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Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
אין רשומות קשורות
Bottom eight lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, and Amīr al-Muʾminīn, perhaps a rāʾy clause afterward. Difficult …
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Letter/report in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a formal layout, with slightly widened space between the lines. This is the lower left corner of what must have …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Perahya b. Muʾammal, in Fustat, spring 1039.
תעתוק אחד
This text seems mainly calendrical but also mentions the name Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov. Merits examination.
Accounts of purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Ketubba fragment (right side). Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. mid-11th century. Groom: Muʾammal b. ʿUmayr. Signed by: the parnas Yaʿīsh b. Avraham ha-Kohen and Yeshuʿa b. …
דיון אחד
Letters in Hebrew. Narrow vertical strip. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Recto: Mentions Sar ha-S[arim]. Verso: Communal letter, written in a different …
Fragment from a legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). An agreement involving Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. Elʿazar and …
Fragment of a state document containing blessings for 'mawlānā' and the date (563 AH = 1167/68 CE). Reused for piyyut on verso.
Letter from Bayān to his 'father' Abū l-Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender reminds the addressee that he had promised …
Letter addressed to the physician (rofeʾ) Moshe b. Ṣadoq ha-Dayyan ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The paper is …
Recto: Lower left piece of a letter in calligraphic Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on the hand and the names. Mentions al-Ḥājj Yūsuf and …
Small fragment of a list of names: [...] al-Laḥḥām, Bū Naṣr, Faraj(?) al-Mashmiaʿ, etc. Maybe a distribution list.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "majlis al-qāḍī Bū Qāsim al-Dāʿī." In Judaeo-Arabic with a bit of Hebrew, and the address on verso in Arabic script. …
Recto: the end of a calligraphically-written letter with many signatories, including Sahl b. Mevasser and ʿAmram b. Shabbat. Possibly a letter of introduction, but only …
Responsum that deals with someone who, due to financial troubles, must move to another city to find work despite an explicit prohibition against it in …
IB VII, 53. Letter fragment from an India trader, in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that all is well and that the first ships …
2 תעתוקים
Account (draft) of the Qodesh. Dated: ca. 1213 CE, mentions 7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid in one of the entries on the verso. This account is …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of a legal document. None of the substance is preserved.
Verso: Drafts of at least half a dozen letters and other texts in Arabic script. One letter (written between the lines of another one) is …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Zekharya b. Ḥayyim, in Palermo ("al-Madīna"), to Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Avraham (Ibn al-Amshāṭī), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Elul (4)932 …
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Raḥmūn; Muḥammad; Ibrāhīm; ʿAlī b. Jabrīn; Sālim al-Maghribī; Muḥammad the brother of al-Shuwaykh. The unit …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman era.
Legal document(s), damaged. Mentions Yehuda. (Information in part from CUDL)
Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …
Damaged legal draft or record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Bifolio, with writing on both sides. Involves a certain Avraham; [...] …
Document in Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. The fragment is minute and extremely faded. NB: the Arabic text on the verso is only legible with the contrast …
Verso (original use): Three distinct document in Arabic script, which have been cut and glued together for the sake of reuse on recto. (1) T-S …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Farah b. Isma’il, Busir. Around 1053. Farah is in Busir, probably was sent there by Nahray, and …
Beginning of an informal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. It reads, "They sent (or: send) the little paper for al-Shaykh al-Asʿad al-Levi the cantor, the son of …
Legal document. Location: Bilbays. Dated: First decade of Sivan, 1564 Seleucid, which is 1253 CE. Under the reshut of David I Maimonides. Concerning a settlement …
Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd …
בש` רח` וחנ`
Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM …
Letter, or draft of the beginning of a letter, in Arabic script.
Marriage contract, upper right portion, between Yosef b. Mawhūb and Sittān bt. Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
Legal document, maybe a release. In Arabic script. Three fragments comprising the lower right piece of the document. Dated: 96[.] AH = 1552–62 CE. Listing …
Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanel ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Cf. T-S J3.26 (PGPID 8426). (Information from Goitein’s index card.)