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Letter from ʿAwaḍ b. Hanan'el in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, in which the writer complains of hardships he has endured, and asks …
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Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. …
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Legal document in Arabic on verso, the lower right corner and a partial witness signature are preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
No Scholarship Records
Bifolio of a text in Judaeo-Arabic containing elaborate recipes for testing the quality of precious stones. The righthand page of verso details the procedure for …
Recipe, it seems for something to do with lac. Needs examination.
Letter.
Poem in Judaeo-Persian, edited and translated by Shaked, "פרקים במורשתם הקדומה של יהודי פרס," Peʿamim 1985, 35–37. There are various other text blocks in both …
Letter mentioning Netanʾel the Seventh (השביעי בחבורת ארץ צבי). (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ."
Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Ibrāhīm. Written once in Judaeo-Arabic and repeated in Arabic script. He asks Ibrāhīm to meet him …
Letter dealing with a legal matter that was discussed before a qadi concerning the consequences of having had Jewish witnesses. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) …
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Secondary use: Court record in Judaeo-Arabic. An inventory of something (a trousseau? a dead person's estate?). Many valuable goods are listed along with their values, …
Technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemy?
Late letter in Hebrew addressed to a certain Avraham, in Egypt (perhaps by his brother given the usage of "אחי" in the adress). In line …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Refers …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "Tell Faḍā'il that if he wants to live with his cousins (awlād khālatihi) he should move with them." There have …
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Communal letter addressed to the community of Fustat, in Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century. Requesting that they come to the senders' aid by calling a …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment in Hebrew, probably from a letter or possibly a legal document. Mentions a gentile; R. Avraham who gave something; Binyamin forgiving something. Dating: …
T-S AS 167.65 is a Judaeo-Arabic version of Judas's betrayal of Jesus and Jesus's humiliation (e.g., אלהואן אלצאיל) and his imprisonment, mentioning "those who were …
Letter from Minyat Zifta to Fustat. The writer had been sent to Minyat Zifta to deliver an instruction to the judge Shabbetay b. Avraham (active …
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Late. A fragmentary document dealing with excommunication and oath. Hebrew. Mentions R. Aharon al-Kurdi. AA/ASE
Fragment of an account in Judeo-Arabic. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Receipt issued by Yaʿaqov Raẓon to al-Senyor Merkado Karo for 82 reales.
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent and building expenditures, probably ca. 1043. The recto of this leaf is a continuation of the two preceding …
. . . . The old woman, 2 dir.
The two rooms of al-Ṣaydalānī, 8 dir.
Dār al-Barqī, 5.
From Dār al-Ḥaffār:
The room of Ḥasan al…
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IB II, 32. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Yefet, Aden, to his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen settling the estate of Jewish traders who …
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IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
Notes for drawing up a legal document? "The husband: Sahl b. Yefet. His wife: [...] bt. Maṣliaḥ. The property that is in Bilbays. The name …
Verso: Statute in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. Condemning and prohibiting all the …
Mercantile accounts. Mentions Sayyid al-Mahdiyya (verso, l. 2); Dār al-Wakāla (verso, penultimate line); 4 manns of nutmeg (verso, last line); 7.5 raṭls of galangal (recto, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as Bodl. MS heb. c 13/13 (PGPID 19316). Addressed to a cousin (yā ibn ʿammī). Conveying various pieces of …
Literary. Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, including one for how to fatten onself. Dating: Late, based on the hand. "Fol. 1r, under the heading …
Recto: Petition or report to a Fatimid vizier, ending only, including raʾy, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. 5th century AH/11th century CE. Possible join with T-S Ar.22.140 …
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End of a legal document written and signed by Elḥanan b. Shemarya. Verso is blank.
Testimony that Abu al-Rida known as al-Subki had gifted all his property in Alexandria to his wife, Sitt al-Zaman bat Yiṣḥaq. Dated May 1185 in …
Marriage contract in the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat (a previous PGP description said Jerusalem). Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid = 14 October …
Court record concerning evidence of possession of a compound in Fustat, mentioning lanes and buildings in the city including two kanīsa, the zuqāq al-laban. Dated …
Fols. 33b–131a: Commentary on the Mishnah by Natan ben Avraham, Av ha-Yeshiva (first half of 11th century). This is a Yemeni copy from the sixteenth–seventeenth …
Legal query to Hodayahu ha-Nasi. See parallel in ENA 4045.19 (PGPID 15920).
Letter from Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq from Alexandria to his father in law, Seror (Surur) b. Ḥayyim b. Sabra in Fustat. Written a month after another …
Receipt or order of payment. For Ṣāliḥ.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment (upper left corner of recto).
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Describes his tribulations due to the winter; mentions business in flax; the animals …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם
עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה מן אל[א]סכנדריה ליב בקין מן טבת כתמה
אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ע…
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Arabic poetry.
Recto: List of names with numbers. Verso: A different list/account in Arabic script.
Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Marriage contract recorded on parchment. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM = 8 April 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. …
Small fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe an account. Possibly in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions clay (ṭīn).
List of Talmudic quotations, mainly from Bava Qamma. (Information from CUDL)