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Investment partnership in which Shemuʾel Leon receives 4,000 medin from Mercada (מרקאדה) bt. Yaʿaqov Arubaṣ (ארובץ) to invest in his business. Dated Tammuz 5561 (= …
תעתוק אחד
Fragment of a business letter in Arabic script (wa-innamā katabtu... al-ḥisāb...).
אין רשומות קשורות
Receipt? - needs examination.
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام …
al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]
of the dāʿīs of the believers, may Go…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
None
Practice signatures of the name Yoʾel b. Yehuda ha-Levi the teacher. In the blank space on a bifolio of Hebrew poetry.
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5500 AM = 2051 Seleucid, which is 1740 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Raḥel bt. …
Ikhshīdid fiscal account. See tag for similar documents. This one mentions the year 329 AH = 940/41 CE and the year 331 AH = 941/42 …
Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the banker (ha-Shulḥani) Netanel b. Aharon, Fustat (?). Dating: ca. 1020 CE.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: January 9 (12 Shevat), 1058 CE (Gil) …
על שמך
כתבת אטאל אללה בקא אכי ושקיק רוחי ועזיז נפסי ואדאם חראסתה וחמאיתה
וכפאיתה ונעמאה וחסן עקבאה מן אלמהדיה ליב כלון מן שבט ערפה אללה …
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Alphabetical practice in Hebrew script.
Letter in Ladino to Yosef Melamed from Yiṣḥaq Molkho(?) in Cairo, mentioning ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān and Marseille (l. 9, מארסילייאה). Dated: 15 Shevaṭ 5488 AM = …
Betrothal register (53c according to Friedman) between Hillel b. Aharon haLevi and Tāma bt. Yiṣḥaq. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the …
צג שנים [לביריות]
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Notes for the drawing up of legal documents. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto is for a deed involving something "being handed …
Minute fragment of accounts, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. These accounts are related to the neighboring shelfmark JRL SERIES C 146.
Legal document concerning claims of the wife of Abu al-Makarim b. Da’ud al-Muḥ[aṣṣil?] against him. The town of Minyat Zifta in Egypt and Muslim courts …
One fragmented line, probably from a state document, in Arabic script. "عه دعواه على ا".
Letter from a woman requesting help in receiving her share from her late husband’s inheritance(?), with various signatures of support. Mentions government interference as well …
Text in Judaeo-Arabic detailing the rising of a celestial body (al-maṭlaʿ al-saʿīd. . . .). Dated: Iyyar 1540 Seleucid = April/May 1229 CE.
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century, based on handwriting. The letter is written on behalf of a group of …
Recipes in Arabic script, written in the blank space around Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic literary text. One is "kohl for tears" (كحل للدمعة).
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic letter with phonetic spellings and rudimentary hanwriting. Abū l-ʿAlā' writes to Maḥāsin al-Ḍāmin (the tax farmer) in אביר (=Abyār?) to inform him that …
Bifolium with four pages. First page: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic. No signatures. Mentions the government (sulṭān). Dated Jumāda II 488 Hijri = 1095 CE. Second …
Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …
Verso: Note in bad handwriting headed עת לעשות וגו׳. In the right margin the name Abū Saʿd appears; this might be the sender, or it …
Letter draft or writing exercise in a crude hand; on verso jottings and drafts in the same hand. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to someone titled al-amīr al-ajall reporting on a ship bearing wood (markab al-ḥaṭb) that arrived at the port of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اعلم حضرة مولاي الامير
الاجل ادام الله عزه رب(؟)
انتق….. اقول لك فيما يتعلق
مركب الحطب الذي وصل
الى الصناعة المحر…
In the name of God, the most merciful and benevolent
I inform my master, the illustrious Amīr
may God perpetuate his glory
I report to you r…
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Adar II [1]440 Seleucid = February/March 1129 CE, under the …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Abū l-Munā(?) b. Yehuda in Fustat for the year 5[..] AH. Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham b. Madlūb(?) al-Maqdisī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr, in the square of the perfumers, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with very rudimentary …
Possibly official correspondence. In Arabic script. Long and well preserved. Reused on recto for piyyut.
Notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear what they are for.
Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, praising the benefactions of a group of people (al-sāda). אלא בהם... פאלמכארם תצדר ענהם טבעא ותלקא[...] אלי רצאיהם טועא …
Possibly a letter - needs examination.
Letter fragment. Refers to the arrival of a raqqāṣ (runner/courier) in search of the sender (ʿabduhā).
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. Refers to …
Pen trials, in an Arabic chancery hand. Contains words like "ʿabd mawlāya", "yā sayyidī."
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Fragment (upper right corner). Appearing before the court are Abū l-Ḥasan (titled הנדיב …
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Adar 14[..] Seleucid = 1089–1188 CE. Two copies were made, or …