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Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Avraham ha-Kohen ha-Gelili to Yosef b. Yeshuʿa he-Ḥasid. Upper part only. Little of the content is preserved beyond opening and closing …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a violet (banfasajī) velvet (mukhmal) kufiyya apparently for a certain ʿAlī. Also mentions al-ʿAjamī.
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto: Document in Arabic script recording the settling of a business account (wafāʾ), perhaps what al-Thiqa owed to Barakāt b. Salāma. Dated: 12 Muḥaram '47 …
Verso: Remnants of an elegant decree hand, in Arabic script. Recto:Probably some rescript or pen trials. An ʿalāma towards the end. Needs examination.
Private accounts. Mentioning bread and lentils.
Genealogy/memorial list including for the family of Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Muzaghlil. Mentions Elʿazar, Shela, and someone's daughter Sitt(?) Ṭāwūs.
List of items of clothing with their prices. Including many turbans (ʿamāma) and cloaks (mulāʾa). Mentions the towns of Damīra and Damsīs. (Information from Goitein's …
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Bottom of a letter in Aramaic, concerning a power of attorney. Mentions Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq the in-law of Shemuel, Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, Menashshe ‘our teacher’, …
Fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century, based on handwriting. Apparently recounting a legal situation. Excerpts from T-S AS 153.68: "...the …
Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Magical adjuration (אשבעית . . . .). Formulary, based on the פל בר פל in l. 2.
IB III, 10a. Letter (top fragment only) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Avraham b. Yiju. Salutation to Avraham b. Yiju and acknowledgment of receipt of …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Deed of sale. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi.Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1485 Seleucid = August 1174 CE. …
Large communal register fragment, the paper was folded uniformly into eight sections. Dated in many of the headings, for example: 16 Tevet 5541 AM (1781 …
Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
Recto: Grid filled with diagonal Arabic script. Some readable words include - dirham, aswad, aṣfar and kitāb. Could be an inventory or accounts. Verso: Faded …
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic in which the student repeated a phrase from the heading that had been offered by an instructor in model handwriting. …
Recto: Legal document, probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Little is preserved. Mentions the eve of the fast and the eve of Shabbat.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1035 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Legal document. Looks like a release. One of the parties is Netanʾel b. ʿAmram. The release migth have been granted upon receipt of a consignment …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Three words are preserved.
Distribution of wheat to Europeans/Byzantines (al-Rūm), altogether 49 households including households consisting of only one person. First item: 'The proselyte--3; his female slave Mubāraka--1/2 wayba.' …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official letter on one side and accounting on the other?
Literary text in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. Among those listed are: Yakov Qatawi, Yosef Bilobos, Yaʿaqov Akubas, David Dayyan, Nissim Ashkenazi, Moshe …
Arabic, literary.
Verso (original use): Letter/petition in Arabic script. Asking the addressee to bring this letter to Tāj al-Dīn and obtain employment for the sender, so that …
Red ink (secondary use): Letter in Arabic script. The upper right corner of recto is preserved. Continues onto verso between the lines of the prior …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic: names, numbers, some crossed out. Names: Makīn; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faḍl; Moshe; Abū l-Majd; Abū l-Riḍā. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th …
Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
Verso: List of items in Arabic script together with numbers. All seem to be colors and/or adjectives and/or materia medica: azraq (blue) - 3/4; abyaḍ …
IB II, 46. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to a merchant in Egypt: Attack on Aden by the King of Kish. Aden, ca. 1135-6.
{[. . .] and refused
to give testimony. May the Exalted Creator call them to account!
Scripture has already said, “Never trust Gentiles.”} As…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter from the amīr Kanz al-Dawla, probably in Aswān, to al-Bazīl, the deputy (nāʾib) of the eparch Abū l-Khayr Darmā, in Qalʿat Ibrīm. The sender …
Judicial record of a discussion on the legality of the Rabbanite synagogue in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood in Cairo (al-Qāhira), during the reign of al-Mustanṣir …
List of three (out of 36) items made of silk (info from FGP)
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably from Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: Probably from November 17, 1046. The letter contains personal information: the …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מ[ולאי אלשיך] ואדאם עזה ותאיד[ה]
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן[ ] נ[צ]ף כ[ס]ליו כתמה אללה עלי[נא]
ועליך ועלא כל ישף באחסן כאתמה …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Probably a fiscal document. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era based on the hand. The sender refers to witnesses in the village or estate (fī …
Letter fragment in the hand of Avraham b. Farah al-Iskandarani, in Alexandria, to one of the merchants in Fustat, regarding shipments being forwarded to the …