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Letter in Arabic script, from Hārūn b. Mūsā al-Kohen to his 'father' (yā wālidī) in Fustat. A large portion of the original paper is preserved, …
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Commentary in Ladino on the section of the Guide for the Perplexed dealing with the reasons for circumcision makes up the main text. The remaining …
Business accounts in Arabic script. Mentions many names, such as Mūsā b. Khalaf and Khalaf b. ʿAlī.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Legible phrases: "...idol worship... I have no way to... all kinds of death... he behaved excessively... and peace. וחי בהם (Leviticus …
Alphabetical exercises in Hebrew and Arabic script. The student may have been using red ink on the recto in addition to black ink.
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Perhaps a letter.
Legal query to Hodayahu ha-Nasi. See parallel in ENA 4045.19 (PGPID 15920).
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …
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Letter from Tamīm to his two brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic (for the body) and Hebrew (for the learned blessings). Dating: Unknown. Goitein identifies the handwriting with …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. A note on verso: 'qabaḍtu min al-shaykh Abū l-Ṭāhir al-yahūdī naqqād . . . . thamāniya arṭāl. . …
Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
…..والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلامه على اله الائمة الطاهرين
Psalter in Old Church Slavonic. Floral capitals. Dating: Perhaps 15th century. This section includes Psalm 11:3–7.1 in the Tarnovo recension of Old Church Slavonic. The …
Letter sent in response to a message from the addressee, with well-wishes related to the addressee's illness or frailty (iltiyāth). Elevated register. Dating: 11th or …
Recto (secondary use): drafts of documents in Judaeo-Arabic with biblical quotations such as Deuteronomy 17:7. Also mentions Abū l-Surūr, Peraḥya and Barhūn. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter from Hārūn b. Yaʿqūb, in Tiberias, possibly addressed to Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl b. Sahl. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with the indigo trade. Needs …
IB I, 12. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from the community of Sfax, largely consisting of prayers and praises for the recipient. Two letters from the recipient had arrived, and …
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic and jottings in Hebrew, and on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. …
Exemplars of epistolary style, headed א and ב (probably 16th or 17th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Jerusalem written on recto and verso to someone addressed as 'my son and master' (probably Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat). First half …
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Account in Arabic script, possibly official.
(Information from CUDL)
Possibly a piece of a tax receipt but too damaged to be sure.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Tishrei 1530 Seleucid, which is 1218 CE. Inventory of a dead perfumer's shop, taken for purposes of dividing the …
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Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are …
Release granted by Hiba al-Labbān b. Abū Naṣr, the brother and heir of the late Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mustaʿmal, to his sister-in-law Bushr bt. Abū l-Faraj, …
Minute fragment of accounts, mentioning 5 gold dinars. Medieval-era.
Last line of a document in Arabic script. The empty space below has one column of Arabic script at 90 degrees to the main text, …
Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi). Dating: ca. 1168–1204, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
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Court record. A settlement between a brother and his two sisters concerning their late father’s inheritance. Dated: 1440 Seleucid (1128/9 CE). In the hand of …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very neat, laid out in a grid according to parshiyot, probably donations collected from the people named. Dating: likely late 18th- …
Letter from Malkiel Ashkenazi to his brother Moses in Egypt. Family letter from Malkiel Ashkenazai fro Hebron (mid. 16th century) to his brother Moshe in …
Legal document mentioning a bridal gift and the name Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely medieval. From a man probably to family members. There are many self-pitying phrases. Some lines are crossed out; may …
Deed of sale of a house in Fustat dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 643 AH = March/April 1286 CE. Refers to Fustat and the Mamṣūṣa quarter and …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Faded. Headed "expenditures that went out [for?] my late father and teacher (אבא מארי זל)." Many (or all?) of …
Small fragment of a state document: في احد المستخدمين . . . ما يكتب. . .
One side: A brief letter to Abu l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān consisting of greetings and blessings. (A man by the same name is known from India Book …
Legal document written in Ṣoʿan (Fusṭāṭ), mentioning Shelomo b. Ḥalfon and (on verso in a different hand/document) Ibn Hamza. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū Makārim 3 dinars. …
Letter possibly in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi, possibly sent to Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Containing an answer to inquiry whether a family had …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated (ll. 4–5): 20 Shaʿbān 441 AH = 17 January 1050 CE.The muqirr is the sharīf Abū l-Ḥasan …
IB VI, 3. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef to a certain [son of] Natan he-haver. The letter mourns the passing of Madmun (the Nagid of …
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