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Account of the Qodesh: personal account of a parnas, ca. 1040. Small fragment, the right part of a leaf, in which Yefet b. David b. …
On the 25th Tammuz
Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī, his turn(?):
collected from me by b. al- ….
4 1⁄2 dir. ....
and a half ....
dir. His compound…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
A Hebrew note from a bookseller to a potential buyer, listing several books and giving final prices for them (in qurūsh). The books include "Zutah" …
None
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Munā to Elishaʿ ha-Sar ha-Levi. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The sender has …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham ben Yiju. This fragment contains the Judaeo-Arabic opening on recto (with an internal address) and an Arabic-script external …
Document in Arabic script. May be a state document. Refers to "al-niẓām al-ḥamīd." Ends with a ḥamdala and a ḥasbala. Needs examination.
IB VII, 2. Legal document. Dated: Monday, 2 Iyyar 1398 Seleucid, which is 1087 CE. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Location: Fustat. Moshe b. Elḥanan …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Liturgical text in Hebrew; writing exercises; unidentified Arabic text (possibly an amulet). (Information from CUDL.) One of the sections lists names like Yiṣḥaq Kanzi, Yehuda, …
Deed of gift, signed by Breakhot b. Elazar. The other signatures are not preserved. The parties Abu al-Muna, and Tamim ha-Parnas. This Tamim is known …
Literary narrative about the kings of India and China, one of their daughters, a dream, and a wedding. 1001 nights?
Legal record (#106) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated [27 Kislev 5326 …
תעתוק אחד
Literary, probably. Very faded. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Personal letter in Arabic script. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045–96. Yiṣḥaq arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday 6 Tevet and …
Recto: Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in which he urges his supporters to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles, lest their party be …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 3v-4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
Calendar
דיון אחד
Recto (secondary use): Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment, left side only. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1361 Seleucid = 1049/50 CE. Signed [...] ha-Levi b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Recto: The upper part is probably medical recipes in Arabic script. The lower part is business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Very damaged text in both …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment containing the "rayy" clause.
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning the sale of property. There is writing on both recto and …
Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1053. The sender has been thwarted in his …
אטאל אללה יאסידי בקאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך וכא[ן לך ומעך נ]אצר פי גמיע אמורך
ברחמתה[תקדם] כתאבי אליך לי בקי כתמה אללה [תעאלי אסמה עלי]ך ועל…
Letter in Hebrew from the community of Kiev on behalf of Yaʿaqov ben R. Hanukkah. He had been seized by Christian creditors (goyim) of his …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
IB VII, 46. Business letter relating to the India trade. In Judaeo-Arabic. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. Goitein initially thought …
Legal query. Dating: Early 13th century (per Goitein). Concerning the wife of a Kohen who traveled two or three times without letting her know how …
What does our lord—may his splendour be exalted and his honour increase—say concerning
a woman whose husband, a Kohen, has travelled, onc…
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel b. Avraham (perhaps a Qaraite), to Abū Saʿd (i.e. Abū Saʿd b. Sahl al-Tustarī, also known as Avraham b. Yashar), …
Incomplete letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 1065 according to Gil. Deals with the sale of quarter dinars. Two …
2 תעתוקים
Receipt from a synagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – 1943CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 158) – in Hebrew and French. …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Most of the lines, especially on verso, are from the prayer to be recited in the month of Ramadan in …
Verso: Legal document (unfinished draft) concerning a financial agreement between Ibrahim b. Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information in part from CUDL.) …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
List of names. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on the hand and typical names. Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]; …
Legal document concerning the community in Alexandria sending a sum of money to help repair an old synagogue in Jerusalem. There are five signatures on …
Letter from Shimʿon to Yosef. In Hebrew. Probably late and related to the northern Iraqi material in the rest of the HUC collection.
IB V, 41b. Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Munajjā is to give (the bearer?) 4 ounces of rose and lemon. (Information from Goitein’s …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip). Dating: probably 11th century. Quotes Proverbs 6:19 (משלח מדנים...). Mentions Nahray, ʿEli he-Ḥaver, a qāḍī, the Qaraites (contrasted …
Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Top portion only. Needs examination.
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Recto: Investment partnership between [Yaʿa]qov Raṣon, Avraham Yuʿbaṣ, and Shabbetay Skandarī and possibly one other person. The bottom is missing, along with the date. The …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1130–38 CE, based on Ḥalfon's dates and the fact that Abū l-Barakāt …
A letter to Shlomo b. Nahmo Yerushalmi (his name is written in acrostic on the write column) asking for financial support. The writer residing in …
Document entitled tadhkira (list/memorandum), listing the parnas (al-firnās), the Jerusalemites (al-Maqādisa), Yosef the beadle of the synagogue, Ibn al-Maqrūṣ, Khiyār, and Banī Naḥum. Verso has …