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Letter written in Fustat on 6 Ṭevet (no year) from a son to his mother (l. 17, yā wālidatī). Very emotional. Mentions Alexandria and flax, …
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Fragment from a legal document, maybe a deed of sale since it describes the location of a property. Mentions Fāṭima bt. [...].
No Scholarship Records
Hebrew letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Zeraḥya known as Faryol (?), a physician, to Avraham Talmid (known from other letters, fl. ca.1600). The first part of …
Poem/piyyut, the last 10 lines alternating between Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from FGP.) See also T-S NS 306.8 (PGPID 38275).
Draft of the opening of a letter to a dignitary, praising him and asking him to 'hear the words of this Ṣedaqa,' presumably a petitioner. …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Announcement to members of the community about donating to the Egyptian army for the defense of Egypt – May 28 1948CE – Museum of Islamic …
Verso (probably the original use): Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Written in a formal style and reporting that the bearer (al-wāṣil bihā), a certain Muḥammad, …
Legal document, small fragment. Ketubba? Involves [...]a b. Shabbat.
Probably a letter - needs examination. No image
Fol. 1r: Agreement between Ṣedaqa b. Meshullam ha-Levi and Maʿālī b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Hawārī concerning a debt of 15 dinars for which one of …
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Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
الديوان(؟) اسعده الله(؟) الكريم الاخص الاوحد
الريس المفضل المخدوم زين الدين سيد الامرا
فخر الخواص عمدة الملوك ثقة السلاطين
خليل امير المؤمني…
Probably a list of recipients of communal funds, on a recycled Arabic document (of which hardly anything remains). The list includes the supervisors of the …
List of Talmudic quotations, mainly from Bava Qamma. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of an Arabic document. One of the only words preserved is "mamlūk."
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
Court record of a testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning a dispute among the heirs of a murdered woman …
Letter, from Shemuʾel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to various community leaders in Fusṭāṭ, in which the writer asks whether he can use a sermon to discuss …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely a prayer (recto) and/or something magical (verso).
Medical recipes in Arabic script. Reused for a Hebrew text (list of piyyuṭim?).
Lower fragment, verso (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (left side only, long vertical strip). Mentions people such as [...] al-Ḥaver al-Jalīl; Abū l-Qawām; and …
Letter from Avraham Ibn Miṣbāḥ, in Alexandria to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written in the hand of Avraham ha-Melammed b. Yefet. "I arrived in …
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Folios from a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.
Table of some sort. There are headers referring to properties or landmarks: al-ṭāḥūn (the mill)... Darb al-Kharrāṭīn... ḥānūt (a shop).... ḥānūt.... Underneath each header there …
Fragment of a ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? The groom (or his father?) is named Yaḥyā/Yosef.
Monumental letter of congratulation after recovery from an illness, written in rhymed Hebrew prose by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan and addressed to ʿAzaryahu …
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List of spices in Arabic script. There is also another kind of accounting in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, in a different hand. Needs further …
Document in Arabic on verso, possibly. Medieval-era. The beginning of four lines are visible but the scribal hand is very difficult to decipher. NB: The …
Letter from [...] b. Avraham to Ṣadaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. The writer had previously sent a letter with Ibn Bunyām that had gone unanswered. In the …
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Letter from Shalom, in Egypt, to an unknown addressee, probably in Istanbul. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …
A legal note - the writer agree to pay to pay the mortgage for 'Old Egypt' without delay. In the opening lines Shaykh Muḥ[ammad] al-Ḥamawī …
Fragment a bill of compromise (פשרה) written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two people and their brother; a house called Dār al-Jazīra; …
Letter from Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq to Netanel b. Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: second half of the 12th century (this can probably be narrowed). …
Small fragment of a state document mentioning the amīr Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar.
Legal record (#93) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 31v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Judaeo-Arabic composition in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Narrates a scuffle, with the refrain "but they didn't leave me" (wa-lam yakhrujū min ʿindī). Then, …
Letter in the hand of Abraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mentions a certain Elijah - probably Elijah b. Zekharya. AA
Two tiny fragments with a few Hebrew letters visible.
Late accounts mentioning Merkado Karo, Me'ir Ben-Naʿim (fl. 1785-1825 CE), Eliyyyahu b. Ṣahal, Mordekhai Bialobos.
List in Arabic script. Unclear significance.
Letter from Musa b Ya'qub, Tyre, to Abu al-'Ala Yusuf b. Daud b. Sha'ya, Fustat. NB shelfmark was incorrect in old PGP (Or. 1082 J42 …
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Letter in Hebrew. Crossed out with vertical strokes. Possibly also containing accounts. Late. "And also tell them. . . between you and her, because she …
Arabic script (VMR)
Recto: Maimonides’ autograph draft of a 3-line poem he composed and included at the beginning of his philosophical work ‘Guide for the Perplexed’. Verso: the …
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Document in Greek script. Very faded. Needs examination. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Letter in which Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237) recommends to the judge Perahia and his sons a man who wishes to marry the judge's daughter.