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Late accounts, quite faded.
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Later document: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, listing materia medica and their weights. Or possibly a prescription in tabular form (which would be atypical). On verso there …
Letter from Avraham ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʿaqov, in Tūnis, to his brother Peraḥya b. Yaʿaqov, in Palermo (Siqilliyya). The letter deals with a matter of ḥaliṣa …
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Letter from Shelomo to Shemuʾel, c. 18th century. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, in Jerusalem, to ʿOvadya Kohen and his son Nissim Kohen, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. …
List in Judeo-Arabic of monetary amounts and calculations related the communal "chest / ארגז" of the Mustʿarabīm in the end of Nisan 5590 which is …
Recto: Letter fragment (or rather Hebrew poetry?), mentioning Abraham. Verso: Unusual text, possibly part of a prayer. Several words are written in hollow letters. (Information …
Recto: Fragment of a petition (?), 3 fragmentary lines, containing part of an inhāʾ section (al-mamlūk yunhī anna) in which reference is made to the …
Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."
Small fragment of a legal document, involving [...] al-Ḥāmī and his wife Sutayt bt. ʿAbdallāh al-Khashshāb, and possibly conditions about what happens if he travels …
Letter from Ṭahor b. Avraham to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. Dating: First half of the 13th century. Very similar to T-S NS 321.101 (same writer, same …
Letter from Shemuel b. Ibrahīm, in Fustat, to his father Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Shabbetay (aka Shubbāṭ), in Palermo. Fragment: upper part of the letter …
Expenditures for repairs of a house ("the house of Menashshe"), written in a rudimentary hand familiar from other documents (and in fact very close to …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Bottom part only. Dating: Ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. Bride: Ṭova bt. Ḥusayn. Groom: Shelomo b. …
Fragment of a decree. There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Medieval era. Mentions quantities of gold dinar throughout the entries, with some crossed out. In a rudimentary hand previously …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Needs examination for content. Reused on the other side for a Judaeo-Arabic narrative describing the surface of the earth, wells …
Arabic, literary. Probably medical.
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. One of the headers on recto may refer to "the foundry" (al-masbak). On verso there is the glyph. …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 29 Tammuz 5437 AM = 29 July 1677 CE. Concerning the moneychanging (ṣarf) partnership between Eliyyahu b. …
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Several pages of small fragments and accounts torn from different documents.
Four pages from a table of contents for a late, large (>300 pages), literary work in Hebrew. The chapters are organized around themes and the …
Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic related to real estate transactions that are dated 1784/85CE according to FGP (although it is unclear where exactly this year corresponds …
Leaf from a court ledger. On recto, written at 90 degrees to the other text blocks: Draft of the deathbed will of Abū l-Ḥasan. Dating: …
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Small and damaged fragment from a letter in Hebrew, with some Judaeo-Arabic at the end. Reporting the arrival of "our brother Yefet ha-Levi ha-Ahuv" and …
State document, Fatimid period. Letter of a Fatimid dāʿī addressed to a chief qāḍī to congratulate him on a new honor the caliph had bestowed …
وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل
رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير]…
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Verso: Accounts with the header "What was sold before the death of Abū Isḥāq b. Abū Sahl known as Ibn al-Ahuv, in the presence of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee are unknown. The letter is an appeal for private charity. The writer is under duress from difficult times (awqāt …
Small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Upper part of a letter to a dignitary ('al-sayyid al-fāḍil'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably originally a long rotulus. Resembles T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 12[..] Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed …
Letter from Yeshuʿa to his father Saʿīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century or later, based on handwriting and abbreviations used. This letter was written …
Fiscal document. Begins, "[...] fī bayt al-māl...." Dated: 5[..] AH. Mentions Shams al-Mulk at the end of the second large line. Needs further examination.
State document, fragment, in Arabic script. Six lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Might be a draft, since there are words crossed out …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unusual tabular format. Distinct entries are headed by the word حط or خط with an elongated horizontal line. …
Recto: opening of a Hebrew letter, with much of the text illegible. The poetic opening is neatly arranged in two columns, with extended letters, and …
Deed of gift. In Hebrew, calligraphic. Location: Fustat. ʿEli b. Ḥasan ha-Levi the dyer gives to his youngest son Shemuel five and a 1/3 shares …
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Islamic legal text, in Arabic script. Mentions the order of wilāya of a woman for nikāḥ.
Three legal queries to Yiṣḥaq b. Sason with his responsa. At least one of the cases concerns the maintenance of children
Receipt for the capitation tax of Yūsuf b. Bū l-Ḥasan the Jew in New Cairo.
IB III, 12. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in India, probably from 1146. Corrected copy of IB III,13-14 (T-S …
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Letter from an unknown sender to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: around 1065. The sender asks Nahray to send him money, as he and the people …
Legal document involving a dispute between Abu Saʿd Kohen, Abū l-Makārim, payments in installments, and the sale of cheese. One of the parties resorted to …
Recto: Arabic love poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: One very faded line in Arabic, then in Hebrew characters, "Abu Sa'id b. Muslim." ASE.
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Letter in Hebrew mentioning payments in gold peraḥīm coinage. Dated 24 Nissan below the main section of text, possibly with a two-alphanumeral year. The latter …
Deposition made in court, under duress. Dating: ca. 1130s–40s CE. The issue concerns a house worth 300 dinars; 150 were paid. Then it was estimated …
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Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is to pay the bearer Sālim (or Maḥfūẓ and Sālim are to pay somebody else?) something. Cf. T-S AS 146.22, T-S …
Literary text, if there is a continuation on verso, or could be a note or letter from a jurisconsult. Mentions Muslim, sharṭ al-ākhar, tatawajjahu ilā …
Trousseau list, probably. Listing various garments and valuables and their prices.