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IB II, 2. Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, asking Nahray to intervene with Ḥasan b. Bundār. Dating: 1094–97 CE. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. One section mentions groceries: pigeon, chicken, meat, cheese, soap, bread. Also mentions a Christian (naṣrānī). Many other …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Letter to Mevorakh b. Saadya (Nagid 1094–1111) from an official (muqaddam) and cantor in a community near Alexandria, who asks the Nagid to send a …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter, quoting Proverbs 3:4. This is a letter of appeal for charity. "God {knows} that I have only sent this petition groveling in shame." (Information …
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
Commercial list in two or three different hands in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. On verso there is a list of commodities sent with Abū l-Ḥasan …
List of names with numbers. Very faded.
Fragment of a betrothal (qiddushin) deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom is probably [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. The early installment …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Names of persons and quantities and commodities in Arabic (FGP) - needs examination. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū ʿAbdallāh.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. The noble cantor (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give 5 dirhams to the relative of the rabbi from …
Fragment of a legal document, involving someone named Salāma. There may also be citations from rabbinic sources. (Information in part from CUDL and AA.)
Letter from Yoshiyya Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. The sender's name is partially preserved at the top of the letter, in a different …
יאשיהו ראש יש[יבת] גאון יעקב בירבי
שלום אביעה וברכות ארגיעה [
בכל שעה ואורה וישועה א[ל אהובנו רב אפרים]
המומחה מפינו אנו בית ד[ין הגדול…
2 نسخين
Probably accounts, at least partly in Ladino. Needs examination.
Late magical text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Including an illustration of a cute dog-like creature whose body is an amulet.
Small fragment of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting resembles that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is typical to the 13th century, and is probably that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu …
1 نسخ
Probably a draft of a panegyric for a dignitary. On verso at 180 degrees refers to a Nagid. The hand resembles that of Avraham Ibn …
Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'brother.' The writer seems to be trying to justify something he said or wrote. …
Legal query. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary. Mentions that a shimmush (court record? or simply a contract?) was drawn up between Reuven and Shemuel.
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1462 Seleucid = 1150/51 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Bride: Turfa …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... and when he moved on in the lifetime of my father M[oshe(?)] Sanhedra Rabba, bless his saintly …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1441 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
1 مناقشة
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) to a certain Avraham ha-Sar (likely the same addressee as in T-S 8J40.2) regarding …
Verso: Minute fragment from the top of an iqrār, probably. Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script, maybe part of a letter: ما كتبت . . …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Small fragment, not much text preserved.
Karaite bill of debt. Dated 5 Shevat 5409 AM (1649 AM). Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Levi Qudsī and his business partner Eliyahu Levi acknowledge a debt …
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. On a narrow sliver of paper. Dating: probably 13th century. Recto: Letter addressed to Elʿazar, complaining about the addressee's delay in copying …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, probably Ottoman-era. Mentions ginger (janzabīl).
IB V, 5. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fustat, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān b. al-Shāmī, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṭevet 1452 …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Ḥesed, a divorcee. Groom:Daniel b. Ṭahōr. Date not preserved, but probably early 12th century. Rich trousseau. The …
Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The bridegroom is possibly Is[aac b. ...]. The name of the bride and further …
Legal record (one large piece and 5 smaller pieces) mentioning a wālī and a girl. Very damaged and difficult to figure out the story. Some …
Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David. The addressee spent time …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. Addressed to Abū ʿUmar Saʿdān al-Baghdādī (active in …
Fragment of torn and damaged vellum, contains Geonic responsa. Published in Teshuvot ha-Hageonim Marmorstein, p. 2-3. On recto the end of a responsum on debt. …
Fragmentary list of contributions, it seems in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, details of about twenty-five preserved: five giving 1, eight giving 1/2, two …
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Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment from a copy of a letter by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) to the community of Ṣahrajt concerning unlawful divorces. Dating: ca. 1034 …
A few words from a letter in Arabic script. Large script, wide space between the lines. Reminiscent of a state document but the preserved content …