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Letter from Moshe b. Shemuel Ibn Jamia from Gabes/Qabis (Ifriqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1030. The letter deals with shipments of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. With the date left blank and the identifying names erased. Mentions fees for the …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā. One registration mark; al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-rāʾfa.
List of food items (mainly) and of names of persons. Interpretation uncertain.
י]ום אלגמאע אלאולה מן סיון ערפנא אללה ברכתה
The physician Menahem writes to his colleague, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, about happenings when he traveled to the village Ṭanān (in the Qalyubiyya district near …
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Memorial list for people from a prominent kohanim family. Shemuʾel/Yisrael ha-kohen starts the list. Then his son Meshullam and then Netanel. The next entry is …
Small fragment in Ladino, probably from a letter.
Some sort of list in Arabic script. Seems to include names of people and locations. On verso there are a few words in Hebrew script.
Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1474 Seleucid, which is 1162/63 CE, under the authority of Netanel ha-Levi. Quittance or agreement …
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Fragment of a ketubba of a second marriage (or at least for a non-virgin bride, based on the ʿiqqar ketubba payment of 12(.5) silver coins). …
Recto: end of a legal document concerning an inheritance and the sum of four dirhams, signed by Joseph ha-Kohen b. Ab[raham]. 11th century or earlier. …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly official. Maghribī or Andalusī hand. Seven lines are partially preserved, including the prayers for Muḥammad often found in state …
Clockwise from upper left: (a) Small fragment in Arabic script, with two words in Judaeo-Arabic at the bottom (stuck on from an unrelated document). Likely …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning a dowry with the value of its items. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) In the hand of Yosef b. …
Fragment of a legal document in which the signature of Toviyya b. Daniel appears.
א ב י מ ק ת
ו א ס ב מ נו ר י ש שמ
צ ר ח ה ו ג י קן עי עיה
Bill of release written in Tyre 11th century. Malīḥa bt. Shemarya (?) the widow of [...[ yedid ha-yeshiva b. Peraḥya declares that she had sent …
Fragment with various scattered text blocks in Arabic. Dating: late, Ottoman-era.
Deed of sale for a portion of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1468 Seleucid, which is 1156/57 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Surūr b. Sughmār, who is traveling to Dimyāṭ (Damietta). The sender will send another letter to the judge (al-shofeṭ).
IB V, 31. Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Av, year missing, under the authority of …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Approximately 8 lines are preserved from the middle, but the context seems too vague to understand much.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 11 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE). Change of a will signed by Ḥalfon b. …
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Accounts, mentioning several purses, sums in dinars and names such as al-Anṣārī. Including an entry for the faqīh al-Muʿtamid and mentioning Umm Ghālib. Dating: likely …
Probably a draft or exercise of phrases from a letter.
Exegetical text in Hebrew. Probably late. Not a letter.
Probably a medical prescription. In Arabic script.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: 1594–1689 CE, based on the legible numerals 10[..] AH, but probably toward the beginning of this date range per Hathaway …
Devletlü ve saʿādetlü sulṭānım bender-i Dimyāṭ mültezimi faḫru’l-emāsil ve züḫrü’l-aḳrān çavuş bey efendim ḥażretleri[nin ḫāk-ı pā…
My honoured and esteemed lord, the tax farmer of the port of Damietta, the pride of the exemplary and first among equals, his exce…
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (the addressee of the letter on recto).
Ledger of a synagogue beadle, likely communal donations toward synagogue honors. Dating: nineteenth century based on the paleography.
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: April 1076. Location: Fustat. Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a …
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IB III, 23. Detailed accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in India. Dating: 1132–39, 1145–49.
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A very interesting glossary for materia medica, giving correspondences between different terms. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Letter addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon (r. 1127–1139 CE) with fourteen lines of poetry in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-haver written on the back …
מכתב למצליח גאון
Accounts. In Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Partnership agreement between Yom Ṭov אלאלוו and Ṣemaḥ b. David אלגג. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Shevaṭ 5329 AM, which is 1569 CE. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Written by …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late and messy. The header refers to "my brother-in-law ʿAbd al-Karīm"
IB V, 37, folio 20r. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Sulaymān is to give the bearer, the cantor Abū Saʿīd, …
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Verso (secondary use): Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the name Hammām b. Manṣūr at the top.
Letter in Hebrew. Only the first 6 lines are preserved, which are entirely greetings and blessings and verses, including the one generally cited for warding …
Ketubba (marriage contract), formulary, found inside of a Palestinian prayerbook. The booklet also contains formularies for a bill of divorce and the husband's instructions to …
Letter in Hebrew from Safed to Cairo (מצרים) in Hebrew. Addressed to Yeshūʿa[?] al-Mātī[?] from Eliyahu Medina[?], both names are not entirely clear. The letter …
Two fragments of a dowry list (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes a female slave named Waṣl ("Union") valued at 13 dinars. Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar): 60 …
Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." In Hebrew. Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or …
Bilingual hymn in Greek and (Bohairic?) Coptic, modified to serve as healing text (recto). On verso there are a few lines of illegible (Coptic?) text. …