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Minute fragment from a letter that was probably originally in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Only a few letters in Hebrew from the …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.
Accounts of the Jewish community. Location: Cairo. Dated: 18 Elul 1809 Seleucid, which is 1498 CE (not 1495 as Ashtor thought). Expenses include a lot …
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Folios from a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.
Sermon in Judaeo-Arabic punctuated by 'yā banī isrāʾīl!'
Original use: literary manuscript in Arabic script, written on a bifolio, containing an anecdote (khabar) about the Umayyad-era singer Maʿbad b. Wahb (d. 743/44). A …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The verso was reused for Hebrew-language piyyut liturgical poetry.
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. May be literary. Might be a prayer with an apostrophe to Muḥammad (yā Mūḥammad...). Probably not a state document …
Opening of a letter in Hebrew. Only the opening blessings are preserved. Written around the time of Yom Kippur based on the blessings.
Credit instrument, or possibly an account. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report or petition with a tarjama in the right column part of which reads as al-Mamlūk Muḥammad. The …
IB V, 27. Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. See Goitein's notes for further information and transcription.
2 نسخين
State document, genre and content unclear. Dated: Muḥarram 42[.] AH. Needs examination.
Literary text, most likely. Needs examination.
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Letter, opening with biblical quotations, including Psalms 16:8, 34:8 and 33:21, and mentioning commodities such as silk. (Information from CUDL.) The letter is addressed to …
Fragment (bottom right) of a letter in Hebrew signed by Elyaqim b. [...]. AA
Possibly a fiscal document. Mentions the kharāj. Needs examination.
Late letter that begins in Hebrew and transitions into Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified merchant to Yosef Muḥibb. He writes that he traveled this year to …
Letter fragment in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver, "at his best" (per Goitein). Dating: ca. 1128–1164 CE, based on the years when Natan …
1 مناقشة
A letter to Avraham b. Mordechai informing him on the arrival of government officials to Vilna (now in Lithuania).
Memorial list. For a family of notables.
Legal fragment. Dating: mentions Av 1486 of the Seleucid Era = July/August 1175 CE. Describing how after lengthy litigation it was determined that [...] known …
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 20 Tevet 1771 Seleucid, which is 1459 CE. (1) Shemuel Faraj'el b. (2) Ḥananyahu Avraham b. (3) Shelomo …
IB V, 39g (previously V, 39f). Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Header of a letter in Hebrew, probably 13th–15th century. Starts with בש רח וחנ then לקי then various verses followed by וג. Good candidate for …
Verso (original use): Fatimid petition, probably, with typical blessings for the caliph: Excerpts: ولنا من سيدنا الـ[. . .] . .. ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
Ketubba dated 1821/2 CE (5582 AM) from Cairo, for Eliyyahu Amaryo b. Yaʿaqov. The total of the ketubba is 750 esedi gurush. There is extensive …
Letter from Yehosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din b. Shelomo Gaon. In Hebrew. Dated: Shevat 1359 Seleucid, which is Jan/Feb 1048 CE. May be a fragment …
Letter, fragment, in Arabic script or official correspondence. Needs examination.
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, in Fustat, to Khallūf b. Mūsā, in Palermo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך מן אל
פצטאט לה איאם מצת מן אייר ערפך אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה ברחמתה
ואלח…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Ornamented Colophon of Bible. AA
List of names (Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭībān; Abū Zikrī b. Menashshe; Saʿd al-Mulk; Abū l-Bishr al-Bazzāz; Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Tinnīsī; Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt; Abū Naṣr b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Persian poetry.
Small fragments from the left side of a legal document. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan.
Verso (original use): Letter. Request to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of an Ikhshīdid fiscal account. See tag for similar documents. This one mentions the year 329 AH = 940/41 CE. Reused for unidentified …
Minute fragment, remnants of some letters preserved.
Verso: fragment of a letter, probably. This portion consists entirely of blessings for a certain Yehuda (titled Sar ha-Teʿuda among other titles), probably the addressee.
Letter from Sulaymān b. Samhūn b. al-Sahl, in Tilimsān, to Abū Sahl Menashshe b. David Ibn Labrāṭ, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The sender …
Multiple fragments which may or may not be related. One contains a basmala and the tops of a few words in Arabic script. Possibly a …
Fragment of a Maghribī business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th-century. The handwriting looks like that of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Mentions obtaining 'ḥashīsha' from the …