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Fragment of poetry in Ottoman Turkish. Dated: 1172 AH (1758/59 CE). In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "The document as a whole …
[Rubric:] ʿĀşıḳ ʿÖmer
Evvelā ḳālūbelādan ʿahd ile īmāndayuz.
Uymayız cāhil sözüne ʿaḳl ile īzʿāndayuz.
Düşmişem ġūrbet e…
First of all, we are faithful and keep the covenant of ‘they said, “Of course!’’’.
We do not conform …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1065. Details about trading pearls. Mentions partnership with Nahray’s circle of traders. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
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 …
1 نسخ
Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)
Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Fol. 15.5 has a title page; “List of the Poor of Fustat.” Date …
Dispensed for them also
on Friday the 21st of that (month)
five qinṭārs, numbering
five hundre…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Badly damaged letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the Nasi (?).
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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a settlement with a widow. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE, under the authority of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Alexandria is influenced by the declining value of dirhams. The writer …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאך
מן אלמסתקר לו בקי מן שבט כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה בעד וצול כת…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …
Petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The petitioner asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū …
يعرف با[ـبـ]ـي [ا]لاعسر ريس الصناعة و[ ]
بين المملوك وبينه معاملة ولا عليه حسـ[ـا]ـب ولا جبة ضمان ولا كفالة
وأن الريس المذكور ضيق على …
Legal record (#24) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 9v-10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Tevet [5321] …
Legal testimony, Qaraite. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Heshvan 5472 AM, which is 1711 CE. It has to do with the floor (ṭabaqa) that is …
Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer and Abū Zikrī owe the son of Rabbenu Merayot 7 dinars for silk. Goes on to list various transactions …
Letter from Avraham Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century. Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to …
Letter from Barakāt b. Manṣūr, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Arabic script, with the address on verso written once in Arabic …
2 نسخين
List of about ninety persons receiving subsidies for their capitation tax obligation, similar to T-S K15.14 + T-S K15.66, Apps. 4-5. Many names and sums …
A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
Calligraphic family letter, sent from Giza, containing many names and detailed instructions. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 423, and from …
Letter from Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq, the chief Rabbi of Aleppo, Syria, to a colleague, it seems in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1100. Asking him to send …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, mentioning various commodities including flax. Dating: ca. 1064 CE. Also mentions a …
Recto and verso: Letter recounting how a storeroom in Alexandria belonging to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, was opened and it was discovered that the grain …
Verso: List of "those who have not received their share" (al-bāqiyyīn bi-lā akhdh), i.e., in the distribution of wheat. Dating: Probably 1215–40 CE, based on …
סדכ.דו
ר'[.]בי..א אמ[ר]אה פ[רנ]ס?
סכנדרי מהא.?
זוגה ....
קדסייה
אם טאהר
אמו אבן .ידאן
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שׂרה לאה
מליחה דויד
זוגה ה[א]רון
אברהם דקיק[י]
Draft of a ketubba from Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Tishrei 1613 Seleucid = 16 September 1301 CE, written under the authority of the Nagid Avraham …
Settlement between the two brothers Muhadhdhab b. Shemuel (appears also in T-S 8.112 (PGPID 7086)) and Amīn al-Dawla after a long litigation. Muhadhdhab ultimately agrees …
Legal document containing a request for a poor blind man and in the continuation, mentions a dispute with someone who had traveled between Byzantium and …
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Legal document. Acknowledgement of loan. Dating: February 1135, in (new) Cairo. Document recognizing a loan of 10 dinars from Yosef ha-Levi to Yefet b. Yaḥyā …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic: "... Ramaḍān of the aforementioned year. He honored me and sat me before him and approached me consulting me concerning the …
Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender wishes to borrow the addressee’s riding animal (dābba) for transporting "some of my stuff" (baʿḍ qumāshī). He should send …
Recto: Fragments of two lines of a state document in a chancery hand. The decree concerns the ḍamān of Ṭūr Sīnā. Verso: The page is …
Letter fragment (upper right corner) in Arabic script. The addressee may be called "al-qāʾid" (l. 2). Mentions Umm Abū ʿAbdallāh (l. 3). Refers to purchasing …
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 …
Letter from an unidentified sender who uses the ʿalāma/motto "yeshaʿ rav" to a certain Yisraʾel. In Hebrew. Apologizing for the delay in the delivery of …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Describes his tribulations due to the winter; mentions business in flax; the animals …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם
עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה מן אל[א]סכנדריה ליב בקין מן טבת כתמה
אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ע…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter possibly sent to an aunt named Sitt al-Jamāl. The writer complains about not hearing from the addressee for a long time and expresses yearnings. …
Several fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with wide line spacing. From the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–1159 CE) to Sason (b. Meshullam) the …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Legal record (#122) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 27 Sivan 5329 …
Deposition. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Monday, 18 Sivan 1486 Seleucid = 9 June 1175 CE. In which two persons testify to the poverty of a …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Will of Na’ima bt. Yaʿaqov stating that one-half of a house with a store in Malij that she bought from her son for six dinars, …
צוואת נאעמה בת יעקוב בעיר מליג
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Short business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. With a request to send a reply with the same mail courier (fayj) and mentioning …
Fragment of a betrothal agreement between Bayan and Sitt al-Nasab. Among the provisions included is the groom's assurance that he will not prevent the bride …
Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. Shelomo, requesting his help in countering a decree …
צד ימין
צד שמאל
Segment of a letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon b. Eliyyahu, Damascus, to Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef, Fustat, Dated: 19 Adar 1427 Seleucid = 5 March …
Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is typical to the 13th century, and is probably that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu …
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition. Dated 1034 CE (Elul 4794 AM). The groom is Yefet b. Avraham.
Letter of congratulations from Musalah to Shelomo and his son upon the marriage of the son. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Verso contains part of …