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Letter from Mūsā Mosseri. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from a father in Cairo to his son, Abū Manṣūr al-Rashīd, in the Fayyum. The name Jamāl al-Dīn also appears in the address. In …
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First two lines of a large legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? The parties are Avraham b. Faraj ha-Kohen al-Raḥbī (known from …
Ketubba with no names preserved, dated 15 Ḥeshvan [...]. Mentioning a dowry of 90 dinars. Signatories are too fragmentary to be legible. (Information from CUDL.)
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic on business matters. Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
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A few words from a letter in Arabic script. Large script, wide space between the lines. Reminiscent of a state document but the preserved content …
Letter fragment in Arabic script, reused for a communal register. Dating: likely late 18th-century based on other neighboring communal fragments that were recorded on commercial …
Probably prognostications or explanations regarding the calendar, mentioning the months Aviv and Nissan. CUDL
Dirge of 38 lines by the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128-1164) on one Moshe. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 574)
State document, probably, mentions "Miṣr". Reused for another Arabic script text, probably literary on verso. Needs examination.
Letter from the judge Peraḥyahu (b. Yosef Ibn Yiju), in Alexandria, to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. Dating: ca. late 12th century. This fragment (lower …
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Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid regarding taxation, including the fee for the police (tarsīm). Mentioned in Goitein, "The Twilight …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script.
Recto: Fragment of a very polite letter in Arabic script.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Begins with a basmala and then immediately 'amma baʿd' suggesting that it is a copy or draft. On verso there …
Late letter from Avraham Hamān and Gabriel Ḥefez addressed to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 26 Shevat 5567 AM (1807 CE). Information …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Fragment (upper right corner). The addressee is called al-shaykh al-ajall... al-muwaffaq al-ṣadīq al-kohen al-vatiq. The sender complains …
End of a ketubba in a large hand. Signed by Nathan [ha-Levi] b. Yeshuʿa (mid-11th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. 10 damaged lines are preserved but hard to discern much of the content. On verso there are writing exercises of the …
State document(s) in Arabic script. On recto there are administrative/secretarial notes at the top: yuʿāmal.... mutawallī al-nāḥiyya....bi-ʿadl.....inshā Allāh...It also mentions a government bureau towards the …
Letter fragment. According to Mosseri Catalogue addressed to Shlomo, the Head of Geon Yaaqov Yeshiva. This is probably Shlomo, Masliah Gaon's father. Requires further examination. …
two lists, probably colophon - needs examination. No image
State document in Arabic on verso. Medieval era. The remnants of one line is visible. Both sides were reused for a literary text in Hebrew. …
Legal deed. In Hebrew, with some Babylonian vocalization. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 4787 AM = November/December 1026 CE. Maymūn b. Efrayim receives a loan of …
Religious matters – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 89) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Formulary for a legal document of ḥaliẓa (rejection of levirate marriage). On vellum.
Petition of a teacher. Fragment of a letter written by a teacher, apparently to one of the parnasim of the qodesh. Insisting that he is …
Bifolio containing mostly Judaeo-Arabic prayers and/or poems. The left page of verso contains a variant of the ḥamdala and ṣalwala: אל חמד ללה וחדה וצלי …
Letter to the judge Moshe b. Labrāṭ. Dealing with a lawsuit of al-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel against his paternal cousin [Musa]llam b. Moshe Ibn Ḥirbish and emphasizing …
Letter asking for financial help, sent from Jerusalem to Bilbays and signed by Yosef b. Gershon and Yeḥiel ha-Ṣarfati (the Frenchman). For a discussion in …
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …
עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי
אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך
מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<
למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד
וצלו וצחה אלעדה …
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Account of the qodesh, ca. 1165. A detailed accounting written in the hand of Judge Mevorakh b. Natan. The first part contains different expenditures for …
For the building operations:
Dār al-Sukkarī, by Mufaḍḍal al-Ṭībī, 49
The compound which is above the bath house of Qirāʿa, the judge being…
Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sulaymān Kohen tells the addressee to give two ounces of lemon and rose (syrups?) to Abū l-Faraj. (This Sulaymān Kohen may be …
Verso: Astrological fragment listing the symbols for the "lords of the triplicities" (arbāb al-muthallathāt), i.e., the three planets that rule over each of the elements …
Literary text in Arabic. Probably Christian, based on the reference to ʿĪsā ʿalayhi l-salām.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions the inspection of a lower apartment and two wood beams. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd, [...] al-ʿAdanī "his partner in the …
Only the bottom of the leaf is preserved, possibly a poetic letter or panegyric. Refers to Nathaniel ha-Sar (the 12th-century Gaʾon Nathaniel b. Moses?). (Information …
Ladino literary work.
Ketubba fragments. Lower part. One of the witnesses is Shelomo b. Yosef. There is literary text on verso.
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late; the date in the document is torn away, all that can be read is Wednesday [...]9 AM. Location: Cairo. …
Accounts, with names such as Ibn Naḥūm and Yakhīn. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the lepers of Tiberias. Fragment. Written by Hillel b. Yoshua. (Gil)
Accounts on the recto and verso, related to sales and expenses of raisins (zabīb). Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography but the …
Letter from a man to his 'brother'. In Judaeo-Arabic, rudimentary script and spelling. He informs him that he has "fallen" into the ḍamān (tax concession) …
בשמך רחמנא
כתאבי אליך //יאכי// וסיד[י] אטל אללה בקאך ואדם עזך
ען חאל סלאמה ו[עא]פיה ושוק אליך שדיד גמע
אללה ביננא עלא אסר חאל במנה וכרמה
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 537. See also T-S Ar.35.197.
Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn(?) b. Abū l-Faraj(?) the Jew. On verso there is a blessing for a groom in Hebrew. Needs …