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Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the text in the right margin, is preserved, containing expressions of condolence apparently on the death of …
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Fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. Telling or asking Muʿizz/Muʿtazz al-Dawla to put his signature on something to validate an expense: واستدعيت من …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of …
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Fragment of a letter, probably,. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century.
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tevet 1444 Seleucid = December 1132 / January 1133 CE, under the …
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Prices and accounts, in dinars and quarter dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Amount: one-quarter, one-sixth and two ḥabbas (Khan …
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List of names, all beginning with Yiṣḥaq or Yosef. Late.
Literary text in Judaeo-Persian.
Accounts
Literary fragment containing advice from a father to a son. Join: Oded Zinger.
Accounts in Arabic script, likely fiscal.
Order of payment from Ibn al-Rayyis: Abū l-Ḥasan is to pay 26 dirhams to the bearer.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Tammuz 1232 CE, and almost definitely 1232–37 CE. See below for explanation. Writer and addressee are unidentified. The writer dictated …
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Fiscal document recording the receipt of a sum of money. 108 dirhams is mentioned. There is at least one ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd, same …
A letter to Yoashiyahu b. Yehuda
Power of attorney in Hebrew. Someone is appointed to sue Yeshuʿa. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Dating: probably 11th century.
Bottom of some sort of declaration, in Hebrew. Late. The undersigned seem to be pledging allegiance to a certain authority and agreeing to whatever he …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
List recording distribution or, equally if not more likely, contributions of wheat (as in T-S AS 145.21, 'thabat qamḥ al-[ʿaniyyim]'). See also ENA NS 77.94.
Small fragment from the opening of a letter to a Nagid.
Lower middle part of a ketubba in which the groom renounces his rights to the bride's earnings. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal fragment in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1180s–1210). Probably a bill of release. Involving 500 dirhams, Sitt al-Tujjār, and …
Contract related to tax farming in Cairo, likely a partnership agreement between two men. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions the year …
Tax receipt.
Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd, the writer’s nephew (sister's son) Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Surūr. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the wife of Maʿānī. Desperate letter of appeal to the 'courts' (judges) from a blind woman whose husband had fled to Alexandria and …
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Extensive accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: labeled twice along the upper margin of the recto "Y[ear] 5414" and "Account [of the year] 5414 AM" (1653/1654 CE). …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions Ibn ʿAzrūn; M[...] b. Khalaf; Yosef b. Simḥa; Abū l-Khayr; Ibn Bishr; al-Talmid; and. …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Bifolium. Mentions pomegranate seed, licorice, rose water, lapis lazuli (azuward, l. 6r), Abū Sahl, and Alexandria.
A manuscript which contains the end of Deutronomy, and the haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets) according to the old Palestinian rite. A dedication colophon …
Small fragment from a letter. Mostly polite phrases, none of the substance is preserved: אלא מואצלתי באלכתב אליהא . . פצעב דלך עלי ועז כתירא …
Deed of gift in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: last third of Adar 1428 Sel. = February/March 1117 CE. The upper part is …
… (there is no need) for a complete mention of its boundaries in this
deed . . . . (This is a definitive gift, open and public, like a dee…
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Hebrew poetry. In the hand of Pinḥas b. Ṭuviyyahu?
Letter of notification by a senior of the academy, probably Nahray b. Nissim, written by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, saying that the Nasi (David b. …
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Recto: Ketubba for the remarriage of a divorced couple. Location: Fustat. Dated: 25 Ṭevet 1622 of the Seleucid Era (= 17 December 1310 CE), under …
Most likely a legal document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Contains a date (l.3) Dhū al-Ḥijja 442. Needs examination.
Legal record (#3). Loan contract. Crossed out with four vertical lines. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn al-Makḥūl (joine later by …
Legal document mentioning [Abū] Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Avraham, possibly in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Might be setting out conditions for a partnership. Includes …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060 in the month of Ab.
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Letter to a woman (possibly from her son in law, as it mentions her daughter), and the instruction to come quickly if she wants to …
Verso: Letter from Arye(?) to his 'brother' Eliyya Prianty(?) (these names are probably wrong). In Ladino. In the margin there are accounts in Hebrew script …
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.
Unidentified text, possibly a letter, quoting Job 1:21. (Information from CUDL)