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Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to the shop (dukkān) of a Qāḍī, as discernible from the first fragmentary line. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Palimpsest. This parchment contained an Arabic legal document, which was scraped. The part on recto refers to [...] b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAfṣī (the gallnut merchant) and …
Recto: Possibly a responsum, or else a literary halakhic discussion. The writer engages in a discussion of the reasons why Rava (an amora) made a …
Fragment from the top of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Dated, but much of the date broken …
A leaf of the astronomical tables devised for the years 900-1500 CE. Only two dates come into question for the year 631/1234 (Ayyubid period). Date …
Letter from Salāma b. Ibrāhīm (aka Shelomo b. Avraham) to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: end of 11th century. Only the opening and greetings …
כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך ונעמאך
ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך שדיד
קרב אללה א…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions the phrase/title/name "Sar Shalom." Little else …
תעתוק אחד
Colophon to R. Saadya Gaon's commentary to one of the prayers (תפילת שמונה עשרה), written in Ashkelon in 1061. Verso: the beginning of R. Saadya …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.
Drafts of two legal documents, the first a declaration by a father regarding bequests to his sons. Incompletely drafted in Fustat. Dated 155?/1238-1248. (Information from …
Two sides of a medical text, in Arabic script, mentions spleen (tiḥāl). Needs examination.
Legal document. A large damaged שטר אביזריה (= Bill of compensation), written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). A certain Yosef is mentioned and also …
Receipt.
Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.
דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Munā complaining about something, perhaps his isolation or a lack of letters (inqiṭāʿ). Abū l-Munā may be the sender's son …
Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Hayyim b. Immanuel to Mevorakh b. Saadya in Fustat, dealing with a purchase of books for Mevorakh from the estate …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Bill in Arabic script, late. "Al-maṭlūb min al-shaykh Riḍwān al-Tāhir..." The currency listed is Ottoman gurūsh, which helps to date this document as 18th- or …
Accounts listing a variety of names and corresponding quantities in Hebrew alphanumerals. Requires further examination. Late.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk or early Ottoman-era. The one on recto (the secondary use) is a power of attorney drawn up …
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated 6 Tishrei 5561 AM (September 1800 CE). The groom: Elya Hakohen b. Eliyyahu. The bride is Esther known as …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on …
My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your well-being and happi…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Two sets of bifolios from an ʿilm-i ḥal manual in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: possibly sixteenth-century or later (per Hathaway). In the introduction to her edition, …
Ḳurʾān oḳumadan rukūʿ
itse, tekrār dönüb,
Ḳurʾān oḳuya ve yine
rukūʿ ide ṣoñra
sehv-…
If you bow without reading [a chapter from] the Qurʾān,
then go back
and read the Qurʾ…
Hebrew letter (or draft) from a man addressed to his brother Moshe b. סחן. In rhymed and possibly humorous Hebrew (...אחי וראש חקור ודרוש ומשחיטה …
Legal document. Written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid = 19 April 1229 CE. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. …
Draft of a formal letter or petition in Arabic to 'al-rayyis al-jalīl.' This side was reused for a document or composition that appears to be …
Minute fragment, possibly blank or with extremely faded text.
Small, official-looking receipt. Needs examination.
Letter, in Arabic script. Written by a Muslim, as he begins and ends with prayers for Muḥammad. He refers to himself as "the slave" (al-mamlūk), …
Mercantile letter addressed to a son. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some lines on verso in Arabic script. Mentioning wheat; instructions him not to stay in Fustat …
Court record dealing with a loan of one dinar that, according to Ya'ish ha-Kohen b. Avraham, was given by him to Yosef b. Avraham. Yosef …
Communal letter(s) or possibly responsa in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th century. There are two different handwritings. Both the upper and the lower text blocks seem …
Accounts.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two bifolia. Referring to Abū Yaḥyā Nahray (b. Nissim), with notes in Nahray's hand on it. Information from Goitein's note card.
Letter fragment from Avraham, son of the Gaon. In a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script.
Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. A ḍarība seems to be an amount of cuttings you have to plant, and each …
Verso (original use): Bottom piece of an official letter, probably. Only a few lines are preserved: من الامور وما يلوح له . . . Ends …
Minute fragment- few words in Arabic - needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān and is probably dated to the year 427 H. Possibly two different scripts or hands. Needs examination.
Report of death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is Fakhriyya bt. Abū l-Faraj b. Bū Saʿīd. Her father, Abū l-Faraj, will …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The Jewish slaves report the death of Fakhriyya, the Jewess, daughter of Abū al-Faraj
ibn …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Business letter in Arabic script. The sender complains that his previous letters were unanswered and wonders if the addressee has heard anything detrimental. He orders …