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Fragment containing items such as wheat and amounts. Probably an account, less likely a letter.
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Multifragment. Fol. 1r: List of different quantities of grain in enormous Arabic script. Fol. 1v: Legal document (lower right corner) involving the sale of a …
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Badly effaced letter to a business friend describing his dire situation and lack of wheat and asking the addressee for assistance. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his mother, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or maybe 13th century. He speaks about his children …
Recto and verso: Letter recounting how a storeroom in Alexandria belonging to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, was opened and it was discovered that the grain …
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Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Salāma al-Ghazāl, al-Bahnasa, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1051. Details about payments and business with local government officials in …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
מן אלבהנסה ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ע…
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Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]
of the dāʿīs of the believers, may God…
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Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy Khalila in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060-1075 (Udovitch) or ca. 1050 (Gil). Mūsā b. Abī …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף
אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליד בקין מן תמוז ען חאל סלאמה
ונעמה…
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