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Bifolio of commercial accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Some entries crossed out. Mentions Ibrāhīm al-ʿAṭṭār al-Yahūdī (associated with 1 dinar until the end of …
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Colophon (FGP)
Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
Calendar. In Hebrew. For the years 5316 AM (=1555 CE) onward.
Account in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions gold.
Letter from Shemuel Sidi to Moshe ha-Levi. Written on Friday, 1 Heshvan. The letter's origin and destination are unclear. See T-S 12.318 for another letter …
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Paraliterary text, in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the recipes for making ink.
Possibly a letter of praise for a notable named Yoshiyyahu, mentioning Yoʾav ben Ṣeruya, the temple, and the Sanhedrin. In Hebrew. Reused on verso for …
Verso: note from an invalid begging for oil for the synagogue lamp (al-tamid) for the sabbath to be sent with the carrier of the note. …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
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Invitation to the Jews of Egypt to donate and assist 1200 Torah students in the cities of Palestine in their poverty or because they are …
Fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).
Legal document. Record of release. Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms …
מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין דחתימין לתחתא חצר אלינא אברהם הכהן ביר דניאל
//ועובדיה// ועבד אללה בן משלם אלצורי בעד מגלס אן תקדמ[ו אליה]א [.…
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Small fragment from a legal deed. Part of the Reshut formula is preserved. AA
Dirge of 38 lines by the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128-1164) on one Moshe. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 574)
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions animals like elephant, ostrich, snake, probably discussing the permissibility of its eating. Needs examination.
Petiton from some students at al-Azhar against a landowner in Arabic, with a line of Ottoman Turkish text in the heading. Dating: Ottoman-era. [Described on …
Recto (secondary use): Brief accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Bū l-Isḥāq b. al-Amshāṭī, Ibn al-Dihqān, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Rawwād, and Ibn al-Muṭrib.
Verso: Document in Arabic script, unidentified. (Information from CUDL)
Memorial list? Dating: Mid-13th century. Names Hodaya b. Shelomo the Nasi (from Mosul). Also Abū Saʿīd b. Netanel. (Information from Goitein's index card.) NB: Goitein …
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A fragment from a letter addressed to a notable. The writer sends his wishes that the position of the addressee will continue—a usual blessing when …
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era. Some of the entries begin "ghilmān."
Accounts on recto and verso. Distinctive hand. Dating: probably ca. 14th or 15th century. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. One entry on the recto lists …
Petition, draft. in Arabic script. Arranged in four columns on a bifolio, with additional text at 90 degrees in the space between columns. Mentions a …
Trousseau list and wedding outfit for a poor woman, perhaps an orphan. The man is also very poor. The list is to be understood thus: …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Legal document, but could also be a state document because of the various ʿalāʾim (registration marks) on the top of the document and the mention …
Two long vertical strips from an account ledger in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Some of the …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Kohen, probably in Minyat Ghamr, to Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports …
ש'צ' מן ממלוכה ושאכר תפצ'לה יוסף אבן יעקב אלכהן
אלדי נעלמך בה סלמך אללה אן כרגנא מן ענדכם…
To the dignity of the honorable, great and holy master and teacher R. Elijah the judge
(may his) R(ock) p(reserve him), from his slave, who…
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Recto (secondary use): Note of gratitude to a notable. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's father the ḥaver graciously met with the sender and said, "Open your …
Letter fragment from the lepers of Tiberias to Shelomo b. Eli, probably in Tripoli, Lebanon, approximately 1030. Verso: End of the address.
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יהי אלהנו עזרו וצל סתרו
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). The postscript and margin are written in larger letters and lighter ink. Contains the phrases "[May God] guide …
Verso: Fragment of a dowry list. Location; Cairo. Dating: 1189–1200 CE (8 Sivan 15[..] Seleucid). The recto was reused for piyyuṭ and a year (1511 …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to multiple people. The sender hopes to see the addressees in the place where he is traveling …
Recto: Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning Abū Sahl and books, including Kitāb al-Madkhal (of Shemuel b. Hofni) and Halakhot Gedolot. Very faded. Information from FGP. Needs further …
Letter (fragment) of which only the bottom section of the body and marginal portion of the text remains. In l. 15r one S[eñor] Curiel is …
Legal documents in Arabic script. Main document on recto and a faṣl on verso. Very difficult to read. The faṣl may be dated Ramaḍān 940 …
Small fragment of a state document: في احد المستخدمين . . . ما يكتب. . .
Official-looking accounts in Arabic, medieval-era. Mentions 100 dinars. Requires further examination.
Letter from David b. Moshe Bonfat (בונפט) ha-Sefaradi to Avraham ha-Sefaradi. In Hebrew. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century. The sender reports that he …
Letter addressed to al-Rayyis Rabbenu Eliyya (might be the judge Eliyya b. Zekharya). Fragment (top part only). About work on a Bible codex (muṣḥaf) in …
Letter fragment addressed to the dignitary Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Ibn al-Furāt (aka Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen), sent either to or from al-Ramla. Only …
Receipt from the association of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo in the amount of one hunded qirsh – December 3 1950CE – Museum of Islamic …
Business letter from Sibāʿ, in Asyūṭ. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Fragment (upper right corner of verso).
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Fustat, to Abū l-Ḥasan Muslim al-Maqdisī al-Tājir b. Ḥasan, in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dating: Possibly the second half …
Short attestation by the Bet Din, followed by the signatures of Abraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver and [Isaac] b. Shemuʾel the Spaniard. Judaeo-Arabic pen-exercises in the …
Verso: Receipt for 1.75 dirhams issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Surūr.
Text in Arabic with at least two different scribal hands, medieval-era. One portion opens with "يشهد الشهود" pointing to the likelihood that this is the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at times possibly shifting into some kind of shorthand. Late. There may be dates on verso.
End of a legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar 5337 AM = 29 April 1577 CE. Signed (and probably written) by Yosef b. …