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List of names (right column) and sums of money (left column) in Arabic, presumably either a donations or an alms list. Most names sound Coptic …
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Three bifolios from a notebook of accounts in Arabic script. Mentions dye several times and contains many details about transactions, especially with someone named Abū …
Small fragment containing various legal notes with multiple distinct entries. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). One mentions a tax …
Forecasts. In Ladino. Foretelling the fortunes of the coming year based on the day of the week of the Copts' Feast of the Cross (ʿīd …
Letter from Avraham b. Shelomo b. Yehuda perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Complains about a Coptic kātib (הסופר הערל, lit. "the uncircumcised scribe") …
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Calendrical text. Dated: 1241 Sel. (929–30 CE). This copy: late 10th/11th c. Part of a longer calendrical work; the passage preserved on this fragment sets …
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Decree of a Coptic official, dated 25 Baʾūnah (?) of the Coptic year 1392 (?).
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed …
Recto: State document. Accounts regarding agrarian administration submitted by Boqṭor b. Sisinne, a Copt, the overseer (al-khawlī) in Badsā (in the province of al-Giza), for …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1126–29 CE, based on the mention of the state official Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ (who …
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Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. List of expenses, beautifully written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Materials for the construction of a …
dirhem. Paid for 7 bundles of twigs, 14 dir. Paid for a bundle
of ropes, 5 dir. Paid for 6 bundles of palm branches, 3/4 dinar.
For saw…