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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power …
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Bill of release (draft or copy). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Tishrei 1356 Seleucid, which is 1044 CE. Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo …
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Unidentified text in Arabic script. Prognostications? As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
List of synagogue honors and the amounts congregants bid for them, with numbers expressed in Indic/Arabic numerals. Names: Angelino Gallico, Avraham Sabāʿī, Binyamin Yisraʾel, David …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated: Rabīʿ II 958 AH, which is 1551 CE. Commodities include: flax. People include: Muḥammad, Ghazāwī, Jamūsī.
Recipe for an amulet, beginning with 6 word-triangles based on angel names (תקפיאל, רחמיאל, etc), followed by (in Aramaic) 'You holy names... Heal NN (1b)... …
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Probably literary. Description of a banquet in Arabic.
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Sunday 21 Kislev 5460 AM (1699 CE). Location: Cairo. Bride: Estūta bt. Yosef b. Yeshūʿa. Groom: Aharon b. Naḥūm b. Yiṣḥaq …
Letter of recommendation. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on behalf of the bearer, Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū Saʿīd. Apart from the conventional material, we learn that the …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 17 Iyyar 5316 AM, which is 27 April 1556 CE. May be a copy or a version of a document …
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Abu l-Ḥasan to give the (medicinal) syrup that he kindly cooked to the young boy for delivery. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Literary text. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Refers to an oath; possibly the name of piyyuṭim (e.g. ברח דודי); and Shemarya b. Elḥanan. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script, late.
Letter of appeal for charity from Abū l-Majd to the physician (ḥakīm) Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying 20 silver dirhams (nuqra) …
Unfinished business letter sent by Mubarak b. Natan to Mubarak b. Ibrahim in Tyre, to whom he had already written three letters. (Information from Goitein's …
Some kind of small receipt or order. For Ḥusayn b. Ḥarami(?). For 236.5 dirhams. Headed by the glyph.
Small fragment with notes in Judaeo-Arabic about accounting and a rent payment.
Letter from קלדה the wife of Meir Ṭaras(?) to דייצה the wife of Avraham Ḥalafta(?). In Ladino. Needs examination.
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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Fragment of a fiscal document, in Arabic script. Requires further examination.
Unidentified text in brown ink with a vocabulary list from Isaiah 48:13-58:13 in black ink and marginal notes. FGP
Unidentified texts, in Arabic script, fragmentary.
Letter from a father living in the countryside to his son's grandmother residing in Fustat. The father expresses his concerns that bad company is leading …
Multifragment of at least two different texts that are fused together. The lower fragment on the verso retains an inverted Arabic-script text that is probably …
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq the Qaraite, in Jerusalem, greeting various Qaraite notables in Fustat including Shemuel b. ʿAzarya b. Mevasser, ʿEzra b. Shemuʾel b. …
Fragment from the beginning of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a letter mainly in Arabic script, with the name Abū l-Ḥasan Sar Shalom partially written in Hebrew script. Mentions Abū Sahl Mukhtār in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic. Not all of the words seem to be Arabic language.
Fragment with Hebrew text. Too faded to read. Looks literary.
Beginning of a letter from a certain Shemuel to Ibrāhīm ha-Talmid. Dating: likely 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions two sacks of flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov who went down to …
Damaged ketubbah of Joseph b. ʿEli (groom), dated [...] Kislev [...]. No other details preserved. Probably written by Halfon b. Menasheshe Halevi. AA
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing several names and goods: Abū l-[...] b. Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maqārīṣī(?); quantities of wheat in irdabbs; Abū l-Karam.
Literary text. Mentions "taʿllaq qalbuhum".
Fragment of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The letter deals with trades, especially of fabrics. Yisrael b. Natan …
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Table of names and numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Recto: Letter by Shemuʾel to his brother Abū l-Rabīʿ Shelomo. Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script and the draft of another letter (introduction only) …
Kashrut certification document in Hebrew. Dated 25 Tammuz 5524 AM (1765 CE). Location: issued in Carpentras, France (קארפינטראץ). The signatures of two kosher butchers appear …
List of beneficiaries receiving clothing (jūkāniyya) via the local parnas Abū l-Faraj. Also mentions ʿAllūn al-Parnas. Information from JRL catalog.
Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]." The paper is almost entirely preserved, but the text is …
Mysterious fragment, probably in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Top right strip from a Ketubbah of Ṣedaqa [b. ...] (groom), with no further details preserved. AA
Accounts in Arabic on recto. Medieval-era. The verso is mostly Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a different scribal hand. Requires further examination.
Legal document, fragment. Dating: ca. 1020 CE. Muʾammala bt. Shemuel b. Menashshe b. Avraham al-Qazzaz releases her sister Mulūk and other relatives (probably her sister's …
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Accounts, folded vertically.
Pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic, labeled as such "תגרב(ה) ק[ל]ם". The dating is medieval-era based on the paleography.