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Bottom of a will. The testator may be Abū l-Fakhr b. al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍl al-Levi al-Ṣ[...] (l. 12). The figure 100 dinars is mentioned. …
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Decree, in Arabic script. Only a few words preserved in a bold chancery script.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably literary.
Business letter from Sulaymān to Abū l-Munajjā. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has sent some items with al-Thiqa (l. 11) and wishes to know …
Letter from הדוד(?) addressed to a certain Ṭahor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1220 CE, based on the mention of Eliyyahu the Judge and Avraham Maimonides …
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Thin strip of the right-hand side of a legal document, mentioning dinars, different quantities of wares, accounts, lead and olive oil. Probably a legal dispute …
List of names in Judaeo-Arabic, with numbers and some Arabic script. Crude hand. Alms distribution list? E.g., Manṣūr, Ibn Fuḍayl, Sitt Ṭāwūs, the sister of …
Palimpsest. This parchment contained an Arabic legal document, which was scraped. The part on recto refers to [...] b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAfṣī (the gallnut merchant) and …
Business letter. Addressed to Shimʿon Frances and Merkado Karo (شمعون فرانسيس والمعلم مركادة كارو) in Fustat/Cairo (Miṣr). In Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 1223 AH, which …
Letter of condolence. Might be a template or a eulogy, unclear if any specifics are present. Late.
Leaf from a letterbook containing copies of at least three different letters in Ladino. Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 5493 to Tishrei 5494 AM = late …
List of payments on certain days of the week and list of names, written by Tamim b. Yosef (was active from the last days of …
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer deals with selling goods that arrived from the Maghreb. …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך נצף תמוז ואלחאל סלאמה
ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך וצלני כתאבך ולם ארא מנך כתאב סו…
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Fragment with text in Aramaic. Damaged/faded. Possibly legal.
Very damaged list of items, probably a dowry list. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Bifolio. On the righthand page of verso …
Legal document, Mamlūk era, deed of sale, in a very faint and worn-off Arabic script. The document is dated to the last ten days (ʿushr …
Letter, c. mid-16th century, from Avraham Sagish, in Jerusalem, to Yosef Qorqos, who is normally resident in Jerusalem but is currently visiting Egypt, regarding the …
Love poem related to the seventh-century Arabian cycle of Jamīl and Buthayna. The poem is written in verse form on both sides and begins with …
Letter/petition from Moshe b. ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon he-Ḥaver to a highly placed courtier in Fustat titled Zaʿīm al-Mulk, in Fustat. The addressee may in fact …
Letter fragment (upper right corner of recto). In Arabic script. The addressee is called, flatteringly, 'al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya.' Unclear how much of the substance is preserved.
Note concerning the wages of the teacher Abū Isḥāq for four weeks (Teruma through Vayaqhel). Each week he taught 3 boys and earned 1.5 dirhams.
Fragment of a ketubba from Fustat probably from the year [13]93 = 1081/82 CE.
Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …
List of Qaraite Nasis.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the beginning and the address are preserved. The sender …
Magical or halakhic text (information from G. Bohak, FGP)
Recto: The bottom few lines of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: In a different hand, instructions for what to load onto the boat: 23 …
Verso: Court records (shimmush). Three entries. In the hand of (and signed by) Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1441 and Tishrei 1442 Seleucid, which …
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Letter on paper in Arabic script. Appears to be secondary use, on the verso of another letter (PGPID 35236), under the address. Ink is faded. …
Bill of settlement (taṣāduq). In Arabic script. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Qaʿda 924 AH, which is 1518 CE. Principal protagonists are Mīkhā'īl b. Isḥāq b. Abī …
Business accounts. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū l-Ṭayyib Ibn al-Dhahabī; al-ʿAmid; flax; Abū l-Faḍl; Muẓaffar; "owed to Menashshe by Ḥasūn"; various …
End of an Arabic legal deed with at least one signature preserved. AA
Literary text. Mentions "taʿllaq qalbuhum".
Account in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk period. Mentions "al-muḥḍar", and "al-ḥiṣṣa".
Folios from a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.
Complete letter of the 15th or later centuries, with a ב״ה in the top margin. It mentions Shemuʾel Jerbi (the sender?), and two others, David …
Letter from R. Sherira to R. Yaʿaqov b. Nissim from Qayrawan.
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Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps Mamluk-era; Yemeni hand? The sender asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother …
Hebrew poetry in two different Spanish or Maghribī hands (one on recto, one on verso). Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Should be compared against known hands …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged; the content is unclear. There are greetings to 'the sisters' (al-khawāt al-sādāt) and expressions of longing due to separation.
Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~15 lines are preserved. Mentions Shemarya ha-Zaqen.
Court record. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. Rayyisa bt. Yosef Bīmī, the wife of Yeshuʿa b. Nissim, vehemently accuses ("mustaghītha mutaẓallima mustaʿdiya ʿalā") Seʿadya …
Recto (secondary use): Book list in rudimentary hand and spelling. Mentions books such as Kitāb al-Wadīʿa; the book of Lamentations; Tehillot (= Tehillim?); a book …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Letter from a son to a father. Same writer and recipient as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat al-Qa'id) and Stras. 4110/90 (see …
Letter to ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Sabbāk (the smelter). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Containing mainly greetings to numerous people. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century.
Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.