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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Ibrāhīm who has not yet completed the aqāwīl, also mentioning boats arriving from all over the place and …
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Hebrew letter dated 1687/8 CE (5448 AM), addressed to "the Judges," regarding business transactions. Contains several words in Ladino that are marked with two dots: …
No Scholarship Records
Minute fragment. A list of items belonging to a Jew, including a table cover (sufra) and an iron pan (ṭājin). (Information in part from FGP.)
Letter (beginning on verso), mentioning quinces. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: End of Shevaṭ 1439 Seleucid, which is February 1128 CE. In which a …
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Av 1484 Seleucid = 7 August 1173 CE. Husband: Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿAlī. Wife: [Sitt …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (that of Nahray?). Mentions a shipment from Būṣīr to Fustat. Mentions sums …
Arabic writing exercises. Late.
Accounts, with an unidentified text on recto.
Accounts in Arabic (VMR). Late.
Legal document regarding the settlement of the dispute between Zayn al-Dār and her (?) mother Ḥusn (?) bt. Sulaymān. The substance of the dispute was …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The remaining content is quite vague. Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions …
Accounts in Arabic script.
List of payments received in Judaeo-Arabic. Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use …
Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves the moneychanger (al-shulḥani/al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmram b. ʿEzra, …
Investment partnership (ʿisqa) from Cairo, dated 1 Adar 5562 AM (= 1802 CE), in which Efrayim b. Shabbetay ʿAda receives 150 reales from Qamr the …
Begging letter to a cantor together with the refusal in reply, mentioning Abū l-Faḍāʾil. (Information from CUDL.) (This is not quite clear; it appears that …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. Underneath, the tops of the letters are …
Recto: Marriage contract, fragment. Groom: Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Abū l-Faraj (from verso). Dating: Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel …
End of a document about pledges (rahāʾin) signed by Moshe b. Binyamin ha-Sefaradi and Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by Elʿazar …
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Accounts on verso in an extensive table on the verso in which a wide array of individuals are mentioned, such as: Elʿazar Candiote, Elʿazar Cohen, …
Verses of poetry penned by al-Mutanabbī followed by a commentary or elaboration. Mentions two key figures he wrote panegyrics for - Sayf al-Dawla and Kāfūr.
Letter from Yosef b. Farah from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 25, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of dinars for exchange …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וכאן לך ומעך [ולי] וחאפץ מן אל
מסתקר לנצף מן שהר מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה
וערפך ברכת מא י…
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Liturgical.
Geonic literature. In Hebrew.
Literary text in Ladino and Hebrew. Probably a sermon.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-muʿallim Ṣāliḥ; the cantor al-Mesos (المسوس الحزان); Hārūn ʿAbd al-Qawiyy; al-ʿAjamī; "In Cairo"; al-Baṣīr(?); Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mubayyiḍ; …
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlā Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dating: 29 December 1057 CE (Gil) or ca. …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as many of the surrounding fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century.
Engagement document in Hebrew (shiddukhin). Dated 1 Kislev 5567 AM (1806 CE) for Me'ir ha-Levi b. Moshe and Raḥma bt. Avraham Krispin. The wedding date …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
Probably a family letter, consisting mainly of greetings. May mentions Fayrūz.
Table of contents for a responsa collection in a late hand. arranged according to subjects.
Hebrew commentary on the Guide for the Perplexed, including on Part III, chapter I, which prefaces the discussion of Ma'ase ha-Merkava with a discussion of …
Saadya releases Eliyyahu b. Yiṣḥaq b. al-Qash'ami from an obligation. Dated Thursday, the 10th of Nisan 1357 Seleucid (1046 CE). Location: Fustat. (Information from Goitein's …
Verso: List of thirty-two names with Coptic numerals (recipients of loaves of bread), for example, “the son of little Sesame.” A Maghribi scribe is recorded …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Too damaged to extract much of the content.
Fragment of a deed of sale for a property, probably. Dated: Ramaḍān 421 AH = September 1030 CE. Reused for Hebrew text (lower margin and …
Accounts both in Arabic and Hebrew script. Late. Mentions Ismāʿīl (verso, l. 1). Organized by parshiyot.
Large fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Difficult hand. There is a section in the middle with the formula "wa-lā X wa-lā Y …
Hebrew poetry composition with other jottings, including long lists of rhyme words. The hand has features in common with that of Maimonides but is probably …
Order of payment (or bill?) in Arabic script. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAṭṭār is to pay 80 dirhams out of the price of the drugs/perfume. The scribe …
Letter written in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic script. Various blessings and Bible citations are rendered in Hebrew script, whereas the main part is …
Arabic script (VMR)
Responsa. Responsaum of הרא"ש כלל סו, סימן ז. AA
Letter, or perhaps an especially narrative-heavy legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Mentions silk. Mentions Minyat Ghamr at least twice. …
Fragment from a beginning of a letter to a notable (ha-sar ha-adir...). No details.
Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Cairo. Dated: Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid, which is March 1170 CE, under the …