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Legal fragment in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions sums of money and an agent (al-wakīl). No names clearly preserved. There …
אין רשומות קשורות
Accounts of rents of communal apartments occupied (with one or possibly two exceptions) by women, including Dār al-Maqāniʿiyya and Dar Ibn al-Kallām. Dating: ca. 1181 …
דיון אחד
Official receipt of some kind. For Bū Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm. Very busy. Quite faded, too. There is the remnant of an earlier document on verso. …
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Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Pen trials in Arabic script. Notable for the excellent calligraphy. Possibly an exemplar of the Arabic alphabet for students.
Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
List of spices in Arabic script. There is also another kind of accounting in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, in a different hand. Needs further …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite damaged. Mentions pepper; and possibly a butcher. Otherwise difficult to read anything meaningful.
Fragment of a legal document, likely a dowry list related to a marriage agreement. In a rudimentary hand, likely Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (though …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Mentions Yehuda קאשטורו, perhaps a variant of the surname Castro. Possibly mentioning an enslaved …
Minute fragment in Hebrew. The recto and verso are in the same scribal hand, possibly literary.
Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Ḥalfon, al-Maḥalla, to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov (who has a son named Yaʿaqov as well), Cairo. The writer reports that he …
2 תעתוקים
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Fiscal account?
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Some lines crossed out near the bottom.
Letter from a certain Peraḥya to the Nasi Shelomo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that he had intended to pay him a visit on the …
Letter from the Mosul Nasi whom Gil refers to as Jalāl al-Dawla. Dated: Ḥannuka 1548 Seleucid = 1237 CE. Concerns in part a negotiation between …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Table in Arabic letters, might be astronomical.
Bill of sale in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av [14]9[.] Seleucid = 1179–88 CE. This can likely be narrowed to …
Bifolio containing three pages of a text on the calendar in Judaeo-Arabic. The fourth page is in Arabic script and seems to be discussing the …
Memorial list. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a lovely hand. Mentions a period of 1 year; "my brother Ibrāhīm"; possibly someone asking "have you married?" and the …
Legal document mentioning the late [Abū] Manṣūr, someones late father Thanāʾ, Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī b. Abū l-Faḍl known as Ibn al-Rabbāṭ. (Information from CUDL.) See …
Poetry, mostly in Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew.
Letter from a certain Hilāl. He reports that as requested he has met up as requested with his in-law Abū l-Fakhr regarding Ibn Budayr and …
Hebrew poetry composition with other jottings, including long lists of rhyme words. The hand has features in common with that of Maimonides but is probably …
Letter from the Yeshiva to the community of Ḥaṣor. Friedman suggests that the hand is that of Yeshoshuaʿ b. ʿEli, but Gil disagrees and thinks …
תעתוק אחד
A few large words in Arabic from a state document.
Bottom left corner fragment of a legal contract, late. Deed of sale. Three signatures in the form of cartouches at the bottom. Second fragment of …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably to one of his brothers. Mentions the capitation tax; a wife; someone who is perishing …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, handwriting resembles that of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Only the first two lines and last seven lines are preserved. Not much of substance …
3 bifolios from an Arabic medical treatise in beautiful calligraphic script with diacritical marks.
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Possibly a deed of sale or lease of a property. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Arabic script, likely fiscal but might be private. On verso mentions Ṣafar 503 or 530 AH. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman era. Dated 24 Ramadan 963 AH (גסץ), 1556 CE. The scribe has a distinctive gimmel that looks like nūn at …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Dating: 11th–13th century. 6 lines from the middle partially preserved. Mentions Abū Saʿīd and Abū l-Faraj. Needs further examination.
Recto (probably secondary use): Mercantile letter, possibly from Isḥāq b. I[brāhīm?] b. Isḥāq to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yosef(?) al-[...]nī. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a large …
Recto: Part of an Arabic letter very likely from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He mentions Abu l-Surur and …
Fragment, text on prognostications. Each prediction starts with a new point (al-bāb). Contains some Hebrew script interspersed. Verso conatins a note saying that this paper …
Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. There is an 'emet' header and the letter addresses itself to "the community" (al-jamāʿa). …