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Letter from an unidentified sender, in Damascus, to a certain Peraḥya, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1468 Seleucid = 1156/57 CE. The sender claims that …
תעתוק אחד
Accounts of the Qodesh, probably. Almost entirely in Arabic script, but there is a זל after one of the names, indicating its Jewish origin. This …
אין רשומות קשורות
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script. Probably literary. JRL cataloguing data connects with Gaster Ar. 564 (PGPID 33259), perhaps because the two fragments were stuck together …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (middle of the bottom part). Dating: 13th century, per Goitein. Groom: Tiqva b. Shelomo ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. No dowry. The …
דיון אחד
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, a few partial words are visible alongside the names Menashshe and Sulaymān. Medieval-era, based on the paleography..
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …
Verso: Another letter in a different hand, from a husband to his wife. He encourages her to send their two sons to school in the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Account for Nisan and Iyyar 1493 sel. ca. 1182. This account deals with another part of the qodesh estates and the names of the 12 …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Halakhic text or notes (הארות האלו) in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu.
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
Damaged letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. May be addressed to a community (ושלום אחינו יגדל). Mentions the names Avraham and Yiṣḥaq in succession, maybe (Abū) …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Yefet's …
Probably a legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Mufarraj b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. ʿAzarya. Arabic jottings below. (Information from CUDL)
Letter drafts in Judaeo-Arabic from an unknown sender to Yaʿaqov Maṣlīaḥ. Dated 15 Tammuz 5578 AM which is 1818 CE. There is writing on Page …
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to his son Farah, Fustat. Dating: November 1056. The writer describes the terrible famine in Egypt, which even leads …
קד כאתבך ר נהראי אדאם אללה ע[זה] פי מא בקי לנא במצר וקד אעלמתך איש הו אן לם יקר לי עלי שי
או אעמל עלי טלועי [ ] בל אנה יטלע ללמדינה ול…
3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד
Accounts. Mentions Abū l_Faraj and Ṭayyib. Mentions sums in dinars and dirhams. Mostly crossed out.
Literary text, in Arabic script. "بما قال بشر".
Letter in Arabic script. The portion preserved here consists mostly of greetings, naming people such as Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥādī, Nūr al-Dīn, Quṭb …
Jotted accounts in Arabic in the lower margin of a literary text in Hebrew. Mentions Abū l-Ḥusayn; two dinars and a qirat; and two rubāʿīs …
IB VI, 42. Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Shela, in Alexandria, to his son Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid al-Yahūdī, in Aden. Probably dictated to his son Yosef b. …
2 תעתוקים
Deed of lease in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Lessee: ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī al-Shawwāʾ. Lessor: al-faqīr ilā llāh taʿālā …
Brief letter in Judaeo-Arabic accompanying calendrical tables spanning 1007 years, informing the addressee about the tables.
Prognostications and/or astrology. In Arabic. Many of the nearby fragments are similar.
Part of a very poorly preserved letter in Hebrew, mentioning Yaʿaqov he-Ḥasid, Menashshe b. Yehuda, Abū Naṣr b. Manṣūr, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ha-Neʾeman. Likely an appeal …
Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 AM (8 January 1090 CE). Given by ʿAmram b. Yosef of Tyre to Shelomo b. …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute over a husband's support for his wife during his …
Recipes, in Arabic script. Among several recipes is a recipe for making iron gall ink. Some of the ingredients mentioned are vitriol, mastic, sesame oil, …
Top of a tax receipt. There is a lot of text. Might be from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb? Needs examination.
Accounts, early modern. One of the names on the verso is Muḥammad Jalabī (Çelebi) Muḥasebeci ("the Accountant" in Turkish). The entries include various cooking and …
Verso: Draft of a beginning of a report to an official, possibly a vizier, from a lower official. Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים
Literary text, probably liturgical. Needs examination.
Two lines of a state document probably, based on format. Very large. But might also something poetical, referring to love: ḥālī yattaṣilhā l-hawā wa-l-maḥabba wa-ʿindahumā …
Fragment of a marriage contract of the groom Elʿazar and the bride Sitt al-Dar, in which the bride undertakes to bring up the groom's children. …
Medical prescription in Arabic script. Written in the bottom margin of a Hebrew literary/legal text.
Court notebook. Two entries, each dated 7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid = 9 October 1331 CE. Recto: Record of a divorce. (Sitt al-)ʿArab bt. ʿAbdallāh received …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to Sahlan b. Avraham, approximately 1029.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Date: Not preserved, but it was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid David, probably more likely David I …
2 דיונים
אחר לחתן
Extremely faded letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. The overall tone is distressed. When the content starts to …