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Small fragment of an Arabic document, reused.
No Scholarship Records
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman named Simḥa; Sutayta; the addressee;s mother; and the addressee's brother-in-law Menaḥem.
Business letter in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew (ללגויים, מן אול אדר שני, ושלום). From Maʿānī to his "brother" Mūsā. Mentions Muslim …
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Court ledger. Document regarding claims made at court. Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾ al-Halabi and in the body …
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Large (private) account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The name Abū Isḥāq appears at the top of verso.
Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... …
Small fragment probably in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on very yellow paper with many names of Muslims. The name Yosef Maymun appears at the top of the recto of …
Deed of sale for multiple properties in Cairo, explaining how they exchanged hands in a complex succession of guardianship procedures, inheritance, and a widow's ketubba …
Letter from a certain Hibatallāh to the physician al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Abū l-Faḍl in the Fayyum. Since this person is independently greeted in the body of …
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Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly prognostications. Mentions prison.
Four lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the amīr Shihāb al-Dīn (last line). Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic discussion.
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Minute fragment. Few words from the top of a legal deed.
Small receipt or similar type of document.
Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وصلواته على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى ابرهيم بن موسی بن صلح الاسرائيلي من [دا اود بن ازهر …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient for, and his blessings be upon, his [servants, whom] …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, likely an appeal for help.
Letter from Berakhot b. Shemuel to [...] b. Shemuel ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Politely reminding him to fulfill his promise about working to sell the siddur(? v5). …
Ladino version, printed, of Micael de Carvajal's Tragedia Josephina (Salamanca 1535 ?). The Tragedia Josephina, written in Spain decades after the expulsion, was being read …
Left fragment: Letter in Arabic script. Not a chancery hand, but it sounds like a petition or official letter in some ways. Conveys praises and …
Possibly a letter in Hebrew, though might also be literary with an unusual format. Dated: first third Tammuz 5358 AM. Needs examination.
Legal document or possibly a letter, mentioning someone's wife and a sum of 1,000 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
A very damaged legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca 1100–38 CE). Some details might be extracted with effort. In the …
Recto, and margin of verso (secondary use): Letter or draft in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic involving Abū Naṣr al-Dustarī (=al-Tustarī) (d. 1049/50), something from "the West," …
Small fragment of an agreement between Yaʿaqov and Yehuda. In the cursive hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Writing on both sides. …
Announcement from the council of teachers of the Jews of Cairo to parents on the matters of the beginning of the school year in 1954/55 …
Recto: poem in honor of a new leader. Verso: pen trials (עצל הלא תבוש ותכלם...) and a draft of a letter in Arabic script. The …
Note, receipt or account? Tiny. Two different hands. Both hands use Coptic alphanumerals to express numbers.
Account, listing names with numbers. Probably 14th century or later (among other reasons, since "son of" is written with a nun sofit). Some of the …
Probably a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts.
Letter to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef concerning business matters, mentioning the arrival of Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd b. Sighmār. Verso: jottings of accounts in the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Shevat 5312 AM (1552 CE). The main heading on the recto states that the accounts are in the name …
Very little text remains to identify, possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: letter to Maimonides with his handwritten reply on verso (see separate record). The writer states that he has acquired a rudimentary knowledge of philosophy …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Partnership agreement. The shared capital is 70 dinars. Dating: mentions the year 494 …
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Letter from a man, probably in Damietta, to his mother, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. To be sent to the …
Unidentified document in Arabic. May mention ʿAbd al-Karīm. Reused for a book binding.
Letter/petition addressed to a high authority. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). He describes the details of a …
Note from the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. Yedutun requests an update on the circumcised boy and the …
ולא שלחתה ואמך בלסאעה תחב תכרג אליך לאגל עאקה כתבך ועמך ע…
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Verso: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Mevorakh.
Letter of thanks addressed to the Nagid making reference to recommendations granted. The writer uses the phrase “the Mordechai of the age,” a common designation …
Accounts, mentioning the elder ʿAbd [...]; Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the judge Menashshe to the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan regarding a personal and communal affair in the small town of Sumbutya (Sunbāṭ), …
Copy of a deathbed will. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 4845 AM = 15 June 1085 CE. Testator: Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen, a well-known …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is [...] b. Saʿd al-Dawla Abū Manṣūr. Also mentions the name ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Needs further examination.