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Invitation to the Jews of Egypt to donate and assist 1200 Torah students in the cities of Palestine in their poverty or because they are …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Letter from Salāma b. Ismaʿīl to Ismaʿīl b. [...] concerning business affairs. Dating: 11th century. (Information from CUDL.)
1 مناقشة
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Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.
One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half of recto). This portion opens with greetings for "the father and the mother." The next portion has been translated …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Probably literary, but letter is also possible. Phrases such as אלי אללה פתתם תובתה . . . ממא יעלמה אללה ..
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Legal document. Bill of divorce in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Sivan 1524 (26 May 1213). This bill of divorce …
2 مناقشتان
List of Hebrew letters with which a student practiced Tiberian voweling, medieval-era.
Petition from a group of Sufis written in the style of a testimony with a dozen witness statements, addressed to someone referred to as "mawlānā …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. In the hand of Saʿid b. Marḥab. Refers to the addressee as "adonenu" and mentions bibles (maṣāḥif). Dated: Ṭevet [1]498 Seleucid …
A letter to Moshe b. Yosef in Luzk from Mordechai b. Shemuel b. Yeshu'a in Helitz
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions someone reaching maturity and taking possession of something from his mother, and quotes the verse 'لا …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, ca. 14th–16th century. Mentions the purchase of raisins.
Writing exercises in Hebrew with the student's surname in the headings (מצליח Maṣliaḥ). The instructor provided model handwriting at the top of each page for …
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī to ʿUlla Dimashqī. Mentions Alexandria, Ashqelon, shipments of rhubarb, and a business dispute brought to court. (Information in part from …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Small fragment (lower right corner), and possibly a draft. The name Ibn Shamārī …
Letter from Avraham b. Madlūb(?) al-Maqdisī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr, in the square of the perfumers, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with very rudimentary …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Note from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based on …
1 نسخ
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Cairo. May even give a year, but needs further examination.
Wooden fragment of a of dedicatory inscription installed under Torah ark, the second of three fragments. (Part 1 no longer extant). Inscription reads: Enter His …
Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions names including Bū l-Faraj b. Maḥfūẓ.
Astrological text in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning ‘the grace of kings’ and ‘access to the sultans’. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document between Maḵlūf b. Jacob and Sitt al-Riḍā bat Mufarraj b. Ḵalaf. Record of testimony concerning the sale of a female slave for the …
Conditional divorce agreement. Date: Monday 29th Tishrei 5560 AM (1799 CE The groom is 'Uziel b. 'Uziel b. Yeshu'a and the bride 'Aziza d. Yehuda …
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: …
Literary text in Arabic concerning the debate over whether wāw implies sequence (tartīb) or only conjunction (muṭlaq al-jamʿ), mentioning a classic proof text involving ʿUmar …
Letter from Yehuda b. Avraham b. Faraj, in Ṣahrajt (Goitein) or Jerusalem (Gil), to ʿEli b. ʿAmram (aka Abū l-Husayn ʿAllūn b. Muʿammar), in Fustat. …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On parchment. Mentioning the names Abū l-Ḥasan and Bū Shaʿyā. On recto there is Hebrew …
Fragment of a marriage contract from Fustat, written in the same hand as T-S 13J12.18. Dated ca 1337. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 386, …
Letter from a certain Avraham to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Little is preserved of the content. The third line …
Legal record (#114) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Iyyar 5327 …
Fragment of a responsum (or a letter). In Judaeo-Arabic. EMS. On verso there is an ofan for Roš ha-Šana. The refrain is ה’ אלהים צבאות …
Both sides of this folio are filled with miscellaneous jottings mainly in Judaeo-Arabic written in an idiosyncratic (unique?) cipher. Dating: no earlier than mid-13th century, …
Legal record (#3). Loan contract. Crossed out with four vertical lines. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn al-Makḥūl (joine later by …
Document in a chancery hand, wide line spacing, parts of four lines preserved from somewhere toward the middle of the page top to bottom. Generous …
Scattered accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. An entry on verso names the elder Abū l-Faraj in both Arabic and Coptic in association with …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 19th-century based on the paleography. This bifolio was once part of a broader ledger– …
Fragment in poetic Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Might also be a literary text. Refers to the arrival of a letter or letters, "signs and …