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IB III, 49. Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Verso: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. "O Ibrahim! I found with your son Fāḍil (may God gladden him) one and a quarter dirhams, and I took …
1 نسخ
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (b. 1310-d. 1355) seeking to bring peace to the community and also urging them to be charitable and …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter, a short fragment to Abū l-Barakat, whose names appear with many honorifics. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? On the back there is …
Legal record (#108) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 26 Tevet 5326 …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat, ca. 1025. This letter describes a difficult and very brief visit to Jerusalem …
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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Four pages of a report of expenditures, written in large Arabic characters and Greek/Coptic numerals, made by the cantor Abū Sahl (likely Abū Sahl Levi, …
Business letter, perhaps a draft or a copy from a letterbook. Dated: 12 Tammuz 5559 AM, which is 15 July 1799 CE. Dealing mainly with …
Legal testimony. The witnesses have examined (bāsharū) the Jew Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and found that he had developed leprosy (judhām) on account of a …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The people attaching their signature and registering their name (below), they being […
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Legal document from Cairo, dated January 1821 (Shevat 5581). It seems to be a partnership agreement between various traders active in the early 19th century, …
Letter from the people of the Palestine Yeshiva to the community (qahal) of Fustat, mentioning Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1080 CE.
Beginning of a letter of Neḥemya ha-Kohen b. Kohen Ṣedeq, a self-proclaimed gaon of Pumbedita, written before August 960. The letter is a polemic against …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In Hebrew. Dated: 1 Tamuz 5569 AM = 15 June 1809 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Istanbuli b. Shemuel. Bride: Sara bt. Moshe …
Letter from Yosef b. Moshe ha-Levi the Jerusalemite to Yefet ha-Neʾeman b. Elʿazar, the representative of the community of al-Maḥalla. Dating: late 11th or early …
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Tammuz 1358 Seleucid = 21 July 1047 CE. Faraj b. Sulaymān known as Ibn al-Muqashshir was asked about …
Letter from the cantor Elazar ha-Hazzan b. Avraham to Mevorakh b. Saadya, before he became Nagid (thus, before 1078). Informing that three pieces of copper, …
Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria. Regarding trades. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #442) VMR
Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
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
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter addressed to Abu al-Faraj, son of Daniel the teacher, in the “habs Bunan” neighborhood. The writer describes that the wife of his son is …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qujandīm (קגנדים), Egypt. Dated: Thursday, 16 Av 4705 AM = 29 July 945 CE. The document records a marriage gift of …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
IB II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arriv…
IB II, 52. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Egypt. Aden, ca. 1130-39.
ג' כתב מרבוטה בכיט ואחד אלואחד מנהא
ללשיך אבי זכרי ואלתאני ללשיך אברהם
אלעכאוי ואלתאלת למסלם אלכעכי אדא מן
אללה תעאלי באלס…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter in which an heir informs his correspondent that no one, the government included, had any claim on his inheritance and adds that his case …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I [5293 AM] = 3 February 1533 CE. The specific case was identified by אביחיל מנצורה on …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Palermo, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt known as Ṭāriq, in Fustat. Abū Saʿīd reports that he had fled the unrest …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The letter deals with trades, especially of fabrics. Yisrael b. Natan …
2 نسخين
Letter from Abū al-Thanāʾ Ḥāmid al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh in Ibrīm. This letter demonstrates the significant legal and commercial functions that …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اعلم الحضرة السامية الاجلية الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه وادام
نعمته وتوفيقه وحراسته وسلامته وادام بالسعادة…
In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the exalted and glorious presence, the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses—may God …
Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Moshe declares that Abu al-Ala Mevorakh b. Avraham al-Safuri, owed him 1/3 and to his brother Aharon 2/3 of a sum of …
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …
Declaration about five generations of males and females related by ramified family connections. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 286)
Court record regarding the sale of a house. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Abū Saʿd buys one-third of a …
Recto (secondary use): Letter to 'al-ḥaver al-meʿulle ḥakham ha-yeshiva" (possibly this is Mevorakh b. Saadya, although Goitein suggested that the letter was actually intended to …
List of pledges arranged in two sections, separated by a blank space. Thirteen donations are in the first group and ten in the second; two …
Letter of thanks. In Judaeo-Arabic. Praising a scholar who had spent a certain amount of time, it seems during the High Holidays, in a provincial …
Draft of of a legal document in which Sitt al-ʿIzz bt. Yeshaʿyahu b. Yefet appoints 'Amat al-Qādir' Sitt al-Milāḥ Turfa as her representative with regard …
Earlier document: Letter from a certain Abū Saʿd (aka Seʿadya) to three addressees: David, someone else (Avraham?), and someone called only al-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has only 20 dinars and a male slave (waṣīf). He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and …
Two lists similar to T-S K15, fols. 5, 15, 39, 50, written by the same scribe and having mostly same names; one of the lists …
Letter sent from Damira by Abu al-'Ali ha-Kohen to Tiqva b. Yeshua, asking him to inform the Nagid about trouble that had occurred in Damira …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 62-64) Folio 16v
Four consecutive folios from the introduction to an anonymous philosophical-polemical treatise defending Jewish prayer and law against the criticism of Muslims. Contains the only known …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
IB IV, 71 (ח87). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥalfon. Alexandria; probably about 1143-1145. ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq sends Ḥalfon a short greeting for Purim. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment from Salāma b. Yūsuf al-Gazal, in al-Mahdiyya or Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal. Dating: shortly before 18 October 1030 CE (there …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition. Dated 1034 CE (Elul 4794 AM). The groom is Yefet b. Avraham.
Legal document concerning the repayment of a debt in monthly installments. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century. Mentions Yosef and Abū l-Bahāʾ. Witnessed by Ghālib(?) b. Abū …