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Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
אין רשומות קשורות
Very damaged betrothal deed, probably between Rabbinate bride and Karaite groom (See Ashur, Engagement and Betrothals, p, 69). It is the bride's second marriage and …
Writing practice. Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
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Ketubba. Dated: Tuesday, 28 Sivan, 142[.] which can fit either 1111 or 1115 CE. Groom: [...] b. Yehuda. Bride: Turfa bt. Yefet. Witnessed by Yakhin …
2 דיונים
Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation …
Letter draft or notes in Arabic script, as yet unidentified. Written on the back of a letter in mixed Judaeo-Persian and Arabic (see PGPID 34816).
Letter from the leader of the Jewish community in a small town to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (1094–1111) complaining about trouble he has had …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
A page from a legal treatise regarding the writing of the geṭ (bill of divorce). The hand is that of Shelomo b. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya, …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This …
Remnant of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi to Abū Saʿd. Only the address is preserved. On the other side, in a different hand, …
Circular on behalf of a notable from 'Arqa, northern Syria, whose wife and child were held in captivity. On verso blessings on food.
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With several expressions of deference and petition-like language. Might be a request for a loan of 2 dinars …
Recto: list of books, a "bundle" containing paper quires (כראריס כאגצה) of works by Saʿadya and Shemuʾel Gaʾon. Verso: accounts of some sort in Arabic …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1053. A draft that was copied later. Nahray marked the dinars that he used for payment. (Information …
Recto (secondary use): Note of seven short lines written in beautiful oversized majuscules, written on the back of an earlier Arabic document. The writer praises …
Everyone knows that fantasy and error are not fitting for a clever banker and a discerning assayer, who should understand everything that a person s…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Bifolio of accounts. Dated on the verso Adar II-Tammuz 5627 AM (March-July 1867 CE). Many of the names are abbreviated beyond direct recognition but a …
Sales contract between Yosef b. Efrayim and Sadaqa b. David Ha-Kohen. Fustat, 1103. The verso contains a beautifully drawn-up poem by the Egyptian poet Sahlan …
Acknowledgement (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mamluk-era? On verso there is an addendum involving ʿAbd al-Dāʾim and a Rabbanite Jew, who is also a perfumer/druggist (al-ʿaṭṭār). …
Legal document, probably. Needs examination.
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 45
Legal document recounting long passages of oral speech, mentioning a faqīh, a qāḍī, someone getting beaten, the mutwallī al-maʿūna in New Cairo, the mutawallī al-dīwān, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Consisting almost entirely of instructions for commodities the sender wants the addressee to buy for him, with a …
Legal document. Partnership document. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1100 (per Goitein). This document, signed by Yitzhak b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi, describes itself as a partnership document enacted …
Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …
דיון אחד
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various names (e.g. Ibn al-Faqīr, Yūsuf, Abū ʿImrān, Abū l-Ṭāhir) and numbers associated with each. On recto there is piyyuṭ. …
Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly state/fiscal. Needs examination.
Letter in Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Little of the substance is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. It is not immediately clear if recto and verso are in the same handwriting or not. On recto, the addressee is a …
Small fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. One of the witnesses may have Ḥātim in his name.
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. The addressee is Tamīm al-Ṣay[rafī?]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Probably a fiscal account. Arranged neatly in columns on recto and verso taking up approximately half of the width of the fragment. On l. 3 …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: likely 12th century. Mentions commodities such as bamboo chalk and aloe. Mentions people such as Ibn …
תעתוק אחד
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid = 25 November 1136 CE. The testator is owed 2/3 dinars …
Parchment fragment with pen trials and drawings. Recto: monumental Hebrew characters with full masoretic vocalization and decorative flourishes; a sun or other concentric shape with …
Small fragment of a letter mentioning Abū Sahl Mukhtār. (Information in part from CUDL.) Cf. T-S 12.296 + T-S AS 164.183 + T-S 8J26.6 (PGPID …
Letter, apparently written by ʿEli he-Ḥaver b. ʿAmram, introduced with two poems in honour of Elḥanan b. Shemarya, and mentioning Joseph b. Abraham. (Information from …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Isolated words are legible (the basmala at top. . . kitāb. . . taʿālā. . . ṣāhib. . .). Seems …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Three other pages of ʿArūs's accounts appear in the neighboring shelfmarks. Recto contains an unusually rich narrative …