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Muslim marriage contract. Fragment (upper right corner). Groom: Yazdād b. Balūl(?). Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
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The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which was the response to the addressee's noble letter (jawāb kitāb al-karīm) and contained the latestnews (bayān al-mutajaddida). The addressee is someone powerful: there are prayers for the longevity of his "dawla," "mamlaka," and "sulṭān" (دولته and مملكته appear in l1, سلطانه in l2).
]. دولة……..
المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه
كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة
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A legal quey sent to 'The sages of Israel' (a term usually found at the era of Abraham Maimuni), concerning whether a woman who left her ketubah elsewhere is deserving a new one. Published Glick, Seride Teshuvot: A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa.
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Account? - needs examination. No image
Ledger of a synagogue beadle. No image.
Legal note in Arabic script mentioning "one of the elders of Islam" (شيخ مشائخ الاسلام) mawlānā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī (?) al-muʿallim, and a woman named …
Containing part of Sūrat al-Shuʿarā' (26:13).
Letter or letter draft from Muʿammar ha-Kohen ("the teacher of Qalyūb") to ʿAmram ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recto consists entirely of pleasantries and flattery …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the cantor of Ṣahrajt, Malīj, and the son of the late Abū Yaʿqūb al-Kohen al-Ṭabīb.
Genealogical list of Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.
A page from a literary work on magical medical remedies.
Formularies for marriage-related legal documents (get, halitzah, yibbum). ASE.
Fragment of a legal document. Menahem b. Shemuel mentioned. Avraham b. Shemaya and Avraham b. Natan Av are signatories, which dates this to end of …
Legal document concerning the community in Alexandria sending a sum of money to help repair an old synagogue in Jerusalem. There are five signatures on …
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Part of a legal document dealing with inheritance, mentioning debts and an administrator. Dated 479[.] (= 1029-39 CE). The body of the text mentions Saʿīd …
Letter from Yosef b. Farah from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 25, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of dinars for exchange …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וכאן לך ומעך [ולי] וחאפץ מן אל
מסתקר לנצף מן שהר מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה
וערפך ברכת מא י…
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Part of a ketubba, mostly illegible. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: geṭ for [...] b. Menaḥem (husband), Dated 1 Iyyar [...]3 in Egypt. It might be possible to calculate an exact date for this document …
Two court records in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Recto: bill of release from Abū l-Munā …
Letter addressing a communal leader, a certain ʿOvadya. Other names mentioned are Yaʿaqov b. Aba Mari Moshe, and [...] b. David the judge. There is …
Power of attorney appointing Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya as agent. Dating: Probably ca. 11th century, but no date is legible. (Information in part from CUDL)
Opening of a letter from 'the community of Jews on the jazīra(?)' (verso) to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Shemarya (1007–55 CE), with extensive rhymed phrases. …
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Poem of praise, or example of a poetic opening to a letter addressed to a community. Excerpts: בשורו בן בליעל . . . חשבו צר …
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tahartī (CUDL), Yosef b. Berekhya or Moshe b. Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawān (PGP), to (Efrayim b.) Shemarya, Fustat. Discusses responsa of …
Poetical opening of a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh (Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, 1079-1111 CE). (Information from CUDL) On verso there are jottings in Arabic script …
Fragment of a letter in which the writer describes a business affair in which he was under threat (taḥta al-tahdīd) and also involved the sultan. …
Recto: Note to a man with many titles. In the margin there is the actual information: someone had gone to Rashid and Abu l-Faraj and …
Letter of invitation from David b. Daniel probably to a personality in Fustat, late 11th century.
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Commentary or discussion in Judaeo-Arabic on the difference between men and animals, with citations from Ecclesiastes 3:17 and Psalms 49:21. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card contains several conflicting suggestions about the handwriting of the sender and the dating. The sender is pained that his …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. Dating: ca. 1062. The writer mentions a shipment of goods and he …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסעאדתך
מן אלאסכנדריה לה מצת מן מרחשון כתמה אללה עליה באחסן
כאתמה ען חאל סלאמה ונ…
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Letter from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: Bottom half only. Dating: There are reports of men seized for forced labor to dig a ditch …
Goitein reconstructs the situation somewhat differently, "The writer's wife quarreled with the wife of the recipient.... The recipient should visit next Sunday, since he was at peace with the writer's wife.
Letter or possibly a decree to a lower official in a chancery hand. Upper part only. Someone has attempted to wash out the text of …
Letter sent by a young weaver to a woman, probably his aunt, reporting that he is looking for a place to stay and for work. …
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Secondary use: Note to Abū l-Faḍl b. Elʿazar. In Judaeo-Arabic. "You are neither a scholar nor a relative nor a friend of mine because of …
Accounts containing a list of names and numbers in Arabic script with Coptic numerals, in the right margin and on the back of a letter …
Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. Refers to the beginning of the ebbing of the Nile. The rest …
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). On verso is the continuation of the …
[סררת יא]מולאי אלי וצול כתאבך תדכר סלאמתך אדאמהא אללה לך במנה ותדכר וצול מפרג וקד
[וצלני] כתאבה אנה אקלע מן ברניק ועדא ארגו מן אללה יגעלה פ…
Letter from Farah b. Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)
Letter addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq by way of Binyamin ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Repeating a request that a cantor leave the capital for the writer's village …
Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter fragment from an unidentified sender, in Damsīs, to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, likely in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of …
Account referring to rent for a house and listing amounts and names. Written on the back of a letter (see separate entry).
Letter from Hayyim b. Immanuel b. Qayoma from Mahdiyya, probably to Yehuda b. Ismail al-Andalusi. Around 1055. Concerning a shipment of boswellia and clothes. The …
תוכלת [עלי אללה]
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם תאידך
לי כלון מן אב כתמה אללה עליך באחס[ן
אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ברחמתה ו[
Letter fragment in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Mentions: papers (awrāq), riqāʿ, the judge Menaḥem and the son of the judge (Ibn al-Dayyan); dodder …