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Accounts listing goods, weights, prices, and various names. Distinctive hand. Dating: Medieval era. A quantity of pepper is listed on the verso. Mentions nutmeg; litharge; …
אין רשומות קשורות
End of a letter probably from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is partially preserved: אכי ואלעזיז …
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Legal document, probably a receipt, with parallel Arabic script in an official looking hand. Verso contains a fragmentary ḥasbala. Needs examination.
A few lines from a Hebrew letter in a large, square script. Mentions a certain Ṣemaḥ and the speaker's love for him (בלשון ידיות . …
Letter from Damascus, from a Maghribi who intends to go to Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hajay, approximately 1035.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Memorial list for people from a prominent kohanim family. Shemuʾel/Yisrael ha-kohen starts the list. Then his son Meshullam and then Netanel. The next entry is …
Probably the end of a letter, quoting Daniel 6:29, 4; Proverbs 3:4, 26, 2; 1 Shemuʾel 25:6. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Beginning of a letter or letter draft in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212) addressed to a notable named ʿOvadya. Beginning with …
List, neatly written, of 26 people pledging gifts of 5 to 60. The ten most generous donors remain anonymous, the relevant entry being 'mattan,' which …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Writing exercises. "وفيما انهاه العبد غني عن الاطالة والاطناب". The last attempt has been circled. Verso: "بالعزائم في طلباته".
Announcement to the members of the Jewish community of Cairo on the occasion of the yearly visit to the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat – …
Recipe in Arabic script. "Take the black myrtle and take the chard, and tear apart... take salt, a half measure..."
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! The list of what was collected of the arrears:
Suhayl, 4 months, 40 dir.
The sister of Sahlān, 3 (months), 1…
Letter (left half only) to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Men[ashshe] b. al-Qaṭāʾif mentioning a quantity of 12 dirhams and the upcoming holiday.
Accounts related to maritime shipping. The dating is likely 1530s-1540s CE based on a variety of related fragments in the same scribal hand tagged in …
Verso: Receipt. Headed by the glyph. Al-Ḥājj Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf collected the rent for Muḥarram [6]22 AH (= January/February 1225 CE) in the last third …
Prenuptial agreement of a previously divorced couple (a husband who re-accepts his divorcée). Eight lines survive on this fragment, probably in the hand of Natan …
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תעתוק אחד
Small fragment from an Arabic official document. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved: bi-yad mawlāy al-shaykh... wa-aḥdara... lā zāla... Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
Bottom part of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Requests news of the addressee and of Sitt Ṣalaf (cf. ENA …
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: Sunday 8th Adar II, 5548 AM (1788 CE). Location: Cairo. Avraham b. Nissīm b. Yaʿaqov aka Ḥīna is the groom, Badra …
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, …
Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something.
List of names with western Arabic numerals. Dating is likely 19th-century based on the paleoography. Some of the surnames mentioned are: Bialobos, Aripol, Fes, ʿAkūbas, …
Tax receipt of some kind. The payer is a Jewish man possibly named Bishr b. Bū l-[...]. Dated: 19 Ṣafar 553 AH = 22 March …
Jottings in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 5417 AM = June/July 1657 CE. Concerning a disputed inheritance. Yaʿaqov Esperiel (אישפריל) made …
Long letter to Ishaq b. Abraham the Karaite
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
Colophon of a Bible donated by a Karaite woman in the name of her dead son.
Legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1484 Seleucid = October/November 1172 CE. Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī …
Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham b. Ṣedaqa, in Ashqelon, to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
י]ום אלגמאע אלאולה מן סיון ערפנא אללה ברכתה
Booklet with various types of religious guidance prepared by the judge Moshe b. Peraḥya (muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr ca. 1220–38 CE) for his son Yosef.
Recto: Marriage contract (ketubba), complete. Dated: Monday, 27 Sivan 1439 Seleucid, which is 27 May 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Written and …
The testimony which took place before us, we, the undersigned, thus: ʿAmāʾim bt. Mr. Berakhot,
the elder, m(ay he rest in) E(den), mentio…
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Guarantee for a debt. Yūsuf b. Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan …
Small fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions meeting with a ghulām who was going to al-Mahdiyya (اجتمع بغلام يتوجه الى المهدية).
Small fragment of an Arabic document, maybe a list of names.
Booklet consisting of many pages of astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic, ordered by the zodiac sign in which the year is born. Refers to Fustat as …
Legal deed in Hebrew. Dating: probably 16th century (based on the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya). Ḥayyim b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn Ḥakīm and …