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Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
No Scholarship Records
Letter of condolence in Hebrew.
Recto and beginning of verso: Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has collected the prescription that the …
אלבית תרא חצרתה
פי מא ינפעל לי לא עדמת
איאדיהא ולא כלות מנהא אבדא
ושלום הדרתו יגדל ואל ידל לעד
נצח סלה
יא מולאי אמא תאתיר אלדוא פ…
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Two entries on the verso provide the dates 11 Sivan and 16 Sivan, followed by the alphanumerals ת׳׳ג possibly …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Poetry in Arabic script. Verso: "Muwashshaḥ Andalusī" (as the header explains). In Hebrew, with a Judaeo-Arabic kharja. The last verse of the poem in …
Recto: Letter (end only) referring to difficult events that happened to Sayyidnā and the people of Fustat and Cairo, apparently delivered with an item of …
Legal document or documents (there is text on both recto and verso). Mentions the groom ʿOvadya b. Ḥalfon.
Letter apparently from Avraham b. Saʿda, who complains about his brother Ṣibyān. Mentions Shemarya b. Elḥanan. Dating: around 1000. The addressee is unknown. It seems …
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Responsa by RADBAZ, II, no. 839: 1. Resurrections of the dead 2. Regarding a Rabbi who excommunicated his student. Published by Glick, Sridei Teshuvot, 243-256
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. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document (validation/qiyyum). Fragmentary (right side only). In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Concerning people such as: [...] b. [...] from Damsīs, Barakāt …
כתב ידו של אברהם בר נתן אב
קיום שטר
Small piece of a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Left part of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, who also wrote the letter enquiring about commercial matters and conveying greetings. Ca. 1055. Description from …
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List of weights and quantities of pepper, ginger, and perhaps other goods, medieval--era. MCD.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]41 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE. The parties are Abū l-Munā and his agent Faraj …
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Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle. Much …
List of people receiving charitable support from the community. The list includes various people described as Rūmī (ie, from Byzantium). According to Goitein (Med Soc …
Letter. Very faded. (Information from CUDL)
Colophon of a Bible donated by a Karaite woman in the name of her dead son.
Religious text mentioning the name of Saʻīd ibn Ḥasan al-Talimsānī. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Poeme religieux d'un poëte inconnu" ; on a …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Three words are preserved.
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138). …
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, in Tripoli (Syria), to Nahray b. Nissim. The letter mentions Nahray's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and shipments of emblic myrobalan and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb and Abū l-Munā b. Ḥasan.
Recto: Upper part of a letter to a dignitary referred to as Sar ha-Teʿuda. The preserved portion (~33 lines) consists entirely of panegyric poems in …
Deed of sale or lease. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The seller (or lessor) receives 6 dinars from a woman. …
Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew detailing financial transactions. Mentions 181 peraḥim that were detained with the consul; a certain Hayyim; a total …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-Kohen and Abū l-Qāsim.
Legal document, bottom part only, plus qiyyum/validation. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]38 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Witnesses: Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaon; …
4 bifolia from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise.
Judaeo-Persian. Not sure what it is. Poetry? Containing the year 1912 Seleucid, which is 1600/01 CE. The page is divided into different sections with a …
Accounts, in Arabic script.
IB V, 11. Business letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahim b. Bundār to Abū Zikrī Kohen (aka Yehuda b. Yosef Sijilmāsī). In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew, …
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Detailed inventory of the estate of a very wealthy person, including a debt of 125 dinars to tax-farmers. Dating: ca. 1145 CE. Mentions names such …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faḍl Maṣliaḥ b. Yosef, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. first half of the 12th century (the same …
Legal document: power of attorney in which Shelomo b. Ḥātim appoints Menaḥem b. Shelomo to pursue his claims against Ḥasan b. Avraham and Shemuʾel b. …
State document, Fatimid. Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) …
Arabic script (VMR)
IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
Right half of the end of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Mentions: the coats (al-shuqaq); his …
Recto: Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi, probably in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb. Most of the letter concerns a dispute …
Fragment of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Concerning a partnership (sharika) and mentioning a shop (dukkān), …
List of names and monetary contributions, likely communal. Dating is probably 19th-century based on the paleography, no earlier than 18th-century based on mention of Ottoman …
Recto: Top of a letter in poetic Hebrew addressed to a dignitary, perhaps the Nagid: ויודע דעת עליון שר הזמן ונסיכו . . . ייי …
Contract in which Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, a scholar known from a number of manuscripts dating to 1076–86 CE (e.g. T-S 20.110 (PGPID 1774)) gives 50 …