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Draft of the beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar 1549 Seleucid = 22 February 1238 CE. On verso …
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Unidentified document or text in Arabic script. Portions of ~5 lines are preserved on each side. Legible words on recto include "al-iḥtimāl" and "fulāna aw …
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …
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Letter to Abī Sālim (?) b. Efrayim and Yaḥyā b. Efrayim, replying to previous correspondence, explaining the writer’s bad situation and asking for support. In …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Contains a number of names and professions such as Joseph, Umm ʿAlī, al-Ḥazzān, al-baqqāl ‘vegetable trader, innkeeper’, …
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn to Abū l-Bayān(?) Moshe b. Yishmaʿel al-Kātib fī Dīwān al-Jaysh (i.e., a military administrator). In Hebrew (for the …
End of an unidentified (legal?) Arabic document on verso. Mentions two raṭls and the number three and "owed by him." Recto is the continuation of …
Calendar in Judaeo-Portuguese.
Described in PUDL as a letter from a slave to his master regarding administrative matters.[Described on the paper wrapper as: "lettre d'un esclave à son …
Torn at the top-right, but otherwise almost complete, but faded, Bill of divorce (get). The name of the bride is Turfa. The signatures are too …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Karaite agreement regarding a payment for two apartments (תבקתין) in a house. Date: 27 Shevat 5446 AM (1686 CE). ʿOvadya Feyruz receives a payment of …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Ottoman-era. Needs examination for content. There is a note in the margin at 90 degrees in Judaeo-Arabic, which …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abū l-Faraj. Only the opening remains. Verso: Letter from Shelomo (likely Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to his father. In …
Accounts in Judaeo-Persian, probably.
Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
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Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Yūsuf b. Dāwud b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. The writer complains about the behavior of …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך מן מליג מסתהל רגב ען
סלאמה ללה אלחמד עלי דאלך סדרת כתבי אלי מולאי ארגו וצולה<א>
אליה ווקופה עליהא וקד שרח…
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Recto: Upper part of a letter in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi to a notable named [...] b. Yeshaʿyahu. Opens with a Hebrew panegyric and …
Letter from the wife of Shemuel, a poor woman from al-Maḥalla, addressed to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. She asks for assistance for herself and for her …
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Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-ʿAni; Ṭāhir. Verso: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū ʿAlī, Hillel the blind (al-ḍarīr), Menaḥem, and …
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script. Probably literary. JRL cataloguing data connects with Gaster Ar. 564 (PGPID 33259), perhaps because the two fragments were stuck together …
Hebrew letter of congratulation addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal, containing Purim wishes and blessings for his sons, Hillel and Benjamin. (Information form Mediterranean …
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Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: 1152. Location: Fustat. Under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Hiba al-Abzārī b. Abū Isḥaq al-Tawwazī and Abū …
Minute fragment. Opening words of a legal deed.
Tax receipt for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. See ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) for a list of related documents.
Letter/petition. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century, during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender asks the addressee to assist him …
Official document of some kind. Abū Naṣr al-[...] may owe 6.25 dinars. There is a date (Dhū l-Ḥijja something), but the year seems to be …
Minute fragment from a letter that was probably originally in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Only a few letters in Hebrew from the …
Legal record (#53) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Tishrei 5323 …
Small fragment of a legal document, bottom left corner. Extant torn sigantures include those of the two judges of Fustāt during the early 12th century …
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 …
Verso (secondary use): Brief legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 419 AH = 28 November 1028 CE. Written transversely in relation …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. 8 lines near the beginning are preserved. Mentions the sending of gold. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew from the second half of the 16th century, mentioning attempts to prevent a certain edict, in which R. Yosef …
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …
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Letter from a certain Hilāl. He reports that as requested he has met up as requested with his in-law Abū l-Fakhr regarding Ibn Budayr and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Crude hand. Mentions MKRM; Asʿad; a khirqa; a garment. Cf. T-S AS 186.97 (PGPID 39928).
Letter from Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī. Around 1057. The letter was probably from Susa to Fustat and it contains the account of Musa b. Barhun …
אכר חסאב אן דפעה אלמרחום ממא אנפדת אליה נסכתה בקא עלי אלכלטה לה
סלף כמסין דינ ותלתין מנהא לו דינ תסקט מן אללו דינ אלדי וצלת לידה אולא מן
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IB IV, 46 (ח49). Letter from a member of the Ibn Muhājir family, probably in Seville, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1128 …
Fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Very faded.
Capitation tax receipt for Mūsā b. Futūḥ al-Yahūdī in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S AS 182.312 …
Legal record (#48) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5323 AM …
Narrative of events and stories of religious figures – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 296) – in Hebrew. (information …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. The text in Arabic on the verso may also be documentary requires further examination.
Arabic poetry. Part of one line (إِذ يَغسَلُ الدَمعُ كُحلَها) is from a poem by Jamīl Buthayna, but the rest has not been identified yet.