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Informal note in Arabic. Addressing Bū Saʿd (الشيخ بو سعد ابقاه الله . . . ) and apparently conveying urgent instructions for him regarding delivering …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة
1 نسخ
None
1 مناقشة
Letter to Moshe b. Nissim (or Moshe b. Labrāṭ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Fragment (left side of recto). The addressee is …
Small fragment with a medical prescription, reused for several other kinds of jottings.
Writing exercises in an experienced scribal hand, the student practiced various honorific titles that can appear at the opening of letters. 18th or 19th-century based …
Letter from Harun b. Yosef [al-Ghazal?], Alexandria, to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal and to his sons. CUDL description: Fragment of a letter …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
On recto, there are morning benedictions. On verso, there are several lines of Arabic script in a calligraphic but childish hand. Seems to be copied …
This fragment consists of two pieces of parchment pasted together to assemble a rotulus of elaborate medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: possibly 11th century or …
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Few words preserved. The groom is Yosef b. Neḥemya (נחמיא). On paper, so possibly a draft. The …
Recto: Bottom of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to a more important person, begging him to do some sort of favor ("wa-yubayyiḍ al-mawlā wajh al-shafāʿa fī dhālik") …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, citing a biblical verse and mentioning 'al-shaykh al-jalīl.'
Letter mentioning a certain Joseph. Arabic jottings on the other side. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Gil suggests 23 September 1056 CE. This …
ולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר אלאסכנדריה
ליב כלאת מן תשרי געלך אללה מן אלפאייזין ומן אלמקבולין ותקב…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Legal document, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.
IB VI, 53. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dating: mid-12th century. Apart from the introduction and address, only …
2 نسخين
The remnants of a few words are visible from an Arabic state document, likely a Fatimid decree. Recto and verso are both reused for a …
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic reporting a conversation--likely a disagreement. The writer mentions a warrāq, the fact that he doesn't trust something/someone, and a legal …
Petition draft. From Manṣūr b. Salāma (Khan) or b. Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 …
العبد المملوك
منصور بن سلامة من اهل سنديون
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسي…
The servant and slave
Manṣūr ibn Salāma from among the people of Sindiyūn.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The bl…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Communal list mostly in Ladino with many Hebrew spelling errors. Possibly a record of synagogue honors and congregants' corresponding donations. For an early modern document …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions "his pure intention with me, in the document/petition" (من نيته الخالصة لي في الرقعة) and then "... the document/petition …
Legal deed. On parchment. Particularly old. Dated: Monday, 6 Shevaṭ 4716 AM = 21 January 956 CE. Signed by at least thirteen witnesses, all in …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Colophon of a notebook (זו הקוטראס) containing Hebrew prayers. Written by Nissim b. Nahray, probably still a child, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, Fustat (called Ṣoʿan Miṣrayim).
Recto: Budget of expenses for food on the two days of ʿUnṣura (Shavuot). Verso is in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It may be related. …
Part of letter (possibly a draft) mentioning medical material(?). Possibly a request for medical supplies by a druggist of pharmacist (Information from CUDL.) Might be …
Probably a state document, but the specific genre and purpose are unclear. There are multiple distinct entries on both recto and verso, with a lot …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Deed of gift, in which a father gives a …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Accounts. Mentioning several names and several interesting commodities (e.g., black cumin, ushna/lichen, mastic). Dating: looks ca. 1150–1250.
Letter from Yosef Mir to Efrayim ʿAda. In Ladino. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century, based on the names mentioned and the overall appearance. …
Document on parchment(?), possibly in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) or perhaps Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment, blank …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 1 Tevet 5490 AM (1729 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Esther bt. Yeshūʿa b. Avraham and the groom …
Small fragment from a top of a letter written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) to 'my master the diadem' (al-nezer). There were a few …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Probably ca. 14th–16th century. Mentions money to be given to the recipient; Alexandria; an amir; …
Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 11v-12r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
State document, Fatimid. Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) …
Recto: Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The first includes ingredients such as Indian salt, anise, and chicory water. The second (for headaches and for excessive moisture …
Fragment of a letter addressed to "the leader" (al-rayyis al-fāḍil al-ḥakham al-ajall). In Judaeo-Arabic. Cursive sephardi handwriting. (Information in part from CUDL. (Probably from the …
Letter probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat in the early 13th century. Flattering greetings are sent to Eliyyahu the Judge and his son Abū Zikrī. …