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Verso (original use): Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is missing, so this sender/recipient identification …
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment. Image not available.
Legal deed, fragment. In Hebrew. Only the beginnings of the last few lines are preserved. Dated: 10 Tevet 5325 AM, which is December 1564 CE. …
Fol. 1: The very end of a legal document, consisting of just a few signatures: Yaʾir b. Yiṣḥaq, Sahl b. Faraj, Yefet b. Shemuʾel, and …
Tax receipt? For [...] al-Yahūdī. Sum: 1/6 dinar. Needs examination.
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Barakāt. In Arabic script. The writer complains about poverty and unemployment and kashf ḥāl ('uncovering').
A draft of a pre-nuptial agreement between husband and wife, contains most of the known stipulations found in marriage documents during the 12th century such …
Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. The writer mentions his difficulties with a person named Abu Zikri …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר ליז כלון מן מרחשון כתמה
אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה תקדמת כתבי אליך…
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century based on handwriting. Refers to "the meat which they throw(?)."
Accounts mainly in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Arabic script. Dating: the handwriting looks ca. 13th or 14th century. Items include saffron, cinnamon, wax, …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Someone named [...] b. Yefet makes a declaration. (Information …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal document (iqrār) mentioning ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Ḥasan, dated 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 800 H. [1398]. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "The prince Shahab …
Fragment of a letter written by Daniel b. Azarya, probably in 1051. A complaint about harassment by the brothers Yosef and Eliyyahu ha-Kohanim, sons of …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (the lower part is missing, and the right margin may be missing if it existed); the letter continues in the …
Accounts of a shop in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also a few lines copied from a legal testimony in Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 11 Tammuz [5]310 AM …
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Baṭrīqa bt. Avra[ham]. Groom: [...]nan b. Yeshuʿa. Dated Sivan 1[...] (c. early 11th century CE) probably in Fusṭāṭ. Witnessed by …
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List of names in Arabic script, e.g., ʿAmmār b. Muḥammad. Might be business accounts.
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Regarding silk and flax. Mentions that his brother’ son (his …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר הגדול גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה
מן אלאסכנדריה לט כלון מן מרחשון ערפה אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה בר…
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Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: March 1062 CE. Among other matters, Yisrael reports that he is in bad …
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List of names with numbers. Maybe charitable distributions or contributions. On recto there is a Judaeo-Arabic literary text.
Legal question sent to “Rosh ha-Seder” who might be R. Yehuda ha-Cohen ha-Rav ha-Gadol, Rosh ha-Seder b. Joseph, the student of Rabbenu (“Our Master”) Nissim …
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Jottings in Arabic script, with a basmala and possibly pen trials, together with two instances of the first sentence of the Guide for the Perplexed …
Legal document, probably. Very faded. Mentions Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen in the first line. Reused on recto for jottings.
Short note in dreadful handwriting in which the writer orders some wine, because he has just had blood let (wa-qad ukhrijtu l-dam). The name Avraham …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is April 1120 CE. Settlement between …
Receipt, with a bunch of names of the contributors, dates, and days of the week on both sides. A few Hebrew characters also appear in …
Arabic script (VMR)
A long text, probably contains moral guidance.
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. The addressee is called [...] al-Muwaffaqī [...] al-Malikī(?). Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferent, asking for some sort …
List of names and quantities and possibly commodities. Names include Hiba b. Dāʾūd and Abū Isḥāq.
Draft or unfinished letter. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment in Hebrew. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 seem to be two different legal documents …
Get (bill of divorce) from Fustat for Menashshe b. Shemuel and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yefet Tif'eret ha-Qahal. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dated first decade of Kislev. Mentions Rosh ha-Qehillot. No …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM = 1821/22 CE. Headed: "The expenses (maṣrūf) of the Sephardic [congregation] מצות in Fustat/Cairo for …
On recto a late engagement (shiddukhin) deed. Groom: Shabbetay b. Yeshuʿa. Bride: [...] bt. David Mizraḥi. Dated: 1 Ḥeshvan 5605 = 14 October 1844 CE. …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, with some Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions a kerchief; the owner of the veil (miqnaʿa), an old woman and a robe; …
Minute fragment, barely any text left
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue fragment of a letter from Saadya the Head of the Court from Egypt to Shlomo Abusa'ada in Zafet, …
Letter "to the Sulṭān regarding. . ." written in calligraphic and vocalized Judaeo-Arabic. The header is too faded to be easily read from the microfilm. …
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The case involves Nissim b. Avraham and Nāṣir b. מגלי. May have to …
Communal letter, or perhaps a letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. (Information in …
Legal record (#126) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 14 Av 5329 …
Fragment of a business letter, probably the upper margin. Mentions a cantor (al-ḥazzān); Mubārak Ibn al-[...]; 4 dinars; Abū ʿUmar; an agent (wakīl); Fustat/Egypt; and …