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Unidentified text in Hebrew, probably literary: הני נשיר גנכם פ שבעליהן נתלין ודרך המלך להפקיר בית ונשיהם ופסקיה מעברא פ הנהר הפסקו שהיתה ספינת המע …
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Recto: Trousseau list. Mentions the elder Abū l-Faḍl, the groom. Goitein dates it to the late 12th or early 13th century.
1 مناقشة
Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely literary.
Receipt. Additional text on recto.
Document in Arabic on verso, perhaps state. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Verso (original use): Upper left corner of a brief letter or petition in Arabic. The text is fragmentary and the context is missing but the …
Contract of sale written on parchment, dated Ramaḍān 372 AH, between Minā b. Jirja and ʿIsā b. Ismaʿīl. (AP)
Letter concerning business issues in which the writer discusses the price of silk and references a previous conversation between Abu al-Tahur and the addressee. Abu …
1 نسخ
Letter addressed to a dignitary (ha-rav ha-gadol, ha-maʿoz ha-migdol—a title usually reserved for Maimonides or his son). The handwriting is distinctive (especially the curly זs). …
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Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Some lines crossed out near the bottom.
CUL Add.3420.2 1v – CUL Add.3419 1v: Legal record. Dated 15 Iyyar 1409 (= 19 April 1098 CE) in Fusṭāṭ. David b. Yaʾir testifies that …
On the same day, Mr. ʿUlla ha-Levi, son of Joseph, presented Mr. David, son of the late judge Ya'ir, to the court, and the latter witnessed for the f…
1 ترجمة
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Very faded.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably official. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic headings פזמאן and גירה (pizmān, ḡayruhu). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from a man to his 'brother' Abū l-Khayr and to his brother Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter addressed to the Nagid Abū l-Faḍl Shemuel (= Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Evidently a letter …
Medical text in Arabic.
Order of payment of three dirhams for the price of paper (unless this is referring to wariq dirhams) from 'the collectors' to 'al-shaykh al-nezer'. (Information …
Recto and verso: Letter recounting how a storeroom in Alexandria belonging to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, was opened and it was discovered that the grain …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter formularies, including to a notable and an appeal for help.
Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'brother.' The writer seems to be trying to justify something he said or wrote. …
Recto: Fragment (upper right corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Abū l-Barakāt regarding a fatwā and the nagid Av[raham]. Verso: Three lines of neat Arabic …
IB II, 20. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Aden, 1132.
[The letter of my lord, the most illustrious sheikh, arrived—may God make permanent your honored position, etc…and bestow upon you] all the g…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID 36725) and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Short and wide piece of paper. The content is cryptic. "When what happened happened and the messengers came and brought us [to …
Invoice from a Jewish synagogue in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 169) – in Hebrew and French. (information from Ḥassanein …
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1817 CE (end of Heshvan 5578) in which David Dayyan declares an investment partnership with Barakha Goren. A specific profession …
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Groom: Faraj. Bride: [...] bt. Farjūn, virgin. Witnesses: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Shemuel, Ṣadaqa b. [...], Hiba b. Aharon, Hillel …
P17: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One man grants a release to another. No other details preserved.
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Sivan [5322 …
Part of a legal document, dated the month of Shevaṭ 47[..] AM = 940–1039 CE. Witnessed by Menashshe b. Avraham b. Aharon nin Shuʿayb ha-Levi, …
Legal document. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has …
Ketubba fragment on parchment.
Accounts in a crude hand (previously misidentified as that of ʿArūs) mentioning money and quantities of various commodities received from a druggist, such as tamarind, …
Letter by Raḥamim b. Nissim to ʿArūs b. Yosef about dealing in purple and indigo.
Verso: A donations or alms list. Names in Judaeo-Arabic including: Majd, Manṣūr, Abū ʿAlī, Fāḍil, Yosef, the children of Nufayʿ, Yosef al-Aqraʿ, Munajjā, Abū l-Bayān, …
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …
Marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid, which is 1298 CE. The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. In the handwriting of ʿAllūsh the …
אטאל אללה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ומן תופיקה לא
אכלאך כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי נצ אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק
אלי…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Verso: Copy of a will by Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. September 1090. In the handwriting of Shlomo ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu (which became the Gaon later). …
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[גא]ב אלינא נסכה וציתה והדה הי אות באות יקול מן אתבת כטה
פי הדא אלכתאב חצרנא ענד ר ישועה בר שמואל …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Colophon by 'the Baghdādī cantor'; ביד אלחזן אלבגדאדי AA
Letter in the handwriting of the Ascalon scholar and scribe Natan b. Mevorakh, from Avraham (Ibrahim) b. Ḥalfon b. Nahum to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya …
In [your] name, O Merci[ful].
I received the letter of [his] h[onor], g[reatness, and] h[oliness], our master and teacher Eli ha-Kohen the parnas and…
3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
A few words in Hebrew script. Yiddish??
Unidentified. Scattered words mostly in Judaeo-Arabic; may be pen trials.