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Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
Accounts mentioning spikenard, cloves (קורונפל), hyacinth (סונבול), and probably other botanical items. (MCD with Information from CUDL.) Late.
Calligraphic letter sent by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemarya to Rabbi Benjamin, containing greetings to his two sons and describing how he fell from his wealth, lost …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Account in Arabic. Formalized layout reminiscent of state documents rather than private accounts, although the contents seem much more consistent with private grocery accounts (e.g., …
Legal document in which a paternal cousin (al-shaykh al-mukram al-Kohen Pinḥas) of a man’s wife (bint al-Muṣinn) renounces his inheritance rights on one-fourth of a …
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Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated to the same …
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Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.
IB IV, 62 (ח65). Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusī ha-Levi, probably in Fustat, to his uncle Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. February …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.3 - State document or draft, in Arabic script. Contains an oversized …
Account, fiscal, probably Fatimid, with amounts listed in dinars and dirhams. Current folio number unclear; item 15 in DPUL.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 29 Tammuz 1590 Seleucid = 11 July 1279 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active …
Faded note of some kind in Hebrew. The scribe writes in the first-person and signs their name: אמר שלא הוא ל.ן כתבתי ע.[...] אני הצעיאר …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1007–55 (speculative). This document records a partnership agreement between Manṣūr b. Yisraʾel ha-Levi and Mas‘ūd b. Mevorakh, who placed 200 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Final draft of mixed Qaraite-Rabbanite court document concerning the sale of a house. On verso there is rhymed poetry (seliḥa). Joins by Oded Zinger. For …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter and responsum sent by Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified person in Fustat (perhaps Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq). Dated: 19 December 1029 CE. (Information …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Medical recipes in Arabic script, mentioning the ingredient fākhūr.
Account in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Dating: Looks Ayyubid or Mamluk era. Needs examination.
Business letter from Aḥmad Abū l-ʿAṭar, in Manṣūra, to Avraham Ḥaqīm, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. For another letter between the …
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. One of the headers on recto may refer to "the foundry" (al-masbak). On verso there is the glyph. …
Ketubba for the remarriage of a couple, Ramla, 1051. Groom: Marwān b. Toviah. Bride: Sarwa bt. Mevorakh. This ketubba is cancelled, implying that the couple …
Recto: list of items, numbers, and names in Hebrew script. Verso: accounts in Arabic script
Verso: Will of Maymun b. Khalfa. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 Tammuz 1383 Seleucid, which is 5 July 1072 CE. Witnessed by Yosef b. Elʿazar …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Letter from a man from the land of the Persians, who, after the loss of his fortune, had come to Egypt to seek a post …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is calling in a loan of 8.5 dirhams and also tells the addressee to pay the messenger. There are pen …
Fragment from the beginning of a letter. Very faded. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Reused on recto for pen trials of the beginning of a …
Legal record (#6) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (spanning ff. 2r-3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Document 6) Folio 2r
Letter from a Jerusalem pilgrim writing from Alexandria, admonishing his relatives, who were staying in his house in Fustat, to exercise utmost consideration towards “the …
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for payments received, the paleography helps date this fragment to the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. Given how much of the text is missing, the …
Fiscal account, probably.
Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …
Letter from Moshe (?)..סיפר to Avraham ha-Kohen. In Ladino. Dated 3 Kislev 5[..]3 AM. Candia is mentioned in line 6, as is the case with …
Two autograph instructions written by Moshe Maimonides on the blank space of a literary fragment about the laws of blessings. The first instruction is that …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#62). Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Bū l-Makārim al-Ṣā'igh Yosef b. Shemuel. Bride: Sitt al-Riyāsa bt. Shela ha-Levi ("the sister of Sitt al-Ḥasab" - …
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Legal query sent to the Judge Anaṭoli about a debt. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. See Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "Responsa of Abraham Maimonides …
Recipes in Arabic script, written in the blank space around Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic literary text. One is "kohl for tears" (كحل للدمعة).
Bill of release involving real estate, granted by the woman Nasāba bt. Maymun b. Ḥusayn b. Baqā to a certain Thābit. Signed by Menashshe b. …
Legal literary text in Hebrew, mentions a "bathhouse" in line 13 (מרחץ). Medieval-era. There is faint writing visible in between some of the lines, possibly …
Fragment of a business account, or possibly letter, mentioning a partnership between an amīr and Yeshuʿa. Mentions the term barqalū (mid-sized bale).