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Letter from Yeshua b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī from Alexandria, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1056. In the handwriting of Yeshua b. Isma’il, with an …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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דיון אחד
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. The portion preserved here is mainly the trousseau list. The grand total of marriage payments …
Carefully executed horoscope, written out by the cantor and court clerk Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108 CE) and most probably ordered from a professional astrologer. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Verso: legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). It is likely a court record (هذا الكتاب محضرنا في يوم الاحد) related to a house …
אין רשומות קשורות
In Thy Name,
the beginning of the reconstruction:
Monday, the 11th
of Elul:
bought 120 ḥimls
of clay, paid 36 dir.
The w…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter probably from a cantor named Sayyid al-Ahl, in Alexandria, to his son Faḍāʾil and other family members, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Well preserved. …
Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). A man releases a woman from claims; no other …
Accounts, with Hebrew and Coptic numerals. Entries include saqqāʾ; ṣāniʿīn; wakāla; ḥammāl; mismār. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic script. There are several large "U" symbols of unclear significance.
Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Record of a birth of "my son ʿOvadya" on Sunday [...].
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th or early 12th century. From Salāma b. Shūʿa and Maḥfūẓ b. Būlus, in …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic probably from Ibrahim to Hayya ha-Kohen the teacher in Palermo (i.e. same writer and addressee as T-S 8J16.25). Nothing of substance …
Recto: Official-looking Arabic letter, with an ʿalāma at upper left. Dating: probably early Ottoman-period. From "the poor slave" to "al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʿĀlim al-ʿAllāma Badr al-Dīn …
Unidentified text in Arabic sript. Likely not documentary but merits examination. Lines 2 and 3 seem to contain the same text - writing exercise?
Document in Arabic script, probably legal, probably late. The date is given but is difficult to read. There are several different blocks of texts in …
Recto: Likely a distribution list for communal funds. Entries include: al-ḥazzan; al-shammash; al-munaqqī(?); Menashshe; the house (bayt) of Yeshuʿa; Ibn al-Ḥazzan; Bū l-Faḍl Shomer; the …
Letter from Minyat Zifta to Fustat. The writer had been sent to Minyat Zifta to deliver an instruction to the judge Shabbetay b. Avraham (active …
List of parashot - needs examination. Image not available
Legal record (#2) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 1v-2r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Agreement between spouses Mahja …
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of appeal for charity. Mentions the desolation of the synagogue of the Iraqis. This is the clean copy …
Only the address of a letter sent to Harun al-Attar (אלעטר). Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: uncertain, the handwriting and style are quite atypical and not clearly early or late (but late seems more likely). Mentions quantities …
Document entitled tadhkira (list/memorandum), listing the parnas (al-firnās), the Jerusalemites (al-Maqādisa), Yosef the beadle of the synagogue, Ibn al-Maqrūṣ, Khiyār, and Banī Naḥum. Verso has …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain sayyidnā al-Rayyis. Dating: Probably from the era of Judge Eliyyahu (early 13th century), if he is identical with the …
Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Fragment of a medical text in an elegant Arabic book hand. The new chapter/section is written in red ink, part of it is preserved and …
Hebrew-Ladino glossary.
Letter sent from Fustat by 'Ayyash b. Sadaqa to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, dealing with money matters and the selling of merchandise, and mentioning goods …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abū S[ahl] (a.k.a. Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi), to be delivered to [...] al-Turjumān who is to forward it to the unknown …
Verso: Drafts of the opening of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to R. Yosef. Dating: early 13th century.
Account, dated 1516 (תתקכב = 922, i.e. 1516 CE), in Hebrew, mentioning a khizana, treasury, seemingly a box in which all revenue was deposited and …
Segment of a letter from a woman in the process of divorcing her husband to her 'lawyer'. Same hand and probably the same case as …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 AM = 11 February 1086 CE. Mentions a Peraḥya and a Shelomo ha-Kohen.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the synagogue and the noble congregation: ... עד ביאת הגואל ... אלי אלכניס ... אלגמאעה אלכרימה …
Letter addressed to a man with many titles (rabbenu, ha-sar, ha-ḥasid). Rudimentary spellings. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with a higher proportion of Hebrew than is …
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
Recto: Letter/petition in Arabic script to a qāḍī (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-qaḍāʾī al-shamsī). The sender's name is given at the top but is tricky to …
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 …
Petition or report. Bottom ~10 lines are preserved. Difficult handwriting. The first line may begin with the words "umūr al-thaghr." Mentions a paper trail and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of jadīd coinage (probably Mamluk or Ottoman). A variety of names …