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Drafts of text from letters in Arabic script. In one of them the addressee is called 'al-zāhidī' (ascetic). There are also jottings in Hebrew script.
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Promissory note written by Yefet b. David, given by Moshe b. Shahariyar to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov on June 1007. (Information from Bareket) (SGD edition, small …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The addressee's name appears on verso, perhaps something like Yiṣḥaq b. Maṣliaḥ b. Bahlūl. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The …
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Ingredients include: "Indian"; borage; pistachio kernels; sugar. Diet: boiled young chickens (farrūj maṣlūq).
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Letter fragment from Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the closing greetings are preserved.
Decree fragment. Only a few words are legible, in large, calligraphic script. There are also a few words in smaller Arabic script in the upper …
Legal record (#36) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:Left side of bifolio 5r (Documents 35-37)
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Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from Maymūn b. Efrayim (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Contains information about the movement of wares via Alexandria and about financial …
Will in which a dyer setting out for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem makes provisions for his wife and children in the event that something should …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Medical treatise arranged in a question and answer format.
State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …
List with Coptic numerals, apparently of contributors. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 2:497) EMS
צפי אבראהים אבו אלמגד
½ ¼ + ½ ⅛ + ¼ [[ ½ ]]
אבו סעד אבו אלתנא ואליה
¼ + ½ ½ 1 ½ 1
[[אבו אלפכר]] מפצל פצאיל
¼ + ½ ¼ + ½ ½ 1
[[ר מנחם]] [[אבראהים…
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Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions firewood (ḥaṭab).
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 …
State document, possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script. Large and well preserved. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. Needs examination.
Document in Arabic script. State document? Wide space between lines, upslanting.
Legal document (shetar) mentioning a partnership and a certain Berakhot ha-Kohen. Dating: Early 12th century. The deed was written in two copies. Signatories: Yiṣḥaq b. …
Part of a letter(?) in Arabic script. On verso there is a liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 4 folios. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir; al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Rubāʿī(?); Abū Yiṣḥaq; …
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Small fragment. The name Avraham ha-Rav ha-Gadol b. Yisrael ha-Ḥasid appears in the address. There is faded text underneath the address, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions a suftaja.
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
Receipt from a synagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – 1943CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 158) – in Hebrew and French. …
Liturgical text in Hebrew; writing exercises; unidentified Arabic text (possibly an amulet). (Information from CUDL.) One of the sections lists names like Yiṣḥaq Kanzi, Yehuda, …
Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part …
Large account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Bifolio, items arranged in two columns per folio. Mentions numerous foods.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
A letter to Yoesf b. Moshe Luzki to from David b. Moshe Kokizov 1803-1813
Power of attorney. Location: Malīj. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Adar I 4807 AM, which is 1047 CE. In which Rayyisa bt. Manṣūr appoints her brother Asad …
Court record in which the orphan Avraham b. Shemuel al-Andalusi brings his guardians for the second time to court demanding they deliver a balance. The …
Note from a judge to a colleague named Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting the exact date and some of the conditions of a settlement that had …
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Accounts in Arabic script for the 23rd of a month.
Two fragments mentioning a few names, probably from the same document: Natan b. Ḥalfōn, ..]n b. Yaʾīr, Nissim b. Yosef ha-Dayyan. Requires further examination.
Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Dated: 1747 CE through 1756 CE. For the boys, the names of the sandak and mohel are given.
Letter from the schoolmaster Natan b. Shemuel, in a small town, to his brother Abū l-Ḥasan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …
List of materia medica and their weights. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Might be 13th century or later based on handwriting and orthography (e.g., כתירה for כתירא). …
Fragment of a deed of sale for one half of a sugar factory (al-Dār al-Sukkariyya) in Minyat Zifta. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. One of …
. . . it will be upon him as a [legal contract] and a proof from this day onwards that I [attest …
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Recto: inventory of books "belonging to me in Qalyūb." Refers to the compositions of Rabbenu Moshe, so dating to no earlier than 1204 CE. Verso: …
Note probably from one judge or court clerk to another. In Judaeo-Arabic. “I have checked everything with me, even the house of the rayyis. It …
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a dignitary called Thiqat al-Dawla. On parchment. In Hebrew. Consisting entirely of blessings and flattery for the addressee and …
Blessings in Hebrew. Possibly from the end of a letter.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a beautifully styled request. This may not be addressed to the writer's mother and father. Rather, the sender is making …
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Extremely faded.
IB IV, 35 (ח44). Letter from the physician Yaʿaqov, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March …
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Literary. Commentary on Kings.
IB V, 23. Letter from an unknown writer to Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef. The main purpose of the letter is to ask Abū …