Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition to a local dayyan (judge). A complaint against Sulaymān b. Hānī, the abusive husband of the sender's daughter. Including an episode where the husband …

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العلامات

• marital conflict
• midwife
• petition
• polygyny
• violence

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Minute fragment containing the name Shelomo. Andalusi hand?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The sender excuses himself for cutting himself off from the addressee by offering a cryptic excuse (כאן אלשיך חנבאץ? ענדה פי …

العلامات

• qaraites

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal document; no details preserved but part of the volition clause is legible.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An order for various amounts of bread, oil, wood, lemon and cheese. On a small piece of parchment. (Information from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts or a receipt, Ottoman-era with the seals and signatures of four individuals. The heading mentions "[sic]مذكورين ظابطان". Needs examination.

العلامات

• 16th c or later
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts (?) in Arabic script

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Document date

Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1545 Seleucid (21 June 1234 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Majd, in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal the judge, in Fustat. Mentions Egypt, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibn Ibrahim al-ʿArīf, Abū l-ʿAlā b. Ḥassūn, Abū …

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العلامات

• convert
• debt
• excommunication
• fugitive
• polygyny
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-[...], unknown location, to Abū ʿAlī b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Isrāʾīlī, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary - rabbinic or legal discussion in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment from a bottom part of a legal deed, signed by Sa'adya

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Order of payment. Abū l-Karam is to pay 1 dinar to the bearer. Cf. T-S AS 180.144, T-S AS 180.152, T-S AS 180.153, T-S …

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves the moneychanger (al-shulḥani/al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmram b. ʿEzra, …

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, listing several names and itemized expenses or revenues, including ḍiyāʿ al-maṭbakh and ḍiyāʿ. On two …

العلامات

• humor

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and monetary contributions, likely communal. Dating is probably 19th-century based on the paleography, no earlier than 18th-century based on mention of Ottoman …

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic script. Ends of a few lines. Wide space between the lines.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

None

العلامات

• ketubba

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of appeal for assistance. Written in a high register with eloquent formulae of praise and patronage. The addressee has …

العلامات

• appeal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of recommendation for charity in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused on recto for Qiddush for the Shabbat evening service. (Information from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Fragment of a ketubba with relatively widely-spaced lines. No names, date, location or witnesses are preserved. (Information from CUDL.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. Six lines of a faded petition, or report, the top four lines are extremely effaced. Mentions probably a man of …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgement (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mamluk-era? On verso there is an addendum involving ʿAbd al-Dāʾim and a Rabbanite Jew, who is also a perfumer/druggist (al-ʿaṭṭār). …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid (December 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Communal/legal record. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid, which is December 1181, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū l-Munajjā al-Kohen, surnamed …

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly a legal document. In Arabic script.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts of a shopkeeper, it seems describing the proceeds of the sale of 9 out of 15 thawbs, living 6 in the shop.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.

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العلامات

• maimonides autograph

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Tax receipt, Ayyubid? For [...] al-Yahūdī in Cairo. Needs examination.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document, two fragmentary lines in Arabic script. Not much is preserved but what remains reads as prayers and invocations.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reused on verso for Hebrew jottings.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1132 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Torn court record written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shmuel the Spaniard (active until ca. 1132 CE). …

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• isaac b. samuel ha-sefaradi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad [......]. Part of the date is visible Dhū l-Ḥijja xx4. Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Poem for(?) Yehuda b. Shemuel mentioning Alexandria. On the back are drafts in a cursive hand, perhaps of poetry.

العلامات

• literary with documentary value

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov b. Shemuʾel to his teacher Avraham b. Ḥaggay. In Hebrew. With greetings for the high holidays and a request for …

العلامات

• teacher

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Rabīʿ I 615 Hijrī (May 1218–June 1218 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …

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العلامات

• 13th c
• hikr

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Lower right corner.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1135–1164 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Shabbetay b. Avraham he-Ḥaver (the judge of Minyat Zifta, active 1135–78) to Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (active 1128–1164). This is the upper …

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العلامات

• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: limb
• illness: treatment

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Responsa of Hai b. Sherira Gaon, Baghdad, to Gabès (Qābis), Tunisia, concerning music. (Information from Don Harrán, “What Does Halakhah Say about Music? Two Early …

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العلامات

• music

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines …

العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter or legal query addressed to a dignitary: ha-paṭish ha-ḥazzaq. . . neṭaʿ shaʿashuʿim. . . Verso refers to "the poor and the indigent" (perhaps …

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