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Pages from a manual of writing letters.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from the lepers of Tiberias. Fragment. Written by Hillel b. Yoshua. (Gil)
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Wooden fragment of a panel that once decorated the interior of the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Translation: "...[I will bow down] toward Your holy Sanctuary in …
List of accounts in an unidentified Latin-script language with Arabic numerals (possibly Castilian Spanish). Some of the recurring words are "por" "lo" and the Spanish …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …
Damaged letter in Hebrew, with only a few lines preserved. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Based on the honorifics in the letter's …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions caraway (كراويا) and polypodium (اشتيوان).
Settlement after marital dispute between husband and wife, safeguarding her freedom of movement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Agreement between Ẓāfira b. …
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Legal formularies.
Legal deed. Location: Qūṣ. Dated: Shevaṭ 1527 Seleucid, which is 1216 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. In which the physician Abū l-Manṣūr Elʿazar …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions gold, Sunday, ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣā'igh. Needs examination.
Payment order from David ha-Nasi (not David b. Daniel, head of the Jews 1082–94) ordering 3 communal officers to pay a quarter dinar to the …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Bū l-Faraj b. Yūsuf the Rabbanite Jew makes a declaration for Bū Saʿd b. [...] the Jew, probably …
Left side of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew sent by Yosef ha-Kohen b. Gaon Shelomo to Efrayim he-Ḥaver, in the name of a widow, asking …
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Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Signed: Natan ha-Sofer b. Avraham.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Arabic script (VMR)
Possibly a fragment from a historical chronicle. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Refers to "the son of Khosrow the king of Persia" בן כסרי מלך אלפרס …
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1062 (Gil). Barhūn is writing also in the name …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך במנה ליג כלון מן
תשרי ערפך אללה ברכה הדא אלשהר והדה אלסנה א…
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Legal document: will, fragmentary, of the Qaraite mother of two girls, before delivering another child. Concerns in particular her valuable jewelry. Goitein surmised that the …
Letter addressed to 'Rabbenu [...]' in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a dispute and not being able to put up with a qāḍī (קלת לא נחנא נטיק אלקאטי...); …
Fragment of a state or legal document, reused for Judaeo-Arabic court records. On one side: ḥadara waliyy al-shaykh Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī...... b. al-Surūr...
Jottings related to the laws of Neziqin. Notable for jottings possibly copied from a legal document (והכל שריר ובריר וקים) including the names of witnesses: …
Business letter describing dire market conditions where prices are high and an environmental catastrophe destroyed most of the crops. In Arabic script. Mentions cotton and …
ويكون جواب كتابي هذا الى بلبيس باخباره واحواله والعارض من حاجاته فانه يسرني بذلك
وساير البضايع غلت واقفة من السقط وغيره وسرت عن خلت(؟) و…
Table of mostly names in Judaeo-Arabic, purpose unclear.
India Book (IB), II, 73. Quittance by the rabbinical court of Fustat for the sum of 173 and 7/24 mithqāl dinars, sent by Maḍmūn II …
למא כאן יום אלאתנין תאני ע[שר] חדש ניסן ש[נת ...]
בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה [רשותיה ראדוננו אברהם ...]
הפטיש החזק נר המערבי דגל הרבנים…
On Monday, 12 Nisan [...]
in Fustat Egypt, situated on the Nile river, [in the jurisdiction of our lord Abraham . . .]
the strong hammer, the w…
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Names are prefaced by סי׳ = senyor.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
A list of items beginning with the basmala and ending with an inshāllah. The name al-shaykh Dāʾud appears at upper left (in a different hand). …
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Magical recipe. 100 ghalla (produce) of the Nile(?) should be burned(?) or put into....and [....] oil should be poured over it, and it should be …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions prices of different commodities in dirhams and their measure. Headed by the glyph and including diagrams (a rectangle, a triangle …
Recto: (1) Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū ʿAlī to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Complains about al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal. Nearly complete, but difficult to read because of the overlapping …
The main text is literary/halakhic. On verso at 90 degrees there are accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-ʿAlāʾ, Yūsuf, Abū l-Ḥasan, and …
State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …
Letter from Eliyya b. Yehuda b. Yahya from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. The writer is on a ship that is about …
תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ולם נרא לך גואב ארגו שגל כיר
אן שא אללה ואללה אלעאלם מא אנא פיה ומא עלי קלבי מן…
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Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals; written over an older document, possibly with Coptic numerals. Dating: Late. Verso: (draft of a?) letter. (Information from …
Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …
Accounts in Hebrew script. Late.
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
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Medical prescriptions in Arabic script.
Draft of a deed of sale for a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1483 Seleucid = 1171/72 CE, under the authority of "ha-Rav ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel" (probably …
Possibly a fragment of a writ of appointment in Hebrew (FGP). Excerpts: בך בחרתי והסכמתי ממרו[. . . .] להור[ות] בתורת סיומי ולהבינם [. . …
Recto: accounts in Arabic and Hebrew script, mentioning Abū ʿAbdallā ibn al-Farakhī (אלפרכי). Verso: Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions the date Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 AH = April/May 1210 CE. Also mentions a period of two years and very …