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Letter from Yoel to Efrayim. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender is likely identical with Yoel ha-Melammed (see e.g. T-S 20.148), since it is a …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in which a father writes to the teacher of his boys complaining about insufficient attainments and explaining their being late.
In Y(our name,) O Mer(ciful) !
I have written you before, most esteemed teacher, about the two boys — may God keep them alive — asking you to p…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Verso: Responsum in the hand of Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. Ed. Blau (1957, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated multiple times on the verso in the Hijrī year ה׳א׳ץ, which does not follow the normal format of dates given with …
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Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning that the sender sent textiles marked with his name, and …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: narrative account of the death and the funeral procession of "my teacher and master" R. Yosef ha-Kohen ha-Ḥazzan b. Ḥalfon al-Munajjim on Friday night, …
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mostly a list of names with numbers. Names include: Sibāʿ b. Mubārak; [...] b. Hilāl; Sālim b. …
Recto: Small fragment from an official letter. The ends of three lines are preserved. Phrases such as "... al-dawla al-maʿrūfī(?) al-wāṣil... bi-l-nāʾib fī..."
Receipt in Arabic script. Location: Cairo or Fustat. Dated: before Muḥarram 561 AH, which is late 1165 CE. For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). Needs examination for content.
1 مناقشة
Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script: المولا الشيخ الاجل . . . .
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals as well as some fraction ciphers (e.g. for rubʿ dīnār). Distribution list. Mentions people such as Bū ʿImrān al-Ṣayrafī; …
Court record issued by a Qaraite beit din at the Dar Simḥa Synagogue in Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Shevaṭ 5321 AM = 21 January 1561 …
1 نسخ
Legal document in which Sar Shalom, son of Rabana Yosef, affirms that he collected his debt from the daughter of Rabbi Nahum in 1344 ED/ …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shemuel b. Ibrahīm, in Fustat, to his father Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Shabbetay (aka Shubbāṭ), in Palermo. Fragment: upper part of the letter …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From an unidentified man possibly named Karīm, apparently in Zarnīkh (in Upper Egypt, see recto l. 44 and recto right margin …
Letter to Yosef b. Noah from Luzka, mostly dealing with monetary issues related to the community
A letter to Hacham Binyamin
Account of a pesiqa (fundraising drive) in Judaeo-Arabic with Coptic numerals. Mentions: al_Rashīd; al-Saʿīd; Abū l-Faḍl; Abū l-Fadl b. Nuʿmān; al-Makīn; Barakāt; al-Makīn b. Mardūkh; …
Deposition (modaʿ) in court made by one Abū Saʿd. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tammuz/Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: 5 Ṭevet 1[4]21 Seleucid, which is November 1109 CE. May have to do with a mercantile partnership. Mentions (at least) …
Letter from Yefet ha-Melammed (the teacher). In Judaeo-Arabic. Somewhat crude hand and spellings. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. "I heard that you are intending …
Very faded letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, who was the muqaddam of Bilbays (active 1172–1218).
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 …
Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. Maḥfūẓ, dictated to …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. There is a damaged date in the top line (Dhū l-Ḥijja 4[..] AH, corresponding to the range …
Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in slightly broken …
Court record. Dated: Monday, 14 Adar I 1464 Seleucid = 10 February 1153 CE. The cantor Yosef b. Mikhaʾel sells a little house in Fustat, …
בנוע אלמלך
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
Letter/petition from Bū Bakr to a notable named Burhān al-Dīn, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand, layout, and formulary. Asking …
Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: 1115. Location: Al-Maḥalla. ʿOvadya b. Efrayim ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal empowers 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva' Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi to money owed …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Late accounts in Hebrew script that bear Ashkenazi and/or Italqi influence in terms of the paleography. The accounts are titled as "the receipt of Davide …
Model letter commending a worthy scholar to a benefactors notice (all names are given as פל[וני]). (Info from FGP)
Lower left corner of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Tells he addressee not to worry about something; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan and two volumes; a request to …
Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya from Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #147) …
Verso: A donations or alms list. Names in Judaeo-Arabic including: Majd, Manṣūr, Abū ʿAlī, Fāḍil, Yosef, the children of Nufayʿ, Yosef al-Aqraʿ, Munajjā, Abū l-Bayān, …