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A dense list of names along with numbers, perhaps pledges to charity. Organized by parshiyot. Resembles T-S NS 338.40 (PGPID 25929).
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1020 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years …
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Fragment of a state document, fragmentary lines preserved. The word "al-Nawāḥī" is visible. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic fragment. . Probably a letter. The name Eliyyahu …
Part of a ketubba, with no names or date preserved. Between the lines, a different hand has practiced writing the Hebrew alphabet. Verso: part of …
Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba) containing a detailed description of part of a house given to the bribe. Mentioning the names Avraham b. Natan, …
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Letter from the teacher Abū l-Khayr, in Minyat Zifta to his brother Abū Naṣr Maḥfūẓ, the brother-in-law of Abū l-Bishr(?) Ibn al-Abzārī(?), in Darb al-Dahhān, …
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Book list with prices. (Information from CUDL)
Astrological table in Arabic script, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
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Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and revenues from rent, ca. 1037 (specifies expenditures for the years 426–30 AH = 1034–39 CE). The expenditures listed …
(1-2) .... From … Dār al- ....
Masons, the wages ....
(4-5) 12 helpers for . . . . , 3 dir. Water, 7 dir.
(6-7) Paid for black cl…
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Possibly a formulary for an elaborate bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE. Both recto and verso are covered …
Ketubba. Only some signatures are preserved together with the validation (qiyyum) of the ketubba. The witnesses of the main document are: ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi; …
Legal document. Receipt. The receipt confirms that Sittuna b. Khalaf received 12 items from Umm Fuṣayl as an inheritance. Shabbat b. al-ʿAzar acted as witness …
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Small fragment with a few partial lines in Arabic. Does not seem documentary. Poetry? Aphorisms?
28 minute fragments (4 paper; 24 vellum), of which one is possibly part of a letter in Arabic (row 1, no. 1). (Information from CUDL)
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-Tājir in l. 3. Mentions a variant of the raʾy clause: "al-ʾārā al-ʿāliyya". Could be a …
Legal document. Tiny fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active c.1181–1209).
Bill of divorce (geṭ). The names of husband and/or wife may be preserved in the first two lines, which are difficult to read. Location and …
A short, but complete note to Nahray from one of his brothers-in-law, ca. 1045-1096.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Addressed to a certain Fakhr al-Dawla (al-shaykh al-ajall, 'the esteemed elder'). The sender met with Muḥyī …
Verso (original use): Petition to a Jewish official in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment of a calligraphic letter with wide line spacing addressed to “our master” …
Maimonides Mishne Torah, Sekhirut, 6. AA
Fiscal accounts. Many officials are named (ʿIzz al-Mulk, Qamr(?) al-Dawla, Jamāl al-Mulk, Mukhtār al-Dawla, and many more. Also large sums of money. Needs examination.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen the descendant of Yehosef ha-Kohen Bet Din. Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly …
Ledger, with numbers expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals.
Minute fragment from a ketubah written by Emanuel b. Yehiel (Date: ca. 1231-1265)
Goitein describes this list as: 'Distribution of about 430 loaves of bread, weighing 450 pounds, to 104 households on the Friday before the Fast of …
In the name (of God)
Friday the 8th of the month of
Av, may its mourning be turned into joy.
Dispensed to the poor, may God …
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Verso: Small fragment of an Arabic document. The ends of several lines are preserved. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script, probably. Reused for the binding of a diwan of Hebrew poetry, including at least one poem by Yehuda ha-Levi.
Fol. 1, recto: Legal document or letter concerning a legal case in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentioning somebody's property and whether certain items pertain to the …
IB I, 31b. Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly of legal …
This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]
known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…
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Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions a turban.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerns Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his wife ("amḍā la-hā al-taṣarruf fī jamīʿihā"). No details preserved. Dated: Elul …
Recto, with the address on verso (probably secondary use): Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in an unknown location, to his brother Sibāʿ, in Fustat. In Arabic …
Bifolium from a late Hebrew medical treatise, including headers on pathologies of the womb
Recto: Formulary for an elegant letter of condolence in Hebrew upon the death of a woman (described as a model wife, citing verses from Proverbs …
Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The verso includes note or sub-heading in Judaeo-Arabic: "on the street of the synagogue."
Recto: List of names with corresponding Greek/Coptic numerals. E.g., Ḥasan al-Raffāʾ. Verso: Greek/Coptic numerals, with a couple words in Arabic at the bottom.
Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā of Sfax, in Mazar, Sicily, to his partner Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The longest letter …
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Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides—[the son] of our Lord and Rabbi Moshe the Great Rabbi (ZL). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is written on a reused …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba(?) b. Khalaf the Jew in Fustat for the year 507 AH = 1113/14 CE. Payment: 1/2 dinar. Written …
Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part …