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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions the name [...] b. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqla(?) b. [...].
No Scholarship Records
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Looks 11th century. Testifying about what happened between Is[ḥāq?] b. Yaʿqūb al-Fāsī and [...] b. Yūsuf b. Khalīl al-Fāsī.
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge. He is prepared to give a refresher course in the reading of the Torah to Abū l-ʿAlā ha-Kohen and his …
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Verso: List of contributors or recipients of communal funds. Dating: ca. 1221 CE, based on recto. Mentions names such as Bū ʿImrān and his father; …
List of books of the bible.
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Dating: 11th or 12th century. Appears to mention "a nice little chest" (ṣufayṭ laṭīf). Not …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Conveys greetings for Abū ʿAlī b. Abū …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
20 pages of lists of names with some accounts, organized by days of weeks.
Accounts of a wine dealer (or at least somebody who sells liquid by the jarra) in Judaeo-Arabic. Customers include Makārim al-Ṣayrafī, Barakāt al-Azraq, Maḥāsin b. …
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Letter from Ramla, from Shelomo b. Yehuda to his son Avraham in Fustat, May 1029 (per Gil), describing in great detail the economic and other …
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Letter from Farah b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl, in Fustat. Dating: October 1056 CE. The letter has another fragment (T-S …
Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment, containing the last couple lines and at least one witness statement.
Recto: legend of Eldad the Danite. Verso: letter in Hebrew, possibly of the geonic period. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved, with space in …
Amulet. Very late.
List of expenses (alladhī kharaja min waqt wuṣūlī), in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions pepper and brazilwood.
Accounts. Mentions fruits "apples" and "pomegranates". Needs examination.
One or more entries in a court register from Fusṭāṭ, dated Thursday, 28 Adar [1]409 of the Seleucid Era (= 4 March 1098 CE), mentioning …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Looks literary at first glance, but mentions a kharājī year (or at least something "al-kharājiyya"), which suggests something to do …
Letter sent from Acre shortly after it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104, in which a merchant describes to his parents the terrors of …
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Recto: Geomancy castings. May be related to AIU VII.F.32. Includes two questions about the illness of David b. Esther: Is it earthly or from God? …
Literary text in Arabic script. Possibly medical.
Fragment of a state or legal document, reused for Judaeo-Arabic court records. On one side: ḥadara waliyy al-shaykh Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī...... b. al-Surūr...
Four pages from a literary treatise containing instructions for treasure hunting and recipes, perhaps alchemical. There are numerous fragments probably in the hand of the …
Letter fragment from the lepers of Tiberias to Faraj b. Avraham, probably in Ramla, approximately 1030.
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Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī (Māzar) to Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, 1064. This letter is a follow-up from the letter in Halper 389 …
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Letter. "The comparatively strong control exercised by the academies over even remote communities is to be explained by the fact that many local leaders had …
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Bifolium of potential state accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on large pages (~12cm) listing immense sums of money. Dating: 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and …
Arabic script (VMR)
Bifolio containing a miscellany of jottings and pen trials in Hebrew and Arabic; one of the Arabic sections is a writing exercise in a chancery-esque …
Accounts mentioning people such as Ṣāfī, the brother-in-law ṣāḥib rabʿ, and Muḥammad.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 143[.] Seleucid, which is 1119–29 CE. Apparently …
List in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot of the year 5556 = 1795/96CE. The weekly parshas are listed such as "אחרי …
Receipt.
Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (lower right corner). No details preserved. Written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh …
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei 5323 …
Accounts in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded/damaged. Mentions a lamp (manāra) and perhaps luxury items such as emerald (zumurrud) and brocade (dībāj) (recto, left column, ll. 12-13).
Original use: Probably a small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, with one phrase preserved beginning وليعمل بموجبه.
Letter to the judge Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard of Fustat asking him to induce the Nagid to approach the wali (head of police) and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso in the first row of entries: 6 Ramaḍān _43 AH but the scribe omitted the hundreds digit. The …
Recto: Praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic, in an elevated register. Possibly from the introduction to a literary work. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. …
List of commodities or recipe. Mentions the dish mulūkhiyya, pepper and saffron. Also contains Coptic numerals. Needs examination.