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Deed of sale of a property. Many landmarks and characteristics are described.
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Recto (secondary use): Official receipt of some sort relating to agricultural activities in a district whose name is difficult to read. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, opening only. Expresses longing for the addressee, doubt whether the sender's previous letters reached the addressee ('before my departure from Fustat'). …
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Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the text in the right margin, is preserved, containing expressions of condolence apparently on the death of …
A few words from the end of a decree: واعـ[ـلم هذا] واعمل عليه وبحسبه وو . . . . Reused for Hebrew liturgy.
A pair of business letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely 15th–18th century. Recto, with the address on verso: letter to Binyamin b. Qalyūsa (?) al-Ghazzāwī …
Arabic script (VMR)
Some Arabic jottings on verso, may be documentary.
Small fragment from the opening of a letter to a Nagid.
Probably a colophon on the name of Elazar Masliah
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel and …
Fragment of a letter addressed to "the leader" (al-rayyis al-fāḍil al-ḥakham al-ajall). In Judaeo-Arabic. Cursive sephardi handwriting. (Information in part from CUDL. (Probably from the …
Tax receipt for Bū l-Makārim b. Bū Ishaq al-Mutaṭabbib, possibly for the purchase of a house in Fustat. Landscape format. Contains three registration marks at …
Poem of praise addressed to Yefet ha-Kohen. In Hebrew. Perhaps the introduction to a letter.
Acknowledgment of a debt of 10 dinars contracted by Ḥammūd b. Hāshim, the miller, with Ibrāhīm b. Ḥajīj, the Jewish middleman. The document states that …
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 chosen.
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Ketubba. Dating: likely 11th century. Groom: ʿEli [b. ...]. Bride: Mubāraka bt. [...] ha-Levi, virgin. No further details preserved. Signed by Nissim b. Hillel, Harun …
Original use: Official letter or decree in Arabic script. Written in large letters wide space between the lines. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. …
Draft of an Arabic-script legal document or credit instrument. Documenting a debt of 20 dinars. Written on 11 Shaʿbān [.]39 AH. Mentions names such as …
Recto: About seventeen Hebrew verses, likely from a superscription of a letter, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Verso: Treatise ending …
בכתב ידו של נתן בן שמואל החבר
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Yūd ʿImrān on Bīr al-Ḥā'it, Yemen. Dated: 4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid = 7 April 1840 CE. Groom: Hārūn b. Sālim al-Thalā'ī(?). …
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Late.
Accounts mentioning people such as Ṣāfī, the brother-in-law ṣāḥib rabʿ, and Muḥammad.
Possibly a fragment of a legal document: הדיין אלדי . . . ולם יבקא להא קימ . . . כול שהר . . .
On recto there is a long list of items in Arabic script, mostly or entirely materia medica. On verso there are Greek/Coptic numerals at the …
Distribution of collection (tafriqah) to officials. Among those mentioned: Salim the Parnas, Abu l-Ḥasan the Ḥaver, Khalil the cantor and his cousin, al-Ahuv, al-Rayyis Abu …
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Tax receipt for someone's payment of the capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: looks like 557 AH = 1161/62 CE.
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Addendum/postscript of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that there is demand in …
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Fragment of a private letter reporting the death of an individual named Najm al-Dawla (probably a state official based on the title), followed by conventional …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script.
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Recto: Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "The slave reports to his majesty that he is abashed before him, and I …
Two short fragments of a legal document (or prescriptive text?) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) that contain instructions for conducting …
Letter addressed to a dignitary (מושב שרינו, verso l. 4). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is exceedingly faded. The largest block of still-preserved text, at the bottom …
Dedication and ownership notes. "Saʿadya b. Aharon wrote this for Yosef b. Berakha. . ."; "Refuʿa ha-Levi b. [...] purchased. . ."
Bill of divorce. Dating: 13th century? Signed and probably written by Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov (ha-Ṣarfati?) and Ṣadoq b. [...]
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Asking the addressees to help the Jews and the Conversos (הן ליהודים הן לאנוסים). Dating: Presumably dated to after the Spanish …
Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. The preserved text is fragmentary and doesn't directly indicate its a state document but contains elegant line spacing …
Letter from Shabbetay b. Moshe to Peraḥya b. Sasson 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva'. Mainly in Hebrew, with a few phrases in Judaeo-Arabic and part of the address …
Letter from Sulaymān b. Shaʾul, perhaps in Sicily, to Salmān b. Shabīb al-Kohen, perhaps in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-11th century. Touches briefly on business …
Fragment from the opening of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On this fragment there are mainly holiday greetings, but the Hebrew opening suggests that the writer …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1156. An unsigned and undated non-compete contract between Abū al-Makārim al-Dimashqī Nadiv b. Mevaser and an unnamed party. Nadiv agrees …
יכתב שטר עלי אבו אלמכארם אלדמשקי נדיב בן
מבשר אנה לא יתעארץ לשרי חריר ולא לביעה
לא כאם ולא מצבוג ולא ישארך פיה ולא ירסלה ומתי מא
תביין עליה ש…
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IB I, 29. Court proceedings in which the two brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Shela (for this identification, see T-S 10J21.11 | PGPID 2956) and Maʿālī, the …
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F. 1v: the first page of a text with magic names for each month (of the Muslim year), supposedly revealed to the sons of Israel …
IB VI, 6. Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel, Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf on the conclusion of the latter’s second or third voyage to the …
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74 minute fragments (72 paper; 2 vellum), of which one is part of a letter in Arabic (row 5, no. 1). (Information from CUDL)
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Small fragment of a decree. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary work.
ـ]ـامر حقيقا وبالاستخدام جديرا خليفا
Letter in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Torn. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The tarjama at upper left appears to read "ʿabd min al-Maḥalla," …