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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 Kislev 5321 …
1 نسخ
Letter in which Shelomo, who was appointed to a new post, complains that he found only opponents and asks advice of the Nagid. He also …
Fragment of a letter from Farah b. Yosef b. Farah. Around 1070. Mentions selling linen and other goods including tamarisk seeds and nuts. The writer …
[ ] ענדהא כתאן כ[
במאל כביר אצהר פינה אל[
עטש ואחרץ לי פי אלמוש[תרי
יברד קלבי וכנת אנפדת לך ורק [.... אן]
שא אללה ולעל אן קדרת תא…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Partnership dissolution and settlement of outstanding debts. Dated Monday 19 Sivan 5410AM (1650). Venue: residence of Eliyya Levi, presumably in Cairo. Yiṣḥaq Shāmī, Rosh Mish[meret], …
Letter on the topic of friendship between two educated young men. In Judaeo-Arabic, possibly with influence from Judaeo-Persian in the iḍāfa constructions, as ציק אלצדר …
Business letter sent by Ismail b. Yusuf b. Abi 'Uqba in Alexandria to Abu Sa'id Yusuf b. Musa b. Barhun in the countryside village of …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
List of personal names, probably intended to establish claims on an estate or a will. (Information from Goitein's index cards) Recto: Piyyut on the occasion …
Deed of sale of a female slave, signed by Avraham b. Shemaya and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe. Dated Av 1430 Seleucid (August 1119 CE).
Letter from Avraham b. Shemuel Ha-Shlishi (third), Ramla, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, approximately 1035.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as high-quality knives and kerchiefs and black and red necklaces and a ring.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or early 13th century. Referring to sums of dinars; somebody who bought goods, sold them all at a loss …
Partnership agreement from Cairo, for partners in the "ṣarraflık trade" who were working for a state bureau (דיואן אלמירי) under Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Dated …
Narrative poem in Judaeo-Arabic involving a certain Abū l-Riḍā, told in rhyming hemistichs. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. A lament at his prolonged absence …
Fragment of a letter from Abu Sad al-Magribi, might be from Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060. The writer mentions Jerusalem, Ishaq b. Aharon, …
[ ] ונעמתה וסעאדתה
[ ] כתירה
[ ] אכדת אלכתב וקראתהא ווקפת מנה עלי חסן סלאמתה
[ ] לי תצל טי כתבי ללגרב ואשתגל סרי
[ ] סידי אלשיך אבי…
Letter probably from Yedutun ha-Levi, in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb. (Identification is tentative, based on handwriting and typical phrases …
Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī, probably from Mazara, Sicily, to Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār (Alexandria), ca. 1055. Salāma b. Mūsā intends to buy …
באקי כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבו זכרי יהודה בן מוסי בן סגמאר וכאן לבן אל[ ]
אלחראס ואבו אלפצל בן בר[כא]ת ויעקב בן כלף חסד לאכיה וכאן גרם פי [ …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1204-1237. Partnership agreement in cloth trade between Pinhas b. Elazar ha-Kohen and Moshe ha-Levi. Both partners seem to …
State document, probably late Fatimid or Ayyubid. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad the miller reports to a wazir (name unattested) about the dilapidated condition of the masjid …
عبده احمد بن علي بن احمد الدقاق
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عدل سيدنا الوزير الاجل اطال الله بقاه وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه قد شمل سائر
عبيده ورعاه(؟…
(I) Addendum (faṣl) to a ketubba concerning a gift made by the doctor Abū l-Surūr Sason to his daughter at the time of her engagement …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Tax guarantor contract (kafāla wājiba "binding guarantee" or "obligatory surety," line 6). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 431 AH (1040 CE). Two individuals, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥajjāj and …
اعترفنا عندي المقرين بذلك وكتب مسلم بن الحسين بن محمد الـ…ـي
والحمد لله وحده
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام ا…
Legal document. Dating: mentions Av 1346 Seleucid = July/August 1035 CE. Concerning Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov, who had disregarded the ruling of the court in Qayrawān. …
Report concerning the death of a Jew named Hiba b. Wafā (or Yehuda?), who drowned in the Nile in the last tenth of Ṣafar, AH …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1059. Mentions trading with Byzantium and Sicily. Writes about beads, especially …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמהדיה ה כלון מן
שבט ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין תקדמת כתבי אליך פי א…
ENA 4011.29: Record of payments of the qodesh in Cairo, ca. December 1181. The collector of the qodesh in Cairo, Kohen Abu al-Munajja, surnamed al-Zariz, …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably in Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Around 1046. The writer is about to travel to Palestine. Mentions …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מו]לאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ו[ מ]ן סיואן ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
ללה וק[ד כנת אנפדת א]לי מולאי כתב לם אחציהא…
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
انسلاخ شهور سنة تسع وا[ربع
على ما بين من شرحه في مواضـ[
من العين احد عشـ[ـر
Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Legal record (#82) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 29 Av 5325 …
List of receivers of alms containing rare names, women and foreigners. The Hebrew alef evidently stands for ūqiyya, ounce. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. …
Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barki, from Busir, to Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria. Around 1055. Regarding money and goods that were delivered for …
כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך עלי סרעה
ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי כיר ועאפיה
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter sent by Yosef b. Shemuel to 'his brother from father and mother', Ṣadaqa b. Ḥakmūn, congratulating him on the birth of his son. The …
Letter from an in-law probably to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, entreating him to divorce his wife (Sitt Ghazāl).
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money …
Legal document. Dated: Sivan 1411 Seleucid, which is May/June 1100 CE. Ghanya bt. Ḥusayn and her divorced husband Hillel b. Faraj agree that their little …
Recto: Legal deed. Location: Qalyūb. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid, which is 1194 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
Letter in which a patient reports to his physician, describing his illness and asking for a prescription. Full translation by Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, 105. …
A few words from a decree, probably Fatimid. There are multiple notes underneath in different hands. The one on the left says "let it be …
]ـها دماعه المشار
Letter of appeal, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rhyming (-dī). On a reused list of various expenditures of the community (PGPID 1317). (See Goitein, Med Soc, II, …
Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar to 'the officials of the treasury.' In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. Concerning a wikāla containing multiple …
Informal note from Yūsuf to a respected person ('sayyidnā'). In Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphic. The writer asks the addressee to do something (ישיל) with the bearer because …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, probably in Alexandria, to ha-Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya, Fustat. Dating: May 4, 1067 (Gil). The writer is on a …
[כתאבי אלי]ך מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אדאם אללה עליא מן אלנעם
[ ו]מן אלעז אעלאה וזאד פי מא עטאה והנאה פזאדני
[ ] שוקי ולכן זאד אפתכארי בה …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
Letter fragment to 'rabbenu'. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 200 dinars, a wālī and the territory of al-Muʿaẓẓam (ʿĪsā?), who is in conflict with his brother (al-Kāmil?). …
Ketubba, the signatures section is torn away. Dated: Thursday, 1 Nisan 5583 AM = 13 March 1823 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Yosef b. Moshe Shtiwī. …
Letter from the nephew of a Ḥaver (whose eldest son is Abū l-Maʿānī), mentioning the 13th-century judge Anatoli. (Information from CUDL.) The sender might be …
Short note recording the receipt of payment for some purchased goods with part of the date preserved (Kislev 1412 Seleucid = November/December 1100 CE).
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. Describes a dispute between the sender and another merchant, Abū Yaʿqūb. Mentions …
Letter from a mother, in Fustat, to her son Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Abzārī, in al-Mahdiyya. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …