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List of names and accounts under the heading "Sues" (סואייס). The dating for this fragment is likely from 16th-century. The verso is blank but on …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of itemized food ingredients, quantities, and associated dates. One of the lists also includes surnames. Based on the paleography the dating is …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Dated to the 8th/14th century.
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Business letter mentioning the copying of quires (karārīs) for Sayyidunā al-Nasi. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān has told the writer that the addressee had sent 4.5 dirhams, …
1 نسخ
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Small fragment from a letter. Mentions young men (ṣibyān) and livelihood (maʿīsha).
1 مناقشة
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions revenue from sugarcane (qand), the capital (raʾsmāl) of Abū l-Surūr, and al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.
The activity of Elḥanan b. Shemarya as a judge, a holograph: warns someone that he will be banished unless he appears in court the following …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Recto (reuse): Letter from the fledgling cantor [...] b. Shelomo(?) al-Ḥalabī, in Malīj, to his mother, in Fustat (care of Hillel al-Fuqqāʿī in the druggists' …
Responsa of the geonim. published.
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 50-52) Folio 14r
Legal document, probably a receipt, with parallel Arabic script in an official looking hand. Verso contains a fragmentary ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Ketubba formulary or draft. Sample date: Shevat [1]971 Seleucid, which is 1660 CE. Sample groom: Naḥum ha-Kohen.
Copy of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to the community in Fez. The beginning of the 11th century, handwriting of Sahlan b. Avraham. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With some unusual and careless spellings. Requesting that the addressee purchase various commodities, including two pounds of myrtle and different kinds of …
6 bifolia. These all appear to be literary except for the left folio of P5, which is a legal document concerning a real estate transaction. …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the right side of recto). Either to or from Abū Isḥāq Avraham. The sender arrived safely …
Two different letters of recommendation (one on recto, one on verso) for a scholar from a foreign land, who is apparently an eligible bachelor (ʿāzib) …
Accounts in Arabic script. Many names are mentioned. Dated: 6[..] AH = 1203–1300 CE.
Minute fragment- opening words of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Letter in Arabic script. Most of the paper is preserved, but the text is very faded and overwritten with Hebrew jottings. Needs examination.
IB V, 40c. Order of one raṭl of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib) by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
Lists of food items and calligraphic signature practice by a certain Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Fragment a bill of compromise (פשרה) written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two people and their brother; a house called Dār al-Jazīra; …
Tabular accounts in Arabic and either Coptic numerals or some form of shorthand (often crossing out an entry with a vertical line). Mentions names such …
Legal document in which Khaluf b. Hayyim agrees that Ezra b. Yosef will pay him every month half a dinar of a debt of one …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic between family members. Interesting orthography: אלשעאר for אלצגאר. Mentions "the water in the khalīj (canal)."
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mainly love poetry. One of them has a blazon of the beloved along with references to …
Hebrew phrases to be addressed to a judge or Nagid. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
IB VI, 45. Description from BL OR 10578B.1: Letter from Maʿānī, in an unknown location, to his brother Mūsā, in Fustat. The letter is in …
3 نسخ
Family letter from a son to his father, Abu al-Muna al-Muwaffaq. Two main family matters are discussed. First, the son states that his brother-in-law, a …
Decree of investiture(?); two lines widely spaced. Contains rhymed prose in praise of someone: "the stars in the sky.......in their rotation like the order of …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1473 Seleucid = 2 August 1162 CE. Husband: Thābit b. Abū l-Faraj. Wife: Sitt al-Nās …