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Original use: Petition for charity from a woman, with reference to her poverty and hunger, her brother, the Levant (al-diyār al-Shām[iyya]), and 11 dinars. Also …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Minute blank fragment
A letter to Avraham b. Mordechai informing him on the arrival of government officials to Vilna (now in Lithuania).
Letter from Mawhūb b. Aharon the ḥazzan to Nahray b. Nissim. Containing mainly warm greetings and blessings, particularly for Nahray’s son. He notes that he …
הדרת אדוני החבר הנכבד כג"ק מו"ר נהוראי גדול הישיבה ש"צ, בן מ' נסים זצ"ל. אוהבו מַוְהוּב בן אהרון החזן נ"ע.
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "What have you done with the fūṭa?... please try to send it to her..."
Recto: One or two damaged lines of Arabic text from a large state document, possibly a decree. Requires further examination.
Account arranged in five columns
Fragment of a bill of divorce (geṭ). The formulary and handwriting resemble T-S 13J6.28 (14th century). Location: Cairo. The husband appears to be named שבריה …
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Late fragment containing several designs for practicing calligraphic signatures and three lines of cryptic writing in Hebrew script. In Ladino and Hebrew but the intended …
Recto: a very faded and damaged, barely legible, letter, mentions Damascus and a certain Zekharya b. [...] Verso: literary material
Accounts. In Hebrew and eastern Arabic numerals related to gemstones such as emerald and diamond. Dated: 5593 AM, which is 1832/33 CE. "All this was …
Letter to a dignitary. Concerning travel and business transactions, including in military gear and enslaved people. Alternate readings (ASE): - instead of الحتة in r10 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Bottom part of a letter from Perahya b. Yosef, who asks the addressee to return books which he had lent to Rabbi David and which, …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment addressed to ʿAbd al-[Karī?]m (or al-Raḥīm?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; uses the currencies medin and ashrafī. The bullk of …
Letter from Barhūn b. Yisḥaq al-Tāhartī to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96 CE. The sons of the late Nagid, who are owed favors, have asked …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Bottom part of a letter in Hebrew: . . . תרבותיהם לכל . . . גלינו הבאים מארבע לסובב ולהקיף על . . . יקירינו …
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking to be sent an explanation of a Talmudic passage (אֶלָּא אָמַר רָבָא כִּי הֲוֵינַן בֵּי רַב נַחְמָן הֲוָה מְטַלְטְלִינַן כָּנוּנָא, …
The small ṭabaqa, 3 ….
The upper part of the funduq,
the apartment of (A)būʾl-Faraj …. 18(?)
The funduq:
The storer…
Letter from Yehuda ha-Melammed b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Avraham Maimonides in Fustat. Dated: Adar 1528 Seleucid, which is 1217 CE. Yehuda devotes the bulk …
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) …
Announcement of the Jewish community in establishing a religious institution for the training of faith leaders, kosher slaughterers, and mohelim beginning with the sending forth …
Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
Marriage contract. Dated: Sunday, 14 Tishrei 5557 AM = 16 October 1796 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: David Gabbay b. Seʿadya. Bride: ביתו bt. Khalīfa Pinto. …
1 نسخ
Letter in Arabic script. Mentions carrying out an errand for Abū l-M[...], and Cairo. The text on verso is part of the same letter. The …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantile letter. There are congratulations for a bride (al-ʿarūsa).
State correspondence. In Arabic script. Chancery hand with wide space in between lines. Only the beginnings of 4 lines are preserved (reused for jottings in …
Recto: Yehuday Gaʾon, Halaḵot Pesuqot, Hilḵot ʿEruvin. Verso: note of purchase stating that ʿAmram ha-Kohen b. Aharon ha-Kohen b. ʿAmram bought ‘Halaḵot of Yehudai Gaʾon’ …
Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to his business associate Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim, in Fustat. Advising him to dispose of goods costing …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment from a man to his wife. In Judaeo-Arabic. Partial translation by Joel Kraemer: "I have sworn an oath not to wash the clothes …
And the . . . was destroyed . . . property that was owed by my brother—may his memory be blessed. And I did not depart from…
2 ترجمتين
Certificate of the Qodesh. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1564 Seleucid = 21 January 1253 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Nagid David I …
A list of dozens of names arranged in two columns per side. Prefaced with "the names of the households who are invited (? maʿzūma)." Some …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines …
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yַūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī in Alexandria to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe in Fustat. Gil dates the letter to May 1069. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
1 مناقشة
Jotted accounts in Arabic script. Medieval-era. Mentions several names: ʿAlī b. [...], Ḥasan b. [...]. The remainder of the fragment contains Hebrew literary text. Needs …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and al-Andalus.
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish teacher Khalaf b. Ghālib in Fustat.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is Ya'aqov Helevi and the bride is Esther. Faded and damged.