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Bifolio of commercial accounts. Mainly in Arabic script with a sideways jotting in Judaeo-Arabic, potentially in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The Arabic text …
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Recto with the address on verso: Letter from a man whose name is too faded to read, near al-Mahdiyya, to his 'brother' ʿArūs b. Yosef, …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Maybe a state account, since it consists mostly of wasted space. Needs examination.
Business letter in Arabic script. The sender complains that his previous letters were unanswered and wonders if the addressee has heard anything detrimental. He orders …
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Small fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document mentioning [...] the translator (המתרגם). (Information from CUDL.) In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to urgently deliver the שתייה, perhaps the equivalent of sharāb or medicinal syrup. There are also two lines …
Marriage contract (ketubba). The marriage gift at the conclusion of this marriage contract is five dinars and the payment required at the termination of the …
Letter in which the writer asks not to be removed from the addressee's service or friendship. Very effaced. Dated to the late 12th century. (Information …
Booklet consisting of many pages of astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic, ordered by the zodiac sign in which the year is born. Refers to Fustat as …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yaḥyā b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Qayrawān, to his brother Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Alexandria. Dated: 10 Elul = …
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Fragment from the end of a legal document. Mentions [...] b. Menaḥem and Hillel b. Yeshuʿa and the phrase "four cubits of land" (used in …
Document in Arabic script. May be a state or official document of some kind. Needs examination.
Faded and damaged letter written by Yefet b, Menashshe
Debt acknowledgment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen for three awāqi of soap (צאבון) owed to Sibāʿ. The document lacks the common invocation attested in other …
Accounts in Ladino with Western Arabic numerals that label transactions with relevant names such as Suleymān "סלימן", Raḥman "רחמן", and Moshe. In one of the …
Recto: Draft of a power of attorney written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Names: ʿImrān; Ḥalfon (the agent - אפטרופא); and [...] b. …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is probably known. Wide space between the lines, ends with yeshaʿ rav. Mentions a dinar that Barakāt took. On …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
IB VI, 13. Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed.
Letter in Hebrew. Per the identification data on FGP, one of the letters mentions "אגריפון," probably Negroponte (Euboea), and one (folio 17) mentions "קדיאה," probably …
Recto: State document? In Arabic script. Headed by the basmala and perhaps continuing “sijillāt rafaʿahā X b. Y al-Wakīl… bi-l-nāḥiya al-… min aʿmāl…." Needs examination.
Fragmentary document(s) in Arabic script. One text block appears to be legal (two witness signatures preserved), another literary (at 180 degrees), and another is a …
IB III, 40b. Instructions for manumission of a female slave written by Avraham Ibn Yiju. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. III, …
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Possibly a letter (FGP). Late fragment filled with Hebrew text on both sides, most of which consists of praises for somebody. Sherira Gaon is mentioned.
Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus to the Qaraite community of Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Tammuz 5512 AM (ואתה על), which is 1752 CE. …
Fragmentary court record mentioning Daniel the Nasi and Yeḥizqiyya Rosh ha-Gola (Head of the Diaspora). Mentions a payment or fine of 10 dinars to the …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Ṣūr. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 16th century, based on hand, language, and surname (there is a well known Avraham ben Ṣūr …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains, "I suffer from this city and its inhabitants unspeakable suffering. May God for the sake of His great …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions the inspection of a lower apartment and two wood beams. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
Literary work in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Possibly horoscopes or prognostications based on given names, including Gedalya and Yeḥezqel.
Fragmentary letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to a certain Avraham, concerning the affairs of a man, his wife, and a young boy, and …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Abū l-Faraj Natan b. Shelomo the beadle is marrying the daughter of …
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Two different legal documents. One of them is catalogued as a deed of sale. These are folios 2 and 3; folio 1 is literary. The …
List of 19 items in a marriage gift. The groom is Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th–15th century based on the hand and typical abbreviations (mam[lūk]). Very little of …
Lower fragment: Legal document. Location: Tinnīs ("the island of Ḥanes"). Dated: Tuesday, 8 Ṭevet 4861 AM, which is 11 December 1100 CE. Ṭayyib b. Faraj …
Small fragment
Badly damaged fragment, with one line of very faint text in Hebrew script along the upper edge of the recto and verso.
Letter from a prominent member of the Yeshiva in Palestine writing to a communal leader in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Ends with the …
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