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Legal document: power of attorney in which Shelomo b. Ḥātim appoints Menaḥem b. Shelomo to pursue his claims against Ḥasan b. Avraham and Shemuʾel b. …
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Bifolio of accounts. Two pages seem to be commercial accounts, mainly recording revenue, in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic script, mentioning names such …
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Recto: list of houses and names, for example the Nagid Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver and son, Ḥananya and two sons, Abraham, Elʿazar, David the poet, Nathan, Joseph, …
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
An order of payment from Abu Zikri Kohen to Khalīl for 1 ratl of linseed oil.
Accounts in Arabic and English, probably 20th c. Numbers expressed in Indo-Arabic and Arabic numerals.
Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye …
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.Marriage document. Minute fragment, damaged and creased from a ketubah. Only a few words from the dowry list are preserved. Judeo-Arabic. AA. Needs preservation.
List of materia medica in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a recipe or prescription. Crude hand and spellings.
Recto: accounts. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of Arabic correspondence, probably official. Reused by a serial recycler (see T-S 20.75 + T-S 20.70 (PGPID 31256)).
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. One has an ʿalāma at the top, with a note underneath: "this is the ʿalāma of the other one(?)" (هذه …
Letter addressed to a Muslim dignitary with many lines of titles (al-malikī al-kāmilī... al-zāhid...). In Arabic script. The sender seems to wish to purchase some …
Letter of recommendation (?). "This note was cut out (?) from the book belonging to the Persian (al-ʿAjamī) staying with the Jew who speaks on …
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment from the end.
Minute fragment of an Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque dated Nisan.
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150–81). Groom: [Naḥ?]um b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. Marriage payments: 10 + 20 = 30. Two …
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Minute fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably. The word mutafaḍḍil is preserved.
Folio from a beautifully written literary work in Arabic script, potentially a cookbook. Merits examination.
On verso and spilling over onto the margins of recto: account and a list of at least 82 indigent people, including at least 14 Europeans, …
Letter from a woman to her husband. Written in excellent script and style. The writer is angry that her husband had to live in her …
Karaite bill of release of a debt, dated 30 Shevat 5594 AM (1734 CE). The document was recorded in the home of the brothers Eliyahu …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Tishrei 1530 Seleucid, which is 1218 CE. Inventory of a dead perfumer's shop, taken for purposes of dividing the …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the synagogue and Ibn al-Siqillī. Ends, "And God knows" (ואללה אלעאלם).
Accounts in Arabic script.
Small fragment of a petition/letter of appeal for help. In Arabic script. There is a wide space between lines 2 and 3 presumably for the …
Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …
Not digitized. Either Moss. V,348.1 or Moss. V,348.2 (previously Mosseri L 24) seems to be a document involving Nahray b. Nissim, according to Goitein's index …
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse). Mentions dates, sums of money, and names such …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. On one side there is a poem (panegyric?). On the other side there is the lower part of an elaborate letter, …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th century. Mentions Maymūn.
Letter, probably. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "his small baby girl." Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic, minute fragment. Possible reference to a majlis on the recto. Requires further examination.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, dated 1449 (= 1137/38 CE). A tax-farmer (ḍāmin), Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿUlla (known as …
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Slip of paper with expenditure for one week. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 462, App. B 81 [dated 1200-1240])
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Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Small strip from a Ketubbah on vellum, contains mostly trousseau list mentioning ṭabaristān probably in connection with a garment. No further details preserved. AA
Probably a commercial receipt for Abū Zikrī (Yehuda b. Yosef Kohen?). Needs examination. See T-S Ar.34.5 (PGPID 20576) for a list of similar documents.
Recto: Legal query sent to Maimonides along with his autograph responsum. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
Letter in a Romance language; requires examination.
Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer a half raṭl of soap, a raṭl of oil, and an eighth …
A letter from Yosef b. Ishaq to Mordechai b. Ishaq
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 …
Karaite conditional divorce document. Yaquti'el b. Nissim Fayruz commits to give a conditional bill of divorce to his future wife Sitūta b. Naḥūm Levi in …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Arranged by parsha of the week. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Legal record (#143) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 48r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: the beginning of …
Two betrothal contracts. First is of Wazira bt. ___ b. Yishaq. The groom's name is effaced, but his marriage payment is 5+30. The second is …
Legal record (#33) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 12r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Heshvan 5322 …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Many familiar names on the list. Mentions ʿIwāḍ; Ibn Samḥūn; Abū l-Surūr; Dāʾūd; Abū l-Barakāt; Zikrī; the …