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Receipt in Arabic script, probably issued by a state institution. Dated: 27 [Ramaḍā]n 1249 AH with the month offered as an abbreviation (ن). The Dīwān …
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Recto: remnants of an Arabic account, with amounts of dinars expressed in words and others numerals expressed in Coptic. Further writing in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. …
The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4 Nisan 1377 (2 April 1066). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
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State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …
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Recto: Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni Nagid, though, it should be noted that he is not named directly among the many honorific titles. Written …
Responsum regarding a cantor who mistakenly called to six readers instead of seven in Shabbat Hodesh. Published Glick, Seridei Teshuvot, II, p. 894-888.
Accounts of Shaykh Abū l-Surūr. (Information from CUDL.) The hand might be known.
Letter with legal content, possibly from a judge to a higher authority. The sender may be Yosef or [...] b. Yosef. The document is headed …
Decree of the caliph al-Ḥākim to the Qaraite community in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere, granting them administrative independence from the Rabbanites, on the basis of the …
Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
In the name o…
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Paraliterary text. Ink recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. The recipes are for making iron gall ink using gum Arabic and vitriol. Needs examination.
Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to Eliyya de Suares. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Av 5592 AM = 14 August 1832 CE. …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions the name [...] b. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqla(?) b. [...].
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. The sender says that even if his letters have lapsed, he has never stopped loving and praying for …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Asks Nahray to …
Recto: deed in which a man and his sons gift a house to an adult woman, ʿAʾisha (known as al-Wuḥsha), the daughter of the owner. …
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[this house,] defined herein, with all its boundaries, its land, its building, its lower [and upper floor and every r…
Very damaged. Unidentified
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. A woman named ʿAzīza makes a declaration. "My husband Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen" is mentioned three lines from the bottom. On …
Late accounts. Mostly numerical calculations with a few names mentioned: Raḥamīm Levi, Yiṣḥaq ..āsā, Yosef Levi, Yosef Kohen[?] Hīnī.
Letter from an unknown sender, in Jerusalem, to Samḥūn b. Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Spanish" layout, including shape of the right margin and …
Folio from an Islamic legal text, in Arabic script. Probably related to inheritance. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Recurrent phrases like "allāh allāh" and "surʿa" and "mā taḥtāj waṣiyya"—all standard phrases urging prompt action in accordance with the sender's …
Letter from the Maghreb regarding business and family matters. Unfinished. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. At the bottom of recto, the writer says that he …
Small fragment with text in Judaeo-Arabic on the recto, possibly referring to a legal release (yubriʾ nafsahu). Medieval-era. The verso retains a few partial words …
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Ledger of a qāḍī court, possibly. Bifolio, with three of the four pages each containing a distinct deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Each about ten lines. …
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State report? Three lines preserved, wide space between them: واحضار . . . ال . . . من جزيرة بني [عمـ؟]ـر فالذي اعتمده في ذلك(؟) …
IB IV, 51 (ח43). A letter from Ibn al-Fakhar to Halfon b. Netanel Halevi, asking for assistance and sending regards to R. Yosef Ibn Migash …
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Business letter addressed to Avraham b. Shanju and Shelomo al-Shaqar. Dating: First half of the 16th century. The sender informs the addressees about a shipment …
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Jottings in Hebrew script, difficult to read, along with one page of accounts.
Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
Magical text, written in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. "Chapter on separation (furqa): write it on gazelle parchment and put it in a …
Probably a memorandum or account. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew numerals and Arabic with Coptic numerals. Mentions rent; Hārūn; al-Ṣayrafī; the week of …
Legal document mentioning the late [Abū] Manṣūr, someones late father Thanāʾ, Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī b. Abū l-Faḍl known as Ibn al-Rabbāṭ. (Information from CUDL.) See …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. May be a join with ENA 3669.3.
Verso: Beginning of a literary treatise on 'the secrets of incantations' (asrār al-nīranjāt). On recto there is an unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Release written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe in Fustat. Using the standard formulae, a woman named Mawlāt releases her husband, Abū l-ʿAlā, from all accusations …
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Two parts: Fragment of a copy of a court record from Hayya Gaon’s court, and a fragment of a letter from Hayya Gaon to Elhanan …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). Very faded. Mentions a shop and Abū l-Faḍl.
Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1053. The sender has been thwarted in his …
אטאל אללה יאסידי בקאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך וכא[ן לך ומעך נ]אצר פי גמיע אמורך
ברחמתה[תקדם] כתאבי אליך לי בקי כתמה אללה [תעאלי אסמה עלי]ך ועל …
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Part of a trousseau list, no prices listed. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Document in Arabic script, with Greek/Coptic numerals at upper left. Maybe a receipt or order.
Late accounts noting money received from al-Kohen Farajallāh and the daughter of Abba mari (probably "my father"). Also mentions al-Shākirī and his son. The total …
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160s CE). On the back there is a draft of a piyyut.