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Shipping certificate from Nahray b. Nissim probably to Moshe b. Yahya al-Majani. Around 1065. Detailed the coins that were in a coin packet. Verso: Details …
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Copy of the will of Khulla bt. Shabbat in which she lists her assets (three different dārs held in partnership with her two sisters and …
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Letter from an unknown writer in Jerusalem addressed to R. Maʿūẓa and his sons Sālim and Yaḥyā. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century, as …
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Beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Iyar 1510–29 Seleucid = 1199–1218 CE. Left incomplete. On the other side there is a poetical letter …
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Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the (אליודפיה) household 2 dinars. Dated Av …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Testimony).
Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …
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Recto: Fragment from the middle of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains about the lack of letters, thanks God for some good outcome, and …
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Address of a letter/petition/report (khidma) to the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, or else a pen trial. If it was originally attached to a larger document, that …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary. Beginning of Chapter 7 from a late ethical treatise ("The letter that Aristotle wrote to Alexander of Macedon on the behavior of kings"). It …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Written in large characters in a chancery-esque hand. The sender is Jewish as he swears by the …
Commercial letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions boats and Rashīd. Regards to Abū l-Faraj. Needs further examination.
Accounts. Note in the volume at JTS says these two fragments were detached from one another in 1965.
Bill of rent for Shemuel Maṭāwīṭ. Dated: Sivan 53[..] AM = 1540–1639 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, the portion of the word that is visible before …
Letter of invitation from David b. Daniel probably to a personality in Fustat, late 11th century.
Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 AM = 15 June 1152 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Witnesses: …
State document, probably accounts of some sort. Mentions "al-mustakhdimīn". Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. The flap on verso should likely be unfolded and read as part of recto. Needs examination for content.
Legal document in Arabic script. Refers to [the wife of? ...] b. Abū ʿUmar the daughter of ʿAbbās b. [...]; possibly a reference to the …
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
Letter in the hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya (who refers to himself as "Head of the Row / Rosh ha-Seder") addressed to a cantor named …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Ottoman-era. Mentions names such as Ḥasan b. Sulaymān; Zayn Muṣṭafā; Ḥājj [...];
Tiny fragment of a medieval document in Arabic, perhaps a state decree or petition based on the paleography.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Begins with the glyph. A house was apparently sold by [...] b. Nuṣayr. On the facing page there …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: 31 March 1059 CE (ʿerev Pesaḥ), according to Gil. Deals with various business …
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Responsa of the geonim. published.
Fragment from a letter, probably to a community. Written around the high holidays. Likely a recommendation for the bearers. Excerpts: . . . לחדש נימוסם …
Un-conserved. Fragment of a letter contains personal and business issues. Probably 13th century.
Draft, in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), of an addition to the last will of the parnas Eli ha-Kohen …
Marriage contract of a ransomed captive woman, Damascus, possibly [10]82/3 or [11]82/3.
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, …
Both sides of this folio are filled with miscellaneous jottings mainly in Judaeo-Arabic written in an idiosyncratic (unique?) cipher. Dating: no earlier than mid-13th century, …
Possibly a document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved, very faded. There is a high concentration of recycled fiber emerging from …
Letter in Arabic on paper mentioning 150 dinars, a substantial sum of money. Possibly late 10th or 11th century. Letter is on recto, address at …
Late accounts with copious notes in Judaeo-Arabic including for the years 1779–81 CE (1193–95 Hijri).
Cryptic note in Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe the address of a letter (to Fustat/Cairo). Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Note in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, possibly an addendum to a letter given the content and folding pattern of the paper. 16th-century or later based on …
Recto: Business letter, Verso: Jottings of numerical figures, some of which are crossed out - needs examination. Needs examination
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Deed of sale of a house. Large fragment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1467 Seleucid, which is 1155/56 CE, under the reshut …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer describes how he became so sick he despaired of life, but God sent health. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Important business letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat by a Maghribi merchant named Nissim who, coming from al-Mahdiyya, had arrived in Alexandria at time of …
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Upper fragment: Mercantile letter addressed to Nahray b. Nissim regarding the sale of ambergris. (Information and transcription in Goitein's notes linked below.)
דכר אלענבר וביעה []
ותפצלה אללה []
ישראל בבקאה וקד []
כיף יאכד אלשיך צב[]
ווחק אכי אן צאחבך []
לא עדמני אללה אהתמאמה ולא []
אבדא …
.... כתבת על הענבר ועל מכירתו .... ובחסדך: אלוהים .... (לך ולכל) ישראל בזכות חייך …. איך ייקח האדון .... ; אני נשבע באבי כי שותפך .... אל ישלול…
A ten-word note to Abū l-Najm the Parnas to give bread to the bearer. The text on the other side is from a table of …
Fatimid official correspondence. Addressed to al-Mawqif al-Ashraf (likely the caliph himself, as in ENA 3974.4 (PGPID 11702)) and to the qāʾid ʿIzz al-Dawla. Mentions the …
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Two leaves from Leviticus 5 copied in Arabic script (but Hebrew vocalization).
Multifragment. Hundreds of minute fragments. Many documentary.