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Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay two dinars to the carrier of the note on the account of …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a rescript (tawqīʿ). Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Fragment of a marriage contract from the 11th century. Beautiful handwriting and partially vocalized (e.g. the word כימֻכְֿת/kaymukht/shagreen leather). On verso there are a few …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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Legal document issued by a beit din likely under the direction of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra (lived ca. 1479-1573 CE). In Hebrew. Dated: 10 …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line of the address on verso. Very fragmentary: "...and may he open his eyes... from the blindness... …
Letter from al-Mufarrij b. al-Ḥusayn to his father Ismāʿīl(?). In part concerning a deposit (wadāʿa, line 8). Mentions travel to Damascus (ll. 10–11) and the …
Business accounts
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
Recto: Incomplete legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides, with the title "Nagid," thus post-1213 CE. concerning a partnership in a moneychanging shop. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand …
Two lines of accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals: "I collected from Maḥāsin 3 nuqra dirhams less a kharrūba." The main text is a calendar …
Several fragments in the same hand, mostly bizarre Judaeo-Arabic compositions reminiscent of clanging in thought disorders (words associated on the basis of sound rather than …
Letter from Farah b. Isma`il b. Farah (Busir/Abusir) to Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sigmar. Udovitch's edition was corrected and updated according to Gil's …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter addressed to Hodaya b. Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed …
Letter from Yehuda (b. Ṭuviyyahu) Kohen, in Jūjar, to Rabbenu [Menaḥem?], presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 12th or early 13th century. Written in …
Recto: document, either a legal deed or a proclamation, written by Shemarya b. Elḥanan sentencing someone who has slandered ‘our Master and Teacher Shemarya’ to …
1 مناقشة
Fragment from the top of an iqrār made by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUbayd known as [...] al-Fakkāh. The document continues وهو يومىذ which would have …
Unidentified document or text in Arabic script. Maybe poetry? Approximately 10 lines are preserved in an unusual format of paired lines (cf. T-S Ar.39.501 + …
Petition to David b. Daniel from a destitute woman with no family and afflicted with a serious illness (leprosy, it seems). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: 1528 Seleucid = 1216/17 CE. Al-Nuṣayr b. al-Ḥakīm, a Muslim, declares before Yosef b. Yefet the teacher (who wrote the …
Contract of sale written on parchment, dated Ramaḍān 372 AH, between Minā b. Jirja and ʿIsā b. Ismaʿīl. (AP)
Verso (original use): Legal fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. Involves Abū Naṣr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Isrāʾīlī, potentially identical with Abū Naṣr b. Efrayim from …
Mysterious document in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Listing numbers of "asbāb" and "abdān" and giving an explanation of some sort. The verso mentions "al-ḥālat al-wusṭā", …
Arabic jottings including the phrase al-mamlūk Abū Saʿīd al-Afḍalī written twice. The main text on the fragment is Hebrew piyyuṭ.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In a neater hand than usual. Both recto and verso are X-ed out. Verso: mentions two shipments …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Written in the month of Tishrei. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. Mentions good-quality saffron and amber and the …
Recto: Fragment from a marriage document, probably a ketubba, for Sitt al-Kull, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). BL OR …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. There is a damaged date in the top line (Dhū l-Ḥijja 4[..] AH, corresponding to the range …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (a.k.a. ʿIwāḍ) b. Ḥananel, Fustat. Abū l-Khayr became ill following ʿIwāḍ's departure, and his mother …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat, to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥarīrī b. Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. He alludes to political unrest …
Accounts related to various coinage types such as dirham, fiḍḍa, and gold zingirli (here spelled as "גנזרלי"). The latter helps date this fragment as no …
Letter perhaps from [...] b. Yosef to Shemuʾel b. Shelomo he-Ḥaver. In Hebrew, in an elevated register. Long and poorly preserved. The sender praises a …
Small fragment of accounts.
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
Minute fragment of accounts. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.
1. ועזרת גלויתנו זה איש [הא]להים רב החכמים ראש
2. התמימים כל מבקש... ישמע על פיו...
3. כבוד ילך במוסריו מופת החכמה ומעין התבונה והמזמה…
Short letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy. Around 1045. Seems that the letter is from the beginning of Nahray’s time In …