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IB VII, 7. Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1112 CE (based on T-S …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Legal document dated June 1802 CE (3 Sivan 5562 AM) involving a partnership in Alexandria between Hayyim ha-Levi, Merkado Karo, Avraham ha-Levi, and Pinhas b. …
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הרון אכי אלאכרס ולה רבאעי
סלאמה בן הרון בצמאן כלף בן קבה
הבה בן מוסי צבי חנין
הבה בן //אברהים//
יוסף בן כלף צבאג //תפליסי//
סעד בן פרג אלמג
ברכאת בן …
2 نسخين
IB IV, 17 (ח66). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with the …
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תאכר כתאבי ליום אלתלאתה ליג כלון וקד גמעו פי האדי אליום לביע
אלחלבי פלם ימכנני בן אלשארי צאחב אלקאצי אבו טאלב אביע שי
אלי אן באע הו כ עדל…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Settlement made in the court of Fustat between Mufarrij b. Yefet b. Shuʿayb the Damascene and Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the Iraqi. The Dayyan consulted …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Petition to Shelomo ha-Nasi from a man whose name is missing, reporting that a pesiqa (pledge drive) in his favor had brought a substantial sum, …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
Letter from a certain Shaqrūn to his family members. The address is made out to Barhūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, very colloquial. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. …
Petition. Dating: Late 16th or early 17th century, as it involves the well-known rabbi and judge Ḥayyim Kapūsī (1540–1631). The petitioner makes accusations against a …
يقبل الارض بين يدي الموافق العالية اعلاها الله تعالى
وينهي ان ثم رجل يهودي يسمى سعد بن العيصي كان ملتزم بمقاطعة الجوالي سابقاً فانكر عليه
Recipes for effecting desired results with Psalms (shimmush tehillim).
Small notes regarding payments. Verso concerns a sum of 41 (dirhams?) owed by the scribe to his paternal uncle for a wasaṭ (belt). It seems …
Recto and verso: Letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Politely disputing a quotation used in his sermon on the preceding Saturday, the topic of which …
Power of attorney. al-Sāliḥ b. Yūsuf, a Sicilian Jew, gives power of attorney to another Jew in a qadi court. Dating: ca. 1102 CE, as …
[الحمـ]ـد لله و [حـ]ـده وصلواته على [سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما]
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
نسخة كتاب الوكالة
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Letter from the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan (a.k.a. Avraham b. Natan) who is titled Ḥemdat ha-Qahal. Fragment (upper part …
Document of sale dated 454 AH. The buyers are Rabābīl’s two sons, Marqūrah and his brother, Buṭrus. The seller is Usṭūrhīwa the daughter of Qūrīl. …
IB V, 13. Letter from Avraham b. Ḥabīb, in Alexandria, to Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's attached notes include discussions of how …
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Fragmentary legal testimony in Hebrew. In which Yeshuʿa b. Manṣūr ha-Kohen declares that his wife owes no debts to him.
Letter/petition from an unknown writer to the Head of the Jews. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman …
IB VII, 25. Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. The testimony describes how partnerships are established. Dated: middle decade …
נקול אנן שה[די] דחתמות ידנא לתחתא אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה
אלשהאדה אלקאטעה במא גראת בה אלעאדה במצר בין אל
תגאר פי אלשרכה ודלך אדא דכלוא מנהם גמאעה…
We, the undersigned witnesses, say what we know and testify to, an
irrefutable testimony about what is the custom in Miṣr between
merchants (a…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#58) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 58-59) Folio 15v
Letter fragment from an unidentified sender, in Damsīs, to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, likely in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Summer 1030. The writer arranges shipments from and to …
IB III, 43. Letter from Perahya b. Yosef Ibn Yiju (which he wrote in his and his brother Moshe's name) in Messina to his father …
in the afternoon and the evening, while the morning prayer is said
before dawn; at daybreak, they are already through with it.
If we live…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part). Looks like the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions the late "Nezer"—if this refers to Natan b. Shemuel, the …
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be'). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Declaration made by the merchant Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 8 days remaining in Iyyar 4807 AM, which is …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Elul 1648 Seleucid = Muharram 738 AH = 13 August 1337 CE. Ṣafiyy b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazzān accepts a …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. He also addresses the letter to his brother …
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…
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu Ishaq Barhun b. Musa in Busir. Contains multiple references to jahbadh fees, as well as mention …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāʿid b. Saʿīd, in Mirbāṭ (in present-day Oman), to Abū l-Surur Faraḥ b. ʿAbbās al-ʿAsqalānī. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th …
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated: February-March 1160. In the hand of Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din(?). Abū al-Surūr Peraḥya b. Tiqva successfully sues for the …
Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. An internal report of some kind in a very formal tone. The beginning of the document mentions …
Recto: Short note about a court settlement from Fustat. An uncle allows his nephew to pay him back a sum of 10 dinars in 20 …
Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With crude handwriting and spellings. The addressee is called 'my son' and rebuked for his obstinacy and urged …
Verso: Letter from Daʾūd (probably muqaddam of Bilbays) to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. This is a petition in which the sender expresses his alarm …
Legal document. This is the signature portion, torn away from the main document. It is a huge horizontal strip with writing only in the middle …
Draft of a Hebrew letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi to a distinguished physician also named Moshe (but probably not Maimonides because Moshe b. Levi …
Two lists in an unusually large cursive script with a postscript in another, small and neat script. a) The superscription 'I[n Your] N[ame]' shows that …
Verso: Legal agreement. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Avigayil bt. Eliyya ha-Kohen gives her husband David b. Eliyya the right to remarry …
Letter. Family letter dealing with grain and payments, and extending greetings. Largely effaced. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Note addressed to Abu al-Faraj, saying that Abu al-Makarim is to receive payment from the bearer, in the amount of two qirats (of a dirham) …
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Deathbed will of Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last third of Tammuz [1469] Seleucid = June 1158 CE. (The year in l. …
Sales contract between Yosef b. Efrayim and Sadaqa b. David Ha-Kohen. Fustat, 1103. The verso contains a beautifully drawn-up poem by the Egyptian poet Sahlan …
Numbered list of first person declarations in which a son commits to various behaviors by way of fulfilling the fifth commandment of respecting one's parents …
Letter by a teacher complaining about teaching a difficult child. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Reused on verso for Hebrew literary jottings.