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Copy of an engagement (shiddukhin) contract in Hebrew written in a different hand (though same hand as the pen trials underneath). Location: Cairo. Dated: 5 …
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Small fragment of fiscal accounting, probably. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
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Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script on recto-verso. Possibly literary.
Receipt.
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named …
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Arabic, literary.
Top of a legal declaration drawn up in Fustat in the middle of Iyyar 15[..], under the authority of the Avraham Maimonides. One of the …
Letters in Ladino that from Shem Tov b. Mozeo (Moshe?) and another individual with a distinct signature and hand. The letter on the fourth scan …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a document in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was recycled for a copy of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Requires further examination.
Note from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt. Dating: ca. 1054. Gil suggests that the letter was written when both Daniʾel …
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Small fragment from a ketubah. AA
Part of the beginning of a ketubba, dated 13[..] (10th-11th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a ketubba, probably.
Poem/piyyut, the last 10 lines alternating between Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from FGP.) See also T-S NS 306.8 (PGPID 38275).
Bible. On verso one line with the name Ishaq b. Musa
Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment. Probably connected with the dissolution of a partnership, since the …
Letter requesting financial support for a poor member of the community. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One side lists various dates in Rajab and the other side lists various dates in Shaʿbān. It may …
IB V, 19. Letter fragment, preserving only the opening line, seven lines from the top margin and, on verso, the address. The letter is addressed …
List of prices and perhaps an inventory with many values expressed in dinars on the verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from the son or descendant of Yeshuʿa he-Ḥaver b. Ṣabgha (צבגה), who moved from Jerusalem to Fustat with his family, asking for help from …
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Original document (both sides): Several names in Arabic script, e.g. al-Shaykh Abū Manṣūr . . . Hilāl). Verso (around the original text): Greetings or address …
Mamluk-era state document in Arabic script. Dated: 675 AH = 1276/77 CE. Contains various annotations by clerks and is endorsed by both thin and thick …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1649 Seleucid = 1337/38 CE. Concerning a partnership between [...] al-Levi al-Wajīh; his partner M[...]; a certain …
Unidentified document in stylized Arabic script. Upper left corner. Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his brother, Abu Zikri in Alexandria. Reporting that the 'old man' (likely their father Eliyyahu) arrived safely. Shelomo reports …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. [NB volume number in shelfmark is roman numeral I, not Arabic numeral …
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Minute fragment, probably liturgical. Previously noted as possibly Halfon b. Menashshe, but most likely not.
Letter in Ladino. Dating: possibly 16th century. The letter seems to have been dictated by a blind man. He says: ,Rabi Jacob dijo ke afilu …
Fragment of a letter/petition for charity in Arabic script. (This is the text block in large letters on verso.) وكان مولاي الشيخ كبت الله . …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Qaraite. Groom: Ṣedaqa. Location: Fustat(?). Dating: 1020–30s(?). Witnesses: Avraham b. Khalaf ha-Kohen; Netanʾel b. Revaḥ/Rawḥ ha-Levi; Barakāt b. Mubārak; Hiba b. Yosef; …
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Legal document (right side only) dated 1701/2 CE (5462 AM) involving Yosef Yedid and an orphan girl Sitt al-Bay[t] and payments on the order of …
Verso: Probably accounts, mentions several sums in dirhams and quantities like raṭl. Recto has crossed out text, possibly pen trials.
Entry in court notebook (#38). Note stating that a letter shall be written to 'our lord' to Amīn al-Dawla (and) to Ben Naḥman telling them …
Document in Arabic script. Listing various sums of money in dinars.
Poetry in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from CUDL.)
Documentary per FGP - communal enactment concerning the division of property. Not digitized?
Letter possibly from Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Arabic script. Dating: probably ca. 13th century. Mentions the ghulām of al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. Quite faded. Needs further examination. Excerpts: …
Bifolio containing a narrative of a dispute arising from a partnership during the period Nisan 1463 through Adar 1464 Seleucid = 1152–53 CE. The parties …
Letters (or letterbook?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter on verso is dated Heshvan 5548 AM and the letter on recto is dated 1 Tevet 5548 AM, …
Right fragment of a marriage contract, containing high-priced items in the trousseau (dowry). Groom: Avraham. Dated [13]35 Seleucid, which is 1023/24 CE. (Information from CUDL …
Small scrap with both Hebrew and Arabic characters, may be documentary.
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a shop (ḥānūt), dyeing, and a period of 6 months (a lease?).
Letter in Hebrew dated 1781/82 CE (542 = מבשר) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. …
Accounts, densely written, with many numerals.
List of names on recto and verso with corresponding figures expressed in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th-16th-century based on the paleography. …
Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …
Contract of debt. Location: Fustat. Dated: [157]6 Seleucid = 1264/65 CE, and prior to 9 February 1265 CE (the date of verso). In which the …
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Autograph letter from Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), in Cairo, to a physician known as al-Muhadhdhab, unknown location. Dated: Heshvan 1646 Seleucid = October …
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