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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to two unknown addressees. Dated: Elul 1524 Seleucid = August/September 1213 CE. The writer requests a rapid response "to that which was …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Literary text in Arabic script. On parchment. Appears very old (e.g. resembles T-S Ar.53.33). Technical instructions of some kind.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Original text: (draft of?) Arabic legal document involving a certain Hārūn b. Sulaymān. Needs further examination. Later text: In Judaeo-Arabic, the archaeological secrets revealed by …
Letter addressed to Netanʾel b. Aharon and his son Shelomo. The letter consists entirely of blessings for the holidays. Mainly in Hebrew. The passages in …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter to Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the mother of someone... something to be purchased for the writer... three capitation tax payments... taking the receipts... someone …
1 نسخ
Fragment from an opening of a letter to Perahyahu the Judge - Perahya b. Yosef, of the Ben Yiju family who was the muqaddam of …
Letter in Hebrew from a man with the unusual name of Revaya (? רויה) to a ḥaver who was the leader of the Fustat community, …
IB VI, 49. Letter from a Jewish trader in India to his partner in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Among many other matters, he mentions donations to …
Minute fragment with very few, barely legible, words
Fragment of a text or document with the layout of a letter, but the main portion of which is entirely a biblical citation about Levites. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1395 Seleucid, which is 9 May 1084 CE. Husband: Kathīr b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Mawʿā bt. Moshe. …
1 مناقشة
Legal document. Testimony in court, between brothers Moshe Sofer, Yisḥaq Sofer aka Maqaṣīs, and some of their family members. The paleography supports a dating estimate …
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Legal records. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av and Elul 1527 Seleucid = 1216 CE. Headed by the glyph. Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges …
Fragment of a ketubba. The trousseau is listed in ll. 3–9. (Information from Goitein's index card.) The hand is probably known; Natan b. Shemuel?
Letter from Meir b. Naʿim to the community of Cairo/Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. Conveys a detailed story about Meir's …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Almost complete (missing a small piece from the right side). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 AH, which is May 1017 CE. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad, the prophet, and his family and save them.
[Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Account of the pledges, pesiqa, for [the synagogue of] Dammuh, during the time of Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237).
Letter from a certain Hilāl. He reports that as requested he has met up as requested with his in-law Abū l-Fakhr regarding Ibn Budayr and …
Letter, fragment, in Arabic script or official correspondence. Needs examination.
Top four lines of an official-sounding letter in Arabic script. Might be a draft. Dating: Maybe 13th or 14th century. Begins: "Uṣdirat/aṣdartu hādhihi l-[...] ilā …
Pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic, labeled as such "תגרב(ה) ק[ל]ם". The dating is medieval-era based on the paleography.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Lāwī (Moshe b. Levi) the Jew in Fustat. ʿAlāma at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq. Dated: …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He wrote this quickly, not with his careful handwriting. The text on …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a man and his cousin (ibn ʿamm); 51 dinars; and something granted …
Copious jottings in Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and other symbols (all Greek/Coptic numerals?). Some phrases from Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī. One of the Judaeo-Arabic …
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions. The main …
List of luxury garments and jewels belonging to or that were sold to various people (headers: "the wife of my paternal uncle... for sale... that …
Legal document, or accounts for the month of Jumādā I and Jumādā II. Needs examination.
List of ruqʿas for various sums of dinars, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Makārim b. Yūsuf to the sons of Merayot ha-Kohen, who seem to be the tax farmers of Shubrā. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address …
Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
Recto: Letter mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, consisting mainly of flattering epistolary formulae for Rabbenu Nahray. Verso: Letter formulary in Hebrew, in a different hand. Blessings arranged …
Magical text in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment.
Recto: letter fragment. Dating: late 12th or 13th century (known hand). Verso: writing exercises including the phrase سيدنا ومولانا מאיר. (Information in part from CUDL)
Power of attorney embedded in a letter. Yakhin b. Elʿazar of Minyat Zifta writes to Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā and instructs them to pay …
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 …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter, in Arabic script. Top part missing. The sender expresses his longing for the addressee. He mentions a paper trail and expresses his happiness on …
الاجتماع معه على الحال السارة فيه ا[
بمنه وسعة فضله ووصل كتابه ادام الله
حراسته من تنيش(=تنيس) على يد سعادة الغلام
وقراته وابتهجت بما تضمنه م…