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Genealogical list of Fustat families, beginning with the Nānū family. Also mentions Abū l-Maʿālī ʿOvadya b. ʿUlla "the Nagid of the land of Israel and …
תעתוק אחד
None
Letter from an unidentified sender addressed at least in part to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is the second (or at any rate final) folio …
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Busir, to Abu al-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef, Fustat. The letter contains details about the purchase of flax …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה מן בוציר יום
אלאתנין מסתהל אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגת[מאע]
בך ע…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Interesting layout. Items include ṭarrāḥa; liḥāf; ṣundū. Names such as Makārim; Muḥammad. Recto is official-looking but is …
Pledges for charity on Sabbath lekh lekha of the year 1647, the third week of the Jewish liturgical year, falling in October 1335 (Goitein). The …
Recto: List of names and numbers (written out in words) in Arabic script. Purpose unclear. On verso a list of names in Judaeo-Arabic: "The house …
Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. Name: Ibrāhīm. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral …
Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf, in al-Maḥalla. Dating: 11th century. For the sender, see also …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab. Containing the beginnings of 11 lines. Widened line spacing. Written in his usual style …
Popular poetry? A narrative about mourning including quoted speech and laments, about the death of Yosef and Ṣedaqa, and addressing someone called Abū Naṣr. Merits …
IB III, 29a. Poem composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū in honor of Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Labrāt Ibn Sughmār. Location: Yemen. Dating: ca. …
2 תעתוקים
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, complete. Dated in the month of Tammuz in the final lines of the verso, but without a year. The letter was …
A butcher's bill for meat for Rosh Hashana. Goitein writes, "On weekends the standard fare was chicken, but for the two days of New Year, …
דיון אחד
Quire of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Each bifolio contains discrete entries, many beginning "muḥasabat X." ENA 3928.9: Mentions Mūsā al-[...]; the price of …
Large legal document. Fragment (left side only). Written in a large square hand. Dating: Might be 11th century. Concerns a partnership in a shop and …
Account in Arabic script (information from Marina Rustow). On recto there is Sa'adia Gaon's translation of the Pentateuch, Leviticus 11:13-20 (information from Penn Catalog).
IB VII, 19. Court register, fragment. Upper left corner of a legal record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Dating: 1127-38, …
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (upper right corner). Mentions someone or something arriving in אלתסלך(?). Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on verso.
Accounts in Arabic script, perhaps late medieval or early modern. Requires further examination.
Bifolio. Three of the four pages: mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand might be known. One page lists an expense of at least 1 1/4 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions a dukkān and [Abū] l-Surūr.
Accounts of Yaḥyā Ḥajabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Small but rich with tantalizing details. The handwriting is reminiscent of some of the India Book letters. …
Accounts.
Letter fragment containing only praises for the addressee in Hebrew. The address is written in both Arabic and Hebrew. None of the names or content …
Pen trials.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū l-Faḍl 7 dinars. Dated Av 1451 …
Iqrār document, in Arabic script. Al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms in …
ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه
سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها
جواب(؟) لما كان في يوم الاثنين خمسة ايام مضت في شهر
رجب الفرد ١٢٣…
Printed fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a newspaper. Mentions a public auction, a telegram (risāla barqiyya), and something Austrian.
Letter of appeal to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), begging for financial assistance, mentioning an old man who is sick and the plight of at …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of recto). Sent from an unidentified writer, in Damsīs, to his 'brother', probably to Fustat. Dating: 11th century. …
IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. In …
Your two servants took note of
what you …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Legal record (#6) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (spanning ff. 2r-3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Document 6) Folio 2r
Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, rudimentary hand and spellings. Building expenses: mentions a house; clay; tiles; palm fronds (jarīd); food; nāshūsh; a wakāla; plaster; the …
Description from NLI 577.10/1: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century; this range can probably be narrowed based on the …
Small fragment of an Arabic document.
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1070. The writer answers Nahray’s request to check the option of …
State document, in Arabic script. The perfumers/druggists (ʿaṭṭārīn) of Fustat petition the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Ṣālīḥ (Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb, r. 1240–49) about the injustice of …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The slaves kiss the ground in the lofty, lordly presence of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may G…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד