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Letter from Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably in Jerusalem or Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: 13 Kislev [4803 AM] = 29 November …
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Sugar accounting for the Dīwān al-Sulṭān (of al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb) mentioning the refinery of Ṣafad (or al-Ṣafadī?) and the sugar of Ashmūn. Mentions a quantity of …
No Scholarship Records
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, including part of the address on verso. NB: this must be describing a different fragment.
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Possibly legal.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. The sender complains multiple times about a lack of letters. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Manṣūr.
Will, nearly complete. Written on a small piece of parchment. Testator: Abū al-Faraj b. Maʿrūf the perfumer. (His son Faḍāʾil appears in Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.29 …
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Memorial list, naming Avraham ha-Dayyan (ZL), 'the boy Moshe,' and Peraḥya ha-Dayyan (ZL), and his brother Shemuel ha-Melammed. Are the last three the sons of …
Legal document. Testimony in court, between brothers Moshe Sofer, Yisḥaq Sofer aka Maqaṣīs, and some of their family members. The paleography supports a dating estimate …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at least three entries relate to pepper. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. There is a date 8 Ramaḍān on the …
Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues. The document bears two dates, 4 Iyyar [1]358 Sel. and 2 …
The witnesses named in this deed testify that they know that the compound
which is in the blind alley known as the Lane of the Poor in Q…
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Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
Small fragment from what was originally a large document. All that is preserved is a piece of the name Moshe Nagid ha-[...]. Probably Moshe b. …
Letter from David (=David I Maimonides?) to a Nasi. Only the first few lines are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment from a ketubba written by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca.1181–1210). No details preserved.
Court record. Dated: Tammuz 1538 Seleucid = June/July 1227 CE. In which the son of one of two sisters whose father, Bū Mansur b. Abū …
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12 pages from a book of magic in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, also containing several line-and-stick illustrations.
Three different literary fragments, though the top two may be from the same source.
Verso: Account in Arabic script, listing mainly items of clothing. Headed by the glyph followed by 'al-mamālīk al-ʿazīza.' Subsections are headed by 'al-wāṣil' and 'waṣala.' …
Record of a deposition in court, written in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: ca. 1095 CE and, more broadly, 1066–1108 CE …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! etc.
Here is what happened: There appeared before us al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Surūr, our Master and Le…
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Letter from Marduk b. Musa in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat; June 22, 1046 (per Gil). Conveys some information about the movements of …
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Bill of release from Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b. Moshe ha-Rofeʾ, the representative of the merchants, to the cantor Avraham b. Neḥemya. Also mentions Shemarya b. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday night, 5 Av 1443, which is July 1132 CE. Connected with the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of an Arabic document. A few words preserved on two lines.
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew phrases. Elevated register and partially vocalized. The addressee is warned not to do …
Letter written by Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150-1181) and signed in full by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi (r. 1170/71, 1173-95). Dating: c. 1170-1181 CE, …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text (recto) as well as a draft of a document of the qodesh (verso, see …
Commercial accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (also Greek/Coptic numerals). Mentions a debt owed by Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (also the name of …
Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions pepper.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment …
Court record written by Avraham b. Shemaya, concerning a settlement between Abu Surur b. Natan and Moshe b. Moshe. Dated late Nisan, year is missing, …
Recto: Incomplete legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides, with the title "Nagid," thus post-1213 CE. concerning a partnership in a moneychanging shop. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand …
Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Tunis. Dated: 5610 AM, which is 1849/50 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya. The Portuguese Congregation of …
Verso (earlier side): Letter from Yaḥyā to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. Opens "aṣghar al-mamālīk [...] Yaḥyā yujaddidu khidmata sayyidinā l-qāḍī al-ajall al-awḥad al-qāʾim al-mutafakkir(?)...." …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning people such as Abū Zikrī, Abū Yūsuf, and Barhūn, and commodities such as pepper and …
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
Panegyric (madīḥ) for a Nagid. Including the line "Be patient with me and do not scorn my verse; I am sick and my thoughts are …
Crossed out account - needs examination.
Letter from Barakāt b. Hibatallāh al-Jaʿfarī to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā (ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the parnas in Fustat). Complete letter containing personal and …
Fragment of a calendar mentioning the year 5555 AM (1794/1795 CE). A variety of equivalent years are provided for the Hijrī , Gregorian, and Coptic …
C1: Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 26 Kislev 1338 Seleucid (December 1026 CE). unsigned, because only one witness appeared, Eli ha-Kohen b. Yefet. …
Letter from Moshe ha-Kohen to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, care of Abū l-ʿIzz in the market of the goldsmiths (sūq al-ṣāgha) in Fusṭāṭ. Mainly in Arabic script, …
Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
Bill of release. Location: Damīra. The city is referred to as עיר דמירה הקטנה in Hebrew ("the city of little Damīra"). The release is granted …
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "our master" (sayyidnā/adonenu). Probably a letter of appeal for charity or help. Verso: Arabic jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)
Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, may be documentary.