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Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Qābila ("Son of …
No Scholarship Records
Letter from a woman named Hayfāʾ bt. Sulaymān Ibn al-ʿArīq to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat. The addressee was the leader of the Jerusalemite congregation …
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India Book V, 39e (previously V, 39d). An order from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of linseed oil (zayt …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Bayān, requesting that he let him copy a volume of responsa, either bringing it to Shelomo or having …
Rabbinic literary work.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Formulary for a Karaite ketubba. See Mann, Texts and Studies, 174–76. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Almost completely blank. A few remnants of some words.
Verso: Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Netan[ʾel] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. Mostly consists of salutations and praises. The sender reports that he has met …
Receipt or order of payment. Needs examination.
Too faded
Bifolio with an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic - maybe poetry.
Fragment of a legal document.
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mainly about business transactions with sugar (sukkar, qand). Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's …
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Legal document (witness statement), mentioning ‘my husband Yaʿaqov.' (Information from CUDL.) Join: Oded Zinger.
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but c. 1560 …
Literary text in Hebrew and Aramaic. Halakhic discussion? Similar handwriting as T-S AS 204.12 + T-S NS 298.35 + T-S NS 37.110 (PGPID 32036) but …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively long vertical strip. Mentions a dyer (al-ṣabbāgh).
Religious rulings – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 43) – in Mishnaic Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Draft of an Arabic-script legal document or credit instrument. Documenting a debt of 20 dinars. Written on 11 Shaʿbān [.]39 AH. Mentions names such as …
Small fragment of a letter from Ibrāhīm b. Nāḥūm to Bū l-Surūr, in Fustat. Mentions Abū Saʿd. Almost nothing else is preserved.
Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Binyām (=Yaʿaqov b. Binyamin) to his mother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Complete. The letter concerns practical matters as well as excuses for why …
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Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli. Quite faded. Contains the intriguing phrase "living between Muslims and Christians …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: An Arabic (or Judeo Arabic) letter by Moshe b. Qiash ( (קיאשto Aharon the scribe. AA
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
Probably accounts or possibly jottings. Includes names such as Muḥammad and Abū Naṣr. (Information from CUDL.) Late.
Letter from Farah b. Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)
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Quittance from uncle named Yeshuʿa b. Avraham to his nephew, Saʿdān, after the latter returned a piece of land which had been taken illegally by …
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Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Mufaḍḍal. In Arabic script. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. The writer reports on a particular course …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions the names Yosef and Manṣūr. Likely a business letter.
Legal deed of quittance (שטר פצוי), parts of only 8 lines preserved. (Information from CUDL and from Marina Rustow)
Legal document: will, fragmentary, of the Qaraite mother of two girls, before delivering another child. Concerns in particular her valuable jewelry. Goitein surmised that the …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee, one Ibrāhīm, had asked the writer to copy out the "ṣadr" (in context probably meaning "protocol") of the letter …
Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.
Biblical exegesis of Micah 6:8, perhaps part of the preparation of a sermon. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …
Small fragment probably from the top of a legal deed.
Literary text, rabbinic.
Recto: piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba fragment for an unnamed bride and groom. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Shevaṭ 1415 Seleucid = 31 December 1103 CE. With blessings for the Nagid …
Fragment of a dowry receipt of Sitt al-Kamal, written by Emmanuel b. Yehiel (ca. 1231-1279), containing details about a trousseau. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …
Bifolio containing mainly an alms distribution list. "What was distributed on Monday, with seven days remaining in Nisan." Many women mentioned. There are a few …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The wife of the speaker had given a share in a house to the widow of …
Court declaration in which Moshe b. Yeshuʿa testifies to having received all due him from Abū Ghālib Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, working for him in …
Bifolio of Hebrew literary text; there is an Arabic prayer written on the left page on verso.