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Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 5591 AM = 23 …
1 نسخ
Letter (fragment) containing greetings and copious praises for Shemuʾel Rosh ha-Seder. (Information in part from CUDL.)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Recto: Legal document (iqrār) for debts acknowledged between business partners. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 5 Adar 5588 AM, which is 1828 CE. Involving Raḥamim …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 28 Sivan 4746 AM, which is 8 June 986 CE. A woman named [...] bt. ʿEli and …
Begining of a short composition on the Jewish laws of religious meat slaughter (sheḥīta). According to the title, this composition was authored by the judge …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the right side). Bill of release issued by …
Letter to a hazzan, Ben Sadoq, who is asked to intervene on behalf of the writer, Menashshe nin Shemaiah, before Sar Salom, head of the …
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter of business in which the writer requests the recipient purchase for him a measure of oil, two ‘futa’ (sari-like cloth), and two dinars of …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Mentions a period of 6 years beginning in Shawwāl 512 AH and ending in Ramaḍān 518 AH. …
In [the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.] Praise be to [God alone. He is sufficient.] Peace upon his servants, whom he has chosen.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Hayyim b. Immanuel b. Qayoma from Mahdiyya, probably to Yehuda b. Ismail al-Andalusi. Around 1055. Concerning a shipment of boswellia and clothes. The …
תוכלת [עלי אללה]
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם תאידך
לי כלון מן אב כתמה אללה עליך באחס[ן
אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ברחמתה ו[
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Several fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to 'al-Segula' and a court case; having enclosed additional letters; refers to the addressee as חמדת לבינו …
2 نسخين
Letter/petition of a woman to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127–39). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Describing in detail an episode related …
List of three (out of 36) items made of silk (info from FGP)
Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also …
[علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
الحضرة ا…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a report on measures taken to save pious foundations from the rapacity of the finance minister, known as 'the Monk'' (active 1127-1129). (Information …
that is the year when they dispossessed people he found it proper,
most probably after having consulted our Master ha-Me‘ullē,
of bless…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter/petition/recommendation to a Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks him to help the bearer, Ibrāhīm b. Abū Dāwūd al-Ashqar al-Bilbaysī, who betrothed (amlaka) a woman …
Letter in Hebrew sent by David Molina. Maybe a draft. Dating: First half of the 16th century, since David Molina appears also in T-S NS …
Letter from Salama b. Musa ha-Sfaqusi from Alexandria probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1068. Mentions several people including Avraham b. Farah and Yosef b. …
Letter from David b. Binyamin to Pineḥas ha-Kohen he-Ḥasid. In Hebrew. Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without …
Contract of debt in which Mufaḍḍal b. [...] ha-Kohen acknowledges that he owes a sum of money to someone. (Dating: 13th century. Probably written by …
Legal document relating to the return of half of the dowry of a woman.
Business letter from Daniel b. Azarya, in his handwriting, sent from Tyre to Fustat. The letter contains details about the commercial activities of Daniel b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100-1138). Partnership record. Seʿadya b. Menashshe ha-Kohen has inherited funds from his father, and places …
Letter. A Hebrew address is all that survives from a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, the judge, to the school of higher studies (Heb. …
IB IV, 36 (ח35). Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi in Toledo to Ḥalfon b. Netanel concerning the ransom of a captive woman in al-Andalus. The amount …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to [...] Abū ʿImrān. Mentions the intercalation of the calendar and something the sender intended to do before he fell …
Recto (secondary use): Notarized grant of permission to travel until a specific date given by a wife Ḥusna bt. Yiṣḥaq to her husband Farāj(?) b. …
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender complains about the terrible distress of the congregation "from the beatings and …
Fragment of a Hebrew deed in which witnesses testify that Ezra b. Shemuel b. Ezra, the representative of the merchants, came to them to complain …
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(1–2) What took place before us, we the witnesses undersigned on this document, on the month of Elul,
(3-4) 4994 AM (= 1034 CE) in Fusta…
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Fol. 1: Halakhic discussion regarding the proper time for prayer.
Letter from Muẓaffar to his cousins (awlād al-ʿamm). In Arabic script. Dated: beginning of Rabīʿ I 648 AH, which is June 1250 CE. The letter …
Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …
IB III, 24. Avraham Ibn Yiju's inventory of baggage for journey from India to the west. Written in India, probably in 1140 or 1149. Elizabeth …
IB IV, 80 (ח90). Letter by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Damascus (חדרך), to Yeshuʿa b. Moshe, in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1145/46 CE. …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 11 Heshvan = Safar 699 AH = 7 November 1299 CE. Abū l-Bahā b. Mukram (Makārim?) Ibn al-Ṣūrī agrees not …
IB II, 2. Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, asking Nahray to intervene with Ḥasan b. Bundār. Dating: 1094–97 CE. …
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh), in Fustat. The sender …
Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send …
Letter and responsum sent by Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified person in Fustat (perhaps Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq). Dated: 19 December 1029 CE. (Information …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter including the phrases: "I have not done [...] for three months. . . Rabbenu Peraḥya ha-Dayyan arrived. . . al-Shaykh …
Poetical letter of greetings in Aramaic addressed to Rabbi Shemuel and mentioning the 'Nasi and Gaon of Tiberias.' On verso a poem is written in …
Beginning of a marriage match agreement drawn up in the presence of witnesses and written three times, the last version written in the shape of …
Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Around 1061. The writer writes about purchasing wheat before Passover. (Information from …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה וסעאדתה
ונעמאה מן רשיד יום אלאחד בעד משקה אן עצימה אן ללה
אלחמד אלדי כאנת אלעאקבה ללכ…
Petition, in Arabic script. Dated: 12th C Ayyubid period. A group of poor workers (ṣunnāʿ) petition the Caliph and remind him of his promise of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمجلس [الكريم وينهون ان … ؟]
واهلك اعاديه وحساده [
من جملة صناع مقامه الكريم و[
بانه ل…
Letter from a certain Jāmiʿ, in Aswān, to his brothers Khalīl, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān. The sender is in desperate straits "without clothes" and urges his …
Avraham Maimonides (in office as head of the Jews 1205-1237) is asked about the procedure in which a party appears in court together with an …