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Questions and answers on religious matters – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 282) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein …
No Scholarship Records
Three different text blocks. (1) Possibly official accounts, in Arabic script. Looks Ayyubid or Mamluk. (2) Draft of a letter in Arabic script, similar hand …
Fragment of an account, likely fiscal.
Upper part of a letter to a dignitary ('al-sayyid al-fāḍil'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably originally a long rotulus. Resembles T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso (original use): Account in Arabic script, maybe a fiscal document. Mentions ʿĪsā b. Naṣr and ʿĪsā b. Sālim. There is a partial date (5 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in multiple hands, several entries crossed out. Dated in multiple places [.]85 AH, possibly with the century listed in l. 18 …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 26 Adar 5487 AM (1727 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Najma bt. Yeshūʿa bt. Moshe and the groom …
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Block print. Welcome placard in Hebrew with black and red flower patterns. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely documentary. Needs examination. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is also some Hebrew literary text.
List of men's names organized according to family name (e.g. Castro, Romano, Qudsī, Ṭawīl, Tājir, Kohen). Communal rabbis (חכם) are listed first among the opening …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning Abū l-Faraj and maqṭaʿ cloths several times; also flax.
Court record; concerned with legal issues between ʿUlla b. Joseph, the agent of Saʿd, and Maṣliaḥ b. Meshullam; signed by the witnesses Isaac, Abraham b. …
Legal document. Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Adar II 1464 (17 March 1153). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the …
1. מטא גיטא לידה
2. קמן אנן עידי מסירה
3. מבורך בר נתן ס'ט'
4. סעדיה ביר
5. מבורך נ'ע'
1. בתלתא בשבה דהוא תשעת עשר
2. יומי לירח אדר שני …
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Various legal jottings written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. One of them is dated Wednesday, 7 Nisan 1432 Seleucid = 1131 CE.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic. Mainly organized by parshiyot. Also mentioning some names such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the judge 20 dirhams apparently on account of the closure of …
Account.
Literary fragment. Discussing legal testimony.
Original use: official account (makhzūma) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragment of a legal document involving a marital dispute. On parchment.
Page from a volume of seliḥot to be read during the 10 days of repentance, with an ownership/purchase note by the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram …
Note from Yaʿaqov the agent of Abū Saʿd b. Mufaḍḍal al-Sukkarī (same as in T-S NS 264.48 (PGPID 24564)?), who kisses the hand of sayyidnā …
Account. Probably Mamluk-era. Headed: "Collected on the blessed day of Thursday, 19th Rajab, pertaining to the deceased woman, by the Jewish banker ʿAbd al-Wahhāb known …
Business accounts. Mentions mirwads.
Fol. 3v: Brief jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Nāṣirī silver. There is also an ownership note for Moshe b. Hillel the descendant of [...]. This …
Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet.
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including dates and names. Late.
Book list in Arabic script. The first two items are the Life of al-Ḥākim and the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. There is also …
Letter from Barakāt b. Manṣūr, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Arabic script, with the address on verso written once in Arabic …
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Legal query concerning a newlywed girl who is scared of her husband who has a convulsion every time they attempt sexual intercourse. She is begging …
Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g. מיא for 100). Mentions: Isḥāq; Muẓaffar; ʿImrān; Manṣūr; al-Kaʿkī; Abū l-Majd.
Scorpion amulet. Cf. JRL SERIES B 5682, ENA NS 73.12, and T-S AS 143.2
Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th–15th century based on the hand and typical abbreviations (mam[lūk]). Very little of …
Rendering of the book Esther into Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue this MS contains 25 pages, in a late hand. Including formulas of legal deed according to the custom …
Letter from a son to his father Mubārak b. [...], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. With rudimentary handwriting and spellings. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions several month names; Yaḥyā; Gharīb.
Arabic script (VMR)
IB II, 69b. Drafts of a panegyric in honor of Madmun II. Cairo, after 1186. A fuller fragment of the panegyric can be found on …
אני אודה לעל נורא עלילה / ואשפוך לו בכל עודי תפילה:
עלי תובו וחסדו הגדולה / אשר יעש לאום יפה מעולה
ומושיע בכל עתים יקימו / להצילם בעת דוחק סגול…
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Short letter or note, mentioning quantities of money. Bottom of a letter concerning a legal case between Saʿadya and his brother-in-law ʿAlī concerning 30 dinars …
Several words written in a thick pen a trial of the pen. Among others one reads the words šayʾ, ḍāʿaf Allāh
Note from a teacher (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to (his brother?) Abū Zikrī, complaining, "The master promised to talk to our lord Ḥananel and tell him …
Letter of praises for Yehuda b. Saʿadya, mentioning also his brother the future Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century, based on hand, formulae, and layout. Addressed to a physician (al-ḥakīm). Contains prolonged blessings and praises, hopes that …
Letter from Abū al-Thanāʾ Ḥāmid al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh in Ibrīm. This letter demonstrates the significant legal and commercial functions that …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اعلم الحضرة السامية الاجلية الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه وادام
نعمته وتوفيقه وحراسته وسلامته وادام بالسعادة…
In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the exalted and glorious presence, the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses—may God …
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Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). The addressee …
Lower fragment of a ketubba from Fustat, about mid-12th century, according to the witnesses' identity. The bride's name is Sitt al-Ahl. The signatories are X …