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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must …
1 نسخ
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaʾon according to Gil), in Ṣahrajt, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE …
Legal record (#101) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 34r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Kislev 532[.] …
Letter to Mevasser b. Shelomo. Only formulaic greetings are preserved. Dating: 11th or 12th century. EMS
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from a son to his father with detailed description of his illness and recovery. Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat …
Letter addressed to 'our lord,' dealing with a dispute between friends. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 295, 588)
Letter to Abū ʿAlī al-[..]n b. Sahl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dealing with business matters, probably. Mentions the Fayyūm (line 1 of verso).
Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. Ḥayya ha-Kohen and Abū [...] b. Shemuʾel. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = …
Legal document. Signed and written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Av 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Concerns the same case as …
Letter from Sulaymān b. al-Mubārak (Shelomo b. Mevorakh) he-ḥazzan to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Signed by the writer. Mentions Ibn Shaʿyā.
2 نسخين 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 …
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
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P20: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The first letters of ~15 lines are preserved. No details discernible.
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאואלדי אטאל אללה בקאך וכאן לך ומעך עדה ולם ארא(!)
ארגו שגל כיר אעלמך בוצול מרכב אבי עלי אלשאמי ווצל פיה
רזמה לבן אלתיהרת…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
Letter from Salāmah b. Ibrahīm (Būṣīr) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Ca. 1053 (Gil). The writer is preparing flax to be loaded onto ships for …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) (in Cairo) to the community of Fustat about a conflict between two butchers who had caused …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment. On parchment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is apparently a scribe (mentions copies of books) who wishes to defer his wedding date but does …
IB II, 56. One of two copies of a letter from Mahruz to Sulayman b. Abu Zikri Kohen before sailing back to India. Aden, ca. …
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וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אטאל אללה
בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וחראסתה וזלפאה
וגבטתה וארתקאה ורפעתה וסנאה ועונה …
In Your Name, O Merciful.
The letter of your excellency arrived, my lord, the illustrious sheikh. May God prolong
your life an…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
2 نسخين
Recto: Beginning of a letter of appeal for charity by an individual named Makīn who addresses his plea to an elder. Mentions the topoi of …
Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city …
List of 24 persons to be solicited for contributions, headed by the judge and overseas trader Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and the banker Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭībān. …
Letter, fragmentary, from Tyre in Hebrew and Arabic, including a Passover greeting and mentioning Mevorakh ha-Kohen b. Natan (active during the 1130's and 1140's in …
Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.
في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان
Recto: Letter to a man in Qalyūb. The writer excuses himself for not coming to Qalyūb, for he thought the addressee would not be there, …
Letter fragment from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The carrier of the note is an in-law. The writer's handwriting is …
Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm providing important political news to the eparch and historical information for us: …
Letter mentioning sums of money, the qāḍī, the qayyim, and Sulayman the khādim. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used. The handwriting …
Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments …
Letter in Ladino, nearly complete but with numerous lacunae, from a mother to her daughter, addressed to her son-in-law Yaʿaqov Reshit (?) in Saida. The …
[א]י די שאלוד [. . .] לאש קואליש נואיבש אוייגאמוש
[א]ינביאשטימי א . . . . קינו וינו . . לא קורטינא אי
[ ] .…
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated solely as a …
Bottom part of a letter from Perahya b. Yosef, who asks the addressee to return books which he had lent to Rabbi David and which, …
Verso: Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to pay the bearer one dirham, "because the need for it …
Small piece of paper with only one line of text with the name Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa known as Ibn al-Kāzarūnī. On verso there are a …
Letter from the merchant Abū l-Riḍā ha-Kohen in Tiberias to his brother Seʿadya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address mainly in Arabic script on …
Letter from a woman to her husband. Written in excellent script and style. The writer is angry that her husband had to live in her …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper margin of recto and part of the address on verso). The addressee should send the response with "the fleet" (al-uṣṭūl). …
Letter in Arabic script. The sender is a man from Alexandria who was forced to flee from that city because he was unable to pay …
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 …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq to Abū l-Makārim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions what happened upon leaving the synagogue; al-Shaykh al-Thiqa; and Maḍmūn.
Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 6 …
Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Qayrawan(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. The writer expresses his sorrow for the situation in …
List of beneficiaries of community charity consisting of about 125 names, mostly craftsmen, laborers, and foreigners (from Palestine and Syria). Each name is separated by …
Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …
شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..
]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم
]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته
]هم الله على السدا…
Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …
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