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Letter by Perahya b. Yosef asking the addressee to go over his comments on a section of the Talmud with his Rav, and then to …
1 نسخ
Verso: Large fragment filled with Arabic script. It appears to be a Jewish prayer: "yā Allāh" (l. 6), "I thirst for your mercy like the …
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Verso: Unidentified document (accounts?) in Arabic script. Mentions "qinṭār wāḥid" Recto: Qinnot, possibly in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Accounts. Needs examination.
Damaged fragment, probably of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The content is unclear. Mentions the prayers of Yom Kippur and the 9th of Av. Phrases: אליהודי …
Inquiry whether a meeting should be held in the Palestinian Synagogue (kanīsat al-shāmiyyīn) concerning "the affair of ʿAmram ha-Talmid Ibn al-Duājī". Dating: looks ca. 13th …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions silk, 40 dinars, and the mysterious word כצאש twice (once followed by "ghalīẓ"). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 14 Av 5430 AM, which is 1670 CE. Venue: House of Barukh Nasi nin Eliʿezer Ẓemaḥ. Shelomo Fayrūz b. …
Popular poetry in Judeao-Arabic. Vocalized. Rudimentary hand. Includes a verse beginning "go up to Jūjar" (אטלע לגוגר יא אנסאן). In the same style as Nāṣir …
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Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to "distress" (shidda). Everything else is too faded to read.
Legal document. Debt contract. Tamīm b. Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Verso: Detailed technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic for making a red dye out of lac and dyeing silk with it.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. May mention incense (bakhūr). Mentions wool and Yūsuf al-Ṣūrī and Passover. Possibly ʿAbd al-Salām.
Letter to Shemuel ha-Hazzan with a long Hebrew poem and a few lines of Judaeo-Arabic containing a request for the Kitāb al-ʿAnṣara by Ibn Ghiyāth. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
IB IV, 28 (ח29). Fragment of a partnership agreement in which one of the partners is Abū l-Saʿd Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Location: likely Lucena. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Fragments of an astronomical text, in Arabic script.
Communal note probably from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids to R. Avraham. The matter of ‘Yosef the son of the beadle’ …
Fragment covered with disorganized Arabic writing, including some numerals.
1 مناقشة
Deed of quittance stating that Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Būṣīrī (בוצירי from Būṣīr in Egypt) received what was owed him by his sister’s son, Yiṣḥaq b. …
Letter from a man, probably in al-Maḥalla, to a friend or family member, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks if a certain commodity sold …
Recto: Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably copied from an Arabic work previously copied by a Muslim. "Written in the mon{th} of Rabīʿ I of the year …
Legal document, fragment from the lower left containing part of a date.
Recto, right side: Document in Arabic script. Perhaps a receipt or accounts of some kind (there are discrete sections and Greek/Coptic numerals and a piece …
Small scrap of parchment containing the closing line of a marriage contract and its signatures. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 374) EMS
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Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Letter (beginning on verso), mentioning quinces. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Avraham b. David b. Sughmār, probably in Alexandria, to his son, David, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. The father rebukes his son …
כתאבי יאולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן
תופיקה לא אכלאך ראש חדש מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך [ועלינא באחסן]
כא[ת]מה וקרב אלגמע ב…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Labrat b. Yishaq from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Dunash, Fustat, in the handwriting of Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq b. al-Sahl. Both the sender and …
Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel with the responsum of Menahem b. Yiṣḥaq. The question deals with a woman who had permitted …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: Probably 1082 CE. The approximate time period is established by the mention of Yaʾir ha-Nadiv Peʾer ha-Qahal, who also appears …
Letter in Arabic script. Concerning 'the going up' of an enslaved singing woman (ṭulūʿ al-mughanniya). "I sent Luʾluʾ... with her another person from her place …
Poem to celebrate the circumcision of a son of a government official (l. 8), calligraphically written in hemistichs, with the final seven lines narrowing to …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
[כתאבי אט]אל אללה בקא מולאי אלסיד אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
[וסעאדת]ה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה לי מצא מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלי
מולאי באחסן כאתמה וע…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB III, 53. Fragment of a letter from Peraḥyā Yijū to Abu ʾl-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Written in al-Maḥalla, ca. 1161-72. "Peraḥyā extends to him wishes …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter on parchment, quoting Nehemiah 9:33. Dating: likely 11th century. AA/ASE
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
Order or receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions the name Bū Naṣr b. Barakāt al-Maḥallī.