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Verso: "It seems a boy made a joke. He began a marriage contract for ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-Ḥaver ba-Sanhedrin Gedola and ended with a Mi …
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Account including list of names
No Scholarship Records
Legal document(s) or formulary.
"A fragment of vellum containing a Latin text of a sermon by Saint Augustine — an unquestionably Christian text — is probably one of the …
Epistles in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium. This section includes the end of one letter, dated Tammuz 4867 AM (1107 CE), and the beginning of "his …
Recto: Possibly an account Verso: Possibly a letter- needs examination.
List of legal documents, including: (1) For the purchase of a female slave. (2) "A copy of it" for the Rayyis Abū l-Karam. (3) Lease …
Verso: Legal document, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. A lot of text is here, but it is extremely faded. Mentions Salmān b. Ibrāhīm and merchants and perhaps …
Calligraphic letter sent by Eliyyahu b. Khalaf to a man, evidently the head of the Jews in Fustat or Cairo, emphasizing that the community in …
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Responsum by Maimonides; apparently dealing with a debt owed to a non-Jew. Autograph. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active …
Letter mentioning Reuben the apostate. In a late hand. Alternate description: Letter, mentioning Reuben ‘the proselyte’ and greetings to many family members, including the writer’s …
Letter addressed to a brother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g., ושׁעא for والساعة and אלה for both الله and الى and נדרכם …
Instructions or mnemonics for calendrical calculations. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the year 1521 Seleucid = 1209/10 CE.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a lovely hand; the same scribe seems to have reused numerous Arabic-script documents for literary/liturgical text (see Joins Suggestions). This letter …
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Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?), signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Shelomo [b. …
Letter. It looks like this piece of paper had another piece glued to it on top. In any case, what remains is a lower part …
Recto: list or accounts. Verso: jottings in Hebrew and Aramaic. (Information from CUDL)
Megillat Evyatar, probably composed by Evyatar Gaon and was read in synagoges. Probably was composed in 1094. (The scribe might be Shmuel b. Ya'aqov- a …
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Looks somewhat late, perhaps 14th or 15th century (with names like al-muʿallim Farajallāh).
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim in Alexandria concerning business matters, dated 17 Heshvan 185 (5585 of the Era of Creation = …
Draft of the beginning of a legal query addressed to the judge Yeḥiel (b. Elyaqim). Dating: ca. 1220 CE. The question is whether a woman …
Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his …
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Verso: a long list of names, in a different hand than recto, among them Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yosef, ʿEli b. Shemarya; Shemarya and Ṣedaqa …
Letter from Eliyya b. Yehuda b. Yahya from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. The writer is on a ship that is about …
תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ולם נרא לך גואב ארגו שגל כיר
אן שא אללה ואללה אלעאלם מא אנא פיה ומא עלי קלבי מן…
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Legal document: dissolution of a partnership, concerning a tax farm in al-Maṭariyya. Dated: with multiple entries in Marheshvan 1601 Seleucid (1289 CE).
List of names, each followed by a sum (mostly 1 or 1/2, some 2). Dating: Beginning of 11th century, per Goitein. See Med Soc II, …
Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq Sholal ha-Kohen to an unnamed benefactor. Dating: 16th century. (Information from CUDL; see also A. David's edition and description on …
One side: Receipt for rent. Bū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf paid Maḥfūẓ 6 dirhams. The other side: Fragmentary note mentioning sugarcane and silk (yaḥtāj ilā firqat?... fī …
Literary text in Hebrew. Late.
Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 …
The Amīr Ḥiṣn al-Dawla b. Sayt al-Dawla, for two murattabs,
seven waybas of wheat. Still due to him, eight
waybas of wheat, whose cost
of 7…
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Contract of a commercial sale – 192_CE [digit missing] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 30) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Fragment from a page about the halakhot and formulae to recite for valid qiddushin.
IB VII, 25. Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. The testimony describes how partnerships are established. Dated: middle decade …
נקול אנן שה[די] דחתמות ידנא לתחתא אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה
אלשהאדה אלקאטעה במא גראת בה אלעאדה במצר בין אל
תגאר פי אלשרכה ודלך אדא דכלוא מנהם גמאעה…
We, the undersigned witnesses, say what we know and testify to, an
irrefutable testimony about what is the custom in Miṣr between
merchants (a…
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Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Dating: late, maybe 17th–19th century. Needs examination.
Account (cuento) in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Mentions Eliyya Palombo.
Letter from Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to David Nasi b. Hizqiyyahu. Ca. mid-11th century.
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Recto: (a) List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Isḥāq b. Khulayf; Khalfa b. Ismāʿīl; Hiba b. Mūsā; ʿImrān b. Mufarrij; Lu'lu'a bt. Ḥalfon. (b) Draft of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The addressee's name appears on verso, perhaps something like Yiṣḥaq b. Maṣliaḥ b. Bahlūl. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The …
Accounts in Arabic (VMR). Late.
Document in Latin script. Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing the top of recto and the address on verso. Dating: Goitein dates it to ca. 1210 CE, based on the …
Circular letter from the office of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya, written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, addressed to the community of Alexandria …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions mastic at the top of verso. Needs examination.
Probably a letter or letters. Verso and recto appear to be in different hands, in which case there might be more than one letter. - …
Letter of Abū l-Maḥāsin b. ʿAlī the trader, introduced by citations from Proverbs 3:4, Psalms 37:11 and 119:165. Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as …
End of a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Underneath there is a scrawled Arabic note headed by a basmala and perhaps beginning "Min kitāb. . ."
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists household items or kitchenware such as ibrīq, kīzān, sikkīn, zabādī (pl. of zubdiyya). Also lists foods …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 21 Tammuz 1437 (14 July 1126). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
IB VII, 63. Letter of recommendation for charity for the judge Avraham b. Yosef. The addressee is on a boat and about to set out …
Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.