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Four legal queries and one responsum in the handwriting of Daniel. b. Azarya. A part of a collection of questions that were sent to b. …
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal record. Written and signed by the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; also signed by Saʿadya b. Menashshe ha-Kohen. Certifying that Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Salāma …
Letter to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm from Abū al-Futūḥ b. Kanz al-Dawla, with which he sends the eparch two silk garments, four textiles …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fragment of a magical text. FGP catalog indicates it's a text to predict the future (Lieberman catalog)
אין רשומות קשורות
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively large bifolio. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. The hand is that of ʿArūs b. Yosef. May belong with T-S …
Accounts with many different names listed by corresponding quantities in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the …
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Small fragment of accounts.
Small fragment of a decree. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary work.
ـ]ـامر حقيقا وبالاستخدام جديرا خليفا
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Yefet's …
Letter fragment. in Hebrew. Dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century based on the paleography. Someone with the name Zerḥiya (זרחיה) is mentioned in line …
Legal testimony. Upper right corner. Mentions Maṣliaḥ Gaon. A man makes a declaration beginning with "Eight _____ ago...."
Letter from Yūsuf, in Alexandria, to family members, probably in Fustat. The letter is addressed to the shop of Abū [...] al-ʿAṭṭār. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Question to Muslim jurisconsults. In Arabic script. Concerning a case of inheritance. The last two lines contain the names of two apparently deceased people: Isḥāq …
Note (ruqʿa) reminding recipient to fulfil his promise (of which no details are provided).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Items sold (mabyūʿ) and expenditures incurred (maṣrūf). There might be a date on verso (642 AH?). (Information in …
Letter from the Jerusalem gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–51) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1025–26 (Gil). Written in a high register of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Various jottings in different hands including the name Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥātim ha-Zaqen.
Upper left fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi known as Sayyid al-Kull. Mutual release or …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a deed of sale, as 'al-mushtarī' ('the buyer') is mentioned at the bottom. Mentions [...] b. …
Report from a Fatimid official, probably sent from Tyre. Dating: most likely 1109 CE (1108 CE possible but less likely). Written on a rotulus, estimated …
Tadhkira (memorandum, bill of lading) drawn up by Nahray b. Nissim for Yehuda b. Khalfa. Complete and well preserved. Needs to be edited.
Arabic script (VMR)
Legal record (#33). Bill of sale, outline. Dated: Thursday, 17 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the …
Abū ʿAlī b. ʿImrān, Alexandria, writes to the son of his dead sister, to Abū Mūsā Hārūn b. al-Muʿallim Yaʿaqov, Fusṭāṭ, the shop of Abū …
Letter addressed to Makārim b. Ṭayyib in 'the land of Egypt' (diyār Miṣr), indicating that it was sent from outside of Egypt. In Hebrew (for …
Legal query addressed to the Gaon and Nasi Daniel b. ʿAzarya in Jerusalem with regard to the goods of a merchant, Moshe b. Yehuda ha-Ma'arvi, …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Al-Saʿdiyya, a part of Ṣanʿāʾ in Yemen, based on the landmarks listed: בירין דמיין נבעין דילה. This locational designation appears …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.
Book of twitch divination (palmomancy).
Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. MCD/ASE
Ottoman-era legal document or letter with legal import, in Arabic script. Probably demanding for a sum of money to be paid in dirhams. Needs examination.
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment. Late. Currency mentioned: medin (מאידיש). Mentions receipt of a sum of money.
Court ledger. Document regarding claims made at court. Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾ al-Halabi and in the body …
Narrow strip torn from the signature section of a large legal document. Witnesses include *[Yefet?] ha-Ḥazan b. David ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Menashshe; *Avraham b. David; …
Earlier document: Letter from a certain Abū Saʿd (aka Seʿadya) to three addressees: David, someone else (Avraham?), and someone called only al-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Unidentified jottings, mainly of numerals.
Iqrār (acknowledgment) made by "al-majlis al-ʿālī Qāʾidbāy al-Muʾayyad." Dating: catalogued as 512 AH but more likely 12 Shawwāl 812 AH (or 912 AH?). Potentially linked …
IB II, 13 + 14. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: three fragments of two copies. Aden, ca. 1130s. An additional copy …
Your hands shall prevail over your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.
To our esteemed master and lord Abraham—may …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Order of payment. Mainly in Arabic script, with an אמת in Hebrew in the upper margin. Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay the bearer 10 …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions rose oil and pepper and sandarac resin (ṣandarūṣ). Mentions "that …
דיון אחד
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in a book hand. Opens with two verses of poetry, then probably a taqbīl ([... al-a]rḍ), then greetings for the …