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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Nice handwriting. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. What remains is mostly formulaic. Quite deferential. In the margin mentions Ashmūn and Sayyidnā …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Small fragment of a letter to a brother in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the formulaic opening blessings are preserved. On verso there …
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Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and revenues from rent, ca. 1037 (specifies expenditures for the years 426–30 AH = 1034–39 CE). The expenditures listed …
(1-2) .... From … Dār al- ....
Masons, the wages ....
(4-5) 12 helpers for . . . . , 3 dir. Water, 7 dir.
(6-7) Paid for black cl…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Bill of divorce (get). All names and dates are missing. Verso: A note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a debt of 13[...] somethings. The handwriting and format …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE. Mentioning Abū Manṣūr Mawhūb b. …
Legal document mentioning a certain Ibn Mihnab (?) ("son of the idiot"). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to moving …
Bifolio. Recto, lefthand page (fol. 1r): Judaeo-Arabic amorous poetry. Phonetic spellings. Verso, righthand page (fol. 1v): Continuation of previous page. Underneath there is a new …
Letter sent from Sandūr (in Kurdistan) to Yaʿaqov Binyamin, in Jerusalem. Late and non-Geniza. Dated: 5462 AM = 1701/02 CE. The sender devotes a lot …
Business letter from Abū l-Khayr(?) Yeshuʿa b. [...] to Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa. Dating: 11th century. Mentions various ships including אלמכרב אללובי (the Libyan …
Original text: State/fiscal document. The years 534 and 535 AH are specified in multiple places, paired with sums of money at the top. Refers to …
سنة اربع وثلثين وخمس ماية سنة(؟) ستين منها(؟)
سنة خمس وثلثين وخمس ماية ماية …….خمس ماية
علي بن افضل بالخليج
وخروج التوقيع العا…
1 نسخ
Letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions preparations for the holiday. Reports that Abū l-Murajjā is healthy; wishes health to the shaykh Abū l-Bayān; …
Official document(s) in Arabic script. The layout does not seem to be that of a typical tax receipt. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a petition for charity in Arabic script.
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A scholar is asked for the hand of his daughter in a complete letter (written calligraphically by a scribe) asking the …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Minute fragment. Remains of text 'the great minister, Sar ha-torah, pride of the Yeshiva'. Also a mirror imprint from another document of the name Ibn …
1 مناقشة
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document, likely a draft. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1548 Seleucid = October 1236 CE. (Also possible is …
List of names and corresponding monetary values for payments in medin and silver kuruş (the latter is written as a "ق" interjected occasionally in the …
Court record possibly in the hand of Ghalib ha-Kohen b. Moshe, August 1, 1038. In the court of the Jerusalem community in Fustat. Community members …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Typical letter formula "وادام تاييدك", in an elegant hand, most likely a draft or writing exercise. Pen trials can be seen interspersed between the two …
IB IV, 79 (*83ח). Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat. Dating: mid-eleventh century. In which …
וכבר הבהרתי להדרתו את תכונותיו,
היינו של השיך אבו אלחסן, ולהיטותו לטפל בכל צורכיהם של אנשים (סוחרים) אחרים, ורק לאחר מכן במה ששייך …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Document in Arabic script. Likely a state report, or a letter with an official-looking layout (narrow column, with a large amount of space left in …
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groomm [...] Halevi b. Avaraham Halevi Yerushalmi. The groom is Esther known as Mas'uda d. Yosef Halevi.
Legal document. Shemuel b. Moshe b. Sahl brings Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov b. al-Nihmi to court. The latter promises to pay him one and one-fourth dinars …
Part of a ketubba for [...]rta bt. Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen and Mevorakh. The date and location are not preserved. Witnessed by [...] ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver …
Two bifolios containing various Hebrew texts, a jotting of a quadruped, and two pages of Arabic text in a rudimentary hand, apparently excerpts or drafts …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. Moshe ha-Levi and his father (identified as Ṣedaqa ha-Levi b. Moshe in T-S …
2 نسخين 3 مناقشات
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Salāma b. Mūsā (al-Ṣafāqusī?); Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī. Very faded; uncited in the literature.
Fragment from a private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1049. Some details about trades of pearls and beads. This document seems like a draft …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …
ghurūsh
[ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
15,000 .3
Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.
The reason for its [the document’s] compos…
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Pertaining to the India trade of the first half of the 12th century. The sender mentions Isḥāq al-Nafūsī and al-Shaykh …
Investment partnership in which Shemuʾel Leon receives 4,000 medin from Mercada (מרקאדה) bt. Yaʿaqov Arubaṣ (ארובץ) to invest in his business. Dated Tammuz 5561 (= …
Bifolio of neatly written Judaeo-Arabic business accounts. Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography. At first glance, the accounts appear to be dated "in 962 …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a certain Khalaf.
Legal records. Dating: ca. 1100? (I) Trousseau list. Bride: Malīḥa bt. Moshe. Groom: Ṣedaqa b. Sason ha-Kohen. Payments: 20 + 5. Total: 95. (II) Another …
Small fragment of a letter to a Nasi. Mentions Arabic documents. (Information in part from CUDL)
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than ca. 13th century. A quantity of pearls is possibly mentioned, or possibly food items.