16354 records found
Small fragment from a legal deed. Part of the Reshut formula is preserved. AA
Fragment of a short letter to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. It could be that a person from a Yeshiva in Iraq wrote the letter. He confirms that he received b. Awkal’s letter with questions, as usual. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #202) VMR
Recto: legal document, dated Tammuz 1474 Seleucid era (= 1163 CE), mentioning Abū Manṣūr the scholar. Verso: unidentified Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from a legal deed written by Yosef b. Shmuel b. Saadya Halevi.
Legal document mentioning [Saʿa]dya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Saʿīd and the head of the community. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment from a letter addressed to Shemarya b. Elhanan.
Letter from Salama b. Abi al-Hayy to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. The writing place is unknown. Mentions several partners of b. Awkal and it seems that the writer is one of the partners’ son. Also mentions an instruction or advice not to give money unless the person has those two letters, one in Hebrew and the other one in Arabic. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #220) VMR
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed, contains only part of the date. AA
Legal document mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a ketubba in the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. In the hand of the ḥaver ʿAmram b. Ṣedaqa (who also wrote PER H 1 + ENA 4101.36 in Tyre in 1079 CE, T-S 16.136, and T-S AS 156.394). Bride: [Sitthum?] bt. Mevorakh. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further information.
Two fragments from a 13th century ketubah.
See PGPID 21913
Text quoting Nehemiah 9:33. From a letter? AA
Trousseau list, written and signed by Yefet ha-Levi b. M[anasseh]. (Information from CUDL)
Damaged and torn, only a few words remain, but seems to be from a ketubbah. AA
Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed, preserving only the introductory lines with biblical quotations. Ca. late 10th or early 11th century. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, dated the second decade of Tammuz 1503 of the Seleucid Era (= 1192 CE) under the authority of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Testimony of Abū l-Baqa the Nile trader (al-tājir fī l-Nīl) b. Hillel the elder. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Refers to a father, children, and possibly getting beaten (ḍārabanī ḍirab). (Information in part from CUDL)
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Trousseau list of […] bat Aaron, dated but most of the date is lost. (Information from CUDL)