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Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The …
אין רשומות קשורות
None
Minute fragment with only a few words in Hebrew (נצב איש . . . הם צואות(?) . . . לא ליתן כלום). Probably from a …
A photocopy of a Muslim court deed concerning a conflict between the Qaraite supervisor on Qaraite endowments in Jerusalem, and a tenant, from the year …
Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the …
Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051. Lists of goods that were bought or sold. Some details about the …
ואשתרית רבע ח שכאיר צוף לי פיהא אלרבע ואלרבע לנהראי בן נסים
ואלרבע לאבי אלכיר אלצירפי ואלרבע לאבי זכרי בן קיומה ואלרבע אלדי לי אנא
הו בי…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Bill of divorce. Dated: 1331 Seleucid, which is 1019/20 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Seʿadya. Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo …
Letter in Ladino to Efrayim [ʿA]dda from Moshe Fernandes. Dated: 1806/7 CE (20 Sivan[?] 5567 AM). The scribal hand is idiosyncratic and quite difficult. Fernandes …
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment. Refers to the arrival of a raqqāṣ (runner/courier) in search of the sender (ʿabduhā).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script in the right margin (the tarjama?). Dating: likely ca. 13th century. On verso refers to the address as …
Recto: Responsum in the name of Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen Kanzī(?) Dimashqī. Dating: After 1490 CE. It has to do with a man who …
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mainly about business transactions with sugar (sukkar, qand). Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's …
דיון אחד
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
Small and damaged fragment from a deed of gift to a woman(?), written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two dinars. Dated: 1435 …
A letter from Eliyyahu al-Qustantini b. Shelomo, writing to Efrayim he-Haver b. Shemarya, head of the Ben Ezra congregation (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Eliyyahu was held …
Tax collection (ḍamān) contract from the era of the caliph al-Mustanṣir, dated 477 kharājiyya (1087–88 CE). Mūsā b. ʿĪsā takes upon himself a payment of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله امير المومنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الائمة
الاكرمي…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document concerning an inheritance. Location: Fustat. Dated: first third of Iyyar, 1414 Seleucid, which is 1103 CE. Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī …
Recto: Decree from the 1130s. Only the closing boilerplate and a date (without the year) have survived. Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Page from a bookseller's ledger, containing many names. Dating: ca. early 13th century. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Names include: Abū l-Majd al-melammed; al-melammed R. …
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Letter from communal leaders, in Alexandria, to the judge Shemuel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unclear; likely early 13th century, based on handwriting and …
Tax receipt?
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda and Yaḥyā and al-Mahdiyya.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
IB III, 47. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b. …
Accounts in Arabic script, in large letters with wide line spacing. Reminiscent of state accounts, but likely private. E.g., "Owed by Ibn al-Kaʿkī...." Various dates …
Quittances for 15 dinars and 68 dinars (the latter apparently in Alexandria) to Sitt al-Kamāl, widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, witnessed by Yefet b. Ṣedaqa, …
Legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Signed by Pinḥas b. Sheʾerit ha-Kohen. Dating: probably Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February …
Accounts for 54 dirhams (not 64 as per Goitein) received by the collector (called Sulayman ha-Levi), plus 30 donated by Avraham the Pious (d. 1223) …
IB I, 42. List of contributors for bread for the poor. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1230–40 CE. Abū l-Riḍā (Yosef III) Ibn al-Lebdī pledged one-half …
תרגום אחד
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper part only). Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions ʿAbdallāh in the upper margin.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on Wednesday, 19 Ḥeshvan. The sender complains that he has been toiling and staying up all night for the last …
Possibly a letter (needs examination)
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew from the second half of the 16th century, mentioning attempts to prevent a certain edict, in which R. Yosef …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Needs examination.
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Likely a fragment of an old (ca. 11th century) ketubba. Mentions Yaʿqūb and a bride.
Recto: small fragment from a document. Mentions 'the city' and 'my sister.' Verso: mentions [...] bt. Mubāraka. May be a magical fragment, which would explain …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on handwriting, spelling, and vocabulary. Needs examination for content. Quite faded. Might mention a commodity called qiṭmīr. (Information …
Letter addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq by way of Binyamin ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Repeating a request that a cantor leave the capital for the writer's village …