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Two tiny fragments, the larger one has remnants of text on the recto and verso. Hebrew letters may be visible, with Tiberian vowels. The recto …
No Scholarship Records
Letter, in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on linguistic features. Deals with various logistics of comings and goings of letters and people. Mentions Rashīd/Rosetta.
Literary text in Arabic concerning the debate over whether wāw implies sequence (tartīb) or only conjunction (muṭlaq al-jamʿ), mentioning a classic proof text involving ʿUmar …
Fragment of a legal document. Possibly the dowry list section of a ketubba.
Fragment of a legal document. The terms sāiʾba (endowment/waqf property more generally ) and mūwāqafa (safeguarding waqf/endowment properties) are suggestive that the document could be …
و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت
وموافقة ولا مواقفة
من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……
الفاضل الاجل الاسعد
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Letter from Ṣedaqa al-Yahūdī to Umm al-Khayr bt. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm b. [...], possibly in Bilbays (the address is damaged). In Arabic script. Dating: No …
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerlas. Listing several materia medica, e.g. anīsūn and bizr khiṭmiyya.
Ketubba for Yosef ha-Levi b. ʿOvadya and Bayda bt. Qaʿarṭī (קערטי) Bibas. Currency: real. Dated 1792 CE (16 Sivan 5552), Cairo. The final lines of …
Medical recipes in Hebrew, filled with Romance words.
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Verso: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 7 Shevat 5483 AM (1723 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Badra bt. Yaʿaqov b. Daniel ha-Levi ha-Rofe and …
Verso: Memorial list in the hand of ʿEli b. ʿAmram, who was the head of the Palestinian congregation in Fustat 1055–66, but apparently already active …
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Legal document. Partnership document. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1100 (per Goitein). This document, signed by Yitzhak b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi, describes itself as a partnership document enacted …
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Original use: Unidentified text in Arabic, likely a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the opening greetings are preserved.
Letter, Somewhat cryptic. "As for what you mentioned about the istiʿmāl and the musakhkhināt (warming drugs?) and the [...], and as the 'season' (of illnesses?) …
Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo …
Letter in Arabic script. Maybe from a parent to a son, with ethical exhortations. "Treat people as you would like (to be treated), and be …
Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …
Legal record (#56) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 56-57) Folio 15r
Prayer in Hebrew, possibly an amulet.
End of a legal deed from Cairo. Only the partial date and one signature are preserved. Dated: 1 Sh[evat] 5295= 1534/1535. Signed by the scribe …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
Literary fragment containing piyyuṭ in Hebrew and jottings underneath on recto, including "Abū l-Faraj wrote this in the year 1506 Sel. (=1194/95 CE)." Underneath there …
List of books, mostly rabbinical, mentioning talmudic tractates and several midrashim, including Mekhilta, Midrash Shir, Bereshit Rabba, and Midrash Tanḥuma. (Information from CUDL)
Debt contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE, as there is no …
Very small fragment of a monumental calligraphic document, perhaps a ketubba. Artful use of blue and red ink, and lines of Hebrew text weaving in …
Private/mercantile accounts. Many names are preserved. Dating: one entry mentions "beginning with 1 Dhū l-Qaʿda 579" and another entry mentions "until the end of al-Muḥarram …
IB V, 33c. Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay to the leader (‘al-raʾīs’) 2 dinars. Circa 1141 CE. …
Official correspondence, probably. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) …
Official receipt of some kind. For Bū Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm. Very busy. Quite faded, too. There is the remnant of an earlier document on verso. …
Three distinct documents in Arabic script, chopped in half vertically and then probably glued together into a rotulus in order to be reused for the …
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to "his wife Sitt al-Maʿānī."
Several fragments of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The middle pieces (T-S …
Legal document mentioning the elder Abū Zikrī Kohen, and rent and construction for a building near the synagogue. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel, …
Marriage contract (ketubba) concerning a wealthy and influential family. Dated: 18 Kislev [48]41, which is 1080 CE. (Gil thinks 4741 AM and 979/80 CE.) The …
Much damaged bill of divorce (get) from Fustat, [1]420 era of documents
Damaged fragment with an unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe a prayer or a letter, but hard to be sure. Contains phrases like רב טוב ורב …
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1088–1187 CE. Involves a man and woman and sustenance/alimony payments (mezonot).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: a partial Hijrī date is visible in the middle section of the recto: שהר רמצן סנ[ת .]סץ, which is Ramaḍān 96[.] …
Letter to a friend of the late Shemuel b. Ḥofni Gaon complaining that the latter’s son did not keeps the agreements between the writer and …
Possibly a letter and/or accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly two different fragments stuck together. Needs further examination.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragmentary (only the upper left corner is preserved). A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one …
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. One of the parties involved named Ya'aqov. Signed by Tamim b. Shm[…]. AA
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Damsis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. The writer expresses his wishes that the addressee will recover from …
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Fragment of text in Hebrew, possibly legal. There is a small table on the verso in Hebrew with western Arabic numerals. Requires further examination.
Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–38 CE, due to the fact that we find part …