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Mercantile letter. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender's hand may be known. His relationship with the addressee is very strained. He complains of his bad …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Describes a legal arrangement, probably a partnership in a store or business. Dating: 12th century, based on the typical hand. Mentions Abū …
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Letter concerning business matters. Deals with the forwarding of 15 dinars and an order for three ounces of ink (midād) and other smaller items. (Information …
Responsum? It discusses ritual purity, but the layout looks like a letter. Needs examination.
Small and damaged fragment of a bill of divorce (get)
Letter in which the writer complains about his financial state. The sender gives advice to the addressee about leaving some place and taking his childrens' …
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Letter from Dāʾūd [...], possibly in Jerusalem, to his 'brother' Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov the physician (Samawʾal b. Yaʿqūb al-Mutaṭabbib), in New Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with …
Petition draft. From Manṣūr b. Salāma (Khan) or b. Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 …
العبد المملوك
منصور بن سلامة من اهل سنديون
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسي…
The servant and slave
Manṣūr ibn Salāma from among the people of Sindiyūn.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The bl…
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Recto: Letter fragment. Very narrow. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides? Verso: memorial list of the family of Sheʾerit b. Yefet. (Information in part from CUDL and …
ס . ד . פי | מ שלמ…
Fragment of an unidentified treatise, written on a pair of conjugate leaves. It includes the beginning of the nineteenth faṣl, on the anatomy of the …
Legal document. Tiny fragment. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Someone will not require an oath from somebody else.
Narrative report in Arabic script. Letter, legal query, or literary? Mentions a Jewish man, perhaps named Yūsuf, who came before a governor (wālī). Then refers …
Book list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Probably 13th century. "The number of books of the shaykh [...]. The first: 15. The second: 14. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, based on currencies, which include גדיד (cedid) and קרונה (the latter is likely the Spanish escudo minted as early as …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (aka Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān) to a physician named Abū l-Maḥāsin (titled al-Shaykh al-Sadīd). In Arabic script with one …
شهد من ثبت شهادته في هذا الكتاب [
المسمين فيه جميعا وفرادى فمنهم من كتب بخطه [ومنهم من كُتب
عنه بامره ومحضره واشهدوا ا…
Recto: Jottings in Arabic script, apparently drafts of phrases from a letter. Verso: A few numbers in Hebrew script (calculations of some kind? calendrical?); a …
Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Iqrār, ʿAbd al-Sayyid owes his debt in al-Siyūṭ to Sahyūn b. Ghibriyāl.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
Court notebook. Recto, right side, continuing onto verso, left side: Probably a legal query addressed to the Nagid (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira). Needs examination.
Bottom of a legal document. Location: Might be Palermo (פלרם), but this word is very faded. Dated: Elul 4904 AM = August 1144 CE. Settlement …
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Formulary (Palestinian-Rabbanite) for a bill of divorce, copied from a bill dated 872/73 CE, in Jerusalem. (Information from Goitein's index card.) See Krakowski and Stern, …
20 pages of lists of names with some accounts, organized by days of weeks.
Court record. Tiqva b. ʿAmram is representing his sister Sitt al-Kull bt. ʿAmram in her engagement (she is titled al-mukhatiba = the engaged (?)) to …
The original document is quite damaged; there is a list of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. There is also a line in Arabic …
Letter from Salāma b. Nissim b. Isḥāq al-Barqī, from Būṣīr, to Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, ca. 1053 (Gil). Contains a list of flax bales that …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ונעמתך מן בוציר לי איאם כלון מן שהר מרחשואן בדאה אללה כיר אלבדאיה
וכת…
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Verso: Formulary in Aramaic for a deathbed will, dated Av 1552 Seleucid (= 1241 CE) in Fustat. (Information from CUDL)
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning goods including copper and אלקשר and people including Abū l-Fatḥ b. Marzūq and the amīr ʿAlam al-Dawla.
Unidentified text or texts.
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 43
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Table of names and numbers in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Bifolio with a state-related document (draft or archival copy?). The main text block on the right states that there is an urgent need (al-ḥāja …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew, with one signature in both Hebrew and Latin script. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 5624 AM in the month of Shevat which is …
Erotic poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. "O if only my eye were inflamed (ramidat). . . O if only it were blinded," etc. ASE
Minute fragment of accounts, mentioning 5 gold dinars. Medieval-era.
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
Accounts or reckoning, mentioning names such as Muḥammad and Ḥusayn. Dating: probably Ottoman-era given the reference to a certain Mūṣlū Çorbacı in the lower entries …
Letter, fragment, 8 lines in a fainted script. Mentions a congregation (ijtimāʿ). Some lines read as "inna-nī law sirtu ʿalā".
Much faded mercantile list of items (e.g. nushādir, sal ammoniac), names (e.g. Ṣāfī), and prices. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. In the hand of …
Mamluk era legal document, in Arabic script.
Extensive mathematical calculations in Indo-Arabic and Arabic numerals, some of which may comprise specific accounts. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. There are …
Letter from Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen (also called ha-Talmid ha-Navon Segan ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter begins with condolences upon the …
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Tafsīr on the book of Daniel. Refers to the lions' den and to the king summoning "the viziers and patriarchs" (אלוזרא …
Recto: Power of attorney. Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam known as Ibn Ḥirbish permits a certain individual to collect all that is due to his …
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso) . Very few words remain. ASE.
Love spell in Judaeo-Arabic. For Esther bt. Nazlī to fall in love with Ḥayyim b. Barda. The hand looks late and possibly Iraqi—but that is …
An order from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of linseed oil (zayt ḥār). Cf. T-S NS 31.11.
Probably accounts, in Arabic script.
Short story by Yūsef Zeki Marzūq about a mother enduring the torment of her spouse throughout the process of her son who growing up marrying …
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Literary, probably. Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.