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Fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Small fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
Probably a fragment of a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to Sayyidnā and contains blessings and prayers and some biblical verses. Reused on recto for a …
Recto: pen trials and drafts of letters in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Arabic. Verso: illegibly rubbed, faded and stained Arabic and jottings in Hebrew script. (Information …
Legal fragment. Mentions [...] b. Avraham; another Avraham; merchandise which someone left with someone.
Letter to Abū l-Mahāṣin. The sender informs him that the money he sent for the capitation tax payment was finally deposited with Abū l-Maḥāsin Ibn …
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Small fragment with Hebrew script. Unidentified. Could be documentary.
Legal document in which Khaluf b. Hayyim agrees that Ezra b. Yosef will pay him every month half a dinar of a debt of one …
Late fragment containing several designs for practicing calligraphic signatures and three lines of cryptic writing in Hebrew script. In Ladino and Hebrew but the intended …
Judaeo-Arabic love poetry.
Fragment of a marriage contract, the section listing the outfit of the bride. ( E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 267, and from Goitein's index cards)
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Draft of a deathbed declaration of Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿAdiyya Ibn Maṭrūḥ, who had sold his daughter, Sitt al-Sāda, and her son two-thirds of …
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Announcement written in Yiddish from the committee of Ashkenazi Jewish synagogues of Cairo about the reservation of places in the main synagogue and urging those …
List of prices and perhaps an inventory with many values expressed in dinars on the verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: bottom half. The sender complains that the bustān is ruined: the livestock have died of hunger and the produce has dried …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda or to the community of Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Concerning a …
Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era, but this is a guess. Wide space between the lines. Difficult to understand the content. There is …
Late and unusual letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the writer's brother Faraj Allāh. The writer opens with greetings to a large number of family members and …
Letter to Moshe b. Maimon (Maimonides) from an unnamed friend. Includes poetic verses by Yehudah haLevi. (Identification and information from Joel Kraemer, "Six Unpublished Maimonides …
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Account.
Recto: Copy of a calendrical work attributed to Yosef Bekhor Shor. Verso: Calendrical reckonings with conversions between the Hebrew and "Christian" calendars for the years …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan (Isrā'īl b. Sahlūn), in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 31 December 1061 CE, according to …
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Mostly torn and effaced memorial list of well-known families. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Literary. Catalogued as a 15th-century copy of Sefer Teshuva, the polemical work against the Rabbanites by Yefet al-Barqamānī (13th c.).
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …
עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי
אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך
מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<
למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד
וצלו וצחה אלעדה …
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On recto two lines in Arabic, possibly mentioning numbers of dinars. Reused for Hebrew-script (literary?) text on both sides.
State document, possibly. In Arabic script in a chancery hand. A few words preserved from 2 lines, including "waḥdahu" and "al-mamlūk." On verso there is …
Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
Accounts, mentioning divisions of cash. "Nuqra" and "mufarraq" seem to be the two categories. Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)
List of names with numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many women. Same hand as Stras. 5138/24 (PGPID 28982). See ENA 2713.26 (PGPID 4532).
(d) Legal testimony. Crossed out. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid, which is 1183 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Ghulayb b. Ṣadaqa …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to David ben Naʿim, 1821/22 CE (5400+182). Only the upper part of the fragment is here.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Shemuʾel; silk; Bū l-Majd; raisins; linseed oil; cows(?); meat; cinnamon; cumin; laundry. There are also ohter jottings and pen trials.
Accounts, mentioning various sums of money; with Hebrew numerals. On parchment. Mentions sums of 2,000 and 621 rubāʿīs. Mentions the fees of the market (rasm …
Official correspondence about agricultural administration. Needs examination.
Recto: Unidentified (state?) document in Arabic script. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Late letter from Yaʿaqov Bagilyer to his brother Aharon. Dealing with financial matters (amounts in peraḥim/ducats). (Information from CUDL)
Draft debt acknowledgment. Dated 8 Tishrei 5351 AM (1590 CE). Involves a variety of shareholders in connection with a sum held by a certain Mordekhay, …
An alimony of 6 dirhams, probably a case of divorce. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Also contains a booklist.
Minute fragment. List of unidentified items, might be connected with T-S AS 215.216
Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to …
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Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain Rosh ha-Qehillot. It is written entirely as a Hebrew poem. There are lengthy descriptions of the …