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Recto and verso: Last leaf of a letter from a woman to Sitt Khuṣrawān. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing deep regret that the addresse, whom she revered …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines …
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Verso: State document. Legible words: on line 1, مـ]ـستخدمين في الدواوين]; on line 2: ان شا الله. (MR)
Bottom of a legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashse (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The document was also signed by Shemarya b. Natan ha-Kohen …
Part of the heading for a highly decorated ketubba (in Hebrew, although the ketubba text would likely have been in Aramaic). All of the main …
Booklet made of parchment, containing a calendar for the maḥzors 256 and 257, each year written on a separate little scrap. Beginning with 1095 CE. …
1 مناقشة
Decorated Karaite ketubba. The groom is Yeshu'a Halevi b. Ishaq Halevi the cantor. The bride is Ester known as Qamar d. Ya'aqov b. Avraham Halevi.
List of names and amounts expressed in Coptic alphanumerals, folded down the middle vertically to form four columns of writing. Names include Burhān al-Dīn, Sharaf …
Letter possibly in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi, possibly sent to Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Containing an answer to inquiry whether a family had …
Informal note from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). Identification of the writer is based on handwriting. "They went to the house of …
Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh. Written in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Contains a request to …
Fragment of an administrative document, probably a report, concerning the finances of the dīwān al-aḥbās. The recto mentions the Bayt al-Māl and refers to sums …
1 نسخ
Very faded and damaged list on verso, with a colophon of Abū l-Faraj b. Mevorakh al-Kohen(?) al-Ḥarīrī. On recto there are the morning blessings. AA
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several letters by this writer: see tag. This letter …
Two fragments of a Fatimid order/decree to a lower official. Mentions the caliph's estates (probably mentions its overseer). Repurposed as two folios for Hebrew liturgical …
التوجه الى الاعـمال الخيرية وحضور مجلس خدمة الا[مير
النجيب سيف الملك ليث الدولة وشجاعها ذي العزم
صنيعة امير المومنين…
turning to charitable works (or: the districts of [...]?) and presenting to the majlis al-khidma of the
noble a[mīr] Sayf al-Mulk, the sword of t…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document, in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Chancery hand, mainly beginning blessings. Reused for Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic liturgical text. Needs …
Recto (secondary use): Official receipt of some sort relating to agricultural activities in a district whose name is difficult to read. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Very faded list of books, e.g., a commentary on (Bava) Batra. In the left column the entries are numbered 74 through 82, which may help …
A letter in a poetical Hebrew addressed to the community of Alexandria, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Ketubba fragment. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved, including part of the dowry list.
Letter from Yehuda ha-Melammed b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Avraham Maimonides in Fustat. Dated: Adar 1528 Seleucid, which is 1217 CE. Yehuda devotes the bulk …
Recto: Memorandum concerning the demolition of a building (possibly a mosque) and the sale of its timber and bricks. The text mentions Old Mosque and …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly consists of expressions of longing and greetings. The sender was happy at the news of the arrival of the addressee …
Literary text, in Arabic script. A text in Magribī script that was effaced and the document reused for some sort of business accounts with multiple …
Two recipes/prescriptions in Arabic script, likely medical.
Autograph responsum by R. Yosef ha-Levi concerning cheese that was produced by non-Jews. 17th- or 18th-century (information from FGP).
Begging letter from a certain Yosef (top right-hand corner) to Natan b. Yefet known as Ibn Tinnīsī (top left corner). In Hebrew. The writer complains …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Only a few words preserved.
Order of payment written by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr to pay money to the bearer of the note. Dated Tammuz 1451 Seleucid era …
Court notebook (continuation of T-S 8K 20.1.1). Record #3 (fol. 2r): Maḥfūẓ b. Yiṣḥaq al-ʿAzāzī (i.e., from ʿAzāz, north of Aleppo) sues Yosef b. Avraham …
Small fragment from a letter, probably. The hand looks like that of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions the purchase of a censer with …
Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya (not Yefet b. David Shekhanya). Regarding the …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Letter in Arabic script. The script is difficult and the text is quite faded, though the address at the top should be legible (to Abū …
Legal document. In Hebrew and some Aramaic. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Attests that Fāʾiza bt. Yaʿaqov b. Shuʿayb appeared in court after …
2 نسخين
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
Recto and verso are two different letters of excuse, written with petition-like language. They might be two versions of the same letter (only the left …
Official correspondence, in Arabic script. Addressed to a certain Shihāb al-Dīn. Possibly from Abū l-Munā b. Khiḍr, but this is tricky to read. The beginning …
Verso (original use): Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: Prior to 1144 CE. Groom: Tamīm b. Yefet ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Ṣemaḥ b. …
Document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. …
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Hibatallāh b. Ṣadaqa. Also refers to a period of time ending on the 10th of [...].
Accounts.
State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …
. . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [
اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [
وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [
وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[
الثاني من صفر سنة تسع…