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Literary copy of an epistle in Aramaic. The Judaeo-Arabic header states "from R. Yosef (or Yehosef) ha-Ṣadiq to R. כל..." The preserved content is only …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef, Avraham Ibn Yijū’s nephew, to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Introduced with Hebrew citations from Psalms 122:1-2 and 133:1 (mid-12th …
Probably a medical recipe or prescription in Arabic (yuʾkhadh. . . )
Letter sent from Alexandria by a father (Manṣūr b. Sālim) to his son, who had run away to the army, trying to bring him back. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Dirges in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. The poem on the lefthand page has a refrain beginning כהני and refers throughout to the prominent merchant …
Likely a fiscal account. Needs examination.
Fragment from a medical text, in Arabic script. Includes remedies for illnesses and mentions the disease of the fox (dāʾ al-thaʿlab).
Letter fragment, probably. In Arabic script.
Lefthand fragment: Blessing for the circumcision of a boy. In Hebrew. Gives several names. But it is quite faded.
Letter from Salāma Ḥāmī, Jerusalem, to Yeshuʿa Ḥāmī, in Fustat or Cairo, more likely, based on the dating/paleography. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ṣedaqa the elder. Almost none of the substance is preserved. May mention neighbors (jīrān). (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū ʿUmar, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū ʿUmar, Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Faraj (Abū l-Majd is also …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Note or letter from Shimʿon Ben-Nāʾīm (נאיים) addressed only to someone or some institution with the honorific title "jināb al-muḥtarim". Dated: 15 ___[month] 1284 AH …
Document(s) in Arabic on recto and verso, wide line spacing. Medieval era. Probably a fiscal register. The end of three lines are preserved on each …
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Letter from Alexandria to Abū l-Maʿānī. Business letter fragment concerning various transactions, some of which are taking place in Alexandria, and mentioning the purchase of …
1 نسخ
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew script. At least in part concerning wine making (al-nabīdh... al-muwallad...).
Fragment of a statement by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Sibāʿ al-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith) that he has received 75 dirhams from his maternal uncle Abū Naṣr Ibn …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov (Ibn ʿAwkal) and his two sons Hilāl/Hillel and Binyamin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Rabīʿ I 407 AH, which …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Minute blank fragment
Jottings of a court scribe. List in Judaeo-Arabic on recto, two entries represent the amounts of "initial" and "delayed" payments (perhaps a dowry). Medieval-era. There …
Legal document. Formula of a Bill of manumission of a slave girl. Recto: Recto: A formula writ (מודע, ‘notification’) for invalidating the manumission of a …
Testimony about what took place in our presence, we the witnesses signed
below on this deed of disclaimer: A son of B appeared before us
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Possibly a panegyric or a letter to a notable.
State document, fragment of a petition. Contains the "shadd" formula.
Fragment from the bottom of an (official?) document in Arabic script. Reused for piyyut on recto. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Copy of a letter of condolence for Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–39 CE) upon the death of a son. Verso: A dirge with ṣidduq ha-din …
Minute fragment that mentions the price for a raṭl of cheese as two dirhams. This strip of paper may have been part of a broader …
Draft of letter of condolences from Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) on the death of Toviyya b. Daniel, February 1043 (Gil's dating).
Fragment of a letter addressed to al-Kohen [...] Abū l-Bayān. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. Refers to legal queries and/or responsa (fatāwa) …
IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …
3 نسخ
Letter about naval warfare off the Ifrīqiyan coast (1100).
I am writing this letter- -may God prolong the life of my lord, the
Sheikh and. make permanent his honoured position, his- success and hap…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Fragment from the beginning of a Christological literary text. In Arabic script. Opens with two versions of the basmala, one invoking the Trinity and one …
1 مناقشة
List of payments (recto and verso). Names include Ṣadaqa b. Mīnā. Quantities expressed in words and dirhams.
Family letter in Arabic script. Mentions transactions of small sums of money and a malḥafa (type of garment). Mentions Makārim and Abū Isḥāq. Greetings from …
Folio completely covered with willy nilly Arabic text written in a chancery hand, maybe writing exercises copied from other documents, including phrases from petitions (...yujaddid …
Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Bill of release. No specifics are preserved. AA
List of communal contributions received in the month of Adar I that dates to the late-18th or early-19th centuries, based on the names mentioned on …
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly a legal formulary or dealing with legal issues: e.g. "הולד שלקיימה" on recto. Requires further examination.
Document in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Decree (?) to a lower official or letter to a dignitary, 5 fragmentary lines from the mid-section. Arabic script, wide line spacing, chancery hand. Very …
List of the members of "House of Yehuda" and then "House of al-Umm?"