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Letter from Yitzhak ben Avraham (data from FGP by Abraham David)
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a late letter in Hebrew. Line 15 mentions a dīwān.
Documentary per FGP - needs examination. No image yet.
Letter from ʿImrān to Abū l-Ḥasan. After a deferential opening there is a sharp warning to send the silver quickly with ʿUthmān and not to …
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Letter from Matitya Ashkenazi, in Rashīd, to his son Asher, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. The sender reports on …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration mark - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh l-mutqin li-mā (badaʿ?)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. May be related to flax (l. 1)
Letter in Ladino sent from Salonica to Yaʿaqov Hanoko (? חאנוקו) possibly in Monastir (modern-day Bitola, North Macedonia) where there was a large Ladino-speaking community …
Minute fragment. Only few words with no context
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Letter from somebody in Qūṣ to a family member named Ibrāhīm b. Wāfī, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. The beginning is missing. The …
Letter from a certain Esther to her son. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 16th century. Regards to and from various people, including Doña Miryam. Mentions wine …
Late legal or official document. In Arabic script. Dated: Apparently 15 January (يناير) [18]84 CE. Refers to the railroad (ṭarīq al-sikkat al-ḥadīd). Signed by Shamʿūn …
Letter to Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the mother of someone... something to be purchased for the writer... three capitation tax payments... taking the receipts... someone …
Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Isḥāq b. al-Zayyāt to the family of Abū l-Khayr b. Isḥāq b. al-Zayyāt (presumably his brother). It mainly has to do …
Legal formularies (from the section dealing with marriage and divorce). On vellum.
Legal document. Location: Ṣahrajt. Dated: Monday, 11 Kislev 1372 Seleucid, which is 1060 CE. Ḥarīza b. Abraham appoints Mevorakh b. Abraham (most likely her brother) …
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Legal deed in Hebrew detailing a sarraflık partnership involving members in Cairo and Rashīd. Dated: Shevat 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. The shared purse …
Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
Monetary agreement between a newly married couple. Yehuda b. Simha married Sarah d. Elzafan, and her father took upon himself to pay her dowry in …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. The writer is giving advice that "perhaps will save you and help you in . . . salvation if God …
Judaeo-Arabic commentary on the Mishneh Torah. ASE.
Receipt.
Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Three lines of verses/blessings, then "I inform sayyidnā. . ."
Literary text and pen trials.
Tax receipt, Fatimid for the sum of one-quarter dīnār (rubʿ)? Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Recto: calligraphic text in Hebrew, with blessings to a group of people. Letter? Verso: short note in Arabic. Accounts? The word "dinar" and the number …
Verso: Megillat Miṣrayim
Lower section of a late letter in Hebrew to Shelomo [..] regarding a man named Yaʿaqov Naḥman b. Shemuel and a woman named [...] bt. …
Letter draft. In Hebrew. Abandoned after the introduction. Addressed to Aharon (identified by Scheiber as Aharon b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-ʿAmmānī) and conveying blessings to his …
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Attestation of the court of the Babylonian community in Fustat bearing the signature of Sahlan [b. Avraham] and dated 1355/1044.
Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq to a partner. Business letter discussing payments and shipments, apparently of flax and textiles. Dated ca. 1050. (Information from Gil, …
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IB IV, 60 (ח70). Letter from Yeḥezqel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon in Alexandria. Dated/dating: Iyar 1140. Yeḥezqel complains rather winningly and at …
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Verso (original use): Account in Arabic script. Unclear if state or private. Mentions ʿAṭiyya b. Manṣūr, Ḥajjāj, and Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Ladino. Possibly a neater version of the same hand as T-S AS 219.19 + T-S AS 153.80.
Bill from the naval armed forces – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 148) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Family letter, addressed to a brother, in Arabic script. Mentioning small business matters. Needs further examination.
Halakhic discussion concerning the laws of debts. In Hebrew. Information from CUDL.
Letter from Avraham b. Madlūb(?) al-Maqdisī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr, in the square of the perfumers, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with very rudimentary …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary. Beginning of a Qaraite treatise on the aviv (observation of the barley crop) and intercalation. By Yehuda Meir Rofe. Explains the difference between the …
Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script.
A magical recipe with a drawing, entitled מצדת שפטים. Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Deuteronomy 3:21-24 on f. 1v. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from the cantor Elazar ha-Hazzan b. Avraham to Mevorakh b. Saadya, before he became Nagid (thus, before 1078). Informing that three pieces of copper, …
List of luxury textiles/garments and some household goods along with values; some are crossed out. Either business accounts or part of a dowry list.
Letter from the yeshiva to Eli ha-Parnas b. Hayyim, Fustat, approximately 1065.