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Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...] …
אין רשומות קשורות
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company, from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Dated 29 Elul [5]569 AM Information from Wagner, Linguistic …
Ketubba. Only some signatures are preserved together with the validation (qiyyum) of the ketubba. The witnesses of the main document are: ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi; …
דיון אחד
Marriage contract. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: late tenth century. Two pieces are preserved. A long elaborate poem recited on Passover (for dew) was written on …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Fragment of a ketubba. The hand of the scribe is known (one of the mid-12th-century ones). Groom: Might be Hillel b. Moshe. Signed by Yosef …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Entries include: Manṣūr b. Ḥunayn(?)... ḥammām al-shaykh... sayyid al-dār... Ismāʿīl al-Ḥabbās(?)...
Mainly pen trials in a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script. Dating: probably 13th century. There is a section that might be …
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Upper fragment of a ketubba, very faded. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Reused on recto for calligraphic biblical text in two columns.
Piyyuṭim in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Dating: late, maybe 17th–19th century. Needs examination.
Marriage contract between Eli b. Qimoy and Sutayt b. Yair, written by Shemarya b. Elhanan. Dated Shevat 1306/995 (January-February). (Information from Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, p. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Responsa. A query whether milk milked on the Sabbath may be sold. Almost identical with T-S 13J9.10. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Another 28 folios from the ledger of donations collected in the years around 1800 CE. These entries are for the year 5559 (1798/99). ASE.
Letter sent by Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen, writing from the countryside to his cousin, the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in Arabic script. On parchment. This fragment contains the bottom portion only, with many witness statements/signatures. Very damaged. Dated: Muḥarram 410 AH = …
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Taharti probably from al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. ʿAwkal from Fustat. Dating: August 3, 1011. The writer expected to …
Abū l-Faraj b. Khalaf (?), probably in Minyat Ghamr, writes to his cousin (ibn ʿamma), Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. These cousins had prior correspondence …
תעתוק אחד
Blessings for the caliph or sultan in Judaeo-Arabic. Presumably practice for a petition (cf. Moss. IV,56.1 and T-S NS 110.26).
Receipt in Arabic issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف), probably for ground rent (ḥikr) on a property in Cairo. Dated Shawwal 1214 AH (1800 …
Legal fragment. Mentions Yaḥyā (יחיה). (Information from CUDL)
Accounts for different days with Hebrew numerals. Late. Esther בייס is mentioned in one of the entries on the verso. (Information from CUDL)
6 leaves containing Geonic responsa on Sukka followed by a long responsum about giving a herd of sheeps to a shepherd on Shabbat. The first …
Fragment of a letter from a child to a father ("yā wālidī"). May mention a meeting with a cantor (la-qad ijtamaʿa al-ḥazzān....) and mentions pounds …
Fragment of a letter of appeal for charity, from Jerusalem, complaining about the heavy taxation. Large and beautifully written; there are probably several joins to …
Letter from Farah b. Isma`il b. Farah (Busir/Abusir) to Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sigmar. Udovitch's edition was corrected and updated according to Gil's …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantile letter. There are congratulations for a bride (al-ʿarūsa).
Letter to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva (in office ca. 1170–71 and 1173–95), in which the muqaddam of Qalyub (the …
Letter of an unknown welfare official reporting to a superior. He alludes to the plight of an orphan girl (1-6). He asks the recipient to …
Tiny and damaged fragment from a ketubah containing an immersion stipulation, so can be dated from 1176 onward. AA
Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation …
Quittance for Saʿadya b. Avraham ha-Levi on 4 dinars he had owed. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1489 Seleucid = May 1178 …
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
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الاقرار الشرعي في صحته وسلامته] وطواعته واختيا…
Arabic legal text. Fragment about marriage (nikāḥ). Verso mentions the rule stating that a marriage is necessarily concluded in presence of the legal guardian (walī) …
Letter from Ṣadoq ha-Kohen, in Sunbāṭ, to Peraḥya ha-Kohen, probably in Malīj. Dating: 1460 Seleucid, or shortly thereafter 1148/49 CE. Reporting on the substance of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a small bifolio. The usage of Ottoman kurush makes it possible to estimate the dating as 18th- or 19th-century. The entries …
Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The sender received the addressee's letter with concern about the whereabouts of Abū l-Ḥasan …
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, Busir. Around 1054. Nahray is in Busir and buys flax with the help of …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך
ברחמתה מן אלמסתקר ליא בקין מן אלול כתמה אללה על[יך ועלינא] באחסן כ…
Letter of appeal for charity/help from a man who is housebound on account of his illness and poverty (wajaʿ, ḍuʿf, ḍīq ḥāl). Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav, …
Court record written and signed by Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Av 4889 AM, which is July/August 1129 CE, under …