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Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …
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Letter from Egypt concerning agricultural business matters, mentions a pair of oxen purchased for ’15 large dinars’ and a pregnant young donkey for 4.5 dinars. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Many minute fragments, mostly of legal deeds written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138).
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. On verso there is Hebrew literary/liturgical text arranged in columns.
Two documents of sale written successively on the same page. The first document on the page is dated 456 AH. The buyers are Marqūrah and …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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Fragment of a petition, two wide lines. The first line reads 'wa-ʿabd mawlānā,' then '[...] al-shāmil.'
Informal note addressed to a mother. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. The sender says that a certain gentile is harassing him for money but …
Accounts. Mentions several sums in dirhams. Needs examination.
Verso: Order of payment. Abū l-Bahāʾ is to pay something to the bearer. On recto there are jotted Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal document. Probably a marriage contract (ketubba); similar formulae as in T-S NS J363 (PGPID 4329). Small fragment from the bottom. Mentions either "his son" …
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 Adar II …
Recto: Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26f. Verso: Arabic jottings, possibly a maxim or poetry; the lower text block is a copy of …
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
Two copies of a draft of blessings for the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the beginning of a petition: [[אלאמיר אלמופק]] אמיר אלמומנין במא …
IB II, 12. Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)
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List of names written on a strip of parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Including Ghāliya bt. Ḥasan/Yefet ha-Levi known as al-Ṭabarānī and …
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 304 Kāmilī dirhams. See …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Involves a certain Yefet; reference to a purchase; gaining merit by keeping a shop open; …
Verso: Fragment from near the beginning of a state document in Arabic script. Mainly preserving blessings for someone powerful (وصيانته ومراعاته وحراسته . . . …
Recto: Fragment of a recycled document in Arabic script, wide line-spacing. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
Draft of a begging letter regarding some commercial and apparently personal relationship. A certain Abū l-Maʿānī is mentioned (the sender wants his payments for his …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. A small portion of four lines from the body are visible and a line of marginal text. The verso has …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Mentions pepper, sugar, musk; Maʿālī; oil …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Yiṣḥaq. Mentions a ṣayrafī (moneychanger/accountant) in the customs (duwān) at Būlāq. Mentions currency terms: fiḍḍa, ʿathāmina, fulūs.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (upper margin only on recto, address only on verso), from Ḥasan b. ʿAmram to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. …
A narrative poem in Arabic script. Seems to be a humorous dialogue (including phrases such as "fa-qāma yaḍḥak...").
List of monetary transactions of debts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Some lines are deleted. Bifolio. Mentions Ismāʿīl; al-qāḍī; jujube; quince oxymel (sakanjabīl al-ṣafarjall); rose syrup; Jirja(?); and …
Recipe or prescription in Arabic script.
Astrological or astronomical table.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions pepper; ʿAbd al-Dāʾim al-Dajājī; Cairo; Alexandria.
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Legal document regulating payments after a divorce. Dated: Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1406 Seleucid = 4 January 1095 CE. Arye b. Yehuda from Fusṭāṭ married a …
Letter in both Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). Dating: Likely 11th century. Approximately 6 lines are preserved. (There are also additional jottings in both …
Jottings of business accounts
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
Mysterious text in Arabic script. Magical? The upper part of the text is torn away. Where it begins it states "I have released the bearer …
IB V, 39d (previously V, 39c). Order of payment in which the merchant Abū Zikrī Kohen instructs Abū l-Khayr Ḵiyyār to pay the Rayyis half …