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Lease document, in Arabic script, for a house in Alexandria. The leasee may be Yuḥanna (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is …
1 مناقشة
Draft of a letter from Wāfī b. Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī, 16 July 1059, written at the back of an earlier letter from his father …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Verso: Hebrew legal document (power of attorney), mentioning Ṣadoq Av Bet Din.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter of appeal for help, mentioning a recent death, apparently of a husband, leaving the writer (the widow) without livelihood and unable to live with …
2 نسخين
List of names. Most entries have little circles over them. E.g., Menaḥem, [Yo]sef, Eliyya, ʿaskarī (a soldier?), al-Fakhr, Khalaf, Kāfūr (means camphor, but can be …
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Abū Naṣr al-Yahūdī and Mubārak al-Yahūdī.
Partnership agreement from Cairo, dated 13 October 1800 CE (24 Tishrei 5561 AM), between David Dayyan, Eliyyahu Palombo, and Avraham Ḥaqīm. The context of the …
1 نسخ
A letter to a notable, consisting almost entirely of blessings, some quite eloquent and in rhymed prose. The sender asks for help for rent and …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Probably literary.
Responsum by Maimonides; apparently dealing with a debt owed to a non-Jew. Autograph. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (including li-ʿAbbās adāma llāhu ʿizzahu). Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Headed (recto left page) "the account of my …
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Letter sent to a woman. In Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right piece of recto, some of the address preserved on verso). Dating: 11th or …
IB IV, 17 (ח66). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with the …
4 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Fragment of a text in Hebrew, possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā of Sfax, in Mazar, Sicily, to his partner Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The longest letter …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Not completed. In the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Dated: Friday, 2 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid, which is 4 …
Original use: Fragment of a chancery document, possibly a decree. In Arabic script with wide line spacing. 7 lines are partially preserved. Later, the empty …
Two medical prescriptions, one on each page. In Arabic script. Both are headed by "lemon syrup" (sharāb laymūn) or begin with this item. The one …
Recto: Legal notes, or maybe formularies and legal procedure. The top entry is a bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE. Location: …
Letter to Shelomo ha-Nasi concerning destruction of houses and oppression of his mother's brother in Mosul (May 16, 1237). Context is likely the Mongol invasion. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter, copy. Written in poetic Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for help, since the author describes his woes. Join by Dr. Ezra Chwat. See …
Legal record of the same case on the recto, which offers us an alternative vantage point against which we may evaluate the narrative imposed on …
Letter from Yosef b. Farah from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 25, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of dinars for exchange …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וכאן לך ומעך [ולי] וחאפץ מן אל
מסתקר לנצף מן שהר מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה
וערפך ברכת מא י…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
IB II, 39. One of two copies of a poem by Avraham ben Yiju, praising Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies. Aden. T-S 8J16.23 (PGPID 5403) …
Letter from Salāmah b. Ibrahīm (Būṣīr) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Ca. 1053 (Gil). The writer is preparing flax to be loaded onto ships for …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Gaon concerning the difficulties she is having with the son of her late husband …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Bifolio with Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the four pages contains jotted accounts in Arabic mentioning 5 dinars and 3 raṭls.
State document or letter. In Arabic script. Four lines probably from the bottom of the document. Reused for jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Dated Tuesday 20 Dhū l-Qaʿda 919 AH, (1514 CE).
Poems written in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, Ḥayyim Kalev of Amadiya. Needs further examination.
Legal document concerning debt, mentioning various sums of money. Probably a debt contract specifying monthly installments of 1.5 dinars. On verso there are records of …
Legal query addressed to a Muslim faqīh. In two drafts. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish man who teaches medicine in public and in the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
ما تقول ائمة الدين فقها المسلمين ايدهم الله
رب العالمين في يهودي يقري علم الطب على
قارعة الطريق وفي…
State document. In Arabic script. Refers to iqṭāʿ throughout, at least four times. One of the mentions is probably referring to an iqṭāʿ in the …
Legal formulary, probably.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format and line justification. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions the pressing [of the grapes?] and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). The handwriting is rudimentary and the orthography so idiosyncratic that it is difficult to understand. Probably a family letter; discussing all …
Love poetry. In Arabic script. To the effect that passion is a terrible disease whose only cure is union. On verso there are 6 unidentified …
Bill of divorce. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range 988–1088. Husband: Manṣūr b. Ṣāliḥ. Wife: Sittūna bt. Ḥalfon. Written and signed by [...] …