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Copy of a deathbed will. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 4845 AM = 15 June 1085 CE. Testator: Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen, a well-known …
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Letter concerning an order for a cloak (mulāʾa) which the writer had sent but the addressee had not confirmed receiving. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deferential tone …
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Note on vellum sent on the evening following the day of Atonement, asking to return liturgical material for the feast of Tabernacles, which the writer …
Secondary use: Inventory of possessions in Judaeo-Arabic, for legal purposes. The lists are arranged in columns on each side. Mentions "with his deceased brother." On …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Learned letter in Hebrew with various inquiries addressed to ‘our lord’, including a question about the birkat ḥatanim and about the customs of the meturgemanim …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Friday, 6 Ṭevet 5211 AM, which is 11 December 1450 CE. Groom: Khalaf Allāh b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Sitt al-Banīn …
Legal document: testimony that Ya[ḥ]yā b. [ ] (?) is a Jew from Khaybar, and thus exempt from the capitation tax. Dated: middle decade of …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Prayers of God and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and upon his family.
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List of names and amounts of money. Mentions Bū l-Khayr; Mufaḍḍal; Manṣūr; Bū Riḍā (? ברצא); Ṭāhir; al-Qūṣī; Umm Baqāʾ; ʿAzīza.
Communal letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Upper part of a twin list in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, seemingly a draft, one list with amounts, and one mostly without amounts. …
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Legal or communal document in the hand of Yefet b. David. Listing substantial sums of money, it seems both income and expenses. The Palestinian synagogue …
Accounts in Arabic script. Repeatedly mentions shahr al-aʿyād (presumably Tishrei), al-faṭīr (Passover), and al-ʿanṣara (Shavuʿot). Mentions Abū ʿAlī b. Isḥāq. Needs further examination.
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dated 1811/12 CE (5572), from Sayyid Aḥmad Abū l-ʿAṭā' to Avraham Ḥakīm & Co. It is followed by accounts and another …
Recto: Budget of expenses for food on the two days of ʿUnṣura (Shavuot). Verso is in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It may be related. …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Small fragment. Medical recipe (based on the term masḥūq)? Needs further examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Damascus, late tenth century. The dowry list includes a short garment of linen decorated with silver and golden threads, two shirts, …
Verso: unidentified text in Arabic script, possibly the bottom of a letter. Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment (upper left corner of recto and remnants of the address on verso) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mentions the latter's son Abū Zikrī …
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Legal document. Begins with blessings upon the reigning caliph (al-Ẓāhir). May relate to an inheritance; discusses agricultural matters. Mentions units of land expressed in faddān …
Minute legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Letter from Shemuel Erusi (? ארוסי) to Shemuel Ibn Sīd. In Hebrew. Dated: 12 Av [5]374 AM = 18 July 1614 CE. The writer denies …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Missing only the first couple lines. The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's …
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اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على الاحوال السارة بمنه ولطفه ومما اعلمك اطال الله بقاك ان قد انفذت [اليك
الثوب والشعير ربعهم(وبعتهم/ر…
Legal document. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: First third of Av 1465 Seleucid = July 1154 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a ḥaver. Very faded. In the second (damaged) line refers to somebody [...] b. Shemuʾel ZL. The address is partially …
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, whose signature is partially visible. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. …
State document, in Arabic script. Decree fragment, four very faded lines with visibly large line spacing. The first word probably reads as "wa l-yujaddid". Needs …
End of a Fatimid petition fragment, in Arabic script. The preserved text contains the raʾy clause and the closing formula. There is another line of …
Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Sa'adya. The groom is Esther d. Eliyahu the cantor.
IB III, 43. Letter from Perahya b. Yosef Ibn Yiju (which he wrote in his and his brother Moshe's name) in Messina to his father …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso, with the address on recto: Letter from Madhkūr to Bū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a ḥamdala in Arabic script at the end. He …
Very faded Arabic legal document - needs examination. Reused on verso for a piyyuṭ of Yiṣhaq ibn Ghiyath.
Accounts and calculations in Arabic with Indo-Arabic numerals. Early modern. The verso has an entry "in the hand of al-Sayyid Aḥmad". Requires further examination.
Literary text, probably an Arabic grammar text. Mentions فاعل، مفعول، فعل with a few examples from the Quran in the explanation of these phenomena like …
Official letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, wide line spacing. Reused for legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate entry). Seems to be a report/petition …
… and fortune in …
I unsheathed an intent to serve in [...] the mis[sion](?) …
[from] on top of pulpits, and spreading the kernels of th…