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Announcement by the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Cairo for the opening of a public clinic in the neighborhood of the communal synagogue on Rosette Gardens …
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Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.
No Scholarship Records
Geonic text discussing legal deeds, formulae, and validation procedures. The joins are from FGP attributed to Simcha Assaf and Ezra Chwat.
Letter from Mevorakh b. Shelomo to the teacher Abū l-Bishr Mevasser b. ʿEli, in Cairo. Dated: Sivan 1488 Seleucid = May 1177 CE. Acknowledges receipt …
Recto (secondary use): order from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu for oxymel (sakanjabīn) and two kinds of syrups (sharāb). Verso: Draft of the opening of a letter …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of incoming payments with the heading "[sic?]עלם אלחאסאל". Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The currency mentioned throughout is mashṭ (משט)– …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing a variety of grocery items and home goods. Dated 28 Tevet 5537 AM (1777 CE). The heading on the right side …
Late Hebrew letter in a cursive hand. On verso a drawing and few words
Polemical composition narrating the story of the exilarch Bustanay. For a parallel text and fuller description, see PGPID 6078.
Accounts, on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b. Majd; Abū Isḥāq b. …
Narrative including a dialogue with the Nabateans (or a person named Anbāṭ). (Information from CUDL)
Letter, of which only the address is preserved: "to Moshe the judge" (אלי מושב הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרנו ורבנו משה הדיין המופלא). (Information mainly …
Letter from the judge (qāḍī) Hibat Allāh b. Makīn, in al-Marāgha, to his "brother" Abū l-Ḥasan Zuhayr. Concerning the case of Maryam bt. Yuḥannis the …
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Bifolio from a collection of legal documents from Yemen. The first document on f. 1r is in a different, cruder, hand to the rest, and …
Two fragments of a mercantile letter from Marwan b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribi, unknown location, to Yosef b. Avraham al-Maghribī, in al-Raqqa. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address …
Unknown document in calligraphic Arabic script. Appears to be a small fragment torn from a larger document. There are also Hebrew pen trials.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Dāwūd b. Yehuda ha-Kohen asking him to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen …
לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט
אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.
But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
The sl…
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IB V, 42e. Receipt in the hand of Abu Zikri Kohen: saḥḥa lil-shaykh Abū l-Surūr dirham wa-niṣf la-ghayr. Old IB: 229f. There is a line …
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Several lines from the top of a deferential letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment of a power of attorney, appointing Ḥayyim b. ʿImmanuʾel (likely the 11th century Maghribī merchant).
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
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Too little text remains to identify, possibly a letter? (Information from CUDL)
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost no details preserved.
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Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal from Fustat. Around 1010. Regarding a shipment of silver which b. …
Draft or summary of a legal document describing the boundaries of a property, apparently in an exclusive neighborhood. South: one house known by the name …
Letter in Hebrew from the community of Kiev on behalf of Yaʿaqov ben R. Hanukkah. He had been seized by Christian creditors (goyim) of his …
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Verso: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Abū ʿAlī and his brother; Manṣūr Nufayʿ; Manṣūr Nuʿmān; Majd Dayyan; Ḥusayn and Yaʿqūb of Marrakesh (Marrākushī), Yosef b. …
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Medical prescription? Seems to list ingredients and quantities. But needs further examination.
List of contributors (end), almost all names known early 11th century. Included: The elders the Tasatira (Tustaris); the rest, mostly bankers. (Information from Goitein index …
Accounts.
Fragment of a responsum in the hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda, regarding bread baked by Gentiles (pat shel goyim). Information from Gil and CUDL.
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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)
Capitation tax receipt. Needs examination.
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 2 dinars to the bearer. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID 36725) and …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably sent to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Refers …
Verso: Fatimid state document preserving part of one line, including the word يستخرج.
Verso: Three lines of faded Arabic script including the basmala and possibly the beginning of a letter (ḥaḍrat. . . . al-sāmī. . .). Reused …
Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …
المملوك المظفري
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة
فلـ[..]عىه [ ]
تقبله…
Recto: beginning of a letter with Judaeo-Arabic address on top and Hebrew blessings as introduction. Looks like the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. …
Informal note from David b. Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj and the bearer of the note and compelling them …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely medieval. From a man probably to family members. There are many self-pitying phrases. Some lines are crossed out; may …
Validation (qiyyum) from a legal document, signed (and probably written) by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps …
Letter from Moshe b. Shemuel b. Jami, probably sent from Fustat to his partner in Qabes, mentioning merchandise in the Maghreb and Egypt, and asking …
Astrological table mentioning the Hebrew terms שור (Taurus) and דגים (Pisces) on the recto. Requires further examination. MCD.
Legal proceedings. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Sayyid al-Ahl b. Naḥman appears before the court and claims her property and her ketubba of 30 dinars following the …
26 pages of a Ladino & Hebrew manual on divination, using astrology and geomancy and perhaps some casting of lots (see pp. 21–22, where there …
Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبیه وسـ]ـلامه
[هذا ما ا]شترى منه صفقة واحدة وعقدا واحدا جميع الحصة التي مبل…
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