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Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe literary or a letter. Mentions Rabbi Moshe. Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and …
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: gold peraḥim. Mentions the name ʿAlī Zāghlūl and Yiṣḥaq Pereṣ on the recto and verso, respectively. Requires further examination.
Business letter from Zekharya b. Yaaqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1065 (Gil). The writer is about to …
[ ] נהראי בן נסים וסלמו(?)
[ ] טראבלס יכון אלקאבץ מולאי אלשיך
[ ] מרדוך ואן אלמהדיה מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד ואנא מראעי [ ]
לדלך ואנא מעול …
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Business letter from Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov (fattore) to a certain Shelomo (employer). In Hebrew with occasional Ladino words (docenas, magazin, partidos). Spanish and/or Venetian coinage …
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IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Possibly the same handwriting as T-S AS 146.206. Content difficult to understand without a join. Mentions Mūsā …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 5581 AM, which is 1821 CE. Yiṣḥaq Ṭawīl invests 1000 esedi gurush with Moshe Maṣliaḥ …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Beginning of Shevat 5306 AM = January 1546 CE. Concerning financial arrangements between a wife (Siwār) and husband …
Legal notes. In Hebrew. Late. Narrating what happened in one or more legal cases. On verso there are jottings of prayers and piyyutim in Hebrew.
Recto: Two lines from an official letter. In Arabic script. Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Recto: Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Late. Mentions [...] b. al-Ashqar and a debt of 30 Venetian ducats (בנד[ק). On verso there are pen trials.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Quite damaged. Mentions the phrase "taḥlil al-mizāj"; refers to al-Dimashqī; and Abū Isḥāq b. Maḥbūb.
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or possibly 12th century. Dealing with business matters; mentions quantities of goods and prices. Mentions Ibn ʿAzrūn.
Letter of appeal for charity. Draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is also a maxim: "Indeed the world is a market, containing . . . …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document, fragment from the lower left containing part of a date.
Legal declaration (moda'a) in which a man declares that any release or compromise he will do in the future is invalid because he is coerced …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a date of an unspecified month and year "bi-tārikh rābiʿ ʿashr minhu."
Legal document. Mentions a certain Rabbenu Shelomo. Signed by [Avraham?] b. David b. Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Dating: late 13th or early 14th century.
Jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script, perhaps including some accounts.
Business letter to Nissim, probably not earlier than the 14th century, referring to trade in Syria and Egypt. The brother-in-law of Zechariah is mentioned. Information …
Interesting, late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "the land of the Christians" to al-Muʿallim Yūsuf, the shammas of the synagogue, Cairo. The writer narrates in brief …
Probably a prescription or recipe in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
Letter fragment addressed to al-mawālī al-munʿimīn. In vocalized Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender congratulates the addressee on the holidays, alludes to the …
Elaborate account. Amounts expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals.
Magical text in Hebrew.
Magical recipes in Hebrew, including for sleep and for headache (shaqīqa).
Fragment containing copies of two different legal documents. The second involves a loan from Abūl-Maʿālī to a certain Yeshaʿya.
Court record dealing with a dispute between Saʿadya and ʿEli ha-Levi over a sum of 8 dinars. It refers to the price of honey, an …
Power of attorney written by a Muslim notary, beginning [ ]هذا كتاب وكالة كتبه يبن هتم لعـ, with اليهودي added above the missing name in …
Legal deed in Arabic script. Fragment: right side only. Looks like a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). The muqirr: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Ṭalā'iʿ b. [???]. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment: left side only. Reporting that the writer has sent 3 dinars and urging the rapid sending of something (a horse? …
Piyyuṭ fragment in an exquisite scribal hand comprising a portion of the Yom ha-Kippur Amidah (per FGP). The FGP description does not reference two faint …
Recto: Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably copied from an Arabic work previously copied by a Muslim. "Written in the mon{th} of Rabīʿ I of the year …
Letter from a woman in the countryside to her husband in Fustat. She refuses to join him there in the capital. The letter is to …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century. Looks similar to the handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, and refers to family members like Zekharya (his …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's …
Fragment of a letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (d. 1355) addressed to the cantor Abu al-Faraj, like several other letters from the …
Letter of appeal for charity. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with good handwriting but rudimentary spellings. The sender asks for half a dirham to buy food. He …
Inventory of various kinds of building materials and wood (probably after the dismantling of a house), followed by "we saw the house and nothing remained …
מכסה …
Verso: Betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated: 7 Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= …
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Verso: Record of the donation of one quarter of a compound by Sitt al-Naẓar bt. Ḥalfon to the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1161 CE. She also …
(1-4) Sitt al-Naẓar, the daughter of [Ephraim] Ḥalfōn, dedicated one quarter of the compound that is in Mahra, leading into the darb, (Dār) S…
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is 29 November 1161 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Sivan 5323 = 8 June 1563 CE. In which Zeraḥ Dammūhī (cf. CUL Or.1081 2.26 + …
Fragment of a responsum (or a letter). In Judaeo-Arabic. EMS. On verso there is an ofan for Roš ha-Šana. The refrain is ה’ אלהים צבאות …
Bill of testimony concerning the will of Abū l-Faraj b. Hilāl. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Refers to Rabbenu Menaḥem. Also involves an …