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Accounts, with an unidentified text on recto.
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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 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a cursive Maghrebi hand. Damaged. Deals with sums of money. Yosef is mentioned. There are also references to the Sicilian cities …
………… מא …………………..
........אלמדינה . . יב(?) ג וזאיד(?) אכרי ללמדינה לא
למאזר ואקל מא פיה מן אלפסאד אן אלאעדאל
...…
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Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
Literary text in Spanish. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Hebrew and perhaps another language and western Arabic numerals in the margins of a literary work. The remainder of the folios under this …
Fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ḥakīm. Probably 11th century. The hand is known from other similar fragments (e.g. ENA 3731.8 (PGPID 40518)).
Bifolio of Hebrew legal formularies, including the cover page with the title מעשה בית דין and an ownership note for Ṣadoq b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ ha-Yerushalmi …
Official-looking account in Arabic script.
Business accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions the commodity tartar (ṭarṭar).
State document, petition in a chancery hand and large Arabic script. Words that are readily legible include al-Qāhira, al-Ḥāfiẓiyya, al-majlis al-sāmī al-mālikī al-sayyidī al-ajallī al-Afḍalī, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a common hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs. Mentions Abū Manṣūr.
List of names (alms distribution?).
Verso: Letter of condolence. In Arabic script, written in an elegant hand (and with diacritics). Upon the death of the addressee's brother Abū l-Ḥasan. Bewails …
اطال الله ياخي وسيدي بقاك وادام عزك واعتلاك ومكن
جزاك وسراك وكبت حسدتك واعداك وحرس من غير
الليالي والايام ارجاك وو…
Letter of Benayahu b. Musa, an Alexandrian from Maghribi origin, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The letter contains severe complaints on the local Alexandrian …
בשמך רחמ
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם סלאמתה
וסעאדתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר כאן קד בלגנא אן מולאי אלשיך לחקה וגע
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Legal document involving several amīrs, including ʿIzz al-Mulk Bahāʾ al-Dawla wa-Sadīduhā Dhū al-[...]. Also concerning Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī, the ʿArīf ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammmad, and another …
Signatures of eight people from the end of a legal document: Menashshe b. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, Binyamin b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen (known also from T-S 16.33), …
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Arabic script (VMR)
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a long Hebrew introduction. Asking for assistance in the petitioner’s difficult times of poverty and illness, mentioning …
One side: Receipt for rent. Bū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf paid Maḥfūẓ 6 dirhams. The other side: Fragmentary note mentioning sugarcane and silk (yaḥtāj ilā firqat?... fī …
Likely a distribution list. In a combination of Arabic script (mainly for the quantities) and Hebrew script (mainly for the names). Rudimentary hand.
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser b. Naḥum, a judge of Alexandria, to Abū al-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim in Fustat, dealing with family and public matters. …
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Verso: a long list of names, in a different hand than recto, among them Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yosef, ʿEli b. Shemarya; Shemarya and Ṣedaqa …
Medical recipe in Arabic script. Written on one page of a bifolio containing piyyuṭ.
A strikingly scorched fragment of Esther.
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Yaḥyā al-[...]. State document? A nameʿĀmir al-S(ʿā?)d also appears on the top left corner, and numerical …
Letter from Akhlābū Kohen b. Aharon, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. In the handwriting of Ibrāhīm b. Faraḥ. Regarding one dinar …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי יאסירי ומולא…
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Recto, with the address on verso: Mercantile letter from Yehuda b. Moshe to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shaʿyā, in Fustat. In Arabic script, …
IB V, 39g (previously V, 39f). Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef Ibn Alqāsh, in Alexandria, to Yehuda ibn Sighmar, in Fustat. The letter was written during the reign of Yehuda b. …
Fragment of a letter from Nāshī b. Thābit ha-Kohen to the ḥaver Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1084-1090 CE. Nāshī b. Thābit sends …
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Four pages from a Rabbanite court ledger with copies of 17 different legal documents (witness names appear in the hand of the scribe). All are …
(Documents 1-3) Page 1r
Fragment of a petition, two wide lines. The first line reads 'wa-ʿabd mawlānā,' then '[...] al-shāmil.'
Narrative literary work in Arabic script.
End of a document recording a sale, in which an unnamed male is released from obligations concerning some goods he offered his uncle for sale …
Recto: beginning of a piyyuṭ, יודעי יגוני, by Judah ha-Levi. Verso: jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
Formal letter from Yūsuf to someone he titles Sayyidnā al-Rayyis [...]. Mainly the address (in Arabic script) is preserved, along with a few words in …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel (identification provided by Amir Ashur). It looks like there are portions of at least three …
Legal document concerning an inheritance. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names …
IB I, 21. Legal document. Dated: 23 [Elul] 1412 Sel. The death of Shelomo Lebdi was not only a serious personal blow to his brother, …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic but mostly comprised of alphanumerical calculations. Mentioning the currencies mashṭ, corona, and kalb. Dating: perhaps post-1575 CE based on the mention of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions people such as 'the woman' (al-sitt); …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Probably a bookseller's account, who is selling off the Hebrew books that belonged to R. Yosef ZL, including Halakhot Pesuqot …
Legal document. Dated: First decade of Elul 1458 Seleucid (July/August 1147 CE). In which Abū l-Riḍā Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, "the noble and generous," takes over …
"נדיב ושוע" אחד מקבל מידם של חוכרי מסים, שפשטו את הרגל את חכירת אלמחלה
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Letter from Sherira bar Ḥananya Gaʾon and Hayye bar Sherira to Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal enclosing letters for Yaʿaqov b. Nissim in Qayrawān. It is unknown …