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Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …
1 مناقشة
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. For Jumādā I 5[.]2. Many names and households are mentioned. Verso looks like the beginning of an …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Hebrew writing exercises and parts of Arabic documents - needs examination.
Tables of Greek/Coptic numerals, with a few Arabic words.
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Letter from Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm in Cairo to his son Moshe Ben-Naʿīm in Alexandria. Dated 1 Kislev 5583 AM which is 1822 CE. Mentions Se[nyor] Pinto, …
Minute fragment, few words only, mentions or addressed to [...] ha-Shelishi (the third in the Yeshiva) b. [...]. Hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder?
Folio of an alchemical work. The present fragment mentions the usage of mercury, and lead, and some discovery attributed to Hermes. Needs further examination.
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 8 Kislev 1463 Seleucid = 18 November 1151 CE. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-ʿAṭṭār al-Siqillī and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Kohen al-Munādī testify regarding …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Matitya Ashkenazi, in Rashīd, to his son Asher, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. The sender reports on …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reused on verso for Hebrew jottings.
Tax receipt for Nuṣayr b. Saʿīd. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī, probably from Mazara, Sicily, to Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār (Alexandria), ca. 1055. Salāma b. Mūsā intends to buy …
באקי כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבו זכרי יהודה בן מוסי בן סגמאר וכאן לבן אל[ ]
אלחראס ואבו אלפצל בן בר[כא]ת ויעקב בן כלף חסד לאכיה וכאן גרם פי [ …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Including names, provisions(?) and some numerals often preceded by the word "wa-ʿindahu," arranged in two columns. Mentions …
Verso (original use): Lower part of a family letter in Arabic script, with greetings to several qāḍīs (ʿImād al-Dīn, Zayn al-Dīn, and Tāj al-Dīn), al-Ḥājj …
1 نسخ
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …
Recto (secondary use): Note of gratitude to a notable. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's father the ḥaver graciously met with the sender and said, "Open your …
Draft report containing two taqbīl and narratio (inhāʾ) sections. The first section mentions local residents impeding access with stones. Reporting on two matters: (1) that …
Recto: Draft of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to 'the mountain of beauty' Shelomo b. Yehuda, who served as Gaon between 1025–1051 CE.
Responsum (FGP)
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 545 AH = …
Order of payment in Arabic script with a Hebrew emet.
List of communal accounts dated in variety of places throughout the text, for example the first intact date on the recto is 12 Sivan 5352 …
Letter, or possibly an outline of a legal document, containing instructions concerning a trousseau list. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is complaining about legal rivals and losing money. Mentions "sayyidnā," "the elders," and Yosef b. Bū l-[...].
IB V, 42e. Receipt in the hand of Abu Zikri Kohen: saḥḥa lil-shaykh Abū l-Surūr dirham wa-niṣf la-ghayr. Old IB: 229f. There is a line …
Letter possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (per Goitein) to an unidentified person. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother and sister were involved in …
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: ʿAmmār b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Surūr bt. Yefet. A sum of 12.5 dinars is mentioned. The dowry is valued at …
Legal document. Location: Probably Minyat Zifta. Involves Abū l-Riḍā and his brother Ḥ[asan?] the sons of Khalaf ha-Levi. Signed by Sheʾerit b. Yakhin ha-Kohen; Yefet …
Letter from Ṣadoq (b. Shemuel or b. Yehuda) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Moshe b. Ghulayb (aka Ḥalfon?) ha-Kohen ʿAyn ha-ʿEda Paqid ha-Soḥarim etc., in …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yaḥyā Ibrāhīm to Mūsā Yaḥyā. Late. Probably Yemeni origin, based on the mention of Aden in verso, l. 3. Mentions …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes …
Fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. On recto there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Dirge for Rabbenu Bahlul (probably Bahlul b. Yosef active in early 11th-century Qayrawān). T-S AS 134.72 has writing only on recto and does not join …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning legal matters. Mentions a half-mould of cheese; purchasing; Alexandria; and slander (tashnīʿ).
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning payment(?)
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment from ʿAlāʾim bt. Bar[akāt?] to her daughter Umm al-ʿIzz bt. Thābit al-Ṭabīb known as Ibn Abī l-Ḥaqq (or al-Ḥasan?) al-Maghribī, probably the wife …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."
Late account, some of the names are crossed out
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "We have been patient for that / have borne that... the lord, for he is steadfast and others are corrupt... the …