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Memorial list? Dating: Mid-13th century. Names Hodaya b. Shelomo the Nasi (from Mosul). Also Abū Saʿīd b. Netanel. (Information from Goitein's index card.) NB: Goitein …
1 مناقشة
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Small fragment of a Fatimid state document. The ends of three lines are preserved.
Business accounts in Spanish. Dating: Unknown, needs to be examined by an expert; appears old, likely no later than 16th century.
On recto two lines in Arabic, possibly mentioning numbers of dinars. Reused for Hebrew-script (literary?) text on both sides.
Recto is a prayer in Arabic script. Verso is faded and difficult to read.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning the death of Shemuel ha-Zaqen (or his son)—maybe the execution of his …
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, …
Minute fragment, mostly blank with a potential pen stroke of ink on the recto.
Petition (or maybe a report) from Ibrāhīm al-Naqīb to ʿAbd al-Karīm. The sender repeatedly asserts that he serves as the representative or head (naqīb) of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك
ابرهيم النقيب
يقبل الارض وينهي بين يدي
الشيخ عبد الكريم بان…
الى العلم ان المملوك عمل نقيب المجالس في
1 نسخ
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Letter from the cantor Ḥalfon b. David (aka Khalaf al-Lādhiqī), in Jerusalem, to the elders (sādatī wa-mawālayya jamāʿat al-shuyūkh al-miṣriyyīn), in Fusṭāṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic, in …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Narrow vertical strip. On parchment.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Nagid ha-Gola, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Yemen. (Information in part from …
Recto: Official-looking Arabic letter, with an ʿalāma at upper left. Dating: probably early Ottoman-period. From "the poor slave" to "al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʿĀlim al-ʿAllāma Badr al-Dīn …
Letter to Masliah ha-Kohen Gaon from a woman, the daughter of Abraham the cantor and the wife of Abu 'l-Ma`ali Khalaf b. Harun, describing her …
Left fragment: Magical text with the header ללמטלקה = for the divorcee
Verso and margins of recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
His slave Mubārak ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
Shemu’el
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the presence of my master, the m…
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB VI, 18. Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains …
2 نسخين
Letter from a husband, probably a merchant belonging to the elite, to his wife of a second marriage. In Judaeo-Arabic. He expresses his yearning and …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Late accounts in Arabic script and Hebrew script.
Informal note in Arabic script, urgently requesting from 'the brother' that he deliver certain documents (? al-riqāʿ) to a qāḍī. Needs further examination.
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.
Recto: Colophon by Evyatar b. Ṭoviyya. The text below reads: בתאריך יום צום אלצגיר קלת נעים למכין אבנהא יא מצרוב באלצט אה אה אה. Verso …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged; the content is unclear. There are greetings to 'the sisters' (al-khawāt al-sādāt) and expressions of longing due to separation.
Letter of appeal/recommendation from the community of Damascus to the community of Fustat. The senders are writing on behalf of an ʿaguna who has been …
There is a woman [here] who has been “a widow in [her husband’s] lifetime” for more than three years now. We have heard that her …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
List or table listing a bunch of names on both sides. Needs examination.
Part of a very poorly preserved letter in Hebrew, mentioning Yaʿaqov he-Ḥasid, Menashshe b. Yehuda, Abū Naṣr b. Manṣūr, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ha-Neʾeman. Likely an appeal …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
The main text consists of prayers in Judaeo-Arabic. The blank space on verso was reused for a medical recipe and an account in Arabic script.
Minute fragment with a few letters in Arabic script.
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
Small fragment of parchment with the name Bū Faraj on verso.
Literary text in Hebrew and Aramaic. Halakhic discussion? Similar handwriting as T-S AS 204.12 + T-S NS 298.35 + T-S NS 37.110 (PGPID 32036) but …
Probably a marriage contract (ketubba), mentioning quantities of dinars. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? (Information in part from CUDL)
List of Hebrew letters with which a student practiced Tiberian voweling, medieval-era.
Unusual genre of legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), stating that Abū l-Karam must pay to the orphan Abū …
List of names and amounts. Mentions olives; Zayn; Ismāʿīl; al-[...] and his wife; Zayn al-Tujjār. Verso is in a different hand. Mentions Abū Saʿīd (written …
Accounts in Arabic with a complex array of monetary calculations with the symbol "ق" on occasion indicating silver kuruş (which may have been minted as …
Letter from Avraham b. Yehuda ha-Kohen, in Malīj, to the cantor Elʿazar b. Yehuda, in Fustat (c/o the shop of Ṭarfon ha-Zaqen). In Judaeo-Arabic, with …
Two drafts of the same letter to the "holy congregation" about Yosef Saftawi (trader in "safta," it seems an Indian spice) who had been given …
Letter/petition addressed to a notable. In Hebrew (for the poetic opening) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). In a typical 11th or early 12th century hand. …
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Salāma b. Mūsā (al-Ṣafāqusī?); Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī. Very faded; uncited in the literature.
Minute fragment of an unknown nature. only few words - amounts of money - are preserved. Probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, based on …