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Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife (or co-wives?). Dating: ca. 16th century.
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) from the Mamluk period in Arabic script written on paper, by al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm b. ʿAfīf b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Involves sums …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …
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Original text: Three lines in calligraphic Arabic script. Possibly part of a document. Prayers for Muḥammad are clearly legible (الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا …
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Letter from Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān, the pilgrim, to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. The purpose of the letter is to update Uruwī on various …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
List of goods with weights expressed in raṭl. Medieval-era. Some of the goods listed are olibanum/frankincense (לבאן) and purging cassia (כ[יא]ר שנבר). The verso contains …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Outline for the sale of enslaved people (bayʿ jalb). Seller: Moshe b. …
Letter sent to Sitt al-Ghazal, wife of the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah (?), by her elder son (?), Abu Zikri, asking her to put up …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Deuteronomy 6:4-7 (the shemaʿ). Verso: accounts in Arabic with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from an account. Late.
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions: majlis al-ḥarb al-saʿīd (l. 2); the titles of a notable (ll. 3–5); someone who has the town of Kafr …
Recto: Literary. Page in calligraphic Hebrew from the beginning of Sefer Zmanim in the Mishneh Torah, dating the fragment to ~1180 CE at the very …
Unidentified Arabic text, probably documentary. The middles of 10 lines are preserved. Reused for unidentified Hebrew script on verso (Judaeo-Arabic accounts?).
Fiscal accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Numerous distinct entries; one may refer to "fustuq." Lists prices or sums of money. Needs examination. On verso there …
Recto: Order of payment for 5 11/24 dinars. Verso: probably Arabic accounts. (Information from CUDL.)
Recto: letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. He asks the addressee to a sell …
Letter, calligraphic, written in alternating Hebrew and Arabic. Dealing with political machinations and silencing enemies. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
IB II, 53. Letter of thanks from Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Fustat. Dating: ca. 1120s or, more broadly, ca. 1100-1138 CE …
בשמ' רחמ'
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter fragment. Beginning in rhymed Hebrew and continuing in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish-influenced hand. Requests a "cheering" (letter) and conveys blessings to the addressee. AA/ASE
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably literary.
Recto: apparently a list of legal decisions. Verso: two unidentified lines in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
IB VII, 11. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). David b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Ṣafaṭ (? אלצפט) acknowledges receipt of …
'תבוא יד ותקחני בציצת ראשי': מכתב מחורז מאת חלפון אל הר"י אבן מיגש ספרד [כנראה חודש תמוז או אב, שנת 1138] זהו שריד גדול של …
Literary text. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides (or perhaps one of his descendants).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mentions the mustaʿrib congregation in the header and, below that, the …
Fragment of a letter addressed to the Gaʾon 'at the gate of the Yeshiva.' The sender reports that he has fulfilled the order, and a …
Pen trials or a perhaps a note in Arabic with an unusually cut reed pen that had two contact points at various places throughout the …
Verso and bottom of recto: Amulet(s) for Makārim b. Nujūm to give him charm and grace and to silence his enemies. (Information from CUDL.)
May God make eternal the reign of the exalted seat, the [mighty] lord, [(commander of) the armies, sword (of Islam),]
the defender (of mankind),…
תרגום אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning primarily the trade in pepper (filfil). Hand of Nahray? Each page is crossed out with a vertical line. It seems the …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the right side of recto). Either to or from Abū Isḥāq Avraham. The sender arrived safely …
Right fragment: Letter addressed to Eliyyahu b. Zekharya the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the introductory blessings are preserved here. Handwriting of Ṭahor b. Avraham.
Legal document. Involves a certain Avraham. (Information in part from CUDL)
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto opens in the middle of an interesting story: "Six Venetian ships arrived, bearing great bounties (niʿam ʿaẓīma), and all of …
Letter from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Istanbul. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman-era. The purpose of the letter is to request …