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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Possibly part of a partnership agreement. On verso there …
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Late accounts (?), possibly having to do with riding animals (jimal, dawabb).
Letter segment from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, Bilbays, to Shelomo b. Shelah, probably in Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century.
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Letter from Abū ʿAlī, in Baghdād, to his cousin (ibn ʿamma) Tamīm b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Sent to Abū Manṣūr al-Nushādirī who is to deliver …
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Letter fragment from the lepers of Tiberias, approximately 1030. There are only traces of text on verso.
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Barely legible legal document concerning marriage. It may be a ketubba, but the legal formulae that remain are not unique to ketubbot. (Information from CUDL)
Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.
في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان
Letter fragment (from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) with elaborate praise and good wishes for the recipient Abū l-Faraj and his children.
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …
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Bottom part of a Legal document, on vellum, only the signature of Avraham ha-Levi b. Ḥāriṯ Zeqan ha-Qehillot is preserved. This Avraham is known from …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ownership note for a quire (kurrāsa) of raḥamim belonging to Abū Manṣūr b. Khalaf. Rudimentary hand.
Bifolio from a ledger of business accounts. In Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Dated: 26 Kislev [5]503 or [5]505 AM, corresponding to 1742 CE or …
Medical prescription. In Arabic script.
Fragment of a list of beneficiaries of charity similar to T-S K15.93, App. B 6, and in the same hand. Much effaced. (Information from Mediterranean …
Recto: Legal document written by ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. A release for Bahiyya, wife of Mevorakh …
(1–6) ...] Mevorakh b. [Ephraim...] this Jacob and [...] dinars and [...] to the Muslim with these din[ars ...] Muslim to ʿAmram. ʿAmram saw …
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Bottom right corner of a 14th C legal contract, probably a contract, dated 27th Muḥarram 723 AH.
Fragment from a commercial letter, mentioning that a letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn has arrived, and invoking the ʿaṣabiyya of the addressee to ask him to …
Statement from the Jewish hospital in Cairo to a supervisor that the social center in Cairo will not be providing morning meals – June 28 …
List of payments, 16th century.
טו לב ח
יב ה ח
ד י טו
Medical recipe in Arabic script. Written on one page of a bifolio containing piyyuṭ.
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …
Letter from Musa b. Yiṣḥaq b. Hisdai, Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes his difficulties with shipping flax. He is …
Recto: accounts in Arabic. Verso: few letters in Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Letter to Eli b. Amram from a junior colleague, as court scribe, specifying the fees received for writing documents (marriage contracts, divorce documents, a power …
Legal record (#52). Disposition of inheritance. Belongs with the previous record. Headed "the text of what should be written," but this is not solely a …
Legal document. Testimony in court, between brothers Moshe Sofer, Yisḥaq Sofer aka Maqaṣīs, and some of their family members. The paleography supports a dating estimate …
Responsa, Miscellaneous; recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; verso: geonic responsum concerning a bailee who attempts to cheat the depositors heirs (Hebrew + Aramaic). (Info from FGP)
Fragmentary list of contributions, it seems in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, details of about twenty-five preserved: five giving 1, eight giving 1/2, two …
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who had a debt to the heqdesh. He pawned his wife's property against her well, promising her that …
Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic(?). Mentions the ship of איסטיפאני. Needs examination.
Bifolio. Three of the four pages contain models of polite phrases to be used in Judaeo-Arabic letters. The handwriting might be known. Dating: likely 12th …
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Probably a letter, mentions the leader Abū Saʿd. Signs of having been used for a book binding. (Information in part from CUDL)
Receipt for payment of the rental on the river floodland in the amount of 1926 qirsh – 15 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to his nephew Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: September 6, …
Series of (copies of) letters sent from Hebron to Egypt, mainly asking for financial assistance. First half of the 17th century. Information from FGP.
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ismail b. Farah to a member of the Tāhartī Family in Fustat, containing details about goods and ships. Dated ca. …
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Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Document in Arabic script. Probably a letter or petition given the opening اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك. There might be a person named Buṭrus named …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Beginning only. Addressed to some dignitary.
Letter addressed to 'Rabbenu [...]' in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a dispute and not being able to put up with a qāḍī (קלת לא נחנא נטיק אלקאטי...); …
List of contributors and/or recipients of alms. On a small bifolio. Divided by neighborhoods of Fustat (e.g. al-Maṣāṣa, Mahra and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ). Many names are …
Probably magical. Verso contains various headers such as "entering before rulers." Recto contains boxes filled with text, and designs at the corners of the bottom …
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Invokes the trope of a bad person "taking people's property" (akhdh amwālihim) and refers to the caliph (al-ḥaḍra …
Verso, and possibly also the Arabic script on recto: Elaborate medical prescription(s) in Arabic script.
Marriage document. Minute fragment from a ketubah. It seems that the mohar is 12½ zuz (only the word ופלגי [= and a half] is visible). …
Copy of a Gaon’s responsum (might be Rav Hayya Gaon) that includes details about the house of Bustenai and an answer regarding the status of …
Very damaged betrothal deed, probably between Rabbinate bride and Karaite groom (See Ashur, Engagement and Betrothals, p, 69). It is the bride's second marriage and …