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Small bifolium. On each side there is one page in Arabic and one page in Judaeo-Arabic. The Judaeo-Arabic is an account or a list, including …
No Scholarship Records
Minute fragment from a letter, only few words are preserved.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Consists mostly of formulaic phrases. In the margin, the sender may say that he …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Containing prenuptial conditions for a marriage, including that the wife will not …
Interesting copy of a Judaeo-Arabic letter regarding affairs of a Yeshivah. There is unfortunately a crease covering a word or two from each line, and …
Two folios of a medical text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter (communal) in the hand of Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, writing on behalf of the community of Alexandria. Only the elegant rhymed prose opening of the …
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Original text: Four bifolios of a Shīʿī literary work preserving content including Fatima's sermon ("the sermon of Fadak") and a ḥadīth about ʿAlī predicting that …
Damaged text in Arabic script, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Small receipt or order for a quantity of raṭls. Name: al-Khalīliyya(?).
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably concerning the ketubba payment and division of property following a divorce. …
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions business in fava beans, vetch, cucumbers, and wheat. Mentions Bilbays. Mentions people such as David ha-Dayyan, …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Ḥasan b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat.
Small fragment of a Yemenite style marriage contract. See Friedman, JMP, I, p. 184, n. 109. AA
Decree, probably. There is a single phrase in naskhī Arabic calligraphy (ʿabīd al-dawla wa-l-yaʿmal bihi....?). Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Qiyyum shetarot, formulary from Siddur R. Natan of Sijilmasa
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions rose oil and pepper and sandarac resin (ṣandarūṣ). Mentions "that …
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Accounts similar to CUL Or.1080 J250 (PGPID 8931) and CUL Or.1080 J261 (PGPID 8934). ʿArūs b. Yūsuf is referred to (in another hand). (Information from …
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
Long strip of paper, with both head and bottom torn away, containing about 25 names (among them four 'sukkaris,' or sugar makers), contributing to charity …
Small fragment of an Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque, mentioning the quantity three ounces. Remnants of an earlier Arabic-script document on verso.
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
:Left side of bifolio 4v (Documents 31-33)
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
Quittance from uncle named Yeshuʿa b. Avraham to his nephew, Saʿdān, after the latter returned a piece of land which had been taken illegally by …
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Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy in Alexandria to Abu Yahya Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1057 (Gil). This is one of two …
אעלמך יאמולאי אן תקדם כתאבי אליך מע אלפיג תם כתבת כתאב אכר מן קבל אלמועד ולם ימצי אלפיג
ובקי מעי למא כאן אכתב רקעתי הדה דפעתה ללפיג וכאן על…
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Late letter from Yehuda Levi, mentioning people including Yosef, several women including Rika and Qamr, and Raḥamim Buḥayrī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew. Only the introductory blessings and the address are preserved …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Accounts, 10 pages. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Minute fragment of a letter. On recto a few words from the beginning (prefaced כי רם ייי) and in the margin. On verso part of …
Recto: verses in Arabic expressing the book owner’s intention to not lend his copy to anybody without making a written note of it. The first …
Arabic, literary.
Recto: Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a lawsuit between Shabbat b. Yaʿaqov (aka Shabbetay b. Yaʿaqov) and Natan b. [...]. The portion preserved here …
Hebrew poetry. There are a few words in Arabic script underneath, including "the heart is in pain due to your separation" and a pious expression …
Small fragment in Arabic script. Unidentified.
Recto: late note concerning financial matters. Mentions something (payment) is with "bint al-sharīf" in line 5. Among the variety of coinage types mentioned, "ʿothmanī" (עתמני) …
List in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (VMR). Mainly or entirely materia medica: civet, chicory seed, palm ointment (marham nakhlī); olibanum, scammony, aromatic wood. Merits …
A few words in Hebrew script. Yiddish??
Deathbed declaration of Shelomo b. Avraham Ibn ʿEzra. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 4[.]45 AM. Maybe 4945 AM = 1185 CE. Mentions someone known as [...] …
Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is d…
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Letter from a judge, probably in Fustat or Cairo, to a cantor and scholar, in or near al-Maṭariyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 13th or …
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Will in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: Unknown. The writer specifies his wishes for his grave and shroud (for which he has also supplicated …