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Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, Jerusalem, to his wife's brother Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: June 1053 CE. The letter is mainly about arrangements for …
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Literary text. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Shaʿbān 1104 AH = 14 April 1693 CE …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning well-known 11th-century merchants such as Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy and announcing the writer's arrival in al-Mahdiyya (this part makes it …
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Lists of People. Includes professionals, such as ṭabīb (doctor) mentioned on verso. FGP
List of items, mostly medicinal substances like gum, white sugar, curcuma. Might be connected with T-S AS 215.253
Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Date: 12 Sivan 5570 AM (1810 CE). The groom is Shelomo b. Eliyyahu Ḥazan. The bride is Esther known as …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Hebrew literary work, reused for drafts of phrases from an Arabic letter.
Upper part of a late letter in very colloquial Judaeo-Arabic. Dated "16 Shevat" with Arabic numerals. The addressee seems to be Yizhaq al-M[...] and the …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), mentions someone named Yisraʾel.
Recto (as conserved; secondary inscription): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 …
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Legal deed. Release given to Ṣedaqa ha-Levi by his divorcee. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel, Elul 1145 CE. Cosigned David ha-Paliṭ b. Yosef …
Fragment from the top of a deed of sale. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: 20 Adar II 1535 Seleucid = …
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Short note in Judaeo-Arabic from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ (like AIU VII.F.68). Dated D[hū] l-Ḥijja 1240 AH (1825 CE).
Legal record (#17) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on ff. 2v, 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated …
Will of Yaʿaqov b. Dunash b. Yehuda Resh Sidra, dealing mainly with expenses for his burial in Jerusalem. He appoints his brother-in-law Natan b. Shelomo …
Informal note from David b. Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj and the bearer of the note and compelling them …
Accounts.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Letter to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Neṭira. In Hebrew. In the handwriting of a certain Avraham ha-Kohen, who is known in the world of piyyuṭ …
Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat, by Avraham b. Farah to Nahray b. Nissim, reporting on the arrival of ships in Alexandria and dealing with …
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Fol. 3v: Legal document in Arabic script. Involves two amirs, […] al-Dīn Aḥmad and Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad, includes the phrase نصفين بالسوية, and refers to …
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Letter sent from Damascus to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh al-Firnās al-Hārūnī (aka the parnas ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen), in Fustat. Reporting among many other matters that …
Marriage contract. Dating: Probably 11th century. Groom: Ṣāfī b. ʿAbdallāh, freedman of the elder Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Anbārī. Bride: Dhakhīra (or Dhukhayra) …
الله العمدة
ثبت في ديوان الحكم الموفق lلمعمور
..... بمال ثمنه معروف (؟)
بسم الله الرحمن …
God is the support.
It was registered in the archives of the prospering court .....
. .... mone…
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Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A scholar is asked for the hand of his daughter in a complete letter (written calligraphically by a scribe) asking the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Barhūn al-Tāhartī. Two folios.
Fragment from the top of a court record. A person known as Ibn אלגרי or אלגדי makes a declaration involving Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq and a …
Letter from Shelomo to his brothers Abū l-Tahir and Mukhliṣ. Each line is copied twice, presumably later as an exercise. Verso: pen trials, including copies …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Mentions commodities such as quince, brazilwood, and mandrake root (luʿāb). (Information in part from CUDL)
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the date 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 597 AH = 18 August 1201 CE. Mentions people such as …
Commercial list/account. Probably 11th century. Mentions names such as Nissim and Barhūn.
Verso: Qaraite liturgical instructions for inserting a memorial prayer for several Qaraite leaders (Nesiʾim), "after the completion of the prayer for ʿAnan as is customary." …
Letter from a physician named Menahem b. Ṣadoq ha-Kohen from Aleppo including greetings from many men including his nephew Yahya b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, the physician …
Unidentified list in Arabic script, likely business accounts, since it seems to list people's names, commodities, and sums.
Letter fragment in the hand of Daniel b. ʿAzarya or his clerk. Conveying communal news and mentioning Abu ʿAlī and enemies. Should be checked against …
Verso may have the remnants of Arabic document(s) or else drafts of phrases from a letter or petition.
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content. Verso: The report was torn and reused for an order of a …
Receipt or account, probably late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (in a rudimentary hand) and Arabic script (in a better hand). Mentions amounts owed to various people, e.g., Abū Waḥsh and Abū …
Note in Hebrew requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of a prisoner in his power (אשר אתה סותם אותו בשבי). The addressee is R. …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 24 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
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Medical prescriptions/recipes in a striking mix of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic, sometimes alternating in the same sentence. Two of the recipes are taken from al-Malikī (of …
Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her …
Deposits
from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of
the notables, of power and renown, his excellency
our master the noble…
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances & Company, dated Av 1807 CE ([5]567). Mentioning Yiṣḥaq Carraso, Girgis the dyer, ʿAbd …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-Najm Ṣāliḥ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with long introductory formulae in Hebrew. …