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Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
1 نسخ
Recto: Letter or petition, fragment. In Arabic script. It seems to be addressed to the director of the bureau of mosques (mutawallī dīwān al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid), …
Letter recording commodity transactions, including the purchase of wheat. Mentions a food shortage and rise in prices "and we are in a massive crisis because …
Petition. Small fragment. Contains a taqbīl clause (and not much else). The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings during the time of the …
Arabic poetry. Needs examination.
Tax collection (ḍamān) contract from the era of the caliph al-Mustanṣir. Mentions a state official by the title of Kāfī al-Dawla. Mentions two gates of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصـ[ـر بالله صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابايه
الطاهرين وابنايه الاكرمين واخبرته(؟)
بن محسن و…
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 …
Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... …
Letter addressed to Abu l-Khayr b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Nearly entirely preserved, except for the upper left corner …
Petition, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Three and a half lines are preserved. The petitioner is one of the traders entering (or importing goods into?) Egypt …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
[الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وعلـ[…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Petition or report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions: al-muslimīn... mutawallī al-balad... al-ghulām... ʿalā nafsihi l-ʿādila...lammā kānat hādha l-waqt... …
Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Difficult hand. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. It could be a draft or was later reused for …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …
Letter in Arabic script. Probably commercial. Needs examination. Reused on verso for Megillat Esther-related text in Hebrew.
Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Four lines from near the top are preserved. Late Fatimid period.
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From three merchants. Opens with blessings for the caliph. None of the substance is preserved. The formula "ضاعف …
Legal documents (one on recto and remnants of two on verso) in Arabic script. Might be a deed of sale on recto and deeds of …
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Accounts in Arabic script on a reused literary fragment. Late. Some of the mentioned commodities are medical ingredients. Needs examination.
Late accounts in Arabic, probably Ottoman-era. The list starts with 'thaman' (price) or 'qabaḍ' (collected).
State document, Ottoman, dated Jumada I 1238 H. Ledger page connected to the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria (most of the institutional title is in …
Probably a medical prescription or a recipe in Arabic, mentioning hiera picra (a cathartic powder made of aloes and canella bark), chebulic myrobalan (iḥlīj Kābulī), …
Letter from Ṣedaqa al-Yahūdī to Umm al-Khayr bt. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm b. [...], possibly in Bilbays (the address is damaged). In Arabic script. Dating: No …
Recto (secondary use): Order from ʿĀzim al-Bayyāʿ (the grocer) to hand over 1/2 wayba of rice to the bearer of the note. Headed by a …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Fatimid-era. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Moderately wide line spacing. Includes …
Several medical recipes in Arabic by the title "صفة معجون نافع للارواح".
Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …
Letter in Arabic script to unknown recipients from a certain Ibrāhīm mentioning a variety of Christian contacts such as Abū Adraūs and Abū Jirjis. Dated …
After [expressing our] most affectionate [?] longing [ ].
The abundance of your love is well-known [lit., ‘not hidden’], which was the reas…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Ottoman-era legal document (or letter with legal content?) addressed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 19 Shaʿbān 930 = 1524 CE. Mentions …
Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad …
له اجمعين (؟) شهد (؟) الدين (؟)……فخر…
والسلاطين خالصة امير المؤمنين اسد الدين ثبت الله
مجده وضاعف سعده واهلك شانئه وضده وقرن
بالتوفيق ح…
Recto: Last nine lines of a legal document in Arabic dated 555 AH (1160 CE), with the signatures of two witnesses. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …
3 bifolios from an Arabic medical treatise in beautiful calligraphic script with diacritical marks.
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Three unrelated fragments. Pages 1 and 2: A private account in (quite legible) Arabic, naming Yūsuf al-Yahūdī, Makārim al-Yahūdī, al-Qazzāz Abū l-Qāsim, and others. Written …
Legal document, ishhād, in Arabic, dated 1831 CE (18 Jumāda l-Awwal 1247 Hijri). Ibrāhim al-Yahūdī owes 700 Rūmī Kuruş and has to pay the Dīwān …
Recto: An amulet or talisman for protection, beginning with a chapter on charms and protections "bāb al-ḥirz l-aʿẓam". Verso: Magical recipe or charm involving an …
Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of lac. (information in part from Aodeh.)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
1 مناقشة
Recto: a medical prescription in Arabic for ʿAlī b. [..]Allah. Verso: scribal practice in Hebrew. ASE.
Approximately 13 verses of poetry from the poem of the renowned Arabic poet al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/955) "حاشا الرقيب فخانته ضمائره * وغيض الدمع فأنهلت بوادره".
Nine verses of poetry from the poem of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d.1057), who despite his controversial religious views is deemed one of the best classical …
State document, ending line of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Hebrew liturgical text on verso.
Verso: Document in Arabic script, some sort of an agricultural account or survey. Mentions al-maydān al-baḥrī, potholes for sowing, pomegranate and, olives. "fī l-maydān al-baḥrī... …
Decree, in Arabic script. 6 lines of a chancery document chopped into pieces and then reused to form quires. The line on fol. 19a has …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Verso: Fiscal document, 3 fragmentary lines with lacunae, in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be …
Memorandum or other internal state communication. In Arabic script, with wide line spacing, fragmented baselines, and frequent diacritics. Four lines preserved, the fourth an interlinear …