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Large list of names and sums of money (probably donations) dated Passover [Nisan 15-22] 5555 AM (April 1795 CE). The right column lists 43 full …
אין רשומות קשורות
Possibly just jottings in Arabic script. There may be the remains of a letter on verso.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Isḥāq b. Abū Saʿd b. Maḥāsin al-Yahūdī al-Kaʿkī receives from al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Maḥfūẓ b. Mubārak al-Ṭaḥḥān 254 dirhams and …
דיון אחד
Unidentified text in Arabic script. On parchment. Mentions "the Jews can't..."
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Minute fragment, a few incomplete words, but from what is preserved we can tell it is a ketubbah, contains the dowry section and probably written …
Court notebook, possibly. A bifolium. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One entry is a deed of sale for a house …
Distribution list in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). The list begins with al-Rav al-Nezer ("the Diadem") and is followed by …
Brief letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, includes the final salutations but not the writer's signature. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: 13 × …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1052. To be sent to the house of Ibn Isḥāq Ibrahim …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document, in Arabic script. 5 partially faded lines in chancery script are visible. Reused for bookbinding. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...." Mentions Jaʿfar b. Fattāh, only the beginning formula with honorifics is preserved. Ends …
بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
وسموها وسناها و…[
جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
…………………
و..[
תעתוק אחד
Beginning or address of a letter, to Eliyyahu the judge and Zekharya (or this Zekharya is simply the name of Eliyyahu's father); with Arabic jottings …
Accounts. Mainly a list of materia medica and corresponding quantities.
One line of an Arabic state document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim.
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה פי אלכיר בקאך וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ פי גמיע
אמורך מן אלסכנדריה ליב כלון מן שהר טאבת ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכת מא
יליה…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Legal record (#95) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his son Shelomo (Abu l-Barakāt). The writer asks Shelomo to come immediately to his mother, who is ill, because …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic with a variety of coinage types including dirham, kuruş (aka guruş) and zingirli– of which the latter two suggest a dating of …
Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …
Letter from David b. Binyamin to Pineḥas ha-Kohen he-Ḥasid. In Hebrew. Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: part of a letter from the daughter of Hillel b. ʿEli (and wife of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe) to her brother ʿEli b. Hillel the …
Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …
Recto: Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Ṭevet 1593 Seleucid, which is December 1281 CE, under the authority of David …
Receipt of payment (ṣaḥḥ), for ʿĀbidīn(?) b. Qusṭ(?).
Recto: Accounts in Spanish mentioning the year 1747 (5507). The righthand side of verso appears to be the same, also in Spanish. The lefthand side …
Two fragments from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic accounts on the back (recto). Join: Alan Elbaum.
Colophon to R. Saadya Gaon's commentary to one of the prayers (תפילת שמונה עשרה), written in Ashkelon in 1061. Verso: the beginning of R. Saadya …
Circular letter, written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, addressed to an unnamed community. After the opening salutations in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and praises …
Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Dowry list, probably part of a ketubba, written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active ca. 1150–81). Faded and damaged. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. [...]. Groom: [...] …
List of personal and family names. Probably an alms list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Names include: the cantor Yosef …
Probably a state document (or documents). Text unclear, but contains a date: 432? Verso l. 1 refers to the amir Sayf al-Khilāfa.
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. A story about a king, a crown, drinking wine, and Hind bt. al-Muhallab. This is followed by a brief book list, …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved. Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = …
One line from a state document, possibly a decree, praising somebody: وابائه(؟) خير(؟) جميل الراي فيك وما عهد من استيقاف(؟) مقاصدك ومساعيك. Reused for a …
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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