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Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1470 Seleucid, which is 1158/59 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. One of …
תעתוק אחד
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אין רשומות קשורות
Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Draft of instructions to write signature on legal document. Late. The first note on the recto is in the first-person and signed by Yaʿaqov b. …
Two different letters of recommendation (one on recto, one on verso) for a scholar from a foreign land, who is apparently an eligible bachelor (ʿāzib) …
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدت…
מכתב מאת חלפון אל מַ̇צְמוּן בן חַסַן בַּרוּ̇ג, הודו, שנת 1134 לערך זוהי טיוטה מן החלק העליון של איגרת שהייתה צריכה להישלח מצפון-מערב הודו לעדן, …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: likely 12th century. Excerpts: אלאשגאל . . . פרגה לכתב כתאב . . .כאן תקדם אלי ולד …
Table of monetary values, two columns are listed "silver" and "pure" (נוקר). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Possibly related to communal …
Recto: The ends of 3 lines in Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Verso: The name صادوق/Ṣadoq written in Arabic and one other word.
Fragment (bottom part) of a power of attorney. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār …
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe, or else …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Possibly a letter (needs examination)
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid [Mevorakh] b. Saʿadya. Very faded. Refer to illnesses (amrāḍ. . . maraḍan. . .). Needs further examination. Reused on …
Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …
Letter from the head of the court of Palermo (perhaps Maṣliaḥ b. Eliyya) to his counterpart in Qayrawan, ca. 1050 CE. The letter details a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated: 5499 AM = 1738/39 CE.
Legal record (#1) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew with some …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal deed. In Hebrew, with some Babylonian vocalization. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 4787 AM = November/December 1026 CE. Maymūn b. Efrayim receives a loan of …
דיון אחד
List of names - needs examination. No image
Fragments of an astronomical text, in Arabic script.
Magical fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Unknown. It says Wednesday, 16 Adar 5005 AM, which is 1245 CE, but the scribe might have …
Letter from Salmān b. [...] to Zayn b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender was happy about the recent letter from the addressee, and is …
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…
Legal fragment. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions the terms khulṭa, lādan, and musk.
P21: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: Abū Yaʿqūb; Abū Saʿd and his paternal cousin (ibn ʿamm); …
Verso: Probably a witness statement from an Arabic legal document (...iqrār al-shaykhayn...). On recto there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Accounts for the year 1427 Seleucid, which is 1115/16 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. May be related to recto.
Two fragments of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, 11th or 12th century. Unclear how much of the content is salvageable.
Letter from the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. He informs him that he reached a peaceful settlement …
Fragment of a partnership agreement. The trader [Abū l-Surūr] Peraḥya [b. Tiqva ha-Levi?] Ibn al-Amʿaṭ (known from several other documents from the second half of …
Upper right corner of an acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr is Mūsā b. Yehuda al-Yahūdī(?) al-Ḥarīrī(?). Much of what remains is his physical …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions glass (zujāj) several times. On parchment?
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The greeting section from the end, mentioning Bū l-Faḍl: . . . حضرته السامية باتم السلام . . …
Circular letter, written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, addressed to an unnamed community. After the opening salutations in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and praises …
Small fragment of a medical treatise in Arabic script. Mentions temperament and fever.
A letter contains mostly discussion on the calendar from Ishaq b. Shlomo