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Verso: draft of the beginning of a letter with blessings and wishes for good luck and prosperity. Recto: list of the first lines of piyyuṭim. …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid = 5 October 1495 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yehonatan …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso: State correspondence, petition or report, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. The sender informs that he has appointed an appropriate person for the job, using …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from [...] b. [...] al-Ṣayrafī to Abū l-Ḥusayn [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry or songs, in a low/folk register. Some of the lines refer to lovesickness, another refers to "like what the Jews do... on Shavuʿot..." …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveys greetings from Abū ʿAlī. Refers to "al-naqāḍāt" (אלנקאצ̇את), meaning uncertain (naqḍ or manqūḍ can refer to clipped/inferior coins).
Note from Ṣadoq b. Moshe Yerushalmi addressed to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Reporting on the contents of a consignment of textiles. The …
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 1 Kislev 1515 Seleucid, which is 7 November 1203 CE. Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Khayr b. Abū l-Barakāt the supplier (al-mūrid). …
Leaf from a letterbook containing copies of at least three different letters in Ladino. Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 5493 to Tishrei 5494 AM = late …
Formulary of a legal document. On parchment.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later (based on handwriting, names, and linguistic features). Greetings to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and …
1 نسخ
Note to a certain Nāsir (al-muʿallim is likely an honorific rather than meaning an actual teacher). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century. Mentions …
Verso: Formulaic phrases and blessings in Judaeo-Arabic from a letter for a dignitary.
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as many of the surrounding fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century.
Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with grandiose blessings for the addressee. In the margin mentions the arrival of בן חניך.
Letter from R. Sherira to R. Yaʿaqov b. Nissim from Qayrawan.
2 نسخين
Late account
Accounts, badly damaged with very little legible text. The accounts portray extensive usage of Greek-Coptic numerals. Based on the paleography the dating is perhaps 14th-16th-century.
Letter from Yehuda b. Eliyya he-Ḥaver to Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper part). The sender asks the addressee to pay 10 …
Document in Arabic script. Small fragment. Bifolio with entries headed by dates and lists of names (e.g. Abu l-Faḍl).
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
Long vertical strip from a letter. Damaged. Only a couple words from each line are preserved. Involves financial dealings and mentions Sayyidnā: המקום יב . …
Legal document. Dating: Approximately 15 weeks prior to Ḥeshvan 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139 CE. Concerning a debt of 90 dirhams to be paid in …
1 مناقشة
Most probably a Fatimid report, but written in a decree-like format, or could be a decree relating the contents of the report/petition, in Arabic script. …
الجزية الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها
موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ مطلوب؟]
اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين
الان قد طلبوهم بموظف الجسور وغريما
Fragment (lower right corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, conveying concern for the addressee, distress and anxiety of the writer, mentioning someone's arrival in and …
Note in which the writer apologises to the parnas for acting without consulting him. The parnas had promised to come immediately but instead Salāma came. …
Fol. 2r: Deed regarding alimony provided by a husband for his wife in Tyre, while he travels to Egypt. The husband will provide wheat, oil, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib (same as in ENA NS 77.397 (PGPID 13697)?) to Abū [...]. Interestingly begins with the verse/motto הנה אל ישועתי. …
Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning …
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid = 25 November 1136 CE. The testator is owed 2/3 dinars …
Copies of formularies for letters, by the head of the Babylonian academy (probably Saʿadya Gaʾon), who is residing in Baghdad. Contents include letters of greetings …
[ . . . ] In the book of Kings, it is explained that one who prays in the diaspora should face the direction of the la…
1 ترجمة
Letter from Zakkay b. Moshe to the ḍāmin (tax-farmer) Abū l-Bishr Mevasser ha-Kohen b. Salmān. The writer, a scribe in al-Maḥalla, describes his work of …
Letter, unclear regarding what. Four lines from lower left corner of recto (or verso), two lines and a word from upper left corner of verso …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand? Very damaged and faded. Dating: 12th century. Some of the names mentioned are related to India Book II, such as …
Bottom of a decree, probably. "...[al-madh]kūra ʿalā farāʾīd Allāh ʿazza wa-jalla..." Then a ṣalwala at the bottom. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Writ of agency written in Tripoli, Lebanon, May 1081.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Minute fragment from a list of items, might be from a dowry list, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Asking for help and reminding the addressee of a promise. Mentions a group of people who should "put an …
Renewal of a marriage contract (ketubba) after an earlier ketubba was destroyed or lost, or perhaps after the husband (the blind man Yaḥyā b. Shela …