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Fragment of an anonymous letter emanating from Babylonian Geonim or members of the schools. The content emphasizes the need of communal leaders and includes biblical …
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, the muqaddam of Sunbāṭ (see T-S 24.25v, dated 1149 CE), to the Nagid. Yiṣḥaq reports that the chief cantor died …
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Under the jurisdiction of the Gaon Masliah (1127–39). Settlement between …
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a fiscal account? Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew poetry/piyyut.
Accounts, written in two columns on verso. Mentions Aharon b. Shoshan. Dating: probably no earlier than ca. 15th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Avraham, in Ifrīqiyya, to his uncle, Moshe b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mid-11th century. A moving letter, …
Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
Bottom of a letter. Too faded and damaged to understand any of the content. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, most probably, in Arabic script. The name Bū l-Faraj is readable in an otherwise fragmentary piece.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria and silk.
Document in Arabic, possibly. Extremely damaged and faded. The word صراف might appear in the first legible line. Requires further examination.
Booklist in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli, numbered, mentioning the titles and the number of volumes. Among the works listed are a Mishna, …
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Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to his son Farah, Fustat. Dating: November 1056. The writer describes the terrible famine in Egypt, which even leads …
קד כאתבך ר נהראי אדאם אללה ע[זה] פי מא בקי לנא במצר וקד אעלמתך איש הו אן לם יקר לי עלי שי
או אעמל עלי טלועי [ ] בל אנה יטלע ללמדינה ולא…
3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
India Book (IB) IV,54 (ח59). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: after 22 Tevet = December …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 2 October 1039 CE. Groom: Faraḥ b. Raḥmūn. Bride: Sittūna bt. Naḥum, a virgin. Marriage payments: 10 + 20 = …
Beginning of a report to a Fatimid caliph. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Involving a woman. (Or perhaps this is a petition from a woman …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and [most excellent pe…
Colophon to a complete copy of the Pentateuch bought by Yaḥyā b. Hillel for his "dear son Ṭoviyya, the lovely flower the holy one." Dated: …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Seal imprint and maybe a filing note on verso.
Unidentified text in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Letter from a man to his 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary spellings. Discussing various small business transactions and travel. Mentions Ismāʿīl in a short postscript.
Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention …
Draft of a letter/petition in Arabic script appealing for help from "mawlāy al-rayyis" on behalf of a "cut-off woman" (mara munqaṭiʿa) whose husband left her …
End of a letter. About the sending of money to somebody. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in difficult Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 11th–13th century. Mentions Ibn al-Faqīh.
Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim Ha-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1045.
Recto: State document beginning as follows: هذا كتاب من عبد الله ووليه الامام المنصور ابي علي الآمر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى …
Letter from Umm Abū ʿAlī, in the Rif, likely near Damīra, to her son Isḥāq, in Fustat. The latter may live with his aunt and …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Arabic script. Arranged by day of the week. Mentions household food items and possibly construction expenses. Also the 'aṣḥāb arbāʿ.'
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Verso is the first page. Mentions 100,000(!) mithqāls; Bū l-Faraj; a ship; the sender has enclosed a second letter for …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: 28 Heshvan 5557 AM, which is 1796 CE. Testimony that Raḥamim Ashiyahu (אשיאו) received from Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Re'uven an …
Letter from a Maghribi silversmith named Efrayim b. Ishaq of Ceuta, Morocco, who had fled Almohad persecution in his native country about 35 years earlier. …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The verso was reused for Hebrew-language piyyut liturgical poetry.
Letter from Moshe Maimonides to a certain Shemuel. Autograph. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, with an ʿalāma at the top and reference to tax farming (ḍamān or ḍummān).
Three lines in Arabic, possibly from the end of a document. Needs examination.