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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip). Dating: probably 11th century. Quotes Proverbs 6:19 (משלח מדנים...). Mentions Nahray, ʿEli he-Ḥaver, a qāḍī, the Qaraites (contrasted …
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Begining of a short composition on the Jewish laws of religious meat slaughter (sheḥīta). According to the title, this composition was authored by the judge …
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Letter. In Hebrew. Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס) writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Archival note at the back "حجة ضاع مضمونها وصارت الان لا تدل على شي". Probably indicating towards the document …
Probably a legal document, mentioning the bridal gift and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts listing a variety of names and Ottoman currency types. Dated: 19 Muharram 1058 AH (1648 CE). The names of those listed include: Mu[ḥammad] Basha, …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
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Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. (Identifications by Gil; Goitein understands this to …
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Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various quantities of bales (ʿidl) of myrobalan (ihlīlaj) and purses (ṣurra) of spices (saqaṭ). Also mentions 'al-ʿalāma al-madhkūra.' On …
Literary. Guide to geomancy in Judaeo-Arabic.
Court record in the hand of R. Daniel b. Azarya ha-Nasi. Hayyim b. Harun announces his intention to marry a woman in Sahrajt, but people …
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Document of release concerning the estate of Berakhot ha-Levi’s deceased wife Ghāliya, mentioning Farjiyya the mother of Gh[āliya] and the daughter of her sister specifically. …
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Letter fragment (bottom) in a neat, distinctive hand. Mentions a courier (raqqas) several times. Also refers to a distressing case involving excommunication and a man …
List of names, including Milāḥ bt. Sitt Aʿdāhā, Abū l-Faraj b. Taqiyya(?) and Sitthum bt. Sitt al-Ahl.
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic, early modern. There are three different fragments associated with ths shelfmark in FGP.
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. Fragment from the lower right corner, with the beginnings of 7 lines preserved. Mentions a sugar refinery (maṭbakh), a …
List of names in Judaeo-Arabic. Hibat Allāh b. [...]; Mūsā Ibn al-Dhahabī; Abū Hilāl al-Suryāqūṣī (=from Syracuse).
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.
Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact …
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with expressions of longing and regret for how the sender did not stay with the addressee. The sender reports that …
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Literary, see FGP for identifications.
Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, at least partially in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, as he signs his name twice. The portion at the top is a …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a dignitary (...אלגליל ירום הודה...). Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic and verso is in Hebrew, which also appears …
Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
IB VII, 7. Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1112 CE (based on T-S …
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Folios from a medical text, in Arabic script, in a beautiful book hand. Beginning of sections are written in red ink and one reads as …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of an internal government document, possibly fiscal ("māl ḍamānih li-shuhūr sana..."), dated 412 AH (1021/22 CE). Reused for Hebrew …
IB VI, 39. Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. Based on a letter from …
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Small fragment, probably ca. 14th century or later, containing only the phrase "al-mamlūk Mūsā."
Ketubba fragment (right lower corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Groom: Yefet ha-Zaqen b. [...] ba-Ḥavura. Witnesses: Peraḥya b. Araḥ; Yefet b. Ṣadaqa. …
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108)
Top of a legal deed probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Moderately wide line spacing. Dated: 1425 Seleucid = 1113/14 CE.
(a) List of names and sums. Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm. The hand is …
Pen trials.
Recto: Fragment with four brief lines of Arabic text, possibly documentary.Probably a letter: اليه . . . . في الكتابين الم . . . . …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
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Legal document written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid = 15 September 1093 CE. In which Saʿadya …
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Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is d…
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Legal record (#101) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 34r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Kislev 532[.] …
Responsum of Hai Gaʾon; discussion of the dietary laws in Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic; poem יודעי יגוני by Judah ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)
Power of attorney. Location: Malīj. Dated: 1433 Seleucid, which is 1121/22 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Natan al-ʿIblānī (? אלעבלאני) appoints Avraham to sue people with whom …
Address of a letter from [...] b. Meshullam the [...] to a certain [...] b. Elʿazar. The word after Meshullam might be al-ʿAṭṭar, or it …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 28 Shawwāl [12?]16 AH, which would be February 1802 CE if read correctly. Needs examination for content.
Fragment of a letter opening from Sherira Gaʾon, in Baghdad, to Efrayim b. Ṣadoq (aka Efrayim b. Ṣedaqa al-Muʿallim), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 980, according …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "When he arrived in al-Maḥalla, I inquired from him, and he said that he went to you many …
Sermon in Garshuni. Mentions the flood (al-ṭūfān), the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra (...wa-amṭara ʿalayhim al-rabb... wa-kibrīt wa-l-jamr al-hamīm...), and Moses and the sons of …