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Tag: arabic script
1194 records found
Bill of testimony. In Arabic script. People mentioned: al-Ra'īs Ibrāhīm known as Natan b. Saʿīd b. Natan the Rabbanite Jew; ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa the Rabbanite Jew; Saʿīd b. Ṣadaqa b. Muhadhdhab the Rabbanite Jew (and physician, mutaṭabbib). Mentions Cairo and Fustat. A witness mentioned in the document is Sulaymān b. Yūsuf b. Shemuel known as Ibn al-Tājir the Rabbanite Jew.
Bill of settlement (taṣāduq). In Arabic script. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Qaʿda 924 AH, which is 1518 CE. Principal protagonists are Mīkhā'īl b. Isḥāq b. Abī Saʿīd the Jacobite Christian, a broker; and Shaqrā bt. Shemuel b. Sulaymān the Rabbanite Jew. On taṣāduq, see Munther Al-Sabbagh, "Before Banks: Credit, Society, and Law in Sixteenth-Century Palestine and Syria" (PhD diss.), p. 156.
Legal documents in Arabic script. There are four distinct entries. The entry on recto is extremely long. There is a Judaeo-Arabic filing note in the upper right corner. Two of the entries on verso are dated: Shaʿbān 805 AH, which is 1403 CE. Needs further examination
Legal deed for real estate, Mamluk period, with lots of archival process. 710s-750s AH
Document(s) in Arabic script. There are four fragments under this shelfmark; all appear to be damaged and faded. Needs examination.
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Bayān Ibrāhīm b. Mubārak b. Mufarrij al-Isrā'īlī purchases a property. Mentions the rights to the millstone (al-ḥajar) and the mill (al-ṭāḥūn). There are jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on both recto and verso. Information from Goitein's note card.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions "3 from al-Fayyūmī." Needs examination.
Letter from Abū Manṣūr to his 'father' (it seems father-in-law) al-Rayyis Hibatallāh the judge, representative of the Nagid David, in Alexandria: Dating: Based on the name of the Nagid, either 1237–1300 (if David I) or 1355–1410 (if David II). In Arabic script with occasional Hebrew script mixed in. Goitein refers to the script as "childish," in part because it is relatively easy to read and has diacritics. The letter is a detailed business letter concerning the textile trade. See Goitein's note card for some of the content.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to Abū l-Fatḥ (or Abū l-Faraj) al-Isrā'īlī al-Ṣā'igh al-Mawṣilī. Dated: 626 AH, which is 1228/29 CE (per the Baker/Polliack catalog). Information from the Baker/Polliack catalog.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by Khalīl b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Ḥalabī al-Muḥāmī (the lawyer? the soldier?). Information in part from Goitein's note card.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with the Hebrew names (Shabbetay b. [...] and Barukh) written in Hebrew script. Mentions Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara) and a Christian named Buṭrus and al-Mawlā Ibn al-Sabīʿī (="the son of the Seventh").
Bifolium containing Hebrew literary text (evidently lists of haftarot) as well as a single page containing drafts for a letter addressed to Abū l-Fakhr b. Abū Isḥāq b. Abū l-Fakhr al-Amshāṭī. This letter draft is in calligraphic Arabic script; there is also some Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew in the space around it.
Family letter in Arabic script. Mentions Cairo and the writer's mother and an amir. Needs further examination. On verso there is an Aramaic text, apparently (per FGP) Zechariah 3:2, 9; 4:2 (tosefta to the haftarot).
Recto: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Verso: liturgical text. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Verso: liturgical text. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Poem in Arabic and an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. On verso there is Hebrew piyyut.
Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Describes the preparation of a rob containing nard, raisins, berberis and jalap. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
