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Small fragment from a list of goods, maybe from a dowry list.
אין רשומות קשורות
Prenuptial contract on the occasion of a betrothal (erusin/shiddukhin). Groom: Moshe b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Bride: [...] bt. Shemarya ha-Kohen (her name is left blank). Stipulating …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.
Address of an (official-looking) letter for David ben Naʿim in Fustat/Cairo, mentioning his capacity as [...] of the looms (al-anwāl) in Alexandria ( يصل الى …
Letter from Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
A first-person note in late Hebrew by Sulaymān A[...], perhaps mentioning the sages of Safed and emet li-Maymun(?).
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Small fragment probably from the top of a letter. Headed by Psalms 85:9 (ואל חסידיו ואל ישובו לכסלה) and begins "alladhī ajmaʿnā...."
Completely damaged page from what use to be a Bible. The ink was corrosive so almost nothing left. On top of the page Halfon b. …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions Avraham b. Shemaʿya.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Ketubba. Dating: likely 11th century. Groom: ʿEli [b. ...]. Bride: Mubāraka bt. [...] ha-Levi, virgin. No further details preserved. Signed by Nissim b. Hillel, Harun …
Recto: Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions a shipment sent to Alexandria with the name Zakkār b. ʿAmmār written on it. There is a date, …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr. Trigger: addā.
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a teacher (ha-melammed); a girl (al-ṣabiyya); a request for assistance; the father of the …
Composite fragment with copious Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic jottings and writing exercises, including letter draft(s) addressed to Avraham (Maimonides), r. 1205–1237 CE. Probably in the hand …
Letter (beginning only) from Muṣā b. Yosef to Yoshiyyahu Gaon. Dating: ca. 1020. Conveys extensive greetings. Information from CUDL.
Verso: Note in Arabic script to someone addressed as al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq. Mentions the bearer ʿImrān, two houses (ʿan al-dārayn al-mukhtaṣṣa bi-[...]), Masjid al-Qubba (a mosque …
Bottom of a letter in Arabic, possibly official. Reused on recto for Zephaniah 3:8. Verso: (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. A small portion of the upper lines is visible, with the common invocation בשמך רחמ׳ followed by …
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Mulūk, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
2 תעתוקים
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in …
Letter. Faded. Addressed to Abū l-Majd. It may be from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Dated: Muḥarram 504 AH = 1110 CE.
Verso (original use): Letter fragment in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Written in very eloquent style and partially in rhymed prose (sajʿ). Includes "a glimmer …
Fragment of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning al-Dimashqī al-Tifʾeret, the arrival of "ṣāḥib al-kitāb" sums of dirhams, and a woman's speech quoted. (Information in …
Letter from Ḥasan b. Manṣūr al-Neʾeman, probably in a small town, to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh (aka ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen) the well-known parnas (dated documents …
Unidentified document in Latin script. Maybe Spanish?
Dowry list (taqwim) in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, for the marriage of Natan b. Shabbetay and […] bt. Yeshūʿa. Marriage payments: 10 + …
דיון אחד
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Yahboy, probably in Qayrawān, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 according to Gil. The writer is …
כתאבי הדא אליך יאסידי ורייסי ותאג ראסי אטאל אל[לה בקאך
מכתצרא בסבב סרעה כרוג חאמלה אלי ספאקס לירכב מן [ ]
מן אלמהדיה משרוחה וגמלא מא ארי…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Note addressed to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan in Arabic script. Most of the words are legible but the instruction/request is not entirely clear: ينعم …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a Fatimid petition to a caliph. Extremely torn and fragmentary. Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and various sums of money and exchange rates. On verso accounts in Arabic script, also mentioning an …
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…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively long vertical strip. Mentions a dyer (al-ṣabbāgh).
Three long drafts of letters in elaborate Hebrew, sent from the court in Fustat. The first deals with the cantor Yiṣḥaq of Ṣahrajt who permitted …
Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from [...] b. [...] al-Ṣayrafī to Abū l-Ḥusayn [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely …
Court record bearing the signature of judge Shelomo b. Yosef, late Head of the court of the Academy,' Fustat, Kislev 1405/December 1093 (date and day …