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Ketubbah of [...] b. Solomon (groom). Dated [...] Sel. in Fusṭāṭ. Written by Emmanuel b. Yeḥiel, Middle of 13th century. Probably under the reign of …
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Fiscal account. Needs examination.
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Recto (secondary use): Partnership agreement. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. The partners are Abū l-Faḍl and Avraham. On top of the Judaeo-Arabic text there are also …
Faded legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid = 28 April 1096 CE. Parties: Meshullam …
Deed of sale in which a father sells to his son a quarter of the apartment belonging to him in a house in the al- …
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Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script.
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Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Kislev 5562 AM = 20 November 1801 CE. No signatures. Yiṣḥaq Mizraḥi acknowledges an investment of 900 medins from …
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Ketubba fragment. Groom: ʿEli ha-Kohen ("ʿEli Kahna"). Dated: 1357 Seleucid, which is 1045/46 CE.
Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David. The addressee spent time …
Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Repurposed for a tax receipt. The document is a fragmentary marriage contract, and mentions the dower (ṣadāq), and some standard …
Fragment from a bill of divorce of Hiba ha-Kohen from Fustat. Written by the same scribe who wrote T-S AS 147.254. AA
Folio from a court notebook. Location: Minyat Zifta. There are 3 betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) documents (all edited in Ashur's dissertation) and a 4th document concerning a …
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State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter. …
Letter from Shelomo, a ritual slaughterer in al-Maḥalla, to the judge Zakkay (probably the father of Shelomo b. Zakkay who was active in the period …
Business accounts in Arabic script. Mentions many names, such as Mūsā b. Khalaf and Khalaf b. ʿAlī.
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Ethical will ("yā bunayy..."). Mentions in one place the wiles of women. (Information in part from CUDL)
IB III, 27. Three sundry accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in Yemen. Dating: 1140–44, 1149–1152.
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Fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century, based on handwriting. Apparently recounting a legal situation. Excerpts from T-S AS 153.68: "...the …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Pertaining to the India trade of the first half of the 12th century. The sender mentions Isḥāq al-Nafūsī and al-Shaykh …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only one line is preserved.
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Accounts. Mentions marjoram (mardaqūsh).
Digest of a partnership contract for a period of one year between Abū ʿAlī b. David and Netanʾel b. Nadiv. Written mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, but …
Letter addressed to Shelomo Ḥalafta Yerushalmi and Meir Ashkenazi, concerning business, the commodity saffron (זעפראן)" is mentioned. R. Yiṣḥaq Luria (ha-Ari) was a part of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions al-Asʿad al-Ṣayrafī among other names.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the handwriting of Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Nīsābūrī. Dating: 11th century. Mentions ships from various places including three from …
Letter probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s) addressed to someone he calls "the great rabbi." In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter consists entirely …
Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, at least partially about calligraphy: "al-khaṭṭ wa-l-qalam... yatalāqayā..."
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of a prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexanria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 10th century. The writer reports …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Probably ca. 14th–16th century. Mentions money to be given to the recipient; Alexandria; an amir; …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the community of Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Gil suggests 1025 CE, however this seems inconsistent with the events mentioned; …
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Legal document. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has …
Possibly a receipt for Bū l-Majd b. Yūsuf b. Sālim.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Too faded to understand any of the content. (Information in part from CUDL)
List of names - needs examination. No image
Recto: medical fragment; describes preparation of pills which include fennel. Difficult to read and requires further examination. Verso: list of names, mentioning Elʿazar ha-Kohen, Yefet, …
Folio from a fiscal accounting ledger. Four different entries, each with its own set of ʿalāʾim. The one on verso is dated [13 Dhū l-Ḥijja?] …
Letter/petition from an unknown sender, in Alexandria, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew. Dating: likely 1103–11 CE, based on the …
A page from a literary work on magical medical remedies.
Interesting letter in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic, probably 15th century or later, full of creative spellings, probably from someone whose mother tongue was not Arabic. The writer …
Letter from Sadīd to an unidentified addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a basmala in Arabic script. In a crude hand. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid = 7 February 1094 CE. Declaration by the beadle Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, that he …