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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions a wakīl and Yosef and lac and tartar
No Scholarship Records
Recto: ketubbah, with a trousseau list including a short robe (jukāniyya), a mantle (ridā) and a face cover (niqāb). Verso: Bill of release of dowry …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, Alexandria, to Binyamin b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal. Around 1025. The writer has returned from travels in Sicily, where he …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסיד[י ו]שיכי וריצי(!) ואלעזיז עלי א[טאל] אללה בקאך
ואדאם איאם סלאמתך ו[ר]עאיתך וציאנתך [וכאן] לך ומעך
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These two fragments are covered with sundry jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, some of them phrases from legal documents and letters. One of them gives …
List of the Islamic months in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1455 Seleucid = 15 May 1144 CE. No attestation on verso that she received the …
Probably fragment from accounts, mentioning a raṭl of sugar candy (sukkar nabāt) and quantities of ounces of other items including chebulic myrobalan; jottings and writing …
Two fragments of a letter, signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya the judge (a known 13-century figure), mentioning the name Elʿazar ha-Kohen. (Information in part from …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. B - Fragments of a letter, in Arabic script.
Opening lines of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 1 Shevaṭ 4746 AM = 1297 Seleucid = 14 January 986. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Shelomo b. …
Deathbed will of Khalaf b. Yeshu'a, the envoy of the lepers in Tiberias (and a leper himself), Elul 1345/August 1034.
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Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), who is introduced with his usual motto, to the community in Cairo concerning a …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter of holiday greetings from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt. 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th–17th century. Mainly the closing greetings are preserved. In a postscript, a woman named Muʾnisa (מונסה) asks the …
Opening of a letter in Hebrew.
Accounts in Arabic script. In a chancery hand. State document? Some legible phrases: ...maqbūḍa ʿan... ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥanafī... jumlatuhum wa-nuṣf min... al-yahūdī... In the margins and …
List of books, with prices. Dating: Likely 11th century, as almost all of the texts listed predate the 11th century. One of the items listed …
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Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 14 Sivan 156[.] Seleucid, which is 1561–69 Seleucid, which is 1250–58 CE, under the authority of …
Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that his …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (long vertical strip from the right side). Very similar to T-S 12.659 (Friedman, JMP, doc. 6). Groom: David. Date and other …
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From Nahray b. Nissim (Misr) to Farah b. Isma'il Farah (Busir).
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Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century.
Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly business accounts. Needs examination.
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Writing exercises
Letter. Hebrew verses praising an official connected to the government. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Very damaged fragment, probably contains letter
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE. The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of …
Literary text, in Arabic script. A student rebukes his teacher and recounts how he didn't stay true to his words. The first section ends ويزفوها …
Literary. Fragment of a bifolium of a medical work in Arabic script. Mentions evacuation; the stomach; vomiting; what one should take/eat; something being effective.
Letter draft(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. From someone in Sammanud who is in need and usually earns enough not to have to ask ('uncover his face'). Dating: …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a rescript (tawqīʿ). Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Legal query, draft, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Regarding the money left by a dead husband. In the margin: "As …
Minute fragment with Hebrew text on the recto and verso in the same scribal hand. One of the words could be המלך (recto).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-muʿallim Ṣāliḥ; the cantor al-Mesos (المسوس الحزان); Hārūn ʿAbd al-Qawiyy; al-ʿAjamī; "In Cairo"; al-Baṣīr(?); Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mubayyiḍ; …
Fragment from the beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is [...] Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy b. ʿAbd al-Malik.
Letter/petition of a woman to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127–39). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Describing in detail an episode related …
Accounts in disorderly Judaeo-Arabic, medieval-era. Very detailed. Merits further examination. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Commercial correspondence or accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, and an unidentified text in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Medieval era. Requires further examination. Both the recto and verso were reused for a literary text in Hebrew.
Accounts in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 'my sister'; greetings and gratitude; a request for a copy of something.
Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh owed to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – …