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One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …
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Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī (Māzar) to Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, 1064. This letter is a follow-up from the letter in Halper 389 …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. This is the second or final page of what was originally a longer letter. There is an unusual …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …
1 نسخ
Legal record (#3) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Sivan 5320 …
Account for the export of flax to Sicily. Around 1035. Also mentions camphor, textiles, as well as details about payments. It seems like it is …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
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 …
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Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …
Legal document. Location: Bilbays. Dated: First decade of Sivan, 1564 Seleucid, which is 1253 CE. Under the reshut of David I Maimonides. Concerning a settlement …
Short note recording the receipt of payment for some purchased goods with part of the date preserved (Kislev 1412 Seleucid = November/December 1100 CE).
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Surūr (probably an elder relative, since he is addressed as "father"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and …
Recto: deed of sale for part of a house. One of the parties is Abū Naṣr Manṣūr Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī, "one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ" …
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad], his prophet, and h…
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement. Fiance: Yosef b. Yehuda Menaḥem. Fiancee: Estīta bt. David ha-Kohen. Currency: Venetian ducats (פרחים זהב בנאדקה). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan [5]330 …
Letter consisting of a long list of Ḥanukka greetings and well-wishes to dozens of people, including Abū l-Riḍā and his siblings, the recipient’s mother, the …
P10: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a couple of lines are preserved. Refers to Rosh ha-Qehillot and …
Legal document regulating the share of profit and loss to a traveling party of four to Syria after one of them is prevented from traveling …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The story is interesting but fragmented. Refers to a girl (ṣabiyya) who is in an agitated state (takhruj min …
Four court records from Fustat, August - September, 1132. Record A: Complaint, followed by retraction thereof, about a load of caraway deposited with a representative …
Account. Computation of sums handled by a Parnas, ca. 1151. An anonymous parnas apparently farmed out the revenue of a certain section of the estates …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. The cantor Abū l-Majd is to give 5 dirhams to a certain Kohen, apparently as reimbursement …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 12 Adar I 1350 Seleucid = 9 February 1039 CE. The contents are difficult to understand because of the …
Report or petition. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Twice mentions the Berbers (البربر) who are in the area of Abshīsh (ابشيش) in the …
Recto (secondary use): Letter containing a poem addressed a dignitary. In Hebrew. Possibly a token of gratitude for help that the sender received. The letter's …
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Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). On verso is the continuation of the …
[סררת יא]מולאי אלי וצול כתאבך תדכר סלאמתך אדאמהא אללה לך במנה ותדכר וצול מפרג וקד
[וצלני] כתאבה אנה אקלע מן ברניק ועדא ארגו מן אללה יגעלה פ…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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Legal document. Court record from Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Av 1473 (17 July 1162). Incomplete record of proceedings of the court of Netan’el ha-Levi (ga’on …
אבו אלפרג’ אבן אלרייס זצל
סבב אצדאר הדה אלאחרף אלי אלמולא אלשיך א…
Abu'l-Faraj, son of the chief, (may the) m(emory of a) r(ighteous man be …
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلالت…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sho…
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Account of the pledges, pesiqa, for [the synagogue of] Dammuh, during the time of Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237).
Tax receipt for the capitation of Riḍā b. Maḥasin the Jew in Fustat. Trigger: addā. Amount: one dīnār exactly (sawā). Three sets of registration marks, …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
Detailed letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Naysābūrī, Alexandria, to Abū l-ʿAlā Sā'id (i.e. ʿŪllā) b. Yosef ha-Levi the Trustee of the rabbinical court of Fustat …
[ ע]ל שמך רח
[ חצ]רה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
[ ] ונעמאה ותאידה ותמכינה
[ ] אלכתב אלואצלה מן חצרתה
[ ] כתאבנא מציבה עלי אל…
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sugmar, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1070. Nahray is called “Our Rabbi, the head of …
הדרת רבנו גדול הישיבה אבו יחיא נהוראי בי"ר נסים נ"ע; המודה לו, יהודה בן מוסא נ"ע בן סגמאר.
Legal record (#64) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Iyyar [5324 …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Musa b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Fustat. Dating: November 14, 1079. Natan writes the account for cash from …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ליג בקי מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך
באחסן כאתמה ושוק א…
Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Abū al-Faraj ibn Shanūda, the Christian seaman, the leader of the sailors of ‘the weavers',
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1248-1249. Location: Fustat. This document describes a partnership in a sugar-factory. It is likely the document is a draft because …
IB I, 33. Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) containing a commercial account and a record of court proceedings. On …
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Purchased with this:
lac sent in four pieces {alt. tr.: units}, price: 1,000 dirhems;
a small bale of spikenard: 300 di…
Letter to Menahem from the cantor of Malij concerning an inheritance. EMS Verso: Jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in which the judge Avraham b. Natan Av apologizes for being unable to attend a circumcision ceremony in Fustat because he had been scheduled …
State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1063. Natan wrote the letter 10 days before Passover. The writer …
Letter/petition concerning a legal affair involving the allocation of the estate of the late Bayān. (Same hand as Moss. VII,131 (PGPID 6955)?) Repeatedly mentions a …
A brief, informal letter in Arabic script, instructing the addressee to do something with the bearer and something about "the market tonight." Written on a …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
قد كنت سالتك يامولاي اطال الله بقاك في ان
يعتبر حال مقداد بن الحسن
موصلها وبه طرفا(؟) محنة ولي في ذلك عرض
فاخر ان ي…
IB III, 47. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b. …
Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE. (Cited in Khan, BSOAS 53 (1990) 25; Arabic Legal and …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله بركاته ونوامي زكواته وافصل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا]
الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله [امير المومنين …
Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen (likely in Bilbays, Lower Egypt) to his cousin and brother-in-law, the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (Fustat), 12th century. …
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