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Bottom of a Muslim marriage contract. On parchment. Some of the surviving phrases refer to the bride's brother Yūsuf, as her representative, giving her in …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a state document in Arabic. Beautiful hand. Mentions الحاج . . . واحضر الحجة على . . .
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Form of excommunication written in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 602)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Informal note addressed to a certain Wuḥaysh (al-muʿallim Wuḥaysh ḥarasahū Allāh). In Arabic script. Possibly asking him to convey something to someone else. Additional jottings …
Collection of letters relating to the calendar controversy of 921–22. This is part of what Sacha Stern (2020) calls the Letters Miscellany: Letter 4 of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Copy of a deed relating to the settlement of the property of Khalaf b. Iṣḥaq, deceased, who left one daughter only. Dated Monday, 15 …
דיון אחד
A Hebrew poem probably in honor of the wedding of Netanʾel b. Meʾir (named 6 lines from the bottom). A later scribe has emended some …
Either a poetic introduction to a letter from the Yeshiva of Jerusalem to the community of Aleppo, or a letter that is in its entirety …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Probably related to the legal document on recto, since some of the same names appear. At the top the names …
Ketubba on vellum, badly damaged. Location: Cairo ([...] ha-semukhah le-Fustat Miṣrayim in opening lines), and פה מצרים in the penultimate line. Dating: 13 Av 55[..] …
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Three distinct entries, probably. (1) Mentions accounting of various sums; someone collected 2; 1 remains; someone …
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals in the margin of a rabbinic text. Items named include sīraj (sesame oil) and ḥawāʾij naql (sweets?).
Bifolio of Hebrew poetry, with one page of unidentified Arabic script, possibly medical.
Recto: Commercial letter in Arabic script. Mentioning [...] b. Yaʿqūb al-Tustarī; Dār al-Anmāṭ; Abū Saʿd al-Tustarī; sending a suftaja (bill of exchange); someone called al-shaykh …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid = 7 February 1094 CE. Declaration by the beadle Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, that he …
Power of attorney. al-Sāliḥ b. Yūsuf, a Sicilian Jew, gives power of attorney to another Jew in a qadi court. Dating: ca. 1102 CE, as …
[الحمـ]ـد لله و [حـ]ـده وصلواته على [سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما]
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
نسخة كتاب الوكالة
Legal document concerning a sale of an enslaved person, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)
Will in which a dyer setting out for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem makes provisions for his wife and children in the event that something should …
IB VII, 6. A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and …
Two words from an opening of a ketubah
Recto: legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Kohen b. [...], [...] al-Ḥusayn, sister-in-law of [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
List of goods and their quantities or prices/weights in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions numerous materia medica: barbārīs, jullanār, tamr hindī, ghārīqūn, bizr shāhtaraj, …
List of accounts and calculations in a disorderly format, based on the paleography, likely from the 18th or 19th centuries. There are names here that …
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly business accounts. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script mentioning a power of attorney (wakāla).
Letter from a certain Hibatallāh in polished (rhymed) Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. Asking for a loan of 60 dirhams, which he promises to repay …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from a husband to his wife and in-laws. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 15th–16th century. Opens with greetings for the sender's brother-in-law, mother-in-law, Sultaniyya, the …
Legal testimony (marriage permit). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1485 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE. Natan b. Yaḥyā and Shelomo b. Yefet testify that there is …
Court record. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Shevaṭ 5307 AM = 1546/47 CE. The case involves the payment of the ketubba for Esther, the widow of Moshe …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Legal record (#50) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 17v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei, but …
Legal deed. Only the date is preserved: Kislev 1454 Seleucid, which is 1133 CE.
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ḥakīm, in Sicily, to Ḥananya ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1025 (unclear on what basis; Gil says ca. 1020, …
Draft of the opening date of a legal document (probably a ketubah). AA
Recto: Legal document draft in which Mevorakh b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Natira, declares to owe Meshullam b. Mevasser b. Pinhas al-Damiri 120 and one-half …
Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh paid to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Minute fragment from a letter (or simply jottings?). The name Yiṣḥāq is mentioned and part of a date. No more details are preserved. AA/ASE
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.
Letter from Khiḍr and Sulaymān to their landlord. In Arabic script. Possibly informing him that they are moving out at the end of the month …
المماليك خضر وسليمان
يقبلون الارض وينهون ان المدة
الذي في اجارت المالك لم يبقا فيها
الا الى اخر هاذا الشهر فنشتهي
من احسان المولا يقف على …
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-Khayr. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID …
Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī. (The names are very difficult to read; these may be not exactly right.) …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic between family members. Interesting orthography: אלשעאר for אלצגאר. Mentions "the water in the khalīj (canal)."