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Accounts, in Arabic script and some Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions materia medica including various types of myrobalan, salt, and olibanum.
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Letter from a teacher to the father of a pupil. In Judaeo-Arabic, fully vocalized. On parchment. The boy has finished studying the Prophets. There is …
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Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Multiple entries, it seems all dealing with the estate of the late Menashshe. On …
Fatimid decree (sijill) of investiture, Judaeo-Arabic copy. Renews the appointment of a Jewish physician "to the headship of all the Israelite denominations: the Rabbanites, Qaraites, …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Copy of a letter addressed to the Gaon R. Saadyah by a pupil of one of his disciples (only the concluding lengthy poem is preserved) …
Love poetry. Bifolio.
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, Fustat.
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Unidentified Arabic text, likely documentary.
Arabic poems transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. A version of the second of them is still circulating in online forums, attribution unclearتغيرت الايام وانقلب الدهرو ~ وصار …
Fragment (lower right corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, conveying concern for the addressee, distress and anxiety of the writer, mentioning someone's arrival in and …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a serious illness (marḍa shadīda). Might be two different letters in two different hands.
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Qayrawan. Around 1045. The writer is still in Egypt (before he moved to Byzantium) …
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Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Deed of sale of a house, possibly a draft. Fragment (upper left corner). Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
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Legal fragment. Marriage contract. Dated: 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
Letter about a banker, an honest man from a provincial town, who wasn't able to meet his obligations because his customers were remiss in their …
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The person making the acknowledgment is ʿAntar al-ustādh al-Zukhrī(?) (a eunuch and/or government officer). He is 'yellow-skinned' …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Might be from a family member of Sitt Ghazāl to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (cf. Bodl. MS heb. …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the handwriting of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions various commodities: purging cassia (khiyār shanbar), white poppy (khashkhāsh abyaḍ), red lead …
Court record concerning the release of payment in installments between Yeshuʿa b. Avraham and Yosef b. David b. [al-Lebdī?]. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Legal record, or outline for drawing up a deed of sale. Dated: Sunday, 26 Ṭevet 1537 Seleucid, which is 28 December 1225 CE. Bū Manṣūr …
Bottom of a legal document. No details preserved. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
Beginning of a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). Written on behalf of a group …
Recto: Geomancy castings. May be related to AIU VII.F.32. Includes two questions about the illness of David b. Esther: Is it earthly or from God? …
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …
למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין
יי' אורי וישעי וג' מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין
His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).
It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -
God is my light and…
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Receipt in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Rajab 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. The name Yaʿaqov Yaʿabeṣ appears at the bottom. Dated 18 Rajab 1238 (1823 …
Lists of payments and possibly other financial data in Judaeo-Arabic. The evidence of payment structure is clearest on the recto when the author notes on …
State or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter from Naṣrallāh. In Arabic script. Top part only. Dating: Probably ca. Mamluk-era based on format and formulae.
Bifolio containing calendrical jottings in Hebrew script for the years 1454–1501 Seleucid = 1142–90 CE. There is also the beginning of a birth record in …
Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Barqa to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. Barhūn writes at length and in detail …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אט[א]ל [אל]לה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן ברקה [מסתהל] כסלו ערפך אללה ברכתה וכתמה עליך באחסן כ…
Medieval Haggada fragment, containing part of Dayenu.
Verso: Draft of a deathbed will in which a man gives two houses to two distant relatives, forestalls the possible claims of two other female …
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th century or later. Mentions names such as Yiṣḥaq and Eliyya. Needs further examination.
Accounts for the sale of tin (qaṣṭīr). Mentioning Nahray b. Nissim. A total number of 3,500 (a weight?) is mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
4 pages of Geonic responsa. Most of ot was published by Wertheimer, pp. 16-20. Contains translations of of various Talmudic terms, all by R. Sherira …
IB ח96. Copied in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, a very small section of a gaonic responsum in Hebrew and Aramaic containing a discussion …
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 …
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Small fragment of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Official document in Arabic script. Certifying that the teacher Gedalya Eliyyahu the Jew will pay (or has paid?) the ground rent (ḥikr) of a certain …
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Perhaps a letter.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi b. al-Qaṭā'if to his brother Peraḥya discussing business matters, the illness and recovery of Abu al-Muna, a forwarded letter, …
Letter to a distinguished person. In Hebrew. Formal, possibly a form letter or exemplar based on the layout.
Petition-like letter in Arabic script. (Note that it is preserved backward and verso is the beginning of the letter.) Opens with a taqbīl; the addressee …