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Small fragment with few words from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Possibly related to the shelfmark T-S NS 226.84 …
No Scholarship Records
Letter or letters. Recto: Lengthy laudatory preamble in rhyming Hebrew, followed by the body of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic starting three lines from the bottom …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Reuven [Najjar y Feliz?] to Moshe Najjar y Feliz, probably his brother, dated 4 Settembre '56. It deals …
Tax receipt issued to the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: (Khan reads 3 Ramaḍān 402). Written by …
[يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
ان شا الله
[اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد
[سوا]
والحمد لله على نعمه
[Let it be registered] on behalf of the Bureau of (Tax) Supervision,
if God wills.
[It has been registered, and] the amount…
3 Transcriptions 3 Translations 1 Discussion
Recto: Court record dated Adar II 5334 AM. Involves Yosef b. Yehuda al-Naqqāsh and perhaps his elderly mother. He says he can't support two houses …
List of collections, all crossed out. Recto contains a letter requesting payment or distribution of bread to various young women?
שוליים: ומן אלרנע אלכביר תכון אל…
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
List in Arabic on recto mentioning many names and quantities in Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography. The instructor provided phrases with model handwriting in the headings …
Business letter, first half of the 16th century. The subject matter is a dispute between merchants who dealth in skins, pepper, and tin. An Avraham …
1 Transcription
Small fragment of a letter written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) on behalf of a woman. Mentions rent and possibly not wanting …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of …
1 Discussion
Bifolio from a ledger of business accounts. In Arabic script. Dating: Several years are specified, but they are difficult to read; perhaps 493–95 AH, which …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
Letter fragment addressed to ʿAbd al-[Karī?]m (or al-Raḥīm?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; uses the currencies medin and ashrafī. The bullk of …
Fragment in Aramaic, probably literary, perhaps poetry.
Fragment of a deed of sale for one half of a sugar factory (al-Dār al-Sukkariyya) in Minyat Zifta. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. One of …
. . . it will be upon him as a [legal contract] and a proof from this day onwards that I [attest …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Small fragment with part of a list of names, including Yosef Hibat[allāh], Ḥalfon b. Y[efet?], ʿUthmān, and referring to the Palestinian Yeshiva (Geʾon Yaʿaqov). (Information …
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Minute fragment of a text in Hebrew, probably comprising the corner margins of a larger manuscript folio.
Draft or copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with biblical citations in Hebrew. Concerning a communal conflict.
Accounts, mentioning spices and quantities. On parchment. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Alexandria or another coastal city. Dating: 11th century; it was written on a Monday, 18 Sivan; …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Also used for pen trials.
Letter from Bū l-Maḥāsin, in Alexandria, to his mother Sitt Ghazāl bt. Abū ʿUmar, in Fustat. Same sender and same addressee as T-S AS 155.271 …
Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew addressed to Peraḥya ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil. Wide space between the lines. Verso: Hebrew text, possibly belonging to the formulaic opening of …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Legal? Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.
Unidentified Arabic text, probably documentary. The middles of 10 lines are preserved. Reused for unidentified Hebrew script on verso (Judaeo-Arabic accounts?).
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning silk and paper. Possibly mentions a manumitted person (מעתוק) in the opening line of the recto. Requires further examination.
From a volume of piyyuṭim for Yom Kippur. The title page gives the name of the author or owner twice: Aharon b. [...]. There are …
Fiscal document, with an unusual thick pen, in Arabic script. The text has faded and difficult to read. Begins with a basmala and the next …
Fiscal document. Multiple entries. Mentions: the receipt (wurūd) and expenditures (mā dufiʿa) of large sums of money; slaves (khadam); people such as Abū Bakr, ʿĪsā …
IB V, 37, folio 3v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
2 Transcriptions
Bottom of a letter addressed at least in part to a woman. In Arabic script. "... and I will come to Cairo. O Ḥidhq! Whtever …
IB VII, 1. Partnership agreement. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid = 8 June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. …
[אק] חצר ר שמואל בן סהלאן אלברקי [ושרט עלי נפסה]
[ברצאה בלא אונס] וקאל לנא אנה כאן אנפ[ד] מעי פראח
בן סהלון [מעי] מרגאן מן אלקירואן ווצלת…
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Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower left corner). Dated: 1428 Seleucid = 1116/17 CE. Almost none of the content …
Much damaged fragment from a legal deed. On parchment. Mentions the number 34 (part of the year? a sum of money?). Refers to someone [...]ūb …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions [...] b. Yaʿaqov; Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim [al-Nafūsī]; Avraham b. Shemʿaya ha-Ḥaver. …
Judaeo-Arabic translation of various prayers, such as והוא רחום, אשר בדברות, אהבת עולם, אמת ואמונה, השכיבנו, ברוך ה' לעולם with the beginning of the Hebrew …
On verso and spilling over onto the margins of recto: account and a list of at least 82 indigent people, including at least 14 Europeans, …
Letter by Shelomo b. Yeshuʿa ha-ḥaver, in Damīra, to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. The writer raises charges …
Letter addressed to Yaʿaqov b. al-ʿAbbās al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Probably 11th century. Resembles some of the family letters from Ifrīqiyya to merchants …
Account for building operations. Dating: (mentions expenses for a period from Elul 1466 to Shevaṭ 1467 Seleucid, so likely shortly after Shevaṭ 1467 Seleucid, which …
(1-2) … and a woman. . . .
. . . . 3
. . . . 1/2 dir.
.... helpers, 6
. ... the qāʿa.
The expenditure for buil…
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Small fragment of a legal document. Involves Yefet b. Sason. Includes release formulae.
On recto probably a rhymed opening of a letter. Verso in Arabic script. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA