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Recto: letter fragment in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Consisting of flattery and praises for the addressee. Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew; very faded; written at 90 degrees …
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Letter from one of the Sughmār family to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1080. The main part of the letter is a recommendation for a person …
קד צדרת כתבי לחצרה רב הרב גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא
ותאיידהא וכבת עדוהא ביד אבי כתיר בן עמראן וגירה ארגו וצולהא אליה ווקופהא …
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to trustworthiness (neʾemanut). The remnant of a very faded …
Account of what Abū Saʿīd has collected. Rudimentary handwriting.
Recto: fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Ghāliyya bt. Yosef b. Abraham and Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. The bride’s father acts as her agent. Dating: ca. …
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Letter from the lepers of Tiberias. Fragment. Written by Hillel b. Yoshua. (Gil)
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Legal record (#134) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 43v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: the start of …
Verso: List or table in Arabic script, possibly accounts. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal fragment. Mentions a debt of 50 dinars.
Several legal attestations in Hebrew, perhaps from a court ledger, in multiple handwritints, regarding the dispute between Yosef Kalido (?) and David Leon, who were …
Bottom of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Signed by him and also by Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Dating: 1127–38 …
Recto: Legal agreement between Nissim b. Ḥayyim Mosseri and Yosef al-[...] b. [...]. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5589 AM = August/September 1829 CE. The document …
Fragment of a Hebrew deed in which witnesses testify that Ezra b. Shemuel b. Ezra, the representative of the merchants, came to them to complain …
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(1–2) What took place before us, we the witnesses undersigned on this document, on the month of Elul,
(3-4) 4994 AM (= 1034 CE) in Fusta…
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Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era; the dates are given, but are faded and difficult to read. Recto and verso contain two distinct …
Fragment from a communal letter. Probably from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides or one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (the phrase ואלחק תע is very …
See PGPID 15888
Verso: Fragment with one line of text in Arabic from a larger document, medieval-era. Requires further examination.
This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. Much of it consists of extensive business accounts of an India trader. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning many items …
Verso: Arabic document. Accounts or order of payment? Mentions Abū Naṣr. Recto is filled with strings of alefs, circles, and vertical lines.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Shaʿbān 1280 AH, which is 4 February 1864 CE. There is one signature in Hebrew script: הצעיר …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved. Mentions "this month."
Letter in very formal poetical Hebrew. An addressee is clearly specified "our rabbi [...] the son of [...]" but his name is torn away. Little …
Literary text on parchment. The name Ḥiyya b. Meshullam appears in the upper margin.
Brief note in Arabic script addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir, asking him to 'go down with [...]' and do something as a favor. Reused on verso …
Legal document in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Surūr(?) b. Ibrāhīm the Jew. Might be dated 578 AH. Signatures at the …
Unidentified.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody in Jerusalem. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted …
List of accounts. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. At least two entries mention iron, the more detailed instance is in …
Legal agreement on dowry rights. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Betweeen Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot known as Naṭīra and …
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Deed of a gift of a house in the Darb al-Silsila, Mamṣūṣa quarter, Fustat, in Arabic. A Jewish physician gives a house newly erected by …
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Letter from Avraham b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding ships movement from Alexandria to Sicily and back. Mentions several …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליב
כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה…
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, in middle Egypt, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. One of two letters (see …
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Personal letter giving condolences on the occasion of the death of a little girl (presumably the daughter of the recipient) and reporting family news. (Information …
Recto contains the title page for a book of dirges for the dead by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. It's not clear that this title itself …
List of names, each followed by a sum (mostly 1 or 1/2, some 2). Dating: Beginning of 11th century, per Goitein. See Med Soc II, …
Letter from Nissim b. Avraham to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1050s. About a consignment of silk that was about to reach Fustat, owned …
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Order of payment (or rather receipt / record of payment) to the community officials Maḥfūẓ al-Shammash and Sālim al-Zariz, dated Adar 1476 Seleucid era = …
Very faded text in Arabic script, maybe documentary.
Upper fragment: Copy of a contract of betrothal (erusin) according to the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Before 1037 CE. Written by Yosef b. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Headed, "that which I will repay on Friday with God's help." Mentions: Barakāt, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makārim; Abū …
Account in Arabic script. All words, no numerals. "I have / there is owed to me from the remainder of the mill (al-raḥā) 10 dirhams...."
List of names and sums in a late hand.
Letter from Bū l-Faraj b. Aharon Levi to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. None of the substance is preserved, …
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveys the tale of a wise man who is continually amazing a king with his powers of deduction. For instance, he …
Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …
Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
List in Italian and some Hebrew. Dating is unclear, perhaps 14th-16th-century but further examination is required. The portion of the list in Latin-script Italian includes …
Document in Arabic script. One line is preserved and some letters of a second. There are two fragments under this shelfmark, unclear if they belong …