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Kitāb al-Sheṭarot (the book of legal formularies) of Hayya Ga'on b. Sherira Ga'on. Per the Bodleian catalog, the copyist or owner is Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel …
אין רשומות קשורות
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fiscal accounting. ʿAlāma at the top: al-ḥamdu lillāhi wa-ʿalayhi tawakkulī. Needs examination.
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Extremely damaged Hebrew-script texts on recto and verso, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. The clearest portion of the text appears at the bottom of the verso mentioning …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 12[..] Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions a shipment sent to Alexandria with the name Zakkār b. ʿAmmār written on it. There is a date, …
Official-looking document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. Mentions a man named Muḥammad and possibly legal problems. Phrases: وقد . . . الرجل وهو محمد …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic discussing the dream which God showed to the shaykh Abū l-Surūr and his wife. It seems that the writer asked somebody …
Probably a state document in Arabic script, reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. The Arabic document is very difficult to read.
Bifolio containing a copy of a decree (sijill muʿaẓẓam) of appointment issued by the caliph al-Āmir (r. 1101–30) at the behest of the vizier al-Afḍal …
Legal record (#18). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī owes 2.25 dinars to Abū l-Murajjā Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. Abū …
Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is mostly extended expressions of deference and flattery. Starting about halfway through verso, it appears that the sender is asking for …
Recto: fragment of a letter in verse to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, in a different hand than verso. Referring to a period of distress (killing, hiding). …
דיון אחד
Legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved, e.g., ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh and Bū Bakr [...] b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: love poetry also …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ending with greetings, including to a dignitary ("ha-Sar ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel"). On verso there are a few lines in …
Arabic, literary. Medical.
Late accounts with many names, for example the elder Manṣūr and Muḥammad b. the elder, and Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Ṭevet 1378 Seleucid = 25 December 1066 CE. In which Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī acknowledges having receiving …
Tables of Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Verso: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Abū ʿAlī and his brother; Manṣūr Nufayʿ; Manṣūr Nuʿmān; Majd Dayyan; Ḥusayn and Yaʿqūb of Marrakesh (Marrākushī), Yosef b. …
Legal document. Draft, probably. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? In Judaeo-Arabic. The wife of Yiftaḥ ha-Dayyan declares that she sold Abū l-Barakāt...
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Possibly dated with a Hijrī year in the headings on the recto and verso but …
Family letter in Arabic script. It seems the sender is congratulating his father on his move to New Cairo, together with the sender's mother and …
Informal note from a certain Yosef, asking for 'a piece of' something, maybe parchment (קטעה רק(?)). On verso there is a line in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): Probably official correspondence. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, wide space between the lines.
Letter from Mūsā b. al-Majjānī to Yosef Raʾs al-kull b. ʿAwkal, spring 1011.
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment, probably literary
Document in Arabic, badly damaged. Dating: Medieval era. Requires further examination. At upper left: مما تسلم من دار ال . . . .
Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …
Order of payment, maybe left incomplete. From [...] al-muʿallim to Isḥāq.
Recto: Letter from somebody, in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1230s. The purpose of the …
A Gaonic responsa on bigamy. Friedman edits the fifth responsum on the bifolio.
Verso (original use): Letter fragment in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Written in very eloquent style and partially in rhymed prose (sajʿ). Includes "a glimmer …
Technical instructions in Hebrew. Magical?
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