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Verso: Document in Arabic script. The ends of 10 lines from the lower left corner are preserved. Quite faded and difficult to read. Seems to …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~4 lines are preserved. Involving a woman. Mentions 100 qinṭārs of something. Needs further examination.
A sermon in praise of marriage. Twelve advantageous aspects of marriage for men are mentioned, each illustrated by a biblical quotation. Based on BT Yevamot …
1 نسخ
Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: [14]57 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ gives to his wife Sitt al-[...] …
1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic phrases are preserved.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 2 Nisan 1551 Seleucid = 26 March 1240 CE. The handwriting resembles that of Avraham Maimonides (but cannot be his, because …
Letter from Yosef ha-Rofe b. Moshe ha-Rofe in Damascus to Avraham Fayrūz b. Moshe ha-Rofe, in Fustat/Cairo. The writer complains about the lack of letters …
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Many entries are crossed out. Mentions people such as Abū l-Barakāt al-Kohen (الكوهان). Mentions commodities such as buckthorn …
Legal fragment or list of debts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions various numbers and Abū l-Faḍl. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya.
Verso (original use): Letter from Mūsā, probably addressed to Shelomo. Asking the addressee's help in doing something on Sunday. Recto (secondary use): Letter from Shelomo …
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of the court clerk Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The letter opens with condolences for the addressee's loss. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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 …
Damaged communal letter in Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century. Containing instructions for a group of people: זה אליכם תתקבצו ביחד ותעשו . . .
Letter requesting an invitation to meet the addressee in person. This letter is written in a similar hand and style as T-S 10J17.27–30 (per Goitein). …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known (Nahray b. Nissim?).
Letter from a Qaraite religious authority to a pupil containing the answers to a number of queries that the addressee had sent him, chief among …
Two very fragmentary lines of a state document, in Arabic script with wide line spacing and large script. A huge margin has been left to …
Small fragment of a certificate or possibly a letter concerning the licensing of an ophthalmologist: "[X and Av?]raham testify in his favor that he is …
Letter, asking for a swift reply and mentioning a certain Ibrahim. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL.) Excerpts: אללה תע …
Letter to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …
Accounts in Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. Dated in line 2 of the lower section on the recto: Adar I 5337 AM (1577 CE). The …
Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." In Hebrew. Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or …
Letter from Miryam to her brother, Moses Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168-1204 CE). Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
List. Fragment containing the names of 51 households, at least 15 of which are identical with T-S 24.76. Legible items: 17 receive 10 (dirham=dirhams), total …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Account (small fragment) of purchases. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Referring to Sicilian textiles (e.g. Damanshī or Damunnashī, Saraqūsī). See Goitein's index card for partial …
Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Ibn al-Samīn and a bale of turquoise-colored (silk?) (fayrūzī al-lawn). Verso: Mercantile accounts …
List in Judaeo-Arabic, badly damaged. Medieval-era. One of the entries is "blacksmith" (חדאד). Requires further examination.
Minute fragment, probably liturgical. Previously noted as possibly Halfon b. Menashshe, but most likely not.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions three days and (in the margin) news about the collector (al-jābī).
Verso: A few lines in Arabic. Reused for piyyuṭ on both sides.
Lower section of a late letter in Hebrew to Shelomo [..] regarding a man named Yaʿaqov Naḥman b. Shemuel and a woman named [...] bt. …
Letter mentioning real estate and rent in Cairo, the writer's son, qarārīṭ (carats). Folded once vertically then rolled and folded horizontally. Wormholes. Item 14 in …
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Receipt for a repayment of a debt. The creditor received half of the 9 dinars (in the six month installment), in the form 18.5 wariq …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
IB IV, 3 (ח13). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel (here called Abū Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh al-Dimyāṭī), which opens / …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from a nightwatchman (?) to a dignitary requesting help. He is still owed 1 1/4 dinar from the year that ended and is afraid …
Letter from Barakāt b. Manṣūr, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Arabic script, with the address on verso written once in Arabic …
2 نسخين
Fragment of a decree, probably. The only phrases preserved are a reference to the caliph ("al-imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn," r. 1160–71) and "ʿalā …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the name ʿAlī b. Hārūn. The fragment also contains Hebrew literary text.
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May be in the hand of Abū l-Rabiʿ Sulaymān the son of Abū Zikrī Kohen (cf. ENA NS …