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Fragment of a letter, comprising the upper left corner. Medieval-era. The recipient is addressed in line 1 as "mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl." Requires further examination. MCD.
Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …
Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came
And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will
And not under duress, (so) that…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 …
Mercantile and/or family letter in Arabic script. Seems to be an addendum or final page of a letter, since there are no opening greetings but …
Minute fragment from a legal deed
Tax receipt for the capitation of Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. See also: ENA 3945.9, T-S NS 297.171, T-S Ar.35.133, and T-S AS 181.31. The …
Top of a petition from a Damascene woman. Only the tarjama is preserved: al-mamlūka al-ṣaghīra al-dimashqiyya al-[...].
Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL). No details about the content of the qinyan survive.
Informal note from Sulaymān to Abū l-Bayān. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to kindly bestow the favor that he previously bestowed, by coming …
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Letter from Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin the cantor, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and phonetic spellings throughout, …
Recto: liturgical composition, followed by a genealogical list, starting with the Nasi Sar Shalom and going back seven generations (Sar Shalom b. Pinḥas b. Hodaya …
1 مناقشة
Recto (secondary use): accounts of materia medica in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Fragment from the bottom part of a bill of guarantee of Ishaq ha-Levi b. Netanel (see India Book IV/A p. 26n43) written by Halfon b. …
Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Eliyyahu b. Moshe, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Neḥemya Kohen, [… b. She]lomo, Barukh …
Recto: list of names in Judaeo-Arabic such as Qurrat al-ʿAyn, ʿUthmān Dhū l-Nūrayn ("the possessor of two lights," an epithet for ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān), Zubayr, …
Deed of sale of a property. Many landmarks and characteristics are described.
Letter fragment, in an official looking hand. First preserved line contains blessings "المالك سبحانه بالعلا" and in the next line "سبحانه من شا". Also mentions …
Bottom of a ketubba. The groom is named Efrayim ha-Levi. Several witness signatures are preserved, including Menashshe(?) b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib the cantor, …
Recto: The ends of 3 lines in Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Verso: The name صادوق/Ṣadoq written in Arabic and one other word.
Legal document. Record of release. Dated: 1480 Seleucid (1168/69 CE). Location: Fustat. Likely in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. Onetime business partners …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
Unidentified Arabic script, probably writing practice.
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Recto: Bill of divorce. Dated: Sunday, 16 Heshvan 1456 Seleucid = 15 October 1144 CE. Location: al-Maḥalla. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Merayot (a man of the …
Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (ca. 1007–55 CE). Address on verso. (Information from CUDL)
A legal discussion? Very damaged, deals with monetary issues.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
List of names in a very cursive hand in Judaeo-Arabic. Including Bū ʿAlī Ibn al-Amshāṭī al-Dayyān(?); the boy of the Mosuli; and [...] Ibn al-Labbān.
Fiscal account recording amounts by month.
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment, only the end is preserved. He says he will come visit the coming Shabbat. He sends …
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the entries is for Shabbat expenses, including two chickens (farrūjayn).
Bifolio mainly containing Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary hand. Recto contains random jottings of phrases from letters and legal documents mainly in Judaeo-Arabic with the …
Talisman for safe journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Oded Zinger adds (January 2025): the verso text labels the talisman as being about "the passing …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
List of payments; contributors listed include Yaʿaqov, Shemuʾel (?), Faḍl, Mūsā, Ḥusayn, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Yosef, ראיס and אדוננו; Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu al-Faraj Daniel b. Allan ha-Kohen in Alexandria, discussing the problem of the ransom of captives and …
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך]
[ונעמ]תך מן מצר לי'ב' כלון מן אב ערפך אללה ואי/א/נא ברכתה [ ]
ו[י]זכינא…
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תקדמת כתבי אליך יאואלדי אטאל אללה בקאך וכאן לך ומעך עדה ולם ארא(!)
ארגו שגל כיר אעלמך בוצול מרכב אבי עלי אלשאמי ווצל פיה
רזמה לבן אלתיהרת…
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Fiscal document in Arabic script. Referring to al-muqṭaʿīn, and then dīwān. Needs examination. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.