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Note in the hand of Nissim b. Iṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, ca. 1050, written for himself and for Nahray b. Nissim. Records details of a shipment of …
רב סלם ובלג ברחמתך וארחם אל
ראחמין(!) לנסים בן יצחק ונהראי בן
נסים ששכ ביעה מלונה וד ביעאת
עקוד תברורי [ובעץ גנדלו] ופיהא
ברסם יוסף …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions spices such as cinnamon, pepper, and mahlab. AA. ASE.
אין רשומות קשורות
None
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish …
Two fragments of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Settlement of a business dispute. Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo (together with his father Shelomo b. Saʿadya) acknowledges that …
דיון אחד
Address of a letter. In Arabic script. Probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem (see …
Fragment of a letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1045. The writer lists the goods that …
[ ] דפעה אלי אברהם בן אלאסכנד[ראני]
[ ] תכפיף עלי קלבך [ ] פאעלם אן אשגאלך כתירה ואל[ס]עה(?)
[אנמא] אלצרורה געלתני נתקל עליך פיה ואלעבדא…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including for medicinal items such as syrups (sharāb) and oxymel (sakanjabīn). In a common hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs.
Prose work in Arabic with a narrative of the ʿudhrī poet Jamīl and Buthayna.
Legal document involving Abū l-Faḍl al-Parnas, Abū Saʿd, and payments in installments. The margins and verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic …
Small fragment or draft from a legal document, mentioning witnesses. (Information from CUDL)
Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Complaint to a Nagid about utterances made in public, it seems by Abū l-Barakāt, including insults toward women and which even …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
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 …
1r-v: Agreement between Sari b. ‘Eli and Sedaqa b. […] with regard to goods left by Musafir b. Yish‘i. Shari undertakes to pay after his …
מכתב קצר מאת אבו זִכְּרִי כהן אל חלפון פֻסטאט, שנת 1132 את המכתב הקצר הזה שלח אבו זִכְּרִי כהן, פקיד הסוחרים בפֻסטאט, לחלפון זמן קצר …
End of a letter to a dignitary. In Arabic script. On the other side there is a legal document (see separate record). Needs further examination. …
Letter from the nephew of a Ḥaver (whose eldest son is Abū l-Maʿānī), mentioning the 13th-century judge Anatoli. (Information from CUDL.) The sender might be …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Entries include: Manṣūr b. Ḥunayn(?)... ḥammām al-shaykh... sayyid al-dār... Ismāʿīl al-Ḥabbās(?)...
Accounts in Ladino, with some Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "the Moor (=Muslim) Mustafa." Mentions locations such as Būlāq and Ḥusayniyya.
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom only). The sender apologizes profusely for an unspecified failing and goes on at length about his …
مه…[ ]سمى لو كان[ ]غير
مولاي الشيخ وارجو الا يتجرد منه كتاب في شي منك هذا فوالله
ان كنت الا على النار والله ما اردت الا احرق راسي ك…
Accounts. MR
Iqrār, though in some ways resembles a state document with fiscal content. In Arabic script. 16 full and 4 half lines on paper. Probably begins …
Letter in Arabic script. Ḥaḍara baʿd ijtimāʿī bi-haḍrat mawlāy al-Shaykh al-ajall.... Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew literary text in a rudimentary hand.
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions [...] b. ʿUlla. Probably a will, because it alludes …
Fragment from a legal document or letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions (Abū l-)Faraj and Dāʾūd, the court of 'our master' (Maṣliaḥ …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1035 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Complete letter of the 15th or later centuries, with a ב״ה in the top margin. It mentions Shemuʾel Jerbi (the sender?), and two others, David …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to Sahlān b. Avraham, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based …
Court record in Hebrew. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). (Or at least about Damietta.) Dated: Nisan 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. Concerns a debt of …
Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA
Court record concerning financial matters between Munajjā and Abū l-Surūr. Dated 49[..] of the Era of Creation and [..]25 Era of documents, so it is …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: 1 Kislev 1[4]12 Seleucid (1100 CE). Signed by Ḥillel b. ʿEli and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Shela b. Yehuda. Wife: …
Letter from the Master of the Shipmasts to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. The letter reports on the activities of Merki, a man who was …
List of names in Arabic script of unclear significance. Mentions: Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāʿid al-Yaḥudī... Yūsuf, Fāḍil, and Fāḍila... "his wife" Sitt al-Nās. On verso jottings …
The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. ואנא עלי עין מא ארא . . . ען אלבלד . . . ימצי . . . האלהים יברכיהו . . …
Beginning of a document or letter mentioning a sultan and ahl al`afaf - needs examination. (FGP)