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Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble …
אין רשומות קשורות
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Recto (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. The ends of four lines are preserved. Mentions a sum of 20 dinars (min al-ʿayn al-wāzin ʿashrīn …
דיון אחד
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document, partnership sarraflık business venture. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5580 AM, which is 1819/20 CE. On verso there are sums. One of …
תעתוק אחד
Verso: On verso there is a list of names and Greek/Coptic numerals, with R. Avraham as the title at the top; likely a contributions list.
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1770 Seleucid, which is 1458/59 CE. Lines 4–11 are an elaborate reshut clause, but it is not clear if the …
State document, in Arabic script. A late Fatimid report The verso is probably annotations or reply to the report mentioning the caliphal ʿalāma: al-ʿalāma al-sharīfa …
Damaged, Hebrew rhymed text written in wide space, might be from an opening of a communal letter, but the context is unclear. There is very …
Legal query written and signed by Yehuda Mas'ud. Ottoman period. Regarding a sarraflik partnership agreement for tax collection in one of the districts of Egypt …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Letter or state document? Handwriting very cramped in places. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Deed of gift, or possibly a power of attorney appointing Abu l-Faḍl to collect the money …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلال…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sh…
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Unidentified document in very crabbed Arabic script. Might be repetitions of the same phrases over and over again, or possibly a magical text. ASE/MR
Receipt in Arabic script. [...] the Jew received 30-some dirhams toward the amount owed through a certain date.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: [..]19 AM, which is either 1858/59, 1758/59, or 1658/59, or conceivably 1558/59 CE at the very earliest. Of …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Dating: 3 Nissan 1388 Seleucid (March 30, 1077 CE). Declaration by ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh the Parnas, …
List of accounts(?) with many alphanumerical figures and some names. Medieval era. Most of the entries on the verso are crossed out. Requires further examination.
Business letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions merchants such as אבן אלטבני, Mūsā Ibn al-M[ajjānī?], and ʿAmmār …
End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there …
Lower part of a letter, possibly a postscript to a preceding letter (there is a wide space before l. 1). Probably sent from Damīra to …
Short letter in Arabic script. The sender's name appears on the right (al-mamlūk al-aṣghar [...]). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand and format. On verso …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dated 29 January 1807 (20 Shevat 5567), from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and his partner Avraham ha-Levi.
Two folios. List of dozens of names and houses/households. In Arabic script. Most entries are crossed out. Entries are separated by a circle with a …
Iqrār.
Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …
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 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With some unusual and careless spellings. Requesting that the addressee purchase various commodities, including two pounds of myrtle and different kinds of …
Letter fragment. Addressed to Fustat, to the alley of [...], to Abū l-Faḍāʾil al-Yahūdī.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently a response to an inquiry about copies of the Torah. Not entirely clear.
IB VII, 56. Letter from an India trader, probably in Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He recently came from Kullam in Malabar (recto margin l. 15) and …
2 תעתוקים
Letter in Hebrew from Safed to Cairo (מצרים) in Hebrew. Addressed to Yeshūʿa[?] al-Mātī[?] from Eliyahu Medina[?], both names are not entirely clear. The letter …
List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. Among those listed are: Yakov Qatawi, Yosef Bilobos, Yaʿaqov Akubas, David Dayyan, Nissim Ashkenazi, Moshe …
IB VI, 20. Order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov asks Abū Saʿīd to give Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd the price of …
3 תעתוקים
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: 1127–38 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon …
Verso: Receipt for 1.75 dirhams issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Surūr.
Unidentified text (magical?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The phrase "yā majnūn" appears.