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Business letter. Mainly in Hebrew, with scattered words in Judaeo-Arabic and perhaps other languages. Late. Dealing with flax, clove, frankincense, aloe vera, cassia fistula. Mentions …
1 نسخ
Late account, but probably no later than the 15th century based on the paleography. One of the headings on the verso mentions al-amir. Requires further …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal document. Location: Probably Minyat Zifta. Involves Abū l-Riḍā and his brother Ḥ[asan?] the sons of Khalaf ha-Levi. Signed by Sheʾerit b. Yakhin ha-Kohen; Yefet …
1 مناقشة
Petition or report or letter, Mamluk era? A large magnitude from the top of the fragment is missing and a short strip from the right …
On verso Arabic Astrological text. Above the text two Hebrew signatures: 'Eli Hakohen b. Yeshu'a and Shemuel Hakohen Rosh Yeshiva shel Golah (Head of the …
Perhaps a bookbinding—at least four 3 manuscripts are folded around each other here into a narrow vertical strip, partially unfolded at the top. One of …
Fragment of a late legal document involving Shelomo b. Elʿazar Skanda (?) and Yehuda Marājī (?). The third line features a phrase with at least …
Letter seeking to pawn a ring for a loan of three dirhams until after the holiday. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of a Hebrew letter. Dating: Ca. 16th or 17th century. Mentions the addressee's wife on recto and Alexandria in the address on verso. …
On recto a poem in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso a sample letter to a notable. AA
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Aṭfīḥ. The handwriting seems consistent with Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, who …
From a book containing records of donations collected on the Shabbatot of the first years of the 19th century. The first JRL image associated with …
Capitation tax receipt for Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam(?) in Fustat for the year 520(?) AH.
Large account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing many types of garments. Also mentioning the word Mahdawī (the nisba of al-Mahdiyya).
Letter to Abū l-Faraj [...] Yaʿaqov b. David, Fusṭāṭ. In a calligraphic Hebrew opening with a poem. Fragment of the beginning. The address on verso …
Draft of a court declaration written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu regarding the estate of the late physician (al-mutaṭabbib al-ḥakīm) Ibrāhim b. Mukhtār Ibn Ilyās. He …
Halakhic text or notes (הארות האלו) in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu.
Autograph leaves of Maimonides, Treatise on sexual intercourse. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba dated 13 December 1799 CE (15 Kislev 5560 AM) from Cairo, for Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Muḥibb and Palomba bt. Shalom ha-Levi. The me'ukhar is …
Verso: Reused fragment with two partial lines of an Arabic state document. Mentions a group of people who want help (وان غرضهم مساعدة). Reused for …
Legal document. Court ruling. Dated: July 1084. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Location: Fustat. Yaḥyā b. Samuel sues Amram b. Abraham for …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. The layout and hand are reminiscent of fiscal documents, but the headers (qaṣṭīr = qaṣdīr = tin, caraway, mastic, …
Extremely faded document(s) in Arabic script.
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1059. Mentions trading with Byzantium and Sicily. Writes about beads, especially …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמהדיה ה כלון מן
שבט ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין תקדמת כתבי אליך פי א…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Debt contract. Tamīm b. Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Concerning the Babylonian synagogue, also mentions the hafṭara (ifṭāra). The addressee may be a cantor or communal leader. …
Letter from an unnamed woman, in al-Mahdiyya, to her brother, probably in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is concerned with family matters. She insistently urges …
Legal document, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Names [...] b. Efrayim; Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen ha-Nikhbad; Isḥāq al-Nafūsī. Also …
This document, which continues onto the verso, lists in detail payments to individuals, some for commodities (including bread, flour, and meat), as well as amounts …
Fatimid decree (possibly in the hand of Ibn al-Ṣayrafī himself?). Two lines preserved. See also the separate PGP record for the letter by Yeḥezqel b. …
Small fragment of a letter, probably.
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. November 29, 1061. Concerning copying books and family matters. Mentions Zakkai ha-Nasi, …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Damascus, from a Maghribi who intends to go to Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hajay, approximately 1035.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. The paper was recycled for pen trials on the recto.
Fragment of a business letter, probably 11th-century, as it mentions Barhūn and Nahray. Difficult to read due to ink smudging; needs further examination.
Deed of sale. Location: Ḥamida/Ḥamuda, Yemen. Dated: 24 Av במ״ד, which is likely 2044 Seleucid = 5 August 1733 CE. The parties include [..] and …
Maimonides autograph of the Mishneh Torah.
Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her …
Deposits
from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of
the notables, of power and renown, his excellency
our master the noble…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Legal proceedings. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Sayyid al-Ahl b. Naḥman appears before the court and claims her property and her ketubba of 30 dinars following the …
Recipe, potentially a medical prescription. Mentions licorice and dates and quantities measured in ounces (ūqiyya).
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis (=Eliyyahu the Judge?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding a certain Abū l-Bayān al-L[evi?] (=Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi?). Apparently Abū l-Bayān …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100–1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from a Qaraite probably of Persian origin. His location is unknown (perhaps Ramla or Fustat), as are the identity of the addressee and his …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Letter relating the affairs of a teacher and scribe who had been offered a contract by the community to teach for 20 dirhams a week …