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Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Too faded to read much.
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا ب…
תעתוק אחד
List of accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated at the opening of each entry, for example, 15 Shevat 5450 or 25 January 1690CE. …
A draft version of the same legal query to a jurist (istiftāʾ) as in T-S Ar.41.105 (edited by Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents, …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ما يقول الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الزاهد الورع الامين عماد الدين
اقضا قضاة المسلمين مفتي دولة امير المؤمنين وفقه الله …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Business letter addressed to Avraham b. Shanju and Shelomo al-Shaqar. Dating: First half of the 16th century. The sender informs the addressees about a shipment …
Calendar in Hebrew script.
Letter possibly to a negligent landlord, written (satirically?) in the style of an ornate petition. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. After approximately 10 lines …
Recto: Decree from the 1130s. Only the closing boilerplate and a date (without the year) have survived. Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: post-1517 (Ottoman-era) based on the reference to Çavuşiya (שאושייא), on the verso–which was an Ottoman military title (possibly soldiers from the …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen to Yiṣḥaq Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva. The addressee might be Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi who was also known as …
Legal document dated 23 August 1797 (1 Elul 5557 AM), in which the brothers Yeshuʿa and Daniel ha-Levi acknowledge an investment by Me'ir Ben-Naʿim.
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Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, ca. 1100. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Remnants of seven lines of a trousseau list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The names Elʿazar ha-Zaqen and Sitt al-Kirām …
Business letter to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ(?) [...] Ibn Shaʿyā. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The paper is almost completely preserved, but the text …
Letter from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 23 Nisan 1532 Seleucid, which is 1221 CE. There …
Legal document. Fragment of a ketubba, left upper corner. With ornate decorations. Dated: Adar 1817 Seleucid = January/February1506 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card and …
דיון אחד
Verso, continuing onto recto between the lines (secondary use): Letter describing a requisition (muṣādara) carried out against a whole town, in which Muslims, Christians, Samaritans …
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli. Quite faded. Contains the intriguing phrase "living between Muslims and Christians …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The ends of several lines are preserved, mostly formulaic. Tells someone not to "go down" (the Nile). Reused for Hebrew literary text …
The ends of three lines from an official-looking letter or document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.) Reads …
Short letter in Arabic script. The sender's name appears on the right (al-mamlūk al-aṣghar [...]). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand and format. On verso …
Fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Likely a petition for help (كل سنة من احوالهم... حتى …
Fiscal document recording the receipt of a sum of money. 108 dirhams is mentioned. There is at least one ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd, same …
2 תעתוקים
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (aka Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān) to a physician named Abū l-Maḥāsin (titled al-Shaykh al-Sadīd). In Arabic script with one …
شهد من ثبت شهادته في هذا الكتاب [
المسمين فيه جميعا وفرادى فمنهم من كتب بخطه [ومنهم من كُتب
عنه بامره ومحضره واشهدوا …
Lists of names in Arabic script. Business accounts?
Note from the clerk of Daniel b. Azarya to Nahray b. Nissim regarding a collection for an indigent correligionist, ca. 1045-1060.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary (known) hand.
The main block of Judaeo-Arabic text is a portion of a letter. The writer reports that he arrived safely in Fustat and yearns for a …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. "Forgive me. . . . R. Eliyya. . . . Maʿariv. . . . …
Legal text or responsum about parental custody and child-rearing. (EK)
תאכדהא אליהא לאנהא מחוט לה וצולי
בתקוימה ואקום בתעלימה ותאדיבה
ומנעה ממא יצר בה ואהלה פאן
אנקסעת ולאיה אלאם במהצהא או
בארתדאדהא או בתזויגהא בגיר…
Note from Yūsuf to "al-Rayyis Rabbi Eliyya" (= Eliyyahu the Judge). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Giving instructions or making a request …
Account calculations. Dated 26 Elul 5539 AM (1779 CE). It may not be in the same scribal hand, but the date probably coincides with the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. None of the substance is preserved.
One line from a petition in Arabic script (the raʾy clause from the end). Reused on verso for Hebrew liturgical text.
Small fragment of a legal document. Involving Siwār (unless this word is "siwāhu"), Yosef, and a Torah codex. Refers to a period beginning with the …
Recto: End of a legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved. Verso: Complete legal document in Arabic script. No witness signatures. …
Part of the heading for a highly decorated ketubba (in Hebrew, although the ketubba text would likely have been in Aramaic). All of the main …
Small fragment of a list of names: [...] al-Laḥḥām, Bū Naṣr, Faraj(?) al-Mashmiaʿ, etc. Maybe a distribution list.
IB II, 12. Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים
P8: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman who owes a debt, a dead man, and …
Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 1481/82 CE. - Mentioning events as far away …
Brief letter in Judaeo-Arabic accompanying calendrical tables spanning 1007 years, informing the addressee about the tables.
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning a shop.