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Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
אין רשומות קשורות
Bifolio of a halakhic discussion about capital punishment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …
דיון אחד
Possibly a calendrical text. In Arabic script. Mentions the blessed month of Rajab and various days.
Letter sent from Gaza to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.The sender heard a report that somebody "is praying in Qalyūb," maybe meaning that he is serving as …
Letter mentioning Abū l-Faraj. Concerning a small house (duwayra) and maybe its renovation on behalf of someone else. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script. In which two people testify (wa-ashhadā ʿalā anfusahimā fī ṣiḥḥa . . . ). Mentions the "aṣḥāb arbāʿ" (pl. of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 14th century.
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Probably literary
Measurements of Nile flood levels. Dated: 5495 AM which is 1734/35 CE. There are daily entries listing measurements for "al-Nīl al-saʿīd" in "fingers" (אצבע), which …
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Commercial accounts in Ladino dated July 1734 CE (15 Tammuz 5494 AM). The heading names Shabbetay Alpalas in connection with "telas ke mande/mando Alessandri[a?]..." (cloth …
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script on recto-verso. Possibly literary.
Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses at length a family in distress on account of poverty and the capitation tax; the specific details are not …
List of some kind in a difficult early modern scribal hand, possibly accounts. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …
Table of numerals, probably accounts.
Recto: Draft of a power of attorney written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Names: ʿImrān; Ḥalfon (the agent - אפטרופא); and [...] b. …
Letter to a Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL.) The portion preserved here deals with business matters (right margin and upper margin).
Letter in Hebrew. Needs examination. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 1493 Seleucid = August 1182 CE. Regarding the conveyance of 1/6 of a house for 21 dinars. The physician …
ח35 מכתב מאת יהודה הלוי אל חלפון בעניין פדיון שבויה ספרד, כנראה טולדו, חודש אוגוסט 1138 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 17.5 x 17.1 ס"מ. פורסם …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter fragment in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business mainly in materia medica and/or metals. Mentions antimony (rāṣakht) …
Letter requesting financial support for a poor member of the community. (Information from CUDL)
Probably accounts, at least partly in Ladino. The verso mentions the surname Babones (באבוניש) as part of the phrase, "in the hand of" "in possession …
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only flattery and blessings for the addressee are preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Mulūk, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
2 תעתוקים
Informal note probably from a woman to her mother. May be an abandoned draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks for the addressee's news and says …
תעתוק אחד
State/fiscal document. Dated: 403 kharājī = ca. 1012/13 CE. "Account of the revenue extracted from government estates (ḍiyāʿ al-sulṭāniyya)...mablagh …… fī l-ṣināʿa al-sulṭāniyya bi-nāḥiyat …… …
Partnership document in the "silk business" (עסק המשי). Date: Kislev 5562 AM (1801 CE). Location: Cairo. Several people are named in the opening lines. The …
Two letters in two different hands, probably literary exercises. Recto: Many eloquent expressions of longing "there is not a limb of my body but that …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. (We know the addressee has to be Peraḥya, because …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 19 Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = 3 November 1186 CE. The betrothal of the orphan girl Sitt al-Muʿazzaza bat Šela b. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Legal document from the time of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to here with the title "Nagid" therefore, post-1213 CE. The fragment comprises a few …
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Signed: [Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant] of Shemaʿya Gaon (active ca. 1100). Nothing else is preserved.
List of donations (?) collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the …
Fragment from the right part of a ketubah. The groom's name is Nethan'el. Small part of the dowry list is preserved. AA
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Possibly a document. (Information in part from CUDL.)
ח34 מכתב מאת אבן ברוך אל חלפון על התשלום האחרון בעד יהודה הלוי והזמנת ספר 'הערוך' אלמַרִיַّה, כנראה סוף הקיץ שנת 1138 המכתב, והחליף את …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
First page probably of a larger quire containing musaf piyyuṭim for Yom Kippur. On the cover page it says "belonging to Shemuʾel b. Ṣedaqa ha-Melammed," …