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Fragment of correspondence in Arabic script, chancery hand, possibly an official report. The ends of four lines are preserved. Reused between the lines and on …
No Scholarship Records
Letter mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and the currency dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi to his brother Halfon (1100-1138 CE).
Letter from Yoshiyya Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. The sender's name is partially preserved at the top of the letter, in a different …
יאשיהו ראש יש[יבת] גאון יעקב בירבי
שלום אביעה וברכות ארגיעה [
בכל שעה ואורה וישועה א[ל אהובנו רב אפרים]
המומחה מפינו אנו בית ד[ין הגדול…
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Awaiting description
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Headed "Record (maʿrifa) of what was sold in the house of my master the elder Abū l-Faraj …
Legal document. Deed of dedication of a house in Damascus to the Great Synagogue, ca. 1090. A certain Meshullam, known as Ibn Shurayq al-Dimashqi, i.e. …
.... and four hundred according to the era to which we are accustomed here in Fustat of Egypt which
is situated on the Nile River. This happened…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Official-looking receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī. Unclear for what. Landscape layout. Needs further examination. See also T-S AS 180.126 and T-S AS 181.71.
Long late Hebrew letter. The writer is asking for more time to pay his debts?
Letter fragment addressed to the Nasi Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Also mentions various other distinguished people: the judge of judges (qāḍī al-quḍāh) and the …
Leaf of magical instructions.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1140. The partners (Abū al-Barakāt and Abū al-Faraj) split losses evenly but grant the active partner (Abū al-Faraj) thirteen twenty-fourths …
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Recto (secondary use): Genealogies of two families, it seems of the husband and the father of a woman called the daugher of Nafīs al-Sharābī (cf. …
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Letter by Shemuʾel b. ̔Elī Gaon to Egypt appointing one disciple as receiver of collections for the Academy. Dated Iyyar (1)487 (Sel.), which is April-May …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Perhaps a contributors list. Several sephardic and/or Italian names.
Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. On recto, from Moshe ben Naʿim to his father [Meʾīr] ben Naʿim. Moshe spelled his name מושה, perhaps an error, but this …
Literary narrative in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably ca. 16th century, since it mentions the currency sharīfī. One side involves a son setting out on a journey …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals. A variety of the entries list quantities of unnamed male and female enslaved people (עבד עביד גארייה). Dated in …
Account in Arabic script, probably fiscal based on the hand and the extravagant line spacing. The top line mentions al-jarīda al-madkhūra. L. 6 refers to …
IB VI, 52. Letter fragment from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew (for the …
Remnants of two lines of an Arabic-script chancery document, or possibly a mercantile letter (وما عليه من قماش(؟) يخصه ويخص سيدنا(؟)). In between, at ninety …
Unidentified text in Hebrew.
Legal documents from 17th century Egypt, regarding a widow named Riqa (ריקא), the daughter of Ḥanan She'eltiel. The document on the verso is dated 3 …
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Receipt for Abu Sahl the teacher (al-muʿallim). Possibly a tax receipt, Fatimid.
Recto: letter to Moses ha-Kohen השר האדיר, whose name appears in the opening of the letter and in the address on verso. Also mentions Mordechai …
Legal document concerning the lease of a house by ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Aḥmad the preacher, from Mūsā b. ʿAdī the Jew, in the district of …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad the prophet and his family and save them.
This is wha…
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Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to David ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Only the top is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic. Organized in part by parshiyot (CUDL suggests that the sums mentioned could be an auction for the …
Fragment of a ketubba. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) in an unusually large and beautiful script. The dowry includes a …
Fiscal account. On the verso, a tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm (see PGPID 20611). …
Letter signed by the members of the Ismaʿilīya Synagogue to the members of the Jewish community of Cairo complaining about the worsening condition of the …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script.
Faded letter from Eli b. 'Amram the cantor to a notable named Abu [...] b. Masliah, asking him to assist David b. Yeshu'a ha-Gizbar to …
Fragment of a document, might be legal. It repeats twice al-tārīkh and mentions once al-tārīkh al-madhkūr (first line on the right). Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated along the upper edge of the verso: שואל ס׳ א/\ה, likely making use of the "V' (1000) symbol common among early …
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1058. Details about expenses. Mentions books. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #286) VMR
Fragment from a letter, possibly mentioning a deed(?) and the Talmud. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. Wide space between the lines. It is not clear …
Family letter in Arabic script. "Inform your mother that my mother is well...." Needs further examination.
IB V, 34b. An Abū Zikrī Kohen order of payment.
Letter in Ladino dated September 1777 (Elul 5537), from Yiṣḥaq ביג'אן in Alexandria to to his brother Moshe ביג'אן in Rashid. The letter deals with …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. Mentions legal opponents (khuṣūm). Needs examination, ideally with multispectral imaging. (Information in part from CUDL.) Possibly in the hand of …
Two memorial lists, for the שמלאץ family of kohanim and the Nuʿmān family. On the other side there is a list of parshiyot in Judaeo-Arabic. …
Recto: document, either a legal deed or a proclamation, written by Shemarya b. Elḥanan sentencing someone who has slandered ‘our Master and Teacher Shemarya’ to …
Condolence letter from Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat.
List having to do with seliḥot.
Marriage contract containing a list of jewelry apparently of Syro-Palestinian manufacture, to be sold by Shemuel b. Ḥasan two months after the signing of this …
Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 62-64) Folio 16v
Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The petitioner puts himself forward for government employment: المحقين مرسوم بالعناية وقبول الامول(؟) في . …