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State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
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Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Groom: Menaḥem b. Hillel. Bride: Sutūt bt. Shelomo. Dated: Tuesday (date …
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Verso: Accounts. Dated in the heading in the month of Tammuz with an alphanumerical year that is somewhat unclear, probably: Tammuz 5220 AM (ה׳ר׳כ׳). Based …
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Too little text remains to identify; possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment with the name Makārim b. Maʿālī, another incomplete name ([...] b. Shelomo), and mention of a monthly (payment?). probably from a sketch for …
Letter dated on Monday June 15 1953CE from a person to al-maʿallim "Nanafafa" expressing his happiness in sending him a letter informing him that he …
List of books compiled by Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli as part of the introduction to the commentary on Saʿadya Gaʾon’s Siddur. Mentions works and commentaries …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary. Recto: catena of verses from Psalms 119, quoting the first verse of each alphabetical acrostic (including Psalms 119:1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, …
Letter. Very faded. (Information from CUDL)
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1065. This account was written as a draft. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #298) VMR
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Possibly mentions ʿAbdallah b. Manṣūr in line 4 after the basmala in line 3. Requires further examination.
Accounts of a shopkeeper (bookseller?) in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 15th–18th century; this can likely be narrowed based on identifying the people mentioned. Names include Gedalya; …
Copies of letters to the community of Troki from the community of Lithuania.
Letter from Hayya Gaʾon (d. 1038), in Baghdad, to the brothers Avraham and Tanḥum b. Yaʿqov of Fez, in Fustat (possibly to be forwarded to …
Note, receipt or account? Tiny. Two different hands. Both hands use Coptic alphanumerals to express numbers.
Megillat Miṣrayim. This document's shelfmark used to be T-S NS 246.20.
Letter of recommendation from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) addressed to the congregation of 'Goshen' and surrounding villages, at their head the judge Shemuel. In …
List of names and numbers, perhaps a donations list. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Includes surnames such as Mosseri and ʿUraybi.
Reused for legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), which mention Sutūt the wife of Khalaf b. Qashqūsh; a real-estate …
Literary.
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Gaon concerning the difficulties she is having with the son of her late husband …
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Qaraite legal testimony (zikhron ʿedut) dated 20 Adar 5442 (=1682 CE), written and signed by Avraham ha-Rofe ben Ṣaʿīr, one of the messengers sent from …
Verso (original use): Possibly a fiscal account. Mentions various sums of money. At the bottom, the name Muḥammad b. Saʿīd appears. Reused by Efrayim b. …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Groom: Shemuel aka Ismāʿīl b. Yosef. …
Recto: Fragment of a letter or letter draft in Arabic script. Might also be literary: اما بعد كان الذي . . . وما اعلمه ان …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions three months, a distinguished father, and coming to (New) Cairo. There is not enough left to make …
Short list of names with amounts. Most of the entries mention women's names. Dating: 15th or 16th century based on the paleography.
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recording the receipt of a sum from Abū Saʿd.
Letter dated 15 Sivan 1208 from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-'Ammani (Alexandria) to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Fustat). The first part (r.6-17) deals with …
בשמ רחמ כאדמה יהודה המלמד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Messy. Mentions names such as Shemuel, Makhlūf, and Ḥamza.
Verso: Arabic jottings including the phrase al-mamlūk Abū Saʿīd al-Afḍalī written twice. The main text on the fragment is Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Unidentified, possibly a letter.
Legal note in Arabic script mentioning "one of the elders of Islam" (شيخ مشائخ الاسلام) mawlānā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī (?) al-muʿallim, and a woman named …
Arabic writing exercises.
Letter from an unknown sender, in Fustat, to his sororal nephew (ibn ukht) Mūsā, in Qalyūb. Dating: Unknown, but perhaps dateable on the basis of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 13th century. Mentions al-Kohen al-Maghribī who was with Ṣāfī the Alexandrian; an embroidered robe (malḥafa marqūma); selling something …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic (verso). Probably a letter.
Document in Arabic script, reused for Hebrew literary text. Only a small fragment is preserved. Serial recycler.
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.
Legal record(s) in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl 1066–1108 CE). The one on recto involves a dispute over wood (akhshāb) and someone named …
An agreement between husband and wife. The wife. d. of Perhaya, is declaring that she gave what she had ro five from the gift given …
Lower part of a letter, in which members of a local community object to a muqaddam imposed on them. (Information from Goitein's typed texts.)
Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic, including an exchange of poems between Bishr and a beloved.
Small receipt or order for 6 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Recto: An Arabic note with instructions. "Send to Alexandria with the ghulām of Ibn al-Falā[tī?] 5 1/2 manns of aloe wood (ʿūd), to be delivered …
Literary text, rabbinic.