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Communal letter of some kind. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Iyyar 5791 AM, which is 1031 CE. Approximately 18 signatures are preserved, including that of …
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Legal document. Record of release. Dated: 1480 Seleucid (1168/69 CE). Location: Fustat. Likely in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. Onetime business partners …
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Mercantile accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions 30 dinars and weights in qintars.
List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū …
Outstanding Pledges for the Poll Tax [of the Poor]—Paid.
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Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In Hebrew. Dated: 1 Tamuz 5569 AM = 15 June 1809 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Istanbuli b. Shemuel. Bride: Sara bt. Moshe …
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Twelve folios of a biblical glossary containing Old French glosses (leʿazim) covering Joshua 10:10 to Judges 9:24. Dating: ca. second quarter of the 13th century, …
Recto: Legal deed. Release/quittance in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, granted by Mikhaʾel b. Avraham to his full brother Yosef (shaqīqī... bin Abbā Mārī). …
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Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Probably a waqf document, describing the specifications of the entire property along with size dimensions. Mentions several amounts in …
Letter in Arabic, possibly from 'your father Futūḥ' (this appears at upper left a few lines down from the top) to an unidentified addressee, it …
Fragment of an account in Judeo-Arabic. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Legal document, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Involves Sason b. Efrayim.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …
IB IV, 30 (ח27). Letter from Yosef Ibn ʿEzra and Avraham b. Muʿṭī, in Tilimsān, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with some …
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Recto: note in Hebrew from a certain Evyatar, who says he followed the order to come to a certain place, and he came this morning …
Legal document, small fragment. Contains remnants of some signatures.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה …
Letter from a man to his son. In Arabic script. The address is rubbed out, although the word thaghr is still legible (unless this is …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Beginning of a legal document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Sunday, 21 Iyyar 1531 Seleucid = 26 April 1220 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Probably …
End of a legal document written and signed by Elḥanan b. Shemarya. Verso is blank.
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
Recto: Report or official correspondence, possibly. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "the great resolution" …
On recto piyyut. On verso fragment from a ketubbah contains mostly the dowry list. AA
Fragment of a legal document preserving one signature, Saadya b. Mevorakh (likely the son of the Nagid, Mevorakh b. Saadya, d. 1111), with the court's …
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script: اذا كان الامرعلى ما ذكرته . . . . والحمد لله تبارك وتعالى وقال . . . . At …
Writing exercises in Arabic script for a learner, likely related to chancery training given the content of the phrases and the hand. The phrase on …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Ca. 1055 (Gil). Regarding a shipment of textiles that Nissim b. Ḥalfon had …
כתאבי יאסידי ומו[לאי אטאל אללה בקאך ו]אדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך מן תניס לגי
בקין מן אב ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה חק חמדה אעלמך יאסידי אן וצל כ…
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Accounts containing a list of names and numbers in Arabic script with Coptic numerals, in the right margin and on the back of a letter …
Legal document in Arabic script. With witness signatures. One of them is Mūsā b. ... b. Aḥmad. Needs examination for content.
Fragment from a ketubah, probably a replacement for a lost one. Contains the immersion clause so can be dated to 1176 onwards. AA
Literary text with a colophon stating that its copying was completed on Wednesday 13 Muḥarram 511 (= 17 May 1117 CE) by Saʿadya ha-Melammed b. …
Arabic letter, with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE.
Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. …
Small fragment of a legal document. One of the parties is Shelomo.
Verso (the earlier text): Fragment of a state-related document referring to "the victorious army" (al-ʿaskar al-manṣūr). The ends of three more lines are preserved. Recto …
Letter mentioning a certain Joseph. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer. On verso, in Judaeo-Arabic, the name "Abū …
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
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المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه
كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة
Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Ṭevet 157[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to 1259–68 CE, under the authority of David I Maimonides.
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise giving prescriptions.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning (perhaps addressed to) al-Shaykh al-Melammed Abū Saʿīd.
Small fragment with the name Makārim b. Maʿālī, another incomplete name ([...] b. Shelomo), and mention of a monthly (payment?). probably from a sketch for …
Notice from the president of the board of directors of the Jewish hospital to supervisor Mr. Eliyyahu Ḥayyim of the social center in Cairo to …
Poetry, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. There is also alphabet practice and numbers in western Arabic numerals (so the date is relatively late).
Recto and three lines of verso: Note in Hebrew addressed to some important person. The hand and spellings are very rudimentary. The writer seems to …
Memorandum in the name Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from the community of Sfax, largely consisting of prayers and praises for the recipient. Two letters from the recipient had arrived, and …
Only a few words in Judaeo-Arabic are legibly preserved, probably from a literary text. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment from the opening of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions ‘[...] the dear elder’ and someone inheriting something from his wife. (Information in …