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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Fusṭāṭ, al-Muṣāṣa, the shop of Abū l-Thanāʾ the wine merchant (al-sharābī), to be delivered to Abū Naṣr known as Sabīkh …
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Medical prescription in Arabic script. Beautifully written. Reused on recto for Hebrew/Aramaic literary text.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Book of legal formularies. In Aramaic and Hebrew.
Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā, in Tinnīs, to Nissim b. Ḥalfon, Fustat. Dating: 1046. The writer mentions the information that the lacquer is not sold …
כתאבי יאואלדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה מן תניס ען חאל סלאמה אעלמך אן אנפצת אליך כתאבין מן אל
ריף וערפתך אלאכבא…
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Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef, very detailed and well-preserved and written unusually neatly. Mentions ʿUmayr; pepper; Abū Isḥāq; Avraham; al-Segulat; …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Densely written in four columns. Many women are named (Umm Saʿīd... imraʾat X... al-Naṣrāniyya....).
Writ of agency written in Tyre, dated 18 Shevat 4771 (25 January 1011). Ḥalfon b. Moses b. Aaron (Ibn Abī Qīda), the "representative of the …
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List of items in Arabic script, each with Greek/Coptic numerals after, and the grand total at the bottom. Reused on recto for pen trials (tajribat …
Complete business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila in Fustat. Dated September 1051. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך לה בקין מן אלול
עליך באחסן כאתמה ותקבל מנך ומנא הדה אלאיאם אלמסתקבלה ותכתב בספר חיי…
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Memorial list(s).
Letter of appeal, possibly. In Hebrew. Late. The writer seeks help against the evildoers who persecute him.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Groom: Shemuel aka Ismāʿīl b. Yosef. …
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Letter/note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. He wants to know if the addressee has purchased the book of Psalms yet (al-muṣḥaf al-tehillim). If so, …
Probably literary.
Poetic work involving the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn) and enslaved women (jawārī). Merits examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower right corner). Bride: Mubāraka. Groom: David. Witnesses: Yefet b. Ṭoviyya; Seʿadya b. Ḥalfon.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Includes expenses for the maks (customs duty?), and the capitation tax (jāliya) in Syria for the years 20 and 21. Names mentioned: …
Lower part of a fragment of rhymed lines in colloquial Judaeo-Arabic ("fī kull ḥāra... wa-kathura al-shaṭāra... laqad jā' khaḍāra...") The penultimate line mentions al-kanīs wa-bayt …
IB V, 42a. Recto (secondary use): An Abū Zikrī Kohen promissory note: "Abū l-Surūr is owed 3/4 dirhams."
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Order of one pound of meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
Original use: Petition for charity from a woman, with reference to her poverty and hunger, her brother, the Levant (al-diyār al-Shām[iyya]), and 11 dinars. Also …
Fragment with three document entries, probably from a court register. Dated November 1719 (Kislev 5480). The first is marriage-related; the second is a betrothal document; …
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Letter, beginning on verso, probably the end on recto. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, probably a receipt. Mentions the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda.
A memory list mention of 28 names
Deed regarding the endowment of two houses in Fusṭāṭ as a pious foundation: ‘the little house’ and ‘the cattle house’. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God [alone … ]
This is what [ … ] bestowed and granted as a pious foundation …
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Document(s) in Arabic, well-preserved on verso with some text visible on recto. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Damaged fragment with poetical Hebrew verses. Can be from a literary piece of an opening of a letter. 13th century hand. AA
Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …
Letter and panegyric from ʿEli b. ʿAmram the ḥaver to Shemuel ha-Nagid Ibn Naghrela of Granada. Dating: Before 1056 CE (the year of the death …
Accounts (state?) in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on verso.
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij …
Deed of sale for a slave. Dated: Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid = 8 July 1260 CE. Seller: the Bilbaysī Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen. …
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Fragmentary legal record drafted in Fustat and including an incomplete date (Sivan 14[..] Seleucid). Involves Abū l-Surūr and Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon. Written and signed by …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if state or private. Mentions a couple of individuals, one of them is a certain al-Ṭarābulusī. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Written on particularly thin paper. "In which the widow of Mubārak b. Mundhir b. Sābā asks a ḥaver in the name …
Recto: Hebrew Bible (Psalms). Verso: letter. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment probably in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.
Book list in the hand of Shelomo ha-Levi, mentioning, among other items, Mishna tractates and their gemara (occasionally specifying the type of script), a commentary …
Narrow slips of paper torn cut from a page with Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Yosef b. Araḥ. Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentioning a Ḥaver. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal deed, with the first few lines missing. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 22 Adar II 5456 AM = 26 March …
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Phrases from the end of a medical prescription, in Arabic script. There is also a possibly unrelated line underneath, ending "ṣalawāt allāh ʿalayhi." There is …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably official. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic headings פזמאן and גירה (pizmān, ḡayruhu). (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Mentions pigeons, fava beans, bread, pistachio.
Report from a Fatimid official, probably sent from Tyre. Dating: most likely 1109 CE (1108 CE possible but less likely). Written on a rotulus, estimated …
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Literary text in Arabic script. Citing two verses attributed to Abū Nuwās.