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State document in Arabic script. Mentions Arslān b. Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle …
].بو الارسلان بن خطلخ من طايفة الحافظية القدما
] واجبة في الضيعة المعروفة بسمسطا من الصعيد الادنا
على حكم الاستمرار بها..وفي السنة
من…
1 نسخ
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...." Mentions Jaʿfar b. Fattāh, only the beginning formula with honorifics is preserved. Ends …
بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
وسموها وسناها و…[
جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
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Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq in Sfax to Yehuda b. Moshe Ibn Sughmar in Fustat. Contains details about shipments of coins, oil and soap from …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Circular on behalf of a notable from 'Arqa, northern Syria, whose wife and child were held in captivity. On verso blessings on food.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Strongly worded letter in which a young man, a cantor named Moshe, is ordered to vacate the apartment let to his father and to remove …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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 …
Torn fragment of fiscal accounts, probably. Mentions either "dyeing" (al-ṣibāgh) or "the villages" (al-ḍiyāʿ), likely the latter, "fī bāb rasm al-ḍiyāʿ" and a sum of …
]ـاهما في باب رسم الضياع
]ـي كنت قبضته لست و خمس ماية دينار
]ـع من المزارعين ذلك وعاد وبقيت
Beginning of a petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Beginning lines only. On verso, there is literary text in Hebrew. For the formula "al-ḥaḍra …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Marriage contract. Location: Tiberias (here called Tiberias Colonia / טיבריא קלוניא). Dated: Thursday, 12 Sivan [4]795 AM = 22 May 1035 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document. In which Yeshuʿa b. Avraham enumerates before the court the items that he has in his possession from the estate of the late …
Legal record (#88) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Kislev 5325 …
Folio from a court notebook. Recto: Statement about the debt of a parnas. Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than …
Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate
of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB III, 30a. Rental contract for an apartment in Sicily for 40 years, paid in advance, rented by a Jewish woman named Umm al-ʿIzz bt. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter from the community of Rabbanite Jews, in Ramla, to the community of Rabbanite Jews in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. In a mixture of …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Memorandum of testimony concerning the legacy of a certain Isma'il al-'Azazi al-Halabi, who died in Acre, written in Fustat, Kislev 1411/November 1099. Signed by Yiṣḥaq …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Iṭrābulusī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Gives information about ships arriving in Egypt, their consignments and passengers. …
אטאל אללה יאשיכי וריסי וגלילי בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאשיכי עדה ארגו וצלת אליך
וגהת אליך אלכתב מע אלצרה מע בוצחק בן נסים אלקרוי
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 …
Letter containing good wishes. Written with the layout of an official/communal letter: narrow page, moderately wide space between the lines, and an ʿalāma (motto) at …
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 …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
Court record of a divorce settlement initiated by Ḥasana bt. Yiṣḥaq against her husband Perahya. (Information from Niessen and Shivtiel, p. 613.) EMS
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Letter from the physician Ibrahim to the physician Ya‘qub in Bilbays, whom he addresses as “my brother.” Ibrahim rebukes Ya‘qub for his failure to send …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Barakāt and two books containing 'accursed' magic (al-siḥr al-mayshūm). The sender greets his or her brother …
Fragment of a ketubba (שטר פרנא). Location: Likely Tyre. Dating: ca. 1090s. The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning 20 irdabb of wheat that the writer has stored in an apartment in his house, and how he got a …
Recto: Maimonides autograph. A list of contributors, probably related to collecting money for ransoming captives. Mentions names such as Barakāt b. Ṭayyib, Baqāʾ al-ʿAssār(?), Abū …
Letter in which a physician traveling from Cairo to Damascus describes how he was honored by the Jewish judge of Bilbays. The addressee is Shemuel …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאיי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
לט כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד דאימא
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Fragment of the beginning of a deathbed declaration, issued by a court whose judges were appointed by Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112-ca.1126) and Mevorakh b. Saadya …
Letter of business from Isma'il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, in Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim. The writer alludes to his great losses at sea while simultaneously …
Verso: Marriage contract dated 1050, between Saadya b. Maymun and Ḥasana bat Levi, mentioning 5 dinars that will be given at the time of the …
Petition, fragment, in Arabic script. The sender says that he (or less likely someone else) is unable to provide for himself (a trope of petitions) …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A scholar is asked for the hand of his daughter in a complete letter (written calligraphically by a scribe) asking the …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Date: 28 Heshvan 5506 AM (1746 CE). The groom is listed solely as Yosef, therefore one of the witnesses' names may contain …
P9: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the beginning. Mentions two judges and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla.
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, about his partnership with Barhun and Yosef b. Musa ha-Tāhartī. 1059. They sent different merchandise to the Maghreb …
Ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 3 Ṭevet 5581 AM = 8 December 1820 CE. Bride: Sūsār (or Sūkār?) bt. Yehuda Nabālī. Groom: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov …
Letter from Farah b. Yosef Qabisi in Alexandria to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Naja al-Dimashqi ('Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef). Dating: ca. 1065. Concerns the dispatch …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef, Fustat. Dating: around 1080. Concerns trade in saffron and other spices, and …
Letter from Saʿīd, probably in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, probably in Fustat. Dating: early 13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting …
Letter from Fadl b. Amrūṣ to Nahray b. Nissim. On verso a note by the reciever, in Arabic script, documenting the arrival of the letter …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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 …
Beginning of a letter by the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya (in office 1140-1159) to the community of al-Mahalla, written in the hand of Natan b. …
Verso: Jotted account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a bible (muṣḥaf) with the number 2 (𐋢) underneath. May be related to recto.
Right side of a somewhat unusual court record. In Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Maymūn, the husband of Malka bt. ʿUmayr, is suing a certain …
IB IV, 19 (ח62). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel to Yūsuf b. al-Khāzin (Almeria). Ḥalfon requests Yūsuf's help with a shipment sent by the judge …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة