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Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
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Accounts in Arabic on recto. Medieval-era. The verso is mostly Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a different scribal hand. Requires further examination.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Deed of sale for a Nubian female slave. Her name is missing. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Seller: Hiba/Netanʾel. Buyer: Moshe ha-Talmid. Price: unclear …
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An account from Sicily listing 63 ox hides from Syracuse and 76 buck skins. The sums are mentioned in rubaiyat (quarters of dinars). Dated to …
אלחאצל פי אלכלטה
ואלכאצה ד אלאף
תש[ ] ואיצא כה רבאעי רבח דמנש
אשתרא מן דלך סג נטע סרקוסה [
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3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Minute fragment, perhaps with extremely faint text visible on the recto.
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "We stayed for 11 days...." Addressed to al-ḥakham al-ajall al-sanad(?) [...] b. [morenu] ve-rabbenu Asaf ha-Kohen (ZL).
Recto (secondary use): Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic.
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Qiṣṣat Yūsuf? There is a colorful frame around the text and a crown(?) in the upper margin.
Siddur R. Nathan of Sijilmasa
Letter concerning legal affairs. Various dates are mentioned in ll. 21-22 (recto): 19 Shevaṭ 5470 and Tishrei 5483, which would date the letter to 1722 …
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Mercantile letter from an unidentified sender, probably in Alexandria, addressed to Abū Isḥāq [Barhū]n b. Mūsā (probably al-Tāhartī), somewhere where one buys flax (the Fayyūm?). …
State document, in Arabic script. Decrees that the rituals be carried out according to the tradition 'wa-an yakūn al-ʿamal bi l-rusūm' and mentions 'al-dawla al-sharīfa'. …
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Friday, 20 Kislev 1457 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed by Ṣedaqa …
Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning that the sender sent textiles marked with his name, and …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Petition. Report fragment, probably early Ayyubid period (taqbīl clause + paleography + reused by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, whose documents cluster ca. 1190–1210; see description …
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1 مناقشة
Informal note in Arabic. Addressing Bū Saʿd (الشيخ بو سعد ابقاه الله . . . ) and apparently conveying urgent instructions for him regarding delivering …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 27 Tammuz 1472 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. The widow of Bunyān(?) b. Durra(?) testifies that she received 10 dinars …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Petition draft, or most like pen trials, in Arabic script. Contains the yunhī formula. Writing exercise on recto.
Letter/note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. He wants to know if the addressee has purchased the book of Psalms yet (al-muṣḥaf al-tehillim). If so, …
ר חיאל ספר שפטים
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Draft. Dated: 7 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid, which is 1065 CE. Husband: ʿEli b. David. Wife; Milāḥ bt. Avram. Written and signed …
Recto is the beginning of a siddur. Verso contains legal jottings. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions Sālim b. [...] al-Ḥalabī; Sālim b. Avraham; Asyūṭ …
Private accounts in a mixture of Judaeo Arabic and Arabic. Mentions Ibn al-Qābila. Needs examination.
Copies of letters to the community of Troki from the community of Lithuania.
Letter addressed to a dignitary, perhaps to Avraham Maimonides ("Avraham ha-Nagid ha-Gadol" seems faintly visible, line 4, and his son is named David, line 9). …
Letter from a scribe. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that after much travail he has finally completed a Torah codex (muṣḥaf) "in the name of the …
Unidentified Arabic text, probably literary. Used in a book binding.
Letter from Farah b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl, in Fustat. Dating: October 1056 CE. The letter has another fragment (T-S …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for …
Beginning of an Ismaʿīlī esoteric majlis, in Arabic script. Needs identification. Recto - Three lines in ornate floriated Kufic script, could be the title verso …
Recto: note from Khalīfa Ḥasan. Verso: letter by Meʿir Ben-Naʿīm (fl. 1785-1825 CE) to Khalīfa Ḥasan concerning business matters. 18th-19th century. (MCD with information from …
Statement that a legal transaction (qinyan) was made by the Egyptian cheesemonger (al-jabbān al-miṣrī) Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿIwaḍ known as Ibn al-[...] that he commits …
Beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Only the opening blessings are preserved.
Piyyutim, as well as divorce and marriage contract formulae from a Palestinian siddur with Judaeo-Arabic instructions (probably not the siddur of R. Nathan). The marriage …
Karaite bill of release. Date: 5 Iyyar 5452 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda …
Small fragment of a letter addressed to Isḥāq b. ʿAllūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script on verso. On the …
Minute fragment, may be documentary.
Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings …