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Karaite agreement regarding the lease of a perfume shop. Dated 28 Tevet 5425 AM (1665 CE). Moshe b. Shemuʾel Ḥazan leases the shop to Yeshuʿa …
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Draft(s) of a short letter in which the sender states his intention to go to Fusṭāṭ - but he is having financial problems and may …
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Letter addressed to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions the shop of the bāshā and פלוס דיואן אלקטר. Needs …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals.
Letter in the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, likely sent to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1216/17 CE (1528 Seleucid). …
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Small fragment, mentions the Nasi. The nature is unknown.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated Thursday, [...] 1435 Seleucid = 1123/4 CE. Mentioning [...] bt. Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. A release granted by Sitt al-Maʿālī to Abū l-Ḥusayn. Involving sums of 2 dinars somehow related to Abū l-Ḥusayn's father and a total …
Letter in Hebrew.
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely documentary. Needs examination. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is also some Hebrew literary text.
Letter/petition from a woman to Yakhin Rosh ha-Qehillot. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). She asks for help for her son, …
Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Adar 5609 AM, which is 1849 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya of Palestine. The …
Horizontal strip from the middle of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. "Al-Parnas al-Kohen went to Bilbays two years ago and lived there and made a living with …
Leaf from a court ledger. On recto, written at 90 degrees to the other text blocks: Draft of the deathbed will of Abū l-Ḥasan. Dating: …
Legal record (#8) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 4r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Tishrei 1872 …
Bifolium from a halakhic treatise. Likely in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Mentions the owner of the boat (ṣāḥib al-markab) and Alexandria.
Poems in Judaeo-Arabic (balligh salāmī yā dā'im...), along with copious jottings in Hebrew.
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya. Dating: mentions 1522 Seleucid = 1210/11 CE and 608 AH = 1211/12 CE …
Legal fragment. Dated: 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. Involves Menaḥem Abū [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi. There are distinct but probably related documents on recto …
Bifolio of a text in Judaeo-Arabic containing elaborate recipes for testing the quality of precious stones. The righthand page of verso details the procedure for …
Business accounts? Arabic
Damaged, Hebrew rhymed text written in wide space, might be from an opening of a communal letter, but the context is unclear. There is very …
Letter from Zakarya b. Yaʿaqov al-Shama (Tripoli, Libya) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. The letter discusses the movement of goods from Tripoli to …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה מן אלמסתקר לי כלון מן ניסאן ואלחאל סל[אמה ונעמה ואלחמד]
ללה [רב] אלעאלמין וצלת כ…
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar II 1537 (10 March 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S …
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Letter to a brother in Fustat. Fragment from the top. Little is preserved apart from the formulaic opening and complaint about lack of letters.
Bifolio containing piyyuṭ and scribal practice. One of the pages contains a brief petition-like note addressed to a woman (al-sitt al-jalīla) with a taqbīl and …
Small fragment probably from the end of a memorial list for ʿAmram he-Ḥasid the Pious and his son Moshe ha-Talmid he-Ḥasid. Also mentions someone ha-Bavli …
Receipt, in Arabic script. Contains the glyph at the top, probably meaning "addā" here. Could contain a date towards the end. Needs examination.
Small fragment from a letter addressed to a dignitary (תפ]ארת השרים [...]ת הנשיאות]). Seems to be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Only a …
Family letter from Yosef to Abū l-Ḥasan (his brother-in-law?). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: 13th–15th century. The sender defends himself against …
List in Arabic script, possibly an account.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions something black; and Ḥabība.
Fragment from a late ketubah. The groom agrees to deposit a conditional get. AA
A few words in Arabic script mentioning Bū l-Faraj al-Jābī and ʿindahu and some Greek/Coptic numerals.
Large mercantile letter in Arabic script, mentioning ships. Also conveying greetings to and from various people. The left side is burnt or at least discolored. …
Letter or letters in Judaeo-Arabic. At the top of recto, probably requesting letters from the addressee, which are "as if I saw your face." The …
Lower fragment, verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter, in Arabic script. Top part missing. The sender expresses his longing for the addressee. He mentions a paper trail and expresses his happiness on …
الاجتماع معه على الحال السارة فيه ا[
بمنه وسعة فضله ووصل كتابه ادام الله
حراسته من تنيش(=تنيس) على يد سعادة الغلام
وقراته وابتهجت بما تضمنه م…
Minute fragment from a bill of divorce (get).
Recipes, unclear if medical or culinary.
Accounts listing goods, weights, prices, and various names. Distinctive hand. Dating: Medieval era. A quantity of pepper is listed on the verso. Mentions nutmeg; litharge; …
Small scrap with a few words in Hebrew script.
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
Marriage contract. The groom may be the son of Avraham ha-Zaqen. There is one line of a dowry list. On verso there is a note …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, ca. 15th–17th century. On verso some Arabic and Hebrew as well.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning two dinars which the addressee had given the sender; he is to take them back and instruct Abū …