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List of names and Hebrew alphanumerical values, extensive and well-preserved. Dating: 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. The list may be communal given that …
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Legal document mentioning a certain Ibn Mihnab (?) ("son of the idiot"). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to moving …
Letter fragment describing the visit of the Nasi in the Babylonian synagogue. (Information from E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 25)
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Small fragment of an official-looking letter (report?) in Arabic script. Mentions Damietta (Dumyāṭ).
Extensive accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: labeled twice along the upper margin of the recto "Y[ear] 5414" and "Account [of the year] 5414 AM" (1653/1654 CE). …
Get (bill of divorce) from Fustat for Menashshe b. Shemuel and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yefet Tif'eret ha-Qahal. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). …
Calendar in Hebrew, badly damaged. The year 5581 AM is barely visible in the upper right corner (1820/21 CE).
A court decree made in the last decade of the month of Iyyar in 1543 (1232 in the Julian calendar), banning the use of synagogue …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Zakkāy requests "1/4 of eggs."
Letters in Arabic script. Recto and verso are in two different letters in two different hands. Verso seems to be about a hunting dog which …
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Verso: Receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a payment of 3 dirhams. Needs further examination. Related to ENA 3966.3 (PGPID 10635).
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. Thin vertical strip preserving the first word (or few letters) of each line. Cut into a vertical strip …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Baqā' (or perhaps Abū l-Baqā') to a certain teacher (melammed). The writer conveys his sympathies for some bad news and asks …
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals, written in multiple hands.Mentions: Mufaḍḍal b. [...]; a half qinṭār of myrrh; Abū l-Faḍl …
Small fragment of an official-looking account.
Accounts in Arabic dated on the verso's heading as Jumada I[ or perhaps II?] of the year 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. The structure …
Legal record (#24) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
:Right side of bifolio 3v (Documents 23-24)
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th century. Mentions Maymūn.
Deed of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1461 Seleucid, with the signing deferred until Tammuz 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …
Letter from Menashshe b. Pinḥas to Yoshiyyahu ha-Sar, in New Cairo. The addressee's father's name appears in the main text, but is very faded. Consists …
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Recto: fragment from a Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning previous shipments and lamps. In the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). Refers to something 'standing in …
Letter fragment (upper right corner of recto). In Arabic script. The addressee is called, flatteringly, 'al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya.' Unclear how much of the substance is preserved.
minute fragment. Bottom part of a legal deed, only some signatures preserved: [...]she b. Hillel, [...]el b. Berakhot, Sjlomo b. Berakot (spell ברכת), Yefet b. …
Official report in Arabic script. Small fragment. Mentions the caliph (… ين الله), probably al-Ẓāhir (li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh), al-Ḥāfiẓ (li-Dīn Allāh), or al-ʿĀḍid (li-Dīn Allāh). …
Letter to Yeshuʿa the judge. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Beginning formula of a pseudo-petition, in Arabic script. After the formula, the addressee is mentioned as "fulān" b. "fulān".
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning sugar and glass.
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer traveled safely from Rashid to Alexandria, after he …
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Jottings for a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Yoshiyya ha-Kohen and Abū l-Khayr. Dated: The year is given as '21, perhaps 521 AH = 1127/28 …
Small fragment, badly damaged with no legible text. There may be remnants of text in Hebrew script on the verso, but the ink is quite …
A few words in Garshuni (Arabic language in Syriac script): al-r[abb?] (=God) and jamīʿ al-bilād ("all the lands"). Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni …
Verso (original use): Possibly a fiscal account. Mentions various sums of money. At the bottom, the name Muḥammad b. Saʿīd appears. Reused by Efrayim b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, medieval-era. Various quantities of dirhams are mentioned and at least one name, ʿOvadya, which is probably separate from the name crossed out …
Accounts listing a variety of textiles in different colors and perhaps other goods. Dated in the main heading on the recto: 12 J[umāda] I 960 …
Literary text in Spanish.
Recto: Bottom of a legal deed, it seems. Reconciliation of some sort. A person declares that if they oppress someone else (אן כנת טלמתך), may …
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dated: 6 Jumada I 1199 AH, which is 1785 CE.
Fragment from the bottom of an (official?) document in Arabic script. Reused for piyyut on recto. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Fiscal document. Very faded. Dated: 440 AH? A sum of money is specified in the middle section. Needs examination. Reused for a magical spell …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Likely a draft or formulary, since there are several abbreviations used.
Ownership notes from a book: (1) "Came into the possession of Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi" (2) "Belonging to Sar Shalom b. Shelomo ha-Levi"
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the handwriting of Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Nīsābūrī. Dating: 11th century. Mentions ships from various places including three from …
Letter from Eli b. Yakhin, probably from Alexandria, to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Aaron, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding money and payments, including a debt of 50 …
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Legal query concerning a case of levirate marriage; verso: blank; published, with translation, by Friedman, Polygyny, pp. 144–45.