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Verso: One line from a state document: وليستيقظ... وىخدمه...
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Letter from [...] Sulaymān Kohen to [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Raḍiyy; the purchase of an ʿarḍī cloth from Fustat; 'the prices of …
Page from a bookseller's ledger, containing many names. Dating: ca. early 13th century. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Names include: Abū l-Majd al-melammed; al-melammed R. …
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Fragments of a legal document. Mentioning Natan and his mother, [...] b. Yosef, Ḥasan, Nāḥūm b. Ismāʿīl (aka Naḥum b. Shemuel), Mevasser/Mubashshir, and an unsuccessful …
Legal document concerning a dispute over a book given as a deposit. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Written in Fusṭāṭ …
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Unidentified Arabic text, unclear if literary or documentary. Mentions Mount Sinai (على طور سينا).
Magic or possibly verses to recite against a scorpion bite. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing many names and numbers. E.g. Bū l-Faraj; Isḥāq al-Baṣrī; Abū Naṣr; Yaʿqūb; Abū l-Riḍā; Tammām; Mūsā; Makārim Ibn al-Ḥajarī; Yiftaḥ; Shammash; …
Small fragment from the top of the ketubba of Karīma bt. Yosef. Dated: [13]68 or [14]68 Seleucid. Another ketubba for a bride bearing the same …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Both need examination.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Fatimid fiscal register. Contains the nuqila cipher (cf. AIU XII.92, ENA NS 83.346.1, NLI 4°8333.85, NLI 4°8333.171, NLI 4°8333.172, NLI 4°8333.173, NLI 4°8333.174, NLI 4°8333.175, …
Commercial account with monetary values and a few names (e.g., Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and al-Iṭrābulsī) listed throughout the recto and verso. Dating: 11th or 12th century. …
Recto: Literary anecdotes in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script involving Abū Nuwās (=Ibn Hānī) and Hārūn al-Rashīd.
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed, contains only part of the date: 14 [...] '36. AA
Part of Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-ʾUsquf (‘The Polemic of Nestor the Priest’). (Information from CUDL.)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-Naṣrānī and al-Dalāṣī.
Small fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat, mid-12th-century (reshut of Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]). There are additional legal notes on verso, mentioning various sums of …
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
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Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, rudimentary hand and spellings. Building expenses: mentions a house; clay; tiles; palm fronds (jarīd); food; nāshūsh; a wakāla; plaster; the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document concerning the lease of a house by ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Aḥmad the preacher, from Mūsā b. ʿAdī the Jew, in the district of …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad the prophet and his family and save them.
This is wha…
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Verso: Informal note, instructing the scribe of the court to write a promissory note on 96 dirhams—obviously the outcome of former litigation. Writtnen in Judaeo-Arabic …
Hebrew poetry. The name Ḥalfon b. Ḥiyya appears underneath (ownership note?).
Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Recto: Order of payment or similar sort of document. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the names [...] al-Ṣiqillī and Isḥāq al-Maghribī. Verso: List …
Fragment of a decree mentioning the funds of a dīwān in exchange for something. Late Fatimid (paleographic dating), same chancery hand as some of the …
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Letter copies. In Hebrew. One is from Shelomo b. ʿOvadya to Yosef Nasi(?), another from ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi to Avraham b. ʿEli Tājir. (NB: …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.
IB V, 12. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Apart from …
Bifolio containing lists of Hebrew terms. On the righthand page of verso, there are jotted accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal deed. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 993 AH, which is 1585 CE. A landlord, called only al-Faqīr ilā Allāh, settles accounts with his …
Fragment of a legal document mentioning a divorce and Mawlāy al-Nezer.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions [...] b. Yaʿaqov; Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim [al-Nafūsī]; Avraham b. Shemʿaya ha-Ḥaver. …
Legal document. Elʿazar b. Yefet sells to Shelomo b. Ṣedaqa his female slave named Ṭāʾūs ('Peacock') and her 10 year old son, named Mubārak ('The …
Capitation tax receipt for Mūsā b. Futūḥ al-Yahūdī in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S AS 182.312 …
Qurʾan. Kufic calligraphy. 2 x 8 lines from Sura 11, beginning at the end of verse 46. See T-S Ar.38.8. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter from the court, in Togarma (Istanbul?), to Moshe Abudarham, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
Verso: The end of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother," and he may be an actual brother since the sender …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative …
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Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Coptic numerals. For the shipping of a commodity (al-bunduq?) from Alexandria (al-thaghr) to Fustat.
Records/receipts of rent payments for months Jumada I to Shaʿaban 1054 AH = 1644/45 CE. There is a seal imprint twice, and the scribe signs …
Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. "Their capital: [...]. Their [...]..." Might be notes for drawing up a partnership agreement, or might just be …
Fol. 7v: Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 15 Jumādā II 423 AH = 29 May 1032 CE if read correctly. it. Reused (a century …
Islamic religious text, citing statements of ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin and/or brother-in-law the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Mentions the upcoming holiday of …
Letter from Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Judaeo-Arabic. The whole letter is preserved, but the text is extremely faded. In one of the …
Possibly a letter or draft of one. In Judaeo-Arabic. Complaining about a heavy burden of fines on a community.
Letter, apparently by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel to the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Dating: approximately 1160–66 CE, based on the years when Netanʾel …