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State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
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List of materia medica, in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Isaacs (1994) suggests that it presents a ‘diet for invalids’ but does not explain why. Also …
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Letter from a man, in an unknown location, to his son Abū l-[Rabīʿ?] Sulaymān, in Fustat. To be delivered to the shop of Abū Naṣr …
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…
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Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot. Each list is designated by individual contributors and specific weeks of the liturgical calender …
Informal note from Eliyyahu, in Alexandria, to Yefet ha-Kohen ha-Ḥazzan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to heed the letters that have already been sent from Alexandria …
Recto: legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Shabbetay the blind (סגיא נהור), a house (al-dār), quires (karārīs), …
A manuscript of Earlier Prophets (extant from Kings to Isaiah). Dedicated by Ḥusn bnt. Ya'aqov b. Yosef [b. Kushnām "to the qaraite community of Jerusalem... …
Copy (?) of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
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 …
عبد عبيدها ويبدو والقسم وجزيل العطا والنعم
فما ينفك عن عبد خلص ولاوه وحسن تلاوة وانعقدت على
المسابغة عقايده واراوه وتقلب في الطاعة بين سلف
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Accounts for 54 dirhams (not 64 as per Goitein) received by the collector (called Sulayman ha-Levi), plus 30 donated by Avraham the Pious (d. 1223) …
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Legal document relating to a dowry. On parchment. Mentions 100 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. The names are intriguing, perhaps Greek: פאפא ניקולה (Papanicolaou?), the wife of Manoli, איבדוקולה (Eudokoula?), etc. Needs examination.
Detailed trousseau of Bint Menahem (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 403, and from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document: Iqrār (acknowledgment of a debt) of 400 dinars contracted by Buṭrus b. Jirjis from Abū l-Faḍāʾil ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Hibatallāh b. Shūʿa the …
[بسم الله الر]حمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفی
[اقر بطرس بن جرجس النصـ]ـراني الحامي وهو يومئذ رجل کھل رقيق السمر…
[In the name of God,] the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient. Peace be upon his servants, whom he has chos…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 5 July 1836 (20 Tammuz 5596), from Rashid, addressed to Moshe Bunān, Fusṭāṭ. The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and …
Fragment from the top part of a ketubba. Dating: 12th century. Looks like the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan.
Letter from the influential Karaite scholar R. Simḥah Yiṣḥaq Luzki (b.1716-d.1760/1766 CE) to the Karaite community of Cairo or perhaps the Karaite Jews of Egypt …
Petition to David al-haver al-kohen son of the judge in Judaeo-Arabic. no content has been preserved.
Deed of sale, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describes the location of a property relative to the alley of the poor (zuqāq al-masākīn), the mosque, and the …
Fragment of a legal document. The beginnings of about a dozen lines are preserved. Mentions 'my father Ḥasan' and 'the inheritance of my father.'
Official document in Arabic script. Dated: 1231 AH, which is 1815/16 CE. On a printed template perhaps from the customs bureau (ديوان كمرك . . …
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyya, written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides and dated Tammuz 1531 Sel. (= 1220 …
Memorial list for Nadiv and his 3 sons: Shelomo, Yefet and Yosef. Also for Avraham and the Kohanim: Saadya and his son Hillel (Hillel b. …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Ethical exhortations attributed to Talmudic sages. Late.
Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Eliyyahu b. Moshe, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Neḥemya Kohen, [… b. She]lomo, Barukh …
Account, on parchment and much dilapidated, containing weekly revenue and expenditures (small related costs), in the elaborate hand of Aharon 'the expert cantor' b. Efrayim …
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Ketubba fragment (left side only). Dated: [13]77 Seleucid, which is 1065/66 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15. No dowry. (Information from …
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Verso: Three lists in Arabic script. One of them (underneath the Hebrew script, at 90 degrees to the other two text blocks) consists of business …
Perhaps the address of letter from "your servant Meshullam b. Menashshe." There is writing in Arabic underneath. Verso was not photographed.
Recto: Upper right corner of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably addressed to Bū l-Futuḥ. Needs examination for content. Verso: Letter from a certain Futūḥ, likely …
Placard of a Spanish pilgrim to Jerusalem "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither [Psalms 137:5]. [I am] Avraham b. Yehuda—m[ay …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary script. Organized according to the Islamic calendar. The names are unusual.
Fragment from a woman's deathbed will. This was mistakenly attributed to Maimonides by Ratzhaby (Sinai 111, p. 214). On verso there is a list of …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter mentioning Abū l-Faraj and a Kohen, al-Bānyāsī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. Verso looks like accounts, with several Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment. Only a few words remain from the end of the document, and then 11 signatures. Location: Jubayl (probably Byblos in Lebanon, but there …
Minute fragment from the top of a ketubba. Only a few words from the ornamental header have survived. There are also jottings in small Arabic …
Payroll account similar to T-S Misc.8.100, App. B 41, partly in the same hand and noting mostly the same names and sums for the 28th, …
Legal document from Baghdad. In Hebrew. Probably 17th century. The date appears as חת׳׳ת לפ׳׳ק which is: 8+400+400+30+80+100=1018. It is unclear how this sum should …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The cantor al-Shaykh al-Makīn (=Abū …
Dissolution of ṣarraflık partnership. Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Nisan 5576 AM = 12 April 1816 CE. Between Yosef Romano and Nissīm Ḥāmī. Witnessed by Yaʿaqov …
Mysterious fragment with several different sorts of jottings, including: 1) In Hebrew: "When the great king (Mehmet II) who conquered Constantinople died (in 1482), and …
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. On verso there are accounts in eastern Arabic numerals.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the address is preserved.
Writing practice.
Small scrap with ~2 words of Arabic script. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly …
Petition from an impoverished army veteran who had served in ʿAsqalān, possibly to the vizier Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53). 1153 is a terminus ante quem …