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Letter, fragmentary, mentioning Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī, quantities of money, runners (raqqāṣīn) and lamps (qanādīl). Or possibly an account of communal contributions. (Information in part from …
No Scholarship Records
Very damaged legal document. On parchment. Regarding Levi ha-Levi b. Yefet and his (or someone's) daughter. On verso there is a note in Arabic, probably …
Recto (probably secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan Sar ha-Bina. Bitter complaint of a sugar-maker that the addressee did not send him …
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Late accounts listing a wide variety of names and corresponding numerical sums. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Some of the names listed …
Legal deed regarding the division of the inheritance in 2 equal shares. Involving someone and his wife and Maṣliaḥ and his brother Ḥalfon. On verso …
Letter from Farah b. Isma`il b. Farah (Busir/Abusir) to Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sigmar. Udovitch's edition was corrected and updated according to Gil's …
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Legal document written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid = 15 September 1093 CE. In which Saʿadya …
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Late letter in Hebrew from Hayyim b. Yosef Polako to Yiṣḥaq Sirnana (?).
Recto: excerpts of Arabic poetry, transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. The poem beginning in line 6 is credited to Qays b. al-Mulawwah (Majnun Layla) in some anthologies. …
6 pages from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the upper left corner, preserving part of the decorative header. …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
Letter from Mordechai. Dating: probably 16th century. It is headed by an ornate בע''ה. Verso and the margin on recto contains jottings (signature practice) in …
Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Literary, Hebrew.
Settlement agreement as part of which golden rings worth forty dinars were exchanged (one with a pearl) before the consummation of the marriage which was …
Document in Arabic, badly damaged. Dating: Medieval era. Requires further examination. At upper left: مما تسلم من دار ال . . . .
Responsa. A query whether milk milked on the Sabbath may be sold. Almost identical with T-S 13J9.10. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 44.
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Trousseau list relating to a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew (probably), but very difficult to read. Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham Ibn Sughmār, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Nahray traveled to Alexandria and the writer is sorry that he did not …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן אל
תופיק אלחסן לא אכלאך ראש חדש כסליו געלה אללה עליך ועלינא
אימן אלשהור ואברכהא ואסעדה…
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Legal document written by a Muslim notary on parchment related to the sale of property, with description of the location. Mentions ʿAlī b. Zakariyā b. …
Popular literature. In Judaeo-Arabic. The portion of the story on this fragment opens with the appearance of a healer before a king: "...and princes and …
Minute fragment probably from a memorial list. Only few partial names preserved. AA
Calendar for the holidays and liturgy.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, his blessings and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his family.
Thi…
Letter from Sulaymān al-Kohen, unknown location, to his mother and brothers Faraj Allāh, Yaʿaqov, and Yiṣḥaq, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier …
Small fragment of an Arabic document, probably accounts. Horizontal lines in between sections.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with widened space between the lines.
Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to "distress" (shidda). Everything else is too faded to read.
Letter in Arabic. The address (recto) states that it is from the younger daughter of Rāfīʿ al-Ḥarīrī, sent to the house of Mukhtār, to be …
Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Listed in Amir Ashur's dissertation, p. 355.
State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in elegant Arabic script. The ends of four lines are preserved: وحرس . . . . . مهجته . . …
List of 136 households (mostly women with, or without, children, foreigners, disabled and indigent people) receiving approximately 570 loaves of bread. A postscript in Arabic …
Fragment from a commercial letter, mentioning that a letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn has arrived, and invoking the ʿaṣabiyya of the addressee to ask him to …
Letter from Shelomo Kohen and Yaʿaqov Portos to Efrayim [...]. Dated: 12 Elul 5566 AM (1806 CE). (Someone wrote the date 1706 CE on the …
Small fragment of a ketubba. Location: Fustat. Bride: Jadīda. No details preserved. On verso there is one word preserved: "al-Dalāl" (a woman's name) or "al-Dallāl" …
Torn fragment of a legal deed, mentions something deposited with a certain Avraham.
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 …
Draft of a deed of mutual release between Ibrāhīm b. Ṣalḥūn (same as in T-S 10J17.8?) and another person, perhaps Bū Thābit al-Jazzār. In Arabic. …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṣafar 613 AH = Sivan 1528 Seleucid = May/June 1217 CE. Most of the remaining content is formulaic.
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Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning incense and mercury and a donkey and many other items.