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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish or Spanish-influenced hand, calligraphically written. High register and rhyming. The content is mostly formulaic. Dating: perhaps 12th century.
אין רשומות קשורות
Verso (original use): Letter. Request to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Business letter from Shmuel b. Yeshu'a to Ishaq b. Avraham
Recto: Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Perhaps a rental contract for Abū Muḥammad b. Abī l-ʿIzz. Appears to be dated 694 AH, which …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, mentioning sums of money and weights. Torn and reused for a different document on verso, also unidentified.
Beginning of a legal document; dated Elul 15[..] of the Seleucid Era (12th-13th century CE). Hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. (Informationin part …
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תעתוק אחד
Beginning of a legal document. Written on parchment. Location: Damascus. The parties are Sason b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi and David ha-Kohen. One of them confirms that …
דיון אחד
Letter from Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm in Cairo to his son Moshe Ben-Naʿīm in Alexandria. Dated 1 Kislev 5583 AM which is 1822 CE. Mentions Se[nyor] Pinto, …
Verso: A tax-related note referring to what Jaʿfar(?) b. [...] the jahbadh will do. Needs examination. This document was torn and reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Bottom of a formal letter (petition?) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Damaged fragment from a legal deed regarding both the delivery and the loss of a bill of divorce. One of the parties is Ibn Ḍarīr …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urgently asking the addressee to send the volume of Bereshit that the writer had purchased from him in al-Maḥalla in the shop …
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On the other side there is a Hebrew poem. (Information from CUDL)
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
Fragment of a responsum (or a letter). In Judaeo-Arabic. EMS. On verso there is an ofan for Roš ha-Šana. The refrain is ה’ אלהים צבאות …
Writing practice, several basmalas and a few Hebrew alphabets.
Verso: A few words in giant, calligraphic Arabic script: mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl. . . . Recto: Rhymed Hebrew maxims about the months of the years, …
Karaite partnership agreement in צנאעה אלשים, "silversmithing" (صناعة السيم). The term "sīm" is Ottoman Turkish for "silver." Dated Wednesday 15 Kislev 5523 AM (1762 CE). …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 120-some dinars; mentions Barakāt(?) al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi and Sitt al-Jamāl
Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿaadya. Small fragment containing the opening and part of the address. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting …
Mercantile letter, complete, in Arabic script from Bundar b. Eliya al-ʿAṭṭār to Abū ʿAlī Ismaʿīl b Ḥananya al-Baṣrī (in Fusṭāṭ). Sent with ʿAlī b. Ṭalḥa …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصل كتابك يا سيدي ومولاي وكبيري اطال الله بقاك وادلم عزك وتائيدك وسعادتك ونعمتك وعدتك
لاربع عشر ليلة خلت من ربيع …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script on recto-verso. Possibly literary.
Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic. The work (...ʿalā madhhab al-[???]...) was completed in Rabīʿ I 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE, in the synagogue of al-Ḥakham ʿAṭiyya. …
Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 8 Heshvan 5578 AM, which is 1817 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Ḥesed b. Seʿadya known as Qayyim. …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. This was before the …
Letter from Mūsā, Ṣalaḥ and Isḥāq the sons of Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal and to his sons Hillel and …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Book list. Location: Bilbays. Dating: late 12th- or early 13th-century based on the identification of the scribal hand as that of Joseph b. Jacob ha-Bavli …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Large bifolio of accounts, perhaps from the same scribe as T-S AS 185.158 (PGPID 39885). Dating is likely 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and, crucially, …
First line of an official letter. Begins, "The noble letter/document (al-kitāb al-mukarram) [reached] the slave of your excellence...." On verso there is a different Arabic-script …
A legal declaration regarding lease of a land
Fragment of a fiscal register, probably. May mention the year 506 AH, which would be 1112/13 CE. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭim. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 …
Letter from Eli ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Abu al-Surur Farah, Fustat, ca. 1060.
Lower fragment: Possibly an address of a letter. To Yehuda b. Peraḥya (Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva Rosh ha-Nedivim) b. Ḥalfon. On the other side, there is a …
Letter segment from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, Bilbays, to Shelomo b. Shelah, probably in Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century.
Late accounts in Arabic, probably Ottoman-era. The list starts with 'thaman' (price) or 'qabaḍ' (collected).
A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Too faded to read much.
Legal document. This fragment describes a partnership in a dyeing business between Efrayim b. Yaʿaqov al-Mawṣilī and Avraham b. Hiba al-Dimashqī. Efrayim, the owner of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
End of a literary text. Late.
First fragment: Prayer or poetry, Hebrew. Second fragment: Small piece of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Jottings in Arabic script in the blank spaces of a page which contains piyyuṭ. "Yā shaykh Mūsā ʿasā.... uktub (or: aktub) fīhā...." Appears to be …
Verso: A donations or alms list. Names in Judaeo-Arabic including: Majd, Manṣūr, Abū ʿAlī, Fāḍil, Yosef, the children of Nufayʿ, Yosef al-Aqraʿ, Munajjā, Abū l-Bayān, …