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Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe official correspondence or legal. The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. Mentions agricultural terms (al-shajara, al-arāḍī, …
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly a legal formulary or dealing with legal issues: e.g. "הולד שלקיימה" on recto. Requires further examination.
Letter from Salāma b. Abī l-Ḥayy to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. The writing place is unknown. Mentions several partners of b. Awkal and it …
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Letter to Berakhot Abū Ṭāhir. In Hebrew (first ~20 lines) and Judaeo-Arabic (last ~5 lines). Consists almost entirely of blessings. The sender asks for an …
Request for help sent by Ya'ish b. Sahl of Nahrawan the cantor to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Haggai Hasid, mentioning the addressee's son (Abu 'Ali Ḥasan), …
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State fragment of some kind. Small and damaged. Mentions "al-kharājiyya" and may have the ʿalāma "Allāh ʿawnī." Needs further examination.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
Verso: Minute fragment from the bottom of a state document probably with the prayers for the caliph. Piyyuṭ on recto.
Verso (secondary use): Official-looking receipt of sale or rent concerning a warehouse/shop (ḥānūt), the location of the property is difficult to make out. In Arabic …
List of names - needs examination. No image
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
Legal document, in Arabic script. A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Also contains a bold monumental script in the middle, probably …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company.
Recto: part of a love poem in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
Writing exercises in which the student repeated the same sentence in Judaeo-Arabic on the recto. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. …
Text is too damaged to identify, but mentions [...] b. Joseph; Saʿīd [...] and some other uncomplete names on verso. AA
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with the names of the Hebrew months written in Hebrew script. Dated: 520 AH = 1126/27 CE. …
Letter from Shelomo ha-[...] to semarya [...]. The writer informs him that he (or perhaps someone else) has reached Hanes (Tannis). (Information from the Cambridge …
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Literary. Beginning of Chapter 24 from a late ethical treatise ("Four things are better old than new"), with commentary underneath.
Memorial list of successive members of the community of Fustat embedded in one of the regular prayers. (Information from Bareket)
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Torn fragment of a business account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to something gilded (mudhahhaba) weighing a certain amount; later again refers to gold; concludes with expressions of deference and possibly …
Likely a fiscal account. Needs examination.
Probably part of a letter. The name Ṣedaqa is mentioned. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Two pages of accounts written by ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn Ṭībān; Ibn Nuṣayr; Abū Saʿīd; Ibn al-Kutubī(?); al-ʿAfṣī; [...] Ibn Sabra; pepper; [...] …
Letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to an unknown Aluf (אלוף). October 1008. Information about copies of two of the Gaon’s books. The person who …
Explication of homophones in several poems by Moshe Ibn Ezra, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Accounts written by a government official indicating sums owed by someone, probably for Abū l-[...] al-ʿAfṣī, on various dates, arranged in two columns. Needs further …
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Small fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps 11th century. "... which we inherited from our father... and the appointed time came... and …
Table of materia medica or perfumes and their value in dinars. In Judaeo-Arabic. Items include three kinds of aloe (ʿūd), ambergris (ʿanbar), perfume (? ʿabir), …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …
ghurūsh
[ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
15,000 .3
Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.
The reason for its [the document’s] compos…
Letter fragment, from Hārūn to his 'brother' Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions having lost his blanket with the masters of the bo[a]t and being pinched and …
Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) to pay the bearer …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Court ruling. Dated: July 1084. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Location: Fustat. Yaḥyā b. Samuel sues Amram b. Abraham for …
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Literary text in Arabic script, possibly medical. Jotted sums in Coptic numerals in the margins.
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment: right side only. The sender is asking the addressee to enlighten him about various theological/philosophical matters, e.g., the significance of the …
Tiny fragment from the beginning of a letter addressed to multiple people. There are only three words (אטאל אללה בקאהם).
Letter (fragment) of which only the bottom section of the body and marginal portion of the text remains. In l. 15r one S[eñor] Curiel is …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Milāḥ sells her Nubian female slave ʿAlam to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā for 23 dinars. Her …
Draft of instructions to write signature on legal document. Late. The first note on the recto is in the first-person and signed by Yaʿaqov b. …
Calendar mentioning the years 1551 Seleucid = 1239/40 CE and 1579 Seleucid = 1267/68 CE.
Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues. The document bears two dates, 4 Iyyar [1]358 Sel. and 2 …
The witnesses named in this deed testify that they know that the compound
which is in the blind alley known as the Lane of the Poor in Q…
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Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060 in the month of Ab.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Report to an official, possibly early Ottoman. Item 7 in DPUL
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the sale of a house. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The address is damaged but clearly reads "to Miṣr." The …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. One witness statement preserved (Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid). The date is only partially preserved on recto, but …
Official-looking document in Arabic script ("min jumlat al-wuṣūl al-[...]"). Needs examination.