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Recto: document mentioning Malīj and Fustat. Verso: letter referring to a letter for ʿAmmār al-Sharābī and requesting a liturgical poem (rahaṭ). (Information in part from …
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Draft of a letter to a dignitary (הפטיש החזק נר המערבי דגל הרבנים יחיד הדור נמשול), probably the Nagid, who would probably be Avraham Maimonides …
Ketubba fragment. Small piece. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya.
Letter fragment, faded, mentioning Nissim. Wide line spacing. Greetings also to "hadrat ha-Rav ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq" and "all his students and servants." Reused on recto for …
Legal document related to real estate property in the "Samaritan Quarter" of Cairo, which remained as an urban placename despite the unexplained disappearance of the …
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions ʿAbd al-Qawiyy.
Part of a Qaraite ketubba for a bride Rayyisa and an unnamed groom, preserving the bride’s trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:349-51) dates it to the 11th …
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Literary text in Arabic script.
Bible. On verso one line with the name Ishaq b. Musa
Minute fragment from a ketubba written by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-levi (ca. 1180–1210). There are other fragments of the same size and shape that might …
Table in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Accounts?
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108)
Small booklet made of parchment containing the Birkat ha-Mazon with marginal decorations. The cover page states "belonging to the good youth Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav …
Family letter in Arabic script. Mentions transactions of small sums of money and a malḥafa (type of garment). Mentions Makārim and Abū Isḥāq. Greetings from …
Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. The name Shemuel b. Yefet appears on verso.
One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Legal queries or notes on halakhic matters. Discussing purity and impurity. Mentions a convert (ger) and an illegitimate child (mamzer).
Fragment covered with dense jottings and pen trials. there may also be a block of a legal document in Arabic script on recto. The last …
28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 …
Literary text, probably. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Tax receipt for Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Mufaḍḍal in Fustat.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: May 14, 1238. Written in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (identified by Goitein), teacher and court scribe. Concerning a …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with at least two references to wheat. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Employee identification card in the name of ʿEzra Mūsā Dayyan – April 20 1939CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 194) – in Arabic. …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 12 Muḥarram 52[.] AH = 1126–34 CE.
Accounts in Arabic script.
Ladino literary work.
Literary text on the laws of ritual slaughter (sheḥiṭa).
Recto (secondary use): order from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu for oxymel (sakanjabīn) and two kinds of syrups (sharāb). Verso: Draft of the opening of a letter …
List of goods (e.g. pepper) and weights, some crossed out. In Arabic.
Geographical text, referring to India.
Letter from Yosef b. Aharon the cantor to a certain Abū l-Faraj. Mentions the Nasi; his brother-in-law Abū ʿAlī; the gloating of enemies; then, "by …
Official accounts from "al-Ṣāfīyya bi-wilāyet al-Gharbīyya" (מוסה נעים צראף אלכזינה באסם אלצאפייה בולאיית אלגרבייה), an institution related to the provincial Treasury (כזינה). Dated Ṣafar 1247 …
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Small fragment with Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Recto: State document beginning as follows: هذا كتاب من عبد الله ووليه الامام المنصور ابي علي الآمر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى …
Announcement prohibiting the purchase of mezuzot other than from trusted individuals – June 26 1954CE – Museum of Islamic Art – in Arabic. (information from …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement between Nissim Zeraḥya and Miryam bt. Shelomo ha-Levi. Dated 1749 CE (21 Heshvan 5510), Rashid. Currency: the gold zeri maḥbūb coin (זהובים …
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Legal document. Debt contract. Tamīm b. Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a certain Elʿazar in honor of his wedding. With a long Hebrew introduction of blessings and praises. The sender …
Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
Calendar in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. Cf. Nadia Vidro, "Muslim and Christian calendars in Jewish calendar booklets: T-S K2.33" (Fragment of the Month, March …
Immense list of communal contributions for Pesaḥ 5553 AM (March-April 1793 CE). The list contains 397 entries that comprise at least 449 individuals. MCD.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה …
A Hebrew poetical letter (a panegyric rhyming in -im) addressed to a notable known as Saʿadya. Contains mostly blessings (such as the well-being of his …
minute fragment with Hebrew literary text