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State document, in Arabic script. A late Fatimid report The verso is probably annotations or reply to the report mentioning the caliphal ʿalāma: al-ʿalāma al-sharīfa …
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Fragmentary letter to a friend mentioning repeatedly the writer's gratitude. The hand resembles that of the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, supported by his mention of his …
Brief note in Arabic script instructing the addressee to help the bearer.
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The Judaeo-Arabic portion on recto is a love spell (באב עטף) invoking a female supernatural entity (יא עספה(?) בנת כטוף בנת ברק וכטוף אעטפי קלב …
Siddur Saadya Gaon
From a collection of poetic works by Abraham ibn Ezra, including a mi kamoḵa אל בפלא אשורנו בלבי, with a rubric ולה גירה and numbered …
A letter to Shmuel b. Aharon
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter, faded, in eloquent Hebrew. Mentions "my brother R. Ḥalfon" arriving in the city and bad news that struck the writer to his very core, …
Recto: Formulary for a bill of divorce (get). In Hebrew and Aramaic. Upper margin and verso: several lines of Arabic script. The verso reads, "Yashūʿā …
Bottom part of a ketubah. No further details. AA
Bottom two lines of an Arabic document. Might be a state document. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, then "Allāhu ḥasbī wa-tawakkaltu ʿalayhi." …
A love spell/amulet for {Ḥayyim the son of ʿAzīza} and {Senyora the daughter of {Ashkenaz and {Sara the daughter of {Senyora and {Ḥayyim the son …
Letter or petition from a group of people in Fustat. Headed by a biblical verse, then the rest is in Judaeo-Arabic. "We the undersigned of …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (vertical strip from the middle). Dating: Likely 11th century. The sender is in Jerusalem ([min al-musta]qarr bi-l-Quds ʿamarahu Allāh). Mentions …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One column is headed "kharāj" (therefore fiscal in nature?). The accounts with numerals at 180 degrees may …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Large numbers -- some are in the thousands.
Letter fragment. The flowery Hebrew introduction for an important addressee is preserved.
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1058. The person it was written to is unknown. Regarding payments and money tranfers. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment from the beginning of a legal document in Arabic script. Involves [...] b. Muqābil(?) and Manṣūr b. Thābit al-Qazzāz.
Fragment from a bill of divorce (get).
Hebrew instructions for producing silver and gold, followed by Hebrew writing exercises in a different hand. At the bottom of recto there is a draft …
State document in Arabic script. Two lines, huge space between them. ...ḥukmahu wa-qālat lahu mā shi'ta... Reused for piyyutim.
Small fragment in Arabic. Reused for a faded Hebrew text. Might be related to T-S NS 317.36c (PGPID 41898) but too little is preserved to …
Recto: Probably an astronomical table with text in red and blank ink. The readable words are "al-layālī", "al-tawqīʿāt", "mutawassiṭ" and "mutawassiṭ radī." Verso: an elegant …
Responsum concerning orphans, describing a loan from orphans that is taken orally without an oath, and a statement that orphans who are in debt because …
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Too small to be identified. Could be from a legal responsa or halakhic discussion
Arabic poetry, probably.
Letter, probably, fragment. "yusāfir minhum" and then "al-mamlūk". Needs examination.
Letter from Yosef b. Peraḥya to an unidentified addressee or addressees (the address is too faded to read). Possibly addressed to a group of pietists. …
Poem of praise, or example of a poetic opening to a letter addressed to a community. Excerpts: בשורו בן בליעל . . . חשבו צר …
List of pledges arranged in two sections, separated by a blank space. Thirteen donations are in the first group and ten in the second; two …
On verso list of names, might be from a memorial list. Very faded and most of the names are only partial: Sar Shalom; Yosef b. …
Verso: lists and accounts in Arabic script; with Coptic numerals. One of the lists is materia medica, e.g., chebulic myrobalan (kābulī), sarcocolla (ʿanzarut), barberry (barbārīs), …
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Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Yiṣḥaq al-Baṭalyawsī (=of Badajoz) al-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Shemuel, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1065 CE. Ismāʿīl asks …
In a short note, a letter brought by Tiqva b. 'Amram from Farah b. 'Ayyash is presented to the court in Cairo. The letter was …
Account for Nisan and Iyyar 1493 sel. ca. 1182. This account deals with another part of the qodesh estates and the names of the 12 …
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Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1806 Seleucid = 10 June 1495 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar Bek leaves some of her …
הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה ח…
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Petition, or at least a formal-looking letter, in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner).
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr M[...] b. Saʿīd. In Arabic script. Mentions children being healthy. Quite faded. Needs examination.
Marriage contract from Tyre, dated Tuesday, 19 Av, fifth year the sabbatical cycle (ca. 1054). Somebody with a nisba from the town of 'Ibillin is …
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Halakhic commentary. On recto commercial (or astronomical) note in Arabic.
Small fragment from the bottom of an unidentified Arabic document. Letter?
Booklet made of parchment, containing a calendar for the maḥzors 256 and 257, each year written on a separate little scrap. Beginning with 1095 CE. …
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
Small fragment from a letter. Besides the usual blessings, the writer inform that he arrived to Cairo
Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his …
IB III, 21. Two accounts of Ibn Yiju written in Aden c. 1140–45 about transactions with the nakhūdā Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Katāʾib,. This is …
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