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Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Ḥayyim and Khalīfa. There is larger text in a different hand on verso.
No Scholarship Records
Table in Arabic script and other cryptic markings (VMR).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment from the left-bottom part of a legal deed related to marriage (the word נדוניאתא is visible). It is not a ketubah, however, because …
Small fragment of an unidentified document, late. Mentions Eliyya(?) b. Ḥayyim.
Draft of a letter from someone to his brother, Abū l-Ḥasan, who stayed home alone during the recent holiday while his children were visiting the …
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Order of payment. Abū l-Bahāʾ is to pay a certain amount (25 of something?) to the bearer.
Legal document. Dated: Av 4959 AM, which is 1199 CE. Location: Probably Alexandria, where legal documents in this period tend to be dated according to …
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Receipt for Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm (same as in T-S AS 176.444 (PGPID 37330)).
A ḥamdala and ṣalwala written in a chancery hand, presumably once part of a larger document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
List of "high priests": She'erit, Yeshuʿa, Meshullam, and Shelomo.
Legal testimony. Upper right corner. Mentions Maṣliaḥ Gaon. A man makes a declaration beginning with "Eight _____ ago...."
Instructions for the halakha/etiquette of comporting oneself during the ʿamida, including for eventualities such as needing to cough or urinate or developing a nosebleed. In …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ramla. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)
List of accounts on recto and verso, most are crossed out. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū l-Faraj.
Letter from a mother to her daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The mother expresses her longing and the fire in her heart, sends regards to Umm Khalaf …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain Rosh ha-Qehillot. It is written entirely as a Hebrew poem. There are lengthy descriptions of the …
Court record, draft. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 6 Sivan 5252 AM (=ברן), which is 1492 CE. One of the matters is the inheritance of Maṣliaḥ …
Letter (opening only) from Shemuel b. Eli gaʾon in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. Mentions one of houses of the …
Recto: large list of simples in five columns provided with figures (possibly quantities or prices) that could have been part of a physician’s or druggist’s …
Letter addressed to a dignitary with a long introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic (what remains of this is in the margin). Hand …
Recto: business letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī and Abū l-Manṣūr. Verso: letter in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. (Information …
Recto: Legal document. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu the Judge. Involves Yefet and al-Bahāʾ(?). Verso: Legal document likely in the hand of Shelomo b. …
Letter from Yeshuʿa al-Ḥāmī to Namir ויריוטי (?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Deals with business matters. Mentions the a "gold …
Small fragment of accounts in Hebrew script with Hebrew numerals.
Fragment of a document with magic squares and magical recipes, including for mercantile success.
Fragment of a text in Hebrew. Mentions a quantity of five of something on the verso. Requires further examination.
On recto there is a letter draft addressed to a certain Shemuel ha-Sar. In Hebrew. Quite florid: "your letter wafted fragrant odors... I placed it …
Letter from a family member, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dated: 23 Shevaṭ [4800 +] 175 = 4975 AM, which is 25 …
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Letter fragment (middle part) in which the writer describes how he was insulted in the synagogue by the scholar, Sheikh al-Najib, but expresses no resent …
List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Mentions myrobalan (halīlaj) and animal drivers (mukāriyyīn). Needs examination.
Magical formularies, including one for a "bill of divorce from Lilith" (גט ליליתיא).
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Legal document from Fusṭāṭ in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyya, written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides and dated Tammuz 1531 Sel. (= 1220 …
Recto: draft of a court record written by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203). Involves a sale; Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr; an agent, Abū …
Letter, asking for a swift reply and mentioning a certain Ibrahim. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL.) Excerpts: אללה תע …
Recipe in Arabic script for compounding hiera picra. ASE
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). Yefet refers to a …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
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Accounts in Judeo-Arabic from 1829/30 CE (1245 Hijri). The top heading labels the accompanying entries as "מצרופ" which may indicate expenses or outgoing payments. The …
Recto: A page from Mūjiz al-Qānūn by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288). Verso: Alphabetical jottings in Hebrew, a doodle, and "Hippocrates: ars longa vita brevis" (ابقراط: …
Legal document, written in Sivan, under the jurisdiction of Avraham (likely Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides, but Avraham II Maimonides also possible). Mentions a certain Shela. …
Letter from Moshe b. Abū Zikrī to his relative, Araḥ b. Natan, on matters of commerce. Moshe expresses his concern about the fact that Araḥ …
Verso and margin of recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Recording how much money the 'segan' (=deputy; this seems more likely than sajjān) and the …