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Accounts of sales to individuals on various dates in the month of Ramadan 1241 AH which is 1826 CE. The accounts were recorded on a …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic (missing its upper part). Dating: late 11th century or early 12th century. In which Abū l-Khayr Mubārak b. David and Sitt …
State document, in Arabic script, from the private archives of the Karaite community in Cairo. The document is a decree from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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Unidentified document in Arabic script, mentioning sums of money and weights. Torn and reused for a different document on verso, also unidentified.
A letter to the Karaite community of Istanbul from Shmuel.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Hebrew on verso. Needs examination.
Address of a letter to the judge Eliyahhu b. Zekharya. In Arabic script with רבי אליה in Hebrew script. None of the letter is preserved.
Recto: Unidentified state document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has practiced copying the text in between the lines. A few lines from the bottom it …
Responsa in Judaeo-Arabic. Filling a bifolium.
Letter from Barhun b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī seemingly from Ascalon apparently to his father in Fustat. The writer mentions that he searched for messages from the …
[ ] כארגין אלי אלקדס אלמ[בארך
ונגד עדה כתב מן קבלך פסאלת גמיע אלכתביין פלם [
אלי מא אשגלך יום כרוגנא מן מצר אלדי מרנ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn to Abū l-Bayān(?) Moshe b. Yishmaʿel al-Kātib fī Dīwān al-Jaysh (i.e., a military administrator). In Hebrew (for the …
Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Hebrew, written in a high register, mourning the illness (keʾev) and/or other sufferings (yissurim) that have afflicted the 'foundation of the generaiton, …
Small fragment of a business letter in Arabic script.
Midrash of Solomon's throne. Joins: Oded Zinger. Cf. T-S NS 260.39, T-S Ar.16.25, and T-S Ar.18(2).115.3.
Karaite halakhic discussion regarding different types of legal deeds and their use
Fragment (lower right corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: maybe 12th century. Mentions a figure of authority (Sayyidnā) and a dispute in which the …
תעתוק אחד
Medieval glossary in Judaeo-Arabic for "God" or "God of heaven" in 15 languages including but not limited to Aramaic ("Targumiyya"), Samaritan, Nubian, Circassian, Russian, Armenian, …
Accounts, listing weights and payments. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Several of the accounts deal with silk. This fragment is …
Probably a draft of a letter in Hebrew in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212) containing praises and blessings for a notable …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 28 Sivan 4746 AM, which is 8 June 986 CE. A woman named [...] bt. ʿEli and …
Informal note to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. The writer was forced to go up to Cairo, so he informs the addressee that he is sending …
Late accounts, dated January 1827 (Jumāda II 1242 Hijri).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Recto is headed "ḥawwāla Ismāʿīl [...]." Verso is formatted in two columns with elongated words heading each entry.
List of names of very prominent people of the house of "the Meʿutad." On the back are lists of different houses—one name jumps out: "the …
A letter from Avraham to Shlomo b. Aharon
Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Top portion only. Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032). Dating: approximately 1026 (per Gil) but it is worth noting that Shelomo …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the heading (recto) 11 Av 5502 AM which is 1742 CE. This reading the heading's year as התקב (instead of …
Letter to Meshullam b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. It seems to consist solely of flattering greetings.
דיון אחד
Fragmentary record of communal dispute in which Shelomo ha-Kohen, Head of the the Yeshiva, became involved; written in Fustat.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to David Ben-Naʿim from his brother Moshe Ben-Naʿīm, who signs with the initials MBN rather than his full signature. Dated 30 Kislev …
Very faded list of books, e.g., a commentary on (Bava) Batra. In the left column the entries are numbered 74 through 82, which may help …
Two fragments of a letter probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to the cantor Meʾir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th …
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
Minute fragment from a ketubba. Only a few words have preserved, among them the name Netanʾel ha-Levi and part of the monogamy clause. AA
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Ibrāhīm in Alexandria to his partner Abū Isḥāq, the nāʾib (deputy). Dated 11 May 1141. The first page of the …
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Adages and ethical exhortations in Judaeo-Arabic. Some of them concern love and marriage. (This is not a letter, as it was described in the Baker …
Recto: Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26f. Verso: Arabic jottings, possibly a maxim or poetry; the lower text block is a copy of …