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IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
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Petition, or at least a formal-looking letter, in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner).
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IB III, 28a. Account by Avraham Ibn Yiju of Indian products sold for another merchant, Aden, ca. 1141–44. Recto contains IB III, 2 (PGPID 4714).
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Bifolio of astrological writing. One of the pages contains a prayer for the late Yefet b. Shela, apparently a great scholar with many titles: אלרב …
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Mentioning many names: Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh; Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen; Avraham ha-Zaqen. Also mentions Fustat. Probably …
Letter from Salim b. Harun to Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid) concerning financial issues relating to the children of his late brother Farah b. Harun al-Janawi, who …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Very damaged and faded Hebrew letter, with many Biblical verses, seems to contain some moral instructions? Addressed to 'our brothers'. T-S 16.368 seems to be …
Literary text. Needs examination.
Letter to the judge Peraḥya (b. Yosef?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (also a judge?) woke up sick, so instead of coming to work he sends …
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body). The writer cites …
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Letter from a certain Yehuda. Probably a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century. Small piece.
Minute fragment, few words in Hebrew
Business accounts
Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions R. Eliyya and R. ʿAbde'el (=ʿAbdallāh) and possibly someone's wife.
Letter from Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq from Alexandria to his father in law, Seror (Surur) b. Ḥayyim b. Sabra in Fustat. Written a month after another …
Small bifolio. Contains notes for legal purposes. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. ʿOvadya known as Ibn זונין (Zunayn?) acknowledges that he collected from the estate of …
Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Letter sent to Alexandria, mentioning Abū Manṣūr al-Mashmiaʿ (אלמשמיע), Abū l-Munā (vocalised אלמֻנֵי), and Yaʿqūb/Yaʿaqov b. Banīn. Mentions the payment of the capitation tax. Addressed …
Tiny fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning al-Talmid and Ḥalfon ha-Sar. Verso has some text in Arabic, perhaps accounts.
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Tamīm, al-qāḍī ṣāḥib al-dīwān, Abū Zikrī, and the king. Needs further examination
Letter (fragment) containing greetings and copious praises for Shemuʾel Rosh ha-Seder. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Account. Computation of sums handled by a Parnas, ca. 1151. An anonymous parnas apparently farmed out the revenue of a certain section of the estates …
Bottom of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. On verso, torn and reused for a miniature receipt. Needs examination.
Letter from Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Judaeo-Arabic. The whole letter is preserved, but the text is extremely faded. In one of the …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Elazar ha-Kohen expressing sympathy at the death of his father. The writer notes that he had already sent a …
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1395 Seleucid, which is 9 May 1084 CE. Husband: Kathīr b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Mawʿā bt. Moshe. …
Release in the name of Banāt bt. Ezra for the sons of her sister, Ṭayyib and Wuhayb. Dated: 4890 AM = 1129/30 CE. Location: Alexandria …
Letter from Yosef b. Khalfa from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. Regarding a large deal of pearls, which the writer has a …
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Legal deed. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Elul 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi (the famous kabbalist) sells 8 1/3 …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning items such as a medicinal syrup, wax, and a mastic. Verso: List in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly in the hand of …
Letter from ʿAllān b. Yaḥyā, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. According to Gil, the handwriting is that …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ליג כלון מן שבט כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא
באחסן כאתמה…
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State document, in Arabic script. Mentions an iqṭāʿ and kharāj. Dating: most likely Ayyubid due to the mention of "ṭawāshī", most probably meaning a military …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening greetings are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Small scrap with a few words in Hebrew script.
Legal testimony in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ramaḍān 545 AH, which is 25 December 1150 CE. "Lammā ḥaḍara ilā majlis ḥ[ukm X]..." Needs examination for …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Apparently nearly complete, with only the first few lines missing. Dated: Wednesday, [..] Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 …
Verso (original use): Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 495 AH = 1101/02 CE. Recto (reuses): Documents or drafts in Arabic script. One is …
Amulet for Ḥalfōn b. Ghāliya desiring the effect that his wife Sitt al-Ahl Hilāla bt. Malīḥa should keep her love for him. Also that he …
Small fragment of an official letter in Arabic: "aṣdara al-mamlūk khid[matahu]...." Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Ladino from a family member to Avraham Shalom: "... Know as it pleases you that Esther married. May you marry your sons with …
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of various food items and their respective quantity or weight. The accounts feature both Western Arabic and some Coptic-Zimam numerals, the latter …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top right and top left belong to a similar work. Bottom left is …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.. Each page (recto and verso) begins with a ḥamdala followed by the day of the week.