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Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 523? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Draft of the opening of a testimony involving the widow of Yefet ha-Kohen. Abandoned. Written on a scrap piece of parchment. Hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, to Yehuda Per[...]. In Ladino with Hebrew introductory formulae.
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Minute fragment from a letter (or simply jottings?). The name Yiṣḥāq is mentioned and part of a date. No more details are preserved. AA/ASE
Bifolio containing a magical spell in Judaeo-Arabic for extracting venom from a person's body. Invokes the angel Gabriel. There is an additional page written in …
Four consecutive folios from the introduction to an anonymous philosophical-polemical treatise defending Jewish prayer and law against the criticism of Muslims. Contains the only known …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in a book hand. Opens with two verses of poetry, then probably a taqbīl ([... al-a]rḍ), then greetings for the …
P16: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The addressee is likely Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (rather …
Recto: List of dates accompanied by sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. Telling the addressee not to …
Two fragments from a legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138) and mentioning Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139), yielding …
Court record. Written by Avraham b. Natan Av (Date: 1098–1114). (Or rather Hillel b. ʿEli?) The main party is a husband certifying in Jewish court …
Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
1 نسخ
Letter sent by the manager of a farm far away from the capital, named Abū l-Faraj b. Hillel, to the landlord, the Nagid Mevorakh (in …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Account book in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in multiple locations to the early 18th century, for example שנת הנה ישעך בא (=463=1703). There may also be dates …
Legal. Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions exchange rates several times; mastic; having purchased cinnabar in partnership with Hārūn b. Nissim; and other names …
Pesuqe de-Zimra. The hand may be known.
Probably draft of opening of letters- on recto for Moshe b. Mevorakh (?), and on verso for a person named Yeshu'a. Some Arabic script between …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …
Poems for circumcisions. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. Including for the birth of a son to the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, and …
Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender wishes to borrow the addressee’s riding animal (dābba) for transporting "some of my stuff" (baʿḍ qumāshī). He should send …
Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th–15th century based on the hand and typical abbreviations (mam[lūk]). Very little of …
Letter in Ladino dated 19 April 1785 (9 Iyyar 5545), from Rubi[?] Mores to Avraham Crespin in Cairo/Fustat "Miẓrayim". Two other individuals are mentioned within …
Legal note, unsigned, beginning "Yaqūlu...": "ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn says that Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī has a note (ruqʿa) of [...] under the name of Abū ʿImrān …
Fiscal document concerning wheat. Dated: middle of Muḥarram 564(?) AH. Reused for piyyut on verso. Needs examination.
Karaite bill of sale for a shop in the coppersmith market of Cairo that also provides details on the prior terms of its ground rent …
Accounts.
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Agreement to pay a debt, missing the signatures section along the paper tear. Dated Friday 20 Shevat 5405 AM (1645 CE). Barūkh b. Eliʿazar Nasīya …
Recto: Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (1 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving a debt of 5000 diwani medins owed by Moshe Benvenist to Shabbetay …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'my brother.' The content is not clear; mentions someone fearing death and mentions the capitation tax (jizya).
Literary
Dowry list (taqwim) in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, for the marriage of Natan b. Shabbetay and […] bt. Yeshūʿa. Marriage payments: 10 + …
1 مناقشة
Recto: Beginning of a letter of appeal for charity by an individual named Makīn who addresses his plea to an elder. Mentions the topoi of …
State document, Ayyubid period. Petition to an Ayyubid ruler regarding the appointment of military personnel: ʿUmar b. Masʿūd, leader of the archers in Alexandria of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك عمر بن مسعود مقدم الرماة
القوسية ثغر الاسكندرية المحروسـ[ـة]
يقبل الارض وين…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave ʿUmar ibn Masʿūd, the leader of the archers
in the frontier city of Alexandria,…
Letter, in Arabic script. Starts with a basmala and contains the "inhāʾ" formula. Mentions difficulties; "ويشهد الله تعلى لقد صنعت علينا غاية الصعوبه والله تعالى …
Small fragment from a financial account. Probably 11th or 12th century.
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.