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Bifolio from an account ledger of a merchant. Refers to the sum contained in two purses (ṣurratayn) in the weight (sanja) of Alexandria: 151 dinars …
אין רשומות קשורות
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Note in which a physician is requested to pay for some items including a sign above his store that publicizes his practice. (Information from Mediterranean …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Late donation list, or private accounts. Mentioning a variety of individuals, such as: Eliyahu Ṣahal, Aharon Ḥedef, Khalīfa Arūkh, Shelomo Sonina, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, …
Small fragment of an Arabic document, reused.
Accounts in disorderly Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto is very damaged and difficult to read. Verso mentions Ḥasūn; al-Yahūdī; items that …
Part of a letter or document in Arabic script (might mention al-Ramla and a date). Reused for writing exercises in Hebrew and for piyyuṭ on …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe …
תעתוק אחד
List of Judeo-Arabic two accounts in a very orderly hand that detail the funds requested from one Yiṣḥaq Ḥefeṣ (l. 2r) and the payments of …
Verso: Letter or legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Possibly about business. Reports a dialogue and mentions "what he did with the daftar" …
Two fragments of a letter in Arabic script. Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj …
Memorandum or other internal state communication. In Arabic script, with wide line spacing, fragmented baselines, and frequent diacritics. Four lines preserved, the fourth an interlinear …
Possibly accounts. Late. Very faded and damaged.
Draft of a begging letter regarding some commercial and apparently personal relationship. A certain Abū l-Maʿānī is mentioned (the sender wants his payments for his …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b. Dāʾūd b. Zablān, probably in Fustat. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Abū Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th–15th century. The writer is in difficult straits due to a business matter and dealings with the dīwān. …
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r
Letter addressed to a community. In Hebrew. The word "Egypt" or "Fustat" (Miṣrayim) appears in the address on verso. Too faded to read. Mentions a …
Recto: Letter from a woman to her son Abū l-Faḍā'il al-Yahūdī al-Bawāridī ('the maker of cooling or cold vegetables') in al-Qamra, Alexandria. She describes a …
Megillat Miṣrayim
Three different accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Formulary of an oath to be given by the mother of Abū l-Ḥasan to him, concerning a female slave and other possessions, especially spices; oath …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 426 AH = 1034/35 CE. The year 424 is also mentioned in the body of the document (l. 1). …
Letter from Yisrael B. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray B. Nissim, Fustat. Israel suggests Nahray to get out of a deal he made and asks for …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Large, well-preserved, and essentially unstudied. Sender and addressee are unidentified; the sender is probably writing from Ifrīqiyya. …
דיון אחד
Fragment from the end of an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Either the sender or the scribe is named Abū l-Surūr, and he greets [...] …
Recto and margin of verso (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing mainly materia medica, including sal ammoniac, camphor, saffron (spelled סעפראן), bamboo chalk, tutty, and …
Receipt for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
A legal query with responsum regarding contradiction between two testimonies, sent to Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Seder (also known as 'ha-Rav'). Qayrawān, 11th century. …
Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he …
Fragments of 4 lines of a Fatimid decree. Mentions the caliph (amir al-muʾminīn) and the date (but the date is missing). The blank space on …
]ـه على احدهما دا
]ده
]د ووضعت عند نقله الى صـ[
اميـ]ـر المومنين بتاريخ سـبع[
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Bifolio of accounts. Organized by day of the week. Mentions al-Dajājī.
Hebrew letter consisting almost entirely of a panegyric poem, written by the cantor Aharon b. Efrayim for a man named Shelomo. (Information from Bareket, Shafrir …
Leaves from a Karaite book of formularies, containing formulae for betrothal, divorce, and liturgy for mourning the dead, for use in Jerusalem and Ramla. The …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
One line from the bottom of a large state document, likely a decree. Mentions the month of Ramaḍān. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a part of a report or official correspondence. Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins are aware..." …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written and detailed. Repeatedly refers to ʿUmayr (or ʿAmid?) and Dāʾūd. Also mentions a qāḍī. Dating: …
Accounts listing 72 names with (low) Greek/Coptic numerals. In Arabic script, with an occasional name written in Hebrew script. Most of the names are Jewish. …