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Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~15 lines are preserved. Mentions Shemarya ha-Zaqen.
No Scholarship Records
Draft of the beginning of a bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: 19 Kislev 1564 Seleucid = 22 November 1252 CE. Husband: Nissim b. [...] …
Report to al-Afḍal. The join between T-S NS 201.132 and T-S AS 116.410 + T-S AS 103.49 + T-S NS 209.47 is very probably but …
Letter possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (per Goitein) to an unidentified person. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother and sister were involved in …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be mainly construction expenses.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Consists mainly of lists of goods and numbers. Mentions people such as Abū Iskandar(!) and Abū l-Ḥasan.
Recto: large list of simples in five columns provided with figures (possibly quantities or prices) that could have been part of a physician’s or druggist’s …
Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might join with PGPID 16507.
State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …
Bill of proxy from the leaders of Tiberias. Needs further examination. No image in CUDL or FGP as of 2026.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow bifolium. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Many names of commodities and people.
Letter from Daniel Levi Mondolfo to Avraham Krispin. In Ladino. Dating: 18th or 19th century. The sender signs his name in both Hebrew script and …
Legal fragment, probably from a ketubba for [...] bt. Shelomo. Preserving the name of the father of one of the witnesses (probably Ḥārith or Thābit). …
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
The slaves report the death of so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the Jew, on such-and-such a day of such-and-such a month,
in such-and-such a year…
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Seems like a list of prices, but only little text is preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
minute fragments
Letter fragment (part of a few lines of recto. Legible phrases include "I ask my master for help. . . . al-jalīl adām allāh 'izzahu. …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), complete. In Arabic script. Dated: 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. The muqirr is Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿAlī. The contract was drafted …
Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit Hutz." In …
Writing exercises of the atbash alphabet, probably 18th- or 19th century based on the paleography. The instructor provided an example in model handwriting for the …
Letter addressed to Yehuda b. Yosef. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.
Letter from Sahlān b. [...] to Abū Zakariyyā. Dating: mid-11th century. Regarding a silk binding that a Spanish person gave the addressee with instructions who …
Order of payment of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer a half pound of soap (ṣābūn), an eighth of lye (ghāsūl), and …
Recto: beginning of Maimonides’ Hilkhot Yesode ha-Tora with divisions of the subjects marked by Hebrew letters in larger script. Verso: an account from Qalyūb mentioning …
Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Mentions "jumlat al-waraq" in the first …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The commodities seem to be mainly textiles and garments. Mentions …
Upper part of a letter probably to Yīṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (active until ca. 1136 CE), here addressed as 'the great Rav.' In Hebrew and …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Written in a hasty scrawl, difficult to read.
Two sets of bifolios from an ʿilm-i ḥal manual in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: possibly sixteenth-century or later (per Hathaway). In the introduction to her edition, …
Ḳurʾān oḳumadan rukūʿ
itse, tekrār dönüb,
Ḳurʾān oḳuya ve yine
rukūʿ ide ṣoñra
sehv-i…
If you bow without reading [a chapter from] the Qurʾān,
then go back
and read the Qurʾā…
Abū l-Faraj b. Khalaf (?), probably in Minyat Ghamr, writes to his cousin (ibn ʿamma), Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. These cousins had prior correspondence …
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Letter from a man who travelled from Alexandria and stayed in Fustat only for the Sabbath. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:12, 506) EMS Verso: …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Late.
Two legal records in a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 14 Kislev 143[9] Seleucid, which is 1127 CE, under …
Letter to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm from Abū al-Futūḥ b. Kanz al-Dawla, with which he sends the eparch two silk garments, four textiles …
Fragment of a letter from Khuṭlukh al-Afḍalī to his 'brother.' On recto only the beginnings of ~5 lines including the basmala are preserved; the address …
Judaeo-Arabic list of things, books, and merchandise, with the names of the people with whom they are deposited. Information from FGP.
Small fragment from a list of commodities in a very crude hand. Mentions cinnamon, brazilwood, pepper, maḥlab, rose, tamarind, and gum. AA/ASE
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is Ya'aqov and the bride is Esther known as Mas'uda. Damaged and faded.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic of a man to his social superior mentioning that a Nasi asked the writer's father to travel with him to Alexandria. The …
Receipt of some sort.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1452 Seleucid = April/May 1141 CE. Regarding the sale of a house in Minyat Zifta costing 9 dinars. Between …
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Two fragments from a 13th century ketubba.