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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
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Narrow vertical strip. On parchment.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Legal document(s) or letter(s) concerning a legal case. Both sides—one in Arabic script, one in Judaeo-Arabic—are first-person declarations about the details of some financial case …
Bottom of a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Netanʾel b. Shelomo al-Zajjāj. Very faded. Greetings to several people.
Two poems in Arabic script.
Letter fragment probably in the hand of Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre (see neighboring fragments).
Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī. (The names are very difficult to read; these may be not exactly right.) …
Karaite bill of debt, incorrectly listed as a ketubba in Ktiv. Dated 4 Iyyar 5421 AM (1661 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the signature …
1 نسخ
Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.
Confirmation of transfer of funds to the Palestinian Yeshiva, 15 dinars + 75 dinars = 90 dinars total. Dated: Shevaṭ 1416 Seleucid = January/February 1105 …
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Verso (original use): Legal deed in Arabic script. (Abū l-)Faḍāʾil b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, the tax farmer of the silk, has to receive 474 dirhams …
1 مناقشة
Recto: part of a letter concerning communal politics. The writer excuses his writing because he wrote this at night, "and my eye hardly sees in …
Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …
Accounts, probably. Large sheet of paper, a lot of text preserved. Needs further examination.
Recto: Hebrew and Aramaic legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a dignitary (ha-sar ha-nikhbad). The sender received and read the …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the names Hibatallāh and Shams. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century.
Accounts, mentions days of the week and some sums in silver (wariq).
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Dated 13 Elul [5]569 AM (August 1809 CE). Information from Wagner, …
State correspondence, probably from a lower state official to a higher subordinate because a rescript (tawqīʿ) is mentioned in the last line, but it could …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment from the right side of huge and beautiful deed. A father gives to his two sons a house (it …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Accounts, many detailing transactions with money orders (called here רקעה). The elder Abū l-Khayr frequently appears. Also Abū ʿImrān; Abū ʿAlī; Marwān al-Kurdī; Abū Manṣūr. …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs. This is probably …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Tyre. October 29, 1056. The letter is addressed from Nahray b. Nissim …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ
מן אלאסכנדריה ליג בקין מן מרחשון ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment, maybe a draft as many phrases are crossed out. Seems to consist mainly of settling accounts -- either commercial or related to an …
Recto: State document. Accounts regarding agrarian administration submitted by Boqṭor b. Sisinne, a Copt, the overseer (al-khawlī) in Badsā (in the province of al-Giza), for …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Commodities seem to be mainly food …
Petition or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of someone's mother and sending the brother of their servant Abū Muḥammad to take care …
Fol. 2r: Deed regarding alimony provided by a husband for his wife in Tyre, while he travels to Egypt. The husband will provide wheat, oil, …
Writ of agency written in Tripoli, Lebanon, May 1081.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū Makārim 3 dinars. …
Small fragment from a legal deed between a woman and her husband ʿEli regarding a house in Cairo. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …
Possibly a legal note or account. Looks late. Mentions Yosef, al-Kohen, and Abū Saʿīd.
Legal document. Dated: Sunday, 23 Av 1402 Sel. (10 August 1091). Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), …
Legal document. Partnership document. Dating: 1300-1350 (per Goitein). Mentions two partners, Abū al-Ḥasan b. Abū al-Faraj and Khalaf b. Ḥasan, who withdrew from a group …
Small fragment from a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
Fragment of an official-looking account. Verso may contain the glyph. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.
Accounts with names, such as Moshe Ibn al-Danwār, Yisḥaq, Hiba and Ḥasan, and ʿImrān, and numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, probably addressed to a high state official, but could also be an excerpt from a literary text. The sender mentions an accommodation provided by …
Business-family letter showing the concern of the Jews of Egypt for those of Yemen. Dated Thursday, middle of the month Elul. (Information from Goitein's index …
Letter consisting of a long list of Ḥanukka greetings and well-wishes to dozens of people, including Abū l-Riḍā and his siblings, the recipient’s mother, the …