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Account (draft) of the Qodesh. Dated: ca. 1213 CE, mentions 7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid in one of the entries on the verso. This account is …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1053. The sender has been thwarted in his …
אטאל אללה יאסידי בקאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך וכא[ן לך ומעך נ]אצר פי גמיע אמורך
ברחמתה[תקדם] כתאבי אליך לי בקי כתמה אללה [תעאלי אסמה עלי]ך ועל …
Contract of debt. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: The case came before the court in the last decade of Kislev …
1 مناقشة
Fiscal account in Arabic script. Dated: 559 AH = 1163/64 CE (last line). Mentions a dīwān and a nāzir. Needs examination.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī in Cairo to his father. He reports that he has sent 50 dinars' worth of …
1 نسخ
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 1046. The writer describes his conflict with an Iraqi named Ibn al-Wāsiṭī. The …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תניס יום אלערובה אעאד אללה עליה האדה אלאוקאת
אלמבארכה סנין בכתרה ואעוא…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter to Menahem from the cantor of Malij concerning an inheritance. EMS Verso: Jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment from a court ledger in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Long vertical strip from around the middle crease; portions of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. From several people, probably addressed to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. The senders are currently being held in prison and it …
Minute fragment from a dowry list written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). A silk item, white dabīqī, and a mazna[q?] are referenced.
Small fragment of a legal document, involving [...] al-Ḥāmī and his wife Sutayt bt. ʿAbdallāh al-Khashshāb, and possibly conditions about what happens if he travels …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left piece of recto). There are many expressions of longing. Mentions: dinars; Maḥāsin; a note (ruqʿa) in the hand of …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script, bottom part of the fragment. Refers to a sum of 70 dinars. The document is dated Muḥarram 487 H and …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso possibly poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef (of Qayrawān, active 990s–1030s). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Mentions "my partner" Barhūn b. Faraḥ. The left side of the …
Recto: legal fragment. Probably a power of attorney (אביזאריה). Reused on verso for Arabic-script accounts or jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)
Document in Arabic on the recto, medieval-era. Only the basmala and a couple other words are preserved. The recto was also used for alphabetical practice, …
Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 3 responds to a letter from …
Court ledger bifolium in Hebrew. Late, mentioning the currencies reales and fiḍḍa (medin). Contains several entries, including one for an engagement (shiddukhin) and another entry …
Letter from the head of the Gola concerning the calendar. Describes his opinion about the need to shorten two months (to 29 days) and explains …
. . . that we and all Israel be [one] band [in all] months and all festivals. This custom has been followed by our fathers and by the yeshivot until …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Recto: probably a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic; Arabic jottings in the margin. Verso: beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr …
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmāni to Me'ir b. Yakhin, mentioning the latter's brothers Hilāl and Saʿīd. Dating: early 13th century. …
Three drafts of legal documents. (a) Recto: פוטיתי bt. Eliyya, the divorcee of Yosef b. Elʿazar and the mother-in-law of Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq appears before …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions many names, mostly Muslim.
Recto and verso: Letter addressed to R. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. He is to ask Ibrāhīm al-Ḥaver al-Kohen b. al-Ḥaver to appear before the court in …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. "The matter is out of my hands. . . . the situation is rotten." The rest is quite faded but potentially …
Memorial list
Small fragment from a late family letter, sending regards to some people and mentioning Alexandria.
Legal document. Record of release. Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms …
מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין דחתימין לתחתא חצר אלינא אברהם הכהן ביר דניאל
//ועובדיה// ועבד אללה בן משלם אלצורי בעד מגלס אן תקדמ[ו אליה]א [.…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style. Bride: Dalāl bt. Yefet. The groom's name is lost. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: probably 1085 or 985 CE.
Internal Fatimid state correspondence concerning the collection and transfer of funds, probably tax-related. The upper left is missing, so the content is difficult to reconstruct. …
Literary text in Spanish.
Recto (secondary use): accounts of materia medica in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Fragment from a ketubba. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Muʿizzī dinars. The bride's father is named Ḥubaysh. Reused for various jottings on verso.
Account in Arabic script, unclear if private or fiscal. Recto includes the phrase 'in the name of ʿUmar b. [...]' and mentions the number 400 …