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Legal document in which [...] b. Yosef [...] acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver medin. The paleography supports of dating estimate of …
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An Arabic makhzūma, related to a land with Coptic numerals. The document was drawn in the name of Shamṭar (probably Coptic) al-ʿAmūdī. Needs examination.
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 26 Adar II 1426 Seleucid, which is 1115 CE, under the …
1 مناقشة
Fragment from the bottom of a text in Arabic, may be documentary. Looks late. Mentions ilā al-majlis.
Detailed accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with at least one word in Judaeo-Arabic (al-Kohen). Mentions 'al-maṭbakh' several times - the sugar factory? Mentions …
Petition from a woman to an unidentified addressee. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She is 'cut-off' (munqaṭiʿa) and her husband has kicked her out of the …
Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
Letter of appeal from a woman whose husband had abandoned her with Muslims. "In this fragmentary letter a woman bitterly describes her marital misfortunes. Her …
[...] the sick [...] of the bereavement and the illness
[...] news. Joseph was there
[...] told me, “Cut your hair and ransom yourself”…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
A photocopy of a Muslim court deed documenting various endowed properties of the Qaraite community of Jerusalem. The deed is from 1563 CE, and it …
A few words possibly from a state document in Arabic script. "... al-murtaḍā al-kāshif..."
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions items such as galangal (khalanjān), applicators (marāwid), vessels (barānī), …
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Legal document. Location: Alexandria, based in part on the names of the people involved. Dated: 22 Sivan (4)802 AM = 15 June 1042 CE. …
Nuḥaym ibn Maymūn and Khulayf ibn Furaḥ Zibrij presented themselves at the court of law in the week in which Surūra, the daug…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter to a notable. Fragment. The opening lines are in poetic Hebrew. The sender expresses his happiness receiving a letter from the addressee: "seeing your …
Small fragment from the end of a letter (based on the appearance of "ve-shalom"), mentioning Manṣūr al-Ṣayrafī, who owes 1/2 nuqra. It might also be …
Looks like a fragment torn from the beginning of a book, with notes about the contents and owners. In Arabic script. Needs examination.
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 …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Recto: Marriage document (ketubba) in Palestinian style. Dated: [47]40 AM = 979/80 CE. Groom: Efrayim b. [...]. Bride: Khuzayr bt. Ḥusayn. (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
IB V, 26. Abū Zikrī Kohen, representative of merchants in Fustat, settles accounts with his banker Khiyār b. Nissim. Dating: 1134 CE. The two had …
כאן קד תקדם קולי ללמולי אלשיך אלאגל מר' ור' אליה ש'צ'
פי מעני אלשיך בו אלמכארם באנה קד בקי עליה מן אלגזיה
ל' דרהם והו פי שדה וכ…
In your n(ame), Oh Merci(ful)!
I have previously written to the august elder and patron our mas(ter) and tea(cher) Elijah (may his) R(ock) …
Document in Arabic script. Listing various sums of money in dinars.
Recto: Bill of release of Avraham and his brother [...], sons of Yiṣḥaq, to [...]. Dating: 11th century. Witnessed by Menaḥem b. Natan, Abū l-Ḥayy …
Fragment of a letter from Yusuf b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions dinars that should be exchanged, and that several …
סיידי ומולאי [אטאל א]ללה [בקאך] ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלאסכנדריה לט בקין מן תמוז ואל<חאל>
סלאמה ואלחמד ללה רב [אלעאלמין] ת…
Accounts of a druggist. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Items include realgar (="red arsenic," zirnīkh aḥmar), red lead (sīlqūn), ground myrtle (marsīn maṭḥūn), and …
Letter from a former official and representative of the Nagid (na’ib) of the Alexandrian community to the Nagid, requesting that he intervene on the writer’s …
Verso: State document, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of one of the policemen of the vizier's ship (al-mutawaffī min al-raqqāṣīn al-mustakhdama bi-rasm markab …
Informal notes on the settlement of a legal dispute (or several), involving [...] ha-Ḥazzan b. Avraham, Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa, Yūsuf b. Barakāt, Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq, …
A single recipe, for safety on the road. Possibly in the handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (this seems dubious and requires examination). …
Unusual list in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic nuemrals, with dates, names and commodities, mentioning Ibn ʿAyn al-Zamān, Abū l-ʿIzz and ʿAlī b. Nuṣayr. Also mentions the …
Recto: Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. Verso: Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three …
Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī …
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly from a mother to a son. Handwriting and spelling are dreadful. There are many greetings as well as instructions about …
Booklist.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
List of names in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly part of a letter. Mentions the cantor Abū l-Majd, al-Shaykh Abū Naṣr, [Saʿ?]īd and his sons, Abū l-Baqā', Abū …
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: January 9 (12 Shevat), 1058 CE (Gil) …
על שמך
כתבת אטאל אללה בקא אכי ושקיק רוחי ועזיז נפסי ואדאם חראסתה וחמאיתה
וכפאיתה ונעמאה וחסן עקבאה מן אלמהדיה ליב כלון מן שבט ערפה אללה ב…
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal testimonies before a beit din in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: 26 Kislev 5418 AM (verso) and Tishrei 5411 AM (recto) but the other verso …
Recto: list of currencies and prices in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Verso: letter in a different hand and ink. (Information …