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Verso: Small fragment of a state document. The beginnings of three lines are preserved, possibly from the bottom of the document with a ḥamdala. Reused …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Private accounts of Abu Zikri Tabib in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim (Goitein) or Yehuda b. Saadya (Gil). Dating: ca. 1065 (Gil). Draft. Mentions …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment. Sent from Jerusalem, presumably to Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 1048/49 CE. Damaged and faded. Mentions a scholar who escaped from trouble with …
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Legal document involving al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān (Moshe) b. Mevorakh. Many names are mentioned. Needs examination.
1 مناقشة
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Maimonides autograph
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions "al-kātib ... al-ishrāf(?) Muḥammad b. Ḥammūd al-Qāḍī."
Letter from הדוד(?) addressed to a certain Ṭahor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1220 CE, based on the mention of Eliyyahu the Judge and Avraham Maimonides …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from a man to his 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary spellings. Discussing various small business transactions and travel. Mentions Ismāʿīl in a short postscript.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that his cousin (ibn khālatī) Berakhot has arrived and conveyed the news that the addressee came down with …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 23 Nisan 1434 = 20 April 1123 CE. Upper part of a …
Verso: Recipe in Arabic script, probably medical.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. Mentions a Jewish man named Fayrūz many times, and at one point he is called "al-Qaraʾ …
Bifolio containing accounts for construction in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Very spare with a lot of blank space.
Legal document from Cairo, dated January 1821 (Shevat 5581). It seems to be a partnership agreement between various traders active in the early 19th century, …
1 نسخ
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic. In the same scribal hand as: JRL B 2211 (PGPID 28417).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Refers to a father, children, and …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: 5[4]30 AM (1669/1670 CE). Location: Miṣrayim (in context = Cairo). The middle signature is from Moshe Shomer and the left …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Moshe b. Israel. The bride is Esther known as Baytu d. Aharon Hakohen. AA
Arabic, literary.
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Fragment (top part only). Involves: Abū Kathīr; Bahiyya bt. Ṣadaqa; [...] bt. Yosef …
Small fragment from a letter addressed to a dignitary (תפ]ארת השרים [...]ת הנשיאות]). Seems to be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Only a …
A scorpion amulet based on the word אבליגמה. Includes the line "I have bound you with these names" אסרתיך באלו השמות
Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barqi of Busir to Abu Ishaq (Barhun) b. Ismail al-Tāhartī, dealing with the production of flax and linen. …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל [אללה ב]ק[א]ך ואדאם ע[זך
וסמוך וכבת בדל חאסדך ועדוך מן אלמס[ת]קר בוציר ען חאל סלאמה [ונעמה
ושוק אליך…
Fragment of a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Concerning either the sale or rent of a house. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes …
Capitation tax receipt for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. See ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) for a list of related documents.
Letter of appeal for assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic, with many phrases in Hebrew. Dated Nisan 5562 AM which is 1802 CE (= the 9th of the …
Enigmatic list or glossary, in which each Arabic phrase is paired with an apparently nonsensical translation or code word. Speculation: possibly a trade argot of …
Tax receipt issued to the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: (Khan reads 3 Ramaḍān 402). Written by …
[يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
ان شا الله
[اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد
[سوا]
والحمد لله على نعمه
[Let it be registered] on behalf of the Bureau of (Tax) Supervision,
if God wills.
[It has been registered, and] the amount…
3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from an unknown person from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1060. Regarding pearls, silk, and cardamom. The writer …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Medical recipes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, including one powder (dharūr) for children and several ophthalmics (ashyāfāt).
Long and narrow strip from the ketubah of Sitt al-Sada, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Legal record (#58) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 58-59) Folio 15v
From a ledger of donations arranged by the parshiyot of the year 1803/1804 CE (5564 AM). See joins.
Medical prescription.
Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr Ḥananʾel (Khiyār) b. Yaʿaqov releases Benaya b. Moshe from a partnership with ʿAllān b. Nahray, after the former …
Fragment (bottom right) of a letter in Hebrew signed by Elyaqim b. [...]. AA
Accounts in Arabic script, with some interesting details, e.g., mentioning a ḥaver and possibly food items such as mulūkhiyya and zirbāj (a type of stew) …
Astrological almanac with prognostications regarding the month of Abīb in the Coptic calendar, when the Nile begins to rise. Refers to the heliacal rising of …
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a state petition, beginning with "wa l-mamlūk yasʾal l-tawfīq" and mentions a wall "ṣūr"; reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see …
Letter of appeal for charity. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with good handwriting but rudimentary spellings. The sender asks for half a dirham to buy food. He …
Possibly a receipt or IOU. Mentions a date, a sum of money received, and the name [...] b. هنا al-Ṣabbāgh al-Yahūdī. On verso there are …
Letter of condolence in Hebrew.