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Recto: Letter fragment (upper part only) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting). In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a group of people, it seems. …
No Scholarship Records
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Only one line and a couple words from the line below are preserved. "irtifāʿ mā. . . lā yadillu ʿalayhi. …
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Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century.
Magical fragment. In Arabic script, with pious Islamic phrases (incl. lā ḥawla wa-lā quwwa illā billāhi al-ʿaliyy al-ʿaẓīm). With stars of David.
Recto: Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very cursive. Verso: List in Arabic script.
Business letter, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer crossed out the first three lines (following the Arabic-script basmala) and began …
Document in unconnected Arabic script interspersed with cryptic symbols. Only the first few characters of each line are preserved. Perhaps magical. The fragment was reused …
Recto: Letter fragment possibly in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. Verso: Document in Arabic script; only …
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid.
Damaged text in Arabic script, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from Yisra'el b. Daniel, in one of the towns of the Rīf, to Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. …
כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך סלך צפר ען סלאמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וכאן קד וצל אלחאיך אלי הונה וסט אלעיד וגאתני
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very deferential. Twice mentions "the late Mujāhid." It is cataloged in the Halper catalog as "part of a letter or …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Business accounts in Arabic script.
Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Probably a bookseller's account, who is selling off the Hebrew books that belonged to R. Yosef ZL, including Halakhot Pesuqot …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the sale of an unnamed item and a document as well as 'the honorable brother' R. Mikha'el (Michael). The recto …
Ledger bifolium in Arabic dated on the recto's left heading as Rabi' II 1238 AH which is 1822 CE. The scribal hand is highly trained …
Accounts in Arabic dated on the verso's heading as Jumada I[ or perhaps II?] of the year 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. The structure …
List in Arabic that offers an inventory and other information for a variety of food and household items such as beans, honey, watermelon, sugar, charcoal, …
List of monetary figures in Arabic from one Ibrāhīm Malikī in which one of the entries on the verso mentions the year 1256 AH and …
Accounts in Arabic on a large fragment that may originate from a broader financial ledger that is dated on the lower right corner of the …
Letter addressed to al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or …
Document in Arabic script. Only a thin vertical sliver has survived. Probably magical, based on the stick-and-ball drawings. Needs examination.
Legal document. Dated: Av 4959 AM, which is 1199 CE. Location: Probably Alexandria, where legal documents in this period tend to be dated according to …
Arabic (according to FGP). Image not available.
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Two entries concerning money owed to Abū Kathīr and a date (of repayment?) in Rabīʿ II. On verso there is …
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Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions sending something with someone. Needs examination.
Account in Arabic script, including items such as zayt ṭayyib and waraq. Needs further examination.
Verso: Document in Arabic script. Perhaps a medical prescription or recipe. Mentions rose and cold water and quantities in dirhams and mithqāls.
Original text: Hebrew piyyutim, probably mid-12th-century based on handwriting (compare to Moss. Ia,6). Later text: A prescription in Arabic script.
Letter from Fāṭima to her 'sister' al-Ḥājja Umm al-Barakāt. In Arabic script. Opens with greetings to Abū l-Faḍl and Nāṣir al-Dīn and his children, then …
اخت واولادها
والسلام على يونس وعبد الرحمن
وعبيد
ومن في البيت جميع //سلام الله تعالى// من النسوان والرجال
والنسا وعصم انه امركي يا خال…
Literary text. In Arabic script, calligraphic. Contains a narrative involving ʿAmr b. Umayya al-Ḍamrī (one of the companions of Muḥammad). It involves espionage (al-dukhūl ilā …
Kathismas (قاتسما). Christian liturgical divisions of the Psalter into daily readings ('for Wednesday and Friday'; 'for Thursday and Saturday') together with supplementary prayers. In Arabic …
Quran. Containing part of Sūrat al-Shuʿarā' (26:13).
Prayer or magical fragment in Arabic script. Invokes Muḥammad and then has a string of magical characters. The lower fragment looks literary.
Four lines in Arabic script, perhaps a recipe or prescription. The words nāfiʿ . . . inshāllah are legible, then wa-l-yudlak fī. . . . …
List of names in Arabic characters with sums in Coptic numerals. (Information from Goitein index cards)
Prescription. In Arabic script. This is the response to the letter in PGPID 3351.
Business letter to ʿArūs b. Yosef, probably in Alexandria, since he is asked about prices in Alexandria in line 21. Aodeh thinks the author of …
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Verso: Fragment from the left side of an early Fatimid decree or other state document. The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. …
Bifolium. One folio is a Judaeo-Arabic translation of Exodus 21:1-17, 27:20-28. The other folio is magical instructions in Arabic script. The first few lines of …
Medical prescription in difficult Arabic script. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Two bifolios of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Partially written in red ink and with large letters. The Arabic script may be an …
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic(?) numerals.
Recto: Arabic poetry in Arabic script. The antepenultimate and penultimate lines are from a poem by Abū Tammām: https://www.aldiwan.net/poem30596.html. The rest is more difficult. Verso …
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Medical prescription? Seems to list ingredients and quantities. But needs further examination.
Receipt in Arabic script. Location: Cairo or Fustat. Dated: before Muḥarram 561 AH, which is late 1165 CE. For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. …
Letter(s) of appeal for charity. Likely drafts. In Arabic script. The one on recto is addressed to Abū Manṣūr and the one on verso is …
Business letter from Ṭayyib b. Majjānī to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAwda. In Arabic script. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Sabih …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script, written on a bifolio. The two parties are ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Salāma al-Yahūdī and Ṣaʿīd b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī. Date: …