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Wooden fragment of a panel decorating the interior of the Ben Ezra synagogue. Installed below inscription by Obadiah ben Japhet, but above the Torah ark. …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
A Hebrew poetical letter (a panegyric rhyming in -im) addressed to a notable known as Saʿadya. Contains mostly blessings (such as the well-being of his …
Colophon of a booklet (קוטראסה/קונטרס). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Elul 4959 AM, which is 1199 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
1 مناقشة
Letter fragment (upper right piece) either to or from al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Manṣūr. In Judaeo-Arabic, with Hebrew citations (including Mishna Avot 2:4 …
Halakhic text in Judaeo-Persian, maybe a volume of responsa. Mentioning שמעון, blessings (שהכל, האדמה, מזנות), the word ישראלי, and a few “if/אגר” sentences. Needs examination.
A short incomplete note, probably written by Shelomo b. Elya, asking to give half a cup (קדח) to the bearer of the note and also …
Fragment containing part of the bottom lines of a Fatimid decree with very wide line spacing. The last line includes the beginning of the ḥamdala …
Revenue from rent in Damascus, date unknown. Leaf of a notebook, recording revenue from rent from shops and apartments belonging to the qodesh of Damascus. …
Darb al-Jawzānī, the room of . .
Beneath it, the apartment of Naṣr b. Sālim
the dyer, 18 dir.
Darb Quzmān,
apartment of Ibrāhīm a…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Multifragment consisting of dozens of minute fragments. Many documentary.
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Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Decision of the court on repairs in a compound partly owned by the Qodesh. Dated: …
(1-2) .... and if it is not carried out, and if …. not
…. and his children in a grave danger of ….
assessment, (in which) he proposed…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved. Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = …
1 نسخ
Draft of a ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid = 1089 CE. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanʾel. …
Poems for circumcisions. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. Including for the birth of a son to the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, and …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Long horizontal strip.
Letter in early Judaeo-Persian. Dating: ca. 790. Matters discussed include the local ruler and his daughter, a trade deal or gift exchange with them involving …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032 CE), Fustat, probably December 1028. Dating: 1025–1032 CE based on the years when …
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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Business letter in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew (ללגויים, מן אול אדר שני, ושלום). From Maʿānī to his "brother" Mūsā. Mentions Muslim …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Tinnīs. He wants to borrow from “the Great Rav” (a Tunisian rabbi in Egypt) his copy of the …
Legal records in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
Right side fragment: Letter addressed to Shemuel b. Sīd. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 17th century. In the upper margin of recto, it refers to the …
Verso and margins of recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
His slave Mubārak ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
Shemu’el
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the presence of my master, the m…
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is familiar from the circle of Avraham Maimonides. The sender will return something after the holiday because he …
Note in Arabic script addressed to [al-]shaykh ʿUmar at Raʾs al-Khalīj ("the head of the canal"; there is apparently a site just south of Fustat …
Responsum regarding synagogue ritual written in a late hand.
Court record written by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. In which Yefet and Yosef b. Binyamin the banker, as guardians of Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi, collect a …
Very damaged fragment of a letter with fragments of other letters attached to it. Might connected with T-S NS 183.86.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish to a state official regarding a rabbi's travels to Jerusalem. Dated: 20 Safar 1024 AH (21 March 1615 CE). In the …
[Devletl]ü sulṭānım ḥażretler[inin?]
[ ]-i bī-şümār ümīdi olunduḳdan ṣoñra, żamīr-i münīr-i mihr-tenvīr ve ḫaṭīr-i ʿaṭīr-i Mü…
[To his excellency] my esteemed lord ______________________
After having set numberless hopes on [ ], the luminous, sun-like…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a letter from Sitt Rayḥān to (her husband) [Eliyyahu] b. Zekharya, probably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a woman's mother-in-law and a woman's …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. This was before the …
Extensive accounts, mainly in Arabic script, written in multiple directions. Mentions wheat.
Verso: Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. The names Salmān, Ismāʿīl, and Ibrāhīm, and Ṣāfī appear with various quantities.
Two pages of a large account written for a partner, divided into sections. The account mentions sales of linen, lacquer, precious stones, ammonia, clothing and …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle. Much …
Small fragment of a ketubba. The numbers 15 and 40 appear. The names Yefet and Sitt al-[...] may appear in the bottom line.
Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, including one attributed to Galen. On parchment. Dating: looks old, likely 11th century if not earlier.
Verso: Legal document. Appointment of a general administrator of the qodesh, ca. 1150. Copy of a decision taken in the court presided over by Nagid …
(ר' ישעיה הלוי הזקן)
…our dear… b. R...., may God preserve him,
concerning his appointment as administrator of the heqdēsh, under the authority of…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal discussion or commentary in Arabic script, citing biblical verses and phrases in the original Hebrew language but in Arabic script (e.g., בנות צלפחד on …
Colophon: "Written by Ḥananya b. Mevorakh in honor of the president of the exiles of Israel, David b. Yeḥizqiyahu head of the exiles of Israel …
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Ramla, mid-eleventh century, that describes the appointment of the bride's agent. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 361-4) EMS