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Small fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108)
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Opens with blessings for the addressee, then reports that a letter arrived from the Jews …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray. Regarding trades, especially of silk, and complains about the situation in Mahdiyya, that he has heard about …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Lists in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot. Each list is designated by individual contributors and specific weeks of the liturgical calender …
Recto Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with very large letters mentioning prior correspondence. The sender appears to be asking the addressee to graciously send him …
Legal record (#60) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r
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Recto: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el. Dated: Sunday, 13 Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid, which is January 1105 …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Legal query, addressed to Moses Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when he was active in Egypt. (Information from CUDL)
Letter or note to the elder Mūsā. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter from Avraham Naḥum, perhaps in Manzala, to a certain Shemuel, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. The sender …
Recto: letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "Sayyidnā al-Rayyis... Rayyis al-Ruʾasāʾ..." Verso: formulary for a letter in Hebrew addressed to a notable.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody in Jerusalem. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted …
Letter fragment. The opening lines are poetic Hebrew blessings and the continuation is in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions hiding something in a chest lest someone buy it, …
A 'literary' book of magic (possibly Sefer ha-Yashar or Sefer Adam); a recipe to procure rain, the name of the angels in charge of wild …
1 مناقشة
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …
Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL). No details about the content of the qinyan survive.
Two legal documents (or two drafts of the same document?) regarding Masʿūda the widow of Maymūn Boṭon and her sons Shalom and David and Yaʿaqov. …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 11th or 12th century. Wide line spacing. Seems to be a communal letter from an official rebuking a community: …
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …
Legal document in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Letter/petition of appeal for charity from a woman ("al-mamlūka"). Very damaged; unclear if any of the substance of the request is preserved. Mentions an appeal …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …
Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1310–55 CE, based on the reshut clause naming the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (b. Avraham II Maimonides). Bride: Sitt al-Karam bt. …
Credit instrument (?). Needs examination.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Petition? Fragment (lower part). The sender's name is likely Bū Bakr b. ʿAntar (right margin). The main request seems to …
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Thābit), "the Glory of the Cantors," in Fustat. Dated: 14 …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from a man troubled with private and public disasters, including business concerns and his wife’s illness, leading him to write that "Could I find …
Literary, Arabic.
Ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Very similar to ENA NS 33.12, perhaps even a join (but there are some differences in the handwriting). …
List of names with quantities of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100-1138). Contributors list or distribution list of wheat? Names include: …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) between Mulūk b. Surūr b. ... and Fāṭima bnt. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra in the Fayyūm, dated Rajab 444 AH. (AP)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and rose drink. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, probably a draft as it appears incomplete at the bottom. Consisting mainly of an inventory of goods and their values, likely for an …
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a copy of a book requested by the addressee. Dating: Likely no earlier than 13th century, based on …
State document, in Arabic script. Draft, the scribe abandoned the draft after writing the first line. Reused for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Newspaper fragment, Iran, second half of the 19th century. "About 1861, Nasir al-Din Shah appointed Sani’ al-Mulk as Director of Printing and Chief Illustrator and …
Draft of a letter to the 'the Rav' in Mahdiyya, in which the sender writes that he bought quires of books from the inheritance of …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Recto: treatise with many biblical citations and Judaeo-Arabic comments and explanations. In the recto margin is probably a different text, very likely halakhic. The text …