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Letter probably from a certain Abū l-ʿIzz to his brother. In Arabic script. Written on a bifolio. One of the four pages has Hebrew piyyuṭ; …
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Fragment from the top of a ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 15[.]4 Seleucid, probably 1554 = 1242/43 CE or 1544 = 1232/33 CE. …
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 5509 AM, which is 1749 CE (not 1509 CE as catalogued). Reconciliation agreement between two partners, the goldsmiths Yūsuf …
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Illustration for the first page of a book, there is Hebrew written on the bottom of the first page of the manuscript a revised edition …
Deed of compensation (שטר פיצוי) in the scribal hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. In …
No image available. A letter to Menahem and Elazar Hakohen, 17th century. (FGP)
See PGPID 5286
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Probably Av 1[48]5 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE, based on the presence of signatures of both Shemuel b. …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Marriage contract recorded on parchment. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM = 8 April 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. …
Writing exercises.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Mentions a few sums in dinars.
Small fragment of a decree or petition, probably. The only phrase preserved is the name of the caliph al-Imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn (r. …
Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 14v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 …
Aggadot to Esther, entitled פתרון ומרדכי ידע (Esther 4:6), with jottings on recto. Information from GRU/FGP.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. On recto, presumably expenses, including for candelabras and possibly buzuqs (? bazāzīq). The price/quantity of every item on this list is …
Letter or letter draft. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Quite deferential. The sender refers to a ship and something he …
Advertisement of commercial stores in the Jewish quarter in al-Mūskī (Cairo) – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 128) – in Arabic and …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the transactions related to a house originally belonging to the amīr Iftikhār al-Dawla Mubārak al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī. The final transaction recorded …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Involving Bū l-Faḍl b. Hiba b. Faḍāʾil the Jewish banker (ṣayrafī).
Recto: probably a Hebrew letter consisting of blessings for a group of people, 'at their head' Moshe and his brother ʿOvadyahu. Verso: qiddush for Passover. …
The fragment almost at upper right (three boxes above the yellow label) looks like part of a letter "min ʿind al-Muwaffaq," ca. 12th or 13th …
Letter with a long rhymed Hebrew opening and later a section in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was sent to Yaaqov he-haver b. Yosef Av bet din …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …
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Fragment containing some Arabic script in the margin, which is difficult to read. There is also a Hebrew literary text involving marriage payments.
Leaflet issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo – 1913CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 82) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information …
Trousseau list for an upcoming marriage. Dating: ca. 1161 CE and, more broadly, 1150–1181 CE based on the years when Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver was …
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Letter from the cantor Musāfir b. Yosef ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to his relative Yehuda the schoolteacher in the Iraqi synagogue of Fustat. Musāfir writes he …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abū Zakariyyā Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī ("Palermitan"), in Fustat. Dating: ca. March 1055 CE, according …
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List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān (Alexandria), ca. 1055. Only the bottom part of the letter is preserved. Refers to a incident/misfortune (فجيعة) involving the wares …
אלפגיעה [ ] פכונא נכתב אלי [
וולדה נעלמהם בהדה אלנובה וכאן וצל מן טראבלס אלגרב צחֿבה [
אבו אלטרור צאחב שמעה אלחל[י]סי ק[ ] וימ[ ] מאלה וח…
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Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals in the margin of a rabbinic text. Items named include sīraj (sesame oil) and ḥawāʾij naql (sweets?).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear if private or official.
Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. לך כתיר אללה תעאלי יתם עליך מא אנת פיה ויזידך מזיד כל כיר ויעינך עלי פעל אלזכיות …
106 minute fragments (10 vellum; 96 paper), of which one contains unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic (probably a letter) on verso (row 7, no. 7). (Information …
Fragment of a ketubba. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38), from the period of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Bride: [...] bt. Natan. On …
Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script.
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions the name Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and various numbers. On verso there is a piyyuṭ based on the 10 commandments.
Two legal notes, amidst sundry other jottings, mostly calendrical (including the names of months in both Hebrew and Romance—perhaps Ladino). The first note states that …
Pages (a) through (c): Distribution list for clothing (al-kiswa). Dated: Ṭevet 1488 Seleucid, which began on 5 December 1176 CE. The last but one numeral …
Syriac Memro for Palm Sunday. 14 lines, with a catchword at the bottom and the Garshuni heading yuqraʿ turjām ʿīd al-saʿānīn. This was edited by …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The sender has been sick. Not much else is preserved.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hagay, Fustat.
Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …