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A theological discourse in Judaeo-Arabic, in the form of a dialogue with a Muslim ruler (amīr al-mu'minīn). Discusses the books of Esther and Maccabees.
No Scholarship Records
Letter in a Romance language, perhaps Spanish, signed in Hebrew: Yehuda Maḥriẓ (? יהודה מחריץ). An alternate reading for the surname is "Madin / מאדין".
Dowry list for Sitt al-[...]a bt. Abū l-Khayr b. Yosef. No details of the dowry itself are here.
Verso: Accounts including names such as [...] b. Makārim, Abū l-ʿAlā', Abū l-Bahā', Abū l-Rabīʿ, and Ṭāhir.
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet. The verso contains scribal practice of an iqrār deed in Arabic.
List of expenses (alladhī kharaja min waqt wuṣūlī), in the hand of ʿArūs b.
Nissim, apparently in the Rīf, to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat, ca. 1040. (Gil)
[אטאל אל]לה יאכי וסידי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך פי גמיע
אמורך וצל אלי יאסידי כתאבך מע [ ] גמיע מע דכרת
[תד]כר אן קד דפעת אלי…
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The paper was reused on the verso for Hebrew-script alphabetical practice.
The paper was reused for Hebrew alphabetical practice on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.
Folio of an alchemical work. The present fragment mentions the usage of mercury, and lead, and some discovery attributed to Hermes.
mas), and Yosef ha-Kohen al-Segula (in the address (or reuse?)).
Mentions ʿUmayr; Yeshuʿa; mawlāy al-qāḍī(?); bales and buhārs of indigo.
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably alchemical, but possibly medical. Magnesia (מגניסיא) is mentioned.
Regards to [Sitt] Naʿīm and her husband Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan.
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Involves a man and woman and sustenance/alimony payments (mezonot).
On parchment. The word "al-awwal" appears. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Alphabetical exercises in Hebrew and Arabic script. The student may have been using red ink on the recto in addition to black ink.
Mentions ʿImrān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Iskandarānī.
שרי אלעצפר ה קנאטיר מן סער
כט דינר כל קנטאר אלתמן קמה דינר
וכרג ענה אנטאע ותליס וחבל וכיט
ושדאדין ח דנא ודרהמין וברטיל
וחמ…
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Mentions the title Sharaf al-Umarāʾ and ما هو مشروح.
Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb and [...]b al-Ḥakīm. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, sent from al-Mahdiyya. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr [...] b.
Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
In blocky handwriting. One side mentions "al-bāqī... wa-l-dīwān nafadha dhālika."
There is a section on tashwīsh al-qawlanj, which includes jaundice of the face.
Rental receipt, for 6 dinars, in Arabic script. "al-bāqī li-ṣaḥib l-dār". Dated probably 504 H.
Mentions a strong vow "bi-akhaṣṣ al-yamīn".
Long list of commodities and prices, mostly foodstuff like almonds, plums, and apples. Needs examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Part or all of it looks like poetry. Ruling regarding bathing according to Islamic jurisprudence on verso.
Refers to someone in distress and to a nākhūdha (ship-owner) named Hilāl al-Iskandarā[nī]
Thābit for his dwelling in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat). Needs further examination.
Receipt for Abū l-[...] al-Ṭabīb. In Arabic script. For the month of Ramaḍān.
Fragmentary and handwriting not very legible. Mentions "al-Qāḍī" atleast two times. Needs examination.
Literary: The Polemic of Nestor the Priest (Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf), in Judaeo-Arabic. See the book of the same name by Lasker and Stroumsa.
Nissim, in Fustat, to Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī. Very damaged. Needs examination.
Legal document concerning a female slave, witnessed by a judge Muḥammad Mūsā, dated 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 810/1407.
Iqrār dated 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 902 H. (?) [1497]. [Described in the dealer's description as dated 702 H. [1302]].
ʿAzarya (ZL) the head of the yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būṣīr to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Andalūsī (c. 1061 CE).
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך מן בוצ[יר]
יא בקין מן אדר ראשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמ…
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Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Abu Nasr al-Halabi. Aden, ca. 1130-50.
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Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
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At the bottom there is a line stating that "this notebook belongs to (or: is by) Yiṣḥaq b. Ibrāhīm al-Sīrajī."
Yosef. mentioning dates, quantities, and names, including Nissim b. Hārūn and Yaʿaqov al-Kohen.
Dating: Looks somewhat late, perhaps 14th or 15th century (with names like al-muʿallim Farajallāh).
Mentioning the government/sulṭān and the ancestors and the synagogue and the Torah... it is difficult to see how it all ties together.
The document was drawn in the name of Shamṭar (probably Coptic) al-ʿAmūdī. Needs examination.
Listing amounts owed by various people (e.g., Yaʿqūb, Waliyy al-Dawla).
Letter draft from Faraj Allāh to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late.
Literary, Arabic script. Tale concerning Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jaʿfar ibn Barmak. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
The lessee is a Christian (al-Naṣrānī). On verso there is a faṣl/note probably related to the deed.