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Legal document or documents. In Hebrew. Mentions the city of Fez (verso, line 2). Involves a woman and her husband Yiṣḥaq. Mentions the dowry (nedunya) …
אין רשומות קשורות
Macaronic poem alternating between Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic every couple of words. Dating: maybe ca. 13th century, which is also consistent with the hand and style …
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Fragment of a beginning of a letter. Addressed to Abū l-Wafāʾ, in al-Maḥalla.
List of names and numbers in Arabic script. The names are typical of the late 12th and 13th centuries. Abū Saʿd al-[...]... Abū l-Riḍā, two …
IB II, 46. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to a merchant in Egypt: Attack on Aden by the King of Kish. Aden, ca. 1135-6.
{[. . .] and refused
to give testimony. May the Exalted Creator call them to account!
Scripture has already said, “Never trust Gentiles.”} As…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
List of 28 people, some of whom are known to have been active in the middle of the 11th century, including Abū Isḥaq b. Ḥujayj, …
Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham to a notable, mentioning prayers made in his name. Identification of the writer based on handwriting. (Information from CUDL)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Binyām b. Hārūn, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1080 CE, based on Gil's assessment. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה <ושוק> אליה שדיד קרב
אללה אלאגתמאע בינ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from a woman, in al-Mahdiyya, to her mother (Av)Dukia al-Rumiyya and to her sister Rini, in Alexandria. Scribed by Kalev al-Sofer. In Judaeo-Arabic. The …
Two lines of a state document probably, based on format. Very large. But might also something poetical, referring to love: ḥālī yattaṣilhā l-hawā wa-l-maḥabba wa-ʿindahumā …
Recto: Legal document mentioning guardianship, R. Berakhot, and a deceased man. Verso: Legal document in a different hand (that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) mentioning capital …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Somewhat idiosyncratic handwriting, without much space in between the words. Mentions: Ibn ʿAṭiyya; possibly customs taxes (maks); someone drinking with his …
תעתוק אחד
Legal fragment (upper right piece). On parchment. Location: Cairo. Involves Muʿazzaza bt. Petaḥya(?); Ibrāhīm; Abū l-Munā; a house near the synagogue; eventualities including the price …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Tevet 5416 AM, which is 1655/56 CE. Marḥaba the widow of Elʿazar(?) leases the large līwān …
List in Arabic on verso with a column of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. There is a second unrelated text in Arabic on the recto - unidentified, …
Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …
Recto: Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE, under the authority of the Nasi David b. Daniel. Describing …
דיון אחד
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions the butcher (al-jazzār).
Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE, but this range can be narrowed by Goitein's scribal identification: hand of Hillel. …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a beautifully styled request. This may not be addressed to the writer's mother and father. Rather, the sender is making …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Hārūn Ibn Shamārī (appears also in ENA …
Recto: The poem אֵשׁ תּוּקַד בְּקִרְבִּי whose verses endings alternate between בְּצֵאתִי מִמִּצְרָיִם and בְּצֵאתִי מִירוּשָׁלָיִם. Verso: Small fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions goods such as pepper, cinnnamon, brazilwood, and myrobalan.
Petition to a woman from a prisoner (?) in rudimentary script and spelling, asking her "on the life of al-Shaykh Abū l-Maḥāsin" to do a …
Letter from Manṣūr to either his son or his father Abū ʿImrān. (Both are referred to as ואלד, but this is sometimes the spelling for …
IB V, 37, folio 5r. Letter fragment related to the India trade. Mentions the Kārim convoy, worrying news, and someone named Abū l-Saddād.
2 תעתוקים
Marriage document? Minute fragment, on velum, probably from a ketubah . the words נדוניה ובליות can be read. Verso is blank. AA
Legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Very faded.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. 10 damaged lines are preserved but hard to discern much of the content. On verso there are writing exercises of the …
Legal testimony in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ramaḍān 545 AH, which is 25 December 1150 CE. "Lammā ḥaḍara ilā majlis ḥ[ukm X]..." Needs examination for …
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 13 Jumādā II 403 AH (December 1012 CE). Written …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
IB VII, 58. Letter from a woman, in Aden, to her son Moshe b. Elʿazar (aka Mūsā b. ʿAyzūr), in Egypt. Dating: 1226–28, according to …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, to Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Mentions Abū Ibrāhīm (Isḥāq) b. Khalaf, who had written to tell al-Tāhartī that he …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts, mentioning weights and prices; with Coptic numerals. Mentions pearls; a gold needle; and [...] al-Ṣāʾigh. (Information in part from CUDL)
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …