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Letter in Arabic script. From [...] to Abū l-Khayr(?) al-Mubārak b. Dāʾūd. The upper part of the front and the address on the back are …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Friday, 15 Kislev 1417 Seleucid, which is 24 November 1105 CE. Groom: Yefet …
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Magical text in Hebrew script.
Responsum dealing with the collection of debts, the marriage contract and dowry. (Information from CUDL)
Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and …
Accounts. In Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …
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Small note saying "please pass by the [...], if they have any need..." (אנעם אבער באלמ . . . אן כאן להם חאגה).
Verso: Informal note, instructing the scribe of the court to write a promissory note on 96 dirhams—obviously the outcome of former litigation. Writtnen in Judaeo-Arabic …
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Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
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Minute fragment from a list of names written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Deed of release. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th century. Abū Naṣr b. ʿAṭiyya the Jew, formerly a broker dealing with drugs in Fustat (see …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone, he is sufficient, and peace be upon his servants, whom he has chosen. …
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Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of letter containing polite formulae and mentioning the fast day of Yom Kippur. EMS
Petition from the early Ayyubid period from Yehuda ha-Kohen to Eliyyahu requesting a meeting with the head of a government office regarding taxes for the …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with a single word in Hebrew script (ניסן). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The preserved text is written at …
Letter written in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions "I have sent" (wa-qad anfadhtu...) and Abū l-Ṭayyib. Recto contains …
Verso: Table of Coptic numerals and possibly other ciphers reminiscent of fiscal documents. Wide line spacing.
Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen to the cantor Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Barakāt has sent the volume which he found of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda. …
Document drafts in Arabic that were written on a recycled printed fragment in Arabic. Dated Muharram [1]307 AH on the verso which is 1889 CE. …
Accounts of a shopkeeper (bookseller?) in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 15th–18th century; this can likely be narrowed based on identifying the people mentioned. Names include Gedalya; …
Three lines in Arabic script, listing quantities (e.g., 5 and 3) of things.
Letter in Judaeo Arabic, fragment. "I received 90 dirhams, the price of the two ublūjas (cones)... Yosef the son of the physician (ibn al-ḥakīm) did …
Letter from Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb in which he acknowledges receipt of letters from the addressee and Abū l-Maʿālī and asks for charity, citing Genesis …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Giving instructions and sending regards. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā; Abū l-Munā; his brother Abū Sahl; a …
Crossed out account - needs examination.
Informal note addressed to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (dates: 1204–36). In which one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit flatters Eliyyahu by saying that …
Marriage contract from Damascus between ʿEli b. Wahīb and Hiba bt. Yonah. Early: 5 dinars worth of jewelry. Late: 20 dinars. Dowry: 237 dinars, plus …
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Literary? Text in Judaeo-Arabic that lists the different stages of life ('at 20... 40... 50... 60... 70...').
Mysterious fragment. It looks like the main text is the mirror imprint of another fragment. In the lower margin there is a note in Judaeo-Arabic. …
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
Recto and verso: Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Apparently on the subject of the eye diseases induced by love, but …
Notes in Arabic script, recording the arrival of something ([...] bi-mā waṣala) at the funduq al-[daqīq or raqīq] al-Sulṭānī in New Cairo on the 13th(?) …
Poems, probably. In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nothing preserved apart from some release formulae.
Arabic document, one line preserved. Mentions some quantities of commodities, including two qīrāṭ of oil. Needs examination.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, two of the witness statements are preserved.
Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). The content is unclear but a certain Elʿazar is mentioned. an …
List of names with numbers. "The midwife/wet nurse (dāya)"; "The wife of Ḥabīb"; Simḥa; Eliyya; Tawfīq, etc. On verso there are additional jottings, including a …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
A list of at least 42 books of poetry, all called Dīwān or prefaced "min shiʿr [X]." In Arabic script. Poets named include: Ṭarafa, ʿAntara, …
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Recto: ketubba of [...] b. Nissim (groom) and Jins (bride), a divorcee. Locaiton: Fusṭāṭ. Verso: title page for laments for the 9th of Av. In …
Autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (ends "וכתב אברהם") involving a husband and wife and living arrangements. Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between r. 1205–1237 …
Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: before 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's …
Recto: copy of a Hebrew letter of holiday wishes addressed to (the community of) al-Maḥalla for the month of Tishrei. In the hand of Ḥalfon …
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mentions Yefet Rosh Qehillot, Avraham Sar [...], Yiṣḥaq, Yehuda, and Moshe. Perhaps a poem of gratitude …
Administrative document(s). Dated: 52[6?] AH. Mentions al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ. May mention waterwheels (sawāqī). Some of the same language appears in the entries on both recto and …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ending with greetings, including to a dignitary ("ha-Sar ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel"). On verso there are a few lines in …
Letter or letter draft from a son to father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Mainly consists of greetings, including from …