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Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Wife: Sitt al-Bahāʾ bt. Yakhin. Husband: Yefet b. Saʿadya. Location: Malīj. Dated: 8 Adar II 1445 Seleucid = 5 March 1134 CE. …
דיון אחד
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אין רשומות קשורות
Small fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat, mid-12th-century (reshut of Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]). There are additional legal notes on verso, mentioning various sums of …
Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. He reports that 'your mother and sisters' are well. He sends regards to …
Recto: order to Abū Isḥāq, apparently asking him to pay the carrier a certain sum of money. Verso: Arabic document headed "revenue" (al-ḥāṣil), dated Rabīʿ …
Possibly a letter (needs examination)
Note from David b. Yehuda ha-Ḥaver, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1532 Seleucid, which is 1220/21 CE. He asks to receive the …
Register of ground rent (ḥikr) receipts for Manṣūr b. Muslim al-Zajjāj for his compound in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ with numerous tidy entries spanning a period of …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), regarding evasion of the capitation tax in the community. The previous year they had …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved from near the beginning. Mentions Abū l-Khayr(?) and 2 dinars.
Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (with the name of the month מרחשון written in Hebrew script three times). Written on cloth. The …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions rose oil and pepper and sandarac resin (ṣandarūṣ). Mentions "that …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. Husband: Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. On …
תעתוק אחד
A booklet containing copies of eight letters by Rav Sherira Gaon and one letter by Rav Hayye Gaon. End of the 10th century. The letter …
Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi to his brother Halfon (1100-1138 CE).
Fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions sums related to specific documents (ḥujja, wathīqa); Saʿd al-Mulk; and a collateral …
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Elisha b. Yosef. The bride is Esther known as 'Aziza d. Eliyyahu the cantor.
List in Ladino with payments in silver medin. Dating 15th-17th century based on the paleography and the post-1415 CE currency mentioned. Each entry opens with …
Fragment of a shipment record by Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1045. Mentions the goods that Yosef wrote about in his letter to Ya’aqov b. …
רב סלם ברחמתך רזמה פיהא פרו [לב]רהון כן צאלח נע טו פרו וה רזם ה[י]
לעקבאן בן יחיי עוץ מא לברהון ברזמתה ל[ ]
ודאוד בן נחום סבעה רזם לאסין…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fragment of a book (or booklist) that belonged to the Head of the Gola Daniel b. Hisdai, end of the 12th century. Seems like the …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Verso: Scribal practice in Arabic, medieval-era. The basmala is repeated in the opening lines and some of the subsequent exercises resemble an accounting-based structure. Recto: …
Part of a document in Arabic script, possibly a letter. There are three lines, and their beginnings are missing. Reused on recto for Leviticus 1:1-2; …
List of items, one is Socotran aloe (صبر سقطري). Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
List and accounts mentioning the names of Muslim months, personal names such as Abū l-Surūr al-Levi, Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl Sar ha-Leviyim, various sums …
Legal query (in a different hand than recto) concerning the case of a widow holding a statement of trustworthiness, who had declared that she possessed …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Second leaf of a long letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of both recto and verso). Partially concerning a dispute of religious scholars. Continuous reference …
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
Accounts of a druggist. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Items include realgar (="red arsenic," zirnīkh aḥmar), red lead (sīlqūn), ground myrtle (marsīn maṭḥūn), and …
Informal note addressed to a judge. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman came to Hillel with a bill …
Accounts.
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1025 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the …
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef (the nephew of Avraham Ibn Yijū), to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the address …
Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …
אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו
ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל
החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך
אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד
אנפצלת מן בין …
I (would like to) inform the august,
exalted and gracious presence of our master
and teacher Elijah the enlightened,
wise and understa…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Poem of praise and congratulations on the birth and circumcision of a son, it seems addressed to somebody named Ḥananya. The words ‘Mar Yefet’ are …
Contract of hire/rent. Fragment (upper right piece). Lessee: al-sharīf Muslim b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ṭabāṭabā al-[...]. He rents a number of shares in a …
Letter from a woman to her husband. Written in excellent script and style. The writer is angry that her husband had to live in her …
A dowry list of the couple Yefet b. Binyamin and Sirwa bt. Khalaf. On verso an Arabic letter or document. AA. {It is not clear …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 13th century. Mentions al-Kohen al-Maghribī who was with Ṣāfī the Alexandrian; an embroidered robe (malḥafa marqūma); selling something …