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Fatimid petition. Dating: 422–23/1031–32. Second half of a petition to the caliph al-Ẓāhir requesting the return of a church that had been confiscated by decree …
[جميـ]ـع ما فيها من فضة ونحاس والات خشب
ورخام يساوى ذلك جملة كبيرة فنقضها
وبنا بقبضها دارا فبعضها معصرة وحوانيت
يستغلها جميع ذلك ويحص…
All the silver, copper, wooden vessels
and marble that are in it. All of this amounts to a large quantity. He broke them down
and with …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: 12 Adar 1420 Seleucid = 14 February 1109 CE. In which Nāshī b. Menaḥem acknowledges receipt from Mevorakh b. …
דיון אחד
Letter written by a woman, introduced by Psalms 41:2, asking for assistance in a legal battle concerning the rights to a house. Both fragments at …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for "the lofty rescript" (التوقيع العالي زاده الله شرفا وعلوا) apparently concerning a certain Abū Saʿd, "sitting …
Letter from Wafāʾ b. Abū l-Faraj to a dignitary. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists entirely of poetic expressions of longing and honor. On verso: "The …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-third and …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
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Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli b. Amram, Fustat. Daniel instructs Eli how to summon to the court. On the other side the letter …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Likely a medical recipe in Arabic script (...mithqāl... ghārīqūn... anīsūn...). But needs further examination.
Incomplete Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Monday 15 Iyyar 5414 AM (1654 CE). Location: Cairo. Bride: Hana bt. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Rofe. Groom: Avraham b. Moshe …
תעתוק אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, many of which are crossed out. Medieval-era. The currency is mentioned as "wariq" dirhams on several occasions; in other places nuqra dirhams …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, including religious contents an an anecdote about a bridge (qanṭara) and someone drowning.
Quire with Masekhet Avot. Fol. 10v: Colophon. Completed Thursday, 25 Tammuz 1377 Seleucid = 21 July 1066 CE. Copied by Yoshiyyahu ha-Ḥazzan b. Saʿadyahu ha-Meʿulle …
Likely a summary of a legal case, involving Umm Khalaf, Yosef b. Ḥus[ayn?], a payment of 26 of something, and ʿIwāḍ. (Information in part from …
Petition from the early Ayyubid period from Yehuda ha-Kohen to Eliyyahu requesting a meeting with the head of a government office regarding taxes for the …
Outline for drawing up a marriage contract. Ca. 1100 CE. Groom: Barakāt/Berakhot b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen. Bride: Khulla bt. ʿAmram. Early marriage payment (muqaddam): 20 dinars. …
Legal jottings. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Recto mentions possibly a female slave (though al-jāriya can also be an adjective), sending something, 'khidma,' …
Recto: Account or a receipt of goods. Indian spikenard is mentioned in line 1 (سادج/ساذج; this can also mean "simple") and in line 2 a …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions Avraham b. Shemaʿya.
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaʾon according to Gil), in Ṣahrajt, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE …
Medical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions spices such as cinnamon, pepper, and mahlab. AA. ASE.
T-S Ar.51.76r: medical prescription in elegant Arabic script (See Isaacs, Medical, p. 52).
Late accounts in Arabic, probably Ottoman-era. The list starts with 'thaman' (price) or 'qabaḍ' (collected).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
Fragment of a Maghribī business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th-century. The handwriting looks like that of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Mentions obtaining 'ḥashīsha' from the …
למילה
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Referring to the sugar shops in the Sūq al-Naqqālīn (verso) and the two sugar shops (ḥānutayn sukkar) of …
Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic, including blessings for Jerusalem. Reads like a translation of standard Hebrew liturgy -- the source may be identifiable.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions garments (e.g. mayāzir) and the rent of a ship (kirā markab) among other items. Dating: 11th …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, most of the entries list varying quantities of Ottoman-era gold jadid coinage. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic reference. …
Accounts. Mentioning Sulaymān and saffron.
Settlement between Abū l-Munā ʿUlla b. Sibaʿ (known as Ibn al-Dihqān), and Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen. The latter owes a debt (figures of …
Minute fragment with some Hebrew or at least Hebrew-script words.
Minute fragment of a document referring to "that which is in Bijāya."
Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).