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Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
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A few fragments stuck together. The main one is a piece from a document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (dates: 1100–38). Mentions some neighborhoods …
Letter from Ḥassūn(?) b. Daniel (حسون(؟) بن دانيال) to a certain Abū l-Ṭayyib. On parchment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic …
Verso: Maimonides’ reply is gracious but firm: he is exhausted, frail, and ill, and has no time or energy to meet with the writer. He …
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Judaeo-Arabic poetry, probably.
Arabic, literary. Probably medical.
Recto: Qaraite betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 11 Kislev 1360 = 20 November 1048 CE. Groom: Maḥfūẓ b. Menaḥem. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Avraham …
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Letter from Elʿazar b. Shelomo b. Yehosef Gaʾon son of Gaʾon. In Hebrew. Dating: first part of the 12th-century, based on the sender's known genealogy …
Accounts in Ladino.
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Luʾluʾa bt. Shemarya (לולוה, meaning Pearl). Groom: Yiṣḥaq Kahana the cantor. Dated 4[8]44 AM = 1083/84 CE. Location: ‘on the …
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Story involving Socrates and the king of India and philosophical questions, e.g., "Which came first, night or day?" (Answer: they are in a cycle that …
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Letter/petition from a cantor apparently addressed to Moshe Maimonides. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in …
Recto: Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic, reassuring the recipient that everyone is well and that conditions in the region are the same as they have been. …
Popular literature. In Judaeo-Arabic. The portion of the story on this fragment opens with the appearance of a healer before a king: "...and princes and …
Legal fragment involving half of a house and Elazar who is known as Manṣūr al-Zajjāj. Needs examination. See T-S 13J3.13 (PGPID 7967) for a list …
Begining of a commentary on RIF's commentary of tractate Baba Maṣi'a of the Babylonian Talmud. Authored by judge Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq as described in the …
Recto: late letter prefaced by בס''ד and concluding with an elaborate (and illegible) signature. It politely addresses a friend, Yaʿaqov al-Tilimsānī, (from Tlamcen, Algeria), asking …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Ṭevet 1378 Seleucid = 25 December 1066 CE. In which Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī acknowledges having receiving …
Letter from the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to the Qaraite community of Damascus. The scribe is Meir Rofe Tawrīzī, and the letter is also signed …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ṭevet 1441 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Acknowledging the deposit of an inheritance. Abū l-Ḥusayn …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: probably 10th century. Written on the back of a scroll of Esther. Mann suggests that it was sent to …
Very damaged list of items, mostly textiles.
Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, with testimonies. Might be dated 417 H. Needs examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew liturgy
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active 1170s–1219). In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a complaint about illness. The purpose of writing seems …
Legal deed in the handwriting of the judge Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim. Dated: Av 1544 Seleucid = July/August 1233 CE. Fragment (beginning only). Involves a certain …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Probably a marriage or divorce contract. Some readable phrases are: "لا يعترض معترض فيها", and "قطع وفصل لا رجوع". Needs …
Part of the address from a letter to Shemuʾel b. Sid (probably 16th or 17th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only isolated phrases preserved: יום אלסבת . . . דלך . . . חתי ינערף אלמולי . . . אן גרא …
Halakhic text, arranged in columns. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Partially consists of a list of legal queries.
Small fragment of a letter about communal affairs; written on the 20th of Elul. Somebody (perhaps the sender) went to the synagogue on Saturday yearning …
Petition or report. Bottom ~10 lines are preserved. Difficult handwriting. The first line may begin with the words "umūr al-thaghr." Mentions a paper trail and …
Letter addressed to a dignitary a named [...] b. Khalaf b. Saʿadya. In Hebrew. Formal letter with wide space between the lines. Only the Hebrew …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks like that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (early 13th century). Refers to something shameful (al-ʿār), "what people say" (kalām …
Literary text in Arabic. Probably Christian, based on the reference to ʿĪsā ʿalayhi l-salām.
Family letter in Arabic script. Numerous greetings to various people are preserved (e.g., to "ahl bayt mawlānā" and the sender's paternal uncle Makārim), also a …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Hebrew on verso. Needs examination.
A few words from a state document, perhaps a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Probably a legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: late Mamlūk or Ottoman. Mentions a town in the Gharbiya province. Needs examination.
Fragment in large, calligraphic Arabic script. Praise for God and prayers for Muḥammad (ḥamdala and ṣalwala). There are two lines above that need to be …
Accounts in Arabic script. Dated in the final lines on the left side of the recto: Rabīʿ I 1166 AH (1753 CE). Requires further examination.
Fragment of an opening of a letter by Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, to the communities of Fustat, probably December 1033.
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Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Mordechai b. Refael. The bride is Esther . AA
Late document in Hebrew, probably a legal declaration, in which the writer seeks to absolve himself from the complaints against him from Shemuel and Avraham …
Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content.
Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Fragmentary. The sender seems to be complaining that someone has opposed him or will oppose him in conducting his business …
Legal record (#17a). Alimony owed. Pertaining to the first record on the facing page (Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.11, recto, a). "The maintenance (mezonot) incumbent on Bū …
Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)