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Verso: document containing many names such as Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, Yiftaḥ, Yiṣḥaq, Zekharya, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Elyaqim. (Information from CUDL)
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Reply to a letter of the addressee concerning the qualities of three kinds of salt. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th or 15th century.
Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Instructions for drawing up a bill of divorce. Hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi? In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing various scenarios. Of note, Qūṣ and Aswān …
Account. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Adar I 5364 AM, which is 1604 CE. Currency: Sharīfī.
Recto Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with very large letters mentioning prior correspondence. The sender appears to be asking the addressee to graciously send him …
Fatimid decree. Four lines preserved. Dated: 549 AH = 1154/55 CE. Four lines preserved. Seems to be regarding the administration of the dhimmīs who live …
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Formal document of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a ḍarība. Looks late.
Fragment of a ketubba (שטר פרנא). Location: Likely Tyre. Dating: ca. 1090s. The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S …
Single account that was likely part of a broader list. The unit ardab may be mentioned.
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
Legal formulary. Late. Among the types of formulaic documents mentioned there are: (T-S AS 207.21 1r) [copy of ...] the bill of divorce from the …
Business letter from Sibāʿ, in Asyūṭ. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Fragment (upper right corner of verso).
Letter from ʿIwaḍ to Peraḥya the judge. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with the address in Arabic script and Hebrew. Written on a very long strip …
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Letter from the lepers of Tiberias to Furayj b. Ḥasan. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Asking for donations be given to the emissaries from Tiberias collecting …
Verso: Account in Arabic script, surrounded by other jottings.
Recto: State document? Accounts in Arabic script in a chancery-esque hand.
Bill of settlement (taṣāduq). In Arabic script. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Qaʿda 924 AH, which is 1518 CE. Principal protagonists are Mīkhā'īl b. Isḥāq b. Abī …
A page from a book of prayers/piyyutim. ASE.
Bifolium from a late Hebrew medical treatise, including headers on pathologies of the womb
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Probably from a ketubba, based on the appearance of the term "virgin."
Verso: Minute fragment of accounts in a disorderly scribal hand, one of which mentions beans. Requires further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th century. Quite detailed. Not immediately clear if mercantile or communal. Probably communal, since the word "jibāya" (collection) appears. …
Recto: Letter mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, consisting mainly of flattering epistolary formulae for Rabbenu Nahray. Verso: Letter formulary in Hebrew, in a different hand. Blessings arranged …
Account book in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in multiple locations to the early 18th century, for example שנת הנה ישעך בא (=463=1703). There may also be dates …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.
IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …
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Account register, in Judaeo-Arabic. There are 9 bifolia, very well preserved. Currencies used include ashrafī and fils. Some people are titled khwaja. The European names …
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One fragmented line in an Arabic chancery hand, probably of a decree, later cut and reused to form quires of Hebrew script. A suggestive reading …
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Too little text remains to identify, possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Letter or note in Arabic script, ending with the ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi shukran." Likely a draft considering that some words are stricken out. The …
Recto: Bottom of a letter addressed to a brother. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is instructed to look after their mother and not to neglect his …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Monday 2 Adar 5497 AM, which is 1737 CE. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz acknowledges a debt of 31 golden …
Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document (iqrār). In the name of [...] b. Menashshe al-Isrāʾīlī. There is a description of a woman as "al-ṭaliqat al-lisān" (the fluent/facile of tongue). …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Zekharya b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The bride is Esther known as Sit al-Bayt d. Ya'aqov. AA
Ledger of communal accounts and lists. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: late 18th- or early 19th-century; the precise date must be written somewhere. …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning legal matters. Mentions a half-mould of cheese; purchasing; Alexandria; and slander (tashnīʿ).
Tyrian marriage contract with a peculiar proposal formula borrowed from Malachi 2:14 (‘my companion and wife in covenant’). Mid eleventh century. (Information from CUDL)
Small, official receipt for ʿImrān Ibn al-Riṣāfī(?). Landscape format. Trigger: afrada... Seems to be for the large sum of 30 dinars. T-S AS 176.437, T-S …
Part of a deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) …
Minute fragment with faint text in Arabic script visible on the recto.
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the …
Late letter in Hebrew (and perhaps another language as well). Fragment. Needs examination.