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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a serious illness (marḍa shadīda). Might be two different letters in two different hands.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Marriage contract (ketubba). Beginning only. Dated: 20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid = 29 November 1238 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Goitein's index card suggests that the …
1 مناقشة
Marriage contract, fragment. Dating: Probably 19th century, only the final digit is visible in the first line [5..]5 AM. The bride is named Joya, with …
1 نسخ
Accounts or possibly a recipe in Arabic script. There are also a few words in very large letters, possibly from an earlier state document.
Fragment from a power of attorney mentioning Avraham b. Asher. Dating: probably 18th or 19th century. Location: Fusṭāṭ/Cairo. No witnesses. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba. Needs examination.
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Bifolio of lists in Arabic with extensive Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Recto looks like a small letter fragment: חכים(?) מעה אלי גזה . . . אלי כדמתך ונחן באק . . . ובינך פלא תכון אננא …
Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Letter from 1908. No image
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Mentions sending money and goods, and mentions books including al-Ḥibbur (usually the Mishneh Torah) and …
Recto: Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. The cantor ʿEli ha-Kohen pays …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. The date is mostly torn away. Husband: Yeshuʿa Kohen. Wife: Sutayt. Signed and probably written by David b. Shelomo.
Recto: statement, dated 1466 of the Seleucid Era (= 1154/55 CE), concerning a debt which Saʿadya b. Yehuda owes to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā the doctor …
Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Letter addressed to Yehuda ha-Talmid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 7 Ḥeshvan 1551 Seleucid = 7 October 1239 CE. Goitein describes the letter as "overpolite." The sender …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals in a rudimentary hand. Names include Mukarram, Sulaymān, Yosef.
Court record in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: 24 Elul, year missing. (A prior description suggested that it is dated Elul …
Cryptic (literary?) text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …
Verso: Draft of a legal deed. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions numerous names Shelomo; Avraham b. Ḥagay; David b. …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan Aʿraj (the lame) and ʿAllān the son of the sister of ʿA[rūs]. This is probably the India trader ʿAllān …
Recto is a legal document concerning a compromise reached between a certain Saʿadya and a woman. Verso is in the same handwriting but is not …
Fragment of a late document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter. Mentions sesame and the price of 110 gurush per ardab. The mention of the Ottoman …
Letter from Abū l-Faraj and his son Abū l-Majd in Bilbays to Eliyyahu the Judge (who is the cousin, ibn khāl, of Abū l-Faraj). They …
מן ענד ממלוכה אבו אלמגד וואלדה אבו אלפרג
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document in Arabic script. Appears to contain the phrase "al-ḥāḍir al-ghāʾib" (the present, the absent"). Needs examination for content.
Recto and part of verso: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to his father in Fustat. He is concerned about how they will pay …
. מנדיל וחא . . . . . . מ [ ]
ואן כונתו דפעתו אלדרהמ[ין]
לבנת עמי ואיש ביקולו ענ . [ ]
ע . י אחתמלוהם וקולו להם אני [ ]
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Verso (original use): Upper left corner of a brief letter or petition in Arabic. The text is fragmentary and the context is missing but the …
State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال
الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف
الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان
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Earlier document: Letter from a certain Abū Saʿd (aka Seʿadya) to three addressees: David, someone else (Avraham?), and someone called only al-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Late legal document in Hebrew having to do with a widow, the payment of a ketubba and other property arrangements. Needs further examination. ASE.
Damaged fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Discussing whether the sender will go to the adressee's location. Requests news of the tax (? כבר אלמאס). …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions various names and goods. Perhaps of a broker—he seems to be selling items on people's behalf. Mentions: Abū l-Faḍl b. Bū …
Two words in an elegant chancery hand which read as "المستمين للعذاب". Maybe scribal practice. Reused for Hebrew text.
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Lists receipt of different commodities from people with unusual names (כיל אבן כלנתי, קוריר, עישי אבן בקלה). Other names mentioned: …
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: ducat (דוקטי). Mentions Muʿallim Shemuel and שי׳ שואבדו. A school is mentioned on the verso (בית ספר).
Booklist in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 5 dirhams for 3 daftars, the first being [...], the second the book of Genesis with tafsīr, and the third a …
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: 1112–ca. 1126 CE, as this was drawn up under the authority …
Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Nūtī.
P9: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the beginning. Mentions two judges and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla.