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Interesting letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Refers to a document with the signature of 'the king of the Turks' …
אין רשומות קשורות
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Recto: Brief letter to a cantor concerning 4 dinars for the purchase of a Torah codex (muṣḥaf): אלחזן שצ יעלם אן לא . . . …
Note in Arabic script. Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note …
דיון אחד
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
ח72 מכתב מאת יצחק בן אהרן סִ̇גִלְמַאסִי אל חלפון דַהְלַךּ, ח' בתמוז, שהוא 25 ביוני 1140 ו32. Westminster Misc. 13 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 12.6 …
2 תעתוקים
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably a list of some kind perhaps comprising accounts. Requires further examination.
Part of a very poorly preserved letter in Hebrew, mentioning Yaʿaqov he-Ḥasid, Menashshe b. Yehuda, Abū Naṣr b. Manṣūr, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ha-Neʾeman. Likely an appeal …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Long and full of interesting details. Tells a long story on recto concerning a eunuch, the amir Murhaf al-Dawla, the king, …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Text in Arabic script. Relatively easy to read but very difficult to make sense of. Contains phrases like حصرت العموم على حكم الامور... شرع …
Recto: State document, probably a petition or internal correspondence. In Arabic script. The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper …
Letter regarding the construction of the tomb of Rabbi Yaʿacov Abu Haṣīra [in Damanhur] – 1935CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 36) – …
Recto: draft of a legal document with the testimony of Abū l-Khayr [Shelomo b. ...] al-Ṣūrī. Mentions Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Sasson, Yehuda b. [...], …
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1120. Revenue from different people is listed, mostly without specifications. The sums seem to represent money of the qodesh deposited …
…. the sugar-refineries, 17 dinars. Paid for the slave girl
…. Abū ʿUmar, 7, 71⁄2
…. dir., 2 qīrāṭs and 7 .... the tenant, the hired w…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.
Legal document signed by Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo. One of the parties is Ṣadaqa. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter of complaint, calling on the harassment of Abū l-Najm the filthy "al-Khabīth". Abū l-Najm broke the writer's trust, disobeyed their friendship (lit. sold off …
الى حضرة اخي وسيدي الشيخ ا[….
اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه ونعماه [وجمع الشمل به عن
قريب وانهي للمولى ما لحقني من الشيخ ابي النجم
الخبيث ا…
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Verso: Two damaged lines of text in Arabic, perhaps documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved, including 'khaṭṭ mawlāy.'
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dated: 4 Tammuz = 18 June 1059 CE, according to Gil. The …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal document, possibly dealing with debt in the sabbath year as it mentions a seven year period and the sum of one dinar. Refers to …
Recto: Receipt dated 19 Shawwāl 517 AH (December 1123 CE) for 350 irdabbs of wheat from ʿAlī b. Saʿīd from al-Gharbiyya. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very detailed. Dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and currencies referenced. There is a full date in the upper left …
Opening of a legal query, perhaps addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon ('rosh yeshivat Ga'on Yaʿaqov'). In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto there is a text in Aramaic.
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic that was reused for calligraphic Hebrew practice. Medieval-era.
Fragment from the top of a deed of engagement (shiddukhin). Fiancee: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Mentions wine and pressing.
Verso: Fatimid state document preserving part of one line, including the word يستخرج.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Wide space between the lines, like an official document, but it appears to be about business. Mentions Ibn …
A mathematical calculation in eastern Arabic numerals on what is otherwise a blank shred of paper: 87,055-85,833=1,222.
At the top of recto in square letters: two unfinished lines from the beginning of Midraš Tanḥuma on the weekly portion בראשית (Genesis 1:1-6:8). This …
Internal Fatimid state correspondence concerning the collection and transfer of funds, probably tax-related. The upper left is missing, so the content is difficult to reconstruct. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). It seems the daughter of a dead person asked the court to declare …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and perhaps another language. The scribal hand is unique but probably dates to the 18th- or 19th- centuries. Requires further examination.
Account referring to rent for a house and listing amounts and names. Written on the back of a letter (see separate entry).