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Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1060. The writer tells Nahray b. Nissim about the news in Alexandria and …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה מן אל
אסכנדריה בעד וצול כתאבה אעזה אללה ידכר סלאמתה אדאמהא אללה ברחמתה …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half). Dating: early to mid-12th century. Mentions ṭabarī cushions, Abū Kathīr, something 'narjisiyya,' and a silver zabdiyya (a kind …
1 نسخ
Order of payment, or accounts, extremely fragmentary. Mentions "yatafaḍḍal".
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Unidentified document (letter?) in Arabic script. Mentions going to Damietta (يوجه الى دمياط).
Marriage contract (ketubba). Large and almost completely preserved. Location: Tyre. Dated: Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 AM, which is 28 November 1023 CE. The scribe is …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Order of payment or receipt in Arabic script: li-yatasallam al-muʿallim ʿAlī.... It is not clear what is being paid or handed over. 11 qadaḥs of …
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Strongly formulated note by the prominent judge Natan b. Shemuel ("al-Nezer"), active 1128–1164 CE, to a prominent member of the community, urging the man to …
Order of payment.
Distribution list for communal expenses and alms, probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Names include: Isḥāq; al-Muwaffaq; Abū l-Riḍā al-Ḥarīrī; Abū l-Maʿālī; Hiba …
Letter from Tyre to David b. Daniel, Fustat, probably 1092.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Occult.
Letter to the community of Jerusalem from Elhanan b. Shemarya, 1013 CE.
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …
Letter in flowery Hebrew from Yiṣḥaq b. Benveniste of Narbonne, in Dimyāṭ (Damietta), who visited Egypt around 1105, writing to Yehoshuaʿ b. Dosa in Fustat …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow paper with widened line spacing; ~10 lines from the middle section are preserved. The sender complains of someone who "took …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
A legal discussion? Very damaged, deals with monetary issues.
Business letter to Zikrī, mentioning Ibrahim Ibn al-Fawsalī (אלפוסלי) (?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th or 15th century. Asks the addressee to obtain something …
Verso: Letter of appeal from a poor man [...] ha-Levi addressed to the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300) or David II Maimonides (r. 1355–1410). …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Addressed to 'my brother,' a notable given many titles and blessings (לכתר עם האלהים... תפארת בני מ.ל... …
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeẓ to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5567 AM, which is 1806/07 CE. Needs examination for …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter written and sent probably from Alexandria by Yaʿaqov b. Salman al-Hariri perhaps to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Ca. 1052 (Gil). Discusses business matters, …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Recto is a brief note containing good wishes to a congregation (יהני אלגמאעה אלמקדסה …
Legal document in Arabic script. May be a deed of sale (hādhā mā ishtarā....). One of the parties is Jewish. Reused in the upper margins …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Ḥasan. Inquiring about the copying of Psalms and mentioning various sums in dirhams. Verso seems to be a …
Testimony dated the 8 Av 1776 Seleucid = 31 July 1465 CE. Regarding Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm ("known as the leprous (al-Abras)"?) and another party who …
Small piece of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38). Involves Manṣūr/Elʿazar and Ṣedaqa. Apparently Manṣūr agreed to pay Ṣedaqa …
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL) Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later.
Three lines in Arabic, possibly from the end of a document. Needs examination.
Table of monetary values, two columns are listed "silver" and "pure" (נוקר). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Possibly related to communal …
Fragment of a calendar in Hebrew, comprising the lower right corner of the page. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Most …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). Dealing with the silk trade.
Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm from Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad, son of the sincere commander Crescent of the Dynasty (Hilāl al-Dawla), the elder Treasure …
List of trousseau written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). (Weiss MA dissertation)
Marriage contract (ketubba). On parchment. Long vertical fragment, 21 in. in height; looks like a backbone. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli. …
1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a state document addressing "[...] al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-naṣrī." It seems that only one line and a few words of another line …
Responsum by Yosef Tawazi concerning religion and marriage
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 …
Account for Elul 1494 and Tishri 1495 sel. ca. 1183. This document contains the last part of the expenditures for Elul. Then additional revenue from …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Verso, lefthand page: End of a legal query and responsum from "our rabbi the Rav" (Friedman suggests this is R. Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen) concerning …