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Letter from Yosef b. Shemarya ha-Dayyan al-Barqī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Yosef was worried because he had not received a response from Nahray, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה וכפאיתה ורעאיתה וכאן לה וליא ונאצרא וזאדה
מן כל כיר ופוץ אליה מן כל נעים וכפא…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Literary account of a man who was shipwrecked in France and found an 80-year-old man who spoke to him in Hebrew and turned out to …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal or an official document, or a draft in Arabic script. Mentions a long name on verso "......Yūsuf b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā". …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated (ll. 4–5): 20 Shaʿbān 441 AH = 17 January 1050 CE.The muqirr is the sharīf Abū l-Ḥasan …
State document, Fatimid. Mentions "al-khidma" and "al-muṭāʿ" or maybe "iqṭāʿ" (but less likely). Just a few words preserved in each line and difficult to glean …
Bifolium from a court register. Dated in several entries as Kislev 5496 AM (1735 CE). This reading of the final ligature as צו is confirmed …
:(Documents 1-4) Right side of bifolium
1 نسخ
Letter from Mūsā, in Damīra, to Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an absent husband, reprimands his wifeʼs family for accusing him publicly of …
Treatise and/or exercises on prosody (ʿarūḍ), with a sample verse scanned on recto.
Verso: The letter was subsequently torn in half, and Moshe's father Abū Sahl Levi wrote his response on one of the remaining halves. Abu Sahl …
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Legal record (#79) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 27v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the evening …
Note with instructions to draw up a draft of a marriage contract leaving out the names of the bride and groom. (Information from Goitein's index …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Receipt of payment, in Arabic script. Contains the glyph which could mean "addā" here. "yadfaʿu al-Shaykh Hibat Allah..........". Needs examination.
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge. He asks for a letter to be forwarded to Bilbays to Yosef b. Makārim; instructing …
Letter from ʿEli b. Natan ha-Rofeʾ (the physician), probably in Ṣahrajt, to a Nasi (אלנשי), in Fustat, possibly Shelomo b. Yishay. In Judaeo-Arabic. He complains …
Recto: Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhāni to a notable named Moshe (Moshe ha-Sar... ha-dayyan ha-mesūyyan... al-Shaykh al-Sadīd...). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Meʾir asks the addressee …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Probably a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to merchandise; a sum of 1 1/3 dinars, prolonged disputes, and the …
Document in Arabic script, five lines preserved, possibly a draft. Contains formulae from an Islamic marriage contract (hādhā mā aṣdaqa al-Shaykh Bayān... Samawʾal...). Needs examination. …
Small and damaged fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Decree, in Arabic script. 6 lines of a chancery document chopped into pieces and then reused to form quires. The line on fol. 19a has …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Legal deed in Hebrew. Dating: probably 16th century (based on the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya). Ḥayyim b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn Ḥakīm and …
Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm from Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad, son of the sincere commander Crescent of the Dynasty (Hilāl al-Dawla), the elder Treasure …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe(?) Goren to Barakha Goren. Dated 20 Nissan 5571 AM (April 1811 CE). The letter sender and recipient were likely brothers …
Latin-script list, difficult medieval paleography. Dated perhaps in the upper lines of the recto: anno/annum[?] xx__[?]. The list continues on the verso but is extremely …
Recto: Yehuday Gaʾon, Halaḵot Pesuqot, Hilḵot ʿEruvin. Verso: note of purchase stating that ʿAmram ha-Kohen b. Aharon ha-Kohen b. ʿAmram bought ‘Halaḵot of Yehudai Gaʾon’ …
IB VI, 49. Letter from a Jewish trader in India to his partner in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Among many other matters, he mentions donations to …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …
Legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides, referenced with the title "Nagid" (post-1213 CE). One involves a man who confesses to adultery with the wife of …
Receipt, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Contains several ʿalāma, one reads as "alḥamdu li-llāhi waḥdahu". Mentions "al-mablagh". Reused for a literary text on recto. …
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter or other document. On verso there are probably accounts.
Accounts in difficult Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 11th–13th century. Mentions Ibn al-Faqīh.
Recto: A curse in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew against whoever is spreading false rumors about the writer and stirring up conflict between him and (probably) …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably private business accounts.
Recto: piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
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Petition copy or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 17th century. The document is difficult to understand, as the first page is missing, and the …
Letter fragment (the end only) from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, referring to a debt. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1151. Location: Minyat Ashna (near Fustat). Following appeals by his deceased brother Binyam's widow to the court, Kathīr b. Avraham …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Calligraphic letter by Mubarak b. Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.
Power of attorney from the court of Daniel b. Azarya (1051-1062) in Ramla, 1368/October 1056.
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Reporting that an official document belonging to an unnamed person (the -hū of kitābuhū) and dated 4 Rajab 523 …
Accounts in Arabic on a large bifolio. Dated Jumada I 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. This bifolio was likely once part of the same …