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Brief list of names on recto, perhaps part of document. Medieval-era. The verso has a minute fragment of Arabic text along the upper border.
No Scholarship Records
Credit instrument (?). Needs examination.
List recording distribution or, equally if not more likely, contributions of wheat (as in T-S AS 145.21, 'thabat qamḥ al-[ʿaniyyim]'). See also ENA NS 77.94.
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Nearly complete letter in Arabic, written by a Muslim scribe (concludes with a ṣalwala - prayers for the prophet Muhammad), sent to somebody close to …
Recto: The end of a legal document dated February 1821 CE (middle of Adar I 5581), Cairo, scribed and signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Verso: Accounts …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There …
Massive sheet of accounts in Arabic script. Two pages are stitched together. Merits examination.
Verso: Accounts or calculations in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. The paper was reused on the recto for piyyuṭ.
Drawings of grids that were filled with individual dots that together comprise geometric shapes. The designs may be a simple doodle or perhaps a weaver …
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The writer seems to …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (a.k.a. ʿIwāḍ) b. Ḥananel, Fustat. Abū l-Khayr became ill following ʿIwāḍ's departure, and his mother …
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Colophon of a piyyuṭ. The scribe is Yefet b. Shelomo ha-Levi. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recipe in Arabic script. "Take the black myrtle and take the chard, and tear apart... take salt, a half measure..."
Letter draft(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. From someone in Sammanud who is in need and usually earns enough not to have to ask ('uncover his face'). Dating: …
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Literary document, in Arabic script, folio from the Quran. The preserved text is from Sūra al-Shuʿarāʾ (26:216-227) to Sūra al-Naml (27:1-9).
Fragment of a letter to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), likely from one of the Geonim of Palestine, possibly sent in the name of …
Fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions transactions in flour; someone called Sammān; a trip to Sicily; kamala (qinbīl); and belts (zanānīr). There …
Recto: Likely a distribution list for communal funds. Entries include: al-ḥazzan; al-shammash; al-munaqqī(?); Menashshe; the house (bayt) of Yeshuʿa; Ibn al-Ḥazzan; Bū l-Faḍl Shomer; the …
Commercial letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions boats and Rashīd. Regards to Abū l-Faraj. Needs further examination.
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part …
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Verso (original use): Two lines of a state document: . . . من استخراج . . . منه الا ما هو على الحضور(؟) والتماس(؟) . …
List of donations collected on various Shabbatot probably. Judaeo-Arabic, late hand.
Bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions goods such as flax and names such as Ibn al-Muʿallim and אלספטי.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century. Needs examination for content.
Official report, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on …
Short note in dreadful handwriting in which the writer orders some wine, because he has just had blood let (wa-qad ukhrijtu l-dam). The name Avraham …
Letter/report in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a formal layout, with slightly widened space between the lines. This is the lower left corner of what must have …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions 5 arṭāl; pepper; Abū ʿAlī; and al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs. Recto: Unidentified, maybe piyyuṭ.
Scribal exercises, including signature practice of the scribe's own name Moshe ʿAmram. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Part of …
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the dated …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furāt ha-Kohen. Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) and the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram …
Court register. Record of a dowry assessment (taqwīm). Groom: Yefet b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Qawāma bt. Shabbat. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
A letter testifies that the marriage payment was returned to the bride's family and she is now permitted to marry another and the divorce is …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b. Dāʾūd b. Zablān, probably in Fustat. …
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Badly damaged letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the Nasi (?).
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Literary text. Needs examination.
Recto: Claim on money (one dinar), though other property is also mentioned, and an acknowledgement of debt. The document has witness signatures in a different …
Legal document. Deed of acknowledgment dated 449/1058. Ṣadaqa b. Ṭayyib al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī receives from Ḥasan b. Ishaq al-Isrāʾīlī al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī a loan of 150 dirhams. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone.
Ṣadaqa ibn Ṭayyib al-Ramlī, the maker of waistcloths, who is a youn…
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Legal document, probably a draft as it appears incomplete at the bottom. Consisting mainly of an inventory of goods and their values, likely for an …
Two receipts for payment of kharāj in grain (qamḥ)and beans (fūl) on one sheet of paper from 535/1140–41 (date works well with return to collection …
Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very deferential. The addressee is asked to send the price of the basket of costus to New Cairo, to the shop of …
A court record written and signed by Avraham b. Nathan Av, at the year 1420 Era of documents (= 1109) regarding a quarrel over a …
Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses at length a family in distress on account of poverty and the capitation tax; the specific details are not …
Recto: The ends of two lines from an official letter (report or petition). Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
On verso there is a fragment of a list written in some kind of shorthand. On recto there is a Judaeo-Arabic text on linguistics.
Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …
Legal document. Copy (nuskha) in Hebrew script of an Arabic-script acknowledgement regarding a sale of a store in Tiberias. Dated: middle decade of Shawwāl 425 …