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Late accounts mentioning a variety of incoming payments and goods (many recto entries state "מן קוסטא" but it is unclear whether this should be read …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). Dating: no earlier than ~14th century, and potentially much later, based on the formulae used. After …
Small fragment from a legal deed between a woman and her husband ʿEli regarding a house in Cairo. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …
The end of a late letter, signed with elaborate sigla. Dating: ca. 16th century according to CUDL, however the date is given in gematria as …
Letter/note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. He wants to know if the addressee has purchased the book of Psalms yet (al-muṣḥaf al-tehillim). If so, …
ר חיאל ספר שפטים
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Appeal from the Jewish communal administration in Cairo to Egyptian Jews calling them to fast for a day in the month (Sivan) in remembrance of …
State document or likely a draft of one. One section ends with the phrase “to the chancery (Dīwān al-Inshāʾ).” There might be a mamlūk and …
Litigation in court between the two partners, Farah and Yosef, concerning a business deal for merchandise that was apparently imported from Buna (Bone, Algieria) to …
Letter from Mivḥar b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1125–50 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he arrived safely. His maternal aunt …
תעתוק אחד
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Announcement written in Yiddish from the committee of Ashkenazi Jewish synagogues of Cairo about the reservation of places in the main synagogue and urging those …
Accounts. On recto, the right column is headed "al-mustakhraj" (evidently referring to (tax farming?) revenue) and the left column "al-maṣrūf" (expenditures). Needs further examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably literary.
Report from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo naming the butchers intended for the slaughter of poultry in the 5714AM, and an announcement of the schedule …
Letter from Natan b. Khalaf to Abū l-Faraj Ismāʿīl b. ʿEzra and ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl. Either the sender or the addressees are in Fustat. In …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتابي يا سيدي وريسي اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك وسعادتك وتاييدك وجعلني من كل سو فداك لنصف من المحرم عن سلامة والحمد ل…
Magic recipe.
Probably a list of recipients of funds from the 'mezonot' (אלעניים בתאע אלמזונות). At the top of the list are the cantor, Yedutun, and the …
Petition, or at least a formal-looking letter, in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner).
Verso: Original use. A decree in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk-era. Recto: Small fragment with few lines in Arabic. Probably a recipe or technical instructions (based …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Rabīʿ I 984 AH in the upper left corner of the recto (1576 CE). Among the names mentioned are: (recto) Yahuda …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Farah b. Isma’il, Busir. Around 1053. Farah is in Busir, probably was sent there by Nahray, and …
2 תעתוקים
Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in Cairo. One partner …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: 16th century. Debt contract in which Masʿūd acknowledges a debt of 23 ducats (peraḥim zahav dīwānī). Also mentions …
Probably a court record in Hebrew. Late. The verso bears a potential filing note regarding the "case of Raḥamīm גרגיס (surname), in the matter of …
Letter fragment (right part only) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: possibly 13th century or later, based on the use of the shorthand "אלממ." The writer asks the …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal …
Fragment of a letter concerning Qaraites, the Nasi Yoshiyyahu, and halakhic discussions including the rabbinic prohibition of meat and milk. (Information in part from Goitein …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim from Fustat to a person in Qayrawan. Around 1045. Mentions galls, Camphor, and shipment of money. Nahray Also expresses his …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of an account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded and damaged, difficult to read anything meaningful. There is also text …
Letter from Shemuel b. Eli Gaʾon in Baghdad to an unknown person. In the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl. …
Business letter, minute fragment. (Information from CUDL)
Part of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Ṭoviyya. Groom: [...]a b. Abra[ham]. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by ‘the lesser’ Netanʾel b. Yefet b. …
דיון אחד
Four leaves of examples of begging letters from Jerusalem, collected by Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yosef ("the head of the Yeshivot of Palestine"). Not yet completely …
Letter sent by Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq to Avraham b. Natan the seventh, referring to a rudder (sukkān) ordered by a notable, presumably for his Nile …
Minute fragment from a letter: ומגאראתך עלי . . . תסלם עליך . . .
Two contrary depositions in court concerning a sum of 47 dinars, a female slave, and an apartment. Mentions Abū al-Munajja Thiqat al-Mulk Sulaymān b. Sahl …
קטינה ודירה
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1441 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Probably a fiscal document or receipt, in Arabic script. Dated: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 545 H. Mentions total sum, "al-Jumla". Contains jottings in Hebrew script. Reminiscent …
Recto: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Tishrei 1525 Seleucid (1213 CE). Requires further examination.
Legal document, perhaps Mamluk or early Ottoman-era, with a large and elaborate ʿalāma at the top. Some phrases are preserved including the blessings for the …