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Probably list of donors. Some of the names are familiar from TS K15.6 - a list of contribution to the poor from 1178 (See Goitein …
No Scholarship Records
Verso: Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic about people fighting and/or playing. "Abū l-Munā and Barakāt were quarreling. . . Abū l-Faraj the dyer of red was playing …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. One of the entries mentions a barniyya ceramic pot (ברניה). Requires further examination.
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.
State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?
Recto: Mentions a hypothetical cantor or reader of the Torah who went mad and stole something and was caught. Verso: From a halakhic discussion on …
Lists of names and amounts (or quantities). Mentions names such as Yosef; Fuḍatyl; Manṣūr; Sharīf; Salāma; Ṣedaqa; Avraham; Barakāt; Manṣūr; Naḥrīr; Masʿūd. One word in …
Formulary for a legal document of ḥaliẓa (rejection of levirate marriage). On vellum.
On verso there is a fragment of a list written in some kind of shorthand. On recto there is a Judaeo-Arabic text on linguistics.
Letter. In Hebrew. Appeal for help, possibly from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen, the Palestinian Gaon, to the community of Alexandria. It includes a description of a dire …
Recto (secondary use): Mentions 16 "golden dirhams" which seems oxymoronic and may help with dating. Also mentions nuqra dirhams.
Piyyut.
Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had previously sent a …
Accounts in Arabic script with Indian numerals, reused for pen trials in calligraphic Hebrew script. Both fragments have the usual holes in the margin, but …
Ledger, with numbers expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Narrow vertical strip containing a couple words. from each line. Much of it is impossible to reconstruct. Mentions the intriguing phrase פרג אלקראן.
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than ca. 13th century. A quantity of pearls is possibly mentioned, or possibly food items.
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to his father Isma’il, Fustat. October 22, 1050. Short letter about the money that Farah sent to his …
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאואלדי אטאל אללה בקאך וכאן לך ומעך עדה ולם ארא(!)
ארגו שגל כיר אעלמך בוצול מרכב אבי עלי אלשאמי ווצל פיה
רזמה לבן אלתיהרת…
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Yefet b. Shelomo b. Yefet b. Nājī, after having acquired 3 out of 24 shares in a house from Efrayim b. Moshe, also known as …
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Remnant of a Fatimid state document, likely a decree. No full words are preserved, but the bottom half of one line and the top half …
Verso: Looks like a book list. Headed: "belonging to Natan b. Avraham." Including an arrangement of Seliḥot; the liturgy for the taking out of the …
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter. On verso there is a Hebrew literary text, listing names of biblical and/or apocalyptic significance.
Long strip from a ketubah written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), and witnessed probably by [Ishaq] b. Shmuel ha-Sefaradi (the Spaniard, see the …
Receipt or order of payment issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated 25 Ramadan[?] 1235 AH which is 1819 CE. A …
IB VI, 47. Judge Elijah orders a white "burda", some handwriting exercises at the bottom
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Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, probably in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Ottoman-era. Mentions an agha and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hilālī. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, with the continuation written at an angle in the margin. Some phrases: ...فضلا عما . …
Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. May be the handwriting of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Mentions "the period of his dwelling in the qāʿa where Umm al-Futūḥ …
Extremely fragmented Hebrew script document.
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Refers to a letter from the wālī; and people such as Sayyidnā; Ṭāhir; the arrival of al-Zariz; and Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya.
Fragment of a ketubba, with menstrual purity conditions. The husband also accepts that he will not take a second wife. Dating: Probably late 12th or …
Letter from Abū Zikrī to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 12th or early 13th century. The letter conveys eloquent greetings for …
Verso: poem written for a notable (Yosef?) on the occasion of the circumcision of his son Efrayim (or perhaps twin boys, one of whom is …
IB IV, 66 (ח1). Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Location: Fustat. Dating: Probably before 1120 CE. Groom: …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 8 Muharram 1267 AH which is 1850 CE. This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.
Fatimid decree. Four lines preserved. Dated: 549 AH = 1154/55 CE. Four lines preserved. Seems to be regarding the administration of the dhimmīs who live …
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Fragment of a medieval-era document, unclear which genre given the extent of damage. Only a partial name is visible [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi, who is …
Jottings of documents - needs examination.
Recto: Letter (upper part). Line 7: "As for the matter of the [..]ar, I asked Abu l-Ḥasan about it, and he said that he talked …
Recto: Letter to the Gaon in Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer explains that he has not yet been able to find a riding animal …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
Recto: List of sums promised or paid (the entries crossed out), ranging from 1/8 to 6 1/2, mostly in fractions, wherefore in cases in which …
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Late legal documents in Hebrew from Cairo, probably drafts of what resulted in a single legal deed. This seems to be the case because the …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL.) Handwriting of Nahray?
Verso (original use): Fragment from the lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script. Refers to the amīr Rifʿat? al-Dawla; a dīwān; and includes …
وعبده يسل انعامه[
ثبوته على يد الامير رفعة الدولة ادام الله عزه
ا]ستخراج رافعها في سورة الديوان
]بيده الراي //الاعلى// في الانعام علي فيما سا…
Verso: Response from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Yedutun, probably in Fustat. Instructing him to have Ibn Abū l-ʿAysh take …