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Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat handwriting and striking arrangement on the page. Possibly of a landlord? The entries have headers …
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Letter 2, of which only one folio is preserved, is a pro-Babylonian response to a Palestinian polemic on the calendar of 921/2 and on the …
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Query/responsum. Late. Concerning kabbalistic issues. See also: PGPID 15811
Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Fol. 1r: Power of attorney. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid = 12 …
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Recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably an engagement contract. Specifies payments of sums of money by certain dates of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, one entry is listed at the location darb al-jayyida[?]. Dating is 16-17th-century based on the paleography. On the verso "grossos" are listed …
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary (... sar ha-ʿeda ha-nadiv ve-ha-shavaʿ...)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, opening only. Expresses longing for the addressee, doubt whether the sender's previous letters reached the addressee ('before my departure from Fustat'). …
Kathismas (قاتسما). Christian liturgical divisions of the Psalter into daily readings ('for Wednesday and Friday'; 'for Thursday and Saturday') together with supplementary prayers. In Arabic …
Section four, chapter nine from Ḥovot HaLevavot (“Duties of the Heart”). Written in calligraphic script and arranged emphasizing the rhymed phrose. This together with the …
Verso: Informal but deferential note from Ḥananel b. Shemuel (cf. ENA 2808.53), informing the addressee that he has sent something for (? bi-rasm) the qiddush. …
Bifolio of accounts, probably in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Elegant hand, difficult to read. Some of the language may be Judaeo-Arabic or something else. …
Calendrical information for the 19-year cycle 259 (beginning in 1142 CE) and 261 (beginning in 1180 CE). Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script. Jottings in …
Letter from Moshe Ḥakīm and "Senyora," in Fustat/Cairo, to Ḥayyim Rosano, in Manṣūra. In Judaeo-Arabic, elegant hand. Dating: Probably late 18th or early 19th century. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Deed of a gift, granted by the wife of Abū Saʿīd to her …
Berakhot b. Saadya receives in December 1126 from Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Sason al-Mahalli, the perfumer, a loan of 32 dinars to be paid back …
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Literary. Some sort of narration in Judaeo-Arabic with each sentence introduced by ʿabartu ʿalā bāb so-and-so (the עֿ and עבֿ are abbreviations for עברת). On …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that list a wide array of food and household items, possibly with their respective quantities and monetary valuations. The fragment is undated …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions items such as galangal (khalanjān), applicators (marāwid), vessels (barānī), aflāj(?), locks (aqfāl), and maqṭaʿ cloths. Mentions people …
Tax receipt of some sort for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. Needs further examination.
8 pages from an Arabic medical treatise.
List of names that was recorded alongside a column of numerical values before the paper was torn. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The wife of the speaker had given a share in a house to the widow of …
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Christian liturgical fragment in Greek.
Legal document. Palestinian ketubba. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions spices such as cinnamon, pepper, and mahlab. AA. ASE.
Accounts in Ladino dated in the first line of the recto as 8 Elul 5588 AM which is 18 August 1828CE. There are many detailed …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Seems to be dealing with sums in excess of 1000 dinars. Also mentions …
Recto: halakhic work concerning ritual slaughter. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)
Leaf from a notebook or register of some sort. The two pages are each headed "faṣl," like other documents from the dossier of the Mosul …
Letter on the topic of friendship between two educated young men. In Judaeo-Arabic, possibly with influence from Judaeo-Persian in the iḍāfa constructions, as ציק אלצדר …
Legal formularies. One template is based on the replacement ketubba (כתובה דארכסא) of Sitt al-Malāḥim. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1427 Seleucid = 1115/16 CE. (Information from …
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a few lines of Hebrew headers. A letter of condolence upon hearing about the death of Abū l-Bishr.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "al-Anjab(?) Sulṭān al-[...].... ṣāḥabtuhū ilayhi..." Reused for Hebrew liturgical text on recto and verso. (Information in …
Responsa collection
List of payments on certain days of the week and list of names, written by Tamim b. Yosef (was active from the last days of …
List of contributors and/or recipients of alms. On a small bifolio. Divided by neighborhoods of Fustat (e.g. al-Maṣāṣa, Mahra and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ). Many names are …
Deed of sale, probably. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). For "the large dār with the square …
Letter from Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen known as Ibn Qasāsa to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Cf. T-S 13J26.20 for another appearance of the …
Legal text of some kind, possibly documentary. Mentions "dīn ha-Torah" in line 3 and לחשבון גדו in line 5. Requires further examination.
Recto: legal fragment. Probably a power of attorney (אביזאריה). Reused on verso for Arabic-script accounts or jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)
Arabic poems transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. A version of the second of them is still circulating in online forums, attribution unclearتغيرت الايام وانقلب الدهرو ~ وصار …
Letter, probably, in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. There is a blessing for victory over enemies at the bottom. Needs further examination.
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Written in large, crude script. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)