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Letter from a man to his prospective father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Binyām (druggist of Rashīd), probably in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr (al-ʿAfṣī), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He has sent 20 pounds …
דיון אחד
Detailed commercial account connected to the flax trade network of Yosef ibn ʿAwkal. Dated: Shaʿbān 429H (May–June 1038). Ibn ʿAwkal has distributed bales of flax …
וארבע מאיה עלי יז עדלא סקט פקד קבץ מני גמיע מא
כאן עלי דלך מן אלחמולה וכדלך אלמכזנין אלדי בידה וזנת
לה ענהא אגרה מא תקדם מן אלסכנה אלי נ…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
A dirge?
אין רשומות קשורות
Ten weekly payrolls for the second through the tenth weeks and then again for the fourteenth week of the liturgical year, which begins after the …
Minute fragment, few words only, mentions or addressed to [...] ha-Shelishi (the third in the Yeshiva) b. [...]. Hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder?
Some sort of receipt. Mentions 'al-qāḍī al-sadīd' and there is a date at the bottom.
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (or Natan b. Shemuʾel?). Invokes the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). [...] b. Yehuda and Shelomo …
תעתוק אחד
Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city …
Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to the dates Adar 1408 and Kislev 1409 Seleucid (1096/7 and 1097/8 …
Legal document. Fragment of beautifully written old ketubba. No name, no date, no conditions preserved. No or next to no jewelry reported. Marriage payments: 10 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Uses the symbol < to indicate 1/2. Mentions people such as Yosef, Bū l-ʿIzz, Dāʾūd the brother of Najm, …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya.
Recto: Remnants of an Arabic-script document. Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly asking the addressee to do something because the writer cannot. Begins "waṣala al-amr …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Petition? Fragment (lower part). The sender's name is likely Bū Bakr b. ʿAntar (right margin). The main request seems to …
Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …
Document in Arabic script. State document? Wide space between lines, upslanting.
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), appointing Avraham b. [...] Ashkenazi as someone's agent for some …
Letter from Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Levi, Jerusalem, to Nissim ha-Kohen Ṣefanya b. ʿOvadya ha-Kohen, Fustat/Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dated: 6 Kislev 5439 AM …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Probably a waqf document, describing the specifications of the entire property along with size dimensions. Mentions several amounts in …
Two fragments of a legal document concerning the rent for a property located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. The lessor is al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. The lessee (al-mustaʾjir) is …
Capitation tax receipt. Trigger: tadhkira bism. Dated: 502 AH = 1108/09 CE if read correctly. For Abū l-Yumn(?) b. Baṣal(??). Needs further examination.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Four lines are preserved of the main text and some additional text in the margins. On verso there …
Letter. One of the small handful of Judaeo-Arabic papyri. Labeled "papyrus I" in the classification of Blau and Hopkins. Dating: Probably 9th century or earlier. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Legal or official document, probably some sort of a receipt, in Arabic script. Baqā b. Bū l-Fakhr owes some sums to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. …
Legal document explaining arrangements for the ransom of a captive. Dated 29 Nisan 5411 AM (April 1651 CE) involving Yiṣḥaq Castro and Ya'aqov al-Darqon. Location: …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to "distress" (shidda). Everything else is too faded to read.
Upper fragment: Copy of a contract of betrothal (erusin) according to the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Before 1037 CE. Written by Yosef b. …
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)
Poetry, most likely, in Arabic script. Hebrew script on recto and verso.
Formulary or draft of the opening of a petition to a vizier and qāḍī. Cuts off right after the "wa-yunhī."
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th or 14th century. Very distinctive handwriting with crescent-shaped nun sofits. The sender seems disgruntled that someone didn't accept …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions coral and Efrayim and a qirṭās containing 160 …
Fragment, acknowledgment of debt by an agent to an investor while forming a partnership. Yosef ha-Kohen was appointed to act as an agent of b. …
Legal query draft regarding a man who willed his executor to buy landed property worth 500 dinars, the proceeds of which were to be divided …
Bottom of a legal document. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 504 AH = June/July 1111 CE. Appears to be a conversion certificate for a Jewish man and …
Arabic poetry, basamla at top. Blank verso.
Letter draft from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a woman (al-sitt al-rayyisa al-ʿazīza). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in his worst handwriting.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only the upper margin of recto is preserved.
Court record. Dated: Tammuz 1538 Seleucid = June/July 1227 CE. In which the son of one of two sisters whose father, Bū Mansur b. Abū …
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal account, probably. Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?) …
Letter from a Byzantine silk dyer to the elder al-Najib Ezra in Fustat, detailing that the writer is afflicted by severe agony (al-ʿadhāb al-shadīd) after …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting, early 13th century (or perhaps 11th century [AA]), addressed to "my brother" Abū l-Ghayth. Abū l-Majd recently arrived in …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with the Hebrew names (Shabbetay b. [...] and Barukh) written in Hebrew script. Mentions Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara) and a Christian named …