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Legal documentT-S AS 183.121
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Fustat and the ḥikr (ground rent), so might be a transaction involving property. Needs examination.
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State documentT-S AS 184.18
Small receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent) payment of Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh.
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State documentT-S K25.240.4
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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State documentT-S K25.240.5
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 340.23
Official receipt in Arabic. For a physician (al-ḥakīm) possibly named Abū ʿAlī. Seems to be for his rent (ujrat sakn[ih]). May also mentions the ground …
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List or tableENA 3309.20
Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the ground rent (ḥikr) several times.
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State documentT-S NS 297.78
Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
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State documentT-S AS 177.521
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
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State documentENA 3907.8
Receipt of some kind for Ibrāhīm b. [...]. A period of one year is specified. There is a word that looks like "halīlaj" (myrobalan), but …
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Legal documentT-S K25.240.6
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
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State documentT-S NS 297.271
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 184.166
Receipt of some sort for Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] al-Yahūdiyya for something (ḥikr payment?) for the 1/4 dār al-muntaqal ilayhā min (another?) Sitt al-Ahl bt. …
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Legal documentENA 2727.13b
Two or three different documents stuck together. (1) Ketubba. Only a few words from near the beginning are preserved. (2) Draft of a legal document …
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List or tableT-S AS 177.140
Accounts. Mentions someone called 'al-ḥikrī,' i.e., the collector of the ḥikr (ground rent) tax (cf. T-S K6.44).
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Legal documentT-S AS 173.27
Legal records or drafts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly from a court ledger. There are at least two distinct records in at least two distinct hands. (I) …
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State documentT-S AS 177.154
Small receipt for payment made by Abū l-Najm on behalf of 'the poor Jews' (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment for Jumādā I. …
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State documentT-S AS 177.237
Receipt, crudely written on a small slip, for a person whose name is given in the first line. It seems for a ḥikr (ground rent) …
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State documentT-S AS 180.226
Tax receipt. Layout is that of the usual jizya (capitation tax) receipts, however this is for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment of a group of …
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Legal documentT-S AS 212.155
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (vertical strip from the right side). Probably concerning payments to a divorcee made or …
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Legal documentT-S K25.240.2
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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State documentT-S K25.240.3
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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State documentT-S K25.240.6
Verso. Very small tax receipt, but complete with registrations/mottos/multiple hands. It is "for the poor Jews (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) in Fustat. The year 615 AH is …
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Legal documentT-S K25.240.7
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his handwriting (should be …
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Legal documentT-S K25.240.9
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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List or tableT-S NS 190.12
Bifolio of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe pertaining to the properties of the qodesh. Mostly has to do with real estate and mentions the ground rent …
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Legal documentT-S K25.240.10
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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State documentT-S NS 327.82
May be a receipt (? istiqbāl) for rent for government property (=ḥikr / ground rent?) from Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī (this is tentative, as the end of …
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Legal documentT-S NS J468
Digests of legal documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Document #1: Manṣūr/Elʿazar b. M[...] sells 1/8 of a house for 14 dinars. Specifies …
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Legal documentYevr. III B 507
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very long and quite damaged. Involves Shela, his paternal uncle and father-in-law Ḥalfon b. Shelomo, and his deceased wife, who …
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List or tableT-S 12.42 + T-S 12.109 + T-S 12.157
Accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if private or state. One entry in the right column of T-S 12.109v refers to the ḥikr (ground rent) in …
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LetterT-S Ar.52.248
Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat. …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- صح لمولاي يحيى اليهودي الرباني
- عن حكر املاكهم بقصر الشمع بمصر
- سنة ست وخمسمىة
- من الورق خمسين درهما
- نصف ثمن
- يهودا بن اب…
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LetterJRL Gaster ar. 134
Letter, probably, or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination. [Or rather likely a legal document …
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Legal documentJRL SERIES B 2751
Official document in Arabic script. Certifying that the teacher Gedalya Eliyyahu the Jew will pay (or has paid?) the ground rent (ḥikr) of a certain …
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- وصـــــــــــــــــــــــــار
- من المعلم جدالية اليهودي حكر القاعة
- بحارة اليهود بدرب القرايين
- تعلق الواضع اسمه(؟) وذالك عن مدة سنتين
- عام تسعة …
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Legal documentT-S K25.240.1
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 308
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
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- وصلـــــــــــــــــــ
- من عابد(؟) حمزة(؟) حكر الطاحونة
- بحارة اليهود تعلق وافق
- عبد القادر السماك
- وذالك عن ١٢٦٧ سنة
- ٢٧
- فقط لسبعة وعشرين قرش
- وا…
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Legal documentT-S AS 147.27
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The wife of the speaker had given a share in a house to the widow of …
- ]הא זוגתי אלמתופאה פלונית נע
- ]אלמנת אלשיך אבו עלי חסן אלאמדי
- ] כתאב אלמתנה אלדי בידהא מנהא אלדי
- אלעש]ר אלאכיר מן אדר שנת אתכח לשטרות
- ] אלחכר לאזם לל…
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 335
Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …
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Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 263
Verso: Receipt. In Arabic script. For Ibn Mazhar the Jew. The scribe's name appears at the bottom: Abū l-Majd b. ʿAlī. Dated: 506 AH (or …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم [vacat]
- صح دليل بن مزهر اليهودي //عن حكر//
- نصف الدورة الذي في سوق الكبير
- لسنت ست وخمسمائة [vacat]
- [vacat] من الورق اربع…
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- In the name of God, the merficul, the compassionate
- A valid receipt has been issued for Dalīl b. Mazhar the Jew for ground-rent
- on half the co…
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List or tableT-S NS J292
Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1119–20 CE. Accounting written on the verso of a letter addressed to Judge Avraham b. Natan. The accounting …
TS NS J 292v Gil, Documents, pp. 240 Doc. #42 Accounting of the Qodesh ca. 1119-20 SH [12-2-86] (P)
- [ ] נע ען אב וען אלול וען תשרי וען מרחשון
- [ ] חר…
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. . . . of blessed memory, for Av, Elul, Tishri, Marheshwan,
… nightwatch, and 2 dir. due for Nayrūz, and for nightwatch. Collected from …
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State documentT-S AS 181.163
Copy of a receipt of payment for two months of ground rent (ḥikr) in Qasr al-Shamʿ issued to the elder Abū Ḥasan b. Efrayim b. …
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List or tableT-S NS 306.1b
List of the houses owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160 CE. The beadle Maḥfūẓ presents a list of houses belonging to the qodesh which …
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- ثبت
- الادر الجارية في احباس اليهود لمساكينهم
- من جملتها ما اورده المتولى لجبايتها
- وهو ما بين
- دار //تعرف// بالريس ابو المنصور قام بما عليه ثلثين…
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Record
of the compounds that are at present foundations of the Jews for their poor
(3-4) as cited in their entirety and specified by …
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Legal documentBL OR 5566B.29
Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
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- [ ]מפני ה[
- תקדם[ ]כדמה ללהקדש תכתור מצאלחה וגב[
- דכרהא ליעקב בר מבשר הדא בעד אן אעתרף [
- שי מן ארבאעהא גיר הדה אלעשרה אלדנאניר [
- מע אלפראנסה אבקאהם …
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(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
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LetterT-S 8J15.17
Letter of complaint to Maimonides regarding funds for the Qodesh. Written in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. The plaintiff asks why …
- ביראת שמים ובאמונה פי מא כאן מתוליה לישראל
- ושהאדה אלדיינין אלקבועין פי דלך אלוקת מעי עלי דלך
- כט רבינו חייא ורבינו יעקב ומן אנצאף מעהם וחס
- לכבודו אן …
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. . . (R. Isaiah ha-Levi was appointed to be in charge of the qōdesh since he excelled in)
piety and trustworthiness in his administration o…
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List or tableENA 4011.44
Account of the qodesh, ca. probably 1158. Fragment of an accounting between the qodesh and, apparently, its partner in the ownership of a compound, known …
- ולה ען חכר תמן אלדאר אלדי [
- אלמערופה בדאר הבה אלאב[זארי]
- אולהא כסלו אתסא ואכר[הא
- דרהם סוא אל[
- ען שנת א[ ]
- ועליה מן בדאיה שנת את[ ]
- אלי נהאיה אדר אתס…
Recto, column II
To his credit, for ḥikr of 1/8 of the compound which …
known as Dār Hiba al-Abzārī,
beginning Kislev 1461, ending…
dir. l…
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