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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Most of a family letter conveying concern for the recipient and many other people and requesting news. ASE.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter or letter draft from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet ha-Kohen addressed to two people. Introduction in Hebrew and body in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 10 dinars and various …
Letter. It looks like this piece of paper had another piece glued to it on top. In any case, what remains is a lower part …
Legal query with responsum. Concerning tefillin. Late. Striking signatures.
Legal document, mentions ziqnei ha-yishmaelim. Deed of authorization of son to represent mother before her two brothers concerning the collection of debt at Efrayim b. …
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8 pages from a halakhic work on shehitah
Large fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Difficult hand. There is a section in the middle with the formula "wa-lā X wa-lā Y …
Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, all in the same hand, probably all from the same letter. Mentions the sons of al-Baradānī; R. Natan he-Ḥaver …
Marriage contract (ketubba) possibly from Tyre that includes the list of goods in the dowry: a cloth, a curtain, a lamp, two dyeing vessels, two …
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Fragment of a state document. Ayyubid? Interesting layout. One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further …
Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1505 Seleucid (= 1193/94 CE), under the …
Letter promoting the ancient learnings of the age of the first prophets – 1952CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 120) – in Arabic. …
Text is too damaged to identify; probably a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute fragment. On parchment. Only a few words can be read. Seems like the opening of a letter or legal query to a notable, probably …
P19: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unidentified sender and addressee. Fragment (horizontal section from the middle). Mentions: Khiyār; someone who said in his letters that he would …
Commercial accounts in Arabic script and some Greek/Coptic numerals mentioning various names, commodities, and relatively large sums of money. Names include al-Rayyis Saʿīd, al-Rashīd Abū …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Addressed to Natan b. Avraham ha-Kohen Sholal (?). The writer expresses his longing for the addressee (r1–4). He gives news of …
Mercantile letter sent from Alexandria to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. The lines of Judaeo-Arabic on verso may be jotted accounts in the hand …
State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
Recto: a mainly grammatical commentary on Ruth 3:15–4:8. In the following colophon, the text is referred to as Alfāẓ Megillat Rut and the scribe’s name …
Lower fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Ḥalfon or Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Essentially none of …
Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding an iqṭāʿ worth 5500 dinars and a market …
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]
ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب
وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعا…
... what was assigned to them as th…
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Verso: Legal document recorded on the back of an eighteenth-century letter. Dated 1727 CE (Kislev 5488 AM) in line 13. The document deals with the …
Legal record (#32). Bill of sale, outline. Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the sale of the slave wailing woman …
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
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Part of the body of a letter, probably 11th century. Only a few lines are legible, which complain about a threat to the community, ולא …
Letter or letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed perhaps to Ḥananel ha-Dayyan (but this is not completely clear). The writer complains about his poverty and unemployment. …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Names include Aḥmad and Sulaymān b. ʿAzīza. Mentions Shubra (Damsīs?). On verso mentions a mule and a donkey.
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Mentions details about money exchange and shipments of pepper and silk to and from Palermo. (Information from Gil, …
Inventory of possessions "with" (ʿinda) Hilāl b. Ḥasan. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel? Unclear if for legal or commercial purposes.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions gold, Sunday, ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣā'igh. Needs examination.
Mostly effaced note specifying sums of money. Accounts on verso. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
List of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic.
The original document is a Judaeo-Arabic letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat, from his "family" (ahl baytih, which can also mean "wife"), in …
Account of building operations ca. 1200. Fragment of a leaf, upper left part, in a calligraphic hand. It itemizes mainly work in clay, and the …
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Letter fragment mentioning someone's arrival from Jerusalem, "kitāb al-jamāʿa," and someone who departed when some people were sick. The hand looks familiar from the 13th …
The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
List of goods, names, and numbers in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: 18 Kislev 1[4]70 Seleucid = 10 November 1158 CE. The three witnesses (מקבלי עדות) include the cantor Sheʾerit b. Shemarya; …
Letter in rhymed Hebrew addressed to the community of Jerusalem and their leader the judge Shemuʾel (הם אחינו יקירנו בעלי בריתנו הקהל הקדוש הדרים בירושלם …
Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …
בה' בשבת בא אלינו
חוסין ברב' משה
ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי
לכם והודעתי…
27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'
On Thursday
There came to us
H'usayn son of R. Moses
and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. I…
Letter from Farajallāh to the judge al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Naṣrallāh. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew and with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably no …
Recto: Letter fragment to the congregations of Fustat and in particular to the dayyan Elazar. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, active …
Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.
Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …
Recto: Letter from Daniel b. Yaʿaqov (or rather Yaʿīsh?), in Alexandria, to Yiṣḥaq b. Yehuda ha-Kohen al-Dimashqī in Fustat. The writer requests that the recipient …