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Likely a prayer in Judaeo-Arabic: כלמא אצאבנא מן דנבנא. . . יא ראוף ארחם לי . . . יא תרא דא . . .
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Multifragment. Fol. 1r: List of different quantities of grain in enormous Arabic script. Fol. 1v: Legal document (lower right corner) involving the sale of a …
1 مناقشة
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: From Elijah the judge, Damietta. AA
Right fragment of a marriage contract, containing high-priced items in the trousseau (dowry). Groom: Avraham. Dated [13]35 Seleucid, which is 1023/24 CE. (Information from CUDL …
1 نسخ
Original use: Unidentified text in Arabic, likely a letter. (Information from CUDL)
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Arabic jottings and pen trials. Verso has a grid that has superimposed mirror-image text imprinted from another fragment.
Document in Arabic on verso, possibly. Medieval-era. The beginning of four lines are visible but the scribal hand is very difficult to decipher. NB: The …
Invoice from a Jewish synagogue in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 169) – in Hebrew and French. (information from Ḥassanein …
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic of appointing a legal agent. Mentions Seʿadya and an exilarch, a sum of 10 dinars, and the number 15.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Maqāniʿī. The hand may be known.
This copy of a marriage contract from a record book from the Palestinian synagogue of Fustat is written on four pages of two folios consisting …
Letter fragment, mercantile, mentioning commercial transactions. The sender has obtained, among other things, an irdabb of wheat. Mentions 'your neighbor Ibn al-Kallām,' a rubāʿī, and …
Draft of a formal letter or petition in Arabic to 'al-rayyis al-jalīl.' This side was reused for a document or composition that appears to be …
Letter fragment reporting about a dignitary in prison from whom a declaration was taken to be given both in a Jewish and a Muslim court. …
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script. Probably literary. JRL cataloguing data connects with Gaster Ar. 564 (PGPID 33259), perhaps because the two fragments were stuck together …
Legal document. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1371 Seleucid = July 1060 CE. Vocalized, which is unusual. Abū Saʿd Mufarrij b. Iṣḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh known …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Accounts
Small fragment of a late document in Arabic script mentioning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm.
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 50-52) Folio 14r
Recto: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Asking the addressee (al-Maghribī Isḥāq?) to convey something to a certain scribe or secretary (kātib), perhaps …
Legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 5309 AM = 7 February 1549 CE. Loan contract between Avraham b. Masʿūd (creditor) and Avraham al-Ḥājj …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, maybe a private or official letter. On verso there are a few words in Hebrew script.
Recto: Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Rabīʿ II 404 (17 October 1013). …
Registration mark on right
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Very damaged fragment from the top part of a legal deed, the name [Yehu]da b. Yefet is mentioned. Probably continues on verso.
Recto (secondary use): Satirical poem in Judaeo-Arabic, targeting the hypocrisy of religious authorities (mutafaqqihīn, fuqahāʾ). The target audience is Jewish (i.e., this isn't simply a …
Verso (secondary use): draft of a chapter from a medical treatise or a medical notebook, dealing with tumors and mentioning for example drinks made from …
Lease of a date plantation owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1150 CE and, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when the …
(We acquire from Hiba)
. . . . as a complete and solemn acquisition, with an instrument that is proper to acquire with,
(from now on, w…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from an unknown writer, in Rashīd, to Yaʿaqov Malikī, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 14th century and likely significantly later; written …
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 …
Legal document. Location: Malīj. Dated: Monday, 11 Tevet 1800 Seleucid = 15 December 1488 CE. Looks like a deed of sale for a piece of …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
Legal testimony given in court recording a lively dispute between Mubārak, Hillel, Ḥabīb b. Khalaf, Isḥāq b. Khalaf, Salāma b. Mundhir, a Rosh Kalla, Maḥfūẓ …
Legal document for a partnership between Berakhot ha-Levi b. Shemuʾel and Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. Dating: 1127–39 CE, as this was drawn up in the court …
Bifolio of business accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Extremely neat and legible. The entries on verso mention payments to an embroiderer (muṭṭariz) and repairer of …
ENA NS 83.15, recto: Fragment of a text in taʿlīq script, possibly documentary. The keyword عرض is repeated at least twice and the final line …
Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
Recto: Petition in Arabic script. Much of it is vague and allusive. Refers to the addressee as "al-mawlā" and refers multiple times to the sulṭān. …
Phrases from a letter addressed to a Jewish notable: מרדכ]י הזמן ראש מערכות ישראל . . . ירום הודו וירבה כבודו . . . ממשלתו …
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Only the upper left corner is preserved. Involving a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) and "to the Jewish woman Fāḍila bt. Abū …
One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …
Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the communities, first half of the 11th century.
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting). In Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the remainder of the price of a female donkey; a request …