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Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: November 1050. Location: Fustat. An unsigned assignment of power of attorney from Eleazar Manṣūr ("Head of the Congregations") b. …
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Recto: Letter mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, consisting mainly of flattering epistolary formulae for Rabbenu Nahray. Verso: Letter formulary in Hebrew, in a different hand. Blessings arranged …
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Business letter, fragment. In Ladino. Mentions "las naves" (the ships).
Letter (draft?), or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and mentions "al-mamlūk" twice. The text on verso reads as "min ahl hādihi …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to his brother ("ilā akhī" remains from the address on verso). When the text resumes after a large hole …
Small fragment, badly damaged with no legible text. There may be remnants of text in Hebrew script on the verso, but the ink is quite …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dating: 1127–38 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39 CE). Very faded. …
Legal notes (heading only) for the prenuptial agreement for the marriage (milāk) of [...] bt. Maʿālī and Mūsā the brother of al-Sh[...]. Written by Halfon …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dealing with mercantile affairs. Mentions Yosef b. Iyov / Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, al-Maḥalla, …
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Draft of an Arabic-script legal document or credit instrument. Documenting a debt of 20 dinars. Written on 11 Shaʿbān [.]39 AH. Mentions names such as …
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Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the (אליודפיה) household 2 dinars. Dated Av …
List of donations (?) collected dated 1820/21 CE (5581 AM). Surnames include Pinto, Yagi.
Fragment from a legal deed. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi. One of the parties is Eliyyahu ha-Levi, who is …
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking the elder Khalīl to pay the bearer of the note one raṭl of [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Note in Arabic-script which starts with a taqbīl clause and mentions the arrival of goods from Qūṣ and a donation of (oil?) for the …
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Small fragment, maybe from a letter. Yemeni hand. Probably recycled in a bookbinding. Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda al-Kohen and at least one other name.
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (ca. 1112–26 CE). It is …
Mysterious document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Multiple hands and distinct text blocks. On the far left of recto, there is a text block concerning tax farming in …
Verso: Fragment of an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Two very small fragments with minimal text surviving. Goitein's notes below mention Avaraham b. Perahya/Ibrahim b. Farah perhaps as the potential scribe?
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic where the object "עדה" is being expressed in various quantities of the unit of weight "ratl", here expressed in plural …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: uncertain, the handwriting and style are quite atypical and not clearly early or late (but late seems more likely). Mentions quantities …
Letter from Hilāl b. Avraham, in Alexandria(?), to his brother Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Fustat(?). The sender is worried about Abū l-Karam whose only …
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Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan in Fustat (cf. T-S 13J6.4).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Complaining about the lack of response or decision concerning something, asking for the addressee's opinion and the opinion of "my noble …
Karaite partnership dissolution agreement between two men who had been running a shop (דכאן) together. Dated Sunday 22nd Nisan 5441 AM (1681 CE). The two …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Surūr and [M]anṣūr. Conveys condolences on the death of their mother. On verso are a few words in …
Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter of recommendation for charity. Refers to someone known as al-Ḥasid, the name Yehuda, and various expressions …
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nissim b. ʿAṭiyya, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer gives details about shipments of goods to al-Mahdiyya and asks …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the beginnings of 5 lines, consisting mostly of formulaic phrases, are preserved. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century.
State document? In Arabic script. There are 4 lines in a very large hand and ~3 lines underneath in smaller letters. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter to a dignitary in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Refers to Tāj al-Dawla the son of Abū …
A Karaite engagement deed recorded in the home of Shemuʾel b. Yeshūʿa Melamed (probably the brother of one of the witnesses listed). Dated Wednesday, 15 …
Draft of letter(s) in Hebrew (recto) and Judaeo-Arabic (verso), addressing a noble (‘throne of the Negidut’). It refers to the community of Alexandria (‘No Amon’). …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Unusual format; may be quite early, 10th or 11th century? May be a deed of sale …
Business accounts. Mentions mirwads.
(I) Addendum (faṣl) to a ketubba concerning a gift made by the doctor Abū l-Surūr Sason to his daughter at the time of her engagement …
Legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Signed by Pinḥas b. Sheʾerit ha-Kohen. Dating: probably Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February …
Liturgy, Qaraite. Dating: Catalogued as 19th century.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …
Fragment only shows mirrored script. Probably from a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. …
Lament (seliha) by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. See also: ENA …
End of a legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar 5337 AM = 29 April 1577 CE. Signed (and probably written) by Yosef b. …