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Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Shevat 1341 Seleucid, which is 1030 CE. Written by Bishr b. Yefet ha-Ḥazzan b. David ha-Ḥazzan. Validated by Shemuel ha-Kohen …
דיון אחד
Legal document on parchment, or possibly a letter. The dating is 11th-century or earlier based on the usage of Hebrew "zehuvīm" for dinars. The document …
אין רשומות קשורות
None
Legal fragment involving half of a house and Elazar who is known as Manṣūr al-Zajjāj. Needs examination. See T-S 13J3.13 (PGPID 7967) for a list …
Legal record (#19). Engagement contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Goitein notes that both fiance and fiancee must be very poor; neither has a …
Small fragment from an Arabic document - needs examination. See PGPID 23984 for join.
Accounts in Arabic script, late.
Crossed out account - needs examination.
Expenditures for repairs of a house ("the house of Menashshe"), written in a rudimentary hand familiar from other documents (and in fact very close to …
Letter from Ḥāmid al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. The letter is primarily a letter of introduction for Saʿāda, who has been sent …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
توجه اطال الله بقا صاحب الخيل ووزير الملك مته
واكشيله اطال الله بقاه وادام سعادته وسلامته
ونعمته و{لـ}ـحراسته …
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
May God prolong the life of the Master of the Horses, the vizier of the king
and his…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda (or Avraham son of the Gaon?) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Asking Efrayim to organize the Jewish community in …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Fragment of a deed of sale for real estate, in Arabic script. Stitched at the top. The beginning, however, reads as a letter. Needs examination. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions Yaʿaqov b. Moshe.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?). This is then …
Literary
Opening of a letter from 'the community of Jews on the jazīra(?)' (verso) to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Shemarya (1007–55 CE), with extensive rhymed phrases. …
Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. He opens, "How long will you remain a widow?" …
כתאבי אלי בנת אלאך אלעזיזה ופקהא אללה תע
ולא ווחש מן טלעתהא ולא מן אכותהא ויא
בנת אכי אלי כם תקעדי ארמלה פמא בקא
יחלקני(?) . . נא .…
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. This is the recto of folio 3; the other five pages are literary. Looks like the hand …
Draft by Avraham b. Natan of a document appointing ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi ha-Parnas as the wakil of an orphan in Damietta, Sheʾerit b. Yefet …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), who is named in the address. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentioning Ḥasana bt. Shel[omo] and 1 1/3 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Beginning and ending are missing. The sender is very agitated and complains about someone who is prepared to swear falsely. Needs further …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The names are missing, except part of the sender's name at upper right. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in …
Verso: Letter, apparently to the holy congregation in Shafrir Misrayim (Fustat), similar to 10J24f. 9 recto. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī (here spelled אלאמשטי). Mentions large sums of money ("200" and "80 dinars") and the children of …
Private accounts of al-Shaykh Bū Ḥasan in Arabic script starting with a basmala and heading "ḥisāb al-Shaykh Bū l-Ḥasan". An example of the accounts includes., …
Legal fragment.
Legal record (#102) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 34v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 19 Kislev 5326 …
Recto with continuation on verso: Legal document in Hebrew. In which the brothers Yefet, Mevorakh and Yosef, sons of the late Mawhūb b. Faraj, acknowledge …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Testimony about power of attorney regarding Mūsā b. ʿAllush’s bequest. Dating: 1046 (Gil). Mūsā, from Jerba, had businesses in Sicily and drowned on his way …
[ ]לה אלחריר באלמדינה
חין וצולה מן דמנש וכאן לה ענדה שי אכר יחאסבה [ ] כאן תעדר פי דלך אלחין אלי אן חצר אלספר
למוסי שריכי פי מרכב ערף במ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: part of a page containing formulae for begging letters. Verso: part of an unrelated letter in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting about a circumcision ceremony. The sender …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a deed of sale, as 'al-mushtarī' ('the buyer') is mentioned at the bottom. Mentions [...] b. …
Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq to a partner. Business letter discussing payments and shipments, apparently of flax and textiles. Dated ca. 1050. (Information from Gil, …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Likely a draft or formulary, since there are several abbreviations used.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: refers to a period of time beginning in Nisan 1424 Seleucid, which is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from 'your father' (wālidak). mentioning a faqīh named ʿUbayd, instructions for the addressee to come, and the Nasi. (Information in part from …
Unidentified text in Hebrew. Extremely faded.
A list of Talmudic sayings.
Letter to Abū Saʿd Yaḥyā b. ʿEzra from his cousin (ibn ʿamm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Reminding the addressee that al-Ḥemdat had sent with him אלדרקה (probably …
Judaeo-Arabic midrash involving Moses and the birds, including the owl.