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State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from …
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Receipt (for tax?) in Arabic script with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note at the top. The date is given but is difficult to read—46[.](?).
No Scholarship Records
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …
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Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a beautiful hand, different from recto. The sender seems to be in Akhmīm in Upper Egypt and to be upset …
Recto: Order from Abū l-Barakāt (perhaps Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Munā, asking him to give the bearer a list of items including sorrel and …
In a short note, a letter brought by Tiqva b. 'Amram from Farah b. 'Ayyash is presented to the court in Cairo. The letter was …
Receipt of payment, in Arabic script, not very legible. Different document on verso.
Fragment of a 16th-century letter from David Badūssī in Būlāq, who was a teacher in Jerusalem, to Abraham סורג, philanthropist in Egypt, seeking financial assistance. …
Letter from Umm al-Khayr, the widow of Eliyya al-Dimunshī, in Ragusa, Sicily, to her son Yehuda b. Eliyya in Fustat. Around 1060. The woman lives …
מן עברתי אלדי אדא אתדכרת פל דכרך ופי א[ ]
תסבק כלמתי גמיע דאלך מן קוה חסרתי ומן א[ ]
אלשדיד ואשתיאקד אלבעיד פי בלד ל[א לה] [ו]ל[א] קריב ו…
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A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above …
Alchemical recipes describing methods of preparation of metals (copper, sulphur), how to burn them, wash them, dry them and grind them. Mentions a crucible, a …
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The main text is liturgical. In the margin two strips from another document- a ketubba written by Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150-1181 CE) - were …
Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-Daqqāq, (al-)Sadīd, and Bayān Ibn al-Ḥalabī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f …
Fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).
Official-looking account. Needs examination.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 120-some dinars; mentions Barakāt(?) al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi and Sitt al-Jamāl
Verso: Response from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Yedutun, probably in Fustat. Instructing him to have Ibn Abū l-ʿAysh take …
Literary.
Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Refers to someone's illness (r2), and evidently the sender was also sick because God sent him health …
Unidentified document in Latin script. Maybe Spanish?
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 7 Shevat 5483 AM (1723 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Badra bt. Yaʿaqov b. Daniel ha-Levi ha-Rofe and …
Arabic poetry, including by Abū Tammām.
Letter from a certain Yūsuf, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq and Abū [Rabī?]ʿ, in Fustat, behind the mosque. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic …
Letter in Ladino dated 1653 CE (6 Tamuz 5413). ASE.
Accounts in Ladino. Refers to sums in medins (מאידיש). Also mentions the word טורקישש.
Torn court record, probably a bill of release, between Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf (Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef) al-Ḥarīrī and Abū l-Barakāt Yehoshuaʿ regarding a missing shipment of …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he received the letter of Segulat ha-Yeshiva (the addressee?), which contained the news regarding the letter of the …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Difficult to read. Some names are legible, such as Thābit b. Ṣāliḥ, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, [...] b. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Same sender as T-S AS 156.386 (PGPID 17956). Mentions: Abū l-Ḥasan; Ibn Ṣalḥūn; good buttons (azrār); walnut; an ointment (mirham). Regards …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From an unidentified man possibly named Karīm, apparently in Zarnīkh (in Upper Egypt, see recto l. 44 and recto right margin …
Letter in a very cursive, difficult script. Mentions the names Avraham and [...] b. Ḥalfon.
Letter from Maymūn b. Efrayim (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Contains information about the movement of wares via Alexandria and about financial …
Letter from Avraham to Yosef in Judaeo-Persian. There are also accounts. ASE.
Possibly a letter of praise. Consists almost entirely of poetical Hebrew phrases. At the bottom there is the writer's name: Kalev b. Yehuda. At the …
Letter, mentions consignments from the Aleppians to Fustat (the writer had written to Damascus). Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in which the writer talks about …
Magical fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto contains instructions for reciting a spell (ʿazīma) seven times on Friday and Sunday nights; also involves using a new lamp …
Letter segment in the hand of Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Ramla, September or October 1052.
Fragment (left side) of a legal document in Arabic script.. Involving [...] b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. Dated: possibly 454 AH = 1062/63 CE if read correctly.
Fragment of official correspondence. In Arabic script, chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Portions of ~5 lines are preserved from near the beginning, mainly …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cursive sephardi hand. Mentions buying something and expresses gratitude to Abū Saʿīd al-Melammed. There appears to be one word in Arabic script …
Fragment from an originally large codex of correspondence and poetry by Judah ha-Levi. This fragment consists of a copy of a letter by Judah ha-Levi …
A few words in Arabic script likely from a decree. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Recto: Accounts describing shares given to Avraham b. Farrāḥ and Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār as deposits. Verso: in a different hand (that of Nahray b. Nissim?) …
Verso (original use): Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The basmala and the beginnings of five lines are preserved. The lessee …
IB V, 37, folio 5v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce …
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Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Three distinct entries, probably. (1) Mentions accounting of various sums; someone collected 2; 1 remains; someone …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions [...]ā b. Yisraʾel. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)