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Cryptic text in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Four discrete blocks, each with a header in larger letters followed by 2 lines in smaller letters. …
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Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov (active ca. 1131–50), either in Aden or in India, to (his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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ברסם פיצית?
ואיצא ברסם
אלשיך סלימאן
אחיאה אללה
עבד הנדי צגיר
ומ . . . אלי [ . . . ]
וברסם אלבית
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Small fragment with part of a list of names, including Yosef Hibat[allāh], Ḥalfon b. Y[efet?], ʿUthmān, and referring to the Palestinian Yeshiva (Geʾon Yaʿaqov). (Information …
Small receipt, unclear for what. In Arabic script.
Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land. Dated Rabīʿ I 1032 AH (1623 CE). Verso: Ottoman legal contract
Two bifolios of well-preserved accounts from the "isqāla Maṣr al-Qadīma" (the port of Old Cairo/Fustat). Dated Dhūl-Ḥijja 962 – Shawwāl 964. The word "isqāla" in …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a cursive Maghrebi hand. Damaged. Deals with sums of money. Yosef is mentioned. There are also references to the Sicilian cities …
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........אלמדינה . . יב(?) ג וזאיד(?) אכרי ללמדינה לא
למאזר ואקל מא פיה מן אלפסאד אן אלאעדאל
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Letter of Daniel b. Azarya, December 1051.
Account recording the receipt of various consignments of dates measured in wayba and irdabb. Some entries have been crossed through. People mentioned include al-Wakīl al-Kabīr; …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a lovely hand. Mentions a period of 1 year; "my brother Ibrāhīm"; possibly someone asking "have you married?" and the …
Late Hebrew amulet, with doodles and using the disappearing-word technique
Recto: unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe a draft petition since it contains a taqbīl in the top line and ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. …
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov b. Moshe. The name of the bride is not preserved. Dated Sivan 5388 AM (1628 CE).
Document(s) in Ladino. The verso is probably the primary document; the accounts on recto may be related. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5422 AM (Oct.-Nov. 1661 CE). The …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two names "al-Adab al-madhkura bt...." and "... b. Abī l-Ḥūsayn al-madhkūr". Contains a fragmentary date [X]25. Acknowledgement clause in …
Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd Ibn ʿAwkal. The first part of the letter is missing. The writer is in Fustat and writes about debt collection. (Information …
سرعة دفع اليّ الشيخ ابو سعيد بن عوكل رقعتين الواحدة تتعلق بالعلاقة الذي
عند الرجل الذي في درب الوحل وقد امتثلت مرسومه ومضيت الى عنده فقالي …
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Letter or letters. Ashkenazi. Dating: 1836 CE. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter sent by Mubarak b. Musa b. Ibrahim to Rabbi Nissim b. Shela, informing him that he was going to send to Tinnis the goods …
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Power of attorney granted to ʿEli b. Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen, and referring to the woman Mulk bt. Moshe. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Three …
8 fragments, most in Arabic script, significance unclear.
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 1046. The writer describes his conflict with an Iraqi named Ibn al-Wāsiṭī. The …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תניס יום אלערובה אעאד אללה עליה האדה אלאוקאת
אלמבארכה סנין בכתרה ואעוא…
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Letter of appeal for charity from Sālim of Tyre to an unidentified addressee. The letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) is on verso, while recto is a poem …
Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.
Legal document or letter. In Hebrew. Very faded. Seems to be dealing with monetary issues? Only few a phrases can be read: והיה על אביהם... …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a wife; the writer's suffering; gold; regards to the addressee's wife and children; mentions Sitt Faḍāʾil.
Bifolium with copies of letters. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Draft of the beginning of a letter to a notable. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.
Letter in Ladino, probably. Needs examination.
Bifolio containing mainly literary text including masekhet avot. There are also several blocks of Arabic text, including some literary text and (on recto) many drafts …
Legal deed. Bill of sale for a female slave named Nisrīn for 20 dinars. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1459 Seleucid = March/April 1148 CE. Seller: …
Arabic script (VMR)
Possibly a letter fragment or blessings for a Jewish notable, in Hebrew. Titles include Sar ha-ʿEda ve-Segulat ha-Yeshiva.
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Part of a deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) …
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Small fragment of a letter from a son to his father (al-wālid al-makhdūm). (Information from CUDL)
Horizontal strip from an official-looking account, with multiple distinct subsections and an unusual layout. Needs examination.
A private letter/petition for charity in Arabic script.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Maqāniʿī. The hand may be known.
IB III, 9. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham in Aden to Avraham b. Yiju. Goitein thought that the letter was sent to Zabīd, a coastal …
Original use: Fragment of an Arabic state document with wide line spacing. Decree? The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, including prayers for the caliph: …
Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he …
Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1446 Sel. (1135 CE). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Elʿazar b. Yosef. Mentions Yaʿqūb Abū l-Maʿālī …
Verso: Note in bad handwriting headed עת לעשות וגו׳. In the right margin the name Abū Saʿd appears; this might be the sender, or it …
Letter from Khayr b. Yūsuf Ibn S[...] to Abū l-Ḥasan Mevorakh, in Fustat. The letter is to be delivered to Fusṭāṭ, al-Murabbaʿa, the shop of …