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Fragment of an incomplete legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–1138 CE). There are two lines, mentioning the late Abū l-Faraj …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Verso: Note in Arabic-script which starts with a taqbīl clause and mentions the arrival of goods from Qūṣ and a donation of (oil?) for the …
1 نسخ
legal document (bill of release of a claim). Written and signed by Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya. Dated: 1559/60 CE. Verso is blank.
Fragment of a letter of appeal for assistance. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38).
Fragment from a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentioning flax and Nissim and Abū l-Fakhr. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Recto is a piece of a letter or petition describing legal negotiations, in which a woman makes a declaration, someone is granted permission to meet …
Minute fragment. Few words in Arabic - needs examination.
IB VI, 2. Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein …
2 نسخين
Bottom of a legal document. On parchment. Dating: 12th century. Involves medicinal syrups (sharārīb). Witnesses: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active until 1150 CE); Natan b. …
Left side of a letter sent by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) to his brother in law, in which the sender writes that Eli …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#7) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Tammuz 5320 …
Responsa collection.
Informal note in Arabic script, possibly from Bū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Ṭayyib(?) whose name appears at upper left. He orders labdanum, rose, mastic, tamarind, camphor, …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef al-[...], Abū Yiṣḥaq, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Maḥbūb, and some other names. Written …
Bifolium. Two of the pages contain rhyming and/or poetic Hebrew text, calligraphically written. Apparently the colophon to the book this used to belong to. It …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة
Official-looking account reporting revenue.
Letter fragment in the hand of Avraham b. Farah al-Iskandarani, in Alexandria, to one of the merchants in Fustat, regarding shipments being forwarded to the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
1 مناقشة
Note in which the writer apologises to the parnas for acting without consulting him. The parnas had promised to come immediately but instead Salāma came. …
Verso (probably the original use): Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Written in a formal style and reporting that the bearer (al-wāṣil bihā), a certain Muḥammad, …
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, …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq. Probably Ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years …
In a short note, a letter brought by Tiqva b. 'Amram from Farah b. 'Ayyash is presented to the court in Cairo. The letter was …
Verso (original use): Bottom part of a letter or decree in Arabic script. Refers to a ḍāmin and someone whom "we need, but he does …
ويقرر ذلك وانما غاب …ليس …
وهو جمال الناىب عنه عما …المسلمين
وان تتفضل بشي حتى نحضرها واذ
سيرنا لك الذي لك على الضمنا ف…
واخذ/واحد ل…
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions the eunuch (al-ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf. T-S Ar.39.206 (PGPID 20812)). On verso mentions wheat and fava beans.
Letter from a certain Bū ʿUmar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Asking the addressee to ask al-Qāḍī al-Murtaḍā for 1,294 1/4 …
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 12r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Heshvan 5322 …
Letter of censure to the community of Malij and its leader the cantor Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from Farah b. Isma’il to Nahray b. Nissim. Regarding money exchange and shipments of linen. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, …
כתאבי יא[ס]יידי ו[מולאי
דונך ברחמתך מן אל[
בנתכם ושק עלי דלך [
הדא אלוגה פלם אתדכר [
יגפל ען שיי יתעלק ב[
אדאם אללה עזה פי מא ק[
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter to the Jewish community (qahal) of Fustat from a petitioner whose children were taken captive. The community has only redeemed some of them so …
A, b, and c of this folded piece of paper contain List. 'Distribution of money and clothing,' superscribed 'The rest through Abu'l-Bayan' (the parnas). Since …
Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a power of attorney. No names preserved. Moderately wide space between …
Letter from Yehosef b. Shemuel Bavli to the judge Anatoli b. Yosef. In Hebrew. He states that he will not hand over a security to …
Bifolio possibly from a communal/court ledger. Dating: probably early 13th century. Written in a striking mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic (and Greek/Coptic numerals). Three …
Accounts.
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
A letter, almost complete, from Shelomo b. Shem Tov, who served as a proxy of the Jerusalemite community in Egypt. The writer admonishes the addressee …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Separate documents on recto and on verso. The document on recto deals with …
Accounts, in Arabic script.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official-looking. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Reused in the margins and on recto for writing exercises.