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Small fragment in Aramaic, perhaps from a rabbinic literary work.
No Scholarship Records
Bifolio of (communal?) accounts and/or legal records, mainly in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Judaeo-Arabic interspersed. There are two or three discrete text …
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Hebrew poetry in honor of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.
Report on the financial activities of an association – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 22, 23) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Salāma b. Mūsā (al-Ṣafāqusī?); Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī. Very faded; uncited in the literature.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a bill of sale for a slave, probably. Mentions ḥaqq al-sūq. No names or details preserved.
Recto: Letter, or petition in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century. Mentions "ruqʿa", the word for petition, "jawāb", and contains the rayy clause.
Biblical exegesis of Micah 6:8, perhaps part of the preparation of a sermon. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Densely written in four columns. Many women are named (Umm Saʿīd... imraʾat X... al-Naṣrāniyya....).
Letter in Ladino. The sender has an unskilled hand and sometimes makes numerous attempts to spell a word correctly (e.g., אין[[בייידו]] [[בייאדו]] ביאדו). Mentions R. …
Mostly pen trials, but there are also a few undeciphered lines in Ladino and some names. Needs examination.
Legal document. Scribed and witnessed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday 10 Tevet 13[..] Seleucid. The body of the document mentions a divorce …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning 12 dirhams and kohl.
Fragment with Hebrew text. Too faded to read. Looks literary.
Accounts in Ladino including for March 1722 CE (mentions Rosh Hodesh Nisan 5482). Currencies used are ducados and muayyadis. The handwriting is very close to …
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
Fragment from the top of a legal document in Arabic script. Concerning [properties?] comprising the waqf for the poor of the Jews ("...al-mawqūfa ʿalā ḍuʿafāʾ …
Book list in Judaeo-Arabic. Very extensive (69 lines). Gives headers for the books' location on the shelves as well as their names.
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Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Probably a bookseller's account, who is selling off the Hebrew books that belonged to R. Yosef ZL, including Halakhot Pesuqot …
Small fragment with Arabic script. There is a significant amount of faded/damaged text that may become legible through Hierax digital restoration.
Literary - recommend suppress
Possibly a fragment of a Hebrew letter, mentioning Damascus: עמי דרמ. . . לא יבושו . . . בדמשק . . . אמרתי אולי
Accounts in Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Needs examination.
Pen trials.
Much damaged letter in Hebrew, written in wide spaces, probably letter of appeal. Mentions [...] b. Masliah. AA
Letter by Mansur Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge dealing in sugar candy (see also T-S 16.303). The page is divided vertically, and there is another …
Recto (secondary use): drafts of documents in Judaeo-Arabic with biblical quotations such as Deuteronomy 17:7. Also mentions Abū l-Surūr, Peraḥya and Barhūn. (Information from CUDL.)
Decorated, torn, Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated on Thursday in 5566 AM but most of the date is lost to damage. The groom's name is …
Legal document, an ishhād, in Arabic script. Regarding agricultural land in faddāns. Mentions the land is in a bad condition (ʾarḍ lā yuntafaʿ bihi). Needs …
Fragment of a letter either addressed to or mentioning 'al-ḥakīm al-ajall' (the esteemed physician).
Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the same hand as T-S NS J376 (PGPID 8776). There is an address: to [...] al-Dawla Moshe ha-Zaqen …
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 …
Horoscopes in Hebrew, with marginal notes in Judaeo-Arabic. One is headed "dukhifat" (hoopoe).
Poem (a few lines) written by Amram b. Ḥalfon ha-levi. On the same page is also a literary halakhic discussion of whether a woman is …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Letter fragment: difficult to read, faded, long, in Judaeo-Arabic. The recipient is addressed as מעלתך. Legible sections include a discussion of "sarei alafim, sari asarot, …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Responsum regarding a marriage permission to the "chained wife" (agunah) of a silk dealer, who was on a business trip in the villages of Egypt …
Letter from a man to his sister Umm Bū l-ʿAlāʾ. Sent care of Eliyyahu the Judge. In the hand of a scribe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Bottom left fragment, letter or official correspondence. Requesting validation (tathbīt) of something; and apologizing for the prior lack of letters (وان كانت كتبي منقطعة عن …
Small booklet partially filled with a halakhic discussion of qorbanot, partially filled with very involved doodles.
Biblical passage (Leviticus 5:25-26) crudely written, probably from a child’s exercise, with Tiberian vowels and the divine name abbreviated to three yods. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Deed of gift, or possibly a power of attorney appointing Abu l-Faḍl to collect the money …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a sum of 100 dinars; Yehoshuaʿ ha-Sar b. [...] he-Ḥasid (cf. T-S …
Not digitized. Either Moss. V,348.1 or Moss. V,348.2 (previously Mosseri L 24) seems to be a document involving Nahray b. Nissim, according to Goitein's index …
Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Recto: Letter addressed to Shimʿon Shemuel Duga, the ḥakham of ʿImādiya. Other persons, scholars and laymen, are mentioned by the writer, who was evidently a …
Letter from Yosef, in Tripoli, Libya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. Although the address reads "from your son Yosef," the letter is written in …
Document in Arabic, probably, from which four lines of text remain. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.