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Top of a rhymed letter. The heading is decorated with small fleurs de lis over each letter. In the poetic opening of the letter, a …
דיון אחד
Recto: responsum of the Rashba concerning marriage, quoting BT Ketubbot. Verso: pen trials including various doodles. (Information from FGP and CUDL)
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content. Verso: The report was torn and reused for an order of a …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Barakāt(?) to Eliyyahu he-Ḥakham ha-Maskil. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper part only). Greetings to Bū l-Ṭāhir Zaqen ha-ʿEda. (Information in part from CUDL)
Receipt for the capitation tax of Dāʾud b. Efrayim(?) in Fustat for the year 526(?) AH.
Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …
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Small fragment of accounts.
Rhymed text (-kha) in Hebrew. By al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. On verso there is similar text, perhaps a draft of a poem.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a man or woman, likely in Damascus, to their brother, likely in Fustat. The addressee is rebuked in strong terms …
Questions and answers on religious matters – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 282) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein …
Letter from Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL)
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Maybe draft or writing practice.
Minute fragment with remnants of Arabic script, Hebrew script, and Coptic numerals.
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Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه توفيقي وصلى الله على محمد
الى عند الا[جل؟] سلام الله ورحمته
اما بعد فانَّ كان سبب اجتماعي بك وكنت
اظن انك ساعد لل…
Legal document. Small fragment (lower right corner). Dated: Tishrei 1484 Seleucid = September/October 1172 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon (probably Sar Shalom ha-Levi).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Relatively large and well preserved. Mentions transactions with gallnuts (ʿafṣ) in Alexandria; and Abū Sahl Menashshe. Needs …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Recto: Fragment of a document or literary text in Arabic script. Only two partial lines of text are visible and the words contain full ḥarakāt. …
Accounts primarily in Ladino with a wide variety of loanwords from Ottoman Turkish and Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the third column of the verso as 11٥9 …
Minute fragment of accounts. Dated Muḥarram 1003 AH on the verso. The recto mentions an Ottoman military officer Maḥmūd Çavuş in the heading as well …
One line of Arabic text from an official letter or document, mentioning al-jāmiʿ ("the mosque"). Reused for piyyuṭim, one of which is ascribed to Isaac …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212 CE). On recto there is Leviticus 4:12, 14 (Hebrew). These …
Blank recto and verso, perforations for binding.
Verso: Letter probably from Binyām the druggist of Rashīd, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. (This sender, who …
Recto: A short account in Judaeo-Arabic. "That which I still owe Abū l-Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān al-Kohen: 33 dirhams. Of that, he collected 7 dirhams …
Verso (original use): Probably official correspondence. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, wide space between the lines.
Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from someone calling himself Raʾs al-Kull (a title of the yeshiva, in the address) to somebody in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in …
Legal documents, in Arabic script. Looks like three distinct documents, one large one on recto and two smaller ones on verso. Bunch of names of …
Letter by Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen to his cousin and brother-in-law, Natan b. Shelomo, informing him that everything was done for al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) as …
Letter in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of the first four lines are preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry or liturgical text.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …
Accounts.
Small fragment probably from a legal note. Faded and damaged. Refers to "Abū ʿAlī the husband of her sister... Ibn al-Dimyāṭī." In the margin refers …