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Verso (original use): Seems to be a legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. May involve Pinḥas: ועוד אמר פנחס דנן דעו רבותי וחיי . . …
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Recto: Letter from Hayya Gaʾon to Neḥemya b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1348 Seleucid, which is March/April 1037 CE. Neḥemya had had a fight …
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Small fragment containing Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic literary text.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a variety of names, many of which may bear signs of Greek linguistic influence on ENA 3735.10. Early modern dating based …
Legal deed. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tishrei, year missing. Perhaps during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya, …
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Court record. In Hebrew. Location: Crete (Candia). Dated: Monday, 1 Tevet 5275 AM = 19 December 1514 CE. Certifying that the bearer of this document, …
Brief letter ("ruqʿa") from Ibrāhīm to Abū l-{A}frāḥ Yūsuf (probably ʿArūs b. Yosef). In Arabic script. There does not seem to be much substance to …
Receipt or order of payment to al-shaykh Abū al-someone and al-shaykh Abū Naṣr, dated Friday night (laylat al-jumʿa) 19 Ramaḍān 509 (5 February 1116).
Receipt for the capitation tax of Musāfir b. Yūsuf in Fustat for the year 509. Dated: 2 (or 6?) Dhū l-Ḥijja 509 AH = April …
Minute fragment from a ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Ethical will ("yā bunayy..."). Mentions in one place the wiles of women. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning a broker (simsār) and various sums of money.
Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr; Ibn Qayyūma; Ibn al-Fakhkhār. Mentions commodities such as flax, brazilwood, cinnamon, and pepper. Also mentions חאמס = ḥamas = …
Literary
Fragment of a letter, comprising the upper left corner. Medieval-era. The recipient is addressed in line 1 as "mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl." Requires further examination. MCD.
State document, in Arabic script. Dating: Looks late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Might begin with the word "qabaḍa" and might mention an iqṭāʿ. Contains an ʿalāma: al-ḥamdu …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Small fragment of a petition/letter of appeal for help. In Arabic script. There is a wide space between lines 2 and 3 presumably for the …
Accounts.
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Geographical text, referring to India.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Statement in Judaeo-Arabic that a list of two, apparently newly acquired books should be "recorded on a memorandum (tunqal ilā tadhkira)" and brought to …
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Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1505 Seleucid (= 1193/94 CE), under the …
Document in Arabic script, likely a letter. Reused by the same Hebrew scribe who reused T-S NS 111.63. Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva, probably Fusṭāṭ, to the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Damsīs. Much of the letter has to do with Avraham …
See PGPID 15902
Probably a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Narrow strip torn from the signature section of a large legal document. Witnesses include *[Yefet?] ha-Ḥazan b. David ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Menashshe; *Avraham b. David; …
Announcement from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo on the reception of certain individuals that are returning in accordance with law that everyone be brothers to …
Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
List of payments or accounts in which the heading labels the document as a "חסבת" or conceivably a "חסבה/حسبة" if we disconnect the word from …
Fragment from a late legal deed dealing with support for orphans. It was agreed that the shop belong to the deceased will be mortgaged for …
Minute fragment of legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions the phrase אלמדכורה בעד הדא; the year 1440 Seleucid = 1128/20 …
Last lines of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the wife of Shemuel, a poor woman from al-Maḥalla, addressed to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. She asks for assistance for herself and for her …
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Fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be a biblical concordance and dictionary.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a dignitary (ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad). Conveying gratitude for something and apologizing for burdening the addressee with a favor. Most of the …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
List of books, mostly rabbinical, mentioning talmudic tractates and several midrashim. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Yūd ʿImrān on Bīr al-Ḥā'it, Yemen. Dated: 4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid = 7 April 1840 CE. Groom: Hārūn b. Sālim al-Thalā'ī(?). …
Legal document concerning the long dispute between Avraham b. Shemual al-Andalusi and the gaurdians who executed the will of his father - Yosef b. Binyamin …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning at least two Ottoman military officers with title Ağa on the recto of the larger fragment. The dating is likely 16th- …
Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid, which is January 1185 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
Accounts. Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions several names, including someone from Damanhūr. There may also be a few lines of Arabic poetry.
Hebrew poetry, late.