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Letter addressed to two people. In Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. The names should be legible, …
No Scholarship Records
Short letter to Abū Naṣr, asking for money both on account of the rent or wages of Avraham and on account of the capitation tax. …
Recto: State document. Possibly an account synthesizing multiple streams of revenue: capitation tax (māl al-jawālī), a tax on palm produce (māl al-nakhl or maybe the …
Right fragment: Letter/petition in Hebrew from the widow of the well-known judge Hiyya b. Yishaq (active in Fustat 1129–60s) to the Jewish congregation of Fustat. …
Letter from Yisra'el b. Daniel, in one of the towns of the Rīf, to Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. …
כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך סלך צפר ען סלאמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וכאן קד וצל אלחאיך אלי הונה וסט אלעיד וגאתני
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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Concerning Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen who who bought dyed cloth from Abū …
Accounts for the synagogue, mentioning the women’s entrance of the synagogue, dates such as Shabbat Pinḥas and a number of names, such as Ibrāhīm, Abū …
Mysterious document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Naming Salmān b. A[...]. Likely magical.
Small scrap. All that remains is "Yeshuʿa b. Yosef, I try the ink" (i.e. a pen trial).
Letter likely from a woman, perhaps in Palestine or Syria (based on the mention of earthquakes), to her brother, evidently a government official in Cairo. …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated Adar 5568 AM (1808 CE).
Note of some sort mentioning the names Benyamīn Zaradel and Menaḥem Zaradel. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. The fragment …
Small fragment from the address of a letter addressed to Jerusalem. Late.
Literary bifolio fragment with Arabic text on the margins - needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
Probably a letter. (Information from CUDL.) Only a few words are preserved.
Probably a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.
Letter from Bū l-Khayr(?) addressed to his father Samʿān al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In Arabic script. Dating: 13th (or perhaps 14th) century, based …
Legal document. Involves a sum of 5 dinars and people including Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf and [...] al-Ṣayrafī. The details of the case …
Arabic, literary.
Minute fragment preserving three words in Judaeo-Arabic, likely from a letter, praising the recipient's good deeds.
State document(s) in Arabic script. On recto there are administrative/secretarial notes at the top: yuʿāmal.... mutawallī al-nāḥiyya....bi-ʿadl.....inshā Allāh...It also mentions a government bureau towards the …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, late.
Literary work in Hebrew and Aramaic citing biblical verses.
Letter fragment (upper left corner of recto and remnants of the address on verso) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mentions the latter's son Abū Zikrī …
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An early legal document, in Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Location: al-Banā, near Fāqūs in the Nile Delta. Dated: Tishrei 4759 AM = 1309 Seleucid = …
Detailed account of monthly sales of products from the east in Sicily, especially spices and flax, covering the period from August 1064 to October 1065, …
אוביע בעד אקלאע אלמראכב פי אל[ ] מן אלול פי אלתאריך
עטיה בן אלעלאש נג רטלא נ דינ [ ] אלנפוסי כו רטלא ונצ ה דנא
צאחבה יג רטל ור…
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A muwashshah by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, ed. Schirmann.
Recto: Fragment of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a son to a father. Verso: The page was trimmed and reused for what may be …
List of names (memorial list?)
Accounts of ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein's index cards).
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: refers to "the end of year '4"; "1 Ramaḍān of the year '4" and "year '5," …
Formulary for legal documents.
Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya to his 'brother and father' Wāfī b. Ḥasan and Avraham b. Ṣedaqa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Dealing in …
Fragment of a business letter, probably 11th-century, as it mentions Barhūn and Nahray. Difficult to read due to ink smudging; needs further examination.
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
Letter from Moshe b. Mevorakh the Nagid to Abū l-Makārim. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer insists that the addressee come visit him on Shabbat at the …
Business letter to a certain Abū l-Munā. In Arabic script with one word in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter, probably, or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination. [Or rather likely a legal document …
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, mainly missing just the upper right corner. The bearer is a resident of Jerusalem (קדס) who is traveling to …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Moshe b. Yeshuʿa, the agent of al-Kohen Abū l-Mak[ā?]rim b. Yosef, al-Makīn Abū l-ʿIzz b. al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍl al-Ṣayrafī (known from …
Small receipt or order for 2 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Mentions "jumlat al-waraq" in the first …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Letter to Nahray b. Nissim. Mentions Abū l-Bishr and a payment of 15 dinars to Nahray. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal record (#42). Deposition of securities (thabat al-ḥawā'ij). Dated: Monday, 28 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. These valuable items (aʿlāq), some of which are taken from the …