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List or accounts, medieval-era. The same word (aqlām?) is written multiple times with an elongated horizontal middle letter. Above the horizontal bar each entry has …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Two letters in two different hands, probably literary exercises. Recto: Many eloquent expressions of longing "there is not a limb of my body but that …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions numerous items of clothing and textiles. Written during an epidemic (wa-l-zamān zamān maraḍ, 3 lines from the bottom of recto). The …
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Letter probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s) addressed to someone he calls "the great rabbi." In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter consists entirely …
Text in Judaeo-Arabic detailing the rising of a celestial body (al-maṭlaʿ al-saʿīd. . . .). Dated: Iyyar 1540 Seleucid = April/May 1229 CE.
Petition to a woman from a prisoner (?) in rudimentary script and spelling, asking her "on the life of al-Shaykh Abū l-Maḥāsin" to do a …
Business letter, in Arabic script from an unknown trader, possibly to Nahray b. Nissim (Aodeh), on the back of a letter in Hebrew script (see …
Recto: table of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: likely no earlier than 13th century. The list on the recto includes some names: Yosef …
Small fragment of a letter, likely in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Urges the (male) addressee to do something with all …
Responsa numbered 69-72, on kashrut and family law. (Information from CUDL)
Calandar for the year 1153/54 CE. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Recto: Legal document dated 1350 Seleucid = 1038/39 CE. Qaraite, based on the use of למנין יונים. In which Sibāʿ b. Menashshe renounces all claims …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 20 Adar I 5559 AM, which is 1799 CE. Eliyyahu Ṣevi Ḥbak(?) (צבי חבאך) acknowledges an investment of 2000 medins …
Literary text, most likely. Needs examination.
2 pages from a list of revenues and expenses for the end of 1200, written by Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Published Vaza, pp. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Mentions writing a deed of release (shover): והתאזרו במדת דין ומשפט . . . תכתבו להם שובר עד אשר . . …
Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Listed in Amir Ashur's dissertation, p. 355.
Letter from Abū l-Faraj to his paternal uncle, expressing his longing for him. The continuation is either torn away or was never written. The sender, …
Letter from Eliyyahu (b. Zekherya) to the scholar Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Eliyyahu expresses astonishment that the latter had not answered the Rayyis with regard to …
Accounts in Arabic script concerning sugar (qand, qaṭāra). On recto there are liturgical instructions concerning certain parashot. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts in Arabic script, likely fiscal but might be private. On verso mentions Ṣafar 503 or 530 AH. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). One of the parties is Abū l-Munā [b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely Mamluk-era. From a person to his brother in Egypt (spelled מסרים)
Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …
Verso: Accounts in an early modern hand. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The coinage referenced is fiḍḍa (likely Ottoman-era medin) and perhaps "kalb" …
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
Letter from Yeshu‘a b. Ismāʿīl, in Malīj, to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. ʿAlī ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Concerning business matters. The sender delivered something on …
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Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
Folios from a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.
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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Petition. In Arabic script, in a beautiful chancery hand. Portions of 4 lines are preserved. Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in …
Draft of a legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Only the introduction & titles were written; "Nagid" is not listed among them thus the dating …
Fragment from the opening of a letter to 'our master and teacher the Ḥaver.' Quotes Bereshit Rabba: דוד מלך ישראל מת אין מחללין עליו את …