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Legal document, minute fragment. Dark (presumably burned) and nearly illegible. Includes the phrase "אם חס ושלום" and mentions Sicily or Palermo (אלסקליה). AA. ASE.
No Scholarship Records
A damaged fragment. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Approximately 4 lines are preserved. Wide space between lines. Very faded, and it is difficult to read more than …
Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. The writer urges the addressee to come back …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (lower left piece). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David. Also signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. The location, …
From a book of formulas of letters. Compare with T-S J3.3
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Memorial list. Mentions: Elʿazar, his son Yosef; Elʿazar, his son Ṣedaqa (ha-)Rofeʾ; a woman named Barijyya; Saʿadya; Shelomo; Yosef.
Note in which the writer apologises to the parnas for acting without consulting him. The parnas had promised to come immediately but instead Salāma came. …
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Karaite Ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Nahum Halevi b. Aharon. The deflowered bride is Esther Dona d. Elya Halevi.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions people such as Jamāl al-Dīn and Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī. Mentions commodities such as pepper, lac, and sumac.
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
Letter fragment from a group of Byzantine Jewish captives being held for ransom in Egypt (probably Alexandria), to the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew. …
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Fragment of a late court record regarding partnership between 3 partners: Avraham Almosnino (sp. Almoslino?), Netanel Rozo and Yosef Barukh. Possibly a partnership document of …
Tiny fragment of a document in Arabic script with a date preserved: Dhū l-Qaʿda 671 AH
Letter of gratitude. In Arabic script. Full of expressions of patronage and no specific details. The sender's name may be Zayn and the addressee's name …
Family letter in Hebrew. May be in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. The writer sends wishes for the recovery of a woman in …
A Karaite marriage contract (ketubba) between Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef and Karīma bt. Avraham, whose father is also her legal representative. Karīma was perhaps a Rabbanite, …
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Piyyut or other Hebrew literary text; on the other side the names Manṣūr and Yeshaʿya the sons of ʿAmram. Likely an ownership note, less likely …
Late letter in Hebrew.
A poem in honor of somebody important, perhaps a groom, since verso also contains (in the same hand) blessings for the bride. In the hand …
Accounts in Arabic script. Substantial sums (10, 15, 25 dinars) expressed in word. Some names. ابو عبد الله (lower right) may have bought a book.
Coptic mathematical table. Does not join with T-S Ar.39.380 (PGPID 20917) — pages are different sizes — but the genre is the same. MR 9/30/26
Strongly worded circular letter sent by Moses Maimonides (ca. 1168–1204 CE in Egypt) to the country-side community, soliciting them to contribute to the ransom of …
Court notebook. #1 (fol. 1r): Goitein summarizes the case as follows: Fāʾiza bt. Shelomo b. Netanel (aka Kathīr) was about to be divorced by Barhūn …
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Medical prescription in Arabic script. Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6). Diet: chicken. Recto is blank.
Poem. A Hebrew lament for a prominent dead person. It seems like a blank space was left empty in the middle where the name would …
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
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Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two names "al-Adab al-madhkura bt...." and "... b. Abī l-Ḥūsayn al-madhkūr". Contains a fragmentary date [X]25. Acknowledgement clause in …
Document in Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved, and it is not clear they all belong to the same original document. Includes phrases …
Letter of appeal from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef to an unknown addressee. The first 2/3 consists of rhymed Hebrew praises for the addressee. In the body …
Bifolio from a Coptic manuscript, probably liturgical. Pending identification.
Writing exercises in Arabic on recto and verso. The recto is dated 2 November (نوڤمبر) 1856 CE and the verso, 3 November 1856 CE. It …
Letter from Umm ʿAzīza to a certain Natan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century. Discusses family news, neglect, and various other things. Nearly completely preserved. …
Probably a partnership agreement, less likely a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Mentions the names Shaʾul Ibn al-Najera and his son Yosef b. Shaʾul, …
Part of an official/communal letter. Opens with blessings in Hebrew, then changes to Judaeo-Arabic for the body. Moderately wide spaces between the lines. It begins …
Ladino literary work.
Report or petition draft, but most like the a report due to the verb "فاعلمته" (I inform) followed by the raʾyy clause.
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. X b. al-Simsār (son of the broker), in Fustat, from his son. 'Aodeh's transcription is available …
Series of (copies of) letters sent from Hebron to Egypt, mainly asking for financial assistance. First half of the 17th century. Information from FGP.
Popular love poetry in Arabic script. ...سحر بابل... الظبي الاحور من الكوثر... قد سباني وسبا الاخوان. Some of the same stock images as appear in …
The recto begins with citations from 2 Kings 23:30 and 24:6, noting the deaths of the kings of Judah, Josiah and Jehoiakim. This is followed …
List- needs examination. No image
State document, in Arabic script. Decree of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to the monks of Sinai in response to their petition.
Accounts in Arabic script. Several names are mentioned. Dating: Mentions the end of Ramadān 556 AH = 1161 CE.