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Tax receipt. ʿAlāma in the upper right, jahbadh signature at bottom.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Numerous drafts/outlines of legal documents from a court notebook. One of them is a partnership agreement. Dating: ca. 1128–1164 CE. A previous version of this …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). On left hand side of …
Mainly copious pen trials. Verso also has drafts of phrases from a letter written in an elevated register.
List of food items and prices: lemon, meat, etc. Medieval-era. Distinctive rudimentary handwriting (some letters with little balls at their tops).
A list of names and corresponding sums of money e in a very crude hand. The usage of eastern Arabic numerals supports a dating estimate …
A letter to a certain Ḥaver, Yosef b. Ya'aqov, probably residing in Tyre. The letter itself is in Hebrew, and inculde a long a flowery …
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Verso: State document. Legible words: on line 1, مـ]ـستخدمين في الدواوين]; on line 2: ان شا الله. (MR)
Possibly an official receipt, or simply a private account.
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Letter that mentions the death of Aharon b. Yeshu'a Ibn al-'Ammani. A man writes to his two brothers in Alexandria. He left Alexandria for Fustat …
Medical or culinary recipes. Written on a long vertical strip of parchment. The last one may be an aphrodisiac: منه بعد الطعام . . . …
List of syrups and diet recommended for (or purchased by) 12 different people, some of whom are each other's family members. See Efraim Lev, Medical …
Possibly an account, and some jottings including names - needs examination.
טו לב ח
יב ה ח
ד י טו
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (India trade related?). May refer to owing somebody a rose-colored cooking vessel (? ṭājin warda); something …
Small fragment of a state document, probably a report. Refers to a military man: "min rijāl al-ʿasākir al-muʾayyada." Verso may be a distinct document.
Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿaadya. Small fragment containing the opening and part of the address. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting …
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for somebody's payment in New Cairo.
IB II, 58. Letter. Memorandum from Abu Zikri Kohen to Mahruz. Alexandria, ca. 1136-1149.
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in …
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ramla. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
Pen trials in Latin- and Hebrew-script. The Latin-script words and abbreviations resemble Castilian Spanish but at times demonstrate Italianate linguistic influence. These words are honorific …
Fragment of a letter, probably from a son to his father in Fusṭāṭ. Probably from ʿEli b. Hillel to his father Hillel b. ʿEli. He …
Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact …
Verso (earlier side): Letter from Yaḥyā to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. Opens "aṣghar al-mamālīk [...] Yaḥyā yujaddidu khidmata sayyidinā l-qāḍī al-ajall al-awḥad al-qāʾim al-mutafakkir(?)...." …
A legal quey sent to 'The sages of Israel' (a term usually found at the era of Abraham Maimuni), concerning whether a woman who left …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Document in Arabic script, with Greek/Coptic numerals at upper left. Maybe a receipt or order.
IB IV, 38 (ח37). Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Spain. Dating: Perhaps the end of summer, 1138 CE. …
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Ketubba fragment (perhaps Palestinian) mentioning a payment of 12 zuz (in keeping with the Palestinian tradition). Signed by Elʿazar b. Yosef. Not mentioned in the …
Letter of appeal for charity/assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic. Eloquent, sometimes rhyming. Appeals to ʿaṣabiyya, as a preface to asking for help (אלחצרה אלסאמיה . . . …
Letter probably from the leaders of the Jewish community in Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ (fl. 1007–1055 CE), describing the ransoming and generous …
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic in which the student repeated a phrase from the heading that had been offered by an instructor in model handwriting. …
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Cut into an unusual octopus-like shape: a comb spine lining? Cf. T-S NS …
Small fragment with a few words in Arabic script.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (lower left piece). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David. Also signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. The location, …
Two petitions to a Fatimid judge. The first concerns the incarceration of the family breadwinner, a certain Ḥabīb. An endorsement fixed to the end of …
العبيد المماليك
عاىلة حبيب الجارى
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
مماليك الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية اطال الله بقاها وادام ت…
The servants and slaves,
the family of Ḥabīb, the servant
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slaves of the lofty a…
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably literary but could be documentary - needs examination.
Probably accounts, mentioning medium quality and best quality, transactions of garments, and payments. With Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script. Probably legal. Dated (on verso): 1173 AH = 1759/60 CE. There is an addendum in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Sulaymān b. Yiṣḥaq al-Qaysī(?). …
Fragment of a legal document. Cryptic phrases about "releasing myself from God" and "the vicissitudes of time" and saying to a woman "you will regret. …
Possibly the top of a note from the office of one of the Maimonidean Nagids. The end of the motto וכול is visible, though the …
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz to a certain Talmid. In Arabic script. Best wishes for the holiday. Tells him not to listen to Abū l-ʿAlā, who …