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Legal document. Copy of a Qaraite proxy appointment for a marriage, one of only two such documents known from the geniza. Dating: ca. 1040–47 (based …
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Recto: Letter from the yeshiva in Jerusalem to Mevorakh (b. Seʿadya?), in Fustat. In Hebrew. Fragmentary. Dating: After 1094 CE. This is a letter of …
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Letter, probably. Content unclear. Three lines are preserved, and a few words in the margin.
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Monday, 10 Adar I 1537 Seleucid (9 February 1226 CE). This bill of divorce is one of forty …
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Letter of condolence from Mawhūb b. Aharon ha-Ḥazzan, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat (?). Dating: ca. 1070. This is a draft. The …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Begining of a short composition on the Jewish laws of religious meat slaughter (sheḥīta). According to the title, this composition was authored by the judge …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dealing with mercantile affairs. Mentions Yosef b. Iyov / Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, al-Maḥalla, …
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Writing/calligraphic exercises in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Recto, upper right quadrant: Formulae beginning with אדאם אללה and ادام الله in Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Upper left …
Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …
Small fragment. Recto: Few words from opening of a vocalized letter to ‘our Nagid David’. Verso: letter, informing sayyidna about an halakhic issue. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly recorded by a bookseller and, based on one type of coinage in use, the yüzlük ("יוזליס" l.3r), the document dates probably …
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active 1170s–1219). In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a complaint about illness. The purpose of writing seems …
Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …
Unidentified literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to "stories of Alexander... and the school of philosophical politics" (madhhab al-siyāsa al-falsafiyya).
Ketubba fragment (right lower corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Groom: Yefet ha-Zaqen b. [...] ba-Ḥavura. Witnesses: Peraḥya b. Araḥ; Yefet b. Ṣadaqa. …
Small fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions a certain Ḥasāna.
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Recto, right side: Headed Tāj al-Dawla Ibn al-Malījī; then two columns (presumably ʿalayhi and lahū). Each entry has a …
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …
Literary discussion, or possibly responsum.
Literary text in Ladino.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Somewhat widened line spacing. The ends of two lines are preserved: דלך . . . פלמא וקף עבדהא …
Letter from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf (Yehosef), in Malīj. The addressee is the tax farmer of the local market and the judge …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
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Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions pepper, ginger, and brazilwood.
Business letter, fragment, from Yaʿaqov Levi to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew. Goods mentioned include: alkali (הקלי) in line 6, and coral in line 8. …
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 …
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
IB II, 24. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. There are fragments of four or five …
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Entry in court notebook (#58). Legal query. Regarding a partnership in which one party has contributed all the capital and in which the ṣāḥib al-māl …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half of recto). This portion opens with greetings for "the father and the mother." The next portion has been translated …
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Legal document. This fragment describes a partnership in a dyeing business between Efrayim b. Yaʿaqov al-Mawṣilī and Avraham b. Hiba al-Dimashqī. Efrayim, the owner of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower piece). Mentions paying someone 10 dinars; [Abū] l-Ḥasan and Qalyūb; the sender being weary of something (קד קלת נהצתי …
Small fragment, literary
Receipt. Miniature (cf. ENA NS 83.413). Includes the glyph, payer's name, date, and the sum written in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly a registration …
Verso: Informal note, instructing the scribe of the court to write a promissory note on 96 dirhams—obviously the outcome of former litigation. Writtnen in Judaeo-Arabic …
Fragment of a will, probably. On parchment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "my daughter... all to the two sons, Sulaymān [and ...]... to be paid to my …
Recto: Brief letter in Arabic script, very polite, asking the addressee not to delay something. Verso: Apparently a commentary on Daniel 1:4f, in both Arabic …
Business letter from (or possibly to) Yehuda Ibn Sughmār. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed "tadhkira muwajjaha(?) = "memorandum sent(?)." The sender expresses his longing for the addressee, …