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Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli Rosh ha-Seder. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks the addressees to help him pay his debts. Greetings and …
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Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late legal document. Signed by Yaaqiv […] and Avraham Sarfati. AA
No Scholarship Records
India Book V, 39.6 (previously, V, 39e): Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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Fragment of a bifolio. Probably a contributors list. Late.
Legal query with autograph responsum by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef ha-Kohen, a judge in Fustat in the 12th century active until ca. 1174 CE. See identifications …
Letter in the hand of Shabbetay b. Avraham addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya. Asking him to obtain a caliphal rescript stopping the local …
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Bottom of a formal letter (petition?) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av Beit Din. In Hebrew. The first 28 lines of the introduction are preserved. Written in an elegant style. …
Very damaged and faded. Hardly legible, but seems to contain a dowry list.
Mercantile account. Dating: probably 11th century. Faded. Needs further examination.
Letter in a crude hand to a woman (Sitt […]), describing the writer’s safe arrival in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.) Also in his handwriting: T-S …
Original use: Letter or petition in Arabic script, mentioning the caliph, witnesses, a document (wathīqa), and a legal or political conflict. The Arabic hand also …
Court record of a legal agreement between a husband, Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā, in which he …
Testimony that took place before us, we the undersigned, as follows: when the Creator, exalted be His invocation
and sanctified be His name…
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Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses …
شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا
جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة
صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون
حاله…
The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,
honourable and good Muslim men, testified,
together …
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Appeal to the Karaite Jewish community for the establishment of a special prayer for keeping away the spirit of the war from Egypt as requested …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM = 1821/22 CE. Headed: "The expenses (maṣrūf) of the Sephardic [congregation] מצות in Fustat/Cairo for …
Letter from the daughter of Yosef b. Yoshiyya, in Damascus, to her younger cousin (father's brother's daughter) and daughter-in-law Sitt al-Nās bt. Moshe b. Yoshiyya, …
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Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, badly damaged. Medieval-era.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.3 - State document or draft, in Arabic script. Contains an oversized …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu’s hand? Mentions an old woman, then somebody's (probably the writer's) intention to bring a matter before the state …
Petition in Ottoman Turkish from Salmūn [al-Iskandarānī] to "a high official, possibly the governor of Egypt" per Hathaway. Dating: late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. …
My petition to the noble dust under the feet of his excellency is as follows:
There are places that produce income for al-Khaḍra…
Letter from Dūnash b. Yiṣḥaq from Tripoli (Libya) to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably in Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Around 1046. The writer is about to travel to Palestine. Mentions …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מו]לאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ו[ מ]ן סיואן ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
ללה וק[ד כנת אנפדת א]לי מולאי כתב לם אחציהא…
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