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Recto: Letter from an unidentified distinguished man to a judge or communal leader. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand might be known (resembles T-S Misc.28.88, another …
ישועה בן אברהם נע [סל?]מאן בן אלעזר
וקפנא אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלריס אלגליל אדאם תמכינה וקדאסתה ו…
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1020 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1015–1025 CE based on the years when Yoshiyyahu …
1 نسخ
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Carefully executed horoscope, written out by the cantor and court clerk Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108 CE) and most probably ordered from a professional astrologer. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1053. The writer is in need for money in Tinnis. He asks …
כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן תניס נצף סיואן כתמה
אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה אעלמך יאמולאי אן מן יום פארקתך מא …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Almost complete with the top honorifics missing. The writer confirms receiving 4 dīnars (of tax?) and he set …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
A fragment of a letter. Only a few words are preserved on each side. (Information in part from CUDL)
1 مناقشة
Responsa of the geonim. published.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto. Medieval-era.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving portions of a house, likely a deed of lease or sale. …
Very faded letter from Hillel he-Ḥaver b. Avraham(?). In Hebrew. The layout is reminiscent of letters from Byzantine senders (see the publications of de Lange).
Recto (secondary use): Mentions 16 "golden dirhams" which seems oxymoronic and may help with dating. Also mentions nuqra dirhams.
Recto: Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a lawsuit between Shabbat b. Yaʿaqov (aka Shabbetay b. Yaʿaqov) and Natan b. [...]. The portion preserved here …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter, or legal document. Small fragment only. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Refers to a house and sawābīṭ (cross-street bridges).
Letter in Hebrew, late. Addressed to a certain Avraham. About a woman who received payment to do something but didn't. Also mentions: her sister and …
IB IV, 6-7 (ח7). Copy of a court record from Aden. Dating: Summer 1131 CE. Concerning a controversy over Jewish communal leadership in Yemen. Goitein …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from a merchant addressed at least in part to his mother ('wa-yā ummī'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. He complains about the wretched …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relates to the India Book. Possibly written in Yemen. The sender's name looks like Abū Naṣr and the addressee's name looks …
Recto: bottom of a dār receipt (see tag), presumably for ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Ends with a ḥamdala and taṣliya. Verso:Judaeo-Arabic …
Small fragment of a legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Name mentioned: [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan.
Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of …
End of a letter conveying greetings to all family members ('father, mother, sister, uncle, aunt, and anyone else under your care') of the addressee. Conveying …
Letter addressed to the Nagid Abū l-Faḍl Shemuel (= Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Evidently a letter …
IB III, 59. Magical text copied by Ibn Yiju, probably in Yemen around 1135. The text begins with a magical square (cf. sudoku) of which …
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Recto is a text in Judaeo-Arabic listing various foods (something boiled, sugar, lemon, almond, sweets). Verso is in the same hand and seems to be …
List of transportation expenses by Nahray b. Nissim, around 1045. Includes details about shipment from Fustat to the ship in Alexandria. Similar to T-S Arabic …
Business accounts in Arabic script and a few Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing various textiles/garments and prices in dirhams. Also mentions the ruqʿa of the banker (al-ṣayrafī).
Responsa of the geonim copied by a known scribe who lived around the beginning of the 11th century. Some of responsa are known to us …
Letter from the amīr Kanz al-Dawla, probably in Aswān, to al-Bazīl, the deputy (nāʾib) of the eparch Abū l-Khayr Darmā, in Qalʿat Ibrīm. The sender …
Tax receipt issued for the ḍumanāʾ of Sinnūris against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 26 Jumādā I 405 (Khan: 22 Jumādā I …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Eli b. Yosef, from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1055. The writer is from Safukas, and his main trading good …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
[ ] מן אלאסכנדריא ען סלאמה ונעמה ללה
אלחמד רב אלעאלמין [ ] עלי אני מקים באל
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Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Moshe. The bride is Esther known as Mas'uda.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Two lines preserved.
Receipt or order of some kind.
Accounts in Arabic. Late? Verso has what looks like a handwritten equivalent to a seal signature.
Letter from Abū l-Bayān either to his father or to a distinguished elder. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The father is titled …
Order of payment.