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Fragmentary letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably late 11th or 12th century. The letter is quite difficult and written in an elevated register with …
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Small fragment of a legal or state document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
No Scholarship Records
Treatise in Judaeo-Arabic (Abraham Maimonides per FGP, but probably has no connection with him for the hand is 11th century). In fact an interesting theological …
Calendar in Hebrew.
Letter in Arabic and Hebrew script dated 438 AH (1046/1047 CE). The opening politesse consists of many lines in Arabic script in a calligraphic chancery …
Family letter in Ladino. "To my mother-in-law in the place of my mother, after I and your daughter Rica kiss your hands: know how astonished …
Small official-looking receipt in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Jewish (not Muslim) religious text. Written mainly in Arabic script but with some Hebrew mixed in. Having to do with the Exodus. Some of the …
Letter from Abu Zikri b. Eliyyahu's brother, Shelomo, to Abu Zikri (ca. 1200) informing him that their father was well but upset about the hardships …
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Order of 3 pounds of meat from the butcher. In Arabic script. The glyph at the beginning means يدفع (cf. T-S AS 177.466 and T-S …
Brief note from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy, asking him to take care for the oil, probably for lighting the synagogue. AA
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Both need examination.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of …
Legal document regarding two business partners and a debtor. Date: 10 Iyyar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo, Dār Simḥa Synagogue. The partners are Moshe …
Legal fragment. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: [14]26 Seleucid = 1114/15 CE. Involves Zakkay b. Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts. Signed …
Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan [...]. Location: Somewhere on the sea (כיף ימא רבה), i.e., not Fustat or Cairo– "on the shore …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, R. Yiftaḥ, the 12.5 dirhams due …
Garshuni text. Only 2.5 lines are preserved. It is difficult to make out more than "...idhā... al-wuḥūsh taftaris..." Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in …
Legal document, small fragment. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Fragment from a deed of partnership. Handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? No names or details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين
ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)
الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي
خلد الله سلطان…
A (partial) manuscript of Prophets and Hagiographa. A dedicatory colophon in the first page dedicates it to the qaraite community of Egypt, "for reading in …
Accounts, in Arabic script.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic naming people such as Barhūn and Abū l-Khayr and Yūsuf. Dating: shortly after 1047/48 CE. The hand may be …
Letter from the judge Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo (in office ca. 1125-1150) to Abū l-Ḥusayn Efrayim ha-Kohen b. Yosef the silk-merchant of Damietta. The letter …
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise.
Accounts, bottom part. Needs examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely literary.
Large fragment of a letter with accounts, especially of goods brought from Syria. “You have received from Muhammad al-Shami 1-1/6 for the price (‘an qimat) …
Unidentified document, Arabic script (accounts? receipt?) on recto. Hebrew script on verso.
IB V, 22. Business letter in Arabic script to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, from an anonymous correspondent in Alexandria. …
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Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid = December 1080/January 1081 CE. (The first deposition is from 10 Ṭevet, the second is from 21 …
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large margins. Includes the phrases "her husband," "from the …
Tabular accounts in Arabic and either Coptic numerals or some form of shorthand (often crossing out an entry with a vertical line). Mentions names such …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side has four lines preserved; the first line refers to someone named Yūsuf b. Muḥammad. The other side has …
Small fragment of a legal document involving Petaḥya and customs (maks).
Small fragment of a poetic letter or panegyric addressed to a notable who is also a kohen.
Fragment of a legal document. The terms sāiʾba (endowment/waqf property more generally ) and mūwāqafa (safeguarding waqf/endowment properties) are suggestive that the document could be …
و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت
وموافقة ولا مواقفة
من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……
الفاضل الاجل الاسعد
IB II, 68. Letter (or draft of letter) from a certain Ḥ[alfon] (?) to Shemaryāhū b. David (i.e. the Hebrew name of Maḍmūn b. David) …
אלעבד חל[פון ...]
י''ק צפ' תפ' הוד ועטרת וצניף כותרת מ[רנא ורבנא]
שמריהו הנגיד הגדול נגיד הנגידים וראש
החסדים וינהי אנה מן בעץ צנאיעך דאעי…
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Arabic document, possibly a receipt. The name Munajjā b. [...] appears at the bottom.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer defends himself for having to refuse a request of the addressee (he cites a version of a couplet of Arabic …
Piyyutim, probably.
Letter from a father living in the countryside to his son's grandmother residing in Fustat. The father expresses his concerns that bad company is leading …
Recto: business letter from Abraham Monsun to David, in Egypt (16th–17th century). Edited by Assaf in 'Texts and Studies' (1946: 206-8). Verso: calculations, probably accounts. …