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Accounts and notes. Mentions Isḥāq; a large pen (qalam kabīr); a woman named Karīna(?); Sitt al-ʿArab. (Information in part from CUDL)
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
1 نسخ
Letter of appeal for assistance. In Hebrew. From a woman. "I cannot. . . what I wrote you... a loaf of bread... two silver pieces... …
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…
Verso: Letter probably from Binyām the druggist of Rashīd, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. (This sender, who …
אל[סלאם] אל[תאם? ות]קביל איאדיכם
אני כת[יר] אלשוק לנצרכם פאללה תעאלי
לא יכלינ[י] ענכם למען שמו הגדול
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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Right fragment: Small fragment of a ketubba written in the Palestinian style. In the hand of the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe, the same scribe as …
Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Mentions Qāḍī l-Quḍāt and the sender complains of his poverty. Reused on recto for a vidduy in Hebrew.
Beginning of a will in the handwriting of Hillel b. Eli (but this is worth checking against Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's earliest documents). Testator: Hillel b. …
1 مناقشة
Account for the export of flax to Sicily. Around 1035. Also mentions camphor, textiles, as well as details about payments. It seems like it is …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks like one of the Mosul Nasis active in the 13th century. The sender says that he (or she?) …
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …
Small fragment of a letter, probably from a Moshe, a newcomer to 'this land', probably appealing for charity. Refers to the yeshiva (al-mathība) or head …
Letter from the Alexandrian judge Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents: 1074–1101) to Abū l-Bishr Ibn al-Bustānī (? الابستاني) al-Makḥūl(?) Hiba b. al-[...] Sayyid al-Ahl(?). (This …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
Rabbanite responsum or polemical text about the term "aviv."
Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …
Marriage contract from Damascus, 956 CE (10 Nisan 4716 AM), which records a marriage gift of 225 dinars (of which only 25 were advanced) and …
List of payments and/or goods, with common format in which each entry opens with "עוד" in Hebrew. Dating appears to be late medieval, 14th-16th centuries. …
List of persons, headed by R. Nahray (Nahray), on the payroll of the community. Goitein says: scholars on the payroll of the Cairene commuity. Similar …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Zakhariya Zamero to Eliyyahu Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 5573 AM, which is 1812 CE. Needs examination for content.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?). This is then …
Very faded letter from the convert (or simply 'the foreigner') Yiṣḥaq b. Neḥemias (העבד הצעיר יצחק הגר בן נחמיאש צעיר התלמידים). In Hebrew. Dating: Uncertain, …
Mercantile letter fragment mentioning Yehuda b. [...], previous correspondence and quantities of dinars. Dating: 11th century. On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)
A letter from Yosef Shlomo b. Moshe Luzki to his son Avraham
Probably a letter fragment in Ladino: אירמאנו . . . ריסיבי . . . בואינו . . . פארה . . . קונווש . . …
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a state petition, beginning with "wa l-mamlūk yasʾal l-tawfīq" and mentions a wall "ṣūr"; reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see …
Account or list mentioning many names. Only a narrow vertical strip from around the fold of the bifolio is preserved. Might be official/fiscal.
Letters to Yosef b. Moshe the Cantor.
Bill of testimony concerning the will of Abū l-Faraj b. Hilāl. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Refers to Rabbenu Menaḥem. Also involves an …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The sums, probably of will distribution, are half …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
The text appears to be an historical account referring to biblical times, mentioning Zechariah and Jezebel. (Information from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. See also T-S …