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Informal note from Munajjā to Abū l-Riḍā. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Written on verso of a page of accounts in Arabic script …
Letter from Shabbetay b. Moshe to Peraḥya b. Sasson 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva'. Mainly in Hebrew, with a few phrases in Judaeo-Arabic and part of the address …
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Megillat Miṣrayim?
Circular letter from Avraham b. Shabbetay, in Minyat Zifta, to various communities of Lower Egypt. Certifying that Yoshiyyahu b. Moshe makes kosher cheese. (Eliyahu Ashtor, …
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe referring to the addressee's fame and stature, expressing a wish to see him, and promising to pronounce the prayer for …
Birth certificate – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 73) – in Turkish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
Recto: probably the end of a letter (or literary lament) mentioning the date Nisan 5362 AM, which is 1602 CE. Verso: legal deed with release …
On recto there is an unidentified document in Arabic script. On verso there are masoretic notes followed by 2 lines in Judaeo-Persian: בוד פא אכיר …
Minute fragment of a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Quite long. Mentions the wife of a certain Meʾir the scribe. Needs examination.
Fragment of a ketuba de'irkasa- a ketubah written as a replacement for a lost one. The groom named Perahya the elder. AA
State document (fragment) in Arabic script, perhaps a decree. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved, with very wide space between them. Reused on recto …
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Document(s) in Arabic on recto and verso, wide line spacing. Medieval era. Probably a fiscal register. The end of three lines are preserved on each …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: ʿAllūn b. Dāʾūd (?). Bride: Mulūk bt. Avraham. The date is only partially preserved.
Engagement agreements. Two sides of what appears to be a page from the court notebook from the 1330s. On recto, there are two engagement agreements, …
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Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. September 8, 1060. Several financial issues between Israel and Nahray. Also mentions copying …
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Minute blank fragment.
Fragment of a report apparently from an army officer to a superior. He describes how "we all went out to Wādī Buṭnān (near Aleppo) and …
Commercial letter from the owners of a commercial company in lumber to the Bar Būḥay Institute in the Jewish quarter – November 30 1945CE – …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1200–1240 CE, based on Goitein's assessment. "[Received on account of the] Food for the Poor—101 1/2 [dirhems]." Accounts for one …
Lists of goods and sums of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Likely related to T-S AS 145.241 (PGPID 18215).
Letter in Ladino. Mentions Turks ("Turcos") a couple times at the top of recto. Needs examination.
Legal record (#104) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated according to the …
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Responsa collection.
Probably a commercial letter or legal document. In Hebrew. Small fragment, with only a few words preserved. Dating: Perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions white pepper (פלפל …
On verso a few words in Arabic in a rudimentary hand. May start "hal" and may mention "Sulaymān" but otherwise very tricky to read.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that list a wide array of food and household items, possibly with their respective quantities and monetary valuations. The fragment is undated …
Legal record (#134) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 43v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: the start of …
Accounts. Large, and listing many names. Probably a date as well.
Recto is a text in Judaeo-Arabic listing various foods (something boiled, sugar, lemon, almond, sweets). Verso is in the same hand and seems to be …
Amulet to make Yosef b. Amira (also known as Yosef b. Efrayim) return quickly to Fustat. The angels are called upon to not let him …
Letter from a man to his wife. In Judaeo-Arabic. Oddly, the sender refers to himself in the third person most of the time. The address …
Recipe or letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions apples (tuffāḥ) and quince (safarjal), and half mithqāl of something.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. The paper was recycled for pen trials on the recto.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Elul 5[...] AM, probably ca. 15th or 16th century.
Possibly a letter and/or accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly two different fragments stuck together. Needs further examination.
Calendar in Hebrew.
Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt. Avraham appoints her uncle Efrayim as her agent, it seems to sue [...] …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1444 Seleucid = August/September 1133 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Accounts, probably, in Arabic script.
Tables of names and sums of money, ranging from 0.5 dirham to 1.5 dirham. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Distribution list? Several entries …
Recto: Letter to a man in Qalyūb. The writer excuses himself for not coming to Qalyūb, for he thought the addressee would not be there, …
Court record, drawn up in Fustat, recording a gift. Given by: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Hillel ha-Zaqen, the widow of R. Ḥiyya ha-Mumḥe b. Ẓedaqa ha-Mumḥe. …
Administrative note in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. "The community should be aware that..." Mentions al-Shaykh Rashīd. Written on 18 Elul (the year …
Fragment containing mainly Hebrew literary text and one line in Arabic script: يقطع . . . النصف
Probably a dirge written by Anatoli (probably Anatoli b. Yosef who was active in the forst two decades of the 13th century in a memory …