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Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …
Legal document written in the court of Ḥananya Av Bet Din b. Yosef Gaʾon. Dated: Sunday, end of Elul 1318 Seleucid = 14 September 1007 …
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Incomplete legal document in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (active ca. 1066–1108 CE). The cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon al-Zayyāt claims that his sister Bārra …
The testimony of what took place before us, we the undersigned witnesses:
Mr. Ghalib the cantor known as Abū Manṣūr b. Mr. Ḥalfon, the sel…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Bill of divorce, probably. Very small fragment. Location: Fustat. Husband: David ha-Levi b. Natan.
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Heshvan 5294 AM = 20 October 1533 CE. Yaʿaqov b. Moshe בכוש and his brother Efrayim …
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Verso: Mysterious page of notes in Judaeo-Arabic in at least two different hands. The items on this page include two recipes for staining (or dying? …
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Small fragment containing random jottings including the name of the city of al-Maḥalla surrounded by letters and radiating lines and the name of the Nagid …
Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.
Small receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz al-[...]. In Arabic script. Unclear what for.
Portion of a legal document in Arabic script. Someone acknowledges a debt to someone (... wa-dhimmatī wa-khāliṣ [mālī]...) and mentions crops (al-ghullāt).
Fragment from a power of attorney mentioning Avraham b. Asher. Dating: probably 18th or 19th century. Location: Fusṭāṭ/Cairo. No witnesses. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal deed. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of a gift, involving Abū l-Jūd, Ṣedaqa, and …
Fol. 1: Jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late? Mentions fulūs. There are also jottings in other hands including poetic blessings in Hebrew for the new Nagid …
Informal note to Bū ʿAlī beginning "يا مولاي الشيخ بو علي قد طلقت. . . ." Regarding a divorce? Needs examination. There is an unusual …
Verso: Book list in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (identification by Frenkel), written on the back of a letter addressed to his father Eliyyahu …
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Fragment of a bifolium with recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, probably alchemical.
Fragments of rhyming Hebrew lines.
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat 5322 …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1837 Seleucid = 932 Hijri, which is July 1526 CE. It lays out the settlement of at …
Un-conserved and damaged, probably remains of a letter. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line in Arabic script. On recto there appears to be an itemized bill for (ʿalā) Abū l-Ḥasan for the year …
Distribution of wheat to Byzantines (thabat al-Rūm). Belongs with T-S K15.113. Dating: ca. 1100–40 CE.
Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment) on verso. Poem on recto.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, listing commodities and debts. Names include Abū Zikrī, Dāwūd, Benaya, al-ʿAfṣī. Commodities include pepper and lac. Dating: 11th or …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid = April 1103 CE. Unsigned but complete …
Circular letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic Dating: Summer 1229 CE. Letter of recommendation for the bearer Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan, a …
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Minute fragment from an official-looking document. On verso mentions [...] al-yahūdī al-Afḍalī(?) and on recto mentioned four irdabbs of grain.
Letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq Nisaburi to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Munajja in Fustat, asking him to send a Byzantine scribe to Alexandria to …
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List of names with western Arabic numerals. Dating is likely 19th-century based on the paleoography. Some of the surnames mentioned are: Bialobos, Aripol, Fes, ʿAkūbas, …
Order of payment in Arabic script. Mentions a name, 5 dinars, and a date. Additional jottings on verso. Probably belongs with T-S AS 151.132, T-S …
Responsum. Long and narrow strip of paper, containing a responsum regarding the property of orphans. It seems that the ruling is not to deliver the …
Recto: Deed of a sale. Dated 145[.] Seleucid, which is 1138–48 CE, which is consistent with the reshut clause invoking the Nagid Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]. …
Letter to the judge Peraḥya (b. Yosef?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (also a judge?) woke up sick, so instead of coming to work he sends …
List of names, e.g. Daniʾel; ʿAzarya; Yosef; Daniʾel; Ḥisday; Yoshiyyahu.
Letter with a long rhymed Hebrew opening and later a section in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was sent to Yaaqov he-haver b. Yosef Av bet din …
Recto: note to Abū l-Maḥāsin, asking for guidance in a personal problem (probably in relation to the query on verso), which also involves the fact …
Ottoman-era accounts, signed by the state official Maḥmūd Kāshif Nāẓir Qism al-Anw...(?). The document from the beginning seems like an itemized calculation and towards the …
Letter from a mother to her daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The mother expresses her longing and the fire in her heart, sends regards to Umm Khalaf …
Letter in a Romance language; requires examination.
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The Judaeo-Arabic portion reads, "Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ collected [...] two dinars from the money owed to him by …
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment that begins with the clause setting forth the wife’s obligations (to serve, etc.) and concludes with a dowry list. A minimum …
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Unidentified text (letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There is an unusual case of a hybrid Arabic-Hebrew term: בחצרתהנו ("bi-ḥaḍratenu") — an Arabic word with a …
Legal record (#113) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 5326 …
Note, mentioning a matter involving the Bet Din that needs to be resolved quickly. Probably from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355). Dealing with …