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Fragment in Arabic script. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary text.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: Refers to the beginning of Ḥeshvan 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117 …
Draft of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1507 Seleucid = 1195/96 CE. In the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Involves Abū …
Long letter to Ishaq b. Abraham the Karaite
Recto (original use): Large state document in Arabic script, likely a decree. The ends of two lines are preserved ([...]bihā wa-ʾārāʾuhā....).
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Regarding shipment of clothes and scarves. The writer asks for the prices of …
ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידי אן כתבת אליך כתב אן עדה ולם נרא לואחד
מנהא גואב …
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Unidentified, only few words are visible
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1518 CE, since on recto (probably the side of later use) appears to mention the year 924 kharājī.
Legal document. Mentions a certain Rabbenu Shelomo. Signed by [Avraham?] b. David b. Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Dating: late 13th or early 14th century.
Legal fragment. There are several interlinear corrections. Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate …
Recto (secondary use): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: …
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Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a legal query ("mā yaqūl sayyidunā. . . ").
Legal document(s). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, yet bearing the PGP tag of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe(?). Recto: Mentions Shemuel and the of wife …
Accounts of the expenses for a maṭbakh (sugar refinery or kitchen), headed "al-maṣrūf fī maṣāliḥ al-maṭbakh al-mubārak." Dated: Jumādā II 632 AH = February/March 1235 …
Recto: Probably Arabic poetry. Verso: Bottom of a document in Arabic script. Concludes (l. 2) with in shāʾa allāh followed by a taṣliya. Underneath there …
From a book of formulas of letters. Compare with T-S J3.3
Small fragment from the top of a decorated ketubah, from the month of Nissan. No further details. AA
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various weights in raṭls, the name Jaʿfar, and the phrase "that which is in the hand of the Jews."
Accounts. Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions several names, including someone from Damanhūr. There may also be a few lines of Arabic poetry.
Receipt. T-S AS 178.131 through T-S AS 178.150 are ~20 very similar documents.
Receipt.
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal record (#108) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 26 Tevet 5326 …
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Legal document, on parchment, in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The date is lost in the lacuna. Witness signatures are preserved. Needs examination.
Writing exercises. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The name "Yosef Frances" appears at the top.
Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Accounts.
Letter in Ladino from Shemuel Sidi to his brother-in-law Gabriel Conforte relating to business transactions (17th century). Lines 8-9, 15 mention a variety of individuals …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the top. mentioning [Saʿa]dya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Saʿīd, and …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based on layout and handwriting. Same sender and addressee as T-S 8J24.4 and CUL Or.1080 …
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Legal document, small fragment. In Hebrew. Written on parchment, with strings still attached. Location: Qiryat Ono. Dating: Probably no later than early 11th century. Published …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In fact there may be two documents here, written at 180 degrees to each other. (מע סכרה אלכביזה ואלדי ישהד אליה …
Small fragment from the middle part of a bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; and the daughter of someone.
Fragment of a mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā.
Literary text in Arabic script with at least one word in Arabo-Hebrew (طهورا = טהורה).
Recto: Legal notes, or maybe formularies and legal procedure. The top entry is a bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE. Location: …
Fragment of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. May mention Ismāʿīl b. Sibāʿ.
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
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Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Large, well-preserved, and essentially unstudied. Sender and addressee are unidentified; the sender is probably writing from Ifrīqiyya. …
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Legal document, draft of the opening, giving only the (difficult-to-read) date. At the top is named Abdallāh the son of the brother of the Nagid …
Document in Arabic script. Unusual format, with text mostly in one column on the right side of the page. Moderately wide spice between the lines. …
Legal agreement regarding the Rabbanite Jewish communal pious endowment of Cairo (al-Qāhira al-Maḥrūsa) and Old Cairo/Fustat (Miṣr al-ʿAtīqa). In Arabic script. Date: 26 Ramaḍān 9[04] …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The [lit., ‘its’] witnesses [to the case] testified on behalf of Raʾīs Ibrāhīm, called…
Small fragment, probably from a legal document, mentioning Sanīy al-Dawla. Someone of the same title is mentioned in several other mid-12-century documents. For instance, Frenkel …
A fragment of a Palestinian deed (maʿase) settling a marital dispute, affirming that the wife will be receive room and board from her husband's estate …
Letter to Eli b. Amram from a junior colleague, as court scribe, specifying the fees received for writing documents (marriage contracts, divorce documents, a power …
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