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Document in Arabic script. Probably an official report or petition, based on the hand and layout. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. The subject …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions [...] b. Yaʿaqov; Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim [al-Nafūsī]; Avraham b. Shemʿaya ha-Ḥaver. …
IB VII, 39. Business letter. Introduction in Hebrew, body in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of the Yemeni merchants (v3). Also mentions R. Shemuel Ismāʿīl b. …
2 תעתוקים
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Refers to a young woman (al-ṣabiyya); an illness (dhāk al-maraḍ); someone who intended to …
Recto: Letter from Simḥa Kohen in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj (Eliyyahu the Judge) in Fusṭāṭ, early 13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Introduced by Proverbs 22:1. The …
תעתוק אחד
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Commercial receipt. Dated: 27 Muḥarram 498 H. For Abū l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī al-Dimashqī. The commodity is mentioned is lac and the quantity is 300 …
Verso, upper text block: Panegyric in to a notable woman in Egypt followed by an appeal for assistance in rhymed prose. All in Hebrew. Verso, …
Reply to a letter of the addressee concerning the qualities of three kinds of salt. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe (b.?) Avraham Bibas to Yaʿaqov Bibas and his partner Shomal (Shemuel?) Azulay, dated 3 September 1818 (2 Elul 5578). …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto. Dating: possibly Mamluk-era.
List of donors to charity, in large characters, apparently destined for display, 6 persons under the heading 'Sunday' and another 10 under the heading 'Wednesday.' …
Bottom of a letter. Too faded and damaged to understand any of the content. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Verso: Small piece of an Arabic document, mentioning Cairo (من كل بد فقال له …
Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Dating: Probably late. The number ۹۳۴ appears in the lower entry on the verso, which would be a feasible …
Letter sent to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century, or possibly 12th. Reporting that some merchants perished when their ships were …
Palimpsest. The lower text is from the New Testament (John 14:25-15:16), translated to Christian Palestinian Aramaic. The upper text is from a collection of qerovot …
List or accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, using Islamic calendar months and Hebrew numerals. Probably late. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen, in Dalton (Dallāta), to Hillel he-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa ha-Ḥazzan, in Tiberias. Dating: approximately 1030. Discusses fees for copying of …
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid. Dates include 507H and 510H.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Unusual genre of legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), stating that Abū l-Karam must pay to the orphan Abū …
Private accounts. Mentions "yawm al-aḥad".
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Someone named [...] b. Yefet makes a declaration. (Information …
T-S Ar.51.77v: At top, a verse of Arabic poetry ("He who doesn't wear the garb of piety is naked even when he's clothed" / إذا …
Letter from Shemuel Sidi to Moshe ha-Levi. Written on Friday, 1 Heshvan. The letter's origin and destination are unclear. See T-S 12.318 for another letter …
Letter by Ḥusayn b. Suwayd to Yiṣḥaq b. Ṣadaqa. On papyrus. Erratic spelling and style. Requesting that the addressee send peeled grain (dashīsh) on wheat …
Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, specifying conditions for the marriage. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment from Menaḥem to Eliyyahu. Onlly the first few lines are preserved. Verso contains the name Abū l-Faraj in giant faded letters.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for Hebrew poetry.
Legal record (#91) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 31r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the 7th …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Two lines preserved.
Top of an iqrār for ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd al-Naqqār.
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Damietta; someone's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Surūr who is in Fustat; speaking to 'the Nazir' (Heb.); and …
Top of a legal document from Fustat. Very faded/damaged. Two parties are mentioned. On verso there is mirror image Arabic text (imprint from another fragment).
Letter from Abū l-Maʿālī to Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. Writing that although he has not heard from him in a while, …
Recto (secondary use): Official receipt of some sort relating to agricultural activities in a district whose name is difficult to read. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Lower middle part of a ketubba in which the groom renounces his rights to the bride's earnings. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. Refers to the beginning of the ebbing of the Nile. The rest …
Commercial accounts, including a number of items made of silk. Sefardi hand of the 15th c. or later. (Information from CUDL.)
List in Judaeo-Arabic of coinage types and monetary calculations. Based on the mintage of its contents the list is 18th/19th-century.The types of coinage include gold …
Letter from Ya’aqov b. Salman al-Hariri, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. June 23 1057. The main part of the letter deals with a …
תוכלת עלי אללה
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ואתם אלנעם עליה
ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה יום אלב לבי בקין מן תמוז ערפ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment from Nissim b. Nahray, unknown location, to Abū l-Fa{ra}j Daniel b. [...] ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Needs examination.
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …