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Petition or legal document from a Jew on behalf of the Jewish community to the government. The petitioner's name appears in the lower right margin. …
يقبلون الارض
الايام متع لله بوجوده (الايام؟)
ويهود وبينهم وبين جماعة دعاوي شرعية و
لهم خلاص الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي وسمو الهم من الصـ[…
תעתוק אחד
ח51 מכתב מאת אִסְחַק (יצחק) בן שבת אל חלפון ספרד, כנראה 1138–1139 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 18.0 x 15.4 ס"מ. פורסם אצל גיל ופליישר, ריה"ל …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Account, dated 1516 (תתקכב = 922, i.e. 1516 CE), in Hebrew, mentioning a khizana, treasury, seemingly a box in which all revenue was deposited and …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
List of precious ornaments and other metalware. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Elul 1437 Seleucid = August/September 1126 CE. (The signing of the document was delayed by …
Recto: letter. Mentions sending a power of attorney. Urges two people to "enter into the affair" (פאן דכלא פי אלמסלה פאן אלמסלה תנגח אללה אללה). …
Informal note from Bū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side). Mentions something that happened yesterday at the physician's shop (dukkān al-ḥakīm); the sender may be …
Drafts of documents, made by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel and other scribes. Dating: 1159 CE, based on the date mentioned in the first entry …
Letter concerning a request from a noble lady to lend the writer decorative hangings. The owner of the draperies is described as lending out curtains …
A legal note - the writer agree to pay to pay the mortgage for 'Old Egypt' without delay. In the opening lines Shaykh Muḥ[ammad] al-Ḥamawī …
Fragmentary letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to a certain Avraham, concerning the affairs of a man, his wife, and a young boy, and …
Bottom of a legal document signed by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), Munajjā b. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa b. Yaʾir. An addendum …
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Discusses how a certain person has always acted with beneficence; mentions "fear" at least twice; mentions sayyidnā; payments; asks …
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A list of names and corresponding sums of money e in a very crude hand. The usage of eastern Arabic numerals supports a dating estimate …
Fragment of a marriage contract, most likely. Sets out conditions including a menstrual purity clause and therefore probably dating to no earlier than the late …
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic, elevated register. Small fragment only. Mentions the government. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions a qāʿa. Likely a deed of sale related to real estate.
Fragment of a communal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The middles of four lines are preserved, wide spacing between …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from Rome. Addressed to 'my son' Barhūn Naqqāsh. Dating: Likely late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. "I remained in Sardinia (צרדאניא) …
Legal document. In Hebrew and some Aramaic. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Attests that Fāʾiza bt. Yaʿaqov b. Shuʿayb appeared in court after …
2 תעתוקים
Letter to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused on verso for a calendrical table.
Letter in ornate Hebrew. From Moshe ha-Ḥazzan ha-Zaqen to at least two addressees, including someone addressed as Nagid, R. Shela ha-Ḥamishi ba-Ḥavura. One of these …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1140. The partners (Abū al-Barakāt and Abū al-Faraj) split losses evenly but grant the active partner (Abū al-Faraj) thirteen twenty-fourths …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter (left half only) to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Men[ashshe] b. al-Qaṭāʾif mentioning a quantity of 12 dirhams and the upcoming holiday.
Narrative text about the destruction of the second temple — Yossipon? Mentions Titus, bayt al-maqdis, al-Quds (Jerusalem), and "a village called Maṣitā" (Masada?) to which …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Aharon b. Shemuel. Bride: Mulūk bt. Mukhtār. Dated: 1339 Seleucid, which is 1027/28 CE. Signed by Saʿīd b. Aharon, Yeshuʿa b. David, …
דיון אחד
Letter of condolence from from al-Mubārak, Hiba, Faḍl, and Isḥāq, the sons of Yeshuʿa b. Samḥūn, to the ḥaver Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllun b. Meʾir upon …
List of names in Arabic script: Abū l-Riḍā b. [...], Abū Saʿīd, Abū ʿAlī.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, apparently addressed to Makārim, who is probably the same as Abū l-Makārim b. al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter …
Damaged list containing names, items and prices or amounts written in Coptic numerals.
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Damietta; someone's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Surūr who is in Fustat; speaking to 'the Nazir' (Heb.); and …
Verso: Drafts of legal notes from a court. Some of the text may have been erased. The entries do not appear to be related to …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... and when he moved on in the lifetime of my father M[oshe(?)] Sanhedra Rabba, bless his saintly …
Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew. Dated: Tammuz 5619 AM = July 1859 CE. Recommendation for Yaʿaqov …
Recto: The beginnings of 4 lines of an official report in Arabic script. "When I found the districts in the aforementioned state..." (wa-lammā alfaytu l-nawāḥī …
Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly dated: looks like 527 AH, which would be 1132/33 CE. But this needs confirmation.
Ketubba or prenuptial agreement in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. Groom: Berakhot ha-Levi. …
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dated: 445 AH, which is 1053/54 CE. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. Groom: Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi ha-Parnas. The bride's name is missing; this is not her first marriage. Part of the …
List of persons, headed by R. Nahray (Nahray), on the payroll of the community. Goitein says: scholars on the payroll of the Cairene commuity. Similar …
Pen trials, in a chancery hand, in Arabic script. Contains terms like "al-mamlūk", "nāʾib" and a name "al-shaykh al-ajall abū saʿīd."