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Legal deed. Location: Damietta. Dated: 4840 AM = 1079/80 CE. Peraḥya b. Yona ha-Kohen and Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi appoint Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli as their …
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Letter of appeal for charity. There are 10 lines of flowery Hebrew praises for the recipient followed by a space and then six lines of …
Letter to Berakhot Abū Ṭāhir. In Hebrew (first ~20 lines) and Judaeo-Arabic (last ~5 lines). Consists almost entirely of blessings. The sender asks for an …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late, possibly a letter. Mentions a cloth merchant בזאז in the penultimate line. Needs examination.
Mercantile letter addressed to Abū ʿUmar al-Arjawānī, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Mentions purple (arjawān) textiles. Reused for Hebrew writing exercises. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing many names. E.g. al-Zakiyy, al-Qalyūbī, al-Sharīf, Manṣūr, al-Summāqī, Najm, סיכה, ʿIwaḍ, קרשלה, Fāris, Yaḥyā, Makīn, Jamāl.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Large mercantile letter in Arabic script, mentioning ships. Also conveying greetings to and from various people. The left side is burnt or at least discolored. …
A testimony of a person who received 47.5 harf (each of them equal to 40 baqsha silver coins) for selling his part of a house …
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Legal notes, including the claims of a woman that her husband was impotent. Handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel, ca. 1140 CE according to …
Badly damaged text in Hebrew script. Requires further examination.
Petition from Naṣir b. Bū l-Faraj, who converted to Islam (ihtadā) under (ʿalā yad) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn(?) (but perhaps different from the actual Saladin?) in the …
Fragment of a letter, probably from a son to his father in Fusṭāṭ. Probably from ʿEli b. Hillel to his father Hillel b. ʿEli. He …
Torah.
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138)
Letter in Arabic script. In a chancery-esque hand with a tarjama. Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh …
Verso: Remnants of an elegant decree hand, in Arabic script. Recto:Probably some rescript or pen trials. An ʿalāma towards the end. Needs examination.
Fragment of a book of cosmetics written on parchment. It deals with the hair (the fall of the hair, curled hair, half-curled hair, and straight …
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Letter from a certain Yehosef to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. Written on parchment in a crude Maghribī hand. In Judaeo-Arabic, with ~7 lines of possibly unrelated …
Minute fragment, may be documentary.
Letter in Arabic script. Only one line is preserved: ويكتب الى عبده الجواب . . . . Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
15 pages from a ledger - needs examination. No image
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Perhaps a letter.
Text is too damaged and incomplete to identify, possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Upper part of a letter addressed to the Nasi Amaṣyahu Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder? The addressee is known …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Saʿd and an agreement upon a monthly payment of one dinar, possibly for a communal office. Mentions the Nagid. …
Legal document for authorization for butchering fowl. Dated 1259 CE (1570 Seleucid).
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Letter fragment (far right of recto). The writer filled the entirety of the main text with praises and conventional phrases, leaving the business for the …
Deed of sale of a part of a house. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1514 Seleucid = 1202/03 CE. …
Business letter, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer crossed out the first three lines (following the Arabic-script basmala) and began …
Order of payment issued by the state monopoly administration for silk production/weaving. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 10 Jumada II 1237 AH (1822 CE). ʿAlī al-Kulī receives …
IB V, 9. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār to Abū Zikrī Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The first few lines of …
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A letter to Yoesf b. Moshe Luzki to from David b. Moshe Kokizov 1803-1813
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed …
State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn Maymūn is mentioned in the first line. The sender thanks the addressee and conveys sympathy. Deals with business transactions; Abū l-Ḥajjāj; …
Persian poetry.
10 pages of invoices (faturas) in Spanish. Dates spanning the years 5443-5444 AM (1682-1684CE). Very detailed. Requires further examination.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions the execution of something with "riḍā"(agreement). Dating: Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era, but this should be checked. 11 fragmentary lines …
Marriage contract (ketubba) with an elaborate fleur-de-lis frame. Fragment. What remains is mostly the trousseau list. An item called 'Bunduqī' (Venetian) appears. Some of the …
Late document from the records (some sort of constitution?) of the Azouz synagogue in Alexandria. There is writing on Page 1 and 3, and a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: post-1517 (Ottoman-era) based on the reference to Çavuşiya (שאושייא), on the verso–which was an Ottoman military title (possibly soldiers from the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Expenses for food, oil, wax, paper. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 15th century.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto, but the Hijrī month and year are both damaged– yielding a tentative reading …
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish …
Halakhic treatise, possibly a responsum, concerning issues bridal gifts. (Information from CUDL)
Bifolio containing multiple drafts of the opening of a letter from (Bū) Manṣūr b. Shelomo to a notable. Little is preserved of the content. Mentions …
Wine and/or love poem in Judaeo_Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (וגא נאצר כתבת …