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List of items including 'Iraqi purple (dye)'.
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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 48
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Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Barakāt. In Arabic script. The writer complains about poverty and unemployment and kashf ḥāl ('uncovering').
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Requires further examination for dating estimate and full catalogue description. Line 4 on the verso states "pepper …
Amulet with spells for protection and other good things, in Hebrew and Aramaic.
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if …
Probably a medical recipe or prescription in Arabic (yuʾkhadh. . . )
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Four columns of equal width - it seems to have been folded in half twice. Large and …
Literary. Discussing bediqat ḥameẓ
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning that the addressee recovered (naqahtu) from an illness. Also mentions Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm [al-Q?]ābisī.
Recto: Mentions a hypothetical cantor or reader of the Torah who went mad and stole something and was caught. Verso: From a halakhic discussion on …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known from the India Book IV documents.
Recto: Deed of sale for a female slave (the term waṣifa appears in ll. 2 and 6). In Arabic script. Dating: probably 11th or 12th …
Fragment from a letter with a lengthy Hebrew introduction. Little of the original substance of the message is preserved. Mentions a 'khidma' (service) and מלאכת …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (the left side of recto is missing). The marginal text is written (somewhat unusually) at 90 degrees to the main text. …
Legal record (#74) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 25v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Recipes for several musk-based medicines including "the great musk paste," which has a sweet variant and a bitter variant. The recipe on verso states it …
Seems to be an inventory for a kitchen. In Arabic script. Several entries are crossed out. Entries include: pieces of cloth (manādīl); vinegar (khall); flour …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concluding words only.
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Written on the 11th of a month (...בשבה דהוא חדסר יומה...). Signed by someone whose signature …
Literary fragment. Discussing the halakha of drawing up proper bills of divorce. Information from Dan Greenberger via FGP.
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Date is missing. Groom: Natan ha-Kohen b. Shela ha-Zaqen. The trousseau list may be found in ll. 6–13. (Information from Goitein …
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Prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the banker (ha-Shulḥani) Netanel b. Aharon, Fustat (?). Dating: ca. 1020 CE.
IB V, 2 (ח17). Letter from Abu Zikri Kohen, representative of the Merchants in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Aden. Dated: Adar I …
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Legal document. Bill of attorney, written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel Halevi and approved by Maimonides, in his own hand. Published: מע"פ פרידמן, ר' משה בן …
Petition from a woman to an unidentified addressee. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She is 'cut-off' (munqaṭiʿa) and her husband has kicked her out of the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
End of a legal deed; only the date and signatures are preserved. Nine signatures, Nisan 1041. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
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Brief note in Arabic script. Beginning with the glyph. Likely an order of payment, but it is difficult to read a single word.
Arabic script (VMR)
Commercial letter. In Arabic script. Dated: 123[6?] (which would be 1820 CE). The letter is torn at the top and the right margins. Alexandria and …
Two lines of Arabic poetry, on a Hebrew literary fragment.
Fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Possibly documentary, possibly a letter. Mentions 'the days of Shimʿon b. Sheṭaḥ,' which would be more usual for a …
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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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Measures for the founding of a Jewish association in Egypt as a branch of the overarching association by the name of Kinisat Israel, and they …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة
Accounts in Coptic numerals.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dating: First decade of the 19th century ([..]התק). Involving Shabbetay Skandarī and Yiṣḥaq Ḥanūn. Signed by Nissim Romano, Aharon …
Business accounts in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Listing various items (including marble, a mantle, a mat, a mill, and rulers) which were …
List of a few items including wood and a carpet and a covering
Hebrew composition(s) in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.
Colophon a Bible by a Karaite
Letter to Yaʿir b. Elʿazar (b. Yaʾir ha-Shofeṭ), opening with biblical citations such as Psalms 20:2–5 and 128:5–6, followed by a lengthy Hebrew introduction. He …
I tried hard for the year and three months that I have been in Fustat to eke out a living through teaching or …
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Court record concerning evidence of possession of a compound in Fustat, mentioning lanes and buildings in the city including two kanīsa, the zuqāq al-laban. Dated …
Legal deed. The trader (tājir) Abū l-Murajjā S[ā]lim b. Natan he-Ḥaver gives 30 dirhams per month to his daughter Fakhr from his divorcee, the freedwoman …
List of names (e.g. Yishmaʿel and Sayyidī Yiṣḥaq) and associated numerical figures on recto (calendrical?), medieval-era. Verso is a Hebrew literary text or poem. Requires …