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Late letter in Hebrew to Yeḥezqel Ḥefeẓ from Shabbetay ʿAdda, discussing a business partnership, 400 reals, Jerusalem, and people including Pini Lavan (?), Yosef ha-Levi, …
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Accounts in Arabic on recto with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. The text on the verso appears to be one large sequence of Greek/Coptic numerals (perhaps calculations). …
Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd, the writer’s nephew (sister's son) Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Surūr. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Iyyar 1484 Seleucid, which is 1173 CE, under the authority …
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List of items in Arabic script together with Greek/Coptic numerals
Accounts. Needs examination.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1531 Seleucid = 1219/20 CE. Dealing with Abū l-ʿIzz b. ʿAmram who undertakes to pay 80 dinars to Abū l-Faḍl …
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Response to the inquiry on the recto, in which the judge replies, “I learned that this girl was engaged several times, but it is not …
Prayer text for the absent and killed of Israel on Yom Kippur – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 56) …
Letter from a woman, in Rashīd, to Yom Ṭov al-Buḥayrī (it seems her son-in-law) and his wife Esther (it seems her daughter), in Fustat/Cairo. In …
Late, detailed, narrative account entries in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography and coinage in use (Ottoman jadīd) support a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. Each entry …
Large bifolio of accounts.
Recto: accounts. Expenses are listed, with coptic numerals: carats (qirāṭ) and piasters (qirsh) are mentioned. Verso: accounts mentioning wages. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script (or a list/accounts?). Dating: 16th c?, the verso is dated in the month of Ramaḍān with a year that is …
Recto: Informal note in Arabic script. "These are black ones (سودا) I have sent to my master.... increase or loss...." It is unclear what "black …
Two orders of payment in Arabic script, and perhaps a remnant of a third. The first one: yadfaʿ al-shaykh al-ajall li-muwaṣṣilihā dīnārayn wa-nuṣr wa-thumn.
Fragment of a prenuptial agreement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Few details preserved.
Letter of condolence in Hebrew. Addressed to a certain Nissim. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The sender's name looks like ʿImrān b. RḤ[...].
Brief letter ("ruqʿa") from Ibrāhīm to Abū l-{A}frāḥ Yūsuf (probably ʿArūs b. Yosef). In Arabic script. There does not seem to be much substance to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Concerning family and business matters. Mentions: 'my lord the qāḍī'; various instructions about transactions and …
Accounts.
Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The sums, probably of will distribution, are half …
Receipt of payment (ṣaḥḥ), for ʿĀbidīn(?) b. Qusṭ(?).
Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (lower right corner). No details preserved. Written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh …
Legal record (#61). Settlement of debt. Dated: End of Av, 1467 Seleucid. Makārim al-Abzārī b. Avraham owes 112 dirhams of overdue rent for his dwelling …
Letter by Shelomo b. Meʾir Rosh ha-Seder, descendant of Meʾir Gaʾon, to Avraham Kahana b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script, from the private archives of the Karaite community in Cairo. The document is a decree from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir …
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Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The …
Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). An appeal for charity written on behalf of a poor man. See JRL …
IB V, 14. Business letter addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Lebdī; Hārūn b. Rajā; Efrayim b. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Very faded. On verso: "perush qedoshim of Rabbenu Ḥananel (ZL)"
Jottings for a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Yoshiyya ha-Kohen and Abū l-Khayr. Dated: The year is given as '21, perhaps 521 AH = 1127/28 …
Some weights and Coptic numerals.
Legal document describing that Avraham b. Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations. Shelomo still owes 12 dinars, of which …
Fragment of a letter to 'my brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly urgings to write back and expressions of longing. Apparently sent from Qūṣ. The response should …
Documentary, Philosophy/ethics; the main text, in Hebrew and Arabic, may be a discussion of reward and punishment; recto also contains Arabic accounts. (Info from FGP)
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Marjānī and al-Shelishi. Excerpts: ליס ימכן . . . אצחאבנא אן . …
Letter from Ḥayyūn to 'the noble merchant, the noble Kohen.' The sender has sent the 'qaḍīb'(?) along with 4 dinars with Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf. A …
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the Judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen regarding alleged arrears in a compound of the Qodesh, ca. …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
The purpose of these lines is to inform Your Honor,
our Master may he Live for ever, that I received a letter…
Account including list of names and possibly some sums (written in words) (FGP)
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
List of names with corresponding sums of money. Likely contributors to charity. Dating: First half of the 11th century (or late 10th century), per Goitein …
Arabic script (VMR)
Unidentified document in Arabic script, perhaps a brief piece of correspondence. Dated 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE). The signature of ʿAlī ___[?] Agha Kapūdān Būlāq is …
Long strip from the right side of a letter written and signed by Yosef b. Arah.
The first document is a fragment of a letter from the Qaraite community of Fustat to the Qaraite community of Alexandria. On recto, only the …
Begging letter from Fuḍayl, the brother of Abū l-Ḥasan, and from Abū Saʿd, to his relative Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b. Ṣammūh b. Sasson requesting help …