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Legal record (#94) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Nisan 5326 …
1 نسخ
Letter from Ibrahim Ibn al-Ḥaver, probably in Fustat, to Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Melammed, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. The sender complains that he …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension); two partially preserved folios: (1) Mosseri I 81b + 81c, containing passages 4.2–5.7 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Lawsuit concerning a consignment of oil, which upon its arrival in Alexandria was left in the ship instead of being forwarded immediately to Fustat because …
Letter to Mar Shabbetai Ravilon from his brother, Mar Yaqub, dealing with the trade of hides, including a shipment to Crete (l. 9) and business …
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אלדי סמענאה אן שכץ מן
מעינין בן אלסדיד צאר
לה ממלוך מן ממאליך אלמלך
מרסום קאל לה מא אכתב עליך
אלא במא יתבתהם(?) ור…
Legal document. In Arabic script. Almost complete (missing a small piece from the right side). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 AH, which is May 1017 CE. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad, the prophet, and his family and save them.
[Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Bottom of a letter, containing greetings to several individuals including the Nagid Yosef b. Yeshuʿa. There was a Nagid Yosef in the year 1458 CE …
Bifolium from a court notebook. Fol. 1a: End of a legal query (ll. 1–4) and complete answer/responsum (ll. 5–19) in the case of Hilāl the …
List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor). In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the community of Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Gil suggests 1025 CE, however this seems inconsistent with the events mentioned; …
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Recto (secondary use): Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, a builder, …
Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?), signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Shelomo [b. …
Letter from Abu Zikri the physician (in Jerusalem?) to his father Eliyyahu the judge in Fustat. Abu Zikri is terribly worried that he will die …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Upper fragment: Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yefet. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1094–1111 CE. About a sum of dinars which Mevorakh …
Letter from a woman named Malīḥa, in Byzantium (called Romaniya/רומניאה), to her brothers Abū Saʿīd and Shelomo, probably in Egypt. In Hebrew. She writes of …
Peace from on high and blessings that [flourish] like the grass of the hills, like drops from Heaven and the flshes of the depths. Strength and v…
Letter fragment mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Minyat Zifta; blessings that God rescue someone from their enemies; the sender spending Shabbat in Malīj; and the news …
Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad [ ] ibn Naṣr [ ]. The sender reports that the eparch's slave …
List of payments of rent on heqdesh houses collected in the presence of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Written by Yefet b. David. Dated [4]38/1046-7, in line …
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Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya(!) to his mother in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He apologizes for not visiting the house while he has …
Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Informal note without the names of the sender or addressee (as was common in notes exchanged between friends). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a long vertical …
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ requesting that he urgently send the writer 5 dinars with the bearer. Also mentions sending it with the jāriya …
Letter from Hillel b. Yeshuʿa ha-Ḥazzan, in Tiberias, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: End of 1034 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, …
ושלומו ואליו
Letter from Yehosef b. Shemuel Bavli to the judge Anatoli b. Yosef. In Hebrew. He states that he will not hand over a security to …
Business letter from Avraham b. Farah in Alexandria to Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhun al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions a shipment of cosmetic oils, …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Deed of sale for a house. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate].
This is what Ḥusayn ibn Ḥāzim, the (food-)vendor, bought from Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, the groce…
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 6v-7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 23-25) Folio 6v
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1045. The situation in Alexandria is very complicated. The writer mentions …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Drafts of a testimony to the effect that Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo ha-Levi is a genuine Levi and that he used to be called up to …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday night, 25 Kislev 1444 Seleucid, which is 1133 …
There arranged a match before us, we the [under]signed [witnesses... X]
b. R. Japheth, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), with Sitt al-Banāt daught…
Recto: Petition to Masliah Gaon from a woman wishing to have a divorce. Probably 1127 CE. Discussed in detail, with translation, in Oded Zinger's dissertation, …
2 نسخين
Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
Verso: Letter draft (beginning only) in Arabic script. From a certain Abū l-Ḥasan to "the brothers, the physicians."
Deed of sale of a property on recto, with multiple related addenda documents on verso. Dated 2 Muḥarram 777 AH on recto (1375 CE). In …
[ ] its witnesses ... drawn up f[or] [ ]
[ ] well-protected al-Qāhira, in Ḥārat Zuwayla, in the lane with no outlet known as the ‘bl…
Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī in Susa to Abu Zakariyya Hayyim b. `Ammar, who writes about a disaster at sea that overcame the boats, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך
ונעמתך ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל פי אלסר מן מא קדר אללה תעאלי
וחכם אלדי …
Letter from Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver, in Fustat, to Petahya b. ʿOvadya ha-Kohen, in Damascus. Almost entirely in rhymed Hebrew with one sentence in Judaeo-Arabic …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
State document, in Arabic script. A late Fatimid report The verso is probably annotations or reply to the report mentioning the caliphal ʿalāma: al-ʿalāma al-sharīfa …
Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya (not Yefet b. David Shekhanya). Regarding the …
Letter fragment from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, approximately 1050. NB: The transcription for the verso must belong with a different shelfmark.
Document in the form of a legal query addressed to ha-Dayyan ha-Mufla. Asking about the meter (min ayy al-aʿārīḍ/al-buḥūr) and any metrical deviations (ziḥāf) of …
Legal record (#80) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 27v-28r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Av 5325 …
IB IV, 31 (ח39). Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably staying somewhere …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Sahlan b. Avraham, Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when …
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, …