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Letter from Mashā'il (=Misha'el?) b. Natan, location unknown, to Khalaf b. Barakāt b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has had no news of …
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Literary text, notable for a marginal notation that repeats the phrase "rayyis al-sayyāfīn" (head of the sword makers) multiple times.
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Deathbed declaration of a druggist (ʿaṭṭār). Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Tammuz 1555 Seleucid = June 1244 CE. Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Ḥasan …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. B, fol.1 - Accounts, in Arabic script.
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a ketubba. The bride is a widow.
Recto: document, mentioning names such as Yosef, Abū ʿAlī and Shemuel. Verso: Arabic document with Judaeo-Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
Fragments of citations from al-Mutanabbī in Judeo-Arabic. (Information from Cecilia Palombo)
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Needs examination for content.
Recto: Official receipt of some sort, with endorsements. There is a date: 443 AH? On verso there is a remnant of an earlier document, an …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown, but both are Qaraites. The letter describes the great solidarity of the Qaraites and how they protect each …
List of names in Judaeo-Arabic. They are numbered, from 1 to approximately 28. Several of them are family members of the scribe (e.g., Mūsā the …
The wife of Ṣedaqa b. ʿEzra gives to her husband reshut over a house (which was part of her ketubba from her father's inheritance) after …
Literary, Hebrew.
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ends with the blessing שיגדל למניין החרדל ולעד לא ידל אמן ושלום. Mentions bussiness dealings; a …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: From Elijah the judge, Damietta. AA
List of contributors. Dating: From the time of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Four pages of names, largely identical with those in contemporary lists, with …
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Hebrew poetry.
Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides—[the son] of our Lord and Rabbi Moshe the Great Rabbi (ZL). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is written on a reused …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Recto: Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Purpose unclear. The second recipes involves red hairs, a cloth, and lamp oil (zayt ḥār). Verso: Hebrew poem.
An unnamed elder (titled 'the most illustrious, solid') directs the beadle Abu al-Tahir to furnish Harun the copyist with a good copy of a Torah …
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Responsum of Maimonides addressed to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. Answers a …
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Bifolium containing multiple literary texts, in both Hebrew and Arabic. The Arabic side is from a Muslim historical work, recounting the episode of Muḥammad's letters …
Account, mentioning several materia medica.
Fragment from the end of an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Either the sender or the scribe is named Abū l-Surūr, and he greets [...] …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The name Abū Saʿd appears twice, and underneath there are many numbers.
Small fragment of a legal document. Almost nothing preserved other than two partial witness signatures: [...] b. Aharon and Aharon [...].
Psalter in Old Church Slavonic. Floral capitals. Dating: Perhaps 15th century. This section includes Psalm 11:3–7.1 in the Tarnovo recension of Old Church Slavonic. The …
Bottom right-hand part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably relating to a tax payment by the ḍāmin Abū l-Ḥasan …
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Accounts in Ladino. On a bifolium, arranged in columns marked by daily entries with terse descriptions. The ink is better preserved on the verso, with …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Ṭevet 5561 AM, which is 17–26 December 1800 CE. Moneychanging (sarraflık) partnership agreement between three …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in …
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. "واستحق الرعاة قبل فاستهـ...."
Maḥzor fragment, requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. On verso there are calendrical notes.
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer 600 nuqra dirhams. Same cluster: T-S AS 183.14, …
Small receipt or order for a sum of 66.
Draft of the beginning of a letter to a woman addressed as "al-Sitt al-Fāḍila." Probably written by Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen, active in the early …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh (Ikshīl, Master of the Horses, and vizier of the king). In which …
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses and vizier of the king—
may God prolong his…
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Literary text in Hebrew. Small fragment.
Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting and spelling addressed to 'my mother' (yā sittī) Sitt Ghazal. After the blessings, the writer says he/she received …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Two fragments comprising the left side of recto. The handwriting is …
Possibly a colophon? Describes the various chapters of a treatise on shekhitah, then says "it is completed with the help of God" and then there …
Letter written to "my brother," apparently from Qus, dealing primarily with family members' medical issues. There are many eccentric spellings. Recto 4-12: The writer has …
Recto: Text in Arabic script mentioning diseases of the joints. Or most probably a letter, as it mentions "ilā l-dīwān" in l-4. Needs examination. Verso: …
Verso contains the beginning of a petition. The tarjama appears at the right. The petition begins "yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya al-mawlawiyya al-ajalliyya. . ." Recto contains …