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Fragment of a letter from Khuṭlukh al-Afḍalī to his 'brother.' On recto only the beginnings of ~5 lines including the basmala are preserved; the address …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter fragment mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Minyat Zifta; blessings that God rescue someone from their enemies; the sender spending Shabbat in Malīj; and the news …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document. Written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid = 19 April 1229 CE. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. …
Draft of a letter to the 'the Rav' in Mahdiyya, in which the sender writes that he bought quires of books from the inheritance of …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Alexandria twice, but the context is unclear. "I went to the R[īf?]." Mentions 'maqāṭiʿ.'
Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions firewood (ḥaṭab).
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Piyyuṭ. A marginal (ownership?) note reads "Yehuda b. Menaḥem (may he rest in Eden), the judge of Denia in al-Andalus."
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Majd. Decorated with thin red geometric designs/frames. On verso there is a related legal document dated Sivan 1556 Seleucid, which is …
דיון אחד
Digest of a marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: 14 Elul 1405 Seleucid, which is August 1094 CE. Groom: Yakhin the cantor. Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, small fragment. Mentions a thawb ʿattābī and some prices in dirhams. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Damaged bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). In which [...] b. Ḥusayn al-ʿAṭṭār releases his maternal uncle Abū Isḥāq …
Bill of release. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1459 Seleucid = September/October1148 CE. in which Yeshuʿa ha-Levi releases Netanʾel and Menashshe b. Ḥalfon. Signed by …
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال…
Letter of appeal. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is under house arrest (tarsīm). He asks the addressee to take care of a wicked man. Excerpts: פלמא …
Responsa collection
Court record bearing the signature of judge Shelomo b. Yosef, late Head of the court of the Academy,' Fustat, Kislev 1405/December 1093 (date and day …
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Marriage document. A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that …
Letter (copy) from the exilarch Daniel b. Ḥisday (d. probably 1175) of Baghdad to Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi in Fusṭāṭ recognizing his new position in …
Bottom of a legal document. Location: Might be Palermo (פלרם), but this word is very faded. Dated: Elul 4904 AM = August 1144 CE. Settlement …
Bifolio with letter(s) in both Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew. All appear to be addressed to a notable or notables, praising him and appealing …
List of names. Dating: late? Names include Mordekhay, Eliyya, and Shabbetay, but there are also some more unusual ones (אבזגין? פשקיל . . ?). On …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (right side of recto). It seems to do with government business—mentions a dīwān early on, and is written in a …
Letter in Hebrew. Perhaps a letter of appeal for charity: the writer seems to be describing his poverty and pawning possessions. Scattered phrases: הטורח ואשר …
Betrothal contract draft, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 5 Tishrei 5398 AM, which is 1637 CE. The scribe misspelled the number 8 as 80 twice …
Petition, or an official letter in Arabic script. The sender may be named Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. The addressee's name appears in the first line; …
Minute fragment from a legal deed. Name: Shabat. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138)
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Large and well preserved, merits examination.
Legal document recording that Hārūn b. Joseph undertakes to pay his former partner Masʿūd b. Efrayim two dinars remaining from their former connection in installments …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). Involving Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-Munā known as Ibn Naṭira, Yefet al-Zajjāj, and Shemuel. May be …
Legal document, a שטר סילוק (bill of release of a debt) per FGP, involving Avraham Malkhi (מלכי) and his (ex?)-wife Esther. Mentioning שעבוד כתובה Hebrew. …
Bifolio from a merchant's account ledger. Dating: 11th or possibly 12th century. Mentions goods such as safflower, celery (? karafs/karpas/כרפס) rosewater, costus, camphor, tamarind, 'Judaic …
2 תעתוקים
Recto: part of a poorly preserved deed, from the court of, and probably written by, Efrayim b. Shemarya. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4799 AM = 1038/39 …
List of names - needs examination.
Verso is a faded receipt of some sort, maybe fiscal. Recto: من السوح(؟؟) للنصر(؟) الواصل من ثغر الاسكندرية حماه الله تعالى . . . . …
Recto: dates of important events in Jewish history, and pen trials in Hebrew and Arabic, including Psalms 104:3 and the name of the cantor Yakhin …
Some weights and Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Barakāt b. Khulayf.
Unidentified text in Arabic with interspersed Judaeo-Arabic script probably in the same hand. Needs examination.
Recto: responsum of the Rashba concerning marriage, quoting BT Ketubbot. Verso: pen trials including various doodles. (Information from FGP and CUDL)