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Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
אין רשומות קשורות
None
Responsum or responsa. Naming specific people instead of the usual "Reʾuven" and "Shimʿon" or "fulān." At least on verso, the case has to do with …
Recto is a small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly complaining about someone's obstinacy (taʿannut). Torn and reused for an unrelated document on …
Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions the receipt of payment on verso (wuṣūl) and recto is divided into three columns. Needs examination.
Fragment of a title page for a copy of the second volume of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Sefer Ahava (per FGP). The verso retains an exquisite …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 15 Shevat 5450 AM (1690 CE). Bride: Sulṭāna bt. Yosef ha-Rofe b. Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzan ha-Rofe. Groom: Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham …
תעתוק אחד
Bottom of a legal document on parchment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Araḥ b. Kawkab (or Kokhav), who is also known …
Recto: Unidentified state document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has practiced copying the text in between the lines. A few lines from the bottom it …
Document in Arabic script and perhaps Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for a text in Hebrew, probably literary.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1837 Seleucid = 932 Hijri, which is July 1526 CE. It lays out the settlement of at …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Note in Arabic script addressed to [al-]shaykh ʿUmar at Raʾs al-Khalīj ("the head of the canal"; there is apparently a site just south of Fustat …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter or petition in Arabic script. Damaged. Legible words include 'al-mamlūk' and غلمانه. Needs examination.
Recto: A few lines of an Arabic document, probably a letter or order addressed to a 'wakīl.' Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either …
Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. Ḥayya ha-Kohen and Abū [...] b. Shemuʾel. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = …
List of items in Arabic script, each with Greek/Coptic numerals after, and the grand total at the bottom. Reused on recto for pen trials (tajribat …
IB III, 47. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Minute fragment of accounts. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.
Reconciliation agreement between husband and wife. Dated: 6 Tammuz 5415 AM, which is 1655 CE. Venue: the residence of Aharon Rofe Ḥazan (presumably in Cairo). …
Recto: May be a will of a woman (mentions the term وصية several times and في صحة عقلها), also mentions ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maghribī. Verso: Possibly …
Karaite bill of release. Date: 5 Iyyar 5452 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda …
Accounts in Arabic. Late? Verso has what looks like a handwritten equivalent to a seal signature.
Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Refers to someone's illness (r2), and evidently the sender was also sick because God sent him health …
Legal document issued by a beit din likely under the direction of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra (lived ca. 1479-1573 CE). In Hebrew. Dated: 10 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Referring either to the addressee's intimate relations with the Tustari brothers in Fustat or that he now equals them …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions several names, including ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, and figures in the hundreds and thousands (unclear what unit). On verso …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 15[..] Seleucid = 1188–1288, and also [..]44 or [..]74 AM. The potential matches are 4974 AM = 1213/14 CE and …
Recto: Funeral speech. On verso a reference to the death of the communal leader and rabbi Nissim Shelomo Algazi, on Monday, 25 Kislev 5552 AM …
Accounts in Arabic script. Arranged by day of the week. Mentions household food items and possibly construction expenses. Also the 'aṣḥāb arbāʿ.'
Letter of condolence addressed to a certain Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva, on the death of a woman (al-kabīra). Looks like the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi …
Fragment from the top of a letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Containing blessings for the high holidays. Mentions ʿAmram and …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …