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Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Listing many names and numbers. Mentions: Ibn al-Qābila; Abū Saʿd; Rosh ha-Qahal; al-Muʿallim; Ibn Qaṭāṭa(?); Abū …
אין רשומות קשורות
Writing exercises in Arabic on recto and verso.
Legal fragment. Only a few words remain from the end of the document, and then 11 signatures. Location: Jubayl (probably Byblos in Lebanon, but there …
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Recto: part of a poorly preserved deed, from the court of, and probably written by, Efrayim b. Shemarya. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4799 AM = 1038/39 …
דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The paper is well-preserved, but almost all of the text is extremely faded; might be legible …
Colophon for an unknown work dated Shawwāl 896 Hijri, which is 1491 CE. "This work and its companion were written in the name of (=by?) …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. The right folio on recto contains large script with large line spacings, and the left and entire of verso has …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen to Yiṣḥaq Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva. The addressee might be Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi who was also known as …
Mercantile letter addressed to a son. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some lines on verso in Arabic script. Mentioning wheat; instructions him not to stay in Fustat …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides concerning the permissiveness of Qaraite, Muslim, and Christian wine. Avraham Maimonides is referred to as "Nagid" in l. 2 …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script with Coptic alphanumerals. Needs examination. Pinholes in the margin ~4mm apart.
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Last two lines only, blessing the addressee's children and the enitre congregation with prosperity. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi.
Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has only 20 dinars and a male slave (waṣīf). He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and …
הודענו בשבטי ישר' נאמנה
מה שנת^ברר בפנינו הדבר
אשר נעשה לפ' בנן של
קדושי' ששלחו לה^ח' הנז'
ע"י הסופר הה"ר יעקב ן'
זמרה יצ"ו שאם …
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl (possibly al-Makhmūrī). Mentions Avraham b. Nuṣayr; Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī; Abū Isḥāq; Abū ʿImrān al-Segullat and Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī. …
Probably accounts, at least partly in Ladino. Needs examination.
IB VII, 33. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Letter to Abū l-Faraj, reporting that the writer has met with R. David; it also mentions Abū l-Riḍā, Yosef and 157 dirhams. (Information from …
Two small fragments of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, including the phrases, "I took a vow" and "if [al-Shaykh] al-Yesod were not with …
What purports to be a copy of an excerpt from a letter of appointment to the attendant of the synagogue at Ezra's tomb north of …
Letter fragment probably from ʿEli b. Hillel to his brother-in-law Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (identification is tentative, based on comparison with T-S 13J19.5). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions …
Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew. Only the introductory blessings and the address are preserved …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Draft of the will of the teacher (al-muʿallima) Sittūna bt. Avraham the …
Accounts in Arabic on a large fragment that may originate from a broader financial ledger that is dated on the lower right corner of the …
Ornate calligraphic colophon (or rather dedication inscription?) for a Passover haggada. "This is what was made for Faraḥ the good and the pleasant, may his …
Receipt of some sort, with the glyph at the top, mentioning a sum of 200-something, and the name Sulaymān. Needs examination.
Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 27-29) Folio 7v
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Cf. PGPID 5479 and PGPID 38566. ASE
Minute fragment. On verso remnant of a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). On verso liturgy. AA
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions: [Abū l-]Faḍāʾil Yosef; Qurrat al-ʿAyn Sitt al-Milāḥ; her late father [Abū …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Verso: basmala, and three dirhams? Needs examination.
Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
Minute fragment from the top of a legal document. Name: Elazar.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Decorated borders with criscrossing small letters and red dots. The wife …
Recto and verso: Letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address on verso in Arabic script (to …
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. On verso there are also piyyuṭ drafts and …
List of contribution to the poor. Names such as the daughter of Zanbūr; yatīm al-aḥyāʾ(?); the orphan of Elʿazar; the orphan of the goldsmith; Nājiya; …
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …
Letter from a physician to a Kohen expressing thanks for condolences. At the end he writes a prescription for the growing of hair on skin …
כאן קד תקדם קולי ללמולי אלשיך אלאגל מר' ור' אליה ש'צ'
פי מעני אלשיך בו אלמכארם באנה קד בקי עליה מן אלגזיה
ל' דרהם והו פי שדה ו…
In your n(ame), Oh Merci(ful)!
I have previously written to the august elder and patron our mas(ter) and tea(cher) Elijah (may his) R(ock)…
Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon (autograph) to a communal leader or judge Avraham, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Dated: Shevaṭ 1442 Seleucid, …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1781/82 CE (542 = מבשר) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. …
Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender. The note …