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Letter from Yehuda b. Simḥa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The writer trades in pearls and coral. He …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions animals like elephant, ostrich, snake, probably discussing the permissibility of its eating. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
שטר זה מיוחד במינו, ומהותו אינה ברורה לכל פרטיה: אדם ממנה את אביו לגבות בעבורו 200 זהובים מבעלי חובו. החתן חייב, ככל הנראה, סכום כסף …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The handwriting looks like that of Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Deed of gift. In Hebrew, calligraphic. Location: Fustat. ʿEli b. Ḥasan ha-Levi the dyer gives to his youngest son Shemuel five and a 1/3 shares …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Hebrew. After a poem in praise in the Gaon …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment from the bottom of a bill of release(?) for a widow. Her name may appear in l. 2. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe …
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–38). Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. …
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
Epistle of the gaon Shemuel b. ʿEli of Baghdad. There is a colophon. This copy was completed Tishrei [1]473 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. "In …
Account, possibly a list of debtors. Mentions names such as R. Shemuel Iskandarānī, Meʾir Saragosi, and Shemuel Tortos. Dating: verso is headed מביע גאמכית שהר …
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlā Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dating: 29 December 1057 CE (Gil) or ca. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). On parchment. Mentions [...]allāh Ibn Khudādār (possibly the same Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn …
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
IB II, 9. Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿaqov to Netanʾel b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Ḥusayn). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter concerns a consignment …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Letter from Petaḥya b. (abū al-?)Maḥāsin, a refugee from Palestine, to Avraham b. Shelomo, his relative in Fustat, shortly after the Crusader conquests at the …
Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which …
Brief letter in Arabic script. Dated: 6 __(?) 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE), with the month indicated by a sole ligature or letter (ل؟)– possibly Shawwal. …
Letter sent in response to a message from the addressee, with well-wishes related to the addressee's illness or frailty (iltiyāth). Elevated register. Dating: 11th or …
Legal document in an idiosyncratic scribal hand. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 19 [I]yyar 5585 AM (1824/25 CE). Stating the amount of money to be paid to …
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 …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Recto contains the lower left corner of a document, with perhaps the remnants of a witness signature at the bottom. …
Recto: Probably an astronomical table with text in red and blank ink. The readable words are "al-layālī", "al-tawqīʿāt", "mutawassiṭ" and "mutawassiṭ radī." Verso: an elegant …
Fragmentary letter mentioning several names and a parnas.
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.
Letter concerning business matters. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many tantalizing details, but too fragmentary to understand. Mentions: 1000 dirhams; "whatever you wish, send it and I will …
Fragment from a bifolio with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū ʿImrān Abū l-Muwaffaq; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥadīd; Yaʿaqov b. Nāṣir Khabbāz; Bū …
Business accounts. Mentions mirwads.
Deed of gift in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: last third of Adar 1428 Sel. = February/March 1117 CE. The upper part is …
… (there is no need) for a complete mention of its boundaries in this
deed . . . . (This is a definitive gift, open and public, like a de…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes). The letter is written in …
Small fragment of a legal deed. Some names partially preserved: [...] known as Ibn al-Shofeṭ, and [...] al-Ṣiqillī. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe …
Dirge. On verso the name of the owner (or rather poet?): Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen b. Simḥa.
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Refers to a sick person whose will is invalid (...מרצה בטלת וציתה...) …