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Official letter of correspondence or report, in Arabic script. The letter begins with a basmala and ṣalwala (blessings on the prophet) followed by a taqbīl …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله سيدنا محمد وسلم تسليما
[المملوك] يقبل الارض وينهي بعد وصف ما هو عليه من الاشتياق
]..الى كريم مامنه ورؤية طلعته …
1 نسخ
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning many Muslim names. Dated 1206 AH in many entries (1791/1792 CE). Requires further examination.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly prognostications. Mentions prison.
Legal document according to which Efrayim Abu Kathir b. Masliaḥ owes Yosef b. Shelomo 4 dinars, to be repaid 2 dinars per year. Signed by …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
State document, in Arabic script. A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.
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Literary. A Shīʿī prayer written in Arabic script. There are some lines in red ink. The literariness of the verses is such that bounties aren't …
Business letter from Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy in Alexandria to Abū l-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef in Fustat. The letter contains an accounting for a …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ו[ ]
לד בקין מן תמוז כתמה אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ען ח[אל סלאמה] ונעמה
ושוק אליה קרב אלל…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a trousseau list, comprising the upper right corner of the document. Medieval-era. Some of the items include two jukāniyya garments, a handkerchief, two …
Small fragment containing both Judaeo-Arabid and Arabic script. There are one or two words in a large Arabic hand that might be a remnant of …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Iṭrābulusī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Gives information about ships arriving in Egypt, their consignments and passengers. …
אטאל אללה יאשיכי וריסי וגלילי בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאשיכי עדה ארגו וצלת אליך
וגהת אליך אלכתב מע אלצרה מע בוצחק בן נסים אלקרוי
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Arabic on verso and perhaps recto. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Devotional poem for Purim in Judaeo-Greek. Dating: 17th century, per BL catalogue. There is also Greek written in Greek script on fol. 4. Images may …
Large account in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Written in three columns rather than the usual two column bifolio …
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar, in Aden, addressed to Sitt Ghazāl and Umm Munajjā, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The identification of the …
1 مناقشة
Ottoman-era accounts.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?). This is then …
Legal query ("...yuftīna sayyidunā fī dhālika..."). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a woman who had to move with a man (presumably her husband), apparently against her will. …
List of the Islamic months in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 24 Tammuz 1439 Seleucid = 24 June 1128 CE. Husband: Sheʾerit b. Ḥalfon. Wife: Turfa bt. Avraham. …
Document, probably a letter, which mentions the pre-marriage payment. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 24 Kislev 5568 AM, which is 25 December 1807 CE.
State document, probably a petition draft, in Arabic script. The text reads as "المملوك يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا القاضي". There are other jottings in Arabic …
Detailed accounts for food expenditures in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the notes refers to Ibn al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With some unusual and careless spellings. Requesting that the addressee purchase various commodities, including two pounds of myrtle and different kinds of …
Recto: Fragment of a recycled document in Arabic script, wide line-spacing. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: David; a court session; a dead man; sending 'upright elders' …
Recto: Mathematical table of the powers of 2 through 2^15 = 32768, all in Hebrew numerals. Verso: Ladino ditty signed by Moshe Ḥaddād, which reads …
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With several expressions of deference and petition-like language. Might be a request for a loan of 2 dinars …
Business accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Written out in full sentences. Possibly written up for the sake of a legal case? …
Recto: Letter fragment, probably in the hand of the judge Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, addressed to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the arrival …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom right corner). Phrases: بملاحظته بعين الكرامة . . . كان يعدر عليه . . . فاما موخرا . . …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, who refers to himself simply as Rosh ha-Seder at the beginning of the letter, to those who pray at the …
Letter in rhymed Hebrew addressed to the community of Jerusalem and their leader the judge Shemuʾel (הם אחינו יקירנו בעלי בריתנו הקהל הקדוש הדרים בירושלם …
Large bifolio of accounts.
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded/damaged. Greetings to various people on the back (preserved as recto), including to ʿAdwān and Muḥammad.