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Two witness statements from an Arabic-script legal document. One appears to be called Farrūj b. ʿUṣfūr ("pullet son of songbird")
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Minute fragment probably from a ketubah. AA
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) …
Recto (secondary use): Small list (account) of spices and foods in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso (original use): Official-looking account in Arabic script. Faded …
Three fragments of Arabic documents reused on verso by the same Hebrew scribe for piyyuṭ. Two of the Arabic fragments are from a letter and …
Verso: Communal accounts with revenue available and expenditures: 'A [public] Fast--29' 'Food for the poor (mezonot)--39.' Among the expenses, besides bread and salaries, are payments …
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Rabbinic text in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi.
Legal document mentioning Hārūn, 50 dinars, and a provision for "his female slave." A will? (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated to the same …
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Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Written in the month of Tishrei. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. Mentions good-quality saffron and amber and the …
Minute fragment: Hebrew jotting of Job 1:1 Verso: Arabic jotting of "the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God" (راس الحكمة مخافة الله = …
Recto: letter, mentioning the Rosh Kallā Abū Zakariyyā at the top of the leaf (this is the typical location for the address in the letters …
Damaged accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1517 or later based on the mention of the collective Ottoman military title çavuşiyya (שאושייה)- perhaps referencing members of the …
Receipt mainly in Arabic script issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen (وكتب يهودا بن يوسف). The name ʿAlī b. Khālid appears in Hebrew characters in the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Refers to a father, children, and …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter "to my brother not from my mother," with some Arabic writing at top as well. Not much of the substance …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1108 CE(?), further context is needed for this estimate given that the document only lists a partial year 14[..] Seleucid. …
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Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Pastoral letter presumably addressed to the Fustat community from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (Yehoshuaʿ?). In addition to general admonitions, the …
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Verso (original use): Legal fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. Involves Abū Naṣr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Isrāʾīlī, potentially identical with Abū Naṣr b. Efrayim from …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The first 7 lines are preserved. Made by al-muʿallim Aḥmad(?) b. [...] b. ʿUthmān al-[...] the sugar seller …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. Mentions Abū l-ʿIzz and an old woman (ʿajūz). Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Excerpts: ר]חמתה וישקיף עלינו …
Fol. 6: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (right side of recto). …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Shemuʾel; silk; Bū l-Majd; raisins; linseed oil; cows(?); meat; cinnamon; cumin; laundry. There are also ohter jottings and pen trials.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter of congratulations to the Hizqiyahu the Qaraite Nasi and his 3 sons on the birth of a boy from a certain Shemuel.
Court record, in which Naḥum b. Avraham b. Neḥemya declares that he possesses nine qiraṭs of a house in Fusṭāṭ in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the other …
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Philosophical work on good and evil deeds and God's transcendence. Information from Nahum Steinberg's transcription and notes.
Letter to the community of Jerusalem from Elhanan b. Shemarya, 1013 CE.
Booklet of piyyuṭim in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Many pages preserved.
Distribution of 150 pounds of bread to 39 households, in the same hand as T-S Misc.8.61. The large number of households receiving 3 loaves was …
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Syriac Memro for Palm Sunday. 14 lines, with a catchword at the bottom and the Garshuni heading yuqraʿ turjām ʿīd al-saʿānīn. This was edited by …
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Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition from the group/community/tribe of Banū al-Thimāl(?). Only the opening blessings for the caliph are preserved. Someone has re-copied …
Literary text, probably medical. Mentions "al-zībaq al-aḥmar" red mercury.
Medical recipes in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. One is for a child's cough, another for dysentery.
Recto: accounts. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
IB III, 15. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel. (August 1147). Written in …
In Your name, O Merciful.
You will walk, without breaking stride; when you run, you will not stumble.
And Shaddai be your treasure, and p…
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Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder, dated in the final line of recto to 1207 CE (Shevat 1518 Seleucid אתקיח).
Petition in Arabic script. Fragment (the beginnings of 4 lines from the bottom). Mentions al-Shaykh Ḥamīd and the Jewish m an Khalaf who lives in …
Small, official-looking receipt. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a tax receipt for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa the Jew for his capitation tax payment in Fustat for the year [...].
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a man and his cousin (ibn ʿamm); 51 dinars; and something granted …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim.
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה פי אלכיר בקאך וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ פי גמיע
אמורך מן אלסכנדריה ליב כלון מן שהר טאבת ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכת מא
יליה …
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Accounts in Arabic script. The second entry mentions a Christian, Abū al-Thanāʾ al-Naṣrānī and a specific street name. The verso mentions Mūsa al-Jarān(?) (الجران؟) in …
List in Arabic that offers an inventory and other information for a variety of food and household items such as beans, honey, watermelon, sugar, charcoal, …
Verso, with the address on recto (original use): Fragment of a letter from Mūsā b. [...], unknown location, to his father, in ʿAsqalān. The introduction …
Literary text in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Bifolium from a codex. The text is arranged in very neat columns, with space between the hemistichs of each …
Recto: Bill of sale for a female slave. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel …