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Receipt.
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Accounts in Arabic script and maybe Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions several names including Mīkhāʾīl and Muḥammad and a teacher.
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (ca. 1150–81 CE). In which Abū l-[...] appears before the court -- possibly in the Palestinian …
Report to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of five Christian (Rūm) merchants carrying timber: Sergius son of Constantine, [name partly illegible], …
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Two tiny fragments, the larger one has remnants of text on the recto and verso. Hebrew letters may be visible, with Tiberian vowels. The recto …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era; the dates are given, but are faded and difficult to read. Recto and verso contain two distinct …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Hebrew from Moshe b. תיפא(?). The sender mentions Mordekhay Benyamin, business in Cairo/Egypt, the sale of a ṭallīt, and various other transactions. Dating: …
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
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Book of responsa. Joins by Amir Ashur. See FGP and Goitein's note card for bibliographical references.
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Letter from a son to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer thanks the addressee for the wuṣūl (official receipt), since the tax (mas) was threatening. …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with grandiose blessings for the addressee. In the margin mentions the arrival of בן חניך.
State document in Arabic script, an internal memorandum or report containing multiple hands. Containing (on the last fragment) the signature of the vizier Ḥusayn b. …
… if God wills.
My sufficiency is God. How excellent a keeper is he!
The slave of our lord and master the imām al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh, commander…
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost none of the substance is preserved. The addressee is called 'my brother.' (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[.]61 Seleucid, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE. Zayn b. A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat …
Letter from Manṣūr to either his son or his father Abū ʿImrān. (Both are referred to as ואלד, but this is sometimes the spelling for …
Business letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dated: ca. 1063 CE. Natan's son, and his son's eldest daughter, …
פאעלמת[…אללה לא]
יעדמנא בקאה ווקף אל[…אללה]
יגמלנא בבקאה ויתב[קא] עליה [
[ ] ואני וכל ישראל [
וקד וצלו מרכבין אנדלסיי…
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Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sale; reneging; 2 years; and a deposit. …
Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: November 1050. Location: Fustat. An unsigned assignment of power of attorney from Eleazar Manṣūr ("Head of the Congregations") b. …
Letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon b. Yehosef to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: spring 1025 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on …
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Recto: draft of a suretyship agreement in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Khallūf b. Yehuda undertakes to act as surety for …
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. More neatly written than usual and with wide spacing. Mentions gum arabic; camphor; and 80 manns …
Recto is probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is accounts in a different hand, where the word רסם recurs ın almost every entry.
Literary. Recto: catena of verses from Psalms 119, quoting the first verse of each alphabetical acrostic (including Psalms 119:1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1392 Seleucid, which is 1081 CE. Husband: Ṣedaqa b. Avraham. Wife: Rashīda bt. Yeshuʿa. Witnesses: Mevorakh …
Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān …
Betrothal (erusin) contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 19 Heshvan 5591 AM, which is 1830 CE. Groom: Avraham b. Yosef b. Shelomo. Bride: Masʿūda bt. …
Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the …
Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhānī to Eliyyahu the Judge. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports meeting with "the indicated person" who is in difficult …
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5 pages of a late Hebrew literary composition that seems mostly about biblical subjects. For example, "Why was the name of Avraham changed as well …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Letter; from Maʿānī b. Abū Maslūk, mentioning a certain Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)
Black ink (original use): ِFragment of a state document, fiscal related. At the top: thabata ʿindī jamīʿ mā nuṣṣa wa-shuriḥa fīhi... wa-kataba Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (narrow strip from the middle). Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1088–1189 CE. Names mentioned include Yefet, …
Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically …
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Arabic script (VMR)
Fiscal accounts. Many officials are named (ʿIzz al-Mulk, Qamr(?) al-Dawla, Jamāl al-Mulk, Mukhtār al-Dawla, and many more. Also large sums of money. Needs examination.
Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Conveying a first-person narration regarding a journey: فلما ان طال المكث . . . انا ومن معي وهجرت خرجت اما …
Official letter/report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out any of the content. Reused on the other side for Hebrew piyyuṭ. …
Rabbinic text.
Bifolium filled with Judaeo-Arabic poetry. There is some earlier text from Psalms.
Legal document, probably. In Aramaic and Hebrew. Dating: Maybe 11th century if not earlier. Involves someone named Yoshiyya. Extremely faded. Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to his nephew Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: September 6, …
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