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Accounts, mentioning Cairo and names such as Ibn Miska, Ibn Abū l-Surūr, Abū l-Khayr and Abū l-Ṭāhir, and quantities of currency. Hebrew numerals. (Information from …
No Scholarship Records
Jottings for a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Yoshiyya ha-Kohen and Abū l-Khayr. Dated: The year is given as '21, perhaps 521 AH = 1127/28 …
Small fragment containing part two words in Arabic script and a secondary text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso: Legal document, in Arabic script. A divorce document involving a high-level Ayyubid official described as one of the mamlūks of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aḥad al-mamālīk …
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Legal document: three legal documents on a single rotulus. Dating (based on record #2): 27 Iyyar 4846 AM (14 May 1086). All the cases concern …
Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary and his entire community. In Hebrew. A few words from ~12 lines are preserved. Reused on recto …
Accounts of a wine dealer (or at least somebody who sells liquid by the jarra) in Judaeo-Arabic. Customers include Makārim al-Ṣayrafī, Barakāt al-Azraq, Maḥāsin b. …
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Minute fragment with few words, seems to be from a ketubah.
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan. The writer's full name is difficult to read (ʿĀ___ __rdī[?]) as is the …
Fragment of a business letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, mentioning bales of flax being prepared …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אלל[ה בקאך וצרף אלאסוא]
ענך ברחמתה מן בוציר יו[ם ]
באחסן כאתמה ען סלאמה וע[אפיה ]
בכיר…
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Formularies for letters addressed to notables in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a few verses of Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Followed by a copy(?) of a letter of appointment(?) …
Receipt in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated [1]201 Hijri and possibly with a month abbreviation (unless this portion spells פי). Mentions Mūsā Kohen and a weight of 3 …
Eloquent late letter of appeal for charity with a Hebrew and Aramaic prologue and a Judaeo-Arabic body. The writer is Yiṣḥaq [. . .]
Judaeo-Arabic poetry, late.
Letter of appeal for charity. Draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is also a maxim: "Indeed the world is a market, containing . . . …
A small strip from a ketuba. The groom's name is Fetahya. Remnants from the divorce clause is visible. On verso few words from a beginning …
Account register of Yiṣḥaq b. Yeḥiel, a dealer in carpets (tappeti = טפיטי, טאפיטי) as well as numerous other luxury commodities (nuts, drugs/perfumes, sugar from …
Legal document. Marriage agreement in the hand of Yosef b. Moshe, son and assistant of the provincial judge. The agreement is a tawqīm ("estimate") of …
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Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto is in two columns and verso is in one column. Recto is particularly messy. Mentions …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fatimid fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two different bureaus: dīwan al-jihād al-miṣrī (line 2) and dīwān al-ḥubūs al-miṣriyya (line 7), probably mentioning a transfer …
List of sundry expenditures made for the Nagid, mentioning items for his kitchen and marking prices using Coptic numerals. Dated to the early 13th century. …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
List of commodities and prices. Mainly textiles, but also mentions potash (ushnān).
Recto: Letter from a Karaite in Alexandria to the Karaite Nasi David b. Hasdai, concerning support for the Nasi from the Karaite communities in the …
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Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir, written on behalf of his community, to the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh in Fustat regarding two matters …
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Letter. Mainly in Hebrew, with some phrases in Judaeo-Arabic, and the address partially in Arabic script (يصل هذا الكتاب الى مصر حماها الله אמונה שמורה). …
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (Alexandria) to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge (Fustat), explaining a recent incident involving two cloaks worth 109 dirhams and a brush …
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Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. The purpose of the letter is to explain why the writer never …
Concluding fragment of a 39 paged bilingual Arabic-Ottoman Turkish language primer entitled "al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah".
Fragment of a legal document in which a wife appoints her husband Avraham as her legal representative.
Extremely faded letter mentioning the Nagid. On verso there is a note about an oath.
Official receipt of some sort for a Jewish woman named Saʿāda for a payment of 1/2 dinar. Landscape format. Dated 608(?) AH. Merits further examination.
Pen trials.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side: Legal document. Bottom part only. Written on vellum, so the text follows the curve of the fragment. There …
Late and unusual letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the writer's brother Faraj Allāh. The writer opens with greetings to a large number of family members and …
Brief medical prescription in Arabic script, scrawled on the back of a torn up state document (of which only 1-2 words from the beginning of …
Receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū l-ʿAlī.
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …
Letter from Shemuel b. Moshe, Tyre, to Eli b. Amram, Fustat, approximately 1050.
Minute fragment. recommend suppress
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 13th–14th century. Recommends the bearer for assistance, something to do with the charitable collection (jibāya) which was done for him …
Descriptions of houses and gates with technical instructions involving incense. Including the 'eighth house belonging to Mikhaʾel, the commander of the army who is an …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.
Small fragment. Probably a Hebrew letter, perhaps a letter of recommendation. "He is a good man. . . have patience. . . I see you …
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: agreement between Moshe b. Yehuda the cantor and Ḥasan b. Salmān. Another copy of the same contract found in T-S NS J161 + T-S …
Letter to Moshe ben Hini ‘the lesser’, mentioning business affairs and people including Abraham Leon (c. 17th century). (Information from CUDL)