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Literary work in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Possibly horoscopes or prognostications based on given names, including Gedalya and Yeḥezqel.
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Persian.
Letter to a judge (shofeṭ), apparently in Damīra, mentioning Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-[...] (the addressee?). (Information from CUDL)
Likely a letter, or possibly a literary narrative, in which a person is describing their tribulations in rhymed Hebrew: אדוני תשורה נאה והדורה . . …
Letter of thanks from a son to his father thanking him for his assistance and understanding and his cousins for assisting their aunt – 1947CE …
Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …
Letter addressed to ʿAmram. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably no earlier than 16th century. Shemuel b. Sīd(?) is mentioned in the first line. Very faded.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone with a 'ruined education' (bad manners? makhrūb al-taʿlīm), the washing of a garment, buying something, forcing …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably official.
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic (verso). Probably a letter.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The first section of accounts on the recto lists "people" collectively in …
Late communal accounts of some kind, funds collected for/from different individuals and congregations. Dated "in the year [5]555." In the same list on verso, many …
Literary, Arabic.
Magical fragment. In Arabic script, with pious Islamic phrases (incl. lā ḥawla wa-lā quwwa illā billāhi al-ʿaliyy al-ʿaẓīm). With stars of David.
Recto: Fragment of a large legal document in Arabic script. An iqrār document. The top and the lower left corner are missing. Names several people …
Petition to a Fatimid vizier, opening lines only, addressed to "my lord the most lofty vizier, companion and loyal adherent of the commander of the …
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IB IV, 79 (*83ח). Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat. Dating: mid-eleventh century. In which …
וכבר הבהרתי להדרתו את תכונותיו,
היינו של השיך אבו אלחסן, ולהיטותו לטפל בכל צורכיהם של אנשים (סוחרים) אחרים, ורק לאחר מכן במה ששייך …
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Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). Confirms the receipt of various good: …
Practice decorations and inscriptions for the top of a ketubba, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.
Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are …
Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil). Faraḥ is worried because …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ و ادام عزه وتاييده و سعادته و سلامته و حراسته و نعمته من الاسكندرية لثلث خلون من
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State document, in Arabic script. A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.
Fragment of a letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides including the following bitter statement: "What is the reason of this? Don't …
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Several small fragments. The first is the end of an extremely faded legal document; the singatures of several witnesses are preserved.
Business letter (c. 1100 CE) from Abū al-Ḥasan b. Khūlayf Iskandarānī to the prominent purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. Asks …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Giving instructions and sending regards. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā; Abū l-Munā; his brother Abū Sahl; a …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1563 Seleucid = 1251/52 CE. (The last digit of the year is quite faded but the letters ותל …
Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …
Private letter to Eliyahu Kaski/Kasbi. Dating: probably late nineteenth-century. The address in Arabic states the destination as Alexandria, but this may have been corrected given …
Verso: Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to pay the bearer one dirham, "because the need for it …
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Scribal exercises and signature practice. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. On the recto the signature Yiṣḥaq b. Eliyahu Israel is …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Qūṣ, to al-Shaykh al-Asʿad, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century, based on Goitein's assessment. The writer reports …
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Small fragment from the top of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Mentions a "dīwān".
Draft of one line of an opening formula of a legal deed. AA
Probably a letter, needs further attention. AA
Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …
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Fragment from the lower right corner of an agreement between a husband, Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, and wife, Sitt al-Ḍiyāʾ. The text is …
Letter, possibly. Or literary work. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are interlinear corrections. Mentions Ismāʿīl and [...] b. She'elti'el. Also mentions al-Shām and Damascus and Yemen and …
Letter in Hebrew from Yosef, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …
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Recto: beginning of a piyyuṭ, יודעי יגוני, by Judah ha-Levi. Verso: jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: two alchemical recipes, the first on the use of a water derived from a preparation of tutty (an oxide of zinc), which is left …
Responsum written and signed by Avraham b. ʿAmram. Ed. Assaf, whose transcription can be found on FGP.
Business accounts in Arabic script. There is a partial date. Hebrew on verso.
Trousseau list. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Bride: Munā bt. Yosef. Groom: Ṭayyib b. Yosef. Some interesting details. Marriage payments: 5 + 30 = 35. Dowry: …
Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman sulṭānī currency. The second entry …
Verso: Writing exercises in Arabic script including the phrases "ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī zakawātuhū" and "anā uqabbil yad ḥaḍrat mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall." Recto contains Hebrew …
Order of payment. Abū l-Bahāʾ is to pay a certain amount (25 of something?) to the bearer.
List (late) of names with Coptic numerals on back of unrelated letter. (Information from Goitein index cards)
שוליים: ואתק…
Fragment of a text or document with the layout of a letter, but the main portion of which is entirely a biblical citation about Levites. …