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Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to al-Ḥedvat. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Letter of recommendation for the poor man al-Shaykh al-Kohen al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Very faded, but complete. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1448 Seleucid = 1 February 1137 …
minute fragments
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli. Quite faded. Contains the intriguing phrase "living between Muslims and Christians …
Geomancy.
On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …
1 Transcription
Recto: Legal document, related to the earlier document on verso (PGPID 2223). Different handwriting. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Wednesday, 27 [...] 1532 Seleucid = 1220/21 CE. …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter/petition from Umm Bū l-Munā to a notable. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She asks/reminds him to send a letter on her behalf with the bearer …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt, probably in al-Ramla. Dating: ca. 1051 CE at the beginning of Daniel's gaonate …
בשמך רח
וצלת רסאלה מולאיי אלשיך אלגליל שר העדה פאר הכהונה יברכהו אלהינו ויחנהו
ושכרת אחסאנה ואמא מא גרי ביומנא פמעלום משהור אן לם יכון לי…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1204-1237. Partnership agreement in cloth trade between Pinhas b. Elazar ha-Kohen and Moshe ha-Levi. Both partners seem to …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Thursday 24 Nisan 5481 AM (1721 CE). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yeshūʿa b. Shlomo ha-Levi ha-Rofe. Groom: Saʿadia b. ʿEzer b. Yeshūʿa …
Original use: Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly a state document. Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century. Needs examination for content.
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary handwriting and spellings. The parties are Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen and Elʿazar. Also mentions a Manṣūr and may involve a …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Ismaʿīl al-Tāhartī and Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Fustat) to Nahray b. Nissim and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, ca. 1050. In the hand of Elḥanan …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אלפסטאט יום אלאחד וסט אל[עיד]
אלמבארך אללה יערף מולאי ברכתה ען סלאמה…
Letter fragment in Arabic script. The beginnings of five lines are preserved. Mentions a ship.
Lament (seliha) by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. See also: ENA …
List of names and families, mentioning Alexandria, Umm Saʿīd al-Kohen, the family, Elijah and Isaac. (Information from CUDL) Faded Arabic script on verso.
Ketubba formulary or draft. Sample date: Shevat [1]971 Seleucid, which is 1660 CE. Sample groom: Naḥum ha-Kohen.
Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably literary.
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
Small fragment probably from a draft of a late marriage agreement. The husband (perhaps Avraham) taking upon himself not to divorce her (Esther), but it …
Calendar/liturgy.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic from Musa to his brother Meir ha-Sar ha-Adir ha-Dayyan ha-Mufla. Only the upper part of recto and the address are preserved …
IB I, 32. Letter from Nahray b. Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to a certain Abū Saʿīd. Fragment (upper part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late …
[Introductory phrases.]
…I have received a letter from Sheikh
Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd Ibn al-Lebdi, who has also sent a memorandum.
I have n…
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Business letter from Shelomo b. Avraham [. . .] Ruqqī to Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. Shelomo Ruqqī. "Abū l-Faraj Nissim, the recipient of this letter, …
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Court record. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. Rayyisa bt. Yosef Bīmī, the wife of Yeshuʿa b. Nissim, vehemently accuses ("mustaghītha mutaẓallima mustaʿdiya ʿalā") Seʿadya …
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Some sort of horoscope? Elaborate diagrams with Arabic script in black and red ink. Mentions Baghdād.
Letter from Makārim b. Faḍā'il, probably in Qūṣ, to Hibat Allāh (at least a mawlā of this name is respectfully greeted at the end), presumably …
A calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Location: Bombay/Mumbai (במתא במבי דעל כיף ימא). Dated: 10 Adar 5639 AM = 5 March 1879 CE. Husband: Sulaymān …
Accounts. MR
Opening of a letter or state document in Arabic script, written in a chancery hand and with wide line spacing, but might in fact be …
Form letter. Addressed to an important person, but the spots for the actual names have been left blank.
Letter to the cantor Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) about the bad behavior of his son Abu al-Ḥasan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains that Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Abū Man[ṣūr?] al-ʿAfīf have cut off the payments with which they …
Legal document acknowledging a debt on account of a dowry. Date: 29 Sivan 1293 Sel. (982 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom is Yosef ha-Kohen b. …
ומאתים ותשעים
List of payments (recto and verso). Names include Ṣadaqa b. Mīnā. Quantities expressed in words and dirhams.
Letter pledging to pay the rent on agricultural river floodland – 1926CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 48) – in Arabic. (information from …
Letter from Zakhariya Zamero to Eliyyahu Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 5573 AM, which is 1812 CE. Needs examination for content.
Accounts with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Large fragment of a letter with accounts, especially of goods brought from Syria. “You have received from Muhammad al-Shami 1-1/6 for the price (‘an qimat) …
Literary
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.