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Fragment of an opening to a letter to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal. The letter was written in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
1 نسخ
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions a covering of silver; Sālim; Abū l-Munā;al-Malījī; Eliyya; Abū l-Khayr.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. Regarding goods, several of which are for shipment …
[יאכי וסידי ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
[ ו]צולי נסכתין מע כרפאן מע אלמא כאפור ואלרז ואלקר[ ]
[ מ]א תעמל פיהא ארגו…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter probably from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, in Tinnīs, to an unidentified addressee, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-11th century. Almost completely unmentioned in the …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1452 Seleucid = April/May 1141 CE. Regarding the sale of a house in Minyat Zifta costing 9 dinars. Between …
1 مناقشة
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto of this fragment is so faded that only a …
List or account with quantities in Coptic numerals. Verso is very faded but appears to be a note or petition addressed to 'al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya.'
Probably the bottom of a tax receipt.
List or accounts, medieval-era. The same word (aqlām?) is written multiple times with an elongated horizontal middle letter. Above the horizontal bar each entry has …
Document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings. Needs examination.
Short list of names (Zekharya, ..., Yeshuʿa, Elʿazar b. Sh[...], Aharon b. Hill[el], Yefet b. Shem[uel], Yosef b. H[...], Shemarya Hakohen
Letter from Ezra b. Hillel, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. December 28, 1063. The writer informs Nahray about businesses he has in …
וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
פי הדא אליום אלדי הו יום אלא לד כלון מן שבט ווקפת עליה וסרני על…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from a poor man to a patron, probably a request for charity. In Arabic script. The bottom few lines are faded and damaged. Needs …
Fragment of a mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā.
Accounts, early modern. One of the names on the verso is Muḥammad Jalabī (Çelebi) Muḥasebeci ("the Accountant" in Turkish). The entries include various cooking and …
Note detailing instructions for performing a wedding ceremony.
Legal document in Arabic script. On parchment. This fragment contains the bottom portion only, with many witness statements/signatures. Very damaged. Dated: Muḥarram 410 AH = …
IB V, 37, folio 10v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer lemon and …
2 نسخين
Receipt for Abu Sahl the teacher (al-muʿallim). Possibly a tax receipt, Fatimid.
IB VII, 50. Letter (memo) from an unnamed India trader, probably in Aden, to Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī Saʿd, in Qūṣ. Dating: first third of the …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter, possibly from the physician Abu Zikri (identification based on handwriting and style), to unidentified addressees "who are to me like my parents." Fragment. The …
פלו כאן לי קדרה אלחק מטלוב מא קעדת
פאיש ל[. . .] אדיתהא מן אלגרץ אנא סאלתהא
[. . . . . . . .] אלי א…
State document, report, Fatimid. The report is written on the 3rd of Dhū l-Ḥijja, of an unspecified year, and mentions a previous report that arrived …
اخر ما القدرة(؟) بعده عمل بتاريح يوم الاربعا الثالث
من ذي الحجة….ذكر اخر الوارد من الديوان السعيد
والذي تجدد بعد ذلك خلو الاسواق من الاخباز
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Accounts in Hebrew script. Late. Mentioning Mordukh Kohen and Torah finials (rimonīm). Possibly mentioning the holiday Purim in the heading, but the scribal hand is …
IB V, 20. Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abu Zikri ha-Kohen, reperesentative of the merchants in Fustat, ca. 1135. Mentions wheat; the government; being unable to …
End of a legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar 5337 AM = 29 April 1577 CE. Signed (and probably written) by Yosef b. …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Skopje (אישקופייה), to Shaʾul b. David, in Salonika. In Ladino. Needs examination for content.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with business matters. The market has ground to a halt (wāqif) in the writer's location, "neither coarse nor fine can …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: a partial Hijrī date is visible in the middle section of the recto: שהר רמצן סנ[ת .]סץ, which is Ramaḍān 96[.] …
Letter possibly in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi, possibly sent to Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Containing an answer to inquiry whether a family had …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and groom. Date and location are not preserved but the witnesses are known from mid-11th century Fusṭāṭ. …
Order of payment issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya. …
Small fragment of an Ikhshīdid fiscal account. See tag for similar documents. This one mentions the year 329 AH = 940/41 CE. Reused for unidentified …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: August 3, 1063, based on Gil's assessment. …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Marriage contract (ketubba). Bottom part only. Dating: Ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. Bride: Ṭova bt. Ḥusayn. Groom: Shelomo b. …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
See PGPID 15888
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. The cantor Abū l-Majd is to give 5 dirhams to a certain Kohen, apparently as reimbursement …
Fragment of a state document, fragmentary lines preserved. The word "al-Nawāḥī" is visible. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic fragment. . Probably a letter. The name Eliyyahu …
Letter sent from Jerusalem in later medieval times by a woman named Jamila, the widow of Yehuda, addressing two brothers-in-law in Cairo, explaining that she …
Miscellany containing formularies for excommunication (invoking the Shem ha-Meforash) on 74/70v, flowery rhymes for letter openings, etc. On 74/72r a copy of letter of interest …
Two folios. List of dozens of names and houses/households. In Arabic script. Most entries are crossed out. Entries are separated by a circle with a …
Deed regarding the endowment of two houses in Fusṭāṭ as a pious foundation: ‘the little house’ and ‘the cattle house’. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God [alone … ]
This is what [ … ] bestowed and granted as a pious foundation …
Letter from Avraham to his brother, Mordekhay Kohen. Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). …