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אין רשומות קשורות
List of names, all beginning with Yiṣḥaq or Yosef. Late.
דיון אחד
Recto (original use): Petition or report preserving the ends of 7 lines from the lower part of the document. Concerns farming and safeguarding of land …
Letter fragment. Addressed to a certain Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. Mentions Bū l-Khayr. May belong together with the preceding fragments.
Letter to Shmuel b. Yosef the Karaite
Short list of contributors. The first line: Ibn Jalāl al-Mulk, as in Bodl. MS heb. c 28/47 (PGPID 9586). Mentions the judge (R. Ḥananʾel). See …
Astrological prognostications. See Goitein's index card for further information.
Letter from a Qaraite leader in Damascus to a Qaraite leader in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Goitein suggests ca. 1000 CE, likely too early; Gil’s …
תעתוק אחד
Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew …
Long list of contributors, in the handwriting of the judge Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. The bottom half of the right column on recto is in …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic comprising the lower right corner of recto. The handwriting is elegant and distinctive. Dating: likely 12th century. Various …
Verso: Fragment of an official Arabic document, possibly a petition or decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. Unclear if any of the substance …
Fragment of a letter from al-Kabira, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1055. Al-Kabira informs Nahray that she sent him silk by the …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאיידה
ונעמאה [ו]כבת אעדאה ען סלאמה ושוק אליך
קרב אל[לה] אל[א]גתמאע בכם עלי חאל אלמו[ראד]
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 …
Verso (original use): state document, beginning of an ʿalāma starting with a ḥamdala, possibly part of a decree. Later reused for a note in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recipe(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Possibly medical. Items mentioned include malabathrum or Indian laurel (sādhaj hindī), litharge (martak), and rainwater.
Scrap of parchment with writing exercises as well as a curse for ʿAnan: בחרם ענן ארור ענן.
Recto: Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to Maimonides, who was active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204 CE. Concerning partners in …
Fol. 1 verso: List of names in two columns, accompanied by various sums. Fol. 2 verso: accounts of the elder Shalom Ṣughayyir. Fol. 2 recto: …
ذ אסחקסקטר.. הרט? אסוד
Pen trials and drafts of various documents, including a petition. (According to Khan, the petition is written to a judge.)
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ to his father Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses transactions of white lāsīn silk. Mentions Abū l-Yumn …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions vessels (marīna, pl. marānī) of oil.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions Mūsā al-Ṣay[rafī?], Sayyidnā, "not sleeping at night," and Cairo. (Information in part from …
Letter from Me’ir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq to a prominent figure in Fustat, probably Sar Shalom ha-Levi Gaʾon. The identification of the writer is based …
2 תעתוקים
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Vague and somewhat long-winded. Refers to: "al-nawba al-mubāraka"; sending various things; preoccupation on account of others; something which arrived, …
Letter by the son of the judge (dayyan) of Minyat Zifta to a certain Peraḥya, requesting his intercession with a certain sayyidnā David. Dating: If …
Poem praising the generosity of a philanthropist. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Refers to Isḥāq Ibn al-Wakīl "and others out of those who were present." The sender along with "the witnesses" reports …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. On parchment. Deed of sale, likely for real estate. Excerpts: כאין מא כאן באלג מא …
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Minute fragment of a medieval-era text in Hebrew script, probably a legal document. The name Yiṣḥaq appears at the opening of one of the lines.
Deed of sale. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, end of Tammuz 4764 AM = 1315 Seleucid = July 1004 CE. In which Khalaf b. Yosef b. …
1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו //אנו החתומים למטה כי ג'מילה בת אסד אשת כלף בר יוסף בר יעקוב הידוע בן// בחמישי בשבת שהוא סוף חדש תמוז שנת
2. ארבעת אלפים …
Daʿwat al-Aṭibbāʾ (The Doctors' Dinner Party) by Ibn Buṭlān. See also Yevr. Arab. II 1545 and BL OR 5565G.44–45 (PGPID 31347).
State receipt. Landscape layout. Begins "aʿṭā..." The payer is Mūsā b. Futūḥ, and it is for his capitation tax in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS …
Decree fragment. The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله …
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Groom: Abū l-Karam Nadiv (might be identical with Abū l-Karam Nadiv b. …