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Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Signed: Natan ha-Sofer b. Avraham.
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Fragment from the top of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to 'sayyidnā al-rayyis.' Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part …
Recto: Bottom of a letter of appeal for assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. early 12th century. in Judaeo-Arabic. The address is asked to meet with …
Small fragment of a legal deed or legal query in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to two people (business partners?), …
Memorial list. Merovrakh ha-Dayyan, Natan ha-Dayyan...
Official letter, in Arabic script. Probably an internal correspondence. Reports on a place or an occurrence "was l-mulāḥaẓa". The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 12[..] Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed …
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Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Nisan 5324 …
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Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Refers numerous times to the sending of a chest (ṣundūq). Needs examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew scribal writing …
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca. probably 1043. This record written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya still refers to "the four months" …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! The list of what was collected of the arrears:
Suhayl, 4 months, 40 dir.
The sister of Sahlān, 3 (months), 15…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Probably a dirge written by Anatoli (probably Anatoli b. Yosef who was active in the forst two decades of the 13th century in a memory …
An interesting letter in rhymed Hebrew prose, with one line of Judaeo-Arabic, spanning 4 leafs (7 pages). It opens with a blazon of a certain …
Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land. Dated Rabīʿ I 1032 AH (1623 CE). Verso: Ottoman legal contract
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Three other pages of ʿArūs's accounts appear in the neighboring shelfmarks. Recto contains an unusually rich narrative …
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Magical spell for separating people. In Arabic script.
Recto: Letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya in Fustat. Discussed in various publications by M. A. Friedman. …
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Recto: A curse in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew against whoever is spreading false rumors about the writer and stirring up conflict between him and (probably) …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis (=Eliyyahu the Judge?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding a certain Abū l-Bayān al-L[evi?] (=Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi?). Apparently Abū l-Bayān …
List of names, including al-Ḥakīm Hārūn, Ṣadaqa Ibn [...], ʿAfīf (or ʿUfayf) Ibn [...]. Probably late.
Accounts in Arabic script, likely fiscal but might be private. On verso mentions Ṣafar 503 or 530 AH. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel or Natan b. Shelomo? Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
Carefully executed horoscope, written out by the cantor and court clerk Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108 CE) and most probably ordered from a professional astrologer. …
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Pages from a prayer book, with the title תפלת אליהו, ‘The Prayer of Elijah’, at the top of f. 1r.
A fragment from what seems to be a letter of appeal(?) in very nice, square Hebrew characters addressed to the dear elder (הזקן היקר). The …
Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is mostly extended expressions of deference and flattery. Starting about halfway through verso, it appears that the sender is asking for …
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
List of accounts in Judeo-Arabic in which each heading is marked by elongated ligatures either as extensions of final letters or as independent lines drawn …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Partnership agreement. The shared capital is 70 dinars. Dating: mentions the year 494 …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic letter. Legible phrases: "... with Sayyidnā... other than with a full heart... the entire congregation...according to... their gratitude …
Document dated 21 December 1817 CE (12 Tevet 5578 AM) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his …
Deed of sale for the sale of an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …
Astrological text, divided into sections, each dealing with an aspect of life. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Mentions pepper, sugar, musk; Maʿālī; oil …
Legal query to Muslim jurisconsults regarding the practice of prostration (sujūd) and genuflection (rukūʿ) during the synagogue liturgy. This practice had been customary for the …
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The end of a will, mentioning the names Yehoshuaʿ b. Nathan, Abū l-Surūr, [Abū] Kaṯīr b. Ezra, Abū Sahl b. Azhar and Menashshe al-Maghribī. It …
Blessings. In Hebrew. Rudimentary handwriting. Unclear if this was originally part of a document or not.
Note addressed to Abu al-Faraj, saying that Abu al-Makarim is to receive payment from the bearer, in the amount of two qirats (of a dirham) …
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Letter from a father to his daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. He describes how he is a poor man, but even so he has recently sent 2 …
Letter from a woman named Raḥela Naʿmīṣ to her son. Dated: 28 Shevaṭ (5400 +) 162 AM = 31 January 1802 CE. Much of the …
Letter from the Alexandrian judge Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents: 1074–1101) to Abū l-Bishr Ibn al-Bustānī (? الابستاني) al-Makḥūl(?) Hiba b. al-[...] Sayyid al-Ahl(?). (This …
Letter from Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to Barakāt b. Hārūn Ibn al-Kūzī, in Alexandria, sent via the shop of Maḥāsin al-Ḥarīrī. …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably to one of his brothers. Mentions the capitation tax; a wife; someone who is perishing …
Verso: Shipping accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Dār Mānak (part of the customs house complex in Fustat) and officials such as a …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th century. Mentions Maymūn.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in a crude hand.
Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Afḍal yahūdī for the year 500H.