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Document(s) in Ladino. The verso is probably the primary document; the accounts on recto may be related. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5422 AM (Oct.-Nov. 1661 CE). The …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Verso: Fragment from the end of a state document, probably a decree. In a very large chancery hand: على آله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما. There are …
Verso: Formulary for a deathbed release (or at least a release in the setting of old age and frailty) granted by a woman to a …
Unidentified text (letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There is an unusual case of a hybrid Arabic-Hebrew term: בחצרתהנו ("bi-ḥaḍratenu") — an Arabic word with a …
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Booklist? Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Accounts of the heqdesh. in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Very detailed and well-preserved. 14th-16th centuries based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Fragment of a legal testimony. Written in an early square hand. Location: Unknown. Dated: 4761–68 AM = 999–1008 CE (it cannot be 4716 AM or …
1 مناقشة
Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …
אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו
ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל
החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך
אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד
אנפצלת מן בין י…
I (would like to) inform the august,
exalted and gracious presence of our master
and teacher Elijah the enlightened,
wise and understan…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
We responded to her request and went. She locked us all in, brought the above-mentioned Mr. David and seated him and herself cl…
Legal document, probably. Very faded. Mentions Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen in the first line. Reused on recto for jottings.
Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of Tammuz 1489 Seleucid, which is June 1178 CE. Abū l-Faraj …
Quittance. On parchment. Mainly in Hebrew. Dating: ca. late 10th century. The releaser is named Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAmram. It looks like his name was later …
Recto (secondary use): An order of payment of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to pay one raṭl of linseed oil to the bearer. (Information in …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 514 AH = February/March 1121 CE. Mentions Fustat, ḥikr (ground rent), and repeated references to renting (ijāra, …
Court notebook with four distinct records. (I) Set of quittances each beginning "ubriʾa min X," all relating to to a quantity of coral which the …
Recto: Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, ca. 1050. Gil, Kingdom vol. 2, #161
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Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 11 Marḥeshvan, 142[.]. The original estimate for this shelfmark inferred 142[8] Seleucid, probably based …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Mordechai b. Simḥa who is in the Persian city of Kashan. In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 17th century. The sender also signs his name …
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
Recto: Fragment (upper right corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Abū l-Barakāt regarding a fatwā and the nagid Av[raham]. Verso: Three lines of neat Arabic …
Illuminated Hebrew alphabet from a children’s textbook. At the bottom of recto there is a benediction: ‘God will protect you from every evil and will …
Fragment of a letter, probably 14th century or later. greetings to shaykh al-Asʿad Abū [...] and shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn. The sender or scribe is Hārūn. …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, probably literary.
Possibly a late legal document in Hebrew. Mentioning R. Avraham.
Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of …
Verso, fol. 2: Fragment of a decree or petition, probably provisional because of the semi-professional hand. Requires further examination.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Janūn to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and his son Yosef. Concerns shipments of wax and honey, as well as textiles. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Debt contract. Date not preserved. The names of debtor and creditor are very effaced. The sum of money is given in Kāmilī dirhams, …
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi's vision of hell; see Perry, M. J. (2017). Jewish heaven, Christian hell: Rabbi Joshua ben Levi’s vision of the afterlife. Journal …
Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment of a contract made before a Muslim notary about a bible (al-Tawrāh) codex containing twenty-four "books" (sifr). The parties …
Formulary for a legal document for the appointment of a ritual slaughterer (shoḥeṭ). Location: Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th–15th century.
Minute fragment from a letter. Mentions a ship.
Recto: Copy of a deed relating to the settlement of the property of Khalaf b. Iṣḥaq, deceased, who left one daughter only. Dated Monday, 15 …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Recto: Letter fragment consisting of praises for the Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ in a different hand.
Recto: Part of an Arabic letter very likely from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He mentions Abu l-Surur and …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Ḥalfon b. ʿEli. Bride: Zayn, a virgin. See Goitein's index card.