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Letter in Arabic script. Mercantile. Addressed to multiple people (mawālayya l-awlād). Mentions large sums of money (in the hundreds of dinars). The main crux of …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 29 Tammuz 1590 Seleucid = 11 July 1279 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active …
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Something involving a woman and her father; profit; half of a house. Dated: Monday, 18 …
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal account, probably. Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?) …
Letter of condolence from Eli ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Hesed ha-Tustari, Fustat, end of 1045 or beginning of 1046.
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From the book of contracts of Saadya Gaon. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Recto: Names of planets in Judaeo-Arabic, scribbled out. Verso: Geomancy markings.
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Egypt. Possibly a release, based on the one line of content (nishtalamti kol ma. . .).
Letter, fragmentary, from Tyre in Hebrew and Arabic, including a Passover greeting and mentioning Mevorakh ha-Kohen b. Natan (active during the 1130's and 1140's in …
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Judaeo-Arabic love poetry.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
See PGPID 23194
Marriage document, probably. Narrow strip.
Legal query? In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Tiny fragment. Mentions a ḥaṣer and perhaps [R]euven (=John Doe)
Mercantile accounts from the circle of Nahray b. Nissim. Headed אלחאפץ אללה והו אלמסלם, as in T-S NS 323.1 (PGPID 4275). The upper portion lists …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The addressee may be [...] b. Abū l-Manṣūr.
Draft of a legal query regarding a woman who was betrothed by a person who raped her. Her fiancee was later held captive in Malta …
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Legal document. Dated: Friday, 5 Shevat 5346 AM = 24 January 1586 CE. Avraham b. Saʿadya Sadīd the physician acknowledges that he owes Moshe Skandarī …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to one of the personalities in Fustat, concerning the fate of Rabbanite prisoners and the future of the Rabbanite community …
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Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (1172 CE). Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū …
Letter from Hilāl b. Avraham, in Alexandria(?), to his brother Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Fustat(?). The sender is worried about Abū l-Karam whose only …
Letter from Bayān, probably in Fustat, to his brother Bū ʿImrān the son of the Jewish teacher, in Qūṣ. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a late (Yemeni?) hand.
Recto: Fifty-two closely written lines of a legal verbiage written by Hillel b. Eli, dealing with the settlement of the debt of half a dinar …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of Saʿadya Gaʾon's treatise on biblical hapax legomena (Kitāb al-Sabʿīn Lafẓa).
List of books, mostly rabbinical, mentioning talmudic tractates and several midrashim, including Mekhilta, Midrash Shir, Bereshit Rabba, and Midrash Tanḥuma. (Information from CUDL)
Two legal records in a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 14 Kislev 143[9] Seleucid, which is 1127 CE, under …
A Hebrew poem probably in honor of the wedding of Netanʾel b. Meʾir (named 6 lines from the bottom). A later scribe has emended some …
Bill of divorce (geṭ) from a betrothal (erusin). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 17 Iyar 4846 AM, which is 4 May 1086 CE. Fiancé: ʿAmram b. …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
Likely a letter, or possibly a literary narrative, in which a person is describing their tribulations in rhymed Hebrew: אדוני תשורה נאה והדורה . . …
Accounts in Ladino including for March 1722 CE (mentions Rosh Hodesh Nisan 5482). Currencies used are ducados and muayyadis. The handwriting is very close to …
Tax receipt.
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Private accounts of al-Shaykh Bū Ḥasan in Arabic script starting with a basmala and heading "ḥisāb al-Shaykh Bū l-Ḥasan". An example of the accounts includes., …
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to a certain Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely 18th or 19th century. Reused for extensive accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning …
Letter from the sister of Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to her brother Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1020. The sister …
Too little text remains to identify, possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and two ūqiyyas of sorrel. (Information …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only isolated phrases preserved: יום אלסבת . . . דלך . . . חתי ינערף אלמולי . . . אן גרא …
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May mention (not) blaming (the sender), and the tardiness of the work. But it is too fragmentary to …
Marriage contract written by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1181) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's …
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (ca. 1066–1108). Dated: Tammuz 1387 Seleucid, which is 1076 CE. Location: Fustat. Record of a partnership …
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Account in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Dating: Looks Ayyubid or Mamluk era. Needs examination.
Piyyuṭ probably in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. One of them is headed simply "by Moshe (ZL)" - referring to his late brother?
Responsum of Moses Maimonides, concerning river travel on Shabbat. (Information from CUDL)