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Recto: Budget of expenses for food on the two days of ʿUnṣura (Shavuot). Verso is in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It may be related. …
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A list of names and corresponding sums of money e in a very crude hand. The usage of eastern Arabic numerals supports a dating estimate …
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Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaʾon according to Gil), in Ṣahrajt, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE …
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Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-ṣabiyy; al-Yahūdī; and possibly Yaḥyā.
Letter from ʿEli b. Hillel ha-Kohen to Berakhot b. Aharon. In Judaeo-Arabic. With a rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions: 'al-rayyis'; how the sender's sister went …
Liturgical text (qiddush?) for Passover. Signed: Shelomo b. [...]. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1606 Seleucid, which is 1295 CE.
Draft of the beginning of a petition-like letter to a woman. Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Legal document mentioning Yaḥyā ha-Levi and the elder Abū l-[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Legal or official note. In Arabic script. Possibly concerning a debt (القرض).
Deed of acknowledgement (iqrār). In Arabic script. Concerns a debt of 2 dinars contracted by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā, the Christian bath attendant (al-ḥammāmī) from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
Abū al-Ḥasan - this patronymic being his name - Ib…
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Epistle of R. Sherira Gaon. see PGPID 23194
Letter, minute fragment, probably to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe from his brother
Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Recto (as conserved; secondary inscription): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to the brothers Abū l-Makārim and Abū Yaʿqub ha-Kohen. The writer describes in detail the severe fever and dysentery …
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Very dark. Poetical Hebrew, might be from an opening of a letter. Reference to רבנו ע"ה. AA
No fragment found in folder.
Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Sāl[im] to Abū l-Fuḍayl Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Not a great deal of the content remains. It seems that the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Note (the sender calls it a 'khidma') in Arabic script. Instructing the addressee to give 'the thing which I told you about' to the bearer …
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions having shipped to the elder Abū Yīṣḥaq Ibn …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of expenses and purchases for various liturgical calendar weeks (i.e. the week of Kedoshim parsha) and the food items for a Passover …
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic.Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Moshe ha-Kohen to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, care of Abū l-ʿIzz in the market of the goldsmiths (sūq al-ṣāgha) in Fusṭāṭ. Mainly in Arabic script, …
IB VI, 20. Order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov asks Abū Saʿīd to give Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd the price of …
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List of names followed by a notation regarding whether they plan to pay up or not. Sibāʿ b. Yehuda said he won't pay; Abū ʿImrān …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, sometimes rhyming. In which the sender asks the addressee to send him a quarter raṭl of agaricum (ghārīqūn) that ‘the perfumer’ owes …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Kislev 5569 AM, which is 22 November …
Halakhic text in Judaeo-Arabic. See FGP for joins and further information. Enumerating the factors that disqualify a person for testifying. The fourth group is "those …
Fragment of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the first two line the writer addresses the letter to their father Ḥananel "אלואלד אלעזיז כה׳׳ר חננאל …
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Possibly a letter. Mentions [...] al-Baṣrī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic, partially in rhymed prose. Refers to the dearth of proper legal documents (ketubba, barāʾa, maʿase, sheṭar) among "the …
Document in Arabic script. Dating: likely ca. 13th century Ayyubid. An official account of some sort, probably related to state produce, "مما يتحصل من الغلات …
Neatly written accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. In the first line names Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭaḥḥān. Specific items include lemon, pepper, saffron, mastic, cinnamon, …
Several pages of accounts in Ladino. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal record (#26b). Loan contract, addendum. Bū l-Barakāt, the creditor, makes Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf vow that he will make his repayments in front of two …
Letter fragment (left side). Contains mostly regards to family members, but no names have survived. Also mentions 34 dirhams; a qāḍī; and "the people of …
Part of a heading for a large ketubba, with blessings in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.)
Literary, probably. Containing liturgical text or piyyut.
Letter dated on Monday June 15 1953CE from a person to al-maʿallim "Nanafafa" expressing his happiness in sending him a letter informing him that he …
Note from Ṣadoq b. Moshe Yerushalmi addressed to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Reporting on the contents of a consignment of textiles. The …