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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Three fragments from the lower part of the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid, which is December …
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poems for a groom. the name Ibn Ma'usa (?) is mentioned.
Fragment of a business letter to ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn announcing the arrival of a large ship from Spain and two other ships from Mahdiyya and …
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Letter from Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo to Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen ha-Zariz (known from other documents ca. 1130s). In Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be a letter certifying …
Possibly business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Story of illicit love involving a woman named Hind and her husband, a man named Bishr and an old woman. Cf. H. T. Norris, "The …
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Verso (original use): Four lines from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān. Dating: likely early 11th century. Needs examination.
Recto: ketubba of [...] b. Nissim (groom) and Jins (bride), a divorcee. Locaiton: Fusṭāṭ. Verso: title page for laments for the 9th of Av. In …
Small fragment of a document in Hebrew, maybe a letter. Mentions the name Shemaʿya.
Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the ground rent (ḥikr) several times.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Two songs with musical notation by Obadiah the Proselyte. See https://johannes-obadiah.org/, Obadiah Musical Compositions, Song 1.
IB II, 12. Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)
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Approximately 13 verses of poetry from the poem of the renowned Arabic poet al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/955) "حاشا الرقيب فخانته ضمائره * وغيض الدمع فأنهلت بوادره".
Accounts. Mentions names such as ʿAbdallāh the miller (al-ṭaḥḥān).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Many names appear, including Mūsā b. Ḥāmid; ʿAbd Allāh; Muḥammad b. Ḥasan; Ṣāliḥ; the fishermen (al-ṣayyādīn); Nāṣir b. Ṣāliḥ; ʿĪsā b. Ḥarīz(?). …
A declaration by the community of Qal'a
Debt acknowledgement for five dinar to be repaid in monthly installments. Written by Hillel b. Eli in Kislev 1402/October 1090. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
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List of donations collected on various Shabbatot.
Fragment from the upper right corner of a deed of sale made by a certain Sayf al-Dawla [...]. Possibly Mamluk period. Bill of sale in …
Page from the table of contents of a Hebrew medical treatise including the sections on gynecology and musculoskeletal pain.
Letter in difficult Latin script, possibly Portuguese. The address on verso is in Hebrew: to David Ṣarfati, from R. Yiṣḥaq Alpa[...], from צאפט to Fustat.
Recto: Aphorisms in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Strangely, for an often-humorous poet, he includes "the one who abandons laughter [is rewarded?] …
Letter: poetic letter (probably a draft) to an important individual, addressed as נין הגאונים ותפארת הישיבות. (Information from CUDL)
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Draft of a legal document dated 1213 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides (notably without the title Nagid), involving Abu Isḥāq b. Sayyid al-Ahl …
Recto: legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Shabbetay the blind (סגיא נהור), a house (al-dār), quires (karārīs), …
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge concerning business matters. Dating: possibly early 13th century. The writer was ill for 40 days, recovered, then relapsed. The …
Magical recipes in two different hands, including for the protection of Yosef b. Me'ir. (Information from FGP)
Business letter sent from Qayrawan by Efrayim b. Ismail, probably to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Awkal in Fustat (Gil) or from Ifrīqiya by 'Allush b. …
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Likely a summary of a legal case, involving Umm Khalaf, Yosef b. Ḥus[ayn?], a payment of 26 of something, and ʿIwāḍ. (Information in part from …
Recto: Fragment of an official state correspondence, in Arabic script. Has wide line-spacing, diacritical dots, and diacritical marks, with iḥmāl markings. Mentions a sijill and …
Letter from Muslim b. [...] al-ʿAṭṭār to Nahray b. Nissim. In Arabic script. Only the top of recto and the address on verso are preserved.
Calendrical discussion in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Lease document for a house in Fusṭāṭ, owned by Abī Saʿīd b. Makārim b. Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of …
Probably accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Faded.
Addendum to a letter. The sender had already written the original letter when Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt known as Abū l-Faraj brought two letters from …
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
:Left side of bifolio 4v (Documents 31-33)
Modern writing exercises with corrections in purple ink.
State document or letter. In Arabic script. Four lines probably from the bottom of the document. Reused for jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the top of a ketubba. In the hand of Yefet b. David (early 11th century).
Pen trials
Late accounts, naming goods in multiple colors.
Bottom of a letter in Hebrew. Playing around with the word shalom.
List of revenue from rent ca. 1200. A fragment of a double leaf from a notebook. The revenue listed refers mainly to the funduq and …
The small ṭabaqa, 3 ….
The upper part of the funduq,
the apartment of (A)būʾl-Faraj …. 18(?)
The funduq:
The storer…
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Note from a judge to a colleague named Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting the exact date and some of the conditions of a settlement that had …
Accounts in Arabic, probably state-issued. Medieval-era. There are many well-preserved entries on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Cursive and difficult to read. Several of the entries are circled. Verso is headed "Thursday, …
Letter draft. In Hebrew. Full of fulsome praises for a very important person who is also a Kohen. Refers specifically to Benei Ṣadoq, so perhaps …
IB V, 37, folio 21. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
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