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Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe literary or a letter. Mentions Rabbi Moshe. Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: gold peraḥim. Mentions the name ʿAlī Zāghlūl and Yiṣḥaq Pereṣ on the recto and verso, respectively. Requires further examination.
Business letter from Zekharya b. Yaaqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1065 (Gil). The writer is about to …
[ ] נהראי בן נסים וסלמו(?)
[ ] טראבלס יכון אלקאבץ מולאי אלשיך
[ ] מרדוך ואן אלמהדיה מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד ואנא מראעי [ ]
לדלך ואנא מעול …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Business letter from Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov (fattore) to a certain Shelomo (employer). In Hebrew with occasional Ladino words (docenas, magazin, partidos). Spanish and/or Venetian coinage …
1 نسخ
IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
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Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 5581 AM, which is 1821 CE. Yiṣḥaq Ṭawīl invests 1000 esedi gurush with Moshe Maṣliaḥ …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Beginning of Shevat 5306 AM = January 1546 CE. Concerning financial arrangements between a wife (Siwār) and husband …
Recto: Two lines from an official letter. In Arabic script. Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Quite damaged. Mentions the phrase "taḥlil al-mizāj"; refers to al-Dimashqī; and Abū Isḥāq b. Maḥbūb.
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or possibly 12th century. Dealing with business matters; mentions quantities of goods and prices. Mentions Ibn ʿAzrūn.
Legal document, fragment from the lower left containing part of a date.
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a date of an unspecified month and year "bi-tārikh rābiʿ ʿashr minhu."
Legal document. Mentions a certain Rabbenu Shelomo. Signed by [Avraham?] b. David b. Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Dating: late 13th or early 14th century.
Interesting, late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "the land of the Christians" to al-Muʿallim Yūsuf, the shammas of the synagogue, Cairo. The writer narrates in brief …
Probably a prescription or recipe in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender congratulates the addressee on the holidays, alludes to the …
Elaborate account. Amounts expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals.
Court record dealing with a dispute between Saʿadya and ʿEli ha-Levi over a sum of 8 dinars. It refers to the price of honey, an …
Power of attorney written by a Muslim notary, beginning [ ]هذا كتاب وكالة كتبه يبن هتم لعـ, with اليهودي added above the missing name in …
Piyyuṭ fragment in an exquisite scribal hand comprising a portion of the Yom ha-Kippur Amidah (per FGP). The FGP description does not reference two faint …
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 …
Letter from a woman in the countryside to her husband in Fustat. She refuses to join him there in the capital. The letter is to …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's …
Fragment of a letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (d. 1355) addressed to the cantor Abu al-Faraj, like several other letters from the …
Letter of appeal for charity. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with good handwriting but rudimentary spellings. The sender asks for half a dirham to buy food. He …
Inventory of various kinds of building materials and wood (probably after the dismantling of a house), followed by "we saw the house and nothing remained …
מכסה …
Verso: Betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated: 7 Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Record of the donation of one quarter of a compound by Sitt al-Naẓar bt. Ḥalfon to the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1161 CE. She also …
(1-4) Sitt al-Naẓar, the daughter of [Ephraim] Ḥalfōn, dedicated one quarter of the compound that is in Mahra, leading into the darb, (Dār) S…
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is 29 November 1161 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Sivan 5323 = 8 June 1563 CE. In which Zeraḥ Dammūhī (cf. CUL Or.1081 2.26 + …
Fragment of a responsum (or a letter). In Judaeo-Arabic. EMS. On verso there is an ofan for Roš ha-Šana. The refrain is ה’ אלהים צבאות …
Bill of testimony concerning the will of Abū l-Faraj b. Hilāl. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Refers to Rabbenu Menaḥem. Also involves an …