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End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Greetings to the addressee, his children, his father-in-law or son-in-law (חתנו) Abū Isḥāq Avraham, and his whole community. On …
אין רשומות קשורות
Receipt, with an ʿalāma at the top. The name of the payer isn't very readable but the word 'muʿallim' suggests a late-Mamlūk/Ottoman-era dating. Needs examination.
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Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …
תעתוק אחד
Verso: Formulary in Aramaic for a deathbed will, dated Av 1552 Seleucid (= 1241 CE) in Fustat. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter in which a proselyte (from Christian Europe), probably named ʿOvadya, expresses in beautiful Hebrew his thanks to a distinguished woman, who …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. The noble cantor (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give 5 dirhams to the relative of the rabbi from …
IB V, 39g (previously V, 39f). Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record containing a story about Abū l-ʿIzz, the sale of wine, Abū l-Faḍl, a judge [...] b. Zekharya, a prior document which was not …
דיון אחד
Babylonian Talmud, ʿEruvin 2a-b (f. 2) and 11a–12a (f. 1). F. 2v contains three notes of purchase. The book was initially purchased by Menaḥem b. …
Letter in Ladino, nearly complete but with numerous lacunae, from a mother to her daughter, addressed to her son-in-law Yaʿaqov Reshit (?) in Saida. The …
[א]י די שאלוד [. . .] לאש קואליש נואיבש אוייגאמוש
[א]ינביאשטימי א . . . . קינו וינו . . לא קורטינא אי
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Accounts in Hebrew and Ladino on dated alphanumerically on 1v and 7v as 5600AM (התר) which is 1839/1840CE. There is a large title on 1r …
Two fragments mentioning a few names, probably from the same document: Natan b. Ḥalfōn, ..]n b. Yaʾīr, Nissim b. Yosef ha-Dayyan. Requires further examination.
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli Rosh ha-Seder. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks the addressees to help him pay his debts. Greetings and …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday night, 23 Tammuz 1538 Seleucid = 9 July 1227 CE. ʿIbād and her sister, the daughters of Abū l-Majd, …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Fragment of a deathbed will. The testator is Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiel (b. Moshe) known as al-Ḥakīm, the well-known representative of the merchants. He gifts two …
Deed of manumission of a female slave. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1421 Seleucid, which is 1110 CE. The owner's name is Ṭoviyya b. …
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer, Dā'ūd of Banhā, who is chronically in arrears …
Letter, fragment, in Arabic script or official correspondence. Needs examination.
Letter from Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1053. The writer informs that he is in Jerusalem and is praying for Nahray …
Medical prescription in Arabic script. Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6). Diet: chicken. Recto is blank.
Much damaged list of debts(?) in a very crude hand. Mentions Iṭrābulusī.
Literary text, in Arabic script. The last line on verso "وجنود ابليس اجمعين" is a Quranic verse (26:95) with variation in the last word. However, …
Inventory of a part of a drugstore prepared by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. 1229 CE. Itemized account for the sum owed by Sulaymān. Among various vessels …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Daʿwat al-Aṭibbāʾ (The Doctors' Dinner Party) by Ibn Buṭlān. See also Yevr. Arab. II 1545 and BL OR 5565G.44–45 (PGPID 31347).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century. Fragment (lower half of recto). Mentions the qāḍī Ibn al-[...] and someone called …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Piyyut
One phrase from the first line of a legal document.
Recto (original use): Legal document written on parchment, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. …
Bottom of a communal letter, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Goitein: "Signature of the future Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh ha-Nagid. Important. Mevorakh …
Will (waṣiyya), in Arabic. For a Sicilian named ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī/al-Siqillī al-Anṣārī. Lines 6–15 consist of his profession of faith in the tenets of …
Letter sent by a son to his father in a silk shop in Minyat al-Qa'id. He inquires about the eye disease of the addressee and …
Legal query written and signed by Yehuda Mas'ud. Ottoman period. Regarding a sarraflik partnership agreement for tax collection in one of the districts of Egypt …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Piyyuṭim by Samuel the Third, pertaining to Parashat Vayeḥi (Genesis 47:28-50:26). F. 2r contains most of the ofan; f. 2v contains the meʾora and the …
Acknowledgment of receiving a Torah scroll - needs examination. No image
Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-D…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of …
(1-5) . . . and in the sukka. . . the conflict broke out, and they erected mangonels against the city. On the day of Simḥat Tora they took the…
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Musa b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Fustat. Dating: November 14, 1079. Natan writes the account for cash from …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ליג בקי מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך
באחסן כאתמה ושוק …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a deed of lease. The lessor is a woman. The annual rent is 1 dinar.
State document, fragment, one isolated line in Arabic script. "والذي ينهيه عبد مولانا امير المؤمنين". Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ, the prayer for rain …