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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Bottom part of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Requests news of the addressee and of Sitt Ṣalaf (cf. ENA …
Literary text in Arabic.
Bifolio from a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Shevat/Av 5443 AM, which is 1683 CE. The …
:(Documents 1-3) Right side of bifolio
1 نسخ
IB III, 23. Detailed accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in India. Dating: 1132–39, 1145–49.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Request presented by the president of the religious school in Jerusalem to the director of one of the synagogues in Egypt asking especially for monetary …
Letter from David b. Daniel to Aaron the cantor
[From:] The son of the exilarch.
The news reached us—our splendorous one, my dear ḥazan, R. Aaron, may God support you…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Mentions barley.
Alchemical recipes in Hebrew. Very well preserved, with interesting details.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman. Mentions expenses; "crazy" people (min nisāʾ wa-rijāl majānīn); the treasury (? bayt māl); being prostrated (inṭaraḥt) and "cut-off …
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking to be informed who should be appointed as agent (wakīl) for something (ומא מעה ותעלמני …
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.
Draft of letter of condolences from Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) on the death of Toviyya b. Daniel, February 1043 (Gil's dating).
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 16 Rabīʿ I 911 AH, which is August 1505 CE. Starts with a basmala, authorizing a trade (bayʿ) of …
Letter from Naṣrallāh al-Khāzin, in Jerusalem, to Shemuel al-Qayyim, Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy; 60 dinars; a woman (Ḥājja Khātūn) who …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions 33.5 of something; "I opened my bundle"; the measure qinṭār; and Ibn al-Iskandaranī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Large folio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a communal list. Some entries include first names others rely on surnames. 16th- or 17th-century based on the …
Letter perhaps from the community of Tinnīs (mentions the synagogue of Tinnīs in the first preserved line), to a Jewish dignitary, likely the Head of …
Memorandum in the name Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Very efaced letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo al-Maghrebi to a family member. He may be trying to decide if he will come to Fustat or …
Jottings of a court scribe. List in Judaeo-Arabic on recto, two entries represent the amounts of "initial" and "delayed" payments (perhaps a dowry). Medieval-era. There …
Blessings for a Nagid (אדונינו נגידנו עטרת ראשינו וצניף תפארתנו). Possibly a from a letter or memorial list.
Colophon for an unidentified work. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 1819 Seleucid = Muharram 914 AH = 1508 CE. On verso there is a note in …
Business letter from [...] b. Yeḥezqel or possibly b. Yaḥyā. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions indigo (nīl) and bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and a merchant named Yiṣḥaq.
Petition about a commercial dispute. In Arabic script. A party or an authority named al-Ṭūsī is mentioned twice. It seems that the petitioner received an …
ا]لعبد الى الطوسي مع الرجل المذكور فدفع اليه شي حمله عنده الى والده ولم يعلم ما هو فجا به
الى والده فجعله في حانوته معما تملك وكان يعامل التجار …
Possibly a legal document about an engagement. Mentions R. Yehuda.
A ledger of a synagogue beadle- needs examination. No image
Fragment of a commercial account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Listing items and prices. Mentions goods such as coral, silk (or possibly …
Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from …
A list from a greengrocer or druggist? Or a shopping list? In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a crude or at least hasty hand. Many names of …
Deed in which Abū Isḥāq Abzārī gives the Nagid Avraham Maimonides the right to buy back the burj, a tower in the ancient Byzantine fortress …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions tarsīm (payments for house arrest).
Text in Arabic, continued on verso, mentioning ʿUmar b. Saʿīd and ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmar. Verso: names of months, in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.)
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Mordechai b. Refael. The bride is Esther . AA
Late letter, apparently written by a certain Dhārā (?). The marginal section mentions "trousers for children" and something carried or delivered by a certain Meʾīr. …
Legal document. Narrow vertical strip containing a couple words. from each line. Much of it is impossible to reconstruct. Mentions the intriguing phrase פרג אלקראן.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List in Judaeo-Arabic, medieval-era. A quantity of five Dabīqī is mentioned, probably a type of linen produced in and/or named after Dabīq (a town in …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Mentions Ṭāhir al-Kohen; tells the addressee to tell him that …
Original use: Arabic document(s), likely official. Mentions [al-dīwā]n al-maʿmūr. Needs examination.
Tax receipt.