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Fragment of a fiscal document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for piyyuṭ.
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End of a fragment, contains only the name of Perahya. The nature of this fragment is unclear and could be an address on a letter …
Memo in Arabic script. Apparently about a check (ruqʿa) from Abū Naṣr for 200 dirhams that has gone missing: كنت قد تسلمت... كان الشيخ ابو …
Letter from Yosef b. Ma'la to Nethanel Abu Sa'id b. Sadaqa. The letter opens with a full-fledged congratulation, referring also to the Feast of Tabernacles …
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Original document: Accounts in very small Arabic script. Subsequent document: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a woman. Written in the spaces around the original …
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Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …
Literary, see FGP for identifications.
Legal document in Arabic script. Involving Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Dated: 25(?) Jumādā II 6[..] AH. The rest of the date should be legible; the …
Testimony dated the 8 Av 1776 Seleucid = 31 July 1465 CE. Regarding Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm ("known as the leprous (al-Abras)"?) and another party who …
Some Arabic jottings on verso, may be documentary.
Business letter, or possibly a letter between state officials. In Arabic script. Mentions: al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf; Tripoli (presumably the Syrian one); that the addressee must not …
Accounts in Arabic script. Al-Shaykh Bū Saʿd.... al-jumla....
Recto (secondary use): A second letter, possibly a copy or draft, possibly related to verso. This letter appears to be in the hand of Berakhot …
Brief letter in Arabic script. Dated: 6 __(?) 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE), with the month indicated by a sole ligature or letter (ل؟)– possibly Shawwal. …
Letter fragment addressed to Ṣadaqa ha-Sar. In Hebrew (poetic introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Only the beginning is preserved. …
Legal record (#74) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 25v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute over a husband's support for his wife during his …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 439–40, probably AH, which would be 1047–49 CE. Mentions Khalaf, Yūsuf b. Mūsā, [...] b. Nissim.
Small fragment of a dowry list, probably from a ketubah. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Based on the mention of the Ottoman kuruş symbol (ق label on columns) this fragment dates back to …
Minute fragment from the top of a bill of divorce (get) from Fustat. Written by the same scribe who wrote T-S AS 147.255. AA
Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir. He mentions that his son is …
Poetry in which the lines alternate between Hebrew and Arabic. See also T-S NS 274.17 (PGPID 34763).
Earlier document: Letter from a certain Abū Saʿd (aka Seʿadya) to three addressees: David, someone else (Avraham?), and someone called only al-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment containing Judaeo-Arabic poetry; see joins for more substantial poems written by the same scribe.
Letter in Ladino to Shelomo Almanas or Almatango[?] on verso from Aharon ha-Kohen. Dated below signature Jumada I 1_78AH [?]. The most likely reading based …
Possibly an official receipt, or simply a private account.
Document(s) in Arabic script. Recto has two closing lines of a standard Fatimid petition or report: ḥamdala, taṣliya, and the ḥasbala. The verso seems to …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or possibly early 12th century. Mentions logistics regarding ships; someone named [...] al-Fāsī; flax; someone named …
Letter of appeal for public charity. In calligraphic Hebrew. The writer is a foreigner who wishes to return to his land, but has no money …
Possibly a letter. Mainly in Arabic script. The phrase لا والله appears on verso. Seems to be written in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew …
Ownership note: Aharon b. Peraḥya.
Letter. Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl. MS …
Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …
A fragment from the top of a ketubah from the year 1038. The bride is the daughter of Efrayim. Part of the dowry list is …
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Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. One of the parties involved named Ya'aqov. Signed by Tamim b. Shm[…]. AA
Witness statement regarding the discovery of the corpse of Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, leader of the Jews of al-Maḥalla, who paid his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
لما كان بتاريخ الرابع والعشرين من ربيع الاول سنة …
It has been registered.
Praise be to God, who is sufficient for those who put in him their trust.
In the name of God, the merciful a…
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Prenuptial agreement of a previously divorced couple (a husband who re-accepts his divorcée). Eight lines survive on this fragment, probably in the hand of Natan …
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Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is Eliyyau (אליאו) Halevi and the bride is Esther known as Mazal. The bride is deflowered.
Calendrical text. Dated: 1241 Sel. (929–30 CE). This copy: late 10th/11th c. according to Stern and Vidro, but may join with a cluster of reused …
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Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains that Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Abū Man[ṣūr?] al-ʿAfīf have cut off the payments with which they …
Letter in Arabic script. Most of the paper is preserved, but the text is very faded and overwritten with Hebrew jottings. Needs examination.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Several food items are listed.
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Written in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, whose name appears on verso along with Yeḥezqel and Yeḥiʾel b. …
Minute fragment, only few words are preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).