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Letter mentioning Abū l-Faraj the dyer (al-ṣabbāgh). (Information from CUDL)
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Deed of sale, probably. Fragment; the beginnings of ~12 lines are preserved. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May be related …
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Court record about a debt. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 6 Iyyar 4836 AM = 12 April 1076 CE. Yefet b. Yeshuʿa b. Qasāsa ha-Kohen declares …
שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא כדת [וכד]ין כן הוה חצר אלינא
[מך ור י]פת בר כלף נע אלמערוף בן עוכל והו פי צחה עקלה ובד[נה וגואז] אמ…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
List of donations to the fund for clothing for the poor for the year 550[9] AM = 1747/8 CE. The list of contributors' names is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand (e.g. using the alef-lamed ligature to represent just alef). Discussing the purchase of skins (julūd). Mentions Abū Naṣr. Needs further …
Letter from Abū l-Faraj to the scholar (al-talmid) Avraham al-Nafīs. Written in an elevated register. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The substance …
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Probably an Ayyubid capitation tax receipt. Headed by the ʿalāma "iʿtimādī ʿālā khāliqī." The next line refers to an Aleppan Jew ([...] Yahūdī Ḥalabī). The …
Business letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salāma (aka Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo) to his brother Shemuel b. Shelomo. The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the …
Letter from a father to his daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. He describes how he is a poor man, but even so he has recently sent 2 …
Letter sent by Yaʿaqov b. Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document from the time of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to here with the title "Nagid" therefore, post-1213 CE. The fragment comprises a few …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
List in Arabic script. Many of the entries are sums of money (e.g., dīnār wāḥid wa-[...]). There are elongated strokes within words so that each …
Small fragment from a legal document. Mentions 'our mother.' Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso is blank. AA/ASE
Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi to his brother Halfon (1100-1138 CE).
Trousseau list and wedding outfit for a poor woman, perhaps an orphan. The man is also very poor. The list is to be understood thus: …
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Legal document in Arabic script. ولما طالب خصمه المذكور بالقيام له بدليل عمل الى . . . . Unusual format for a legal document, with …
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
Letter to Nahray b. Nissim. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost complete. Mentions flax; Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Kohen; "the beads of al-Tustari"; Av[raham] b. Sughmār and Abū …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov of Hebron to Shela the cantor, urgently inquiring about the fate of the body of his brother David, who had …
Poem addressed to a waterlily (nūfar). Rough transcription: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم شعر لنوفر رايت في البركة ني نوفر فقلت ما شانك في وصط البرك …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involving someone from the al-Amshāṭī family making a declaration in favor of …
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Financial settlement between Shela b. Yoel Ibn al-Sofer and his divorced wife and the mother of his child, Ḥusn bt. Avraham ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably second …
Probably legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions partial names including Rosh ha-Nedivim; Peraḥya Ibn al-ʿAmʿaṭ; someone's father; Yehuda …
Minute fragment. Only few words of the address of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to one of his brothers. AA
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mostly preserved but damaged and difficult to read. Refers to ships, drowning, and sending various items.
Draft of letter of condolences from Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) on the death of Toviyya b. Daniel, February 1043 (Gil's dating).
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to "his son Avraham b. Mevorakh" and various items of silver. Verso: Glossary to Halakhot Gedolot
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 5591 AM = 23 …
Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Refers numerous times to the sending of a chest (ṣundūq). Needs examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew scribal writing …
Bottom of a communal letter in Hebrew. Written in Alexandria ca. 1030 CE (according to M. A. Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, p. 380 note …
Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Consists mostly of formulaic phrases. In the margin, the sender may say that he …
Strongly worded circular letter sent by Moses Maimonides (ca. 1168–1204 CE in Egypt) to the country-side community, soliciting them to contribute to the ransom of …
Note/order in the handwriting of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. He tells Eliyyahu the Judge to go together with Abū l-Faḍl al-jābī (the …
Verso: accounts in Arabic with Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Muṭrib and Hiba al-Khādim. Recto: probably piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Minute fragment from am Arabic document - needs examination.
Fragment of a mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā.