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Legal document, possibly a draft, in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Specifying the conditions of the betrothal (erusin) between Yefet al-Kohen and [... bt. ...]n b. Khalaf …
No Scholarship Records
Verso (original use): Fragment from the bottom of a state document, containing ṣalwala and ḥasbala. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from the lepers of Tiberias. Fragment. Written by Hillel b. Yoshua. (Gil)
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a basket or container (qafaṣ), 550 dirhams, and balances (mawāzīn). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, to an unknown addressee. Around 1050. The fragment contains order of “Nad” – mix of perfumes. Mentions …
] ען קלובנא פאללה אלדי [
אס[ ] אוצל אלי קלב סידתי אלואל[דה
גמלה אשגאלך מתצלה אללה ישגלך [
חואיגנא לא תפרט פיה[א
נד מתלת עאלי מן…
(2−1) .... מלבותינו, ואלוהים אשר .... יביא אל לבה של גברתי האם ....
(9-3) כל עיסוקיך בזה אחר זה. אלוהים יעסיק אותך.... צורכי הקניות שלנו, אל ת…
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Minute fragment
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Letter from Yosef ha-Rofe b. Moshe ha-Rofe in Damascus to Avraham Fayrūz b. Moshe ha-Rofe, in Fustat/Cairo. The writer complains about the lack of letters …
Bifolio that seems to have originally contained official-looking accounts in Arabic script but which might pertain to the qodesh rather than to the state (al-marsūm... …
An interesting begging letter by Yosef, the Samaritan priest, who apparently belonged to the Samaritan congregation in Fusṭāṭ. The letter has been edited, translated, and …
Business letter mentioning different quantities of currency and commodities such as water lily (nūfar/nawfar) and orange (nāranj). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Sulaymān al-Skandarī, in Damascus, to his brother-in-law Faraj Allāh Ibn Fāḍil and his wife (the writer's sister), in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. Husband: ʿOvadya b. Yeshula ha-Kohen. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Hānī. …
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Long fragment containing magical recipes.
Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa. The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment …
Private accounts of al-Shaykh Bū Ḥasan in Arabic script starting with a basmala and heading "ḥisāb al-Shaykh Bū l-Ḥasan". An example of the accounts includes., …
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Letter from Barakāt b. Manṣūr, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge (active 1204–41), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a Hebrew header and the address partially …
Legal deed in Arabic script. In which Hiba b. ʿAlī b. […], the carpenter, leases a shop from al-Ḥasan b. Makkī b. Abī al-Ḥadīd, who …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Hiba ibn ʿAlī ibn [ ], the carpenter, leased from al-Ḥasan ibn Makkī ibn Abī al-Ḥadī…
Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew signed by Moshe Abū Shaʿra, alternate reading: Moshe Bekhar (בכר). Below the main document and signatures someone …
Letter fragment, addressed to Avraham ha-Talmid. What remains is the flowery introduction, in Hebrew. Several biblical verses are cited. Cf. ENA NS 19.9 (PGPID 11725).
Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues. The document bears two dates, 4 Iyyar [1]358 Sel. and 2 …
The witnesses named in this deed testify that they know that the compound
which is in the blind alley known as the Lane of the Poor in Q…
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Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
Ownership notes in a codex, perhaps. On one side: Yaʿaqov b. Yehuda, then "It was transferred with a proper sale to the young man [...] …
Letter from the court of the Nagid Natan Sholal addressed to "the elders in the land," i.e., the elders of Jerusalem in the 1480s–90s. Published …
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …
עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי
אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך
מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<
למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד
וצלו וצחה אלעדה …
Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib. (Information in part …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a group of people who share an underground(?) storage room of wheat in …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The verso was reused for Hebrew-language piyyut liturgical poetry.
Possibly a letter to a notable (or model letter) in a very elevated register.
Numbered list of halakhot, mainly regarding the butchery of poultry, with the same titles as Maimonides’ but arranged in a different order. (Information from CUDL)
Fragmentary court record concerning marital payments. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a tafsīr; cites Exodus 2:25 (line 4).
Letter from Yisra'el b. Natan to a relative in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1060 CE. The fate of the addressee was apparently a cause …
Legal document, small fragment. Contains remnants of some signatures.
Announcement from the educational committee about the morning and evening classes for the summer of 1953, and a chart naming the teachers and the children …
Letter sent to Abū l-Barakāt Ibn Shalīda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer calls the addressee 'my uncle' (ʿammī). The purpose of this letter is …
Small fragment with various kinds of Arabic text on it. Recto may be poetry or prayers (...اذا ما رمت ادراك...), written with diacritics and vowels. …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Yiṣḥaq Ha-Kohen (?) b. Avraham, Fustat, approximately 1015.
1. [ ]ת ומפרצי הברכות ומרבצי ה[
2. [ מ]ליצי הזכיות וחפצי הלבבות ע[ם
3. שומע תפלות תהיינה לאח ביראה ורע בנפש כגק [יצחק
4. העלוב וסובל וייסור באה…
Official-looking letter(s) in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Letter in the hand of Avraham b. Natan, probably addressed to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya with blessings for his son Moshe. Explaining the circumstances surrounding the …
State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?
Literary
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around 1080. Regarding several shipments of goods. Details about payments and supplies …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר לי בקי מן אלול כתמה
אללה עלי מ[ולאי באחסן כאתמה ויתקבל] …
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Accounts for brazilwood for Barhūn, mentioning several sums of dinars and people such as the Kohen at the Dār al-Baraka, Ibn al-Majjānī, and Mūsā. Hebrew …
Legal deed involving R. Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi and Rafa'el Kalonymos. Location: Egypt. Dated: Tevet 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. The deed details the terms …
Fragment of accounts, possibly 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. One of the entries on the verso includes the descriptor (or surname?) סרקוסי. Requires …