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Fragment of an amulet in Judaeo-Arabic, probably for a certain Asaf b. Berakhya.
No Scholarship Records
Document in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Enormous legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). Very faded. Probably a ketubba (בשעה מעולה...) or replacement ketubba (based on the phrase used to introduce the …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥayyān(?) b. Jamāl al-Tājir makes a declaration. The Fātimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 495–525 AH = 1101–1130 CE) …
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State document, a petition regarding an iqṭāʿ and the relocation of peasants. The petitioner talks about an iqṭāʿ assigned to him in a ḍayaʿa (the …
العبد يقبل الارض اما]م المقام الشريف(؟) ضاعف الله انواره و[اعلى
مناره وينهي الى . . . . . . . . . . . // . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\ من اعما…
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Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to a man in Fustat concerning a replacement for the supervisor who was responsible for the butchers in Fustat, after …
Arabic translation of the Gospel of John, written in beautiful Kūfī script. Dating: Ca. 9th century, based on handwriting. Includes John 19:25–27 and 35–37 (these …
Literary text in Arabic script.
Printed treatise in Ladino. Glosses on Exodus.
Deed of sale for a cistern (ṣihrīj). In Arabic. The buyer [...] b. ʿAlī b. Khalaf al-[...] al-Bazzāz(?) is the brother of the seller, Aḥmad …
Bottom of a communal letter, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Goitein: "Signature of the future Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh ha-Nagid. Important. Mevorakh …
Seʿadya's commentary on Psalms. Note that the identification and transcription of the Persian business letter on FGP belong instead with CUL Or.1080 6.30
Account, unclear if private or official. Written on a tall, very narrow sheet of paper, which became standard practice around the Ayyubid period. May mention …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn Shaʿyā.
Literary text in the hand of Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb.
Court record of a case in which a man appoints an agent to deliver a bill of divorce to his ex-wife, releasing her from any …
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Frontispiece of the Torah printed in Venice by Giovanni Colleoni, 1627 CE. Contains an ownership note on the verso: "property of al-faqir(!) Eliyya Fayrūz." For …
Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …
Brief letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb, wishing him a good morning and reminding him to …
Possibly the address of a letter to [Ḥal]fon ha-Levi b. M[...] from [...] b. Yiṣḥaq Sijilmāsī.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly official. Maghribī or Andalusī hand. Seven lines are partially preserved, including the prayers for Muḥammad often found in state …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic. Refers to a female teacher (li-l-muʿallima) and a man's mother (wa-wālidatuhū)
Recto contains the opening of (or a description of) Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī.
Legal document. Testifies that a certain woman "has never received a bill of divorce." Mentions Munajjā b. Masʿūd and Abū Saʿīd the khādim, both of …
Minute fragment from a list of prices, very damaged. Mentions 10 dirhams.
Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Adar 5609 AM, which is 1849 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya of Palestine. The …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Dā'ūd, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם] עזך
ותאיידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך מן תניס ל[ ] כלון [מן]
אדר ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנה וער…
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Business accounts in Arabic script. Mentions many names, such as Mūsā b. Khalaf and Khalaf b. ʿAlī.
Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose with Judaeo-Arabic at the end, from an unknown writer to a certain Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar. Image not available on FGP.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Lists numerous people and interesting titles, including Saʿd al-Dīn Nā'ib al-Bardār; ʿAbd …
Fragment of a ketubba. Eight lines from the trousseau list, mentioning such things as necklaces of yellow amber (salāsil kārib, which Goitein understands as kahrubāʾ), …
Legal fragment (lower left corner). Mainly in Hebrew and Aramaic, with Judaeo-Arabic for specific terms. Includes a list of the items of the trousseau of …
Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from near the bottom. Dated: 41[.] AH, corresponding to the range 1019–29 CE. Mentions a …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …
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Fragment of a deed of sale for 12 out of 24 shares of a house. In Arabic script.
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite damaged. Mentions pepper; and possibly a butcher. Otherwise difficult to read anything meaningful.
Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: 2[.] Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid, which is 1040 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq b. Seʿadya al-Manbijī agrees to teach Fahd ha-Levi the liturgy …
Letter from a communal leader to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he fulfilled what had been requested of him in the letter …
Letter of friendship (and appeal for financial support) sent by Yiṣḥaq Villareal. Dating: 16th century. The addressee is asked to speak with the sender's brother …
Document of legal import for a woman who has appointed a wakil. Composed in letter form and addressed to the community in Jerusalem. Probably late …
Recto: receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
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Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a legal query ("mā yaqūl sayyidunā. . . ").
IB VI, 55. Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 16th century, based on the …
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Draft of a contract, probably. In Arabic script. Concerning the sale of a shop (dukkān). Verso also contains some jottings, several signatures and dates as …
Genealogical list at beginning of letter from Masliah Ha-Kohen Gaon ca. 1120. Circular letter from Maṣliaḥ to the community of Damsīs.