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Recto: Probably a legal document involving the perfumer (ʿaṭṭār) Ṭāhir b. Maḥfuẓ al-Yahūdī and another individual. The text contains several dual participles. In the upper …
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Verso (original use): Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, including a declaration that a woman (someone's wife?) is 'trustworthy' (neʾemenet). Recto: additional notes in …
Business letter from Khalaf b. Ḥammād(?) b. Hiba to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (?) b. [...]. In Arabic script. Mentions various sums in the hundreds of …
Letter from a woman in the countryside to her husband in Fustat. She refuses to join him there in the capital. The letter is to …
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Text in Hebrew. Dating: After the Spanish expulsion, per Avraham David. Describing how all the "maʿamad" that oversaw all the communities of Egypt did something …
List of items in Arabic script together with Greek/Coptic numerals
Bilingual hymn in Greek and (Bohairic?) Coptic, modified to serve as healing text (recto). On verso there are a few lines of illegible (Coptic?) text. …
Beginning of a letter of Neḥemya ha-Kohen b. Kohen Ṣedeq, a self-proclaimed gaon of Pumbedita, written before August 960. The letter is a polemic against …
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Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus to the Qaraite community of Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Tammuz 5512 AM (ואתה על), which is 1752 CE. …
Letter, very faded. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 14th century, based on handwriting and abbreviations. The letter mentions various sums of money.
Page 1: Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic giving two prescriptions for pediatric ophthalmia (ramad), the second of which is prefaced, "The doctors in Fusṭāṭ use this. …
Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 AM, which is 25 January 1807 CE. This is a more complete copy of the same …
Legal document, of an unidentified type, in Arabic Document script. Probably related to a payment. Mentions a payment to Muʿallam Ibrahem bin Naʿīm Bu-Saʿad[?] al-Ḥakīm …
Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]." The paper is almost entirely preserved, but the text is …
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List of materia medica, beginning with the glyph. Possibly a prescription.
Small list of items and prices. May mention turquoise (fayrūz). Same hand as T-S NS 225.88 (PGPID 24227).
Draft of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 12 Ṣafar 499 AH = 24 October 1105 CE (this seems to be a better reading …
Letter addressed to the community of Amadiya (in Kurdistan), regarding a shaliaḥ from Jerusalem. Late. Cut and glued onto a book cover.
Much damaged and faded, almost illegible fragment of a letter, probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Accounts in Arabic script. Containing information on the dirham/dinar exchange rate. The name Abū l-ʿAlā appears a few times. (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.)
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part). Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Mentions people such as Iskandari, Farajallāh, and Yiṣḥaq Mināwī. (Information in …
Small fragment from the top of a ketubah. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Shelomo. Someone used the spaces between the lines to copy and duplicate …
Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning India and Ṭabaristān and other lands as well as a report in the name of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Recto: Technical text in Judaeo-Arabic, medical or alchemical, discussing properties of minerals and chemicals. Verso: Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand.
Text in Judaeo-Arabic, late. "The rose said, 'I am the ruler of all the flowers. My thorn...'"
List of syrups and diet recommended for (or purchased by) 12 different people, some of whom are each other's family members. See Efraim Lev, Medical …
Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Moshe. The bride is Esther known as Mas'uda.
Record of a legal case between Avraham b. Ḥayyim and Avraham Abū l-Khayr. See Avraham David's transcription and notes on FGP for identifications and related …
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (d. 1355), or at least by the same person as PER H 129 (PGPID 9391), which Goitein identified …
A ḥamdala and ṣalwala written in a chancery hand, presumably once part of a larger document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Fol. 1v: Legal record concerning the claims of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī, who says there are five dinars remaining from the twenty-four dinars paid for a …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: List of names in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)
Ketubba, well-preserved with an ornate border. Location: Banhā, Egypt. Dated 8 Kislev 5_17 AM, with a value "שע" for the hundreds place that must be …
Long court record written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Moshe b. Efrayim and Yosef b. Zekharya. Ṣedaqa had …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegantly written. Conveying holiday wishes. Written by someone who apparently is a doctor, a muqaddam and a Jerusalemite (he writes, "As I …
List of receivers of alms containing rare names, women and foreigners. The Hebrew alef evidently stands for ūqiyya, ounce. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The sender has sent a white robe (farjiyya bayḍāʾ), possibly to be dyed. Also mentions the tailor (al-khayyāṭ).
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise with some corrections in a different hand.
Letter, upper left corner only, containing half of the first six lines of recto and verso. Distinctive handwriting. ASE.
Court record, probably a bill of release between a woman named Turfa and a man named Sayyid al-Kull. Signed by [...] b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen and …
Large bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult early modern scribal hand. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The main heading on the recto …
Recto: Legal document referring to raw sugar, involving Yefet and Manṣūr. Signed by [Avraham] b. Shemaʿya. Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic in a different hand referring …
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the person known as "the ḥedvat" (אלחדואת).
Fragmentary business letter concerning the author's opponents. The writing appears to be in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Minute fragment. One Arabic word on recto. Two fragmentary names on verso (Avraham b. Shl[...] and Yosef b. Hal[fon?]
Astrological instructions for a doctor regarding how to know the illness of a patient by using the constellation of the stars at the time of …
In (Your) na(me), (O) Mer(ciful One).
This is the calculation of the hours and their names ...
The first of them is Ḥama, which is the Su…
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Sermon mentioning the acquisition of wisdom, the covenant with Israel, and keeping the commandments. Quotes Prov. 8:34. Includes discussion from BT Soṭa 48b concerning Hillel …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Page plus ending bifolio from a book with quire or page marks in upper left corners from the philosophical treatise …