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Recto, with the address on verso: Mercantile letter from Yehuda b. Moshe to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shaʿyā, in Fustat. In Arabic script, …
אין רשומות קשורות
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
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Book list. Location: Bilbays.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Taṭāy (תטאי). Dated: 20 Adar 4812 AM, which is February 1052 CE. Husband: Yeshūʿa b. Mev[orakh?] of Alexandria. Wife: ʿAziza …
דיון אחד
IB V, 29. Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions the purchase of two silk cushions for 364 dinars (!?). On verso there …
2 תעתוקים
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic reporting a conversation--likely a disagreement. The writer mentions a warrāq, the fact that he doesn't trust something/someone, and a legal …
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly a legal formulary or dealing with legal issues: e.g. "הולד שלקיימה" on recto. Requires further examination.
Letter of business written in the 11th century, mentioning the rīf (‘the (Egyptian) province’). (Information from CUDL.) Looks like the same handwriting as T-S 10J15.24 …
Opening of a letter to the communities of Egypt from the community of Ramla.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Verso (earlier use): Letter or letter draft in Arabic script. The addressee is called 'my brother.' Mainly the opening blessings are preserved, and the substance …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn b. Hiba in New Cairo.
Portion of a legal document in Arabic script. Someone acknowledges a debt to someone (... wa-dhimmatī wa-khāliṣ [mālī]...) and mentions crops (al-ghullāt).
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably literary but could be documentary - needs examination.
Deuteronomy 34:3-12, with a colophon in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1665 Sel. (= 1353/54 CE). (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document, fragmentary, calling for someone to give evidence about a certain person's misconduct and who is subject to a herem (excommunication). (Information from Goitein's …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Shlomo b. Eliyahu and the bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Ya'aqov Halevi.
Letter of condolence addressed to a certain Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva, on the death of a woman (al-kabīra). Looks like the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi …
Record in a court notebook. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Two complementary fragments, not providing a complete document. A venture on behalf of …
Letter fragment addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 12th or early 13th century, based on the handwriting. The writer accuses her of …
On verso there is a neat table of all the Greek/Coptic numerals in ascending order from 1 to 900,000 (the symbols start repeating after a …
Two fragments of a legal document. Mentions Abū Isḥāq Avraham and Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi (probably the brother of Ḥalfon). No details of the case …
Letter from Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably in Jerusalem or Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: 13 Kislev [4803 AM] = 29 November …
תעתוק אחד
Unidentified text, in a faded Arabic script.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower part only). Dating: Late 11th century. Describing communal strife and what appears to be an uprising of common people …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as ʿAṭiyya al-Dallāl and Wafāʾ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a fiscal document referring to the annual budget of the Dīwān al-Abwāb (aka Dīwān al-Kharājī wa-l-Hilālī) "من مال ضمان ديوان الابواب". Cf. ENA …
Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. In the handwriting of ʿAllūsh the …
אטאל אללה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ומן תופיקה לא
אכלאך כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי נצ אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק
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תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Minute fragment, mostly blank but with some faint text visible in Hebrew(?) script on the verso.
Recto: Acknowledgement of the payment of rent. Dated: 3 Rabīʿ I 607 AH, which is 25 August 1210 CE. Aḥmad b. al-Shaykh ʿAlī Ibn al-Akhḍar …
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.]
Aḥmad [ … ] ibn al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar acknowledged
with a legal acknowledgeme…
Verso (original use): Looks like a bifolio from a qāḍī court ledger. Copies of two documents are preserved, with signatures. Needs examination. On recto there …
Letter of appeal for charity from Abū l-Riḍā b. Faraj to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya at an early point in his career. Beautifully written. …
Legal document in Arabic script with traces of one attestation. Fragment (lower right corner). Needs further examination. Pinholes at the margin ~3–4mm apart.
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Join: Amir Ashur. Recto: Document referring to a woman whose husband traveled to …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: Fragment of recycled paper with a single line of Arabic text (basmala), possibly from a larger document.
Fragment of a letter probably addressed to Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (“ha-Nagid ha-Gadol”). In Judaeo-Arabic. Uses an unusual variant of a blessing formula: khallada allāh suʿudahā …
Small fragment of a ketubba. The numbers 15 and 40 appear. The names Yefet and Sitt al-[...] may appear in the bottom line.
Three or four drafts of poems in Judaeo-Arabic. The poem on recto is the most polished and is headed "ʿalā [...] ha-ereṣ ha-meyuḥedet," which could …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. This is the second or final page of what was originally a longer letter. There is an unusual …
Recto is an unidentified text in Arabic script, which at first glance looks like a state document, though mentions "yawm al-dīn," which sounds more like …
List of deaths in Fustat from the last day of Tevet to the 29th of Nisan 1437 (27 December 1125 - 23 April 1126). By …