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Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "I have salted for you a barrel (barmīl) of lemons, but no one from around here will transport them, perhaps …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. Regarding goods, several of which are for shipment …
[יאכי וסידי ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
[ ו]צולי נסכתין מע כרפאן מע אלמא כאפור ואלרז ואלקר[ ]
[ מ]א תעמל פיהא ארגו…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto and beginning of verso: Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has collected the prescription that the …
אלבית תרא חצרתה
פי מא ינפעל לי לא עדמת
איאדיהא ולא כלות מנהא אבדא
ושלום הדרתו יגדל ואל ידל לעד
נצח סלה
יא מולאי אמא תאתיר אלדוא פ…
Deed of compensation to peqid ha-soharim (representative of merchants) in Tyre, January 1037. CUDL: Deed of indemnity, written by Yefet b. David, dated Monday, 27th …
[[ושבע]] מאות ותשעים ושבע
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
IB II, 21 + 21c. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Fragments of four or five …
The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,
with regard to what you owed h…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Also signed by Hillel b. Yosef. Concerning a …
Beginning of a court record (last will and testament?) for Shela b. Yefet the silk tax-farmer in Sammanud.
Letter from an anonymous agent to Dāwūd ibn ʿImrān, Fustat. In which the writer asks the recipient, a well-known merchant, for further details concerning a …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
A manuscript which contains the end of Deutronomy, and the haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets) according to the old Palestinian rite. A dedication colophon …
Letter sent by Yosef b. Shemuel to 'his brother from father and mother', Ṣadaqa b. Ḥakmūn, congratulating him on the birth of his son. The …
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
IB VI, 26 (ח16). Deed of release. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Location: Probably Bharuch, India. Dating: First third of Ṭevet 1445 …
2 نسخين
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1052. To be sent to the house of Ibn Isḥāq Ibrahim …
Recto: Letter from Hayya Gaʾon to Neḥemya b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1348 Seleucid, which is March/April 1037 CE. Neḥemya had had a fight …
3 نسخ
Letter from the community of Gaza to the court in Fustat, the second quarter of the eleventh century.
Copy of an engagement (shiddukhin) contract in Hebrew written in a different hand (though same hand as the pen trials underneath). Location: Cairo. Dated: 5 …
Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, in Fustat, ca. 1030. Mentions Palermo and Mahdiyya; ships of Ibn Daysūr …
List. Fragment containing names of recipients of charity, including a blind woman, the widow of Shemuel the hazzan, and Mukhtār the doorkeeper. In the hand …
Business letter in Arabic script, with one name in Hebrew, from an anonymous trader from the circle of Abū Saʿīd (Yūsuf) al-Tāhartī
Business letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century (paleographic dating). Written in a chancery hand with very large space between …
فاما ما اتمنته في معنى التمر والصباغ [------]ـين
صحبة المندوبين عليهما فمنها صح بلا عنبار
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
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Business letter in Arabic script from the circle of Nahray b. Nissim, in Arabic script. Mentions the arrival of a certain Salmān, mentions al-Ashmunayn, Abū …
كتابي الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاك وادام
عزك وتاييدك وسعادتك وسلامتك ونعمتك وكبت
بالذل حسدتك واعداك م…
Fragment of a marriage contract, the section listing the outfit of the bride. ( E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 267, and from Goitein's index cards)
Letter. Family letter dealing with grain and payments, and extending greetings. Largely effaced. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
State document, petition in a chancery hand and large Arabic script. Words that are readily legible include al-Qāhira, al-Ḥāfiẓiyya, al-majlis al-sāmī al-mālikī al-sayyidī al-ajallī al-Afḍalī, …
Fragment of a letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal in Fustat. Mentions some information about the Sultan …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …
Palestinian-style marriage contract. Late tenth or early eleventh century. Mentions Shemarya b. Yshuʿa. In a darker ink and different hand, someone has added Elʿazar ha-Levi …
Communal letter from the Baghdad Gaʾon Shemuel b. ʿEli (active last third of the 12th century). In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card contains several conflicting suggestions about the handwriting of the sender and the dating. The sender is pained that his …
Collection for the capitation tax - jibayat al-jawali (verso) (for the 6th week of the liturgical year, usually falling in November). As the very small …
Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to two people ('al-mawlā al-hadrat' and 'al-mawlā al-tifʾeret'). Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to David ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Only the top is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Meḥmed Çavuş (Muḥammad Jāwīsh) to an unidentified Jewish tax farmer (ʿāmil) in Old Cairo. In Arabic script. Dating: late sixteenth or early seventeenth …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1484 Seleucid = October/November 1172 CE. Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī …
Court record of a testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning a dispute among the heirs of a murdered woman …
Legal document. Iqrār (Hebrew script) in which Yūsuf b. ʿAlī buys a Maghribī female slave named Ḥadaq ("pupil [of the eye]") from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a caliph, in a sloppy hand. Lower left corner. Some of the details of the case may be …
Draft of a release from legal obligations in a business relationship, mentioning one Abū Naṣr, possibly an India trader, as the epithet is very common …
Note on vellum sent on the evening following the day of Atonement, asking to return liturgical material for the feast of Tabernacles, which the writer …
Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته
على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين
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The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and most excellent salutatio…
State document, probably a letter of official correspondence, in Arabic script. Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya …
al-Amīr ʿĀzim al-Dawla and his slave Saʿīd b……
In the name of God the most merciful
I do not doubt the love of al-Shaykh al-Sayyid, may G…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning a dispute over who had the right to lead the congregation in prayer.
Page from a court notebook concerning the verdict of the court in Fustat, written by Avraham, son of the Gaon, December 1026. See also T-S …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Defending a communal leader against a litany of accusations against him. One of them has to do with orphans …
Letter from an unidentified sender addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender alludes several times to lessons that he learned as a pupil of Eliyyahu. …
Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Susa. The letter deals with marketing goods, especially pepper, and contains …
וצל כתאבך יאכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך ווקפת
מנה עלי מא סררת בה מן סלאמתך ועאפיתך אדאמהא אללה לך ב…
Letter from Yosef to Eliyyahu the Judge, it seems regarding a maqṭaʿ cloth currently with al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. The writer greets Abū l-Barakāt (Shelomo) and sends …