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Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …
No Scholarship Records
Recto: accounts, obviously written on Arabic scrap paper. Verso: elaborate, fully vocalised Arabic, starting with the basmala, between the Arabic lines Judaeo-Arabic written transversely and …
State document. Dated: Jumādā I 524. There are registration marks/notes at the top. Looks very interesting, possibly mentioning taxation, Ibrāhīm al-Armanī, "the sect of the …
Note referring to the late "teacher and master Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil ha-Muflaʾ ha-Ḥakham ha-Meʿuelle Bet Din Hagun Nezer ha-Maskilim." This is probably Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 …
Verso: Fragment of a legal document or draft. Mentions the maṭbakh (sugar refinery) known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī); a …
Informally written witness statement for a legal document. Dating: probably early 13th century. Attesting that the wife of Bū ʿAlī b. Daʾūd the perfumer sold …
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Literary text, probably. Bifolium filled with Greek script, presumably either Greek or Coptic. Needs examination.
Recipe in Arabic script for compounding hiera picra. ASE
Fiscal account. Headed "al-mustakhraj. . ."
Official (tax?) receipt for someone possibly named Ḥayyim in Fustat. Needs examination.
Rental receipt, for 6 dinars, in Arabic script. "al-bāqī li-ṣaḥib l-dār". Dated probably 504 H.
State document, in Arabic script. Either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft …
Part of a ketubba, with no details preserved. Ca. beginning of the 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
Perhaps a small fragment from a ketubba. There are a few words here from a dowry list (e.g., jūkāniyya bayāḍ dabīqī mudhahhaba...).
Badly effaced letter to a business friend describing his dire situation and lack of wheat and asking the addressee for assistance. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Verso: Upper part of a letter. The handwriting looks like that of Berakhot b. Shemuel. There are copious introductory blessings in Hebrew followed by the …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Two business partners who had gotten into legal fights (mushājarāt kathīra) state that they are reconciling with each other in accordance …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter consisting of a dirge, sent from Nahray b. Natan to the judge Avraham b. Natan Av Bet Din (Avraham is here called "Yesod ha-Yeshiva"). …
Poetry, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. A few lines in a very rudimentary hand.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to the judge (al-dayyān) Yo[sef?]. Contains long opening greetings, a prayer that a deceased person will find mercy and that …
Unidentified text in Hebrew, distinctive handwriting, may be documentary. Late. Mentions הוצאתי (my expenses?) twice.
Account in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.
Lower part of recto and verso: Autograph responsum by Moshe Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the dates when he was active in Egypt.
Official-looking account reporting revenue.
Probably a partnership agreement. Entirely in Hebrew. Phrases: ולסחור בממו[נו]... בדרך כל הסוחרים הכשרים...
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentioning Abū l-Ṣaghīr (or maybe akhū al-ṣaghīr, "the brother of the boy") and Yehuda. (Information in …
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions: "...ʿan al-mulaṭṭaf al-karīm..."
List of receivers of loaves of bread, similar to T-S 24.76 (PGPID 4578) (S.D Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, App. B 1) and ENA 2713.26 (PGPID …
Probably literary.
Court record written by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. In which Yefet and Yosef b. Binyamin the banker, as guardians of Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi, collect a …
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Document in Arabic script. Possibly a business letter; mentions goods (al-baḍā'iʿ) and something being sent to Alexandria (irsāluhu ilā thaghr al-Skandariyya). Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yishaq b. Furat, to save a prisoner who was sentenced to death. (Gil, Palestine, vol. 2, …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very crude hand.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is a name preserved (Abū something), possibly in reference to a debt owed, but not much else is preserved. …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter or official report in Arabic script: wa-yunhī baʿd [...] al-adʿiya al-ṣāliḥa wa-l-[...] lillāh taʿālā bi-[...].
Booklist in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli, numbered, mentioning the titles and the number of volumes. Among the works listed are a Mishna, …
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Legal document, maybe a release. In Arabic script. Three fragments comprising the lower right piece of the document. Dated: 96[.] AH = 1552–62 CE. Listing …
Fragment of a communal letter. Four lines preserved. Wide space between the lines. Refers to the presence of the shekhina when people gather to study, …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. 12-century Spanish scribal hand. Excerpts: וקד כאן תקדם . . כתאב . . גואב . . עזה . . …
Small fragment in Hebrew. Mentioning the court and invoking various biblical bans of excommunication.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Rudimentary spellings. The sender expresses concern about the addressee's illness and the capitation tax (kharāj); also mentions describe …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: August 1181. This document preserves the lower part of a partnership agreement between the brothers Abū al-Faraj and Abū al-Mufaḍḍal …
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Draft of praises for a vizier: Sayyidnā [. . . .] Amīr al-Juyūsh Sayf al-Islām Nāṣir al-Anām Kāfil Quḍāt al-Muʾminīn wa-Hādī Duʿāt al-Muslimīn. Written in …
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
List of clothes, covers and other fabric items and names of sellers. For a similar list, possibly in the same hand of a market official, …
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 545 AH = …