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Recto: (a) List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Isḥāq b. Khulayf; Khalfa b. Ismāʿīl; Hiba b. Mūsā; ʿImrān b. Mufarrij; Lu'lu'a bt. Ḥalfon. (b) Draft of …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Expenditures for a funeral and the meals after the funeral or during the mourning. Goitein suggests that it …
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Letter from an unknown writer in Jerusalem to Yeshuʿa Rofe, Fustat (Ẓoʿan), possibly his place of residence given the specificity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Will in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: Unknown. The writer specifies his wishes for his grave and shroud (for which he has also supplicated …
Account of burial expenses in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). It seems to have been a grand funeral with 47 …
Court deposition. The widow Salāma bt. Furayj b. Abī l-Gharīb appoints the Baghdādī Ḥasan/Yefet b. Ṭoviyya/Ṭayyib as her attorney to claim anything due to her …
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Fragment of a will. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). "No wailing women; and of garments in which I shall be …
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Various accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. One section may list the expenditures for a funeral, items include the gravediggers (ḥaffārīn) and the perfume for the corpse or …
Fragment of a letter composed circa 1236 CE by Abu l-Ḥasan Yedutun b. Abu Sahl Levi, at one time the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue …
Letter from a penniless woman, the widow of Abū Surrī, to Mevorakh b. Saadya (1094–1111). She begs him to come to her rescue in a …