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Letter from Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Perhaps a responsum. The text seems to be entirely a discussion of talmudic matters, including condolences.
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IB IV, 72 (*ח24). Verso: Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to an India trader (probably not Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel). Dating: 20 Adar …
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Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions rose oil and pepper and sandarac resin (ṣandarūṣ). Mentions "that …
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Syriac alphabet exercises and Psalms 8:1a. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."
Recto: piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Fol. 4: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. One of the addressees is Abū l-Baqāʾ. Mentions Makārim and Abū Saʿ[d or Saʿīd]. Consists mainly of …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel (identification provided by Amir Ashur). It looks like there are portions of at least three …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Karaite bill of release. Date: 5 Iyyar 5452 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda …
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List of materia medica and their weights. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Might be 13th century or later based on handwriting and orthography (e.g., כתירה for כתירא). …
Late accounts in an erratic scribal hand. Possibly dated on the recto, with the middle subheading ending in ٧٢٣/723(?) AH, which would be 1323 CE– …
Letter in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan addressed to a dignitary named ʿAzaryahu. (For the addressee, cf. T-S 8J19.8 + CUL Add.3342.) Recto consists …
Fragment containing large Arabic script (from a letter?). There is also some smaller script and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.
Recto: Poem in Hebrew in honor of the wedding of Moshe the son of the Nagid Shemuel (b. Ḥananya) to a woman of an equally …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Three fragments from the lower part of the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid, which is December …
Fol. 1v: Letter in which ʿEli b. ʿAmram invites a scholar to give a lecture in the synagogue on the following Saturday and requests a …
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Saadya releases Eliyyahu b. Yiṣḥaq b. al-Qash'ami from an obligation. Dated Thursday, the 10th of Nisan 1357 Seleucid (1046 CE). Location: Fustat. (Information from Goitein's …
Recto: Brief letter to a cantor concerning 4 dinars for the purchase of a Torah codex (muṣḥaf): אלחזן שצ יעלם אן לא . . . …
Accounts. Mentions Fuḍayl and pepper. (Information from Goitein's index card)
Late letter in Hebrew.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The first 7 lines are preserved. Made by al-muʿallim Aḥmad(?) b. [...] b. ʿUthmān al-[...] the sugar seller …
Letter in a crude hand to a woman (Sitt […]), describing the writer’s safe arrival in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.) Also in his handwriting: T-S …
Public appeal of a blind woman to the congregation of Fustat to pay the fee of 4 dinars charged by a Muslim physician for the …
Legal fragment (right side only). Mentions a shop. On verso there are business accounts mentioning people such as Abū Kathīr and Rabbenu and 'maqṣūr' (whitened?) …
Letter from [...] b. Avraham to Ṣadaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. The writer had previously sent a letter with Ibn Bunyām that had gone unanswered. In the …
Legal document. Only portions of the last few lines are preserved. The name Abū ʿAlī may appear. Location: Fustat. Signed: Yosef b. Menashshe. Apparently written …
Letter from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ to Confrada Khumsa Kharja(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing mainly materia medica. Mentions barberries, brazilwood, rose, cucumber, endive, gum (ʿilk), aloe, cardamom.
Communal list of payments toward the kosher meat tax (gabela). Dating: c. 1785–1825 CE, based on the active dates and mention of the scribe/judge Meʾīr …
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. Reminiscent of the 1001 Nights, in that they tell of a clever woman in the palace of the king, answering riddles, etc. …
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A letter from Shmuel b. Yosef to his brother Moshe the cantor
Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
This is an ahavah poem composed by Mevorakh ben Se‘adya (early 12th century), for recitation during the synagogue service inside the blessing “who blesses his …
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Three fragments of Arabic documents reused on verso by the same Hebrew scribe for piyyuṭ. Two of the Arabic fragments are from a letter and …
Geographical text, referring to India.
Letter from Ibrahim b. Miṣbāḥ to Eliyyahu the Judge (spelled אליהוא). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. The sender had previously sent with the bearer …
ממלוכה אבראהים אבן מצבאח
Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower right corner). Concerning a divorce. Mentions something (the bill of divorce? the ketubba payment?) …
Accounts of debts between the scribe and a certain Hārūn, in dirhams and in quires (karārīs).
List of Hebrew letters with which a student practiced Tiberian voweling, medieval-era.
Babylonian Talmud, ʿEruvin 2a-b (f. 2) and 11a–12a (f. 1). F. 2v contains three notes of purchase. The book was initially purchased by Menaḥem b. …
Letter fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. On verso a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
Magical text. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from FGP.
Long magical spell/amulet for Baghīḍa bt. Ḥā'iza, with the purpose of making Mufaḍḍal b. ʿIrāq fall in love with her and marry her without delay.
Legal document: ketubba for [...ba]t Mawhūb (bride). Witnessed by Yishaq b. Saʿ[adya], [... b.] Efrayim, Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Aharon, Yaaqov ha-Levi b. [...]she, Amram b. …
Legal document. Probably a partnership agreement. Dating: Shortly before Ṭevet 1422 Seleucid, which is 1110/11 CE. The capital may be 50 dinars. Maḥfūẓ and Abū …
Document in Arabic script. Narrow vertical strip.
Arabic document of sale, consisting of an acknowledgement (`iqrar), dated 633 AH (Khan, ALAD, pp.19, 46)