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Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans. The date 26 May 1050 CE appears in lines 4–5. Information from Goitein's note cards. …
1 مناقشة
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). The addressee …
Pen trials.
Learned philosophical discussion of the movements of the heavenly spheres (ḥarakāt al-ajrām al-samāʾiyya) and the human intellect and possibly the existence or lack of existence …
Part of a memorial list (דוכרן טב). "The woman: [..] bt. ʿUlla. Her husband: Evyatar b. Elʿazar." Underneath, names mention include the well-known mid-12th-century judge …
Complete calligraphic letter from Yosef b. Mordekhay, in Fustat, to the sons of Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (same family as Ibn al-Amshātī?), probably also in …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef (based on the Arabic address). The sender announces the death of a cantor and asks the recipient to send a …
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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Ketubba, very damaged. Names and date are faded. At top is the reshut formula of one of Maimonides' descendants. The hand seems to be identical …
Legal document concerning the breaking off of an engagement agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fiancee: Sitt al-Banāt the …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, from 1080s. Natan sends his regards to Avraham b. R. Yaʿaqov Darʿi. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלאסכנדריה גד ראש השנה אעאדה אללה
עלי מולאי סנין כתירה ועל…
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment or list of debts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions various numbers and Abū l-Faḍl. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya.
Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 13-15) Folio 4v
1 نسخ
Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. Dating: mid-12th century. Refers to a sum of 20 dinars as part of the marriage payments and refers …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 1 Kislev 1632 Seleucid (=[...] 720 AH), which is November 1320 CE. Damaged & faded. Perhaps a settlement of …
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic expressions of longing are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter by Akhlabu b. Aharon ha-Kohen from Alexandria to Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen Fasi. The writer apologizes for not having accompanied the recipient on his …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Levi, Jerusalem, to Nissim ha-Kohen Ṣefanya b. ʿOvadya ha-Kohen, Fustat/Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dated: 6 Kislev 5439 AM …
Detailed account in Judaeo-Arabic, much of it for expenses entailed in the dyeing of silk. Mentions ʿImrān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Iskandarānī.
שרי אלעצפר ה קנאטיר מן סער
כט דינר כל קנטאר אלתמן קמה דינר
וכרג ענה אנטאע ותליס וחבל וכיט
ושדאדין ח דנא ודרהמין וברטיל
וחמ…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Verso: Cover page of a book entitled: [...]תקון סדר[...] השכמת הקריה בלי. The work features an authorship inscription by Yiṣḥaq Beirab (b.?) Avraham. The cover …
Possibly a record of a birth. In Arabic script. "In the name of God the most gracious, the most merciful: the blessed ________ was on …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كانت الوالدة المباركة ليلة الخميس
لنصف من شهر رمضان سنة
اربع وثمان واربع مائة
الله يعرفنا بركتها
[و]يجعل العا[قبة…
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj concerning a settling of accounts in the Dār al-Wikāla, involving 10 dirhams and the months of Ramaḍān and Shawwāl. …
Letter. Possibly from Naṣr or Nuṣayr (v19) to some dignitary (sayyidnā, Mordekhai ha-Zeman). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of …
Fatimid fiscal requisition for the dīwān al-jaysh, including information about an iqtā`. Contains a request for registration and at least one registration mark.
Literary text, mentions some astrological references like "ṭāliʿ". Or rather a sermon mentioning an obedient/pious person (ṭāʾiʿ). Needs examination.
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh), in Fustat. The sender …
Recto: Deed of sale for a female slave (the term waṣifa appears in ll. 2 and 6). In Arabic script. Dating: probably 11th or 12th …
Small and faded fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi. AA
Literary; Zohar.
Fragment of a letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef (Yiju) to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Almost nothing remains apart from the opening verses and the …
Recto: The upper part is probably medical recipes in Arabic script. The lower part is business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Very damaged text in both …
Upper left fragment of a ketubba from Fustat. No identifying details preserved. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan?
Strip from the left side of an official poetic Hebrew letter. AA
Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic script from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to 'al-shaykh al-rashīd,' aiming to pawn his turban for 40 dirhams. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Neatly arranged. Mentions Yaḥyā; builders; and woodworkers (khashshāb). On verso payments arranged according to days of the week.
Bill of divorce, badly damaged. Dating, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים …
Declaration of a patronage relationship? After quoting Isaiah 50:7, several lines of eloquent prose in artfully arranged lines, starting with, "I am your slave, never …