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Accounts related to the operation of a "press" (אלמעצרה) of some kind, possibly for sesame seeds given the mention of ṭaḥīna in line 5. Dated …
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One line in Arabic script, reads as "المستنصر بالله صلوات الله عليه....".
Small fragment of a letter, with a partial address on recto. Probably from a sister to a brother (מן אכתוה). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter addressed to a certain Avraham b. [...] and mentioning [Abū] l-Faraj. Dating: Probably 13th century based on handwriting and typical terms (e.g. the title …
Letter in Arabic and Hebrew script dated 438 AH (1046/1047 CE). The opening politesse consists of many lines in Arabic script in a calligraphic chancery …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, perhaps begging for charity. Mentions necessity/want (al-ḍurūra) several times and concludes with, "I have no …
Marriage agreement between a Rabbanite husband and a Qaraite wife, with a 30 dinar fine to the poor if one transgresses the religious practices of …
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Verso (original use): Document in Arabic. Tax receipt? The word 'mablagh' appears a few times. There may be a year in l. 2. Needs examination. …
Recto: Document in Arabic script, probably a letter. Verso: Hebrew poetry.
Letter from ʿAyash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Aruond 1045. Mentions a disagreement with a person that was supposed to send ʿAyash …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך [
ליומין בקין מן שהר [ כתמה אללה עליך] ועלינא באימן כאתמה ואלחאל סלאמה […
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Small fragment, faded and damaged. Probably from a legal deed or letter. Only a few words are legible: פידפעהא ...אלרגוע אלי...
Court records. Location: Fustat. Dating: c.1082–94 CE, as the reshut clause of the second document invokes David b. Daniel [b. ʿAzarya]. The fragment includes the …
Late legal document in Hebrew having to do with a widow, the payment of a ketubba and other property arrangements. Needs further examination. ASE.
State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …
List of donations collected on various Shabbatot.
Accounts with a wide variety of names mentioned, possibly a communal list. Dating: 19th-century based on paleography and lined paper. The names of those mentioned …
Bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Moshe b. Nissim and Berakhot b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen. AA
Letter from Salāma b. Ibrāhīm (aka Shelomo b. Avraham) to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: end of 11th century. Only the opening and greetings …
כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך ונעמאך
ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך שדיד
קרב אללה אל…
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Recto: Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides. The cantor al-Shaykh al-Makīn is to give 20 dirhams out of the rent from the compound to the judge …
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Record of statement of release issued by the court of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 = 3 May 1227 CE. …
Verso (original use): Letter fragment, with very little context. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The last line indicates the announcement of something, "in …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The handwriting looks like that of Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); …
Contract of lease. In Arabic script. Involves Ismāʿīl b. Ḥasan b. al-Ḥāmī and his three sons, the 13-year-old Bū ʿAlī, the 12-year-old Ṭāhir, and the …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting. Reporting that something was eaten by the worms. In …
State document or letter in huge Arabic script. A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). On parchment. Involving the rent of an apartment (ṭabaqa). Parties are [...] b. …
Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The sender received the addressee's letter with concern about the whereabouts of Abū l-Ḥasan …
Sermon composed for the week of Parashat Bereshit or Simhat Torah. Dating: post-1825 CE. The verso references a collection of weekly sermons, Sefer Yoshev Ohalim, …
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably regarding dispute based on the reference to זקני יושר
Faded text in Hebrew, some sort of first-person narrative, likely literary.
State document or letter. In Arabic script. Four lines probably from the bottom of the document. Reused for jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. Needs examination.
minute fragment. Bottom part of a legal deed, only some signatures preserved: [...]she b. Hillel, [...]el b. Berakhot, Sjlomo b. Berakot (spell ברכת), Yefet b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM = 1821/22 CE. Headed: "The expenses (maṣrūf) of the Sephardic [congregation] מצות in Fustat/Cairo for …
Letter 2, of which only one folio is preserved, is a pro-Babylonian response to a Palestinian polemic on the calendar of 921/2 and on the …
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Recto: Informal note in Arabic script. "These are black ones (سودا) I have sent to my master.... increase or loss...." It is unclear what "black …
Document with a few lines of Arabic script on each side. Probably a fiscal account. Mentions 200 dinars on verso, and possibly a dīwān. Needs …
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a ketubba. The bride is a widow.
Letter from Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Judaeo-Arabic. The whole letter is preserved, but the text is extremely faded. In one of the …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. A record of a birth or circumcision? It mostly consists of a date, which is difficult to interpret due to not knowing …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal …
Court record concerning a gift of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1462 Seleucid = August/September 1151 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel …
(Part of an) Ismāʿīlī text on creed. The preserved text establishes the genealogy of Ismaʿīlī Imāms from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to al-Mustanṣir with their full names …
Poem, probably as part of a letter to the community of Damietta (כפתור) and the head of the community Perahya
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). Very faded. Mentions a shop and Abū l-Faḍl.
Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Probably a marriage or divorce contract. Some readable phrases are: "لا يعترض معترض فيها", and "قطع وفصل لا رجوع". Needs …
Order of payment issued by “your friend Abū l-Faraj" to the elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, instructing him to hand over 122 dirhams to the unnamed bearer. …