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Legal document. T-S 13J8.2, part of CUL Or.1080 J7, and T-S NS J149 all include versions of the same document, or at least concerning the …
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Fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid = beginning of …
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Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to an unnamed addressee (probably the judge Menaḥem b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson), probably in Cairo. In Hebrew. …
A few words in Arabic script with diacritical marks on both sides. Late. Mentions "al-zanb maghfūra".
Register of dowry items (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. With additional jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th–16th century. Sefaradi hand. One of …
IB III, 49. Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall …
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Verso: Accounts mostly in Greek/Coptic numerals with some Arabic text. Medieval-era.
The main text is a long list of greetings, probably originally appended to a letter: Recto, left side: Rabbenu Moshe (this is Maimonides); his brother …
Late accounts (?), possibly having to do with riding animals (jimal, dawabb).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a woman (ואלרזמה אן כנתי מא ודיתיהא...). Written in an odd format with only one or two words per …
Petition, likely Mamluk-era. Needs examination.
Text is too damaged to identify; probably a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of the draft of a legal query to the judge Yeḥiel (b. Elyaqim) concerning the trousseau of a woman in levirate status, most of …
Table, unclear if documentary (accounts?) or something else (concordance? calendar?).
Verso: fragment of a letter, probably. This portion consists entirely of blessings for a certain Yehuda (titled Sar ha-Teʿuda among other titles), probably the addressee.
Letter from a certain Barakāt. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto, left side of the address on verso). Very little of the …
Might be a fiscal account. Relatively small fragment from the middle of the document.
Letter in Arabic script, ending with two words in Hebrew ([...] shalom). Refers to an illness (fī l-maraḍ) and an agent (al-wakīl). Needs further examination.
Verso: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions [...] b. Bishāra, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and [...] b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen. Recto: …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Writing on both sides. A settlement concerning arrangements for the dowry items of …
Judaeo-Arabic treasure hunting manual. Needs further examination.
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in …
Request from the women's committee on the donation of used clothing for the poor of the Jewish community – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic …
State document in Arabic script. Two lines, huge space between them. ...ḥukmahu wa-qālat lahu mā shi'ta... Reused for piyyutim.
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Extremely faded. One side might be a tax receipt.
Bifolio of private accounts. Mentions Saʿīd, Faḍʾil, ṣāhib al-rahn(?). Needs examination.
State document, report, Fatimid. The report is written on the 3rd of Dhū l-Ḥijja, of an unspecified year, and mentions a previous report that arrived …
اخر ما القدرة(؟) بعده عمل بتاريح يوم الاربعا الثالث
من ذي الحجة….ذكر اخر الوارد من الديوان السعيد
والذي تجدد بعد ذلك خلو الاسواق من الاخباز
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List of commercial goods. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Two orders of payment in Arabic script, and perhaps a remnant of a third. The first one: yadfaʿ al-shaykh al-ajall li-muwaṣṣilihā dīnārayn wa-nuṣr wa-thumn.
Beginning of an iqrār document, fragmentary. "اقر حسين بن علي".
Legal document/testimony within a letter (from one judge to another?). Introduced by Psalms 40:12. The witnesses are David b. Yosef, Abū l-Faḍl, and Abū l-ʿIzz. …
Verso: tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The date on the receipt, …
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An account by Barhun b. Musa ha-Taharti with Yeshua b. Isma’il and Abu Ibrahim. Around 1060. Regarding their partnership in business of redwood and silk. …
שרח מונה אלעדל בקם כלטה ישועה
עתאלין ה דרא אגרה מכזן קיראטין
תכויר > שחד קיראטין
חראץ > סלפה ו דנא ותלת
Deed of partnership. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on the names and the hand of the scribe (who was prolific …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably accounts. Needs examination.
Deed of lease (istiʾjar). An Iqrār. In Arabic. Mentions a date in the body of the text: 12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 531 AH = 1 August …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. There are several clauses …
Replacement ketubba dated 12 September 1802 (15 Elul 5562 AM) from "Kafr al-Nāqir" on the Nile. Line 6 notes that the couple's original ketubba is …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the wife of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat, to her husband Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria. The letter was …
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וצל כתאבך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וען שוק אלי[ך]
גמע אללה ביננא עלי אשר(!) חאל במנה וכרמה אנה ולי דלך וא[לקאדר עליה]
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Letter to Simha from Eliyyahu in which he notes that he left from Fustat and arrived in Alexandria on Friday, and further states that “our …
Legal fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa (possibly the deceased). (Information in …
Draft of the beginning of a petition-like letter to a woman. Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Arabic script (VMR)
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …
Legal fragment. There are several interlinear corrections. Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate …
A narrow strip probably from a dowry list in a ketubah.