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Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef about a business matter. Reused on verso by ʿArūs for accounts.
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Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …
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Letter to Shmuel b. Yosef the Karaite
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involves [Aharon?] b. Shemarya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Mevorakh, and Yakhin.
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
Bifolio of densely written accounts in Arabic script. Likely private/mercantile rather than official. Entries are organized by date. Needs examination.
Verso: Several text blocks in Arabic. Accounting, listing ḥawālas owed by various people. Mentioning [...] b. Abī Saʿīd al-Isrāʾīlī. Needs examination.
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Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Mysterious document. Perhaps a letter originally -- there is something that looks like an address, naming Abū l-Majd and Isḥāq(?) b. Shemuel. On the same …
IB VII, 25. Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. The testimony describes how partnerships are established. Dated: middle decade …
נקול אנן שה[די] דחתמות ידנא לתחתא אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה
אלשהאדה אלקאטעה במא גראת בה אלעאדה במצר בין אל
תגאר פי אלשרכה ודלך אדא דכלוא מנהם גמאעה…
We, the undersigned witnesses, say what we know and testify to, an
irrefutable testimony about what is the custom in Miṣr between
merchants (a…
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Accounts on recto, with many figures expressed in Hebrew and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. The entries are organized by individual people: "from Yosef," "from al-Ḥajj ..[?]", …
Personal letter from the head of the Babylonian community in Jerusalem (Adath HaBablim) to Mr. Yiṣḥaq Mordechai [Gabbay] seeking an explanation for why he has …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. B, fol.1 - Accounts, in Arabic script.
Record or outline of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Written on a narrow piece of parchment. Dated: …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
IB VII, 67. Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. Dating: late 11th–early 12th century (Goitein). The writer departed sick (wajiʿ) and arrived healthy in …
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Legal query. Awaiting fuller description.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Recto: "I consulted God …
Minute fragment, probably from a letter or document.
Arabic, literary.
Fragment of a bifolium in late Hebrew script, in Hebrew, possibly glosses on the story of Joseph.
Fragment of a business letter addressed to [...] b. Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g. לאך for לך). Mentions saffron; various other …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a dignitary (...אלגליל ירום הודה...). Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic and verso is in Hebrew, which also appears …
Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen to the cantor Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Barakāt has sent the volume which he found of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda. …
Large fragment of a late legal document. In Hebrew. The paleography supports a dating estimate of late 18th- or early 19th-century, possibly the scribal hand …
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The upper portion of recto may be a list of customers and their orders, as various names …
Possibly a legal query in Judaeo-Arabic ("please inform us the meaning of the saying. . . "), mentioning matters such as taxes (maks), debt owed …
List of names and numbers. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but that is a guess.
An appeal from the Karaite community of Qal'a to the community of Kafa/Kana
Legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Describing a property, including its wind catcher and majlis.
Letter fragment from Nissim b. Nahray, unknown location, to Abū l-Fa{ra}j Daniel b. [...] ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Needs examination.
Fragment containing only the imprint of the text of T-S AS 184.235, which seems to be a state document mentioning a rescript (tawqīʿ).
Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī in Susa to Abu Zakariyya Hayyim b. `Ammar, who writes about a disaster at sea that overcame the boats, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך
ונעמתך ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל פי אלסר מן מא קדר אללה תעאלי
וחכם אלדי …
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List of ingredients (or rather commercial goods?) with their weights. In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Possibly part of a partnership agreement. On verso there …
Legal record (#112) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Iyyar 5327 …
Document in Ladino, perhaps a letter.
Accounts, in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic Numerals. Mentions days of the week and months of the year and lists sums. Needs examination.
Accounts in disorderly Judaeo-Arabic, medieval-era. Very detailed. Merits further examination. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Asks to be sent something and refers to "shughl al-ṣulṭān," government work.
Letter of appeal for charity from Abū Dāniyāl to Maṣliaḥ Gaon. The house where the writer lives with all his family is collapsing around them. …
Fragment of a legal document. Location: Bilbays. Drawn up under the authority of David Sar ha-Sarim (=David I Maimonides?). Mentions half of a house. On …
Credit instrument, or possibly an account. Needs examination.
Letter from the congregation of Tripoli, Lebanon, to Hesed b. Sahl. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. Synagogues in other places have been returned to the Jews, …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef Halevi. The bride Esther known as Sukar d. Barukh Halevi b. Shlomo Halevi.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably of a Maghribī trader of the 11th century. The last three lines are in a different ink and different hand. The …
Popular poetry in Judeao-Arabic. Vocalized. Rudimentary hand. Includes a verse beginning "go up to Jūjar" (אטלע לגוגר יא אנסאן). In the same style as Nāṣir …
Bill from the naval armed forces – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 148) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Letter from a woman to an unknown addressee. Around 1060. Mentions details about Nahray b. Nissim’s family. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #293) VMR
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …