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Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Kislev 5439 AM = November 1678 CE. It has to do with property and …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-Kohen and Abū l-Qāsim.
No Scholarship Records
Verso: Last line of a legal document in Hebrew dated according to the creation. None of the other details are preserved. It's unclear if this …
Letter of appeal for charity from [...]n b. Eliyya ha-Kohen to Yehuda b. Menashshe. Large.
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Large fragment. Mentions: receipt of the addressee's letter; news of a terrible thing (akhbār al-ʿaẓīma); something from the recipients student in his …
Autobiographical(?) account. In rhymed Hebrew. Describing an eventful adventure and deliverance from God. This may be a maqāma. (Information in part from FGP.)
Informal note addressed to a certain Abū l-Rabīʿ. In Arabic script. Very faded. Apparently asking him to "send another five" (dirhams?) to a certain group …
Probably a colophon, but conceivably a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with the titles and names of various distinguished people: the Gaon Rav [...] and al-Rayyis …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter concerning legal matters. In Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded.
A small fragment of an early draft of the formal letter of the three Rabbanite congregation of Fusṭāṭ and Cairo, to the community of Ascalon, …
Probably literary.
Letter from Gedalya Fayrūz, Fustat/Cairo, to Shelomo Berakha, Jerusalem. Dating: Unknown. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to consist mostly of greetings. Needs examination.
Recto: Draft of a formal letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a superior by ha-Qaṭan Shemuel. After a long string of honorifics, "sabab iṣdār hadhihi l-khidma. . …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Abī l-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā. Around 1075. The writer is worried about their sister, Jarba, who is about …
כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
וסעאדתך וסלאמתך מן אסכנדריה ליב כלת מן שהר אייר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב …
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Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions a qāḍī, a Christian, and possibly 16 dinars. Quite damaged. Reused for …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: 11th century. The sender excuses himself from something on account of his illness (ḍuʿfī) and worry (shughl sirrī). Mentions …
Accounts mentioning a wide array of commodities and shops. Late. The header קרקעות appears several times, probably related to real estate holdings and/or transactions. Throughout …
Verso: Account of some sort, unclear if private or official. In Arabic script. It seems to be specifying the amounts owed to Abū l-Faraj. Mentions …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Only a few words preserved.
Fragment from a letter or legal document, probably in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mentions ha-Maskil and al-Amīn. T-S AS 169.122 and T-S AS 169.124 …
Too little text remains to identify, possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
IB V, 37, folio 17. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
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Six lines of poetry or rhymed prose in Arabic script, with wide line spacing. Probably the introduction to a formal (state?) letter. Reused for Hebrew …
Recto: Letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb to an unknown recipient. Written in a good hand and pleasant style. This letter implores the addressee to …
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Recto: Judaeo-Arabic recipe involving starch (nashā'; not "starch of Isaac" but yuṣḥaq = let it be crushed), and some jottings in Arabic script including Coptic …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
Marriage contract containing a list of jewelry apparently of Syro-Palestinian manufacture, to be sold by Shemuel b. Ḥasan two months after the signing of this …
Legal declaration, missing its beginning, involving several Bibles (maṣāḥif), someone's brother Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥazzan, Abū l-Makārim al-Tājir al-Levi, and a certain Nadiv. Mentions …
Coptic mathematical table. T-S AS 187.118, first column on recto: 70x1=70, 70x10=700, 7x100=7000, 70x1000=70000, 70x2=140, 70x20 = 1400 etc T-S AS 187.118, second column on …
Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …
בה' בשבת בא אלינו
חוסין ברב' משה
ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי
לכם והודעתי…
27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'
On Thursday
There came to us
H'usayn son of R. Moses
and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. I…
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: al-Ramla. Dated: Adar 4786 AM = January/February 1026 CE. Husband: Menashshe b. Shemuel. Wife: Ḥusn bt. Yosef. Signed by the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 5 July 1836 (20 Tammuz 5596), from Rashid, addressed to Moshe Bunān, Fusṭāṭ. The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and …
Probably a receipt. The name ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz appears near the top.
Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl …
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Mentions someone who is in danger of being imprisoned by the Gentiles.
Order of payment (حوالة) in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. On verso, in Judaeo-Arabic, the name …
Informal note (with a legal purpose) in the hand of Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef Kohen (active ca. 1132–1148) addressed to a judge called 'Rabbenu …
Recto: Astronomical table in Arabic script, listing zodiacal terms (thawr, jawzā, saraṭān, asad. . . . jadī, ḥūt) which are accompanied by strings of Greek/Coptic …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Deed of a gift, granted by the wife of Abū Saʿīd to her …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Ottoman-era. Mentions an agha and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hilālī. Needs further examination.
Fragment of an incomplete legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–1138 CE). There are two lines, mentioning the late Abū l-Faraj …
Letter from Moshe Maimonides to Abū l-Munā. Autograph. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. Abū …
Recto is a draft of a poem in praise of Moses Maimonides by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Query from Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, “the son of the brother of Umm Nadiv,” asking whether a woman who was deserted by her husband with whom …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd, [...] al-ʿAdanī "his partner in the …
Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning India and Ṭabaristān and other lands as well as a report in the name of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Recto: beginning of a very damaged legal deed. Verso: Birth record for David [...] b. Benyamin known as Ibn ʿAbā[...] Location: Cairo. Dated: Ṭevet 17[..] …