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Two fragments from a letter in Hebrew. Mentions being in Tyre for 17 years; a book purchased in Egypt or Fustat years ago (the book …
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Tax receipt.
Bialphabetic text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic (in Hebrew script) and Arabic (in Arabic script). Might be literary (some sort of commentary?). Needs examination.
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 12 Nisan [5322] …
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Small fragment of Arabic correspondence, probably official. Reused by a serial recycler (see T-S 20.75 + T-S 20.70 (PGPID 31256)).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolio. Probably 11th century. Difficult to read. Mentions the neighbor of Ibn Juḥā and Dār al-Ṭarf(?) al-Maghribī.
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee about a cryptic matter that he and his in-law (silf) agreed upon, and telling him not to …
Business letter sent by Ismail b. Yusuf b. Abi 'Uqba in Alexandria to Abu Sa'id Yusuf b. Musa b. Barhun in the countryside village of …
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Mercantile accounts.
IB III, 49. Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall …
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Inventory of the Sarcocolla (‘anzarut), a medicinal resin, in the possession of Abu al-Khayr Sedeqa, recording the numbers of ratls that have been taken out …
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Recto: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good …
Small fragment with text in Arabic script, including a basmala and possibly a date at the top.
Hebrew magical treatise(s) in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. T-S NS 322.73 is a folio from the introduction to the work. L-G Misc. …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated Adar 5568 AM (1808 CE).
Either a letter or a legal testimony. The name Meshullam b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen appears on verso (probably the same as in CUL Or.1080 J69, T-S …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). At one point the sender calls the addressee 'my daughter' (yā bintī). Mentions the name Abū Yaʿaqov …
Faded page in calligraphic Hebrew, likely poetry.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, late.
Letter from Ḥananel b. Shemuel to al-Raṣuy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Short but complete. The content is vague and allusive, but it seems that the writer is …
Recto: a medical prescription in Arabic for ʿAlī b. [..]Allah. Verso: scribal practice in Hebrew. ASE.
Instruction by Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid, l. 4v) to a scribe to make out a declaration that the court of Fustat had acceded to a ban …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Possibly a fiscal document. Faded and damaged. Reused for Hebrew literary text on recto.
Bottom fragment of a literary document, in Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Late. Mentions names such as ʿImrān, ʿĪsā, Muḥammad, Yūsuf, Ibrāhīm. The numbers are large (some in the …
Letter from the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-yahūdī) Mūsā b. Nāṣir the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār), unknown location, to an unkown addressee, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market …
Small fragment from a commercial letter or account. The term maṣabbāt (something to do with metal casting) appears twice. Also refers to al-ḥajar al-nuqra (ingots) …
Letter fragment from Avraham, son of the Gaon. In a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq. Probably Ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of the 12th century. Distinctive handwriting, especially the alefs. Mentions the well known trader Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. …
Late accounts for the year "refa'eni," with a line over the "ni"; unclear how to translate this into a number. There are headings for "duyūn," …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Ṣ[afar] 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.24. There are multiple …
List of names and numbers- money collected and owed. Probably written by Shelomo b. Elya
Letter from Shelomo Barukh, in Damietta (Kapotakia), to Me'ir Ben-N[aʿ]īm, in Cairo, whose surname is damaged but legible in the address section. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: …
Late list of wealthy contributors, about 30 per week (Information from Goitein index cards.) Verso: There are also several lines of Arabic script. Dating: probably …
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Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
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Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On recto there is part of a drawing of a design (a medallion with a flower inside, …
Accounts, mentioning names such as Jābir b. ʿAbdallah. Mentions quantities of grain in irdabs; and vetch. (Information in part from CUDL)
Probably writing exercises in Arabic script.
Accounts listing names and corresponding numerical figures. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century. The recto includes a reference to the Lekh Lekha parsha reading, perhaps as part …
Lists of Judeo-Arabic account entries related to financial arrangments in which figures are expressed alphanumerically. The dating may be provided on the fragment's verso where …
Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical …
Informal note from Abū l-Faraj. In Arabic script. He complains about his illness and inability to go out (on account of the jāliya?). He asks …
Ownership note, and much faded text (perhaps another one). 'This is what Shelomo b. Yosef bought from Shemuel known as Tājir, may he live forever. …
Two bifolios containing various Hebrew texts, a jotting of a quadruped, and two pages of Arabic text in a rudimentary hand, apparently excerpts or drafts …
Beginning of a circular letter by Nisi b. Shemuel, head of a congregation (of Rabbanites? Palestinians? Babylonians? Karaites?) to all Israel, emphasizing the duty to …
Recto: Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi, probably in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb. Most of the letter concerns a dispute …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known.