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Letter from ʿEli Ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: approximately 1045 …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of appeal for charity. Mentions the desolation of the synagogue of the Iraqis. This is the clean copy …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Letter or note in Arabic script, ending with the ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi shukran." Likely a draft considering that some words are stricken out. The …
Recto: Deferent letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to a R. El[. . .] called ha-paṭish ha-ḥazaq. The writer mentions that Ibn Bishāra arrived, then reports …
State document, probably a letter of official correspondence, in Arabic script. Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya …
al-Amīr ʿĀzim al-Dawla and his slave Saʿīd b……
In the name of God the most merciful
I do not doubt the love of al-Shaykh al-Sayyid, may G…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Probably a liturgical piece with a few words of Arabic (probably not a document).
Business letter, mentioning Mūsā, Abū Isḥāq and Avraham. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
IB II, 50. Memorandum from Khalaf b. Isḥāq al-Yamanī. In Arabic script, with additional notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script referring to "mawlāya al-Rāb" (=the Rav).
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Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Outline for the sale of enslaved people (bayʿ jalb). Seller: Moshe b. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a serious illness (marḍa shadīda). Might be two different letters in two different hands.
Letter from a poor man to a patron, probably a request for charity. In Arabic script. The bottom few lines are faded and damaged. Needs …
Draft of the opening of a deferential letter to someone addressed as 'al-mawlā [...] al-jalīl al-aṣīl al-ḥakīm al-fahīm al-wadīd al-sadīd..." On verso there are similar …
Accounts.
Original use: Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba or at least a marriage-related document: "... and they will act in accordance with the traditions of the …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#1) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 1v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Debt release …
1 نسخ
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: January 9 (12 Shevat), 1058 CE (Gil) …
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כתבת אטאל אללה בקא אכי ושקיק רוחי ועזיז נפסי ואדאם חראסתה וחמאיתה
וכפאיתה ונעמאה וחסן עקבאה מן אלמהדיה ליב כלון מן שבט ערפה אללה ב…
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment to Avraham ha-Kohen (חמדת הכהנים . . . המשובח בכל ענינים אשר לבש ענוה. . . .) or his son. This may be …
List of names. Dating: probably ca. 18th or 19th century, based on names such as Mosseri and Lieto. (Information in part from CUDL)
Draft of a letter
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr and Tripoli (Libya).
Fragment of a letter mentioning proudly the writer's two sons and reporting the affairs of two men (perhaps brothers or traveling companions). Mentions al-Rayyis al-Gadol …
Qaraite formulary for a bill of debt drawn up in the city of Sh[ām = Damascus?]. (There is also some text that seems like it …
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
1 مناقشة
Document in Arabic script, likely a petition or official correspondence. Dating: late Ayyubid or Mamlūk era based on paleography.
Leaf from a court notebook. Recto: Legal entry related to the sale of a female slave. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1528 Seleucid = 4 May …
Recto (secondary use): Satirical poem in Judaeo-Arabic, targeting the hypocrisy of religious authorities (mutafaqqihīn, fuqahāʾ). The target audience is Jewish (i.e., this isn't simply a …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Letter from Abū l-Faraj to his paternal uncle, expressing his longing for him. The continuation is either torn away or was never written. The sender, …
Calendrical discussion in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from an unknown writer, in Rashīd, to the sage R. Badosa, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The writer …
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Itemized list of expenses, mentioning things such as the city of …
Letter in Ladino from a family member to Avraham Shalom: "... Know as it pleases you that Esther married. May you marry your sons with …
Court record(s) containing signatures of three Jewish witnesses in Arabic script, in the first of which a Jewish woman is charged by two Muslims with …
Amram ibn Sa‘id ibn Musa appeared [before the court] and reported that he was working in the apothecary practice of Abu’l-Faraj ibn Ma‘amar al-Sharab…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
4 pages of geomancy divinations, in which the questions are given (e.g. How high will the Nile be, and will produce be cheap or expensive? …
Letter of congratulations to the Hizqiyahu the Qaraite Nasi and his 3 sons on the birth of a boy from a certain Shemuel.
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5500 AM = 2051 Seleucid, which is 1740 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Raḥel bt. …
Poem in Judaeo-Persian, edited and translated by Shaked, "פרקים במורשתם הקדומה של יהודי פרס," Peʿamim 1985, 35–37. There are various other text blocks in both …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Fragment of a ketubba (שטר פרנא). Location: Likely Tyre. Dating: ca. 1090s. The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S …