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Recto: Letter, written on red paper by Daniel b. Azarya's assistant (According to Goitein). Verso: Draft of poetry, with a citation from Psalms 33:11. VMR
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Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1462 Seleucid = 1150/51 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Bride: Turfa …
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda in a time of distress, approximately 1030.
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Some sort of legal or state receipt, maybe after a sale. Needs examination.
A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more …
Legal deed concerning an enslaved woman, who is probably sold (mentions the figure 1[.].5 dinars). Mentions people including a woman named Sitt al-Nās, Mevasser b. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) mentioning trade in Yemen and the government. Mentions Maḥfūẓ and Ḥasana. Probably a …
Letter/petition from Asher, Yisachar, and Dan, three Jewish converts in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 13th century and probably later. They express their …
Official-looking account reporting revenue.
Possibly from Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. (Information from CUDL)
Literary text, fragmentary, probably medical, in Arabic script. Mentions spleen "tiḥāl".
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Barakāt b. Ziz al-Tujjār and Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe ha-Kohen addressed to R. Avraham (possibly Avraham Maimonides). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts?. Late 18th or early 19th century based on the names mentioned and the …
On recto fragment from a late letter mentioning Shmuel Bahalul contains blessings. Verso unrelated to recto, written by a different hand, regarding the Book of …
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 304 Kāmilī dirhams. See …
Letter in Arabic script. Two lines. Refers to recovery from an illness.
Legal document. Tiny fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active c.1181–1209).
IB V, 37, folio 2. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl …
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Certificate of manumission of a slave, dated 591H. (?) [1194-5]. [Described on a separate small piece of paper as: "letter from a noble man asking …
Partnership agreement dated Sivan 1735 CE (5495 AM), to last for eight years, it seems for a business venture dealing in etrogim. The six partners …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Persian.
Bill of release. Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one …
Recto: Order from al-Shaykh al-Makīn of endive seed (bizr hindibāʾ), purslane seed (bizr rijla), unripe dates (busr), and sugar. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
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Likely a fiscal document. In Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew blessings on recto.
Legal document written in Damietta Tishrei 1448 (late September 1136) and validated in Fustat in the court of the synagogue of the Palestinians, under the …
Table of contents of a responsa collection
Prayer in Arabic script. Probably Islamic. Quite elaborate. Rudimentary handwriting.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. 6 lines preserved from the middle. The sender says things are going well and mentions something about a yellow 'ḥujra' …
Letter from a mother to her daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The mother expresses her longing and the fire in her heart, sends regards to Umm Khalaf …
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script, describing a mystical ascent. Reads approximately as follows: ". . . he will arise from his filth and become …
Letter of appeal for charity. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, in a crude hand. (Information from CUDL.)
Petition, or official-looking letter. In Arabic script. Fragments of four lines are preserved. Mentions "the place... the slave has been there for several years... the …
List of names (al-Shofeṭ; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal; Abū Kathīr al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Barādī(?); Salāma al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū Ṭāhir al-T[...]; Abū l-ʿAlā al-Ṣaydalānī; Ḥasan al-Tājir; Ibn Rashīd; Abū …
Verso: unidentified jottings in Arabic script, likely with Greek/Coptic numerals. The notations include long diagonal slashes of unknown significance. Recto: grammatical text on the notion …
Typical letter formula "وادام تاييدك", in an elegant hand, most likely a draft or writing exercise. Pen trials can be seen interspersed between the two …
Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly state/fiscal. Needs examination.
Ownership note in a liturgical book. "The property of the dear boy ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Karīm (ZL) b. Yūsuf (ZL) known …
Bifolio containing an index of piyyuṭim in boxes on three of the four pages. One of the boxes also contains the name Avraham Abū l-Khayr …
Account for flax. Late?
Fragment of a legal document (upper left corner). Dated: Av 1400 Seleucid = July 1089 CE. Mevorakh b. Yosef makes an acknowledgment. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter from Mūsā b. Dāwūd / Moshe b. David al-Levi al-Miṣrī to Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabrā. In Arabic script, with the address in …
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Letter fragment (bottom part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably c.1100, since Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī appears in Halper 466 and T-S K15.106. Gives various business instructions. …
State document(s). The main text on recto includes a name (Muḥammad... ʿAbdallāh...) and many fancy titles (sulṭān... al-imām... sanāʾ al-mulk.. fakhr... naṣr al-mamlaka... al-faḍāʾil sayyid...). …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, in which the writer states that an amount of money sent by Nahray was …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
תקאדם כתאבי למולאי ארגו וצולה אליה ואנא מהניא למולאי בהאדא
אלצום אלמבארך תכתב בספר ח…
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maḥfūz b. Eliyya. Dated: 52[.] AH.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1406 Seleucid, which is 1094/95 CE. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. …
List of commercial goods. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …