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Two lists of partly identical persons, the first without, the second with sums, ranging from 1 through 11 dirhams and 1/4 dinar. The first list …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 450 AH, which is 1058/59 CE. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Faraj al-Isrāʾīlī. Only the bottom right corner is …
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Legal record (#33) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
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Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans. The date 26 May 1050 CE appears in lines 4–5. Information from Goitein's note cards. …
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Unidentified text or texts.
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
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Poems, probably. In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter fragment addressed to "the mother" Sitt Rayḥān (potentially the wife of Eliyyahu the Judge). Dating probably early 13th century. The sender is "perplexed" at …
Leviticus 25.
Minute fragment with faint text in Arabic script visible on the recto.
Minute fragment from a legal deed, signed by [...] b. Hananya and written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Business letter. Small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions pepper and lac.
Letter from the Nagid Natan Sholal ha-Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Before 1502 CE and perhaps after 1498 …
Verso: A donations or alms list. Names in Judaeo-Arabic including: Majd, Manṣūr, Abū ʿAlī, Fāḍil, Yosef, the children of Nufayʿ, Yosef al-Aqraʿ, Munajjā, Abū l-Bayān, …
Business letter in Arabic script from Hilāl b. Salmān(?) to his maternal uncle ('my father') Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillel. Consists entirely of greetings and …
Letter of appeal for charity from ʿAzūza the Maghribīyya. Dating: ca. 1090 CE. The scribe, a Byzantine, has been identified by Ben Outhwaite. This scribe …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Salonica and Constantinople. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
Your slave Yaḥyā the Alexandrian
b. ʿAmmār
In (your) name O M[e]rc(iful)
“Happy is he who is thoughtful of the wretched; in bad times …
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Islamic religious text, citing statements of ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān. Needs examination.
Folktales of King Solomon and his wisdom and Ashmoday/Asmodeus.
Fragment of a will (upper left corner). Testator: Abū l-Faraj Wahb al-Muʿallim (aka the teacher and ḥaver Natan b. Avraham). No details preserved. (Information from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. There are two references to a merchant of purple textiles (al-Urjuwānī); a shop; and [...] b. Muḥsin.
Surveyor's plan for a building and parcel of land on the street of the French school in the neighborhood known as Qaṣr al-Dūbāra – Museum …
Letter addressed to Yehuda b. Yosef. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.
Letter fragment (bottom right corner of recto). Little of the substance remains. The sender is distressed about something, perhaps that the addressee has exerted himself …
Letter from David (b. Yaʿāqov) al-Shammās to Moshe b. Yehuda of Alexandria. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Also signed …
Magical spell formularies. Includes a spell apparently intended to arouse and agitate (tahyīj and izʿāj) a female target (fulāna bt. fulāna) for a male (fulān …
Letter/petition from a 'foreign' widow (marʾa armala gharība) to a notable. Appealing for charity for herself and her three girls during this cold spell, in …
Testimony in the Jerusalemite synagogue regarding the will and estate of David, a Maghribi pilgrim who had returned from the Holy Land whose possessions include …
Three bifolios of commercial accounts, with two of the pages containing a draft of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record). Names mentioned: Yosef, …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Avraham b. Israel is the groom. The bride is Esther known as Karima d. Nissim b. 'Amram.
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Kislev 5562 AM = 20 November 1801 CE. No signatures. Yiṣḥaq Mizraḥi acknowledges an investment of 900 medins from …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder to the judge Yehuda ha-Kohen (b. Ṭuviyyahu?). On parchment. Only the beginning is preserved.
Order of payment. Hand of Eliyyahu the Judge? Al-Shaykh al-Kohen is asked to pay a pound of something. The name Hibatallāh appears on verso.
Tax receipt.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Not a legal document proper but an extract of the description of a property, likely copied from an Arabic deed of sale. …
A page from a literary work on magical medical remedies.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Testament with a list of books including a complete Bible, individual biblical books, and works by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni and Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)
List (fragment) of recipients, including the phrase "he should be checked out" below the name of "the acquaintance of the son of Da'ud" and "the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. The scribal hand is difficult to place chronologically, perhaps 15th- to 17th-century. Requires further examination.
Medical prescription. In Arabic script.
Part of a ketubba. Dating: ca. late 11th or early 12th century. Bride: [...] bt. Muvḥar ha-Levi. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. Date and location …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Possibly the same handwriting as T-S AS 146.206. Content difficult to understand without a join. Mentions Mūsā …
Small and damaged fragment from a letter, probably relating to business. A reference is made to the Sicilian. Dating: probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. …
Fragment of letter containing polite formulae and mentioning the fast day of Yom Kippur. EMS
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to a man in Fustat concerning a replacement for the supervisor who was responsible for the butchers in Fustat, after …
Fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Possibly documentary, possibly a letter. Mentions 'the days of Shimʿon b. Sheṭaḥ,' which would be more usual for a …
A manuscript of the Five Books of Moses (incomplete), which was once continued in RNL Yevr. II B 42 (PGPID 38536). Three colophons, one at …
Legal record (#22) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 1 …
:Left side of bifolio 3r (Documents 22-23)