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Letter draft from an anonymous shaliaḥ, in Fustat/Cairo, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 22 Raḥamim, 5595 AM, which is 1835 …
כתיב יום ב׳ כ״ב לחודש | [ר]חמים שנת התקצה לפ״ק
ראשית דברי בקידה ובהש|תחויה למאור הגדול מורינו ורבינו ועטרת ראשנו הרב
הגדול מעוז ומגדול …
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Verso: Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Reporting on the fulfillment of the orders of the Gaon. The witnesses …
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Title verso and first page of an astronomical treatise entitled "Risāla kura dhāt l-kursī mukhtaṣara" in a beautiful book hand. Needs examination for identifying the …
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Petition addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). From Maḥmūd b. Mamdūd who describes himself as a warrior in the path of God (al-mujāhid fī sabīl Allāh). …
Possibly a promissory note or order of payment or similar document. Stating the amount owed to Abū ʿAlī.
Recto (secondary use): Court record written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (1125–50). Wherein it is stipulated that a husband who travels to the …
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Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a 'brother.' The sender has recently traveled from Damascus to Cairo (ll. 5–6 where he describes the journey and …
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Yehuda b. Menashshe, in Fustat. Dating: May 12, 1069. Regarding shipments of gold and exchange of dinars …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה
מן אסכנדריה ליח כלאת מן איאר כתמה <אללה> עליך באחסן כאתמה וערפך ברכת …
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IB VII, 59. Memorandum (tadhkira) for a trader named Mufliḥ b. Binyamin Ibn Ahwāzī. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which he orders a scarf (radda) with his …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …
Minute fragment in Hebrew script on the recto and Arabic script on the verso. The recto may be the first line of a letter with …
Fragment of a will. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). "No wailing women; and of garments in which I shall be …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Very rudimentary hand (probably known from other fragments). Each page is headed with someone's name, e.g., Barakāt, al-Shaykh Dāʾūd, …
Small fragment of a list or letter. Mentions Fadāʾil; the Nagid (הדרת הנגידות); the neighbor of Rabbi Natan; and "let it be fast." On verso …
Translation of Numbers 1–3 (somewhat jumbled up) into Arabic, in Arabic script. Mostly a translation, presumably Karaite, with occasional transliterations at the beginnings of verses.
Deed regarding the endowment of two houses in Fusṭāṭ as a pious foundation: ‘the little house’ and ‘the cattle house’. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God [alone … ]
This is what [ … ] bestowed and granted as a pious foundation …
Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dealing with business matters. Contains some interesting phrases, maybe regarding a …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions names of people, sums of money and dates.
Letter in Arabic script, giving instructions about paying sums of money. Also mentions a jūkaniyya (a type of garment). On verso in Judaeo-Arabic: "al-dayyān." Excerpts: …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic, probably of a grocer. Mentions items including sesame oil, hazelnut, sugar, bread, cheese, rice, sumac, ʿaqīd of …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Containing references to a sum of 10 dinars, a qāḍī (judge), the feast of Purim, and …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances, of Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated …
Legal record (#123) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 28 Sivan 5329 …
Recto: Upper part of a letter addressed to the Nasi Amaṣyahu Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder? The addressee is known …
Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, specifying conditions for the marriage. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic script. Several names are mentioned. Dating: Mentions the end of Ramadān 556 AH = 1161 CE.
Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL). No details about the content of the qinyan survive.
Small fragment of a letter, probably from a Moshe, a newcomer to 'this land', probably appealing for charity. Refers to the yeshiva (al-mathība) or head …
Order of payment for an unnamed individual referred to by the title “al-Dayyān” and containing the expression “May my Master the judge, may God grant …
Official receipt of some sort for a Jewish woman named Saʿāda for a payment of 1/2 dinar. Landscape format. Dated 608(?) AH. Merits further examination.
One line from the opening of a letter, likely a writing exercise. Dating: late 18th or 19th century. Addressed to "my dear father the khwājā …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: probably 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography and coinage mentioned. Concerning a certain Shemuel; an enslaved woman (שפחה), a …
An account in Judaeo-Arabic with many abbreviations related to amounts of medieval currency such as nis[f] din[ar].
Letter from a certain Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary script and spelling. The letter may describe the violent disciplining of a girl, and the writer says …
Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿaqov to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Yefet (aka Hibatallāh b. Ḥusayn and Netanʾel b. Yefet). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1090s CE. …
Two fragments of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, 11th or 12th century. Unclear how much of the content is salvageable.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto, one of the entries mentions iron. The scribal hand is difficult to place chronologically, perhaps late medieval or 16th-17th-century. Requires …
Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sale.
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. On verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Poem on the occasion of a marriage, followed by a letter from Shelah b. Nahoum, probably from Tyre, to Abu al-Khair Efrayim ca. 1085, which …
There are several unrelated fragments sharing this shelfmark, of which the only documentary one is fol. 5. Fol. 5v: Legal document written by Mevorakh b. …
Receipt for payment of the rental on the river floodland in the amount of 1926 qirsh – 15 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art …
Multifragment shelfmark with at least one printed text visible on the verso. Possibly a piece of cardboard that once comprised the outer cover of a …