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Recto: End of a legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved. Verso: Complete legal document in Arabic script. No witness signatures. …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Sulaymān b. ʿAlī, unknown location, to Abū Saʿīd Yaʿqūb, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd the sons of Yisra'el (al-Tustari). In Judaeo-Persian, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Efrayim b. Nissim, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. The writer tried to get money from Abu Mansur …
דרהם תרגע תסוא נצף [ ]
כנת קבצת מן יוסף אלצורי דינ גיר קירט מן קבל
פתיאן פאן כנת קבצתה תערפני דלד ואמא
אבו מנצור אלדסתרי מא קדרת עליה ב…
Likely a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult to read. Probably no earlier than 13th century.
Accounts in Ladino, with some Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "the Moor (=Muslim) Mustafa." Mentions locations such as Būlāq and Ḥusayniyya.
Fragment from a dirge for the demise of community officials, among them Moshe my Nagid - probably Moshe b. Mevorakh
IB IV, 39 (ח56). Autograph letter from Yehuda ha-Levi, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: 1139 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the Kuzari and …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. Husband: ʿOvadya b. Yeshula ha-Kohen. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Hānī. …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a partnership agreement. Refers to importing goods or currency and selling …
Part of a business letter, mentioning Alexandria and Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
State petition regarding a Maghribī Jewish trader caught drinking with a Muslim woman and imprisoned. Cuts off right before the request: there arrived from the …
Small, damaged fragment probably from an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as a qāḍī, the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Qābisī, and [Yaʿqū]b b. …
Legal record (#28 in the court register). Quittance, drawn up in outline as an addendum to the previous record in the same court notebook. Stating …
1 نسخ
Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Dating: probably ca. 1185 CE. This is the only known document that refers to the majlis of Maimonides. It is a draft of …
Recto: receipt with quantities expressed in Coptic alphanumerals, cut and reused for the documents on verso. Verso: receipt(?) for goods sold by (al-mubtāʿ ʿalā yad) …
Responsum in a literary style concerning a dispute between husband and wife, written in the hand of Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim (active 1213-1233 CE). (Information from …
Another fragment from ENA NS 18.17a, not a direct join Description from PGPID 15840: Quittance from Ulla b. Tahor (or Tahor b. Ulla - his …
A formula of a letter to a notable
Accounts in Arabic on a bifolio that was probably part of a broader ledger. Dated Muharram 1237-1238 AH which is 1821-1822 CE. Based on the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a beautiful hand with wide line-spacing. Quite faded. Approximately 9 lines are preserved from the main text and another 8 lines …
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…
Letter from someone, probably in Barqa, to his or her "father" the judge Mūsā b. ʿImrān (or else this Mūsā is simply mentioned in the …
1 مناقشة
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, possibly legal. Needs examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew writing exercises.
Document in Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. Only the basmala and a couple lines appear, perhaps a discarded draft. Tentative readings: الى ابن(؟) العساري(؟) يحمل (عمل؟) وصبي(؟) …
Recto: Letter or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Appeal for charity from a man who has been in Fustat/Egypt either 4 months (upper margin) or 2.5 years …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions labdanum (lādan) twice, once as a "piece" (qiṭʿa) and once in a "pouch" (mizwad).
Badly rubbed and faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sending something to Alexandria and inquires about the price of שרב (wine? medicinal syrups?). (Information from …
Possibly a letter or collection of formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Late letter that begins in Hebrew and transitions into Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified merchant to Yosef Muḥibb. He writes that he traveled this year to …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Sharaf (סת אלשרף). The part preserved here consists mainly of the dowry list. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: …
Letter in Ladino or possibly an epistolary writing exercise. Purple ink. Dating is 18th-19th century based on the paleography. Two specific phrases point to the …
Bill of proxy from the leaders of Tiberias. Needs further examination. No image in CUDL or FGP as of 2026.
Bottom left fragment, letter or official correspondence. Mentions paper trail to an elated presence "ḥaḍratihi l-maymūna". Needs examination.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday night, 3 Iyyar 1740 Seleucid, which is 1429 CE. (Date erroneous in Goitein, corrected according to the document following …
Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew that can be dated through a join's (ENA 2715.19) entry dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. MCD.
Letter probably from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, probably to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. Mainly in …
Bifolium of legal records, one of which is dated 1519 CE (Sivan 1830 Seleucid).
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: ducat (דוקטי). Mentions Muʿallim Shemuel and שי׳ שואבדו. A school is mentioned on the verso (בית ספר).