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Recto: Brief letter in Arabic script, very polite, asking the addressee not to delay something. Verso: Apparently a commentary on Daniel 1:4f, in both Arabic …
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the horrific tortures inflicted on the writer and his colleagues in the citadel at the hands of four jailers and …
Commercial list, based on the related description of T-S Ar.39.342 (PGPID 20895). Requires further examination.
Bifolio of piyyuṭ in a beautiful hand, with an ownership or authorship note: Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen.
Business letter from Seʿadya b. Avraham b. Sasson of Alexandria to his relative Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ of Fustat, a maker of Sūsiyāt textiles. Seʿadya opens …
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Bifolium from a late Hebrew medical treatise, including headers on pathologies of the womb
A representative appointment deed. Deed in the hand of Ḥalfon ben Menashshe ha-Levi (there are documents in his hand from 1100-1138) in which the bride …
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Literary text, fragmentary.
Probably the top of a legal or communal declaration (naqūl....), introduced by a Hebrew composition with citations from Numbers 18:7 and allusions to Ezekiel 44:8. …
List of materia medica in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a recipe or prescription. Crude hand and spellings.
IB II, 67a. Top half of a letter from Maḍmūn b. David (here referred to by his Hebrew name Shemarya b. David) to a prominent …
The servant Shemaryā b. David—may the spirit of the Lord give him rest!—
greets his high and lofty excellency, the m…
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Writing exercises in Hebrew dated on verso 23 Iyyar [5]623 or 12 May 1863CE. The paper itself includes an internal line system which is reflective …
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic magical work.
Account in Arabic script, unclear if private or fiscal. Recto includes the phrase 'in the name of ʿUmar b. [...]' and mentions the number 400 …
Accounts, possibly communal, arranged by parshiyot. Numbers in Coptic(?) numerals. There does not seem to be any Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic script. Several names are mentioned. Dating: Mentions the end of Ramadān 556 AH = 1161 CE.
Bifolium filled with Judaeo-Arabic poetry. There is some earlier text from Psalms.
Leaf from an Arabic treatise on Islamic law.
Letter from David b. Shekhanya to David b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, an elder of the Qaraites in Fustat and a protector of the Jews in the …
Legal deeds, two, written in Efraim b. Shemarya's difficult hand (fl. 1007–1055 CE). The first involves a testimony of a certain Yehoshu'a to a certain …
Letter/petition from a certain Yiṣḥaq to the Nagid David I Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 10 Sivan [4]999 AM, which is 1239 CE. (Someone, perhaps Elkan …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
Letter or official correspondence. The left side of the document is preserved. The sender refers to himself as 'mamlūk.' Difficult to figure out any of …
Literary text in Hebrew on mystical matters: the heavens, the ministering angels, what they subsist on, etc.
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
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Piyyuṭim by Samuel the Third, pertaining to Parashat Vayeḥi (Genesis 47:28-50:26). F. 2r contains most of the ofan; f. 2v contains the meʾora and the …
Fragment of a document, primarily comprising names, concerning a matter that involved 'the synagogue of the Palestinians.' Those mentioned in the text include: Yosef \'the …
Fatimid petition, top left side only, preserving the tarjama. Dates to the period of al-Ḥākim based on the reuse on verso. This makes it not …
روائح(؟) بن جوشن (جريس؟) واصحابه
العبقلين(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الـ]ـرحيم
مماليك الحضرة السامـ]ـية العلية ال . . . ية والسعيدة السيدية ال…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the paper is preserved, but the text is too faded and damaged to read much.
Bifolio of densely written accounts in Arabic script. Likely private/mercantile rather than official. Entries are organized by date. Needs examination.
Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.
A few words from a letter in Arabic script. Large script, wide space between the lines. Reminiscent of a state document but the preserved content …
Letter addressed to a certain Ishāq. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a postscript in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Concerning the delivery of a consignment of peas …
Business letter from Avraham b. Farrāh, in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (and his sons Abū l-Ḥusayn Yūsuf and Abū Saʿīd Ibrāhīm), in Fustat. The …
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Rabbanite ketubah from Cairo that may have been preserved in the Dār Simḥa Synagogue geniza, although it seems more likely that Avraham Firkovich acquired it …
Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, probably accounts (e."Friday: 3").
Probably Hebrew poetry or piyyuṭ (ASE). Probably from a letter, but too little text remains (AA).
Letter probably from a cantor named Sayyid al-Ahl, in Alexandria, to his son Faḍāʾil and other family members, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Well preserved. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yosef b. Gershon (a French scholar appointed by the Nagid Avraham Maimonides to be one of the three judges of the Jewish community …
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Unsigned copy of a contract between Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-ʿIzz (all called 'al-rayyis,' probably meaning physician here). Concerning 91 + 9 …
Legal testimony in Arabic script, in which someone declares that he longer owes any money to someone. One of the parties is named Abū l-Munā. …
Receipt confirming that Me'ir Ben-Naʿim paid the rent for a qāʿah related to "Argaz Sefaradim" (the communal chest of the Sephardi congregation) from 26 August …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Abūn conveys a detailed tale of a serious falling-out with another merchant and urges …
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Bifolium from a notebook. One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with …
Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The language is very legalistic and it could also be a …
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. Dating: Perhaps 14th–16th century. Few details are preserved. The addressee is referred to as al-sirāj al-qādī (= al-qāḍī?) naṣarahū …
Arabic, literary.
Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …