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Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, …
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Fiscal account dated 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 AH = 11 May 1014 CE if read correctly. Apparently for military spending (nafaqāt), mentioning the Baḥrī and …
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Colophon commemorating the presence in ‘this noble place’ of Elʿazar b. Avraham b. Shānjū Isaiah(?) (שאנגו יזייא) on Sunday, the Eve of Yom Kippur of …
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Mentions a ketubba and an inheritance.
List of names and numerical figures, perhaps payments. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
State document. Dating: Refers to payments for the year 415 kharājī; 415 AH is 1024/25 CE, so 415 kharājī is 1024/25 CE plus or minus …
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شرط النوااب بالـ[. .]ـل مالهما لامير الامرا تاج الدولة وسيف
الملة المويد ذي الـ[ـمعالـ]ـي …
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Love charm written in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū on cloth. Apparently to inflame the heart of טרשכין (?) b. Amat Allāh for Gharb …
Fragment of a letter (address only). Addressed to Daniel in the perfumers' market (probably Fustat). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter to Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the mother of someone... something to be purchased for the writer... three capitation tax payments... taking the receipts... someone …
Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, praising the benefactions of a group of people (al-sāda). אלא בהם... פאלמכארם תצדר ענהם טבעא ותלקא[...] אלי רצאיהם טועא …
Legal record (#20). Loan contract (with interest?!). Faḍā'il b. Yosef and his mother Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham borrow 27.5 dinars from Sitt al-Ukhuwwa bt. Ḥalfon. …
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Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen was going to make a declaration, but …
List of goods (e.g. pepper) and weights, some crossed out. In Arabic.
Verso (original use): A letter in Arabic script from a (Muslim?) merchant to a group of Jewish merchants which advertises his own services. (Information from …
Legal document. Bill of attorney, written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel Halevi and approved by Maimonides, in his own hand. Published: מע"פ פרידמן, ר' משה בן …
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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Letter? Fragment with text in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.
Minute blank fragment
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe ibn Sighmār, in Alexandria, to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā (aka Ḥayyim) the parnas, in Fustat. Yehuda explains the problems he …
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Hebrew literary work, including the penultimate verse of Ecclesiastes (sof davar...).
Monograph; probably from a formulary of legal documents (or related discussion), including the passage: ואלב׳ אגראצ׳א תכתץ בהא אלשמושין דון גירהא... (Data from FGP)
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Scribed and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq …
Late donation list, or private accounts. Mentioning a variety of individuals, such as: Eliyahu Ṣahal, Aharon Ḥedef, Khalīfa Arūkh, Shelomo Sonina, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, …
Letter in Ladino, sent from Salonica (שילאניקי) to Cairo (spelled erratically as מישרייאם). To be delivered to ("en mano de") Yiṣḥaq Qatin[?] (אין מאנו די …
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Excerpt of a writ written in Ramla, 1076.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. In the hand of the prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. [...]. Wife: [...] bt. Shelomo. No documentation of receipt on verso (unless it has been torn away).
Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...
Bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Handwriting of Nahray b. Nissim? Mentions names such as Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū …
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals.
Recto: Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. Verso: Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three …
Court record. Dating: mentions Nisan 1410 Seleucid = March/April 1099 CE (terminus ante quem). Dealing with a complicated lawsuit of a case in which Abū …
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Letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Ḥisda, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The letter mentions details about shipments from and to Sicily, …
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Legal document from a qāḍī court. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 AH (Sunday 29 July 1466 CE). The raʾīs al-yahūd, Yūsuf b. Khalīfa, and his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Praise be to God alone. God’s prayers and many blessings upon our lord Muḥammad, on his famil…
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4 pages of late magical prescriptions in Hebrew.
Ownership note for Manṣūr b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi.
Formulary for a memorial prayer for someone whose name has been left blank (peloni).
Letter of appeal for help of some kind. In Arabic script. From a woman ("I am perishing (hālika)..."). May mention an infant child (al-ṭufayl); also …
Payment request by the "Nāmūha" association of a hundred qirsh contribution to the association by the bank "Kobān-Ān"[?] in Jerusalem in Palestine – May 30 …
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a copy of a book requested by the addressee. Dating: Likely no earlier than 13th century, based on …
The opening of a circular letter for "all the cities of the Rīf" in the name of Moses Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on …
Accounts of the qodesh. Gil edited 12 lists of revenue and expenditure pertaining to Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī b. Abu Naṣr Elʿazar ha-Levi al-Ḥalabī spanning the …
Collected from Abū (I)sḥaq al-ʿAdanī, 100 dir.
waraq, of Egyptian tender, for the rent of his apartment in the ṭabaqa of the upp…
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Legal document, probably, in Arabic script. Fragmentary name at the bottom [....] b. ʿImrān and a date Dhū l-Qaʿda [x]26. The last line might read …
Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …
فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد
]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)
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Magical spells. "For love: purify yourself from emission for three days. Write the following Hebrew letters on your right palm with your blood and show …
Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel to his father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. He complains about neglect. He mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, …