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Letter written by a woman, introduced by Psalms 41:2, asking for assistance in a legal battle concerning the rights to a house. Both fragments at …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Late accounts, mentioning R. Avraham Leon (ליאון). Probably dated on the right side of the verso but it is unclear which month the scribe intended: …
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Might be a fragment of an old ketubba. Very damaged and faded.
Fiscal account, left-hand side only, written with wasteful line spacing containing the amounts two ḥabbas, one dīnār, and possibly the annotation nuqila.
1 مناقشة
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for talmudic text on recto.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Fully preserved but the content is obscure. The sender is upset about some misunderstanding involving a collection (jibāya). …
Accounts or list with items such as saffron, dates and sums in dirhams. Expenses are itemized by days of the week. Most of the items …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, probably no earlier than 14th century. From a man initially addressing a group of people and subsequently a woman …
Aramaic/Hebrew: probably a commentary, quoting Ecclesiastes 4:12 (recto); Judaeo-Arabic/Aramaic: theological/philosophical text, discussing various degrees (darajat) of creatures. (Information from Niessen/Shivtiel.)
Legal document issued to Abū l-Faraj; signed by [... b. N]atan ha-Levi and Berakhot ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of an unidentified Arabic document. Reused for Hebrew alphabet practice.
Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than …
Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (II) The …
Three documents in Arabic script, probably unrelated except for the fact that they were all reused for piyyuṭ on the other side. Fol. 1: Private …
Accounts, late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Shaʿbān 980 AH (פץ), with tzade sofit as 900 rather than 90 (somewhat common among 16th-century fragments). Requires further examination.
Small fragment, probably literary
Fragment from the lower part of a Hebrew letter. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo b. Eliʿezer. Contains a date, 4 Nisan (the week of Parshat …
IB I, 12. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Get (bill of divorce). Location: Damsīs. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevat 4810 AM = 16 January 1050 CE. Husband: Menahem b. Yefet. Wife: Riḍā bt. Avraham. …
Medical prescription. 10 black Ḥawrānī figs should be turned into a paste, put on a cloth (khirqa) and then applied on the affected area. This …
List of commodities and their prices. Mentions six loads of pepper, and silk.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Recto: Letter to a man in Qalyūb. The writer excuses himself for not coming to Qalyūb, for he thought the addressee would not be there, …
1 نسخ
Verso: Address of a letter in Arabic script. From Wahb b. Barakāt (a.k.a. Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen) to the well-known parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh (a.k.a. …
F. 1r: Betrothal contract between Moses b. Shelomo and Muwaffaqa bint Shemuʾel b. Moses. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 …
זכרון עדות
2 نسخين
Legal document, partnership in a ṣarraflık or ṣarflık business venture. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5580 AM, which is 1819/20 CE. On verso there …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to the dates Adar 1408 and Kislev 1409 Seleucid (1096/7 and 1097/8 …
Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that feature a wide array of price-related calculation that may date from the late 17th or early 19th centuries based on the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Revenue from rent. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda [644 AH] = Nisan 1558 Seleucid, which is March/April 1247 CE. Small fragment, recording payments for …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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
Letter, fragmentary and calligraphic, regarding business. Mentionins dealings in corals, storax, and zaituni (silk), and merchants of the second half of the eleventh century (Joseph …
List of collaterals. Headed: "collaterals (rihān) of ʿImād and Munā and Amīn and Tamīm, with ʿAmmār." 6 columns. With prices. Money of the goods are …
Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA
Fragment (lower left of recto and of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter involving money owed between various parties. People named are: Makīn; al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rashīd …
Fragment of a trade letter in mixed Hebrew and Arabic script (Arabic for sliding blessings only) requesting a suftaja. Gil attributes tentatively to Daniel b. …
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that the Gentiles who live in Zuqāq Khabīṣa near the synagogue (cf. T-S NS 306.1b (PGPID 4465), r12) …
Letter of condolence/grief upon the death of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1195 CE (the precise date of death is not known). In …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.