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Personal letter – unclear – possibly 1928CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 154) – Judaeo-Arabic and the introduction in Hebrew …
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Legal document in Hebrew. Partnership agreement. The partners are Zikrī b. Khalaf, Moshe, and Reʾuven. They were merchants in jewels (הביעה של הכרזה חבשייה...) together …
Recto: Letter addressed to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaʾon of the Palestinian yeshiva. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE based on th years when Shelomo b. Yehuda …
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Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 …
Contract of friendship between Elʿazar Maymūn and Yom Ṭov b. Sīd. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Tevet 5324 AM, which is January 1564 …
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Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions gold and "two qirats." Recto (original use) contains a Hebrew prayer.
Most likely a legal document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Contains a date (l.3) Dhū al-Ḥijja 442. Needs examination.
Small fragment containing Hebrew literary text.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment by Shelomo b. Yehuda, who signs with Gaonic honorifics (which support an inferred date range of 1025–1051 CE). Reused on verso for jotted …
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A Karaite engagement deed recorded in the home of Shemuʾel b. Yeshūʿa Melamed (probably the brother of one of the witnesses listed). Dated Wednesday, 15 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. In two different hands, with the two text blocks oriented at 180 degrees to each other. Apparently a Friday …
Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
P16: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The addressee is likely Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (rather …
Trousseau list and wedding outfit for a poor woman, perhaps an orphan. The man is also very poor. The list is to be understood thus: …
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Leaf 1: Passover Haggada. Leaf 2: recto has two lines in Arabic script, mainly jottings. Needs examination.
Legal document, small fragment. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Verso: letter in a different hand, mentioning Avraham b. Hārūn and al-Ṣanīʿa (‘the protege’) the son of Abū l-Karam Ibn Ḥunaykh. (Information in part from …
Book list in Judaeo-Arabic. Very fragmentary. On the other side there is a portion of the ʿamida prayer.
Iqrār document, in Arabic script. Al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms in …
ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه
سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها
جواب(؟) لما كان في يوم الاثنين خمسة ايام مضت في شهر
رجب الفرد ١٢٣٨…
Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim Ha-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1045.
A spell to silence Ibrahim b. Karīma and prevent him from thinking evil thoughts of Faḍlān b. Baghdād, and to make him return 15 dinars. …
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. Mentions payment for cheese. There is a stylized signature at the end after ושלום.
Karaite marriage contract, dated ca. 1000. Bride: Farajiyya bt. Yehuda. Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yiṣḥaq. The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and …
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Magical and/or religious formulae. In Arabic script and magical symbols.
Fiscal receipt, or receipt of payment. For al-Shaykh..... of 1/8 dīnārs. Contains a registration mark "الحمد لله حمدا...". May mention "الحضرة المجيدية".
Minute blank fragment.
Recto (secondary use): Trousseau list. Groom: ʿEzra b. Avraham ha-Kohen. Bride: Khibāʾ bt. Hillel. Marriage payments: 4 + 10. The groom agrees to pay his …
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List of people who have donated to the synagogue (? the second line of the header is a little unclear). Dating: ca. 1505 CE based …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Might be state/fiscal. Mentions Fustat and 10 dinars.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Almost none of the substance is legible. Mentions a certain Yefet (מר ור יפת הזקן הנכבד בן).
Deed of sale for a house. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate].
This is what Ḥusayn ibn Ḥāzim, the (food-)vendor, bought from Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, the groce…
Communal list mostly in Ladino with many Hebrew spelling errors. Possibly a record of synagogue honors and congregants' corresponding donations. For an early modern document …
Letter to Mevasser b. Shelomo. Only formulaic greetings are preserved. Dating: 11th or 12th century. EMS
Recto (secondary use): Letter containing a poem addressed a dignitary. In Hebrew. Possibly a token of gratitude for help that the sender received. The letter's …
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Recto: Petition or report to a Fatimid vizier, ending only, including raʾy, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. 5th century AH/11th century CE. Possible join with T-S Ar.22.140 …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Many names mentioned, including Shihāb al-Ḥajj; Munjid; Munajjā al-Ḥajj; ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]; "the Christian who is in the qāʿa of …
Legal document. Record of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1125 CE. This document describes release from a partnership in …
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Bifolium from a court notebook. Fol. 1a: End of a legal query (ll. 1–4) and complete answer/responsum (ll. 5–19) in the case of Hilāl the …
Business letter from Mūsā b. Dāwūd / Moshe b. David al-Levi al-Miṣrī to Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabrā. In Arabic script, with the address in …
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Bifolium containing a legal formulary for a Geṭ Ḥaliẓa (release from levirate marriage).
State fragment of some kind. Small and damaged. Mentions "al-kharājiyya" and may have the ʿalāma "Allāh ʿawnī." Needs further examination.
Small fragment, probably literary
Letter from Mūsā b. Iṣḥaq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid (al-Mahdiya) to Avraham b. Daʾūd al-Raḥbī (Fustat), ca. 1030. The writer supplies goods from the Maghreb, including …
Note concerning the wages of the teacher Abū Isḥāq for four weeks (Teruma through Vayaqhel). Each week he taught 3 boys and earned 1.5 dirhams.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee may be Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Moshe.The sender reports that he paid the 'tarsīm' (fee for house arrest) and …
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand with long swoopy letters. Describing an issue/conflict associated with merchants (li dhālik(?) al-amr(?) maʿahu min al-tujjār, l. 2). …