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Letter from a son to his father with detailed description of his illness and recovery. Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Draft of the beginning of a letter from an unidentified person addressed to his or her mother al-Ḥurra and his or her sister Jawhara. In …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th century. The name of the addressee may be Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Saʿd …
Partnership/investment agreement (עסקא). Location: Cairo. Dated: First third of Shevaṭ 5577 AM = January 1817 CE. Khalīfa ʿAfīf acknowledges that David ʿAfīf has invested 17,000 …
1 نسخ
Detailed account in Judaeo-Arabic, much of it for expenses entailed in the dyeing of silk. Mentions ʿImrān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Iskandarānī.
שרי אלעצפר ה קנאטיר מן סער
כט דינר כל קנטאר אלתמן קמה דינר
וכרג ענה אנטאע ותליס וחבל וכיט
ושדאדין ח דנא ודרהמין וברטיל
וחמ…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Legal document or possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and …
Legal query in Arabic script. The case is that of two brothers who inherit 3.5 shares in a property from their third brother, but upon …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Akhlābū Kohen b. Aharon, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. In the handwriting of Ibrāhīm b. Faraḥ. Regarding one dinar …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי יאסירי ומולא…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Long letter from Troki (Trakai in Lithuania) to Kokizwo
Fol. 1r: Haggadah (near beginning); fols 1v-2r: list of the tractates of the Mishnah, giving the number of chapters in each
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Greetings to Abū l-Faraj and his son.
Letter in Arabic script. Reporting on a dialogue between the sender and someone else about someone who hasn't received a payment, and how the sender …
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Verso: Legal document (unfinished draft) concerning a financial agreement between Ibrahim b. Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information in part from CUDL.) …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Might be from a family member of Sitt Ghazāl to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (cf. Bodl. MS heb. …
Informal note from David b. Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj and the bearer of the note and compelling them …
Fragment from the beginning of a legal deed, probably a prenuptial agreement. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Dated: Probably Kislev …
Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 8 lines from near the top are preserved. Written in a chancery-esque hand and in an elevated register. The sender …
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Letter probably to a dignitary called Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm/Avraham. With a long Hebrew introduction, the body in Judaeo-Arabic, and the address in Arabic script. (The …
Letter from Yosef b. Natan al-Ḥalabī to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper portion of recto and the address are preserved, entirely consisting of …
Deed of sale of a house, dated to " the second in the month of Av (may it turn) joyful", 1545 Sel. (29.6.1234 CE) . …
1 مناقشة
Fragment of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. Declaration made by al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār al-Sukkarī. None …
Letter in Arabic. The address (recto) states that it is from the younger daughter of Rāfīʿ al-Ḥarīrī, sent to the house of Mukhtār, to be …
IB III, 46. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Ibn Yijū to his brother Peraḥya b. Yosef Ibn Yijū, in the Perfumers' Quarter in Fustat. Dating: …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Part of an official/communal letter. Opens with blessings in Hebrew, then changes to Judaeo-Arabic for the body. Moderately wide spaces between the lines. It begins …
Recto: liturgical text, including Psalms 136:9 and Exodus 6:1. Verso: accounts in Arabic in red ink. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts? on recto (fractions?) mentions rose and sandalwood. Hebrew script on verso.
Court record concerning the release of payment in installments between Yeshuʿa b. Avraham and Yosef b. David b. [al-Lebdī?]. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Unidentified Arabic document. Two lines preserved, faded and very difficult to read.
Legal document (shetar) mentioning a partnership and a certain Berakhot ha-Kohen. Dating: Early 12th century. The deed was written in two copies. Signatories: Yiṣḥaq b. …
Probably a bill of divorce, but possibly a deed of manumission. From the cantor Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. Contains the phrase שבוקין כדת משה וישראל. …
Fragment, text on prognostications. Each prediction starts with a new point (al-bāb). Contains some Hebrew script interspersed. Verso conatins a note saying that this paper …
Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention …
Legal record (#18) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script referring to "mawlāya al-Rāb" (=the Rav).
Legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Fragment (right side only). Aharon b. Fuhayd ha-Levi sues [...] b. Yiṣḥaq. There …
Bifolio with Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the four pages contains jotted accounts in Arabic mentioning 5 dinars and 3 raṭls.
Detailed Karaite marriage contract of Elʿazar b. Shemarya and Rivqa bt. Yosef. Dated Tishrei 1512 (September 1200), Cairo. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 409)
Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)