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Decree, possibly. Parts of three lines from the left side; second line reads "in shā allāh taʿālā." Wide line-spacing. Between lines 2 and 3 there …
אין רשומות קשורות
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Legal document or possibly a letter. In Hebrew. Dating: late, ca. 16th–18th century. Mentions Shemuʾel Pali[...] (שמואל פאלי....); "the polisa, that is to say the …
Dowry list, an addendum to a ketubba. ca. 1100 CE per Goitein's estimate (MS IV, 378, note 20).
דיון אחד
Minute fragment from an Arabic document
Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir. He mentions that his son is …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto (secondary use): Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Possibly lampooning someone for his poor hospitality.
Dedication note for a quire of piyyuṭim for "the dear boy" Nafīs b. Abū Ṭāhir. Beautiful calligraphy.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "I have salted for you a barrel (barmīl) of lemons, but no one from around here will transport them, perhaps …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Probably addressed to ʿArūs b. Yosef, based on his reuse of the verso. Mentioning a letter of a qāḍī Abū …
Small fragment (upper right corner) from a court record. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably 16th century. Involves [...] Pordonil/Fordonil (the family is sometimes called Perwho owes …
Minute fragment.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: 11th century. The sender excuses himself from something on account of his illness (ḍuʿfī) and worry (shughl sirrī). Mentions …
Small fragment of a Hebrew letter. Dating: Ca. 16th or 17th century. Mentions the addressee's wife on recto and Alexandria in the address on verso. …
Letter sent by Mubarak b. Musa b. Ibrahim to Rabbi Nissim b. Shela, informing him that he was going to send to Tinnis the goods …
Memorandum in the name Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment from the bottom of a petition. With a raʾy clause (...al-raʾy al-sāmī fīhi lā zāla ʿāliyan...). Dated Jumādā I 5[.]7 H, corresponding to 1113–1171 …
Deed of sale of a house in Fustat dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 643 AH = March/April 1286 CE. Refers to Fustat and the Mamṣūṣa quarter and …
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh and one other person, in Ashqelon, to Avraham b. Elʿazar, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1130 CE. Bottom missing. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Court record. Dated: Monday, 14 Adar I 1464 Seleucid = 10 February 1153 CE. The cantor Yosef b. Mikhaʾel sells a little house in Fustat, …
בנוע אלמלך
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions animals, fruit, the countryside, and people rejoicing over something. On verso a few words of unidentified Hebrew text. (Information …
Letter in Arabic script. Only one line is preserved: ويكتب الى عبده الجواب . . . . Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. The sender says that Ṣāʿid b. Shuʿayb ordered mats(?) from him, so …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small fragment, badly damaged with no legible text. There may be remnants of text in Hebrew script on the verso, but the ink is quite …
Legal document from Cairo, dated March 1802 CE (Adar II 5562 AM). Me'ir ben Naʿim had borrowed 150 reals from the old woman Raḥel known …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife (or co-wives?). Dating: ca. 16th century.
Letter from a synagogue dignitary to a donor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century (during the period of Eliyyahu the Judge and Avraham Maimonides). Concerning …
Letter of appeal for charity. From Yeḥizqiyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Ṣarfati ("the Frenchman") to Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Long letter containing rhymed prose and biblical quotations. In …
Booklet made of parchment, containing a calendar for the maḥzors 256 and 257, each year written on a separate little scrap. Beginning with 1095 CE. …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From an unidentified man possibly named Karīm, apparently in Zarnīkh (in Upper Egypt, see recto l. 44 and recto right margin …
Epistolary templates in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mostly various types of letters of condolence (and one side of the folio is headed "taʿziya"). There are also …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script on verso. Quite damaged. Addressed to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh (a.k.a. ʿEli …
A photocopy of a Muslim court deed in which the Jerusalem judge confirms the veracity of content not specified. The date of the document is …
Badly effaced legal document dealing with inheritance and a financial settlement - probably a deed of release. Mentions 40 dinars, Salāma bt. Mubārak, Khalfa b. …
Odd-looking legal document. On parchment. In Hebrew. Involving a lease (שכירות). Dated: Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 AM, which is 4 September 1449 CE. Almost nothing …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter on parchment, quoting Nehemiah 9:33. Dating: likely 11th century. AA/ASE
Verso: A few words in giant, calligraphic Arabic script: mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl. . . . Recto: Rhymed Hebrew maxims about the months of the years, …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā and silk. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Order of payment. Abū l-Karam is to pay 1 dinar to the bearer. Cf. T-S AS 180.144, T-S AS 180.152, T-S AS 180.153, T-S …