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Minute fragment. Damaged. Probably a list or accounts, mentioning names, such as Isḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Memorial list for a family of Kohanim, menitoning Elazar and his brothers and his son Avraham.
Deed of lease in Arabic script. Probably for property (mentions a ṭabaqa). Needs examination.
Literary - Hebrew words listed in alphabetical tables. Reused for Hebrew poetry, possibly a panegyric.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1818/1819 CE ([5]579 AM). The letter recipients are Menaḥem Barakha and Barakha Goren, sender: Shelomo Sonino. Requires further examination for …
Arabic script (VMR)
Small fragment of a legal document. Almost nothing preserved other than two partial witness signatures: [...] b. Aharon and Aharon [...].
Fragment with overlapping Hebrew and Arabic writing at right angles, hard to make out any words.
Legal fragment in Arabic script (lower right corner). Dating: probably Mamluk period or later. May refer to silk of Homs and Alexandria. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabics on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions "the matter of the apostates" (קצה אלמינים); "the response to the letter …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
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Small fragment from the bottom of a kettubah signed by [...] b. Avraham Aluf.
Table of contents for a volume of responsa, including one about a marital problem of people in Toledo.
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Maṣliaḥ Gaon, in Fustat. Dating: 1127–38 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The purpose of the letter is …
Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. Partial transcription on Goitein's index card. On recto there is a poem …
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Legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Declaration by Abū Naṣr Avraham b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and disorderly scribal hand. Dated twice in entries on the verso as: א׳מ׳ץ׳ (941 AH) with the month Rabīʿ I visible in …
Probably a late business letter
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Mysterious document in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Listing numbers of "asbāb" and "abdān" and giving an explanation of some sort. The verso mentions "al-ḥālat al-wusṭā", …
Legal document. According to Ashtor, "an agreement concerning a levirate marriage, second half of the 15th century." However the basis for the dating is not …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, listing sums associated with different dates of the months Dhū l-Ḥijja and Dhū l-Qaʿda. The word "wuṣūl" (receipt) appears …
Letter from a certain Esther to her son. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 16th century. Regards to and from various people, including Doña Miryam. Mentions wine …
Small fragment of a bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two different hands. Recto begins with a basmala and is followed by the word thabat (inventory). …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location not specified. Dated: Tuesday, 4 days into ḥol ha-moʿed Sukkot 5325 AM, which is 1564 CE. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Medina …
Letter fragment from Isḥāq b. Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to David b. Shaʿya, probably in Fustat. Around 1060. Mentions the arrival of Byzantine and Andalusī …
תוכלת עלי אללה
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עיך ותאיידך וסעאדתך ונעמך
[מן] אלמסתקר מסתהל שהר אלול ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנ…
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Official document (receipt?) of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions wuṣūlāt/receipts and the sum still owed.
Account including names, numerals and various jottings
Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Almost complete with the top honorifics missing. The writer confirms receiving 4 dīnars (of tax?) and he set …
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Geonic literature. In Hebrew.
Esther writes to her parents in law after having returned from Safed to Cairo, describing how she learned certain needle work and expressing thanks to …
Piyyuṭ. A marginal (ownership?) note reads "Yehuda b. Menaḥem (may he rest in Eden), the judge of Denia in al-Andalus."
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Unusually clearly written: في الحساب . . . التنجيم وفي ساىر المعاملات . . . دراهم …
Unidentified text in Hebrew characters, possibly a document or poetry.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding …
Arabic translation of Psalms 19.
Accounts in Arabic script. Maybe of a merchant, listing debts owed. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Many names mentioned, including someone titled al-mufattish ('the …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to one of the personalities in Fustat, concerning the fate of Rabbanite prisoners and the future of the Rabbanite community …
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Commercial accounts for Abū Yaḥyā Nahray (b. Nissim). Heading: מערפה מא וצל ל . . . . אבי יחיי נהראי. On verso: حساب نهراي ايده …
Letter to Eli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas dealing with money owed.
Very short note from Elʿazar to R. Yosef: "I need the silver very much, please send it with the bearer." Verso has a few letters …