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אין רשומות קשורות
Ketubba, once monumental, now just a piece of it. What remains are two perpendicular lines on the right hand side of the text containing blessings. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter in Arabic script. Either to or from Maʿānī from his 'brother.' Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). All that is left is the …
Bifiolio fragment of a literary text in Hebrew. The left side of the recto mentions: ארץ המוריה, possibly using the biblical term to refer to …
A cantor orders a religious poem in which each stanza concludes with a biblical quotation which has as its last word "God," such as Numbers …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The sender is awaiting an order or rescript to a petition (wa-anā muntaẓir al-tawqīʿ bi-[...]). …
Deed (draft?) regarding a family legal dispute involving real estate under lien and trustworthiness. The wife of Ishaq is mentioned.
Small fragment of the beginning of a letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (r. 1078–1111) written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 …
Unidentified document in rudimentary Arabic script. This may be the secondary use, and the list of Hebrew piyyuṭim on recto may be the primary use. …
Legal declaration, perhaps 16th- or 17th-century. Signed by Nissim b. al-ʿAnkari stating that in the assembly of the heads of the community, the slaughterer Yeruḥam …
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda (the famous one?), the paleography may make it possible to rule out this connection. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Shavuʿot and previous …
IB VII, 18. Legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Dating: 1120–38 CE, based on the involvement …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 …
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Ayyubid-era, based on the titles. The addressee (the caliph or vizier?) is asked to issue (or …
Leaves from the ‘Egyptian Scroll’ (Megillat Miṣrayim), a poetic narrative that was read out in the synagogue to commemorate and give thanks for freedom from …
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Karaite bill of divorce. Date: 3 Iyyar 5437 AM (1677 CE). Location: Cairo. The husband Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon b. Mordekhay Rofe issues the get to …
Legal fragment. Mentions a debt of 50 dinars.
דיון אחד
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded.
Legal document. In which Yeshuʿa b. Avraham enumerates before the court the items that he has in his possession from the estate of the late …
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: possibly 11th century. Involves David ha-Kohen b. [...] (l. 9). Someone makes a statement regarding …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1160 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Avraham ha-Kohen the parnas, a virgin. With some …
Fragment of a literary text in Hebrew. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Mentions "מדבר" and "במדבר" on the recto. Requires further examination.
Letter in Arabic script from Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Mentions going to Abū ʿAlī b. al-Dimyāṭī (=Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi) and borrowing …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Opening of the letter, starting with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāhi kathīra?) in a thick pen. In the position of the …
Small fragment (lower left corner) from a deed of manumission of a female slave. Only a few words are preserved, including part of a signature …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Shabbetay b. Yosef. Listing various household furnishings and half of a …
Account for Shevat and Adar 1495 sel. ca. 1184. This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. …
The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar,
corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fiscal account?
Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
Verso (side of original use): Probably a deed of sale for a property. In Arabic script. The parties include a Jewish druggist and Sitt al-Kull …
Recto: A curse in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew against whoever is spreading false rumors about the writer and stirring up conflict between him and (probably) …
Receipt or order of payment to al-shaykh Abū al-someone and al-shaykh Abū Naṣr, dated Friday night (laylat al-jumʿa) 19 Ramaḍān 509 (5 February 1116).
Legal record (#18) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r
Magical spell formularies. Includes a spell apparently intended to arouse and agitate (tahyīj and izʿāj) a female target (fulāna bt. fulāna) for a male (fulān …
Faded legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid = 28 April 1096 CE. Parties: Meshullam …
List of alms for the poor: בשם רחום וחנון אלצדקה מן אלעגל ללעניים. The men include several Yosefs, ʿEzra, Khallūf, Bū l-Majd the shammash, and …
Recto: Late account in Hebrew characters, mentiong names such as: Eliya Ḥabīb, Pineḥas Ghazālī, and Ḥananya Maṭīra. Verso: Jottings in Arabic script.
Engagement agreements. Two sides of what appears to be a page from the court notebook from the 1330s. On recto, there are two engagement agreements, …