'the secrets of incantations' (asrār al-nīranjāt). On recto there is an unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Complete calligraphic letter from Yosef b. Mordekhay, in Fustat, to the sons of Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (same family as Ibn al-Amshātī?), probably also in …
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Invitation to the dinner in celebration of "Purim" at the community center on Faruq Street – 24 March 1940CE – Bassatine Cemetery – (number 193) …
Fragment of a letter from Malij in Lower Egypt to a Nagid informing him that Yosef the proselyte was received in town with due honor. …
Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.
List or accounts, in Arabic script and numerals.
Letter from Hilāl, in Alexandria, to al-Shaykh al-Najīb b. Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat, to the shop of Ibn al-ʿŪdī, Sūq al-‘Attārīn. In Judaeo-Arabic with …
Legal document or receipt or a similarly formal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 17 Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1013 AH, which is September 1604 CE. Signed: Ibrāhīm …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (including li-ʿAbbās adāma llāhu ʿizzahu). Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Headed (recto left page) "the account of my …
Recto: probably beginning of a treatise or epistle in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso, probably accounts in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Document in Arabic script, probably legal. On parchment. There are two lines of very large calligraphic text, including the name of a woman, Zaynab bt. …
Verso (original use): Letter addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Probably a letter of recommendation on behalf of the bearer. Not much is preserved …
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Legal record (#68) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …
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Legal document(s). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, yet bearing the PGP tag of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe(?). Recto: Mentions Shemuel and the of wife …
Biblical.
Bottom left fragment, letter or official correspondence. Requesting validation (tathbīt) of something; and apologizing for the prior lack of letters (وان كانت كتبي منقطعة عن …
Small fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Declaration made by [Abū Is]ḥāq Avraham ha-Sar. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably poetry or at least literary. Mentions violet (banafsaj) and emerald (zumurrud). Beautifully written. Needs examination. (There are also …
Letter from the muqaddam of Malij, congratulating R. Aharon ha-Qarawi (or: "who is called") Abu l-Ḥasan on God's miracles and Aharon's deliverance from wicked people. …
Odd-looking legal document. On parchment. In Hebrew. Involving a lease (שכירות). Dated: Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 AM, which is 4 September 1449 CE. Almost nothing …
Marriage contract (ketubba) with an elaborate fleur-de-lis frame. Fragment. What remains is mostly the trousseau list. An item called 'Bunduqī' (Venetian) appears. Some of the …
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Bottom of a ketubba. Groom: Yosef. Bride: Ḥaziyya (חזייה). Signed by חטר(?) b. Shalem and Yosef b. Avraham. Looks Yemeni and potentially late.
Piyyuṭim in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Late accounts in Arabic.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū Muḥammad.
Information on language – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 117) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
Responsum draft. On the question whether a dead man continues to acquire merit and reject evil. (This is less whimsical than it sounds, e.g., if …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th or 15th century.
List of numbers written out in words (rather than numerals) in Arabic.
Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlī al-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Dealing with various financial transactions and settling of accounts. Mentions someone named Saʿīd. Excerpts: . . . رسوال لا …
Recto: Trousseau list. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham. Bride: Mubāraka bt. Ṭoviyya. Marriage payments: 20 + 30 = 50. Value of the dowry is 480 dinars …
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Communal accounts for the Mustaʿrabī congregation of Cairo. Dated [5]592 AM which is 1831/32 CE. The heading states that the funds listed are incoming and …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a letter or legal discussion (responsa?). Blank verso.
Fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Sitt al-Faḍl and Judah. Ca. 11th century. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:375) notes that the additional marriage payment of 13 dinars is …
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Horoscopes.
Commentary on the Mishna. Maimonides autograph.
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very faded. Mentions the kohl that was with Abū l-Riḍā; if Abū l-Riḍā …
Notes on communal expenditures, with a summation of first five lines: 82.5 dirhams, besides the capitation tax. Also some names of notables: al-Samawʾal, al-Nafīs, probably …
Legal document. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1371 Seleucid = July 1060 CE. Vocalized, which is unusual. Abū Saʿd Mufarrij b. Iṣḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh known …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter to a notable in Judaeo-Arabic.