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Tag: arabic script
1194 records found
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Needs examination. ASE.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script in the upper margin. Mentions Menashshe, the fayj, Abū l-Barakāt, Nāṣir al-Juyūsh, [...] al-Dawla, "the Muslims and the Jews." ASE.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script in the margins. The letter deals with business matters, mentioning Fustat, Abū Muḥammad b. ʿĀmir, al-Shaykh Mahdī. The writer also inquires about the news of the 'Beit Midrash.' Verso: Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, some of which are probably related to recto, some of which are probably not.
Trousseau list, small fragment. Jottings in Arabic script between the lines.
Letter in Arabic addressed (in Judaeo-Arabic) to a certain Hiba in Alexandria, urging him to come quickly and mentioning the purchase of wheat. Needs further examination.
Letter in Arabic script from Ishaq al-'Asali reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support. The question is whether he himself did not know Hebrew writing or if the recipient did not know. Goitein supposes the latter. Information from Goitein's note card. On verso is liturgical text in discrete blocks and neat handwriting.
Letter from Sulaymān b. Bū l-ʿAlā al-Tājir to Eliyyahu the Judge. Partially in Arabic script, partially in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the beginning and two different addresses are preserved.
List of daily collections in which almost all the benefactors give one or two dirhams. The lower parts of columns three and four contain accounts of expenditure on communal property in the Great Bazaar, written in Arabic characters. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society 2:490)
Letter opening (three lines) in Arabic script. ASE.
Letter in Arabic script, possibly discussing paper and books. ASE.
Account in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Recto: Legal testimony. Incomplete. Drawn up in Fustat. Dated 1151/52 CE (1463 Seleucid), under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid. The case involves Abū l-Faraj al-Tājir al-Qāhirī aka Yeshuʿa ha-Zaqen b. Yūsuf ha-Zaqen and Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen ha-Sar. The margins and verso are filled with Arabic script. ASE
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script.
Letter or petition in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Thin vertical strip with portions of 6 lines preserved.
Letter, fragmentary and calligraphic, regarding business. Mentionins dealings in corals, storax, and zaituni (silk), and merchants of the second half of the eleventh century (Joseph b. Farah Qabisi). On verso is a medical prescription in Arabic letters. Most likely the receiver of the business letter was a physician. Information from Goitein's note card. Possibly the same scribe as T-S NS J194.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A mother concludes a contract for the teaching of her boy in Arabic. Malīḥa the sister of Shelomo Ibn al-Amʿaṭ ha-Levi and Abū l-Faḍl Ṣadoq b. Shemarya agree that the latter will teach the Arabic script and the calculations of baqasāt(??) and dhāqāt(??) to Hiba b. Abū Saʿd (presumably her son) for two dinars. NB: This document is sometimes cited as T-S NS J401.21. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.
Informal note in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Nasi regarding various expenses and mentioning the judge and the Andalusian ḥazzān. There is an additional note about Ismāʿīl and a money changer written in Judaeo-Arabic at the bottom. Needs further examination.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic.
