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Accounts, dated October 1230 CE, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, referring to a cellar (maṭmūra) in his father’s house with 117 jugs of …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the ends of 6 lines are preserved. It concerns a settlement between two people and lists all the …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Draft, based on the corrections and annotations in the margin. Involves Yosef b. …
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Fragment of a letter containing the address only: to Peraḥ b. [Mu'ammal?] Rosh ha-Pereq.
Booklist in Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog. Needs examination.
Formulary for a letter to an important person: רסאלה לעאלם כביר לרגל פאצל
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, possibly with the word ṣaḥḥa or qamḥ followed by numerals.
List, including several types of produce and herbs.
Legal document. Signed and written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Av 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Concerns the same case as …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a Hebrew beginning to (probably Shemuel b.) Hananya. The opening contains an interesting blessing: "(May God) make your wife at home …
Legal testimony in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ramaḍān 545 AH, which is 25 December 1150 CE. "Lammā ḥaḍara ilā majlis ḥ[ukm X]..." Needs examination for …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender says he has been a burden on somebody (al-Raḍiyy?) and asks the addressee for help obtaining a new something. …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto mentions a sum of 7.5 dinars and verso mentions someone sitting. It's possible that verso is a fragment of a …
Legal document related to Nahray b. Nissim. This record refers to the lower fragment of the two in the enclosure. it was photographed upside-down; in …
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Letter fragment from Saʿadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan to Shemuel ha-Sar. What remains is in Hebrew. Only the opening and address are preserved. The same sender …
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Looks somewhat late, perhaps 14th or 15th century (with names like al-muʿallim Farajallāh).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In fact there may be two documents here, written at 180 degrees to each other. (מע סכרה אלכביזה ואלדי ישהד אליה …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. In the hand of the prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions "al-majlis al-ʿālī.... al-ʿāmil... al-fallāḥ fī al-nāḥiya al-madhkūra... al-nāṣirī al-madkhūr... jamīʿ al-mablagh...." Verso seems later, and likely related to …
Recto: Hebrew blessing; probably the closing line of a letter. Finishes with: u-lehistofef be-beto amen sela, followed by a diamond pattern of four dots. Verso: …
Small fragment with part of a list of names, including Yosef Hibat[allāh], Ḥalfon b. Y[efet?], ʿUthmān, and referring to the Palestinian Yeshiva (Geʾon Yaʿaqov). (Information …
Long fragment of a letter by a man who, among other things, discusses the learning of his son and expresses outrage that, despite an impeccable …
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Illuminated map, probably, of the graves of Talmudic sages.
Legal agreement. Sittān bt. Yefet, widow of Abū Naṣr, pays 40 dinars to Abū Kathīr, which her husband owed him from a business arrangement. (Information …
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Verso: legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning בעלי חמס. Hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Recto: possibly a poem, in Hebrew with some Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Quds (Jerusalem). …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Headed by a mention of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ṣayrafī (the banker, maybe the well-known Aleppan banker …
Verso: halakhic text, possibly part of a responsum, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), dealing with excommunication and repentance. (Information in part from …
Upper part of a court record dealing with a debt of 33 dirhams between Ḥasan b. Sahlān and Yaḥyā b. Suwayd. Dating: early 11th century, …
Letter in Arabic script from a father to his son Abū l-Majd. "The fire was in our hearts because of you, how you spent shabbat …
Arabic poetry.
Unidentified texts, in Arabic script, fragmentary.
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script.
Small fragment from a legal document. Mentions 'our mother.' Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso is blank. AA/ASE
Jottings in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder, including his own name several times.
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the elder Sulaymān and Abū l-Bahā. It is dated but the date is lost. (Information from CUDL.) Power of attorney. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, involving silk and mercury. Alexandria and Fustat are named and [...] b. Hārūn. Hand of Nahray b. Nissim?
Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon Moshe (b. Netanʾel) ha-Levi concerning the claims of a creditor against the widow of the man who owed him. …
List (fragment) of recipients of charity, including ghulam Hosha'na and "the widow of the shaykh Abu al-X" and two "ma`rifas," meaning people "known" by a …
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Fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic treatise on physiognomy (ʿilm al-firāsa).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). It is likely a court record (هذا الكتاب محضرنا في يوم الاحد) related to a house …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the right side is preserved. Most of the content is gone. Mentions "religion and world" (דין ודניא), "my master and …
Letter. In Arabic script. Mentions the sender's brother ʿAbd al-Kāfī who is with him in the house. Also refers to someone as 'sayyidnā' in the …
Legal record (#120) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 7 Sivan 5333 …
Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic related to real estate transactions that are dated 1784/85CE according to FGP (although it is unclear where exactly this year corresponds …