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Bill of divorce. Fragment (lower left corner). There do not appear to be any identifying details preserved.
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Documentary per FGP - . Not digitized?
Order of payment. In Arabic script. Bilāl al-[...] instructs Abū ʿAlī to pay the bearer 113(?) dirhams.
Letter, Somewhat cryptic. "As for what you mentioned about the istiʿmāl and the musakhkhināt (warming drugs?) and the [...], and as the 'season' (of illnesses?) …
Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The petitioners complain that …
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Letter of appeal for charity from Sālim of Tyre to an unidentified addressee. The letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) is on verso, while recto is a poem …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Recto: ʿamida for Shabbat Rosh Ḥodesh. Verso: accounts. Late. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at times possibly shifting into some kind of shorthand. Late. There may be dates on verso.
Small fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Declaration made by [Abū Is]ḥāq Avraham ha-Sar. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Khaṣīb b. Musāfir to Abū Isḥāq [...] Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva, the son of somebody who had the title Sheviʿi — likely Avraham b. Natan …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment from near the beginning. Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. …
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Legal fragment. Deed of gift of sacred books (מצחפין אלתורה אלכבאר ואלכתיב אלכאמל... אלמצאחף).
Literary text in Arabic.
Alphabetical practice exercises in square Hebrew script.
Letter addressed to Naḥum b. Sulaymān al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. The writer is unidentified. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's letter concerning the house arrived with Mūsā. But …
Letter fragment (right side) in Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Refers to the elders; many people crying out; the ḥaver R. Yos[ef]; and people telling …
Tax receipt for Nuṣayr b. Saʿīd. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Document in Arabic script. Accounts?
Very faded fragment in Hebrew, probably literary.
IB V, 48. Letter. The sender, a newcomer in Fustat from Yemen, describes himself as 'a pigeon whose wings have been clipped' (line 1), writes …
1 אלי בנתה וקד בקית מתל חמאם מקצץ אל אג̇נחא ולמא קד
2 תחו[ט]ת עלי נפסי פי אל ספר אלי אסכנדריה[1] קולת עסא עני נפד
3 מן ג…
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Small fragment in Arabic script. Unidentified.
Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically …
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Verso, with the address on recto (original use): Fragment of a letter from Mūsā b. [...], unknown location, to his father, in ʿAsqalān. The introduction …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolio. Probably 11th century. Difficult to read. Mentions the neighbor of Ibn Juḥā and Dār al-Ṭarf(?) al-Maghribī.
Recto: Legal fragment (lower right corner). Dating: First half of 11th century. Signed by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi. The validation is signed by Efrayim [...] …
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Karaite bill of debt. Dated 5 Shevat 5409 AM (1649 AM). Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Levi Qudsī and his business partner Eliyahu Levi acknowledge a debt …
Includes 6 different shelfmarks. Most are literary, but the fragment 3 contains a copy of a letter yo Hasdai the Nassi
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Accounts. Three pages. See also ENA 3770.8. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel to his father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. He complains about neglect. He mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, …
Letter in Arabic script. Rudimentary hand. Mentions small business transactions.
Probably a formulary for writing Hebrew letters to important people. Fragment.
State document, fragment, in Arabic script written in enormous letters, probably a decree. Mentions "fourteen heads" (li-arbaʿa ʿashara raʾs) (of cattle?). Reused for several different …
Validation (qiyyum) from a legal document, signed (and probably written) by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps …
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: 12 Adar 1420 Seleucid = 14 February 1109 CE. In which Nāshī b. Menaḥem acknowledges receipt from Mevorakh b. …
Concerned with ritual slaughter; with citations such as Leviticus 11:39; possibly a responsum. (Information from CUDL)
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic that are designated by individual names such as Moshe Qanini, Sa'ad Qanini (recto), and Nissim al-Ḥāmī (verso). Based on the paleography and …
Letter, in Arabic script. Mentions business dealings and sale of wax. Regards to a bunch of people towards the end. Two sides, top missing but …
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Tishrei 5585 AM, which is 1824 CE. Discusses various business …
Letter from one of the followers of Natan b. Avraham. Dating: probably 1042 CE (GIl). The sender is seeking an appointment from the yeshiva and …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "What have you done with the fūṭa?... please try to send it to her..."
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Account for burial expenses. Goitein (Med. Soc., 4:160) interprets the deceased as belonging to the lower middle class, but he may have been affluent: in …
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Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Large communal register fragment, the paper was folded uniformly into eight sections according to the same format as JRL SERIES C 179 (PGPID 32029). Dated …
Small piece of a marriage contract (ketubba) containing the diaspora custom.
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