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Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. Discussing the halakha of legal witnesses and testimony, including the table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
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Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or state. Mentions al-shaykh al-Mukhliṣ [...] The top ~3 lines are preserved and additional text on verso.
Recto: A few words from a document in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a sale by weight. Verso: A few words from a document in Arabic script possibly …
List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. Among those listed are: Yakov Qatawi, Yosef Bilobos, Yaʿaqov Akubas, David Dayyan, Nissim Ashkenazi, Moshe …
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 …
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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Written in large characters in a chancery-esque hand. The sender is Jewish as he swears by the …
Page from a late Hebrew medical treatise.
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Court record. Mentions a woman who died and a dispute over an inheritance involving Abū Isḥāq Yoshiyya (the same as in T-S 12.37 (PGPID 3143)?), …
An urgent summons to appear before the court from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning several commodities (including wheat), people (including Mūsā), a shop, and periods of the month.
Note to Abu l-Makarim Moshe b. Yehezqel ha-Levi, urging him to come to court because of alimony claims from his wife, threatening him with a …
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Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat, by Avraham b. Farah to Nahray b. Nissim, reporting on the arrival of ships in Alexandria and dealing with …
3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
Awaiting description
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal record (#36) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 34-36) Folio 9r
First five lines of a letter in Arabic script from a parent to his son, including basmala and words of prayers. Separate text on verso, …
IB III, 28. Account by Avraham Ibn Yiju of Indian products sold for another merchant, Aden, ca. 1141-44.
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Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the names: Manṣūr Shāmī, ʿImānī Ḥazan. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century.
Letter fragment (lower part) from a muqaddam named Moshe (b. Perahya. AA), probably addressed to the dayyanim of Fustat, complaining that after the death of …
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An interesting letter in rhymed Hebrew prose, with one line of Judaeo-Arabic, spanning 4 leafs (7 pages). It opens with a blazon of a certain …
Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law Abu'l-Faraj, asking him to write a letter to correct his daughter’s (Shelomo’s wife’s) behaviour, since Shelomo is …
אבו אלפרג’ אבן אלרייס זצל
סבב אצדאר הדה אלאחרף אלי אלמולא אלשיך א…
Abu'l-Faraj, son of the chief, (may the) m(emory of a) r(ighteous man be …
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Accounts in Hebrew script. In Judaeo-Persian? Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Recto: part of a text on dentistry and oral hygiene, discussing dental caries, dentifrice powder (sanūnāt) prepared from gigantic swallowwort and burnt snails. Perhaps Ibn …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dated documents: 1100–38 CE). The main text (not in the margins) on both sides may just …
Letter concerning various business issues and the new agent Abū […]. Mentions a qāḍī, a widow, and a girl. Also mentions the Sar ha-Sarim and …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic, maybe official.
A late list of names and amounts. The name Moshe Dammuhi is mentioned on the verso.
Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely literary.
Letter fragment from Ṭāhir b. Bū l-Ḥasan known as Ibn [...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the recipient to send greetings to somebody and a …
Accounts
Fragment of a marriage contract from Fustat, written in the same hand as T-S 13J12.18. Dated ca 1337. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 386, …
Recto is a letter in Arabic script. The lower part is very faded. Unclear if the multiple text blocks on the verso are related; some …
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faraj b. Bū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.
Ketubbah formulary, mostly complete, Babylonian style. AA and RR
Letter from a Sicilian who had come to Egypt in order to study with Moses Maimonides and with Yiṣḥaq b. Sason. Despite his long sojourn …
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1099–1187, under the authority of Moshe ha-Rav ha-Gadol. …
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End of a letter - needs examination.
Accounts in Hebrew script. Language unidentified. Late. The scribal hand is akin, but not identical to the commercial accounts of ENA NS 1066.1-10 (PGPID 9938), …
Court record(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). On recto, the court certifies the receipt of something which was due to …
Lower right corner of a legal document, possibly marital. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Signed ʿEli ha-Kohen [...]
Receipt (?). Danānīr is readable but not much can be gleaned due to the damaged condition of the paper.
Legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Literary.
Business letter, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer crossed out the first three lines (following the Arabic-script basmala) and began …
Letter from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq to Nahray b. Nissim, January 27, 1047
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The fragments comprising the binding seem to be a cut-up Judaeo-Arabic letter or possibly an account. Dating: 11th century?