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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the coinage ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter addressed to a certain Seʿadya or the son of Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from a man, in Rashīd, to Umm Binyamin. Dealing with business matters. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī coinage mentioned was first minted …
List of commercial goods. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
32 pages of Ottoman-era accounts. The fonducli is one of the currencies used, which was first minted in 1725 CE.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the accounts on verso mention the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used.
Recto (secondary use): Statement of sums due to Shelomo b. ʿAzzūn from Faraḥ b. ʿAṭṭiya for a banker’s note. Lists payments made with cash, with …
דיון אחד
Copies of 2 letters, likely as writing practice. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century, and ca. 1808–39 CE if the maḥmūdī mentioned is the gold …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions Khalīfa [...] and Salām Jumayl. The word "kalb" appears twice, likely a reference to the "Abu Kalb" …
Confirmation of the payment of a loan of 22 'half silvers' (muʾayyadīs), from Yosef, followed by an instruction to return the pledged copy of the …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Ketubba. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Currency: muayyadi (originally minted under the Mamluks first in 1415 CE). Groom: Yosef b. [...]. Bride: …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a woman. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the ashrafī is mentioned– a coinage type that was first …
Letter to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a crude hand. Mentioning the currency nuṣṣ (= nuṣf, which generally refers to the muʾayyadi first coined …
Beginning of a polite but strong letter to a certain Shelomo concerning communcal matters. Mentions the breaking up of property belonging to the legal cases …
Letter probably from Abū l-Surūr al-Shāmī to Umm Abū l-Faraj, in Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to numerous family members: ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, Shuqra, the physician Ṣafiyy(?); Qamr; the sender's sister ʿAzīza and her husband Sulaymān, and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Currency: ashrafi. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE because the ashrafi was minted first under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year.
Outline of a legal document. Investment (ʿisqa). In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq איגריליו(?) apparently receives an investment from [...] b. Shelomo …
Informal note from Manṣūr b. [...] the Jew to Jamāl al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the currency kāmilī …
Letter from Ibrāhīm Dhabbāḥ to Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan. In Hebrew (for the ornate introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Dating: After 1425 CE, as one of …
Letter probably from Sulaymān al-Maghribī, in Gaza, to his brother-in-law ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṣā'igh, probably in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, after 1425 CE because the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals on verso with occasional notes indicating that specific quantities are in different types of coinage. For example, the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currencies: cedid, corona (קרונה)– the latter is likely the Spanish escudo minted as early as 1535 CE or the gold excelente …
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 …
Recto: deed of sale in Hebrew for a compound in Damascus (a large and small house) at the Market of the Jews, for 280 ʿAzīzī …
Late account of sorts, using western Arabic numerals: "What was collected from the mother: first, ashrafiyya coins: 3; second. . . . " The mention …
Account in Arabic script. Maybe an official/state document. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the currency ashrafī which was first …
Accounts in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late. One side: "What I received from Yaʿaqov b. Khalīfa," then sums in sultanis, jadids, קורון, and ibrahimis. Of the …
Fragment of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 16th century or later based on the reference to the currency buqsha (used in Yemen starting …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. The currencies mentioned include the Ottoman kurush and the maḥbū[b]. The latter numismatic reference makes it possible to …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There …
Legal note. About money taken from a tailor. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted …
Debt contract. In Judaeo-rabic. No signatures. Sulaymān owes Luṭfallah 288.5 kāmilī dirhams. He must pay 12 nuqra dirhams at the end of every month. If …
Accounts, mentioning wages and things held by the father of the writer. On verso a signature seal. (Information from CUDL.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a disorderly scribal hand. Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolio that still retains part of its binding. Dated only in Jumada I on the verso with no year. The …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody in Jerusalem. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted …
List of names and monetary contributions, likely communal. Dating is probably 19th-century based on the paleography, no earlier than 18th-century based on mention of Ottoman …
Accounts of many names and corresponding monetary values, perhaps payments. Dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the mention of Ottoman kurush. The word "leather" …
Accounts of Yaḥyā Ḥajabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a large bifolio with a few lines in Arabic. Dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the Ottoman kurush reference in …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE. The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of …
Accounts in the name of Raḥamīm Malkhī [מלכי] in a unique scribal hand. Dated Sivan [5]_88 AM which should be read either as 5488 or …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Arranged in an extremely neat table on notebook paper. Dating: Late, probably 18th-19th century (includes the qurush …
Begging letter in Hebrew addressed to the 'community of foreigners (loʿazim) from a widow with five children. Already a recipient of communal charity, the writer …
Late accounts in Hebrew involving Yosef, Daud, and Eliezer. One of entries mentions silver medin coinage which helps to date the document as 1415 CE …
Accounts in Arabic, 18th- or 19th-century based on the usage of the Ottoman kurush. Requires further examination for content.