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Letter fragment (bottom half). In Hebrew. It is not entirely clear how this relates to the letter on verso. Both recto and verso are appeals …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Fiscal account.
Medical recipes in Arabic. ENA 3918.6v begins with several different remedies for lice (qaml) of the hair, beard, and/or eyebrows. ENA 3961.3 cites Galen and …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli Rosh ha-Seder. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks the addressees to help him pay his debts. Greetings and …
1 مناقشة
Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in …
1 نسخ
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions categories of kharāj(tax) in dirhams. Needs examination.
State document or letter. In Arabic script. Four lines probably from the bottom of the document. Reused for jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. Needs examination.
Legal testimony with some unusual formulae and a high proportion of Aramaic (e.g., מהודענא in l. 2). Fragment: only the left side is preserved. Location: …
Legal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed זכרון עדות. Dated: 1540 Seleucid, which is 1228/29 CE. Despite the heading, it might be a legal query, e.g., if …
Trials of the pen in a fiscal or administrative hand, including the glyph, the basmala and "al-shaykh al-ajall."
Legal document referring to commercial transactions, mentioning commodities such as "100 and 1/6 of 100" of ammonia, a brocade mattress (martaba dībāj), two pillows, a …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the teacher Shemuʾel and "your sister Sara." Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
Description from NLI 577.10/1: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century; this range can probably be narrowed based on the …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from a merchant, who had been out of work for a year and a half and suffered heavy losses, to an unnamed individual into …
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably poetry or at least literary. Mentions violet (banafsaj) and emerald (zumurrud). Beautifully written. Needs examination. (There are also …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria and silk.
Letter of request for money addressed to the Qaraite community on occasion of a circumcision. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Goitein may have identified it …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions Rabbenu [...], a request for news, an excuse for not coming in person, something …
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Very faded. Probably addressed to a notable; everything legible seems to be blessings and praises, widened space between the lines. Reused …
Unidentified narrative text in Judaeo-Arabic. Treasure hunting guide? The speaker says that they built "domes on the left and the right" and deposited 120 baskets, …
Letter from Moshe b. Ya'qub, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to two unknown addressees. Dated: Elul 1524 Seleucid = August/September 1213 CE. The writer requests a rapid response "to that which was …
Accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals, written in multiple hands.Mentions: Mufaḍḍal b. [...]; a half qinṭār of myrrh; Abū l-Faḍl …
Long list of names, with various sums of money (mostly dinars, some entries in dirhams). Likely a contributors list. Names include: Abū l-Faraj; Ibn al-Shammāʿ; …
A letter to Ya'aqov Fransin in Rashid Also mentioned Nissim Faranji. 15th century?
Fragment from the end of an account in Arabic script, maybe official. Concerning flour, mentioning 50 irdabbs. Phrases: ما تسلمه من دار المذكور وهـ[ـو] . …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Khalaf b. Muḥammad(?) al-Ṭarābulsī (the Tripolitan), unknown location, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market (sūq al-ʿaṭṭārīn). In Arabic …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Mentions a few sums in dinars.
An appeal to the Karaite community of 'New City' (עיר חדשה) which is likely "Nowe Miasto" in modern-day Poland. This fragment's provenance ties back to …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script, probably literary.
Letter in a very cursive, difficult script. Mentions the names Avraham and [...] b. Ḥalfon.
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Partnership agreement. The shared capital is 70 dinars. Dating: mentions the year 494 …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: [..]45 (probably 1345 Seleucid = 1034 CE). Groom: Avraham ha-Levi. Bride: Durra bt. Shelomo, a virgin and a rich woman. …
Legal document with release formulae. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The name Menashshe b. [...] is mentioned. AA
Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe an account, maybe official. Mentions the phrase "....ʿalā ḥukm al-muqaddam...."
Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. Request to Avraham to summon ʿAbd al-Karīm to the court (apparently he ignored the …