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Letter in Hebrew, in a Byzantine hand, reporting on a highly secretive transaction involving gold dust. According to Avraham David, this is a 16th century …
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Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a petition addressed to al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr Ḥusām al-Mulk Muʾayyad [al-Da]wla. Mentions "...these farms from the inside …
Letter from the community in Ashkelon to the community in Fustat. Dating: Probably 1025 CE. Mentions praises to two of the Fatimid governors in Ashkelon. …
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Booklet containing Hebrew poems/prayers, with an ownership note: "this daftar belongs to Netan'el b. Elʿazar." There are some marginal notes in Arabic script, but no …
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Deposition in court by a woman that had sold her book to her former husband for thirty dinars and that her two sons had no …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Document in Arabic script headed 'tadhkira' ('memorandum'). There is a line of honorifics for somebody.
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Maghribi hand?
Astronomical or calendrical text/tables in Persian. There are also a couple of words in Hebrew script.
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Rudimentary hand. Mentions oaths and trying to get out of them. On verso there is a mysterious text in Arabic script …
Bifolio. Secondary use: Draft of formulaic phrases in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic, and a couple words in Arabic addressed to some dignitary (likely anonymous based on …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ismail b. Farah to a member of the Tāhartī Family in Fustat, containing details about goods and ships. Dated ca. …
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Letter fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He says that the Nagid had issued a letter/document …
Accounts or distribution list. Four columns per side. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Coptic numerals. Well preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th …
Tiny fragment of a legal document mentioning Ḥiyya ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …
Small fragment of a letter, with a partial address on recto. Probably from a sister to a brother (מן אכתוה). (Information in part from CUDL)
Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script. One witness clause preserved and a technical terminology "al-mutakkhir bi-mā fī tārikhih".Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Four pages of accounts of income from communal houses and stores and of expenses on administration (30 dirhems for the collection of 493 dirhems), repairs, …
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List, commercial. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Consists entirely of foods.
Recipe in Arabic script, likely medical. Written on the back of an earlier document (petition?) in Arabic script in a different hand.
Fragment from the middle of a legal document. In Hebrew. Hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya? Concerning an inheritance and its division. Dating: one …
Receipt of payment (ṣaḥḥ), for ʿĀbidīn(?) b. Qusṭ(?).
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Beginning only. Addressed to some dignitary.
Recto: Letter to Elʿazar he-Ḥasid Tifʾeret he-Ḥasidim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. The handwriting has Andalusī alephs, some words almost like the handwriting of a …
Letter fragment from ʿOvadya to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; asks the addressee to help al-Shaykh al-Rashīd in some legal dispute on …
Literary. Judaeo-Arabic. This is either Maimonides' introduction to Perek Ḥeleq of Sanhedrin, or a work quoting it. Elaborating the 13 principles of faith; this excerpt …
Literary text in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Ownership note: this quire (kurrās) belongs to Efrayim b. Shemuel.
Upper part of a decorated ketubba. Location: Cairo: Dated: 2[.] Kislev 5327 AM = December 1566 CE. Bride: Raḥel bt. [...] the widow and [...] …
Medical recipes: Judaeo-Arabic on one side, Arabic on the other.
Legal document. Deed of acknowledgment dated 449/1058. Ṣadaqa b. Ṭayyib al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī receives from Ḥasan b. Ishaq al-Isrāʾīlī al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī a loan of 150 dirhams. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone.
Ṣadaqa ibn Ṭayyib al-Ramlī, the maker of waistcloths, who is a youn…
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Verso (original use): Petition or decree. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Between the lines and on recto (secondary use): Account in Arabic script. …
Minute scrap, probably literary.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Monday, the 5th of Adar.
Letter from the office of the Nagid David II b. Yehoshuaʿ II Maimonides (in office ca. 1355–1410) addressed to the congregation of Fustat. The Nagid's …
Printed Haggada in Ladino and Hebrew. The capitals contain lovely illuminations.
Table of contents for a responsa collection
Several folios of Talmudic commentary (Rabbenu Ḥananʾel according to the NLI catalog) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer expresses his regret at the addressee's departure, and his distress at what the addressee will soon learn from ʿAfīf …
Recto: autograph responsa by Shemarya b. Elḥanan (active 966–1011 CE) with his signature. Verso: an abridgement of BT Yevamot 65b-72a. (Information from CUDL)
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Letter from the cantor Ḥalfon b. David (aka Khalaf al-Lādhiqī), in Jerusalem, to the elders (sādatī wa-mawālayya jamāʿat al-shuyūkh al-miṣriyyīn), in Fusṭāṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic, in …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved. Mentions "we are worried" (naḥnu masghūlīn)...
Accounts of the qodesh, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Including many construction expenses as well as oil for the holiday and the names of various people and …
Draft of of a legal document in which Sitt al-ʿIzz bt. Yeshaʿyahu b. Yefet appoints 'Amat al-Qādir' Sitt al-Milāḥ Turfa as her representative with regard …