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Recto: business accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic (على مولاي اخي اجرة حمولة وبرطيل . . . . )
אין רשומות קשורות
Business or official letter in Arabic script, top only; continues on verso. Likely from Ḥamīd b. Qāsim to a qāḍī; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Salīm. …
Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. …
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Signed: [Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant] of Shemaʿya Gaon (active ca. 1100). Nothing else is preserved.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the right side of recto. The scribe has a distinctive notched ב. Mentions Muslims; many worries; and greetings …
List of valuable goods with prices in the tens of dinars. The name Shemuel b. Moshe appears twice. Evidently jottings of accounts (or part of …
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
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Letter in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Torn. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The tarjama at upper left appears to read "ʿabd min al-Maḥalla," …
Al-Shaykh Abū Sahl pays his dues to ʿAlī al-Rīfāʿ on 10 Rabīʿ II 603 H. Registration mark at the top.
Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script. 8 lines from the middle of the document, wide space between the lines. Written on a long, narrow sheet. …
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. Headed with an elaborate Emet. Perhaps instructing Avraham ha-Zaqen to help the bearer …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: List of names. In Judaeo-Arabic, followed by quantities of grain in waybāt. Very faded. Names include Abū l-Surūr; Abū Zikrī b. Moshe; Abū ʿImrān; …
Letter fragment addressed to the dignitary Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Ibn al-Furāt (aka Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen), sent either to or from al-Ramla. Only …
Upper fragment of a ketubba, very faded. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Reused on recto for calligraphic biblical text in two columns.
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138). …
Letter of recommendation for a poor man from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Money order of the Qodesh. Dated: 1477 Seleucid, which is 1165/66 CE. Issued by Shemuel b. Seʿadya, for 9.5 dirhams, from the collection of the …
The collectors of the Estate of the Jerusalemites shall pay to Abū Manṣūr
the son of Nathan b. Ezekiel al-Dimashqī's aunt's husband,
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Numerous small fragments. Several are sizeable pieces of documents. (1) A larger brown piece in the middle of the third and fourth images. Recto is …
Possibly a fragment from a bill of release, mentioning Ḥalfon, Yefet, and […] b. Yaʿir ha-Shofet ha-Nadiv. At the bottom at ninety degrees there is …
A letter to a notable, consisting almost entirely of blessings, some quite eloquent and in rhymed prose. The sender asks for help for rent and …
Letter fragment(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Recto is a brief note containing good wishes to a congregation (יהני אלגמאעה אלמקדסה …
Fols. 20–25r: Excerpts from the Passover Haggada. On the first page there are jottings of pious phrases: al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi waḥdahū lā sha{r}īk lahū. See also …
Small fragment of text(s) in Hebrew script on the recto and verso. The vellum is extremely damaged and wrinkled. Requires further examination.
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if …
Small fragment of a ketubba in the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Damascus. Same handwriting as T-S AS 156.394, probably. Contains some rare formulae, some of …
תעתוק אחד
Arabic script (VMR)
Some weights and Coptic numerals.
Unidentified jottings, mainly of numerals.
Receipt for Mufaḍḍal b. Barakāt of 1 dīnār and 2/3 dirhams for qand/sugar.
Bill of sale, probably, for an enslaved woman. Fragment (lower right piece). Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Buyer: Mevorakh. Seller: Yequtiʾel. Few details preserved. Signed …
דיון אחד
Late accounts in Arabic, possibly a bifolio from a broader defter. One of the account headings on the verso mentions al-ṣarrāf. Merits further examination.
List of contributors to charity during the time of Abu Ya'qub al-hakim, headed by Mahfuz al-Suri, ca. 1095 (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, App. C …
recto, right hand page
End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there …
Letter from a community in an unknown location addressed to the community in Fustat. Fragment: bottom part only. In Hebrew. Written by a scribe. The …
IB V, 6. Letter apparently from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fusṭāṭ, to an unidentified addressee, apparently in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing news about Aden. Commodities …
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Fragment of a legal document. Likely an engagement or betrothal agreement (including phrases such as מתי מא אפסכת דלך כאן... and ואלעאיד באללה...), but could …
Accounts. There are some unusual names. Barsīm; Shāhīn b. ʿAnkūs(?); and more. (Information in part from CUDL)