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Court record written and signed by Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Av 4889 AM, which is July/August 1129 CE, under …
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Order of payment in which Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay 15 dirhams to the bearer, who is a plasterer (jabbās). The sum is also …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl …
Registration mark on right
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals, written in multiple hands.Mentions: Mufaḍḍal b. [...]; a half qinṭār of myrrh; Abū l-Faḍl …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side only). Dated: 564 H, which is the 12th century CE if this has been read correctly. The …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Ottoman-era. Mentions an agha and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hilālī. Needs further examination.
Marriage contract, fragmentary and damaged, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, in the later period of his activity as scribe (dated documents: 1100-1138), in …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
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Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
Accounts, in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Unidentified text (letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There is an unusual case of a hybrid Arabic-Hebrew term: בחצרתהנו ("bi-ḥaḍratenu") — an Arabic word with a …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a druggist and a maṭbakh (sugar refinery, based on the appearance of qaṭāra in the same …
Legal document: Bill sale for property to Saqina ibn Yuḥannis by his sister. Buljusuq (Fayyum), early 5th/11th c. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 205 x …
Jewish communal letter in Arabic script. Mostly in Arabic language, with at least one word in Hebrew (اليشوعا, v8). Opens with blessings for the caliph …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Recto: Burial prayer in Hebrew. Spanish influenced hand. Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later.
Draft of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Abū al-[Man]ṣūr al-Kohen purchases a female slave named Ṭ[...] for the price of 25 dinars.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Betrothal contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The early marriage payment: 40 dinars. The names are missing. The man apparently …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on very yellow paper with many names of Muslims. The name Yosef Maymun appears at the top of the recto of …
Accounts, early modern. Perhaps the same scribe and defter fragment as ENA NS 53.15 (PGPID 39644). Ottoman-era with the currency jadid/cedid mentioned. At least one …
Letters of recommendation, probably. For Barukh Löb (here also called Barukh Lion). Written in Mainz. Presumably the language is German. Dated: 30th and 31st August …
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Shimʿon Frances, probably in Cairo (למצ[ר), from Nissim Masos(?) or Mshish(?). Mentions Shelomo Barūkh, Yaʿaqov Portas, and Eliyyahu Ben-Ṣahal. Requires …
Legal document. Bū l-Majd b. Thābit, known as Meir b. Yakhin, appoints his brother Hilāl/Hillel as his attorney for all his claims and in particular …
Literary text in Arabic script. Has a diagram.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, with many names, items, and shops listed. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Beginning of a letter from Shemuel b. Hofni (977-1013) to Avraham and Tanhum, the sons of Yaʿaqov, in Fez, Morocco, in excellent calligraphic script. Dated …
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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Account, listing names with numbers. Probably 14th century or later (among other reasons, since "son of" is written with a nun sofit). Some of the …
Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script addressed to "al-Shaykh al-Rayyis al-Muwaffaq." There is a version of a raʾy clause (والراي ما يراه المولى). The sender …
Business note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the arrival of the merchants and a request that the addressee write something in his …
Beginning of a letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef mentioning the payment of goods and another document from the same writer to the addressee relating other …
Probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The entire large page is preserved but the text is too faded to be legible. Verso seems to have the …
Receipt/order of payment issued by a state overseer (nāzir) for the monopoly of silk production during Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Location: Alexandria. Dated 28 Ramadan …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Damaged and fragmentary. Verso: Text in Arabic script in a different hand, which sounds like a state document: "al-marsūm bi-l-amr …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter in poor handwriting, including alephs that are often separated by internal spaces and gimels that extend well below the baseline. …
Treatise on alchemy in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuel (active from the end of 12th century – ca. 1249).
Narrow vertical strip from a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi?
Official correspondence in Arabic script, addressed to a superior. Dating: Mamluk period, based on the migration of the tarjama to the right margin. The sender's …
Legal document. Dating: mentions a period beginning in Kislev 1[4]14 Seleucid = November/December 1102 CE. Mentioning Alexandria. In which the 'righteous elders' intervene and settle …
Letter/petition to a notable in Judaeo-Arabic. Begins with a taqbīl clause in the name of a woman (al-mamlūka tuqabbil al-arḍ) but the inhāʾ is masculine …