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On verso two lines are preserved from an official Arabic document: yatajaddad fīmā yataʿallaq bi...
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (right side). The beginnings of ~20 lines are preserved. Refers to …
Legal document in Arabic script. Calligraphically written. Five lines preserved. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions an amīr(?) Yūsuf, summoning somebody (to …
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
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Literary text, in Arabic script.
Mercantile account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century, potentially related to the India Book documents. Neatly written and well preserved. …
Legal document in Arabic script. Record of a donation. Faraḥ b. Natan b. ʿAllūn donates a newly erected olive oil press with a mill wheel …
In the name of God, [the merciful and compassionate.]
This is what Faraḥ ibn Nāthān ibn ʿAlūn the Jew bestowed [ ...]
the press that has be…
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Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. In which the daughter of Menaḥem ha-Talmid …
לירח
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Letter from Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, seeking to mollify him, possibly for Toviyya's failure to reimburse him in …
Fragment from the center of a ketubba. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
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Arabic text on astrology (ṣifat burūj al-[...]).
Will (waṣiyya), in Arabic. For a Sicilian named ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī/al-Siqillī al-Anṣārī. Lines 6–15 consist of his profession of faith in the tenets of …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sale; reneging; 2 years; and a deposit. …
Recto: Upper part of a letter or letter formulary. In Arabic script, with all the diacritics and vowels. Verso: Prayer in Arabic script.
Letter from a husband to his wife after she bore him a daughter while he temporarily left her, waiting until her father gave the couple …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes). The letter is written in …
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
المذكور …
Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,
together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,
in whose left ey…
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Accounts on a small bifolio, mostly mathematical calculations without any headings or context provided. The verso includes a brief note mentioning the amount of funds …
Accounts(?) in Arabic script.
Outline of a legal document. Investment (ʿisqa). In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq אמרריליו(?) (probably equivalent to Amariyo) apparently receives an investment …
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī. The letter is addressed to someone who is younger than the writer (he calls him “my son”). Mentions …
[ ] קלבי פי הדה אלאיאם אללה יאתי [
[ ] ומא בקי לאני אנא אלי אלאן מא נערף מא [
[ ] אללה פי נפסי…
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions commodities such as garments and oil. May be the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Three distinct entries, probably. (1) Mentions accounting of various sums; someone collected 2; 1 remains; someone …
Legal document on parchment. Trousseau list, probably from a ketubba. The left edge has been cut into a serrated pattern. There is also a small …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a date of an unspecified month and year "bi-tārikh rābiʿ ʿashr minhu."
Recto: Legal document. Partnership record. Dated: middle third of Tammuz 1529 Seleucid = July 1218 CE. Location: Fustat. Emerging from the court of Avraham Maimonides, …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the end. Essentially no details are preserved. Unfinished (the …
73 minute fragments (67 paper; 6 vellum), of which two are parts of letters in Arabic (row 1, no. 2 and row 2, no. 6), …
Hebrew piyyutim.
Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Sahar. One of the parties …
Account register of Yiṣḥaq b. Yeḥiel, a dealer in carpets (tappeti = טפיטי, טאפיטי) as well as numerous other luxury commodities (nuts, drugs/perfumes, sugar from …
Dowry list of a wealthy bride. The sums given at the bottom are: muqaddam 20, muʾakhkhar 30 and everything 676 (reading uncertain), meaning that the …
Small fragment from a ketubah? - needs examination. No image
Recto (probably secondary use): Dowry list for the marriage of Kathīr b. Shelomo and Nāshiya bt. David. Total: 200 dinars.
Likely a Fatimid fiscal account. Difficult to read. As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
Late accounts, mentioning Eliyyahu Palombo and a Shtiwi, the Ottoman currency fonducli, and a candelabra (shamʿadān).
Recto: widely-spaced letter (3.5cm between lines) with only a few words preserved. Begins with ליקירנו ואהובנו ובעל בריתנו. Verso: address in a different hand, stating …
Legal deed. Iqrār mentioning Aḥmad b. ʻAbdallāh, dated 500 H. (?) [1106]. Verso is blank. Needs examination.
Letter from Hārūn b. Yaʿqūb, in Tiberias, possibly addressed to Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl b. Sahl. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with the indigo trade. Needs …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a few rows of writing exercises (?) in the margin. There are also a few words in Arabic.
Two long vertical strips from an account ledger in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Some of the …
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Munā to Elishaʿ ha-Sar ha-Levi. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The sender has …
Letter, probably. In poetic Hebrew.
Engagement agreements. Two sides of what appears to be a page from the court notebook from the 1330s. On recto, there are two engagement agreements, …
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