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Letter rom ‘your servant Seʿadya’; mostly consisting of a long Hebrew introduction, with some Judaeo-Arabic in the margin. On verso there is Psalms 78:62–65: (Information …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Decree. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved (...waṣala ilā thaghr...). The word "kiswa" appears - referring to the covering of the Kaʿba? Reused for …
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Verso: Letter in which the sender thanks a patron for his assistance and gently asks him to resolve a matter that concerns him. (Information from …
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Legal record (#12). Claim of money owed. Dated: Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān brings a claim on behalf of …
Arabic legal text. Fragment about marriage (nikāḥ). Verso mentions the rule stating that a marriage is necessarily concluded in presence of the legal guardian (walī) …
Opening lines of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 1 Shevaṭ 4746 AM = 1297 Seleucid = 14 January 986. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Shelomo b. …
Accounts. Six small but comparatively well-written pages in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
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Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the right side of recto). Either to or from Abū Isḥāq Avraham. The sender arrived safely …
Draft of a deferential note addressed to a woman. Expressing longing for her and sadness over being 'cut off' (חצרה אלסת אלגלילה דאם עזהא ויעלמהא …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) made by Salmūn b. Qūrīl (=Cyril), apparently a Coptic civil servant (al-[...] fī l-dīwān). Includes a description of his physical appearance …
4 pages of geomancy divinations, in which the questions are given (e.g. How high will the Nile be, and will produce be cheap or expensive? …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is Ya'aqov Helevi and the bride is Esther. Faded and damged.
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, Fustat.
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Several unrelated small fragments stuck together; all look literary.
Recto: Poem in honor of the wedding of a dignitary
Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051. Lists of goods that were bought or sold. Some details about the …
ואשתרית רבע ח שכאיר צוף לי פיהא אלרבע ואלרבע לנהראי בן נסים
ואלרבע לאבי אלכיר אלצירפי ואלרבע לאבי זכרי בן קיומה ואלרבע אלדי לי אנא
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from Mūsa b. Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd b. Shaʿya (aka Yosef b. David), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
IB V, 41b. Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Munajjā is to give (the bearer?) 4 ounces of rose and lemon. (Information from Goitein’s …
Receipt dated 1247 AH (1831/32 CE). The document involves a ṣarrāf, Dāwūd Naʿīm, who was working for one of the state's dīwāns (likely related to …
Letter from a man, in Damascus, to his father, perhaps in Fustat. The sender expresses his longing and desperation in this foreign land, especially after …
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Strip from the right side of a letter regarding business. Mentions wool. From Yefet b. Menashshe (Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, early 12th century). The addressee's name seems …
Late list of wealthy contributors, about 30 per week (Information from Goitein index cards.) Verso: There are also several lines of Arabic script. Dating: probably …
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Long letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on paleography. Quite faded. Mentions wheat repeatedly. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
List. In Arabic script. Each entry is headed with an elongated horizontal line from the word above. Needs examination.
Letter fragment (upper right corner) in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Few details preserved. Mentions al-Wāṣiṭī and the phrase "you raise other people's …
Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a shameful matter (ואפזע מן …
Text in Hebrew, possibly a letter or else literary. Quotes Deuteronomy 26:6 (וַיָּרֵעוּ אֹתָנוּ הַמִּצְרִים). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Archival note at the back "حجة ضاع مضمونها وصارت الان لا تدل على شي". Probably indicating towards the document …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Avr[aham] and there is probably enough text here to determine the genre …
Court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left piece). Regarding 20 dinars and involving Peraḥya the elder, Avraham b. …
Informal note in Arabic script. Has the glyph, signifying a basmala. The handwriting is relatively straightforward but the subject matter is difficult to figure out. …
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu to Moshe Maimonides. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Congratulating him on his marriage? Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years …
Legal document of unknown nature (real estate?), written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138) or Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108 CE). fragmentary and torn.
Genealogical list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī died, leaving three children: Mūsā, Abū Saʿd, and Sitt al-Kull. Abū Saʿd died, leaving one son: Yaḥyā. Mūsā is …
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …
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