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Document in Persian. Nastaʿlīq, diagonally oriented text blocks. Containing at least 3 records dated Safar 1218 AH, Rajab 1218 AH, and Shaʿbān 1221 AH (1803, …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment with three document entries, probably from a court register. Dated November 1719 (Kislev 5480). The first is marriage-related; the second is a betrothal document; …
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תעתוק אחד
Two fragments from a legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138) and mentioning Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139), yielding …
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Letter fragment conveying concern for "the girl" (al-ṣabiyya) and inviting her to spend a month in the writer's location. Mentions receiving a letter sent with …
List of names, including Abū l-Faraj, Abū l-Faḍl, Mevorakh b. Naḥum, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ṯābit the cantor and Isaac b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of an Arabic document. State-related? The text preserved looks like a number.
Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the …
[...]ב אמארה כל
[...]לה וגרם אלף וכמס מאיה
דרהם ומן גהה אלעבד מבארך פשעיה פי אסכנדריא
ואכדה אלמחתסב בלאש מא סלם פיה שי וגר…
Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has only 20 dinars and a male slave (waṣīf). He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Minute fragment in Arabic, probably accounts. Medieval-era.
Hebrew poetry. In the hand of Pinḥas b. Ṭuviyyahu?
Masṭara or ruling board, made from stacked, glued paper (cardboard) and string. Paper could be pressed over the raised string, leaving the imprint of straight …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Berakhot ha-Melammed to Berakhot ha-Nadiv. Opens with a long Hebrew poem (24 lines of excuses) and continues with 8 lines of …
IB VII, 43. Letter from an India trader, in ʿAydhāb, to his family or colleagues, presumably in Fustat. Goitein comments that "al-Asʿad is the tax …
العجوز وتفتقدها في كل وقت وانني وصلت
الى عيذاب ولقيت من الفارسي كل خير في
الدنيا والاسعد فعل معنا خير بلا كتب ولمن
ودينا الكتاب اخذ حق…
2 תעתוקים
Verso (original use): Probably official correspondence. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, wide space between the lines.
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. It seems the sender is rebuking the addressee about neglecting a business matter (involving rose water?). Mentions 20 dirhams.
דיון אחד
Note in Arabic script addressed to a Nasi ("al-mawlā al-ajall al-nāsī al-jalīl al-nabīl..."). Conveying a message about the bearer (recommendation?). Needs further examination.
Receipt.
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 …
Letter addressed to two people. In Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. The names should be legible, …
Petition, Fatimid(?). In Arabic script. Last 9 lines. With hamdala and hasbala at end. Not a lot of context can be gleaned from the preserved …
Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …
… from where it stops, it starts. And from which place does it stop? From
Tuesday noon. Open
your eyes, co…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts. Mentions [...] al-Iṭrābulusī and someone (ʿAbdallāh?) the ṣāḥib of something.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved. Mentions the cities [bi-]Minūf(?) and Ṣahrasht (=Ṣahrajt). Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also on …
Maimonides Mishne Torah, Sekhirut, 6. AA
Petition from Avraham al-Qushāshī to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He says that he used to work and earn a living like everyone else [but now he is …
Receipt from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva – dated – July 10 1948CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 156) – in Arabic, French, and …
Accounts in Ladino listed in western Arabic numerals. Dates are provided at the bottom of each entry and indicate what is most likely the year …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Beginning of a Fatimid petition to a caliph. Extremely torn and fragmentary. Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the …
Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; …
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Hibatallāh b. Ṣadaqa. Also refers to a period of time ending on the 10th of [...].
Marriage document. A beautiful ornamented ketubah, probably on vellum, from Rashid, Egypt. Dated 5544 AM which is 1783/1784 CE. The groom’s name is Avraham, the …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite damaged. Mentions pepper; and possibly a butcher. Otherwise difficult to read anything meaningful.
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Very small fragment probably from a state document: الدولة النبوية . . . الارادة وكمال البيعة. Reused for Hebrew jottings.
List of spices in Judaeo-Arabic with quantities in Greek/Coptic alphanumerals: pepper, cinnamon, and saffron. Medieval-era.
Business accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Written out in full sentences. Possibly written up for the sake of a legal case? …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known.