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Legal document, Qaraite. Conditional divorce. Dated: Monday, 21 Heshvan 5516 AM, which is 1755 CE. The document describes a quarrel between ʿOvadya b. Eliyyahu Rofe …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto and verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1053 (Gil). Listing flax purchases. Nahray organized the list by …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
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 …
List of communal contributions or perhaps "sales of wheat[?]" (עלם מביע קמח) for the year 5589 AM which is 1828/29 CE (התקפט). Although the year …
Letter addressed by Moshe Ha-Kohen to Menahem the great Rabbi (HaRav HaGadol). VMR The letter is prefaced with בשמ׳ רחמ׳, followed by three biblical verses, …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Expenditures for a funeral and the meals after the funeral or during the mourning. Goitein suggests that it …
Probably pen trials on a crumbled paper.
Saʿadya’s Bible translation and commentary on Isaiah 63:6-7 and 64:6-11. (Information from CUDL.)
Probably fragment from a legal document, mentioning a certain Abū l-[…]l, and few words in Hebrew on verso. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
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Letter.
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from [Yosef?] ha-Kohen b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen, in Tinnīs, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajja al-Dimashqi (perhaps the same as Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid …
בשמ̇ רחמ̇
יאר ייי פניו אליך וישם
לך שלום
וצל כתאב חצ̇רה מולאי אלשיך אלג̇̃̇ליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם ת[א]יידה ועלאה
ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה…
List of spices in Arabic script. There is also another kind of accounting in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, in a different hand. Needs further …
Very faded and damaged Hebrew letter addressed to a community. Most of the text preserved contains poetic Hebrew verses. On verso only part of the …
Note from David b. Yehuda ha-Ḥaver, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1532 Seleucid, which is 1220/21 CE. He asks to receive the …
1 مناقشة
Recto (original use): Letter in Ladino. Jerusalem is mentioned in l. 25. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL).
Letter from an unknown person to his or her father. In Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary handwriting and orthography. To be sent to the Muṣāṣa quarter of …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document on parchment. Faded and damaged. Probably a ketubba, dating to the 13th century or later, based on …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). …
[ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
[ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
[ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
[ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם ו…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Small list of items, including several textiles. The top list is headed "al-ḥāḍir" (the present): a bucket; brass; something gilded; something blue; a bukhnuq of …
Letter(s) in Arabic script. The section on recto has formal language and resembles a petition.
Small receipt or order. For Ḥusayn b. Ḥaramī(?). For precisely 100 dirhams. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic. Mamluk-era based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Fragment of an Arabic letter. Three lines partially preserved. Concerning settling a legal case and the tardiness of letters. Phrases: نكتب ناخذ حقك فان ثبت …
Three long drafts of letters in elaborate Hebrew, sent from the court in Fustat. The first deals with the cantor Yiṣḥaq of Ṣahrajt who permitted …
Account of payments to officials and to the families of deceased officials during the sixteenth week of the liturgical year. R. Menashshe, so frequently mentioned …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dating: 800s AH, possibly 823 AH = 1420/21 CE. Needs further examination.
Document in Arabic, badly damaged. Dating: Medieval era. Requires further examination. At upper left: مما تسلم من دار ال . . . .
Decree fragment. The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning well-known 11th-century merchants such as Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy and announcing the writer's arrival in al-Mahdiyya (this part makes it …
Deed of debt. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: 2[.] Tevet 5338 AM = January 1578 CE. Involves the guarantors Yehuda Serrano and David אאילייון (perhaps …
Letter from eight paupers, in debtors' prison, to Shemuel ben Sīd. Dating: ca. 16th century. The senders are Yosef Malili, David Maymūn, Ṣemaḥ הבהב, ʿEzer …
Rental contract. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right piece). [..]ār b. Azhar rents from a Jewish woman named [...] bt. ʿAmmār a share in a …
Formulary for Hebrew letters. One of them is introduced "ṣadr kitāb." Originally from a larger volume, probably. The join was identified by Goitein.
Fragment likely from the bottom of a Fatimid fiscal account, based on the appearance of the ṣalwala at the bottom (وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد …
Small receipt or order. In lieu of a name: wusūluhū yudfaʿ. At upper right: bi-rasmihim(?). Sum: 58 (dirhams). Written on the 6th of Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.
Verso (original use): Letter/petition in Arabic script. Asking the addressee to bring this letter to Tāj al-Dīn and obtain employment for the sender, so that …
Letter of request for money addressed to the Qaraite community on occasion of a circumcision. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Goitein may have identified it …
Literary text, well-preserved. The final image under this shelfmark (5v) consists of accounts in Arabic script. The lower edge of the penultimate page under this …
List. Fragment containing names of recipients of charity, including a blind woman, the widow of Shemuel the hazzan, and Mukhtār the doorkeeper. In the hand …
1 نسخ
Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
Fragment from the end of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Few details preserved. Involves [...] b. Yiṣḥaq …