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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Probably a will (al-waṣiyya). The year is just …
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Late account, names and numbers. The heading of each side of the bifolio is dated sequentially 6-7 Ṣafar s[ene] __38 AH. Based on the paleography …
Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a legal document involving a marital dispute. On parchment.
List in Arabic script. Many of the entries are sums of money (e.g., dīnār wāḥid wa-[...]). There are elongated strokes within words so that each …
Secondary use: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic consisting entirely of a cryptic recipe or set of instructions involving safflower (ʿuṣfur), a board (lawḥ), a switch (miqraʿa), and …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions pepper; ʿAbd al-Dāʾim al-Dajājī; Cairo; Alexandria.
1 مناقشة
Fragment of a ketubba, mentioning different quantities of dinars and mandīl ‘cloth’. (Information in part from CUDL)
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1055. Mentions silk from Sicily and Spain. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #278) VMR
בסם אללה אלעצים שרח ביע אלשש אלמבארך אלואצל פי סנה תמ[ ]
מן דלך עלי חיי כט רטל ⟦תנקץ טו דרה⟧ מקשר סער כ קיר אלרטל בלא געל
אלתמן כד דינ ⟦…
Recto: legal document, or letter concerning a legal affair. There is a list of witnesses' names on verso: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dayyān, Abū Saʿd b. …
Recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: List of collections for the Jerusalemites (tafriqat al-maqādisa). Dated: Sivan 1553 Seleucid = May 1242 CE. The holiday of …
Letter requesting an invitation to meet the addressee in person. This letter is written in a similar hand and style as T-S 10J17.27–30 (per Goitein). …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Informal note to Bū ʿAlī beginning "يا مولاي الشيخ بو علي قد طلقت. . . ." Regarding a divorce? Needs examination. There is an unusual …
Informal note addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: Ca. 1210 CE (per Goitein). The hand may be known. (1) Abū l-Riḍā al-Wathīq has a power …
Fragments of responsa, at least one of which deals with property division between brothers. The paleography supports a dating estimate between the 15th-17th centuries. The …
Ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 3 Ṭevet 5581 AM = 8 December 1820 CE. Bride: Sūsār (or Sūkār?) bt. Yehuda Nabālī. Groom: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov …
Letter in Arabic script. There are also a few words in Judaeo-Arabic on verso (li-dukkān...). The letter mentions people such as Abū l-Ḥasan and al-Rayyis …
Recto: Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic, reassuring the recipient that everyone is well and that conditions in the region are the same as they have been. …
Verso: Informal note to al-Nezer (Natan b. Shemuel), active 1128–1164 CE, in which the writer bemoans his state (e.g. mā baqiya lī khāṭir), and writes, …
Arabic text, possibly an aphorism and/or pen trials.
Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid = 5 October 1495 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yehonatan …
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 10.5 dinars. Dating: Mentions Shaʿbān [5]73 AH = January/February …
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Mentions Fustat or Egypt (Miṣrayim). Complains that "the people wouldn't let me leave" (לא הניחוני העם לצאת); cf. ENA NS 48.29 …
State document with a header invoking the name of al-Qāḍī al-Ashraf thiqat al-imām. The main text is barely three lines long, followed by sums and …
Fiscal accounts, probably. The year is given (5[..] AH?) but is difficult to read. Folded into a bifolio and reused for poetry in Hebrew.
IB VI, 30. Letter from Avraham b. Mu'ti Tilimsānī, upon arriving safely in Aydhab, to Abu Saʿd b. Azhar, in Fustat. He provides an update …
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Note in Arabic script beginning "yā mawlānā." Everything is crossed out but might still be legible.
Recto: Bill of sale of for a Nubian enslaved woman named Mulḥ/Milḥ. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Kislev …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very detailed. Dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and currencies referenced. There is a full date in the upper left …
Letter to Yehuda b. Elya to Egypt (FGP). Image not available.
Arabic, literary. Aphorisms?
Lower lines from a legal document issued in Cairo (מצרים), badly damaged. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The signature that is …
Legal deed in Hebrew detailing a sarraflık partnership involving members in Cairo and Rashīd. Dated: Shevat 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. The shared purse …
Booklet of alphabetical tables for prognostications in Arabic script. "Travel by sea: effective or not?" "Should I buy animals: good or not?" The last page …