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Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. Very damaged. Only some signatures preserved: […] ha-Levi b. Avraham, Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe. Reused for …
אין רשומות קשורות
List of commodities and weights - needs examination. Image not available.
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), to be read in the synagogue, on behalf of a pregnant woman …
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Legal document in Hebrew, very damaged. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 ___[month missing] ___52 AM. Based on the paleography the year is most likely 5552 AM …
IB V, 14. Business letter addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Lebdī; Hārūn b. Rajā; Efrayim b. …
2 תעתוקים
Recto: letter from a father to his son. Verso: jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script, which includes names such as ‘the leader Abū l-Mufaḍḍal’ - …
תעתוק אחד
Official report to an amīr who is addressed with many titles (al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr al-amīr Shihāb al-Dīn ʿumdat al-dawla etc.). The sender reports that he arrived …
Recto: ketubba of [...] b. Nissim (groom) and Jins (bride), a divorcee. Locaiton: Fusṭāṭ. Verso: title page for laments for the 9th of Av. In …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Verso is rich in details of commodities and …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Abū l-Wafāʾ al-Simsār (the broker); Ibn al-Mū (?? בן …
Legal document. In the hand of Shemeul b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1480 Seleucid, which is April/May 1169 CE, under the authority of …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dated first decade of Kislev. Mentions Rosh ha-Qehillot. No …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves a settlement related to an inheritance divided into three shares; one of …
דיון אחד
Text in Latin script, possibly mentioning the phrase "contra salomon" on the recto. Some words are from Latin (et fides) and others resemble Italian (noi) …
Business accounts in a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso is headed by the glyph and begins "al-bāqī ʿind. . . ." …
Small fragment from a letter, probably in the hand of Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov ha-Ṣarfati (the French). AA
Bifolio containing eclectic jottings including an account for the year 1466 Seleucid = 1154/55 CE and a crossed out draft or summary of a legal …
IB II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arri…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Petition from Hibatallāh b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1180 CE or generally 1168–1204, based on the years Maimonides was active …
looses the bands, removes sadness, dismisses the ghosts . . .
(2-3) to confirm the rules of the Mishnā, to abolish any pretext, to pull do…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 …
The Amīr Ḥiṣn al-Dawla b. Sayt al-Dawla, for two murattabs,
seven waybas of wheat. Still due to him, eight
waybas of wheat, whose cost
of …
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolium in which the name Yaʿacov Ventura is mentioned at least three times across the recto and verso. Based on …
Arabic script (VMR) Pinholes at the margin ~3–4mm apart. On verso, traces of glue and possibly an ʿalāma.
Arabic medical work.
Accounts with a wide variety of names mentioned, possibly a communal list. Dating: 19th-century based on paleography and lined paper. The names of those mentioned …
Verso: Detailed technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic for making a red dye out of lac and dyeing silk with it.
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering …
Verso: Legal document (bill of sale?) involving a Nubian female slave and the daughter of R. Yosef and someone's wife. Very faded. Dated: 1 Elul …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …
Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The petitioners complain that …
Bottom part of a legal or official document, dated to the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 H.
Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Shevaṭ 4872 AM = January 1112 CE. Large and well written fragment of a large document in which …
Recto: Petition asking for firewood. "انهى ذلك ويقبل الارض بين يديها رايها الصائب في ذلك ان شا الله تعالى". Dating: Probably Mamluk. Verso: Accounts.
Large fragment of a late legal document. In Hebrew. The paleography supports a dating estimate of late 18th- or early 19th-century, possibly the scribal hand …
Verso (probably secondary use): Receipt, probably. In Arabic script. For 3 dinars received from Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥājj for Jumādā II. Seems to mention the term …
Two pages from the ketubah of Yosef and Esther
Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …