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LetterJRL Gaster ar. 317
Informal note in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] Manṣūr. Contains the glyph. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. The sender gives various instructions, including not …
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Paraliterary textJRL Gaster ar. 425
Recipe or prescription. In Arabic script. Mentions the names of several foods. Needs examination.
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LetterENA 2727.38
Letter addressed to Avraham ha-Talmid. Small fragment (upper left corner).
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State documentT-S NS 305.147
Tax receipt? Mentions: ...al-yahūdī... bi-ḥudūr...
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List or tableT-S Ar.34.14
List of ingredients (or rather commercial goods?) with their weights. In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from …
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State documentCUL Or.1080 9.11
Verso (original use): Draft of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script, containing conventional praises and blessings for a powerful person. Recto: Draft …
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LetterT-S Ar.35.131
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. The glyph appears at the top. The hand is skilled and the margins are large, and there is a taqbīl …
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LetterENA 3946.6
Informal note in Arabic script. Has the glyph. The handwriting is relatively straightforward but the subject matter is difficult to figure out. Needs examination.
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 837
Order of payment. Mainly in Arabic script, with an אמת in Hebrew in the upper margin. Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay the bearer 10 …
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 597
Legal or official document (ṣaḥḥā bi-ism...). Perhaps involving the inheritance or heirs (ورثة؟) of Abū Isḥāq. Dated: 617 AH, which is 1220/21 CE. Needs further …
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State documentT-S Misc.29.4
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. Looks complete. The first line is the glyph, then Abū Sahl, then Abū l-Faḍl al-Raʾīs. Needs …
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LetterT-S NS J547
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side only). Mentions Waliyy al-Dawla, Fustat, and a shop.
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Legal documentT-S NS 297.95
Document in Arabic script. May be a receipt (tasallama....). The last line mentions the name of a qāḍī.
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Unknown typeT-S NS 238.93
One line (plus the glyph) in Arabic script.
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Legal documentENA NS 62.23
Legal records. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av and Elul 1527 Seleucid = 1216 CE. Headed by the glyph. Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges …
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List or tableT-S NS 320.14
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script: الذي عند الشيخ بو ال . . .
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LetterJRL Gaster ar. 381
Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Arabic script. Has the glyph. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The first 4 lines are completely preserved and …
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List or tableT-S Ar.34.311
Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One side begins with a basmala, the other side with the glyph.
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State documentT-S NS 306.242
Administrative document of some kind. There are Greek/Coptic numerals at upper right specifying a sum in the hundreds. The phrase al-qāḍī al-ajall appears. Dated: 15 …
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Legal documentT-S NS 264.35
Legal note. The first part is in Arabic script: "What remains (owed) to al-Shaykh Abu l-Faraj...." The sum is 25 wariq dirhams. Dated: Shaʿbān 539 …
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LetterT-S Ar.34.226
Informal note addressed to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Andalusi hand. Asking him to "give the bearer everything that is mentioned in this letter." The sender …
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LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/6
Informal note. In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Involving Abū l-ʿAlā' and the sale of a caldron (qidra) and a frying pan …
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Paraliterary textENA NS 48.24
Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic.
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LetterENA NS 52.9
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet to two brothers, to the dukkān of Bāb al-Futūḥ, which means this was probably sent to Cairo rather than Fustat. …
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Paraliterary textBL OR 5566D.25
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Ingredients include: "Indian"; borage; pistachio kernels; sugar. Diet: boiled young chickens (farrūj maṣlūq).
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Legal documentENA 3966.3
Rent receipt (? اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. Dated: …
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 305.76
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
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LetterT-S NS 305.114
Letter of gratitude. In Arabic script. Full of expressions of patronage and no specific details. The sender's name may be Zayn and the addressee's name …
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LetterMoss. VII,171.2
Short note in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (active late 12th and early 13th century). Reporting that he has sent 7.5 of a certain item …
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- אלדי אערף בה [
- אן קד וצל אליך [צחבה
- אבו אלמפצל ז //ונ[צף]// ק . [
- ארבעה כבאר וג צ[גאר
- ערפתך דלך ולא תקטע [כתבך
- ענא ושלום
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State documentENA 3942.12
Fragment of an official-looking account. Verso may contain the glyph. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.
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Legal documentNLI 577.1/67
Receipt or proof of purchase. Contains the glyph meaning "addā" here.
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LetterMoss. II,165.2
Note in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded, mostly formalities. On verso, in a different hand: "khaṭṭ al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr שצ."
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LetterENA NS 45.15
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Concerning business in saffron and ambergris. Mentions Baqāʾ.
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 176.494
Recipe written on a spare piece of parchment. Simples included are for example Roman bole and horned poppy. Not a continuation of a letter. Has …
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List or tableT-S AS 204.220
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Probably medieval.
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Unknown typeT-S NS 209.31
One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …
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Legal documentT-S NS 305.115
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 …
Recto - draft 3
شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا
جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة
صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون
حاله…
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Paraliterary textT-S Ar.38.110
Verso: Compound prescription/recipe (ṣifa murakkab). In Arabic script. Contains the glyph. Ingredients include oak gall, gum, vitriol, Andarānī salt, lapis lazuli, saffron, and camphor. Needs …
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LetterENA NS 54.5
Letter from Yeshuʿa the bookseller to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century, but this is a guess. The writer has been endeavoring …
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List or tableT-S Ar.30.18
Accounts in Arabic script for three types of indigo. See Goitein's index card for further information.
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List or tableENA 3925.13 + ENA 3925.14
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Contains the glyph. Mentions many names. Pinholes for binding, especially on verso, the part with the perforations has …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.39.245
Legal document. In Arabic script. Receipt for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. Manṣūr …
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LetterJRL SERIES B 4525
Petition addressed to four brothers (?), the elders Abu al-Baqa, Abu al-Baha, Abu al-Faraj and Abu al-Karam, requesting charity. The supplicant, Harun, writes that he …
- בם
- ............]ואלאעיאן אלפצלא מן אטאל אללה בק[אהם
- ......]מהם ונעמאהם ומכן סעאדתהם ואחיא[הם
- ונגאהם מן נואיב אלזמאן ומן כרוב אלאחיאן אלשיך אבו
- אלבקא…
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Literary textT-S K25.3
Poems and drafts in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. One of the poems is by Avraham Ibn ʿEzra. One of the drafts is …
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LetterAIU XII.104
Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …
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State documentENA 3971.23
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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Legal documentENA 4011.4
Verso: Cheque written and signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Dated: Tishrei 1454 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to pay the price …
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List or tableT-S Misc.8.19
List of recipients of charity (bread) along with the khuddām al-kanīs (the list begins with three parnasim). This list fills three pages of the bifolium. …
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List or tableENA 1822a.66
Accounts. Perhaps in the hand of one of Ben Yijū’s workers, but not his handwriting. Similar to India Book III 19 (shelfmark CUL Or.1080 J95). …
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- בשמ רחמ
- אלדי לה פ[י]ליה כולמי
- תסעה ותלתין פילי כול[מי]
- א //ען סבעה ונצף ותמן//
- ופנמין קבץ מן דלך
- זבדה עשרה פיליה
- וקבץ זנגפר וברמה
- צפר כמסה…
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State documentBL OR 5552.2–2a
State document, Fatimid period. Dated: 4 Rajab 523H, which is 23 June 1129 CE. Reporting that two trustworthy witnesses from Alexandria had given testimony, and …
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