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Dirges in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. The poem on the lefthand page has a refrain beginning כהני and refers throughout to the prominent merchant …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Either a letter describing a legal issue, or a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions terms such as iʿtiqāl (arrest) and tarsīm (usually payment for house …
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Probably literary
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, recommending a man who is “poor but from a good family.” The community of Fustat is asked …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
والحمد لله وصلواته على…
To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter of Yoshiyahu ha-Nasi to Elʿazar ha-Sar. Generous spacing between the lines. The hand is known from other documents and dates to the 13th century. …
1 مناقشة
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions glass (zujāj) several times. On parchment?
Minute fragment from the end of a letter or legal document, probably in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Ends ve-shalom. Only a few words are …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved, including 'khaṭṭ mawlāy.'
Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Monday, 4 Elul 142[.] Seleucid, corresponding to 1109–1118 CE; viable options are 1109, 1110, …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from a woman, in Qayrawān, to a benefactor, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The beginning is missing. Her children have nothing …
1 نسخ
Fragment of state correspondence in Arabic script. Legible words include muṣṭanaʿ, mustakhdam, in shāʾ allāh. Approximately 2 lines are preserved. On verso there is adidtional …
Mathematical table in Greek/Coptic numerals (cf. T-S Ar.39.380 (PGPID 20917)). E.g., recto column 2 consists of multiplication by 2/3, and recto column 3 consists of …
Recto: Left side of a letter addressed to a notable certifying the kashrut of the large molds (qawālib kibār) of כיאסי cheese and rennets (manāfīḥ) …
Legal agreement from Fustat, written by the hand of Avraham b. Aharon Ha-Mumkhe.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
List of about 95 prospective contributors, consisting of 4 columns on recto and one on verso. Col. I is superscribed Maṣṣāṣiyyīn, the is, people living …
אלאטבא
אלמולי אלמהדב שצ
אולאד אלרייס שצ
אלגאון אלמ..
אלמשמיע מפצל
אלשיך יוסף וולדה
בן אלבלאגלי
ר` ישו…
2 نسخين
Letter. Mentions a broker or brokerage (דלאלה). (Information in part from CUDL)
Halakhic text, possibly by Shmuel b. Ḥofni Gaʾon, mentioning among other things the concept of 'adāʾ al-amāna.' See Goitein and Friedman, India Book I, pp. …
Narrative in Judaeo-Arabic; possibly Esther.
Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in …
Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux.
Je fais savoir (au qâ'id Mu'izz), Dieu le protège et l'ait sous sa garde et en son amitié et ne
Legal document. Transfer of money to the poor of Jerusalem, 1085 CE. Shelomo b. Hayyim, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Jews, had forwarded …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
Solomon, the son of His Honorable and Great Sanctity, our Master and Leader, Ḥayīm, “the seventh of the ḥavūrā”,…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Investment partnership from the late 18th- or early 19th century between Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm and Barūkh Shalom. The document concerns the lending of a sum of …
Unidentified text or document in Ladino. Might be a letter. Refers to Shelomo Avimelekh, a son (fijo), and intriguing phrases such as "that which we …
Writing exercises in which the student repeated the same phrase in Hebrew on the recto and Judaeo-Arabic on the verso. The instructor provided model handwriting …
Memorial list, probably. See Goitein's index card for a reference to Mann.
Small fragment of document(s) in Arabic.
Upper part of a tax receipt, containing only the endorsements / administrative markings.
Letter of appeal for charity. A needy man from Qayrawan had applied for assistance from his relative, the esteemed Ifrīqiyyan merchant and scholar, Nahray b. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Letter of appeal or recommendation addressed to Moshe ha-Kohen. The introduction is in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that the bearer …
Letter fragment addressed to [...] b. Yosef ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions a bale of caraway and new silk, both the …
Letter fragment mentioning the servants (ghilmān) of the amīr, going to Caesarea, a ḥaver, and a broker. Also mentions "I brought it/him to the Morning …
Fragmentary letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138) informing on various business transactions including one to Dammuh. Cairo …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Binyām al-Rashīdī. Greetings to Sitt Naʿīm and to Abū …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Elazar ha-Kohen expressing sympathy at the death of his father. The writer notes that he had already sent a …
Three small fragments from a legal deed concerning real estate and a husband and wife. Describing various properties and boundaries, mentioning the names Ṣedaqa, Iṣḥāq, …
Legal document, fragmentary, c. 16th-17th century, from Egypt, concerning a property (אלקצר, ‘hall, ground-floor building’) in the quarter סוליימאן כ[א.]שה. The principal parties are Moshe …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
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 …
Bottom of a letter signed by Eliyya ha-Kohen b. Yehuda addressed to a group of people. Possibly a letter of recommendation for charity. Quite faded …
Few jottings in Arabic script. Document too fragmentary to glean any content.
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.
Recto: Memorial list (ancestry tree) of Maimonides’ wife’s ancestors. Written in 13th century handwriting (Goitein). Verso: List mentioning Netan'el, his son Berakhot and grandson Menakhem, …