16354 records found
Letter - needs examination.
Account - needs examination.
Account - needs examination.
Small fragments from an Arabic document - needs examination.
See PGP 25219
See PGP 25219
Account - needs examination.
Torn fragment from the top of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
List of commodities - needs examination. (Info from FGP)
Legal or fiscal document. In Arabic script. Refers to the term iqṭāʿ throughout. Needs examination.
Account - needs examination.
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in Old Cairo, and he is one of the sons of the physicians who are employed there, and he has attended. . . .” The continuation is missing. He is presumably leading up to a request that he be formally employed at the hospital himself. On verso there is part of a medical notebook dealing with ophthalmology. Recto contains a list of simples used for curing eye complaints and follows roughly the list found in ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (ed. Hyderabad 1964, p. 347). Simples mentioned include antimony, sarcocolla, ceruse, acacia, lichen, gum of sal ammoniac, myrtle, melitot, galbanum, onions, borax, lettuce seeds, zinc oxide, and egg white. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document with signatures - needs examination.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. 8 lines are preserved. Written in a narrow column. Mentions "everyone knows what you have with the banker." Needs further examination.
Verso: Letter from Yosef b. Nadiv ha-Ḥazzan(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, and a request of the addressee, perhaps involving the sender's wife (or just his house). Regards to Berakhot ha-Talmid.
Part of a letter (?) referring to spices (saffron) - needs examination. (Info from FGP)
List of names - needs examination. (info from FGP)
Very damaged account - needs examination.
Account - needs examination.
Legal query to a Muslim jurisconsult regarding certain houses that have been made pious foundations by Jewish people and that should preserve their status until it is changed by the head of the community. Dating: ca. 12th–13th century. (Information from Khan and CUDL)