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Work containing two Sufi treatises (by the same hand): 1. Collections of sayings of the Sufi martyrs (especially of Abu Yazid) with occasional comments by …
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Letter (possibly a halakhic question) by Shelomo b. Elijah, with jottings on verso. (Information from CUDL)
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Responsum regarding the scoring of parchment (שירטוט) for Torah scrolls and mezuzot.
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions animals, fruit, the countryside, and people rejoicing over something. On verso a few words of unidentified Hebrew text. (Information …
Family letter from Yosef to Abū l-Ḥasan (his brother-in-law?). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: 13th–15th century. The sender defends himself against …
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Genesis.
Unidentified text or document in Judaeo-Arabic; maybe a letter.
Bottom part of a legal deed, signed by Yehuda b. Efrayim, containing fragment from the approval- qiyyum
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Upper part of a letter probably to Yīṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (active until ca. 1136 CE), here addressed as 'the great Rav.' In Hebrew and …
Draft of a poem for a circumcision composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū, containing the acrostic with his name (אברהמ חזק). With praises for …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions testimonies and a "father" (ḥaḍrat al-ab al-muḥtaram). Dated: 26 April 1791 CE (٢٦ شهر ابريلس ١٧٩١). (Information in part …
Verso, with the address on recto: Letter addressed to R. Muvḥar b. Shemuel, in New Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Telling him not to delay something; mentioning …
Letter from Ḥasan b. Isḥāq, in ʿAsqalān, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh al-Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and …
Letter fragment in Arabic script, could also be a state document given that there are large line spacing and the script is chancery-esque. Parts of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th or 15th century.
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
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Letter in Hebrew. Late. Needs examination.
Recto, with the address on verso: Mercantile letter from Yehuda b. Moshe to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shaʿyā, in Fustat. In Arabic script, …
Literary work containing Hebrew poetry and a section on the calendar including for the years 4923–78 AM, which corresponds to 1162–1218 CE. The hand is …
Attestation (qiyyum) of a legal document by the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (1127–39); also signed by Moshe b. Sadoq Av Beit Din (president of …
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Responsum concerning orphans, describing a loan from orphans that is taken orally without an oath, and a statement that orphans who are in debt because …
Small fragment. Unclear what this is. There is a prayer for annulling evil decrees, and then mention of the Nesiut (so perhaps a letter/petition addressed …
Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Mysterious fragment with several different sorts of jottings, including: 1) In Hebrew: "When the great king (Mehmet II) who conquered Constantinople died (in 1482), and …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions the currency ghurūsh.
Recto (secondary use): Mentions 16 "golden dirhams" which seems oxymoronic and may help with dating. Also mentions nuqra dirhams.
Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a list of individuals with sums of money. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and some Hebrew). This document is rich with names of people, places, and commodities, and places. There is mention of R. Shimʿon …
Recto: Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic about a partnership in a perfume/drug shop. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Probably [15]22 Seleucid = 1210/11 CE …
Letter from Abū ʿAlī to Abū l-Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the first two lines are preserved.
Fragment of a ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Groom: [...] b. Yehuda. Some details of the trousseau list …
Verso: Legal document. Copy of a divorce settlement, dated 11th Adar I 4973 (= 1213 CE), from Alexandria, in which Yeshuʿa b. Yosef b. Raṣon …
Karaite bill of release. Date: 5 Iyyar 5452 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda …
Letter from Moshe b. Nissim to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks the addressee to sell on his behalf four copies of th She'eltot …
Recto: Letter of condolence from [...] b. [...] ha-Dayyan (ZL) to Shemuel the physician (peʾer ha-rofʾim). In Hebrew. Dating: Early 13th century, per Cohen. (Information …
Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
Fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains legalistic language but is written in a crude hand - possibly a copy of an original document. Refers …
Astrological or astronomical table.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an agent (wakīl); Sicilian cheese; "we are all Jews, and the Truth (al-Ḥaqq) unites us all"; and "the Sicilian Kohen …
Fiscal accounting, probably. Mentions wheat and fūl and various numbers. Needs examination.
Damaged fragment from a Hebrew letter mentioning "our Rabbi son of our Master" (רבינו בן אדוננו). Also refers to separation (פרידותו) and delaying (לרבינו להתעכב) …
Copy of a letter sent from one of the Syrian communities to Damascus. In Hebrew. Conveying their distress at the imminent arrival and encampment of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Medieval-era. Scattered phrases: אלגמלה . . . וכמסין . . . קבץ . . . כמסין נקרה . . . …
See PGPID 19097.
Letter fragment. Refers to the arrival of a raqqāṣ (runner/courier) in search of the sender (ʿabduhā).
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Asking the addressees to help the Jews and the Conversos (הן ליהודים הן לאנוסים). Dating: Presumably dated to after the Spanish …
Letter written by Nissim b. Ḥalfon on behalf of Mardūkh b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī (Gil) and sent from Alexandria to Abu Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī …
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