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Petition? In Arabic script. Small fragment. The phrase "ilā khidmatihī" is legible in the first line.
Literary text in Hebrew. Late.
Debenture bond / promissory note (ورقة سند). An adorned printed template states that this is "a debenture bond for the sum of less than 100 …
Letter fragment from the cantor Khalfa Ibn al-Qafṣī (i.e., from Qafṣa/Gafsa, in Tunisia; Abramson and Golb incorrectly read "al-Qifṭī," from Qifṭ in Upper Egypt). The …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Personal letter for Yeḥiʾel al-Qahlānī [from Yosef b. Shalom Siman] – 28 Kislev __96 [first two digits illegible on document] – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum …
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Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two bifolia from a ledger. Likely the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Bilbays. Dated: December1209/January 1209 CE. This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il …
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Legal document in which a woman whose name is not preserved sells, with the consent of her husband and father, one quarter of her father's …
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Verso (secondary use): Official-looking receipt of sale or rent concerning a warehouse/shop (ḥānūt), the location of the property is difficult to make out. In Arabic …
Fragment of a legal document, involving someone named Salāma. There may also be citations from rabbinic sources. (Information in part from CUDL and AA.)
Recto: Deed of sale in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1308 Seleucid = August/September 997 CE. “A bride's mother wrote in an interesting detailed Hebrew …
Printed fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a newspaper. Mentions a public auction, a telegram (risāla barqiyya), and something Austrian.
Deed regarding the endowment of two houses in Fusṭāṭ as a pious foundation: ‘the little house’ and ‘the cattle house’. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God [alone … ]
This is what [ … ] bestowed and granted as a pious foundation …
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Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions business in fava beans, vetch, cucumbers, and wheat. Mentions Bilbays. Mentions people such as David ha-Dayyan, …
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Medical prescription. In Arabic script. With numerous ingredients and instructions. Some ingredients include tamarind (tamr hindī), seeds of chicory (bizr hindibāʾ), chebulic myrobalan (ʾihlīlaj kābulī), …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated 1066 CE (Sivan, 1377 Seleucid). Husband: Ṣadaqa b. Moshe. Written and witnessed by Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. Efr[ayim]. Blank verso.
Accounts in Arabic script. In a chancery hand. State document? Some legible phrases: ...maqbūḍa ʿan... ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥanafī... jumlatuhum wa-nuṣf min... al-yahūdī... In the margins and …
Legal document. Fragment (lower part only). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Possibly a marital reconciliation agreement ("...and she will not …
Legal document or responsum. Fragment (lower right piece). Refers to Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov and his legal adversary (בעל דינו) and appeasement. Quotes Nedarim 20b (מאן …
Fragment from a Ketubah.
Ownership note. "This pitaron (Interpretation of Dreams?) belongs to Nisan(?) ha-Ḥaver and his sons after him." Mentions Yehoshuaʿ ha-Haver (ZL).
Account, containing list of names
Letter, probably a correspondence between two officials, in Arabic script, with the "inhāʾ" formula and tarjama. The sender reports (yunhī) on a man who owes …
Recto: Two late letter drafts (or two versions of the same letter?), one in Arabic and one in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts. The …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Verso: Various text blocks in Arabic script probably in an Ayyubid-era chancery hand. One is the name Sālim b. Ḥasan; another is [Sham]s al-Dīn Aḥmad …
Small fragment from a formulary for a bill of release, in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). AA
Debt acknowledgment. Dated 4 Nisan 5408 AM (1648 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography and surnames mentioned. The partners Avraham Levi Qudsi b. …
Accounts in Arabic script for the sale of cotton. Dated 9 R[amaḍan] [..]90 AH, omitting the first two digits. Given the mention of the ق …
Recto and verso: Letter addressed to R. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. He is to ask Ibrāhīm al-Ḥaver al-Kohen b. al-Ḥaver to appear before the court in …
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Fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sum of dinars and 5 qirats; a balance; a sixth; and a complete amount (דינ וה קראריט …
Betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 19 Sivan 1418 Seleucid, which is 1107 CE. Fiance: Yosef ha-Levi b. Berakhot. Fiancee: Sitt al-Kull bt. Yefet. Wedding …
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Calendrical table. The hand is late (maybe 17th–19th c) but the year is not immediately evident.
Fragment from the end of an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Either the sender or the scribe is named Abū l-Surūr, and he greets [...] …
Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written …
Legal document. Dated: Av 1452 Seleucid = July/August 1141 CE (month based on the phrase יהפך לשמחה). Involves 16 dinars; possibly silk which was purchased; …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 21 Tammuz 1437 (14 July 1126). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a state document, three lines of Arabic in a chancery hand. The date of the tawqīʿ is Dhul Qaʿda (3)70?
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: muayyadi/medin. Most of the items listed are foodstuffs. The reference to this coinage type leaves 1415 CE as the chronological …
Fragment of a legal document written in large calligraphic letters. (Information from CUDL)
IB II, 28 + 29. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. Join: M. …
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Two leaves from Leviticus 5 copied in Arabic script (but Hebrew vocalization).