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Late accounts. On the recto the title al-qādi appears as part of the only full account listed. Based on the scribal hand, this document is …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for payments received, the paleography helps date this fragment to the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. Given how much of the text is missing, the …
Three lines of an Arabic document, perhaps legal given that line two mentions a qadi named ʿAbdalʿazīz. Medieval-era. The Arabic document was recycled into a …
Legal record(s) in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Fragment (lower left part of recto). The main record concerns a dispute over money …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. He is agitated about something ("the knife has reached the bone"), mentions a qāḍī and appeals to ʿaṣabiyya to …
Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …
Legal query and responsum in Arabic script. The query is written in a tiny handwriting with a thin pen, begins with the words ʾallaḏī ... …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. The handwriting may be known. Deals with trade in pepper, brazilwood, saffron (zarnaba), dragon's blood (qāṭir), a …
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Memorandum by the merchant Faraḥ b. ʿAyyāsh, it seems addressed to his agent "my master the Parnas," explaining the details of a lawsuit which the …
Letter of recommendation. In Arabic script. Sent from Damascus to two high-placed addressees (al-majlisayn al-sāmīyayn) presumably in Cairo, al-Majlis al-[...] and al-Majlis al-Nūrī. Dating: Perhaps …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. The writer is a tax farmer (or perhaps the agent/wakīl of one) in a rural area with …
Letter in Arabic script from Naṣrallāh (he begins the letter "mamlūkuhu akhūhu Naṣrallāh," line 2) to his brother Sharaf al-Dīn (line 3). The writer seems …
Fragment of a literary narrative in Arabic script. Mentions: a jāriya (meaning either girl or female slave) who nursed or was nursed; someone who "brought …
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan, also known as Musāfir b. Wahb, in Fuwwa, to his brother Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan (Wahb) the Seventh, probably …
Letter from an unknown sender, in Fustat, to his nephew (ibn ukht) Mūsā, in Qalyūb. Dating: Unknown, but perhaps dateable on the basis of the …
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Letter in which a physician, probably named Abū l-Baqā', writes from somewhere outside of the capital to his son-in-law (?) Abū ʿImrān, probably in Fustat, …