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Medical prescription. In Arabic script.
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Accounts. In Arabic script. There is a neat row of holes from where this fragment used to be bound into a notebook.
Order in Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan is to pay or hand over two dinars, 1 qirat, and 2 ḥabbas of "ḥawāʾij."
Magical fragment. In Arabic script. Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) …
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Medical prescription or recipe in Arabic script. Possibly sharāb rummān, a pomegranate syrup. The penultimate line reads, "The whole body should be anointed with the …
Islamic prayers/formulae in Arabic script. Not all of the text blocks are easy to read, but at least three begin with "Allāhuma ṣalli ʿalā Muḥammad" …
Fragment in Arabic script. Astrological/esoteric. Listing the auspicious and inauspicious properties of every day of the month, e.g., which days are good for going before …
Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Names such as ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe left at least five other letters: see tag. In other letters, he writes to his father in …
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. …
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 …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (and maybe some actual Coptic as well?)
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
רס…
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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 …
من عند الاخت فاطمة الى الحاجة ام البركات
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
سلام الله تعالى ورحمته وبركاته وازكى تحياته على
الاخ ابو الفضل اعزه الل…
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.