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Accounts for construction or building maintenance in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
אין רשומות קשורות
Bottom of a marriage contract. Dating: ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. The dowry is 75 dinars. Signed by: Efrayim …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Bifolio from a ledger of accounts. This part concerns the sale of aloeswood (ʿūd), 44 dinars and 10 qirats. Cf. T-S K15.29. (Information from Goitein's …
דיון אחד
Small, darkened piece of parchment, with phrases both from a letter (top) and from a legal document (bottom).
Account in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals, containing among other things the name Ibrahīm b. Aḥmad; al-Kurdī; and ʿAlī al-Ashqar.
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Fragmentary list of sums received and final expenditures, including a Passover gift. Hand of Yefet b. David.
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Legal testimony. Stating that Yeshuʿa Peʾer ha-Qahal and Bunyām b. Sibāʿ and his mother and Ḥāzim appeared and fought over 1.5 dinars that Sibāʿ …
Letter of holiday greetings from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt. 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Including an outline for a bill of sale for a Persian (ʿajamiyya) enslaved woman named …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Lists in Arabic of unclear significance, needs examination. All four pages of the bifolium are filled. Likely a fiscal account. Many names appear, e.g., Qusṭanṭīn, …
Verso (secondary use): Complete letter in Hebrew prefaced by two biblical quotations (Psalms 120:1; 130:1). The writer is commiserating with the addressee’s disgrace, likely a …
State document, in Arabic script. A petition asking for a rescript, probably directed directly to the caliph, because of the raʾy formula towards the end. …
Recto: letter from a certain Abū l-Qasam (?). Verso: title page of a book of recipes used in the ʿAḍūḍī hospital in Baghdad. (Information from …
IB I, 33. Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) containing a commercial account and a record of court proceedings. On …
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Purchased with this:
lac sent in four pieces {alt. tr.: units}, price: 1,000 dirhems;
a small bale of spikenard: 300 d…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Legal document. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Involves [...] b. Yefet ha-Zaqen and [...] b. Peraḥya ha-Levi ha-Zaqen and contains the curious phrase "I have leased myself to …
Accounts.
Fragment of a prenuptial agreement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Few details preserved.
Fragment of a document of sale in which Nahray b. Nissim, the well-known banker and communal lender (d. 1096), buys from his brother-in-law and the …
IB II, 27. Copy of a letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: 1136–39 or 1145–49. Written by one of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Faded document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter.
Letter of condolence on the death of a woman. Maybe a copy or formulary, based on the layout.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The name Ṣāʿid appears in what looks like the address on verso.
Fragment from the bottom of a text in Arabic, may be documentary. Looks late. Mentions ilā al-majlis.
Verso: The end of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother," and he may be an actual brother since the sender …
Communal letter. Maybe an autograph of David I Maimonides (וכ[תב] דוד). Might be a proclamation against certain popular forms of piety (the shrine of Dammūh/Dimwa?), …
Small fragment of a legal document. Almost nothing preserved other than two partial witness signatures: [...] b. Aharon and Aharon [...].
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, mentioning various commodities including flax. Dating: ca. 1064 CE. Also mentions a …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
Two bifolios of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Partially written in red ink and with large letters. The Arabic script may be an …
Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tishrei 1449 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on …
Upper right corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Muʾnisa(?) [...] bt. Nāṣir b. Wuhayb(?) acknowledges receipt of a sum of money …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nothing preserved apart from some release formulae.
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Fragment (upper right piece of recto). Most of what is preserved on recto consists of …
Question to Muslim jurisconsults. In Arabic script. Concerning a case of inheritance. The last two lines contain the names of two apparently deceased people: Isḥāq …
Letter fragment. To Musallam/Muslim. Mentioning Yosef b. Efrayim. (Information in part from CUDL)
Sermon composed for the week of Parashat Bereshit or Simhat Torah. Dating: post-1825 CE. The verso references a collection of weekly sermons, Sefer Yoshev Ohalim, …