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Letter in which the writer asks the recipient to deliver the bearer of the letter fifty dirhams worth of black silk, since the writer is …
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Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1v: …
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Mercantile letter from an unknown sender, possibly in Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl (al-Andalusī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (vertical piece from the middle). Dating: …
סלא]מתה וסעאדתה ורעאיתה וכאן לה ולי וחאפט [
ושוק] שריד לטאלעתך אלמבארכה קרב אללה אלאגתמא[ע
] עלי דלך ווצל גמיע מא אנפדתה סאלם לל[
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. In the lower section of the verso, a quantity of "silk" is visible. Requires further examination.
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A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …
Summary of a power of attorney. Levi b. Ibrāhīm appointed Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh to obtain for him the implements of a silk weaving workshop …
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Tishrei 5585 AM, which is 1824 CE. Discusses various business …
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …
Accounts, listing weights and payments. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Several of the accounts deal with silk. This fragment is …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated as [Dhu] al-Qa'da 1013 AH which is 1605 CE: "אל קעדה ס[נת] יג ואלפ", further down the recto the year [5]364 …
Letter from Abū l-Najm to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a …
Letter from Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, in Qaṭyā, to David Medina, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: first half of the 16th century. Concerning trade in silk imported …
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Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding …
Court archive describing a working woman (an unraveler of silk) from Tyre, Lebanon who possessed a house and was able to pay a bill of …
Deed of compensation in the handwriting of Emanuel b. Yehiel concerning Sulayman ha-Kohen b. Efrayim, who engaged in dyeing silk with turquoise blue. Also mentions …
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Receipt in Arabic script. Location: Cairo or Fustat. Dated: before Muḥarram 561 AH, which is late 1165 CE. For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. …
Letter(s). The first 9 lines are in Arabic script (the hand is practiced), followed by 9 lines in Judaeo-Arabic (the hand is crude). It may …
Accounts, mentioning different quantities of silk and sums of money, and the name […] b. Isaac. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faḍl and Sitt Abū l-Surūr and commodities such as silk. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning silk and olives among other goods.
Recto: Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting and spellings. The sender reports that they have dyed the silk. The addressee shouldn't stay away any longer. …
Partnership document in the "silk business" (עסק המשי). Date: Kislev 5562 AM (1801 CE). Location: Cairo. Several people are named in the opening lines. The …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismaʿīl al-Jawharī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Provides information about goods, mainly textiles, that came from the Maghrib …
Will of a silk-weaver named Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī, dividing his house, workshop, and other belongings to his four sons. In the hand …
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Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business …
Business letter from a Maghribī merchant. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov and Hilāl (or at least these names appear in the address) In Judaeo-Arabic, with …
Court register. Recto: Partnership agreement, probably for the tax farming of silk dyeing in Upper Egypt (פי צמאן באב אלחריר ב[אלצעיד . . . אל]עליא …
Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Mentions silk and business concerning dresses. The addressee is unknown although it seems his father’s name …
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Late list of commodities, with one entry instead listing the name: Ibrahīm al-Fīlālī. The dating is likely 16th or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …
Verso (original use): Legal deed in Arabic script. (Abū l-)Faḍāʾil b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, the tax farmer of the silk, has to receive 474 dirhams …
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Commercial letter from Nissim Masos or Meshish (?משיש משוש) to Karo y Frances & Company. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions …
Detailed account in Judaeo-Arabic, much of it for expenses entailed in the dyeing of silk.
שרי אלעצפר ה קנאטיר מן סער
כט דינר כל קנטאר אלתמן קמה דינר
וכרג ענה אנטאע ותליס וחבל וכיט
ושדאדין ח דנא ודרהמין וברטיל
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Receipt issued by the silk monopoly administration in Alexandria that was signed and stamped by the overseer ʿUmr Agha. Dated 14 Shawwal 1239 AH which …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic detailing income for the "Treasury of Silk Looms" in Alexandria, a branch of the state monopoly administration. Dated Shawwal 1239 AH which …
Order of payment issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya. …
Recto and verso: Letter. One of the small handful of Judaeo-Arabic papyri. Labeled "papyrus II" in the classification of Blau and Hopkins. Dating: Probably 9th …
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Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script about the sale of silk, flax, olive oil and other commodities. Alludes to "the calamities" which …
Beginning of a court record (last will and testament?) for Shela b. Yefet the silk tax-farmer in Sammanud.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very detailed. Dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and currencies referenced. There is a full date in the upper left …
Recto: Bottom of a letter (official letter?) in Arabic script. Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to …
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Mentions details about money exchange and shipments of pepper and silk to and from Palermo. (Information from Gil, …
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]ן נתרכה דפעה ולא נאכדה צרף אלפין ומא
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Ketubba that has been badly damaged yet a portion of the dowry is still visible as "עשר אלף מיידיס כסף..." (10,000+ silver medin). The mention …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1055, sent as an addendum to an earlier letter, which has not been identified. …
תמאם כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבי יחיה
פי כתאבה אנך לם תרגע אלי אלקאעה אלדי לך אלי אסעה
אללה יופקך ואלל כפיא מא ורד אלדי מעך הדיא יאמולאי
תקבפה…
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Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …
Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of
this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…
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Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …
Private account of Yosef b. Eli Kohen al-Fasi. Dating: around 1057 (Gil). Contains details about partnership between the writer and Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ regarding purchasing …
بسم
אלדי אכרגת בבוציר ען מא יכצני מן אלורק
קיח דר //וכרג// אלי בן אללכלאכי יג ותולת
פי תמן…לעבד אללה וזנה יז קיר וחבה
כז …
Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew. Western Arabic numerals are in use with one entry on the recto dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. …
Account, private, written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1061 CE. Nissim b. Ishaq, for whom the account was made, is probably ha-Tāhartī. Mentions silk …
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