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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
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Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (early 13th century). Likely related to T-S AS 157.364 and T-S AS 157.365. …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Yiṣḥaq. Mentions a ṣayrafī (moneychanger/accountant) in the customs (duwān) at Būlāq. Mentions currency terms: fiḍḍa, ʿathāmina, fulūs.
Possibly an account or state document in Arabic script. Mentions [...] b. Manṣūr.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Bū l-Fakhr b. Bū l-Faraj, Barakāt, and ʿImrān.
State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …
Letter in Arabic to a certain Amīr [...] al-Dawla wa-[...]hā, perhaps reporting on business setbacks and the imposition of a new tax. The sender begins …
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Letter sent from Fustat by a father to his son, settling business accounts with him. The handwriting is that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), …
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Deed of sale, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describes the location of a property relative to the alley of the poor (zuqāq al-masākīn), the mosque, and the …
Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123/24 CE. None of the substance of …
Business accounts of a wealthy merchant, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ibn Naḥum, the large sum of 662 dinars, Ibn al-Iskandarānī, and something Tripolitan (Iṭrābulsiyya). Also …
List in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (VMR). Mainly or entirely materia medica: civet, chicory seed, palm ointment (marham nakhlī); olibanum, scammony, aromatic wood. Merits …
Verso: Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Avraham b. [...]. Bride; Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ (maybe the same as in T-S Misc.8.97 (PGPID 3922)). …
Legal discussion on the collection of the ketubah money - needs examination. Image not available
Two copies of a legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents: 1100–38). Draft. In which Abū l-Ḥusayn Moshe b. Shelomo …
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Fragment of an Arabic document.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Involving Bū l-Faḍl b. Hiba b. Faḍāʾil the Jewish banker (ṣayrafī).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fatimid tax receipt.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Consisting almost entirely of business accounts. The sender acknowledges receipt of a letter discussing a foreigner (? gharīb) and possibly a deposit. …
Recto: Accounts of a moneylender(?). In Arabic script. Dated: Thursday, 19 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1253 AH which is 1838 CE. In the right column, ʿĀʾisha bt. …
Account in Hebrew of the Ben Meir controversy. Calendrical discussion Description from PGPID 12023: Letter in Hebrew narrating the trouble caused by Ben Meir including …
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Jizya receipt, in Arabic script. Faḍāʾil b. Bū l-Faraj the Jew pays one dirham towards his capitation tax in Fusṭāṭ for the year 584 H.
Damaged fragment from a legal deed. AA
Legal document in Arabic script. On verso accounts in Arabic script and the draft of a beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably …
Business letter from Mūsā b. Dāwūd / Moshe b. David al-Levi al-Miṣrī to Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabrā. In Arabic script, with the address in …
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Literary work, manuscript, containing prayers and declarations that are salutary for a sick person to make on his deathbed, or for a healthy person during …
Invitation from the Jewish community of Maḥallah al-Kubra for a visit to the synagogue of "Ḥayyim al-Amshaṭī" – 5 April 1950 – Museum of Islamic …
Medical treatise. In Arabic script.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions the government and likely two partners and their previous contract. (Information in …
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed. On parchment. Only a few words and partial signatures preserved: Yaʿaqov, Nusayr, Yefet. Also possibly …
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …
Letter from a son to his father; same writer and addressee as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 and T-S 13J21.14. He reports that Abū Isḥāq …
Letter, probably addressed to a high state official, but could also be an excerpt from a literary text. The sender mentions an accommodation provided by …
Deuteronomy 28.
Verso: Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic about people fighting and/or playing. "Abū l-Munā and Barakāt were quarreling. . . Abū l-Faraj the dyer of red was playing …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a deed of lease. The lessor is a woman. The annual rent is 1 dinar.
Literary, Arabic script. Tale concerning Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jaʿfar ibn Barmak. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Recto: Fragment of a very polite letter in Arabic script.
P23: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a house, Avraham, and his mother.
..................................................] זקן ביר ......
] ממא יוסקט אלי אלדאר אלמדכורה ולא אדעא פיהא
]לאדה בעדה ומ…
Small fragment from a letter, mentioning 'the dyer'.
Short letter to 'the in-law' Yosef and 'the daughter Esther Yāqūta, also mentioning Khuḍayr,' in a crude hand and extremely colloquial language. Dating: ca. 15th-16th …
Note addressed to Manṣūr b. Thanāʾ al-[...]. In Arabic script. Mentions ʿIzz al-Dīn. Unclear what the request is.
Letter from the grandfather of an orphaned girl who is about to marry, to her other grandfather, reminding him of his financial obligations (50 dinars) …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1060
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Inventory of the possessions of Ibn al-Tawwazī. Listing 20 items adding up to nearly 9 dinars. Neatly written and well preserved.
Letter addressed to Abū Zikrī b. Eliyya ha-Dayyan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer addresses Abū Zikrī first (figuratively) as his 'father' and later as …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Ṣ[afar] 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.24. There are multiple …