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Unidentified document or text in Arabic. There are also two lines of calendrical calculations in Hebrew script.
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Fragment of a legal document, probably a conditional betrothal (qiddushin, l. 6). Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (previously catalogued on PGP as …
Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef mentioning al-ʿAfṣī and Ibn Nuṣayr. (Information from Goitein's notes and index card.)
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Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Small fragment in Hebrew script. Accounts?
Accounts in Arabic script. Written on the back of a literary text in Arabic script.
Legal document in which Ḥusn bt. Yaḥyā ibn al-Zūrīqā, wife of Abū Naṣr Shelomo b. Saʿadya b. Hallun declares that she has received a full …
Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, on his way to Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer apologizes for the delay …
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Letter from Musa b. Abi l-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Mentions details about changing coins and business between the two …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה לד בקין מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך …
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Letter in which Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237) recommends to the judge Perahia and his sons a man who wishes to marry the judge's daughter.
Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from the qāḍī Abū l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Fātiḥ. The qāḍī is writing from Aswān, where he has …
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Book of magical spells. In Hebrew. Some recipes attributed (erroneously) to Maimonides.
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Wide line spacing. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: State document, probably a petition or internal correspondence. In Arabic script. The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Magical instructions in Arabic.
Record of a state document in Arabic script, codex format. It must have spanned at least three folios in its original form; only one folio …
An autograph letter by Abraham b. Maimonides (r. 1205–1237) to the community of Bilbays. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. No full sentences are preserved. There are wishes for someone to be recompensed in heaven, and possibly a report on business …
Draft of the beginning of a dirge possibly in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli addressed to the 'congregation of Fustat' (עדת צוען מצרימה) for …
T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to …
Folio from a collection of legal queries and responsa.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions several month names; Yaḥyā; Gharīb.
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Ismail, Upper Egypt. The recipient is buying goods. Nahray writes with the news of …
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Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Almost complete with the top honorifics missing. The writer confirms receiving 4 dīnars (of tax?) and he set …
Letter/petition from Asher, Yisachar, and Dan, three Jewish converts in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 13th century and probably later. They express their …
Late business/family letter in Hebrew from Shelomo Binyamin to his brother-in-law, also named Shelomo. He reports that ships from Messina and Ancona have arrived, but …
Small fragment with remnants of ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe literary or a letter. Mentions Rabbi Moshe. Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and …
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet
Series of accounts, consisting mostly of numerical sums including two notes stating the accounts are for al-mu`alim Ya`qub Shalom al-Yahudi. Dated Muharram 1233 AH which …
On verso small fragment of an Arabic letter or official report. The beginning of four lines are preserved. Phrases: ويصالحون(؟) الخدمة وكتاب . . . …
Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions someone who 'went up to Fustat.' Greetings to various people including 'al-rayyis al-jalīl al-kabīr.' …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (a) ʿAzzūz bt. Yefet/Ḥasan known as Ibn כתרתאן(?) al-Zajjāj, the widow of [...] …
Verso (secondary use): poem in Hebrew, possibly for use in a letter of appeal for charity by a poor person.
Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... …
Midrash about redemption, middle of 13th century.
Commercial letter from Pinto & Suarez to Eliyya Saʿd and Yaʿaqov Shalom, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an "IS" logo in Latin script next to …
Letter draft from the Rabbanite leaders of Fustat/Cairo to the Rabbanite leaders of Ashqelon. Dating: Summer 1099 CE. The letter recounts how the Nagid Mevorakh …
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Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Addressed to a caliph. Needs examination. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v
Letter in Ottoman Turkish to a state official regarding a rabbi's travels to Jerusalem. Dated: 20 Safar 1024 AH (21 March 1615 CE). In the …
[Devletl]ü sulṭānım ḥażretler[inin?]
[ ]-i bī-şümār ümīdi olunduḳdan ṣoñra, żamīr-i münīr-i mihr-tenvīr ve ḫaṭīr-i ʿaṭīr-i Mü…
[To his excellency] my esteemed lord ______________________
After having set numberless hopes on [ ], the luminous, sun-like…
Fragment of a poetic Hebrew letter. AA
Long fragment of a letter by a man who, among other things, discusses the learning of his son and expresses outrage that, despite an impeccable …
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Exorcism. In Hebrew. Late. The spirit of Nissim b. Bunya is commanded to leave the body of Qamr bt. Ruḥama, and it is decreed that …
Letter or petition, probably. In Arabic script. Three lines are mostly preserved. Seems to be talking about assisting a group of people.