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Tag: arabic script
1194 records found
See T-S NS 110.14 for description.
Ledger of accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. 30 pages.
Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Barakāt. In Arabic script. The writer complains about poverty and unemployment and kashf ḥāl ('uncovering').
Legal document in Arabic script. First two lines only.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Three and a half lines remain. Needs examination. Verso: Informal note from Sitt Abū l-Ḥasan to Ṣadaqa, asking him to [...] for the old woman by coming up to Cairo tomorrow.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic beginning is preserved. Written on a reused page that already had a few words in Arabic script written on it. On verso there is a Hebrew alphabet writing exercise.
Original document (both sides): Several names in Arabic script, e.g. al-Shaykh Abū Manṣūr . . . Hilāl). Verso (around the original text): Greetings or address of a letter to Yakhin ha-Sar Pe'er ha-Yeshiva Mordekhai ha-Zeman.
Recto: A few words in very large Arabic script, perhaps from a chancery document. Verso: dowry list that was probably attached to a marriage document. The groom: Avraham b. Yosef. The marriage gifts and conditions are enumerated.
Letter in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination.
Lists of names in Hebrew and in Arabic script, among them Efraim b. Shemarya. AA
Accounts in Arabic script.
Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Faḍl, a court official. In Arabic script. The writer reports on a particular course of treatment for eye problems that included inflammations, dimness of vision, expanded pupils. The illness was treated with lamellae, eye drops and with the prescription of a potion to be taken after breakfast. Simples mentioned include anise, rose, lavender, oregano, mastic, liquorice, myrobalan, and aloe. The writer mentions his recent move to the town of Qalyūb. (Information from CUDL, probably from Isaacs's catalogue.)
Miscellaneous, including draft letter and price list of commodities in Arabic and Judeo Arabic - needs examination.
Documentary/administrative record? One page (verso is blank) with a Hebrew-script header and 8 lines of Arabic in a jagged/coarse hand--maybe from a badly cut nib? Begins with a basmala and ends with a hamdala; there may be a date in line 4 (below basamala): sana iḥda...? Also a possible mention of ar-rawq (to please/excel, L6).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script, listing years in the 12th century CE (maḥzors 256 and 257).
Legal document. Both sides—one in Arabic script, one in Judaeo-Arabic—are first-person declarations about the details of some financial case involving al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf. The Arabic side includes the phrase "annanī mā aʿūd uṭālibuhu" (I will not sue him any more).
Recto: Large (state?) document in Arabic script, preserving the ends of ~15 lines. Verso: Piyyutim.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text. Needs examination
Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Hebrew halakhic work? Verso: Arabic script.