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Letter from Daniel Cafsuto (aka Cassuto) and Shemuel Cafsuto (aka Cassuto) to a certain Saʿīd (or the son of Saʿīd), possibly Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. …
No Scholarship Records
Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the names Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Riḍā and the children of אלמחשב(?).
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Hibatallāh b. Ṣadaqa. Also refers to a period of time ending on the 10th of [...].
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
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Bifolio containing densely written lists in Arabic script. Presumably accounts of some sort but difficult to read. Merits further examination.
Recto: A theological/philosophical discourse (transcribed by Zachy Ben Hamo on FGP). Verso: Possibly a fragment of a late Hebrew letter.
List of names that was recorded alongside a column of numerical values before the paper was torn. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the …
Verso: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Mevorakh.
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Very faded. Dealing with business matters. Currency: gurush. The letter's recipient bears rabbinic honorifics and is possibly named Shemuʾel (or this …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides? Abū l-Majd is to give 4 dirhams to Namir and 3 dirhams to the Nazir on …
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Letter from Ḥasan b. Sahl (aka Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Ḥasan aka Yedutun ha-Levi). Very deferential ("I am illuminated by the light of your opinions," …
Letter in Arabic script from Umm Zayn to Umm Isḥāq. The writer seems to want to travel to the addressee's location but has no money. …
Remnant from a large cluster of calligraphic rabbinic signatures. This fragment is likely the lowest section from an important legal document given the high concentration …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions an estate (ḍayʿa); a sum of 300-something; a complaint about lack of letters (لا سيرت لا كتاب ولا جواب); …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic written in the margins of recto and on verso of a page of Rashi’s Talmud commentary (Ḥullin 118a–b). The commentary looks like …
Upper left fragment: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The document is probably written for a recent convert to Islam from Samṭā (on the Nile delta). …
Small fragment of a legal or state document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, in Jerusalem, to ʿOvadya Kohen and his son Nissim Kohen, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. There is mention of the Qaraites and Ben Me'ir, suggesting that it might have to do with the calendar controversy. There is …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL.) Late, sephardic hand.
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably a letter/petition of appeal for assistance on …
Probably opening of a letter to a notable.
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew related to communal contributions that are organized in a format similar to JRL SERIES C 63 (PGPID 31913). In the …
Fragment of a court notebook containing a legal record (or records) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Mentions the daughter of …
Draft of the bottom part of a legal deed
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Tevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 19 January 1132 CE. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli. Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. …
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Recto: Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Verso: Pen trials in Ladino.
Much damaged and faded letter by Yefet b. Menashshe. Almost illegible
Verso: A man who possessed five-eighths of a house gives one-eighth to his wife and her son as lodgings 'belonging to them forever.' Dated Shevat …
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. The sender seems to be referring to an order of payments and also mentions "al-dīwān" atleast two …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (middle of the right side). Faded and smudged. Verso blank.
Small strip from a letter. 16th-century or later based on the hand and spelling and colloquial forms. Mentions "the big box" (אלעולבא אלכבירא).
Late accounts with many names, for example Sālim b. Aḥmad, and Hebrew numerals. The paper features two lines of sewing holes. Mentions the "peasants/farmers" (fallāḥīn) …
Legal records. Four pages (bifolio) in the handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE (dated entries from Tevet 1451 to Marheshvan …
Recto: Legal notes, or less likely a letter, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Hastily written. Mentions Maʿālī, Sulaymān, and …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to "the community of Qaraites." In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew verses at the top. Dating: Unknown. The letter …
Accounts in Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman-era.
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
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Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very …
Writing exercises. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The name "Yosef Frances" appears at the top.
Recto: Marriage contract (ketubba), with an ornate heading. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also signed as a witness. Location: Fustat. The date …
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Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه توفيقي وصلى الله على محمد
الى عند الا[جل؟] سلام الله ورحمته
اما بعد فانَّ كان سبب اجتماعي بك وكنت
اظن انك ساعد للا…
Recto: Upper right corner of a letter with a Hebrew header and then beginning אצדרת הדה אלמכאתבה אלי מ . . . . Reused on …
Fragment of a state document containing blessings for 'mawlānā' and the date (563 AH = 1167/68 CE). Reused for piyyut on verso.
Agreement regarding a marital match. Location: Malīj. Dated: Thursday, 6 Iyyar 1803 Seleucid = 3 May 1492 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Natan …
Letter to Aharon Rofe and Avraham Rofe. The address reads "to the teacher ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī al-Ṭabīb in the Wikāla of K[...]." Unknown writer, unknown …
Recto: Legal query regarding a man who made many vows and repented of them. Verso: Appears to be the writer's notes more general notes to …