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Tag: fgp stub
894 records found
19th century letter, Verso is blank apart from a jotting which may be an acknowledgement of receipt. There also seems to be a square stamped signature at the foot of the recto (FGP)
Legal document. One of the parties is referred to as Jewish; with some marginalia (FGP)
Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land Verso: Ottoman legal contract
Recto: `Iqrar Verso: Hebrew prayer - needs examination.
Contract of hire - needs examination.
End of legal document, dated Dhü al-Hijja, A.H. 504. - needs examination. (FGP)
Legal document, dated A.H. 409 (= 1018-19 C.E.) - needs examination. (FGP)
Legal document, dated 5 Jumädä I, A.H. 556 (= 2 May, 1161 C.E.). - needs examination. (FGP)
Legal document, 'iqrar, dated A.H. 529 (= 1134-35 C.E.). - needs examination. (FGP)
Document of rent/hire. No decipherable date. - needs examination. (FGP)
Recto: Letter from ʿAlī b. [...] addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn apparently requesting clarification of a decree. Full address (unclear where Baker/Polliack got this from): al-malik al-muʿaẓẓam Sharaf al-Dīn, Ayyubid Sultan of Damascus (1218-27?). - needs examination.
Verso: Hebrew pen trials, citing Mishna Berakhot 4:7. Also citing Isaac Kinzi's poem יום באתם לחלות (see Davidson, Otzar ha-piyyut, X, no, 1633). Written by Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, who signed his name. In the left margin, accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, probably unrelated to recto. (FGP and AA)
End of legal document, dated 13 Dhu al-Hijja, A.H. 596 (= 25 September, 1200 C.E.). - needs examination. (FGP)
Recto: Arabic legal document, dated ywm as-sabt 20 Rajab, 550 A.H. Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.”
Verso: Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic magical text (fgp)
Recto: Letter concerning the demolition of a building (possibly a mosque) and the sale of its timber and bricks. Verso: Letter concerning 'iqta'. Letter on recto mentions al-qadl ibn Ja'fer ibn Na'man.- needs examination.
Recto: Hebrew liturgy.
Verso: A few lines of Hebrew liturgy and a note in Arabic written by another hand - needs examination.
Ayyubid chronicle. The time-span covered in the fragment is A.H. 522-573 (= 1128-78 C.E.). - needs examination.
Legal document, dated A.H. 529 (= 1134-35 C.E.). - needs examination.
Recto: Hebrew biblical verses. Verso: State document, Fatimid period. Mentioned in S. M. Stern, "Cairo as a Centre of the Ismaili Movement."
End of a legal document certifying a loan.- needs examination.
Legal document, dated A.H. 569 (= 1173-74 C.E.). - needs examination.
