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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with an elaborate introduction and quotations such as Isaiah 40:31 and Psalms 103:17. Dating: Likely 13th century. Handwriting of Berakhot …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Bill of sale, probably, for an enslaved woman. Fragment (lower right piece). Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Buyer: Mevorakh. Seller: Yequtiʾel. Few details preserved. Signed …
1 مناقشة
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Mentions [...] b. Menaḥem and Hillel b. Yeshuʿa and the phrase "four cubits of land" (used in …
Recto: geonic responsum concerning an individual who had apparently mishandled property belonging to orphans. Verso: pen trials in Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from CUDL. See …
Legal document, Qaraite. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tuesday, 16 Tevet 5525 AM, which is 1765 CE. Venue: House of Shelomo Kohen nin Aharon Kohen known as …
1 نسخ
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Appointment of a judge, listing all of his prerogatives. The handwriting is very familiar; late 12th or early 13th …
Legal document. Dating: Approximately 15 weeks prior to Ḥeshvan 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139 CE. Concerning a debt of 90 dirhams to be paid in …
Recto (secondary use): drafts of documents in Judaeo-Arabic with biblical quotations such as Deuteronomy 17:7. Also mentions Abū l-Surūr, Peraḥya and Barhūn. (Information from CUDL.)
Ketubba. Early. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Damaged list containing names, items and prices or amounts written in Coptic numerals.
IB VII, 45. Letter, written by a trader before leaving Aden for Nahrawāra, mentioning Abū l-Waḥš, Abū Saʿd, Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb and the family …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Yiṣḥaq al-Baṭalyawsī (=of Badajoz) al-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Shemuel, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1065 CE. Ismāʿīl asks …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.
Recto: Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. The cantor ʿEli ha-Kohen pays …
Legal documents. Dating: Ottoman-era, probably. Recto refers to a new gold denomination of currency (al-dhahab al-jadīd al-sulṭānī al-tāmm). Needs further examination.
Verso. Very small tax receipt, but complete with registrations/mottos/multiple hands. It is "for the poor Jews (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) in Fustat. The year 615 AH is …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Sivan 4895 AM, which is 1135 CE, under the authority of …
Possibly a legal note or account. Looks late. Mentions Yosef, al-Kohen, and Abū Saʿīd.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). One of the parties is [...] …
Account in Arabic script, seems to be private though the layout resembles official documents. "Account of the soap which arrived on the date of [...] …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. Similar to the letter that Barhun’s brother, Yosef, wrote. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Accounts, in Arabic script.
Receipt for Sayyid al-Ahl for 3 1/2 dinars.
Part of a rabbinic text in Hebrew and unidentified texts in Arabic script (Ottoman Turkish?). (Information in part from CUDL.) Needs examination.
Letter from Miryam to her brother, Moses Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168-1204 CE). Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Husband: Netanʾel b. [...]. Wife: [...]ā bt. Yefet.
State document, Ayyubid period. Petition to an Ayyubid ruler regarding the appointment of military personnel: ʿUmar b. Masʿūd, leader of the archers in Alexandria of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك عمر بن مسعود مقدم الرماة
القوسية ثغر الاسكندرية المحروسـ[ـة]
يقبل الارض وين…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave ʿUmar ibn Masʿūd, the leader of the archers
in the frontier city of Alexandria,…
Right fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Asking for a favor from the addressee (sayyidnā). The sender says that he would be able to obtain …
Recto: Fiscal document, minute fragment thereof, from the left margin. Dated 27 Ramaḍān, "aẓẓāma--llāhu barakatuhā". Verso: possibly second side of the same document; mostly blank …
An incomplete deed of a sale of one quarter of a house by a public leader, Ibn al-ʿAjamī, to the wife of a money assayer …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning Ibn Abū l-[...]ān and Bāb(?) al-Ḥarīr (silk) in New Cairo (al-Muʿizziya) and Fustat. Also specifies a sum of cash. …
Magical instructions.
Unidentified
Deed of manumission in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Shevaṭ 1492 Seleucid = 20 January 1181 CE. In which …
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with a visit to the synagogue at Dammūh (l. 10) during a time of unrest. The sender …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Salāma b. Asad the perfumer to Abū Saʿīd al-Afṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual spellings. Dating: 12th century (the addressee is well known …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.Refers to Rabbenu Simḥa he-Ḥakham; Cairo; [...] b. Abū Sahl; that …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions exchange rates several times; mastic; having purchased cinnabar in partnership with Hārūn b. Nissim; and other names …