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Letter from Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥayy to his "father" the leader (ʿaqīd) Danī b. Kannān. Complaining about people who have interfered with the ploughing on …
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Aggadot to Esther, entitled פתרון ומרדכי ידע (Esther 4:6), with jottings on recto. Information from GRU/FGP.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Brief letter or petition from Bū Saʿīd to Saniyy al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. He asks that the addressee "listen …
Communal letter likely originating from the gaʾon in Jerusalem in the late 10th or early 11th century, concerning the appointment of local officials in an …
Fragment of an account in western Arabic numerals; no words. May be part of CUL Or.1081 2.75.8.
Part of a rhymed Hebrew letter, probably by a Palestinian Gaon (info from FGP)
Right fragment: Letter/petition in Hebrew from the widow of the well-known judge Hiyya b. Yishaq (active in Fustat 1129–60s) to the Jewish congregation of Fustat. …
Fragment of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. May mention Ismāʿīl b. Sibāʿ.
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu probably addressed to Moshe Maimonides (active ca. 1168–1204 CE), based on the importance of the addressee and …
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Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Only a few words. The phrase "wa-l-ḥāl salāma" ("all is well") is legible.
Unidentified, with biblical citations such as Psalms 137:6 and 41:6. List of piyyuṭim? On verso there are also formulae typical of a petition. Dating: probably …
Fragment of state document(s). There is one hand on recto, and two different hands (different documents) on verso. Recto mentions "hādhihi al-ruqʿa." Verso mentions a …
Accounts of purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document, identified internally as a "gift deed" in line 28. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5509 AM = 17 June 1749 CE. Location: Cairo. David ben …
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Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic. Medieval-era.
verso: Legal document in Hebrew. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Reused for a different Hebrew (literary?) text on recto.
Love poem in Judaeo-Arabic, for a woman "Sitt al-Nās" (mistress of mankind). Same hand: T-S NS 292.38 (Judaeo-Arabic), T-S NS 91.52 (Judaeo-Arabic), T-S 8K13.6 (Judaeo-Arabic), …
Small fragment of a ketubba. Hand of Natan b. Shemuel?
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Probably sent to one of his brothers. Damaged.
Poem in Judaeo-Persian, edited and translated by Shaked, "פרקים במורשתם הקדומה של יהודי פרס," Peʿamim 1985, 35–37. There are various other text blocks in both …
Fragment (bottom right) of a letter in Hebrew signed by Elyaqim b. [...]. AA
Letter. In Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Dealing with various business matters, after a long deferential introduction. Needs further examination.
Three drafts of legal documents. (a) Recto: פוטיתי bt. Eliyya, the divorcee of Yosef b. Elʿazar and the mother-in-law of Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq appears before …
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Letter from Al-Mubārak b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Sabra to his "father" (paternal uncle?) Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. He reports that Ibn Siman Ṭov …
Recto and verso (secondary use): Letter or letter draft(s) to Bashrān/Mevasser b. Yishay the "head of communities" and "faithful of the yeshiva." This is the …
Court testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] al-ʿAkkawī b. Yeshuʿa Ibn Bunān — likely the same as in …
Legal document, Qaraite. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 15 Iyyar 5418 AM, which is 1658 CE. Involves Aharon Rofe Rosh Mishmarah b. Elʿazar ____[?] ha-Ḥazzan …
Accounts in Ladino. On a bifolium, arranged in columns marked by daily entries with terse descriptions. The ink is better preserved on the verso, with …
Legal document, probably a bill of release. Fragment: lower left corner. Dating: Early 13th century. In which Shela b. Berakhot acknowledges that he has no …
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Ibrāhīm in Alexandria to his partner Abū Isḥāq, the nāʾib (deputy). Dated 11 May 1141. The first page of the …
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Accounts. Mentioning several names and several interesting commodities (e.g., black cumin, ushna/lichen, mastic). Dating: looks ca. 1150–1250.
Calendar. In Hebrew. Late.
List of goods (e.g. pepper) and weights, some crossed out. In Arabic.
Genealogical lists (medieval).
Letter from Abū ʿUmar b. Abū l-Riḍā to the mint supplier (al-mūrid) Abū l-Faḍl b. Tamīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 12th to early 13th century. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Itemized expenses?
Accounts and lists in a communal register, recorded on a recycled mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 18th or early 19th century based on the …
Magical fragment in Aramaic and perhaps some Judaeo-Arabic.
Request for aid from Jerusalem to Cairo. Undated but likely late 19th or 20th-century based on the paleography and the findsite (the Bassatine Cemetery). The …
Letter probably from a woman, in Alexandria, to [...] b. Avraham, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. (The clue for the gender of the writer is the …
Likely a state/fiscal account. One page is headed "ʿamal." Needs examination.
Letter fragment? In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that some people say about someone "that he came to live among us to rule/preside over us" (וקאלו תקד . …
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm; Hilāl; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū Yaḥyā, Shemuel. Mentions various …
Letter from Munajjā Muqaddasī, who has left Egypt (or Fustat), to a certain al-Shaykh al-Mukarram/Mukrim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but this …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a Nubian female slave named ʿAlam, but it is not a deed …