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Letter in Hebrew between brothers discussing the travel of the sender's son to Mandatory Palestine and request for sixty pounds (ששים פונט). Based on the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Very damaged small fragment of a letter probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi. Hardly readable.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 1 Kislev 1632 Seleucid (=[...] 720 AH), which is November 1320 CE. Damaged & faded. Perhaps a settlement of …
Fatimid tax receipt dated 528H (1133–34). Five different hands: at top, 2 requests for registration, 2 confirmations of registration; lower part is receipt itself. (MR)
Probably literary
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly making excuses for not having come to the addressee. On verso: "Fakhr al-Dawla," perhaps the addressee. In which case the …
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Recto: Bottom of a letter addressed to a brother. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is instructed to look after their mother and not to neglect his …
Talisman for safe journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Oded Zinger adds (January 2025): the verso text labels the talisman as being about "the passing …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Introduction to a literary text. It is described as a 'noble book' (kitāb jalīl), 'arranged according to signs' (murattab ʿalā ʿalāmāt), something to with …
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter. …
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Gigantic and calligraphically written account by Abū l-Bishr regarding the sale of merchandise in Ifrīqiyya from the beginning of the 11th century, probably for Yaʿaqov …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Fragment of a fiscal account. Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry …
Legal document. Location: Tinnis. Dated: 7 Tishrei 4750 AM, which is 9 September 989 CE. Action concerning an estate in Nisibis [Naṣībīn], Mesopotamia, brought before …
שנת ארבעת אלפים ושבע מאות וחמשים שנה לעולם בחנס מצרים באו לפנינו ס…
2 תעתוקים
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension); two partially preserved folios: (1) Mosseri I 81b + 81c, containing passages 4.2–5.7 …
Letter to a certain Abū Saʿd ('the dear boy') likely from his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century (paleographic dating). Contains inter alia a …
One line in Arabic script, reads as "المستنصر بالله صلوات الله عليه....".
Formal petition in Judaeo-Arabic from a group of (sugar?) laborers to a notable titled Peʾer ha-Qahal, (‘the crown of the congregation'). Header: Psalms 41:2. In …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 1572 Seleucid, which is 1 May 1261 CE. Concerning a legal/administrative action taken by “Avraham ha-Darshan (the …
Letter in the hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya (who refers to himself as "Head of the Row / Rosh ha-Seder") addressed to a cantor named …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Verso (original use): Beginning of state correspondence possibly in the name of the caliph al-Ẓāfir. It is headed by the basmala, followed by the phrase …
Late accounts, probably.
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, the muqaddam of Bilbays (ca. 1170s–1218) to Pinḥas b. Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا ب…
תעתוק אחד
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Damaged and faded.
Probably legal document(s) or letter(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
List of food items and kitchenware in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Medieval-era. Mentions the name Abū l-Faḍl. Some of the items include: a pitcher (ibrīq) for …
Upper left piece of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Memorial list? Dating: Mid-13th century. Names Hodaya b. Shelomo the Nasi (from Mosul). Also Abū Saʿīd b. Netanel. (Information from Goitein's index card.) NB: Goitein …
דיון אחד
Power of attorney. In Hebrew. Location: Tiberias, Palestine. Dated: Friday, 1 Adar 4811 AM, which is 15 February 1051 CE. It seems that ʿAmram appoints …
Marriage contract (ketubba) stating that the 200 zuz were "established by the holy college" and the dinars bear the sign "of the temporal ruler." Date, …
IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …
Original use: Decree? Two faded lines in a chancery hand containing a ṣalwala (wa-l-ṣalā ʿalā al-sayyīd Muḥammad al-muṣṭafa wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn) which suggests that it is …
Draft of a contract for a 2-year partnership in a drug store (dukkān al-ʿiṭr). Faded. Names: [...] ha-Kohen; Abū Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Abū Munā(?). …
Letter from Avraham b. Abū Zikrī to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describing business travel and reporting on transactions. Mentions someone called al-Rashīd and Abū …
Incomplete letter to Moses Maimonides congratulating him on becoming the Head of the Jews of Egypt. Maimonides held this post briefly in the early 1170s …
3 תעתוקים
Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Khalaf ha-Kohen and his son Yaʿaqov, in Qifṭ, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1070 CE. Describes the hardships …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter mentioning Gaza and appealing for money for the redemption of captives, citing various biblical and rabbinic dicta, and how virtuous …
Letter in Arabic script. Written in large, calligraphic script. Containing a renunciation of a friendship. The details are left very vague. The sender refers to …
Deed of sale for a female slave (jāriya waṣīfa). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid, which is 24 October 1143 CE. Buyer: Pinḥas b. …
IB II, 54. Letter from the Yeshiva in Egypt to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. Avraham in Aden. Cairo, ca. 1132.