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Legal record (#83) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 17 Elul 5325 …
1 نسخ
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal deed concerning the sale of a house (or likely rent, since a specified period is mentioned). The parties are Shelomo ha-Kohen and Yaḥyā. (Information …
Possibly a business account in Arabic script. Looks late. May also mention Hippocrates (Buqrāṭ).
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 …
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Writ of agency, probably written in Acre during the first half of the eleventh century. A woman appoints Mevorakh b. Yeḥezqel to take care of …
1 نسخ 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
IB II, 41. Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.
ולה קינה מתל דלך
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe …
Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …
יט ך
כג כד
כה כו כז
Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Aharon ha-Kohen b. Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and quite eloquent. The addressee and his father have long strings of …
Marriage contract (ketubba). One of the very few Byzantine ketubbot to have survived. Location: Mastaura, on the Meander River (in Asia Minor). Dated: Friday, 4 …
4782 of the Creation of the World, by the reckoning
current in the city of Mastaura near the r…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin the cantor, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and phonetic spellings throughout, …
Fragment from the bottom official correspondence. Mentions "al-majlis al-sāmī" as well as having issued an instruction to the amīr Sharaf al-Dīn the wālī regarding the …
Small fragment from the top of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Mūsā b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh. Dating: Maybe late Mamluk or Ottoman, based …
Minute fragment of an Arabic state document. The first words of two lines are preserved, wide line spacing. One of the words may be wilāya. …
Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …
Legal query. Dating: Early 13th century (per Goitein). Concerning the wife of a Kohen who traveled two or three times without letting her know how …
What does our lord—may his splendour be exalted and his honour increase—say concerning
a woman whose husband, a Kohen, has travelled, once…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Legal document written by ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. A release for Bahiyya, wife of Mevorakh …
(1–6) ...] Mevorakh b. [Ephraim...] this Jacob and [...] dinars and [...] to the Muslim with these din[ars ...] Muslim to ʿAmram. ʿAmram saw …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a legal document or possibly a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~19 lines are preserved, probably from near the beginning. The first …
Text about the medicinal and other qualities of foods.
Mamluk or early Ottoman petition.
Letter from the Karaite David b. Ḥayyūn, in Jerusalem, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, in Tripoli (Libya). Dating: Probably middle of the 11th century. The sender …
Two fragments from a letter in Hebrew. Mentions being in Tyre for 17 years; a book purchased in Egypt or Fustat years ago (the book …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Probably addressed to ʿArūs b. Yosef, based on his reuse of the verso. Mentioning a letter of a qāḍī Abū …
Deed of manumission in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Shevaṭ 1492 Seleucid = 20 January 1181 CE. In which …
Business/family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Abū ʿImrān. T-S NS J533 and Moss. II,176.2 appear to be in the same hand and …
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged and faded. Recto: Possibly a legal document or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the end of the …
State document, in Arabic script. The perfumers/druggists (ʿaṭṭārīn) petition the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Ṣālīḥ (Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb) about the injustice of the notables (ʿurafa) who …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The slaves kiss the ground in the lofty, lordly presence of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may Go…
Long strip of paper with only a few words, possibly legal formularies (פלן בן...). Requires further examination. AA/MCD
Two legal records in a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 14 Kislev 143[9] Seleucid, which is 1127 CE, under …
Fragment of a legal document (upper left corner). Dated: Av 1400 Seleucid = July 1089 CE. Mevorakh b. Yosef makes an acknowledgment. (Information from CUDL)
Commercial letter addressed to 'my brother' Moshe Perdonel. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words in Hebrew and also Ladino דוזינה. Dating: ca. 16th century. …
Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. The entry on the right side of the recto mentions a …
Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The …
specimens of כתובה דמירכסא and שטר מסירה, followed by the heading שרח הלכות מן יבמות. The hand might be of Halfon Hakohen b. Elazar, who …
Bifolio from Sefer Yeṣira. At the bottom of the left page of recto, there are two notes in Ladino. Ownership notes? The first mentions Efrayim …
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 …
Debt contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE, as there is no …
Letter opening, fragmentary, from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to a friend (11th century).