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State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Probably late 12th or 13th C. Mentions tawqīʿ at least twice and the purchase and price of timber (ḥaṭab). …
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Nahray b. Nissim (address in Arabic script). Refers to "the matter of the qaysāriyya" and ships.
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Receipt for the capitation tax for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb in Fustat. Dated: Looks like 551 AH, which would be 1156/57 CE if correct. See ENA …
Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Iqrār. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Dated: 510 or 520 AH = 1116/17 or 1126/27 CE. Needs …
Literary text. Late. Boxed with double red lines.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late, Ottoman era. Probably a waqf document with five signatures at the bottom in swirls. A marginal note says two …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. The Arabic document is the first page of a letter. The formulaic greetings extend to three lines from the bottom, …
Probably a draft of a letter in Hebrew in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212) containing praises and blessings for a notable …
Letter/petition from a 'foreign' widow (marʾa armala gharība) to a notable. Appealing for charity for herself and her three girls during this cold spell, in …
Letter from a father, probably in Fustat, to his son Isḥāq b. Saʿīd, probably in the Rīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century. The handwriting …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Some legible bits: ḥaḍrat sayyidnā al-sharīf(?) al-[...] al-mukhliṣ [...] al-mulk; someone renting something from someone; Cairo; trade (tijāra); al-ḥāmī; …
Letter from al-Ḥājj Aḥmad [...] to his son al-Ḥājj Abū Zikrī. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably late (Mamluk or Ottoman-era). Reports that 'we arrived safely …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138)
Legal document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In Aramaic. There is also one line in Arabic script on verso. Location: Fustat. Dated: 137[.] Seleucid, …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand is that of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions tartar; Yaḥyā; Yosef; a purse
Small fragment - needs examination.
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to family members in Fustat. He inquires briefly about commercial dealings before insisting that there is no …
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Legal document. On top: legal document in which an uncle gives his possessions in equal shares to his dead brother's sons and daughters and appoints …
Probably part of a responsum, mentioning the name [...] b. A[b]ishai. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions a name Shākir b. Wahb(?).
Palimpsest. Original text: Leaf from an Arabic diwan on vellum in elegant calligraphy. Poets named include Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. [...] and Ibrāhīm al-Shāmī (neither …
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f. 1r: unidentified Hebrew. ff. 1v and 2r: apparently accounts or document. f. 2v: entitled ‘[...] sacrifice’. Mentions Khalaf Allūnī, Khalaf the collector b. Hārūn …
Interesting fragment with a Judaeo-Arabic midrash about Moses quoting Isaiah 63:12, Deut. 3:26, and Exodus 34:6. (Information in part from FGP.)
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. …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Requires identification.
Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written …
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish …
Seems like a legal deed in a very crude hand, involving Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Ends with אנשאללה.
End of a legal deed; only the date and signatures are preserved. Nine signatures, Nisan 1041. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
Order of payment. In Arabic script, with "ibn Naḥman" in Hebrew script at the bottom.
Note in Arabic, possibly a prescription. Opens with ijjāṣ (plum or pear) and ʿunnāb (jujube).
Verso: Record of the activities of the qodesh in the late 10th and early 11th century up until 1034 CE, written ca.1040 CE. Join was …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and bearing his signature on the verso. Dating: 1100-1138. Location: Fustat. In bad …
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Left lower fragment of a settlement concerning books, including al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb and books of poetry. Involves parties including Abū Saʿīd; Abū Naṣr b. Yosef …
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Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th or 16th century. Unfinished and unsigned. Esther bt. Elʿazar b. Pinḥas, the wife of …
Receipt for the rent of a residence valued at 88 qirsh in the waqf of Deir el Moukhalles in Cairo – 1 March 1947CE – …
Small fragment of an account. Dated: 639 AH = 1241/42 CE.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay on account of the household of Amīn …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century. Mentions a ḥaver and contains a version of a taqbīl clause. Damaged and faded.
Maimonides’ responsa to the sages of Lunel. Headings שאלה and תשובה. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Damaged legal document from Fustat. Needs examination.
Several alchemical recipes written at all angles to each other.
Legal record (#7) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r
Recto: Report or official correspondence, possibly. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "the great resolution" …
Fragment of a legal document involving a marital dispute. On parchment.
Letter, late, writtenb by Yom Tov Qashtiel, with a Hebrew signature stamp. Addressed on verso "to the hand of the dear modest Masʿūda מב׳׳ת, to …