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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. Moshe ha-Levi and his father (identified as Ṣedaqa ha-Levi b. Moshe in T-S …
2 نسخين 3 مناقشات
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Will of Moshe b. Adiyya who declares that his wife did not owe him anything, but that not all she was owed in her marriage …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow paper with widened line spacing; ~10 lines from the middle section are preserved. The sender complains of someone who "took …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document dated 6 July 1564 CE (16 Tammuz 5324) in Cairo/מצרים, in which Sulaymān Ṣafiyy and the treasurers of the heqdesh of the Mustaʿrib …
2 نسخين
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: [15]35 Seleucid = 1223/24 CE. The century is confirmed by the partial signature of [...] b. Meyuppe on …
List of collections, all crossed out. Recto contains a letter requesting payment or distribution of bread to various young women?
שוליים: ומן אלרנע אלכביר תכון אל…
Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya (Gil)/ Sicily (Ben-Sasson) by Ismail b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusi to his nephew, Yeshua b. Natan in Fustat, dealing with goods sent to …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Verso: Letter from a father, unknown location, to his son Baqāʾ, in Fustat. The letter was sent to the shop of Meshullam/Musallam to be held …
Legal document. Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1134. Abū Sa‘d and Abū Sahl form a partnership lasting 6.5 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from someone in Alexandria (Gil: Ibrahīm b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandrānī) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Ca. 1055, apparently the beginning of the summer. The sender …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning a shipment of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman gold …
ʿİzzetlü ve mürüvvetlü peder-i ʿazīzim ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-ı şerīf[lerine],
derūn üzere selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñ…
To my noble and generous, most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father, _____________________________
After heartfelt greetings a…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Recto: Letter fragment from Khalaf b. Mubārak al-Ḥazzān or al-Jazzār. In Arabic script. Only the basmala, tarjama, and part of the first line are preserved. …
Letter from one of the Sughmār family to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1080. The main part of the letter is a recommendation for a person …
קד צדרת כתבי לחצרה רב הרב גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא
ותאיידהא וכבת עדוהא ביד אבי כתיר בן עמראן וגירה ארגו וצולהא אליה ווקופהא …
Legal record (#4) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated 12 Shevat …
:(Documents 3-5) Folio 1v
IB II, 58. Letter. Memorandum from Abu Zikri Kohen to Mahruz. Alexandria, ca. 1136-1149.
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Account for Shevat and Adar 1495 sel. ca. 1184. This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. …
The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar,
corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿd…
Recto: Digest of a legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: November 1076. Manṣūr b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) will partner with Yefet b. Avraham and Shelomo …
Lease of land belonging to the Qodesh, ca. 1180. Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed …
In thy Name, oh Merciful!
We, the undersigned honest and able elders, declare: We had once decided
and agreed to lease the parcel in …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1065. This account was written as a draft. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #298) VMR
Legal record (#52) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 50-52) Folio 14r
Letter from Netanel b. Ḥalfon to Zakkay ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil Nezer ha-Maskilim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same sender as AIU V.B.48 (dated 1174 CE); this letter …
Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
בסם אללה אלעטים
ביע אלדנא אלאטראבלסיה ואלחסניה עלי
אבו עמראן מוסי אולא סתין דינ מנהא
לא ביע כא קיר גיר כב כל דינ וכ ונצ ביע כב קיר ונצ
Gift deed draft with an addendum on the verso. Location: Istanbul (קושטנדינה). Dated: Nisan 5401 AM, which is March/April 1641 CE. The citation of ha-Rashb''a, …
Karaite ketubba (marriage contract) from Jerusalem, January 1028. Bride: Sarwa bt. Ṣedaqa b. Jarīr. Groom: Ḥizkiyahu b. Benyamin. Early: 5 dinars plus 50 silver coins. …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender seems to be imploring the addressee to resume his correspondence, for "I used to be like a son to …
Three court records dealing with the same conflict over bay windows of two confronting houses which were touching. Dated: Tuesday, last decade of Shevaṭ, 1419 …
IB III, 28. Account by Avraham Ibn Yiju of Indian products sold for another merchant, Aden, ca. 1141-44.
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is probably Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, an India trader and shipowner (nākhudā) known from documents dating from 1131/32 to c.1150 CE. …
וארגע . . . . . []
לאן אלממלוך יעאזי חואיג . . []
כנת מסתריח אלסר בעץ שי []
אלעטר יחתאג אלמכנה אן אלדורה ונרגו מן אל[לה]
חמיד …
Money order of the Qodesh. Dated: 1477 Seleucid, which is 1165/66 CE. Issued by Shemuel b. Seʿadya, for 9.5 dirhams, from the collection of the …
The collectors of the Estate of the Jerusalemites shall pay to Abū Manṣūr
the son of Nathan b. Ezekiel al-Dimashqī's aunt's husband,
9 …
Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Heshvan 5294 AM = 20 October 1533 CE. Yaʿaqov b. Moshe בכוש and his brother Efrayim …
Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār in Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAshrī al-ʿAṭṭār. Dated 16 April 1808 CE (19 Safar 1223 …
A good supplement.
The peace of God the exalted and his mercy and blessings, and his most abundant greetings—with these we greet
his nobl…
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 …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār Yaʿaqov b. David ha-Parnas …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter to Abu Yaʿaqov Yosef the Dyer, from Perahya b. Yosef informing him that he arrived in Alexandria and found Yosef’s wife and children to …
Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …
Legal query addressed to Moses Maimonides with his autograph responsum, ca. 1168-1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.
Note from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi probably to his brother Yedutun, in which he repeats five times that the recipient is urgently invited to a …
Letter fragment describing the visit of the Nasi in the Babylonian synagogue. (Information from E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 25)
Letter of Daniel b. Azarya, December 1051.
Letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi to Abu al-'Ala al-Dimashqi of Cairo, instructing him how to provide for the family of Abu …
Declaration of receipt of a quantity of barley. In Arabic script. Hiba b. Buqṭur b. […], companion of the amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara b. Muḥammad …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Hiba ibn Boqṭor ibn [ … ], the companion of the Amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara ibn Muḥamm…
Letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to a judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. He complains that after he had paid 10 …
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qujandīm (קגנדים), Egypt. Dated: Thursday, 16 Av 4705 AM = 29 July 945 CE. The document records a marriage gift of …
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 …
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Isma'il to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1065 per Gil, and ca. 1045-1096 per Udovitch.
אתם אלסלם ולו חלפת לה באגל ימין אן שק עלי פרקתהם פי מתל הדא אלשהר אכתר []
ור אברהם ואולאדה וכל מן סאל עני ואגתמם לי [אתם] אלסלם וגמיע מן תש…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة