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Leter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Names of writer and addressee are missing. Mentions numerous people: Simḥa, Yūsuf, Ibn al-Sharābī, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Arabic script, well preserved, discussing business matters and sending greetings to and from family members. Mentions: 25 nuqra dirhams (r7 and r13 and …
אין רשומות קשורות
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ḥasan b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat.
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Recto: legal document written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127-1139 CE). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Few details preserved. …
Possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script, reused for a Judaeo-Arabic list of items and quantities written between the lines.
Legal query addressed to Great Rav Elʿazar of Alexandria (ha-Gaon, ha-Nasi). Concerning two men who had an argument over chess. "The two spread out the …
Official document (receipt?) of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions wuṣūlāt/receipts and the sum still owed.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Refers to a period of a year and a half and a trust/security (amāna).
Small fragment of accounts, mainly or entirely numerals.
Recto: draft of a letter from Yosef b. Saʿīd, to his brother Moshe. In Hebrew. Late. Greetings are offered to his father and (another) brother. …
Fragment of a deed of release (שטר אביזאריה).
Receipt. Headed by the glyph. Al-Ḥājj Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf collected the rent for Muḥarram [6]22 AH (= January/February 1225 CE) in the last third of …
Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe …
End of an unidentified (legal?) Arabic document on verso. Mentions two raṭls and the number three and "owed by him." Recto is the continuation of …
Most of a long, very distressed letter from Menaḥem, writing in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo, to a business associate, whose family lives in Fustāṭ/Cairo and who has traveled. …
תעתוק אחד
Draft, in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), of an addition to the last will of the parnas Eli ha-Kohen …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic headed by two Bible verses. The first ~10 lines are blessings for the addressee, evidently a communal official close to the head …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). On parchment. Involving the rent of an apartment (ṭabaqa). Parties are [...] b. …
Recto, right side: Account of expenditures in Dammuh (ca. 1182-3) by Sayyid al-Ahl, consisting of a list of disbursements made at the plantation in Dammuh …
Record, as dictated by al-Shaykh Sayyid al-Ahl b. al- ....
of expenditures made by him on the account of the plantation at D…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The verso bears a date, possibly ending with the year 921 AH (כאץ), but it is unclear which month the scribe …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: ʿAllūn b. Dāʾūd (?). Bride: Mulūk bt. Avraham. The date is only partially preserved.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Including for sugar candy (qand).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Receipt or order of some kind.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as ʿAṭiyya al-Dallāl and Wafāʾ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto, one of the entries mentions iron. The scribal hand is difficult to place chronologically, perhaps late medieval or 16th-17th-century. Requires …
Fragment of a legal document. The terms sāiʾba (endowment/waqf property more generally ) and mūwāqafa (safeguarding waqf/endowment properties) are suggestive that the document could be …
و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت
وموافقة ولا مواقفة
من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……
الفاضل الاجل الاسعد
Small fragment of a letter from a son to his father (al-wālid al-makhdūm). (Information from CUDL)
Accounts of expenditures for the maintenance of properties (عمارة الاملاك). On verso some names are mentioned, including Ṣadaqa b. Yūsuf(?).
Bifolio. Two of the pages contain a Hebrew ṣidduq din (funeral piyyuṭ) for the death of a boy. The other two pages contain accounts in …
Fragment of a writ agency. Location: Tyre. Dated: 4772 AM = 1011/12 CE.
Recto: Legal document(s). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Sivan 5547 AM, which is 1787 CE. ʿIsqa agreement in the "negotiation/brokerage business" = עסק המשא ומתן (ll. …
Unidentified document(s), maybe legal or official or simply accounts. Dated: Thursday, 13 Shaʿbān 632 AH = 3 May 1235 CE. Several names are mentioned, but …
Debt contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE, as there is no …
Brief official letter, or report in Arabic script. Late/ With a stamped seal in the margin next to the name of the issuer/sender (Muṣṭafā Agha/Ağa). …
List of commercial goods. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Accounting for five months, ca. 1230. Two leaves, the first of which has writing on both sides. The first part is an estimate of the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Literary text in Arabic. Anecdotes about social parasites (ṭufaylī, pl. ṭufayliyya).
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 23 Nisan 1434 = 20 April 1123 CE. Upper part of a …