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Fragments of legal queries, possibly sent together as a single letter. Dating: 16th- or 17th-century (per Glick). Location: Siderokapısı/Sidrekapsi (סידריקאפס[י]), a mining town in what …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Responsum concerning orphans, describing a loan from orphans that is taken orally without an oath, and a statement that orphans who are in debt because …
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Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Besides the opening of the first two lines (recto) a portion of the address …
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Accounts of some sort. Possibly from the ill-defined genre tentatively called 'commercial receipts' on PGP—see tag. Needs examination.
On recto an order to impose excommunication on a person who took books from 'our house' and didn't return them. At the end a signature …
Court record. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38). Dealing with an inheritance which Manṣūr b. Shelomo(?) Naḥman ha-Turgeman …
List of names in Judaeo-Arabic, with numbers and some Arabic script. Crude hand. Alms distribution list? E.g., Manṣūr, Ibn Fuḍayl, Sitt Ṭāwūs, the sister of …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba drawn up in Alexandria (נא אמון). Hebrew and Arabic pen trials on verso.
Document(s) in Arabic, medieval-era. Recto is formatted like an order or receipt. Verso has 5 lines of text including multiple dates (e.g. al-ʿāshir min rabiʿ …
Magical text about the angels (e.g., Metatron). In Arabic script, in two different hands.
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …
למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין
יי' אורי וישעי וג' מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין
His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).
It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -
God is my light and…
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Magical text in Arabic with drawings of figures.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions categories of kharāj(tax) in dirhams. Needs examination.
Legal document, in Arabic script. A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Needs examination.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: first half of the 12th century. Some phrases …
Letter addressed to Abu al-Ḥasan Yedutun ha-Levi asking for help to collect money owed the writer by his brother so he can open a store …
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, whose signature is partially visible. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. …
Accounts, with Hebrew and Coptic numerals. Entries include saqqāʾ; ṣāniʿīn; wakāla; ḥammāl; mismār. (Information in part from CUDL)
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Recto: Grid filled with diagonal Arabic script. Some readable words include - dirham, aswad, aṣfar and kitāb. Could be an inventory or accounts. Verso: Faded …
Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
Typical letter formula "وادام تاييدك", in an elegant hand, most likely a draft or writing exercise. Pen trials can be seen interspersed between the two …
Document, possibly of sale. Verso: Jottings. Needs examination.
List of books, mostly with rabbinical content, mentioning talmudic tractates and several midrashim, including a midrash on Ruth and Midrash Tanḥuma. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment. Damaged. Probably a list or accounts, mentioning names, such as Isḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in a mixture of Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is post-1517, 16th- or 17th-century, based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman titles. Many …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, about his partnership with Barhun and Yosef b. Musa ha-Tāhartī. 1059. They sent different merchandise to the Maghreb …
Legal document. Dated: [...]8 Seleucid, which can be improved to 14[.]8 Seleucid, based on the 12th-century people who are mentioned, but the decade is still …
Legal document. Dating: mentions a period beginning in Kislev 1[4]14 Seleucid = November/December 1102 CE. Mentioning Alexandria. In which the 'righteous elders' intervene and settle …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Fragment of a mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā.
Document (bifolium) giving details of a collection (pesiqa) for the ransom of prisoners, conducted by Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf and Abū l-Maʿālī in al-Rīf—here, the …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. May be related to flax (l. 1)
Legal deed. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tishrei, year missing. Perhaps during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya, …
Part of a deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an 11th-century Maghribī commercial letter. The document is fully preserved including the address on verso, from [...]mūn b. [...] to Abū …
Beginning of a letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Only basmala and a few words preserved.
Recto with a couple lines on verso (secondary use): List of names (memorial list) in Hebrew. Dating: probably early 11th century. The list is headed …
Letter fragment, or probably literary if the text continues on verso. Emphasizes on some sort of calculation "يعتد بهم بالجملة لا اولا ولا آخرا". Needs …
The Case of the Great/Fat Eunuch: five-part join of a court record from Fustat in the hand of Yefet b. David dealing with a case …
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