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Most of a long, very distressed letter from Menaḥem, writing in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo, to a business associate, whose family lives in Fustāṭ/Cairo and who has traveled. …
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Fragment of a commercial account in Arabic. Probably originally a much larger piece of paper. There are two columns of text on both recto and …
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List of Talmudic sages.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). A certain Avraham b. Shelomo Tilimsānī, acting as a custodian (apotropos) …
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Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla (בעיר אלמחלה הגדולה הסמוכה לצען). Dating: Likely late 11th century, based on the reference to the court of David ha-Nasi ha-Gadol …
Letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī, physician to the sultan al-Malik al-ʿAzīz (Saladin's son and successor), sent to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In …
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Letter from Ibrahim b. Miṣbāḥ to Eliyyahu the Judge (spelled אליהוא). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. The sender had previously sent with the bearer …
ממלוכה אבראהים אבן מצבאח
Fragment from the lower left corner of a state document, or possibly a legal document concerning state affairs. Mentions 'government crops' (al-ghallāt al-sulṭāniyya) and the …
Horizontal strip from an official-looking account, with multiple distinct subsections and an unusual layout. Needs examination.
Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment with Hebrew script.
A pregnant woman, seemingly well-to-do, complains to her sister in the city about neglect and expresses apprehension that part of her house will be taken …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Legal document, probably relating to a marriage, mentioning a menora and dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Tiny fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1[.]5[.] Seleucid. Very little else is preserved.
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
Recto: Probably a fragment of a letter in Arabic, very damaged. Legible words include "the lamp/saddle maker" (السراج)." Verso: Probably a fragment of a Hebrew …
Leaf from an Arabic literary work in nasta'liq-like script.
State document, probably a petition. Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in …
Recto: legal query concerning robbery, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Looks like the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Verso: part of an official document in Arabic: …
Marriage document, parchment, middle fragment only. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Recto: Fragment of a faded Judaeo-Arabic letter with greetings from Menaḥem at the bottom and sent to Tiberias. Mentions that someone had lived in Jerusalem; …
Family letter, from son to father. In Arabic script. Probably 11th/12th C based on paleographic grounds. Damaged/faded. Needs examination for content.
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.
Receipt of payment. Needs examination.
Fragments of a state document, probably an internal correspondence addressed to a Fatimid caliph. In an Arabic chancery script. Has remnants of a ray clause …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic. Dated the 17th of Jumādā. Unclear if any details are preserved.
Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused on recto for Qiddush for the Shabbat evening service. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts, mentions days of the week and some sums in silver (wariq).
Letter addressed to al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or …
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or …
Minute fragment. Only a few words are preserved. It can be a literary fragment, but also poetical Hebrew phrases from an opening of a letter …
The Scroll of Antiochus. In Aramaic. (Erroneously labeled as a deed of sale in one of the identifications on FGP.) See FGP for further identifying …
Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: A scrawled record of a property lease dated 23 Nisan 1539 Seleucid = 1228 CE. The renter is …
Official correspondence. Fragment (left side). The ends of 13 lines are preserved. Addressed to the office of the vizier (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-wazīriyya). Mentions paper (al-waraq) …
Fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century, based on handwriting. Apparently recounting a legal situation. Excerpts from T-S AS 153.68: "...the …
Medical text dealing with lincti and ointments. CUDL
Recto: Legal document concerning a power of attorney from Zahra bt. Yosef, apparently for Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver, regarding the inheritance of Ḥasan b. Faraj al-Āmidī. Mentions …
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic with some western Arabic numerals. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
On recto there is an unidentified document in Arabic script. On verso there are masoretic notes followed by 2 lines in Judaeo-Persian: בוד פא אכיר …
See PGPID 24609: Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's …
Either a poetic introduction to a letter from the Yeshiva of Jerusalem to the community of Aleppo, or a letter that is in its entirety …
Two lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions two ʿatabas (threshold carpets) for "The Gate of the Women" (Bāb al-Nisāʾ).
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-Nīsābūrī to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid aka ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi al-Dimashqī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1100 CE. The sender …
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Geonic exegetical responsa. (Information from CUDL)
Letter/petition from Barukh to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: early 13th century. Requesting help obtaining …
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