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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to something al-Majīdī, which might place this during the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (1132–49). Then refers to "the life of" (could …
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Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude, large-lettered hand and very unusual spellings Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Sent to a certain […] b. …
Three fragments preserving three full lines from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Concerning a debt. It …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List of names, e.g. Daniʾel; ʿAzarya; Yosef; Daniʾel; Ḥisday; Yoshiyyahu.
Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
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Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 (September 1027). Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Yefet b. David. Bishr b. Efrayim apprentices …
On Thursday, the 25th of Tishri of the year 1339 according to the Era of the Documents there appeared before the court in the Synagogue of the …
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Arabic script (VMR)
Legal formulary, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fiscal document. Possibly a receipt or a submitting of an account. Needs examination. مبلغ . . . على . . . . المماليك المستخدمين برسم …
Literary work. In Hebrew. Identification is difficult, but it does not seem to be a letter as catalogued.
Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew on reused pages of piyyutim. Many of the phrases are from the beginning of a letter. The word גאמכיה (jāmikiyya, …
Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Ḥassān, bearing the patronymic Abū ʿAlī, ibn [Ibrāhīm ibn Azhar], the…
Testimony that Abu al-Rida known as al-Subki had gifted all his property in Alexandria to his wife, Sitt al-Zaman bat Yiṣḥaq. Dated May 1185 in …
Bifolio of accounting for the purchase of wax (sharḥ shary al-shamʿ). Mentions Nuʿmān; pepper; the word אכדת is spelled אכת; selling a turban to Salāma; …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: refers to a period of time beginning in Nisan 1424 Seleucid, which is …
Leaf from a court ledger, with records in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Recto: Deals with the sale of a house …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Kislev 1649 Seleucid = November 1337 CE. Al-Asʿad b. Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣayrafī known as Ibn Nuʿmān receives …
Bottom part of a legal document in Arabic script. Cut into the shape of a circle. Deed of sale (refers to iqrār al-bāʾiʿ). Dated: 486 …
Recto: communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly addressed to al-Maḥalla. Verso: Hebrew text with citations from several rabbinic sources, such as the Talmud. (Information in part …
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Letter from a man of Qayrawān, perhaps in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an eloquent letter of appeal for charity. He says he has …
Information on language – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 117) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال
الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف
الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان
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Accounts.
Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic.
Official account. "That which was expended for the allowance (ʿamāla) of Mukhtār al-Dawla." Entries include "clay" and "brick." Needs further examination. On verso: "al-mamlūk Yūsuf …
Letter from a man, probably in al-Maḥalla, to a friend or family member, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks if a certain commodity sold …
Minute fragment, most likely from a deathbed declaration. AA
List of names (al-Shofeṭ; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal; Abū Kathīr al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Barādī(?); Salāma al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū Ṭāhir al-T[...]; Abū l-ʿAlā al-Ṣaydalānī; Ḥasan al-Tājir; Ibn Rashīd; Abū …
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner). Very faded.
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Elḥanan; [...] b. Natan Ibn al-Ṣīrī; and ʿEli …
Minute fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few formulaic words from …
Letter from al-Mubārak b. Yosef b. Yazdād, Yosef b. Binyamin, and Ḥasan b. Tayyib in Fustat, to two former partners of a deceased man asking …
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Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Account probably in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions Ibn Makhlūf, a seller of coral, and mercury.
Accounts, densely written, with many numerals.
Tax receipt.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nearly identical formulary to the neighboring document (T-S NS 224.14 + T-S NS …
Original use: Unidentified text in Arabic, likely a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic, labeled as such "תגרב(ה) ק[ל]ם". The dating is medieval-era based on the paleography.
Fragment from the introduction and beginning of Yehuda b. David Ḥayyūj's Kitab al-Afʿāl Dhawāt Ḥurūf al-Līn ('The Book of Verbs Containing Weak Letters'). Information from …
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Letter addressed to a Gaon, possibly. Small fragment.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 13th century. Mentions al-Kohen al-Maghribī who was with Ṣāfī the Alexandrian; an embroidered robe (malḥafa marqūma); selling something …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known from the India Book IV documents.
Letter of request in which the widow of Abu Sa'id b. Shalom, writing to a Nagid, expresses a cry for help on behalf of her …