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Letter sent from Qayrawān by Yosef b. Khalfa to Khalluf b. Faraḥ b. al-Zarbī, probably in Fustat dealing with goods and their prices in Palermo. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Query to Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid) on the issue of a man who married a second wife while traveling outside the city in which he resides …
1 نسخ
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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Address of a letter from an unknown sender, in Rashīd (Rosetta), to Moshe ha-Levi, in Fustat/Cairo. Dating: ca. 18th century. Reused on recto for a …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Wife: Sitt al-Bahāʾ bt. Yakhin. Husband: Yefet b. Saʿadya. Location: Malīj. Dated: 8 Adar II 1445 Seleucid = 5 March 1134 CE. …
1 مناقشة
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the month of Shawwāl but it is unclear how the year should be interpreted given that the month is Hijrī: …
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions an iqṭāʿ. Fragmentary.
Fragment of a legal document in which someone promises to pay his debt. In the hand of Shela b. Mevasser? Involves [...] b. Binyamin and …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Settlement of a marital dispute between Elʿazar and his wife.
2 نسخين
Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged …
Crumbled fragment. Needs examination.
Lower part of a letter, in which members of a local community object to a muqaddam imposed on them. (Information from Goitein's typed texts.)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. The writer is mourning a death in the family (perhaps of one of his sons?) and asks "the whole …
Letter from Saʿīd b. Yūnus, in אלמנימון (al-Munaymūn, probably the settlement now know as Maymūn), to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, ca. 1060. The writer …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from the judge Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen, apparently in or near Ashqelon, to ʿAmram b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Ḥusayn), apparently in …
Ownership note for Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver ha-Kohen. At the bottom of the page there are also two lines in Arabic script.
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 …
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Tammuz 1467 Seleucid, which is July 1156 CE, under the authority of the …
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. These pages are a register of marriage contracts. In …
Legal deed. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: 17 Tevet 5318 AM = 8 December 1557 CE. Settling debts between Shelomo, Rahamim and Reʾuven. Signed by Avraham …
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Letter fragment. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. The writer seems to be complaining about something. Mentions colocynth (al-ḥanẓal) and melon (al-faqqūs); the addressee's reward for …
Recto: Letter likely addressed to one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (14th or 15th century). The sender asks for permission to release a vow about …
Capitation tax receipt for Faraj b. Sālim a Jewish silk worker (qazzāz) in Fustat. Needs further examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Five fragmented lines of what seems like a petition or an internal correspondence. Mentions land-tax (bi-kharājihi). Needs examination.
]ـن امر[
وحد كل الحد في بحصـ[
واعلم انه وان ارقد(؟) ان و[
بخراجه والرقبان(؟) الفـ[
والسلم وكتب لا[
Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh owed to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – …
A colophon for a manuscript now lost, containing Musaf prayer for the Hebrew New year. The copyist is Mevōrakh b. Moshe, known from other colophons …
Letter fragments in Judaeo-Arabic. לא תעמלה . . . קליל מא לי שגל אלא אתרקב אל . . . אלנאס ענכם . . . . …
Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, at least partially about calligraphy: "al-khaṭṭ wa-l-qalam... yatalāqayā..."
Probably fragment from a legal document, mentioning a certain Abū l-[…]l, and few words in Hebrew on verso. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
Petition addressed to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The handwriting may be known from other documents. Dating: Possibly ca. 1100 CE, based on …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Letter in which a man who calls himself the father of the cantor who is "sick, poor, and naked" asks a prominent physician to arrange …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Deed of debt. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: 2[.] Tevet 5338 AM = January 1578 CE. Involves the guarantors Yehuda Serrano and David אאילייון. Also …
Qaraite betrothal contract. The bride's name is Ḥusna / Ḥasana.
List of payments or accounts in which the heading labels the document as a "חסבת" or conceivably a "חסבה/حسبة" if we disconnect the word from …
Probably accounts, in Arabic script.
Late accounts noting money received from al-Kohen Farajallāh and the daughter of Abba mari (probably "my father"). Also mentions al-Shākirī and his son. The total …
Receipt. In Arabic script. For Ibrāhīm al-Fuqqāʿī. The sum is 11 dinars, maybe plus 1/3 + 1/8. Needs further examination.
Legal document of unknown nature (real estate?), written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138) or Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108 CE). fragmentary and torn.
Small fragment of a legal document. None of the substance is preserved.
Recto: fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Verso: fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender gave or paid something to the son of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 26 Kislev 1401 Seleucid = 2 December 1089 CE. A divorced man, David b. Mevorakh Ibn [...], now remarrying …
Verso: Unidentified damaged document in Arabic script. Medieval-era. The format resembles a Fatimid receipt. With layers of reuse in Hebrew throughout the recto and verso. …
Complete letter in Arabic script, with a single phrase in Hebrew (وحق אנא השם). Dating: Likely Ayyubid-era based on the layout and handwriting. Addressed to …
Legal document. Quittance/release (שטר אביזאריה). Mivḥar b. Ṣedaqa releases Moshe b. Moshe known as Ibn Majjān from all obligations except for an ounce of זבאר(?), …
Letter in Spanish from Jacob Nuñes de Paz in Alexandria to Los S[eñore]s Alpalas & Costa Aires in Cairo (see tag for others in the …