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Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relates to the India Book. Possibly written in Yemen. The sender's name looks like Abū Naṣr and the addressee's name looks …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Likely a promissory note stating that "I owe" a sum of money to "[...] al-Yahūdī."
Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
List of names with quantities of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100-1138). Contributors list or distribution list of wheat? Names include: …
1 نسخ
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urgently asking the addressee to send the volume of Bereshit that the writer had purchased from him in al-Maḥalla in the shop …
Fragment of a deed of sale of a property, here describing the property.
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …
Verso: Engagement agreement in Hebrew. Date: 8 Kislev 5459 AM (November 1698 CE). The recto contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from the first of Tūt of …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, quite faded. Reports that someone went up from Alexandria and reported that the ship of Ibn [ʿA]mmār(?) capsized and the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and an unclear numeral system (Coptic?). Mentions several obscure terms; sour grapes (ḥiṣrim); sugar; tutty; al-ḥakīm; jars of wine
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent …
Letter from הדוד(?) addressed to a certain Ṭahor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1220 CE, based on the mention of Eliyyahu the Judge and Avraham Maimonides …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Possibly accounts. Faded.
Ottoman-era rental receipt, in Arabic script written on a bifolio. The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer …
Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa …
Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids addressed to a certain Avraham. In Hebrew. With an undeciphered motto in the header …
Fragment of a legal document; concerning alimony and other marital matters between spouses; [...] Kohen b. Shelomo appears at the bottom. In the hand of …
Arabic literary text, with rubrication. Pinholes at the margin ~3–5mm apart. Note in the volume at JTS says these two pages were detached from one …
Letter asking for financial help, sent from Jerusalem to Bilbays and signed by Yosef b. Gershon and Yeḥiel ha-Ṣarfati (the Frenchman). For a discussion in …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Concerning Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen who who bought dyed cloth from Abū …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband …
Secondary use: A judge's inventory of possessions and money relating to Avraham b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Ṭāhir. Possibly the inventory of a coppersmith who possessed …
Fragment from a legal document or letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions (Abū l-)Faraj and Dāʾūd, the court of 'our master' (Maṣliaḥ …
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Ḥassūn and al-Asyūṭī.
Letter from an unknown writer, in Rashīd, to the sage R. Badosa, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The writer …
Legal fragment. There are several interlinear corrections. Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate …
Legal document. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tammuz 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. In which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu purchases from Abū l-Faḍl …
אשתרות אבי אלברכאת בן ר' אליה ס'ט מן אבו אלפצ'ל בן מחאסן יערף באבן אלכאמכי
אלכהן ס'ט מצחף נביאים בכמסה וסתין דרהמא נ…
A record of a testimony.
Abu'l-Baraka't, son of R. Elijah - (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd) - bought from Abu'l-Fad'l b. Mah'a'sin, who is …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Verso (original use): Four lines from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān. Dating: likely early 11th century. Needs examination.
The main text is a Judaeo-Arabic poem/prayer. On verso at 180 degrees there are a few lines of accounts in Arabic, mentioning the names Yehuda …
Recto: biblical verses, including Genesis 31:53. Verso: unidentified Arabic text, possibly a letter . (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Mentions business matters, Abū Saʿd b. Munajjā, and Ibrāhīm b. Ṭāhir. Needs further examination.
Magical recipes/spells in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script: (min nār al-[...] bi-l-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm . . . ).
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning names such as Abū Naṣr. See ENA 2713.26 (PGPID 4532). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Ibrāhīm, unknown location, to Ḥayya ha-Kohen the teacher, in Palermo ("al-madīna"), Sicily. The addressee is asked to deliver two tailored woolen mayzar covers, …
Letter addressed to 'our lord,' dealing with a dispute between friends. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 295, 588)
Several fragments from a business letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him that he …
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 …
Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions: a feminine(? nisāʾī) robe; "a robe for me"; "a robe for" someone else; the tailor; mats; …