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Deed of appointment for a kosher butcher Shemuel [surname lost]. Location: Cairo. Dated: [5]288 AM, which is 1527/28 CE. The term of the appointment is …
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Legal document from Cairo, dated 1777 CE (end of Tamuz 5537 AM) in which Menaḥem Abzaradel (אבזראדיל) makes arrangements for his 7 1/3 qirats that …
1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בא היקר נשא ומאד נעלה להתהלה כה׳׳ר מנחם אבזרדיל יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו הוא עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני ק…
Account? - needs examination. No image
No Scholarship Records
IB IV, 22 (ח30). Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 AM = 10 July …
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Personal/business accounts, probably. In Arabic script.
Collections of liturgical poems (reshut) associated with specific parshiyot. T-S 10H9.13 is for Vayera, and Halper 291 is for Aḥarey Mot. Each of them has …
Awaiting description
Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī ha-Parnas releases ʿAmīd al-Dawla Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef from any obligations for goods sold by the latter …
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Piyyut.
Verso (original use): Letter from Mūsā, probably addressed to Shelomo. Asking the addressee's help in doing something on Sunday. Recto (secondary use): Letter from Shelomo …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a complete and well-preserved letter, which is rare …
Accounts in extensive detail on the recto, medieval-era. The accounts continue on the verso, where there is also a literary text in Hebrew with some …
Left lower fragment of a settlement concerning books, including al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb and books of poetry. Involves parties including Abū Saʿīd; Abū Naṣr b. Yosef …
Petition in Arabic script. The sender bemoans his poverty (ṣaʿlaka) and expresses his trouble with paying a tax, probably his capitation tax. He is a …
]في يومه(؟) رضوان مع نزول[
]المملوك يهتدي مسالك الطرق وقد علت حياته
وضعفت قدرته وبقي المملوك من ارباب الصدقة وعنده
عائلة واطفال وليس …
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Verso: Court record, written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), regarding a property in Qasr al-Sham'. One of the parties is a convert to …
Commentary on Prophets. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
IB III, 43. Letter from Perahya b. Yosef Ibn Yiju (which he wrote in his and his brother Moshe's name) in Messina to his father …
in the afternoon and the evening, while the morning prayer is said
before dawn; at daybreak, they are already through with it.
If we live…
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Unidentified text in Arabic script. Small fragment. Medical recipe (based on the term masḥūq)? Needs further examination.
Lined piece of paper filled with Judaeo-Arabic letters or language from letters or formularies for letters (one contains "fulan" instead of names). The honorific khawaja …
Massive account with an inventory of a (druggist's) shop (headed "muḥāsabat al-dukkān"). In Arabic script. Some of the very numerous commodities and items mentioned: pear …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Some names are listed: Manṣūr Saʿadī, Aḥmad Bu-Beys[?], Budeyr al-Ashrek[?]. This document is from a larger set of accounts and is …
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …
Draft by Avraham b. Natan of a document appointing ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi ha-Parnas as the wakil of an orphan in Damietta, Sheʾerit b. Yefet …
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. Describes a dispute between the sender and another merchant, Abū Yaʿqūb. Mentions …
Accounts in Arabic script. Headed 'sūq al-kabir' then 'al-kohen' (الكوهان).Mentions various quantities in raṭls and various other names, like Bū Saʿd Ibn al-[...], al-Ṣiqillī, Abū …
Bifolio from a magical text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Including medical, magical and alchemical recipes, e.g. for making a woman love her husband, for producing …
Incomplete legal document in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (active ca. 1066–1108 CE). The cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon al-Zayyāt claims that his sister Bārra …
The testimony of what took place before us, we the undersigned witnesses:
Mr. Ghalib the cantor known as Abū Manṣūr b. Mr. Ḥalfon, the sel…
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Minute fragment from a list. Only partial names survived. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sal ammoniac (nushādir), something sieved (mugharbal), and tartar (ṭarṭara). There are enormous numbers at the bottom (possibly headed 'what was purchased …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Nahray? Mentions ʿAyyāsh. One section is headed "al-ḥāfiẓ allāh" (God is the guarantor) followed by "Owed to Barhūn and Nissim …
Notebook, probably belonging to a 15th-century Byzantine merchant, filled with records of various transactions. The language is primarily Hebrew but the months are Julian (אפריל …
Calendrical text concluding 've-shalom' (like a letter or epistle) and signed by Saʿadya ha-Kohen. Mentions maḥzor 262 (which spanned the years 1200–18 CE). Refers to …
Document regulating the inheritance of the estate in Sana'a, next to the synagogue, that was left behind by Meri Daud. The house was split and …
List of contributors to the pesiqa, headed "Appendix to the pledges." A list of thirty-four names (two unnamed with father and brother), of which eleven …
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Judaeo-Persian
Accounts (?) divided by horizontal lines. 11th c (?), written on parchment, thus Sicilian? Mentions silver ingots (fiḍḍa sabāʾik). Several of the entries begins "wa-qia …
Medical recipes in Arabic script, mentioning the ingredient fākhūr.
Legal testimonies embedded in a letter format. Testimonies made by Abū l-Khayr and Peraḥya about a physical argument between the leader Abū l-Bahā and Abū …
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1489 (4 September 1178). This bill of divorce is …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Long vertical format. A few entries are preserved, mentioning sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary jottings.
Letter from Yeshaʿya Kohen, in Damascus, to his nephew Aharon Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo. (The writer is the paternal uncle of the addressee.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Account.
Legal record, or outline for drawing up a deed of sale. Dated: Sunday, 26 Ṭevet 1537 Seleucid, which is 28 December 1225 CE. Bū Manṣūr …
Document in Arabic script. Letter? "al-mawlā" is mentioned.
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise.
Petition, Fatimid period. Written and signed by a stipendiary of the state in his own hand: Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. Aḥmad al-Umrāʾī (the reading of …
المملوك
احمد بن حمزة بن احمد الامراي (الاعرابي؟)
رقعة ما نسختها
بعد الدعا
المملوك يقبل الارض بالمقام المعظم النبوي ضاعف الله انواره