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Tag: unedited 11th c
103 records found
Legal testimony. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Heshvan 136[2?] Seleucid, which is 1051 CE. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan Yoshiyya ha-Nasi and Daniel ha-Nasi; also mentions Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya; someone known as Ṣahrajtī; and Ibrāhīm Ibn Sughmār. Signed: Ḥalfon b. Shabbat; Shelomo b. Natan. The content of the legal case is not immediately clear; needs further examination and transcription.
Letter in Hebrew. Looks like the handwriting of Shelomo b. Yehuda. Needs examination.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions brazilwood, but otherwise the remaining text is quite vague.
11th-century document mentioning Farah b. Yosef. In a different hand, a (literary?) text in Hebrew with phrases such as "a generation that has no thorns" and "in the letter/script of Damascus."
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Asks Nahray to convey his gratitude to someone; mentions the arrival of R. Natan. Needs further examination
Business letter from Abū l-Khayr(?) Yeshuʿa b. [...] to Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa. Dating: 11th century. Very well preserved; needs further examination.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter, probably 11th century. Mentions Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Yūsuf b. Bishr, and a purchase that the writer made in al-Maḥalla.
Fragment (left half of recto, right side of verso) of an 11th-century business letter to Musa b. Yiṣḥaq of Sfax.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, sent from al-Mahdiyya. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr [...] b. Natan.
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, including the phrase "I sent it to Qayrawan."
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Nahray b. Nissim (address in Arabic)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Khayr; Faraj; ʿIwāḍ; some quarter-dinars (? rubāʿiyya); and perhaps a Taherti (last legible word of right margin). If the last is correct, the dating is 11th century.
Letter fragment sent from Jerusalem. The body is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic script. Dating: Possibly 11th century, based on the hand and overall appearance. Little of the content remains.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions Abū Yaḥyā (=Nahray b. Nissim?).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th-century mercantile. Addressed to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn (?) and Abū Saʿīd Yūsuf. Possibly from a Mūsā.
Letter fragment addressed to Nahray b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the substance remains unless there is a join.
Letter in Hebrew mentioning Avraham b. ʿAllūn, 20 gold coins, a deposit and a lawsuit. Dating: Might be 11th century. Elevated style, partially rhymed, with many expressions of flattery and blessings for the addressee(s).
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (?), mentioning someone who died in Balad al-Rūm and licorice (sūs). The handwriting is distinctive, probably known.
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Nissim, the arrival of the Kohen, and [Isḥā?]q al-Qābisī.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dealing in corals and pearls among other items. Probably 11th-century.
