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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Looks like it is dated 7[..] AH = 14th century CE.
No Scholarship Records
Astrological or astronomical text in Arabic. Describing various "degrees" (darajāt) and naming celestial entities such as Cancer and Saturn
Fragment of a late letter in Hebrew, likely ca. 16th century, mentioning sums in peraḥim.
Letter to Eliyyahu the judge, with jottings in the margin. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Record of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1125 CE. This document describes release from a partnership in …
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Letter in Arabic script. Opens with a poem about the joy of receiving a letter from a loved one. A different version of this poem …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
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Letter sent from Alexandria by Ibrahim b. Farah to Yehuda b. Musa b. Sighmar in Fustat, dealing with merchandise sent to Sicily, describing the itineraries …
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Recto: Deed of release, in which Mufarrij releases Yehuda b. Moshe ('beḥir ha-yeshiva'), likely Yehuda b. Moshe Ibn Sughmār. Verso: legal document concerning a complicated …
List of piyyutim, probably.
Calendar for the year 1430/31 CE, written in an interesting ink that has faded to pale silver; the page now looks blank at a glance, …
Recto may be a small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: ולא תגד . . . [ח]אצל ענדי . . . Verso looks like a …
Letter about the Mongol invasion. Mosul, December 1236.
In Your Name, Oh Merciful!.
Do not ask--my lord and master, the illustrious, noble benefactor
the doyen of the House of David and the S…
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Letter fragment addressed to the Gaon Shelomo (b. Yehuda?), or conceivably his son). In Hebrew. Only the beginnings of four lines from the beginning are …
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: Sunday 8th Adar II, 5548 AM (1788 CE). Location: Cairo. Avraham b. Nissīm b. Yaʿaqov aka Ḥīna is the groom, Badra …
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Legal query ("...yuftīna sayyidunā fī dhālika..."). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a woman who had to move with a man (presumably her husband), apparently against her will. …
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on the virtues of gems and magical spells to do with them and Arabic letters to inscribe on them, for …
Report or petition. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Fragment (upper right corner). wa-yuḥīṭu īlmahu l-sharīf... anna ahjābanā(?) bi-ḥukmihi(?) wāṣilīn... bi-daʿwa.... On verso …
A few words in Arabic script. Possibly a blessing and a jotting of an address of a letter? It refers to a woman named Sitt …
Fiscal accounting, possibly. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Excerpt of letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to the Ḥaver in Fustat, probably Eli b. Amram, ca. 1060.
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Small and much damaged mercantile account of items and weights, such pepper; some are crossed out. In Judaeo-Arabic. In a common hand previously misattributed to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The handwriting and the layout resemble those of Ḥalfon b. Netanel's Spanish correspondents (see India Book IV)—but none …
Prologue to a book, in Arabic script. Mentions the term 'ikhtilāj' (twitch).
Unidentified text in Arabic script in a book hand, possibly literary. Hebrew script on recto.
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state or private or communal. May refer to a qinṭār of glass and the phrase "maʿa al-mawjūd fī l-ḥamām(?)." …
Fragment from a 13th century ketuba. Verso is decorated. AA
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Small but rich with tantalizing details. The handwriting is reminiscent of some of the India Book letters. …
Personal letter for someone named Yosef Ḥirāz – (number 283) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue …
Fragment of a letter, mentioning 160 dinars and the phrase אדאם אללה עלוה twice. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: Legal document(s). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Sivan 5547 AM, which is 1787 CE. ʿIsqa agreement in the "negotiation/brokerage business" = עסק המשא ומתן (ll. …
Table giving the correspondences between Greek/Coptic numerals and letters of the Arabic alphabet (in the abjad order, considered as numerals). Verso contains recipes in Arabic.
Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …
Legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel, who also signed the validation (qiyyum). Dating: ca. 1145 CE (but it is not clear where …
Business letter addressed to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning business in sugar candy (qand). The sender is dispirited about the market …
time of the sugar........... This (is all) I (have to) tell you (about this matter). I
intend to send my candy and exhibit it in Cairo. As …
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Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Cursive and difficult to read. Several of the entries are circled. Verso is headed "Thursday, …
Fragment of a letter by Natan b. Avraham. 1354/1042.
Literary work mentioning commentators including Moshe ibn Jikatilla (גקטלה) and Ibn Balʿam.
Two folios from a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem. Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday 15 Tevet 5385 AM, which is 1624 CE. Witnesses: Masʿūd ʿAmram and Shelomo ʿAravit/ ʿAravib(?). They attest …
Family and business letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late and related to the Kurdistani material in the rest of the HUC collection. Needs examination. …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Farah b. Isma’il, Busir. Around 1053. Farah is in Busir, probably was sent there by Nahray, and …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) by a certain Futūḥ b. Aḥmad. Mentions the judge in whose presence the iqrār took place, another person by the name …
Calendar fragment from the year [5]404 AM (1643/1644 CE). Very well-rendered, on a grid drawn with a straight edge.
Bifolio of accounts.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Tripoli.