Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
Informal note addressed to 'the father.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send with the bearer the 100 dirhams that are with Maymūn for the construction …
No Scholarship Records
Deed of sale of a property. Many landmarks and characteristics are described.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Describes various architectural elements of a house: the living room (majlis), the guesthouse (dār al-ḍiyāfa), the wind catcher (al-bādhanj). Signed …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū Saʿd; a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ; and someone's maternal grandmother. Probably a deed of …
1 Transcription
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions Tishrei 1520 Seleucid, which is 1208 CE. Abū l-ʿIzz acknowledges receipt …
1 Discussion
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Account and agreement between the Qodesh and a partner, ca. 1156. A certain al-Nadiv, otherwise known as the perfume maker, tenant of a compound partly …
The honorable elders declare that they
settled the account of al-Nādīv, the result
of the account being that there is a balance to his …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. List of expenses, beautifully written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Materials for the construction of a …
dirhem. Paid for 7 bundles of twigs, 14 dir. Paid for a bundle
of ropes, 5 dir. Paid for 6 bundles of palm branches, 3/4 dinar.
For saw…
Account of the qodesh ca. 1234. This is a double leaf from a notebook, containing four columns of items. Both revenue from rent and building …
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion