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Fragment of a letter to a Sitt Rayhan (who is addressed as 'Mother'), referring to an extraordinary event in the community which has the writer confused. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Fragment of a letter from Salama b. Ibrahim, probably from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding flax. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #766) VMR
Minute fragment, from the bottom of a legal deed. Only partial signatures are preserved one of those is [... ba]r Perahya Hakohen. AA
Minute fragment, from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. AA
Late. Minute fragment from a top of a legal deed, mentioning אדוננו הנגיד Our Master the Nagid. AA
Letter to Abū l-[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Damaged fragment in poetic Hebrew, probably from top of a letter to a notable. AA
Recto: Judaeo-Arabic accounts, mentioning nuts. Verso: Arabic jottings or small fragment of a document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ṣedaqa the elder. (Information from CUDL)
List, possibly for tax purposes, mentioning many names, including Abū l-Bayyān, Abū Zikrī and the wife of Abū Kaṯīr. (Information from CUDL)
Letter; possibly to Shāwil b. Khajara (?); also mentions Joseph b. Shāwil. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Judaeo-Arabic order of payment by David ha-Nasi to the communal officials, Maḥfūẓ and Sālim, to pay out 29 dirhams to the traders and 'shaddādīn.' (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Some legible bits: ḥaḍrat sayyidnā al-sharīf(?) al-[...] al-mukhliṣ [...] al-mulk; someone renting something from someone; New Cairo; trade (tijāra); al-ḥāmī; the phrase "kull jawhar bihā khārij." Dated: Ramaḍān 455 AH, but this should be checked.
Accounts, mentioning different quantities of silk and sums of money, and the name […] b. Isaac. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: letter in a crude hand. Verso: alphabet. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to pay the elder Khalīl a raṭl of olive oil. (Information from CUDL)
Draft of a note or draft in the hand of Avraham b. Moshe b. Maymūn (Abraham Maimonides) addressed to Yehuda Hakohen (b. Tuviahu) who was the muqqdam of Bilbays (1170's - 1218), including the Arabic phrase muqaddam al-yahūd Bilbays. AA
Letter probably from Abū l-Surūr al-Shāmī to Umm Abū l-Faraj, in Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions the ashrafī currency. Mentions Farajallāh; a teacher; various goods; the house of Avraham; Elʿazar; Zayn al-Dīn. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts; dated 465 AH (= 1072/73 CE). (Information from CUDL)