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Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b. Dāʾūd b. Zablān, probably in Fustat. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 66 dinars and travel. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Join: Amir Ashur. Recto: Document referring to a woman whose husband traveled to …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Tinnīs. Mentions: the speaker wishing to will his or her money …
Document(s) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly a cheque or other credit instrument. Needs examination.
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Verso: Document in Arabic that was recycled for a list of names. Medieval-era. Badly damaged: will require further examination for content.
Possibly the last page of a copy of a decree (à la T-S Ar.40.37). Opens with a conditional clause (wa-lammā lam yuʾkhadh(?) al-amr...) and a …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably magical due to the humanoid figure at the side. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, the recordkeeping method is terse and somewhat unclear in terms of content. 16th-17th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Petition or report. Fragment, three lines preserved. Requests intervention in a dispute between someone and ʿImrān b. Lāwī (ʿImrān b. Levi, possibly Abū ʿImrān Moshe …
תעתוק אחד
Piyyuṭ in Hebrew, and an undeciphered note in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL.)
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Final page of a letter from a scholar and government employee in the Fayyūm to R. ʿOvadya and R. Ḥananel. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Letter fragment addressed to [...] b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th century. The writer sends …
Legal fragment of some kind. Perhaps from a court notebook. There are signatures at the top, two lines in Aramaic, then a section with several …
Verso (original use): Bottom piece of an official letter, probably. Only a few lines are preserved: من الامور وما يلوح له . . . Ends …
Fragment of the address of a letter to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār.
Neatly written table of accounts in Arabic script. Quantities are given in the units amṭār (pl. of maṭar) and aqfiza (pl. of qafiz). There are …
Bifolio containing a religious text (or poetry?) in Arabic script, the draft of a letter or petition, Greek/Coptic numerals, and reused for Hebrew poems/piyyutim with …
Legal document, a one-year employment contract for the services of a kosher butcher. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: First third of Tishrei 5534 AM = September …
Recto: Arabic prayer (يا قادر على كل شي لا اله الا انت . . . وينصر الاسلام نصرا . . . اهل بيت محمد . …
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyya, written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides and dated Tammuz 1531 Sel. (= 1220 …
Densely written accounts in Arabic script. Table of names with numbers underneath, and with the sum at the bottom.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Magical recipe.
Fragment from a letter, probably to a community. Written around the high holidays. Likely a recommendation for the bearers. Excerpts: . . . לחדש נימוסם …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi (Nīsābūrī), in Alexandria, to Ṣadaqa b. Yaḥyā al-Nāʾib ('the deputy'), in Fustat. He writes about a partnership in a …
Book of twitch divination (palmomancy).
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or …
דיון אחד
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Blank verso.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a biblical tale, mentions the "قول شمويل".
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Goitein's index card refers to a fragment containing a draft of a letter of appeal for charity to the Nagid, who has two sons. This …
Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, may be documentary.
Letter of condolence from Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver to a notable named Netanʾel, probably Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Peraḥya. (His kunya is written at 90 …
Fragment of a letter from [...] b. Yaʿaqov to [...] b. Natan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dating: likely …
Business letter in Arabic script containing an order for lac and pepper. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Ṣārifī, Masʿūd, and ʿAbd al-Karīm. Also requests …