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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fol. 1r: Legal record. Dated: Monday, 18 Av 1490 Seleucid = 19 July 1098 CE. Recording that the silk dealer Yaʿaqub al-Rūmī b. Yosef deposited …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Small fragment containing a book list. Late. The books listed include Talmudic tractates, Tanḥuma, and Midrash Aḥashverosh. They are followed by abbreviations and numbers - …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This …
Small fragment of a letter. Possibly an appeal for assistance. Mentions "the shackle of people" (qayd al-nās) and a request. The name Abū l-Surūr appears …
The part written with a wider pen resembles business accounts, while the part written with a thinner pen looks like a portion of a legal …
1 مناقشة
State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: 1127–39 CE, as Abū Manṣur Ṣalaḥ b. Sulaymān the head of the Jews (Raʾīs al-Yahūd), who appears …
Accounts.
Letter fragment from Nissim b. Nahray, unknown location, to Abū l-Fa{ra}j Daniel b. [...] ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Needs examination.
List of names with numbers and commodities such as silk and walnut. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. One of the …
State document, fragment, in Arabic script written in enormous letters, probably a decree. Mentions "fourteen heads" (li-arbaʿa ʿashara raʾs) (of cattle?). Reused for several different …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. This may …
Draft of the opening of of a letter, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century. Prefaced with ~10 biblical quotations (all missing …
Query about a debtor who had taken an oath before the Jewish court and then had recourse to a Muslim court. (Information from Mediterranean Society, …
1 نسخ
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Involves pepper. Late. See T-S AS 151.191 + T-S 6J7.16 (PGPID 17147).
Letter from Yosef b. Maḥfūẓ to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Reporting on Abū Saʿīd Ibn Fistiqa. The sender had obtained a rescript (tawqīʿ) exempting …
Two letters in Arabic. One is dated 1902 and signed in Arabic and Latin script by Sulaymān Malka/Solomon Malka.
Recto: Top of a letter in poetic Hebrew addressed to a dignitary, perhaps the Nagid: ויודע דעת עליון שר הזמן ונסיכו . . . ייי …
Large and quite faded list of commodities referring to measurements and prices (info from FGP)
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unusual layout. There are also the remnants of the bottoms of a few words in gargantuan Arabic script …
Remnants of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Reused for a literary text in Hebrew (sermon?).
Letter from Shelomo b. David Solal (Salmūn b. Dāʾūd) addressed to a certain Avraham. In Hebrew, in a late hand (ca. 17th century?). The sender …
Recto: Fatimid state document, in a chancery hand. Difficult to establish the genre because the text is written in a highly prosaic register. Maybe a …
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. August 12, 1062. Information that the writer heard from Jewish merchants that …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אסכנדריה
לד כלון מן אלול ערפה אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה ברחמתה ואלחאל סלאמה פי
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1060. The letter deals with shipments of goods that arrived …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך לו כלון מן תמוז
ואלחאל סלאמה תקדמת כתבי אליך עדה קבל וצול כתאבך ובאלאמס ביד אל
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Relatively large and well preserved. Mentions transactions with gallnuts (ʿafṣ) in Alexandria; and Abū Sahl Menashshe. Needs …
Letter/report in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a formal layout, with slightly widened space between the lines. This is the lower left corner of what must have …
Legal document, in Arabic script, late. Receipt for al-Khwājā Ibrāhīm Joshua for the house he rented in Ḥarat al-Yahūd in Darb al-Ḥamṣānī which is an …
Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy …
IB VI, 51. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: Mid-12th century. In Hebrew (for the …
Fragment from the end of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic which mention kuruş as a form of payment (via ق symbol in second column) which helps to date this fragment as eighteenth- …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Involving Abū l-Faraj who acknowledges receiving 10 dinars from …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment. Late. Currency mentioned: medin (מאידיש). Mentions receipt of a sum of money.
Minute fragment from a list of names written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Letter from a Mevorakh b. Avraham from Sham (Syria). The addressee's is name not given. The writer asks for a shirt (qamis) because he is …
Recto: A passage from an Arabic treatise on love and lovers (ʿishq, ʿāshiq, maʿshūq). Verso: Scattered Arabic text, possibly list or accounts. Needs further examination.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning many Muslim names. Dated 1206 AH in many entries (1791/1792 CE). Requires further examination.
IB III, 48. Letter from Shemu’el b. Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his brothers, Perahya and Moshe, in Alexandria or Fustat. Around 1156.
2 نسخين ترجمات 3
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter fragment.
Deed of sale for a portion of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1468 Seleucid, which is 1156/57 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The whole folio is preserved, but the text is too faded to read.