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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: probably piyyuṭ given the format, or possibly a letter fragment with a poetic Hebrew opening On verso the address of a letter in Arabic …
Accounts. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj, [...] Ibn al-Tilmīdh or al-Talmid, Abū l-Fakhr, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Manṣūr. The top two entries are crossed out.
Note on parchment. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Making a request about obtaining silver for the sender, and passing on a message to Abū Saʿd al-Ḥazzān(?) …
Legal document. Dating: ca. early 13th century. Not much survives from the larger context but since it involves the release of several sisters of a …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender waited all afternoon in the synagogue for the addressee; he assumed that the latter had gone up to Cairo. He …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter or state correspondence in Arabic script. Approximately 2 lines from near the beginning preserved. The text in between lines 1 and 2 may be …
Recto with the address on verso: Letter from a man whose name is too faded to read, near al-Mahdiyya, to his 'brother' ʿArūs b. Yosef, …
1 مناقشة
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Yehuda Hakohen. The bride is Esther known as Qamar d. Eliyahu. Dated 25 Adar 5581 …
Bottom of a legal document written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel and Saʿadya b. [...]. The document mentions someone named Nadiv and possibly a …
Popular literature in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. 8 folios. NB: Goitein's index card refers to this fragment as "daily household …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Fragmentary. The sender seems to be complaining that someone has opposed him or will oppose him in conducting his business …
Small fragment from the top part of a legal deed, with a prolonged introduction with praises for Mevorakh b. Saʿadya and his son Moshe (ca. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Deed of release. Location: Cairo (where Avraham b. Natan was judge). Date not preserved. Yefet b. Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. …
Fragment of a legal query mentioning a woman and a daughter, the father having been absent 16 years.
1 نسخ
List of names and numbers. Mentions Hilāl and al-Maṣmūdī.
Fragment of a letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (d. 1355) addressed to the cantor Abu al-Faraj, like several other letters from the …
Announcement of a threat of excommunication (ḥerem stam) against anyone in Fustat or Cairo or their environs who knows the whereabouts of Abū l-ʿAlā b. …
Folio probably from the Arabic version of Yosippon, containing part of the speech against suicide at the siege of Yodfat. Mentions Vespasian (اسبيانوس). ASE
Bill of divorce. The date, location, and names of the husband and wife are not preserved. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. 12-century Spanish scribal hand. Excerpts: וקד כאן תקדם . . כתאב . . גואב . . עזה . . …
Recto: Letter from Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has sent: parchments (ruqūq), scissors (miqaṣṣ), a belt (zunnār), a razor …
Beginning of a letter to Shelomo ha-Sar ('ha-Sofer ha-Mahir'). The sender complains about difficult circumstances. Dating: 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Contains a number of names and professions such as Joseph, Umm ʿAlī, al-Ḥazzān, al-baqqāl ‘vegetable trader, innkeeper’, …
Interesting fragment with a Judaeo-Arabic midrash about Moses quoting Isaiah 63:12, Deut. 3:26, and Exodus 34:6. (Information in part from FGP.)
Letter from the merchant Abū l-Riḍā ha-Kohen in Tiberias to his brother Seʿadya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address mainly in Arabic script on …
Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhānī to Eliyyahu the Judge. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports meeting with "the indicated person" who is in difficult …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Official receipt for Abū l-Najm b. Ḥasan(?). Unclear for what (sugar?). Payment of 2 dinars? May be dated 520 AH. Needs examination.
Business letter from Yisraʾel b. Yosef Ibn Bānūqa to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. The letter was written when Nissim, Nahray's father, was still alive. …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (a.k.a. ʿIwāḍ) b. Ḥananel, Fustat. Abū l-Khayr became ill following ʿIwāḍ's departure, and his mother …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Minute printed fragment, in square Hebrew script. Refers to the Lekh Lekha parsha on the verso, and the following line is "ותדבר ישרא[ל."
List of names with numbers in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the people is "sayyidnā."
Legal report in a Qaraite court register. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 1101 CE, but this date does not appear on …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
List of mercantile goods (foods, spices, materia medica, metals) and their quantities, mostly given in pounds/arṭāl. In Arabic script.
One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Legible words: مولانا . . . على قلبه …
Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. The opening of the letter mentions a thawb, R. Berakhot, going to the …
Informal note/petition addressed to Avraham Maimonides, here with the title "Nagid" (thus, post-1213 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks when Avraham will spend Shabbat in …
The Rosh ha-Seder of the Yeshiva invites Saadya b. Khalaf to attend his sermon in the synagogue. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق …