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Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid = July 1099 CE. Hiba b. Moshe …
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List, neatly written, of 26 people pledging gifts of 5 to 60. The ten most generous donors remain anonymous, the relevant entry being 'mattan,' which …
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Letter from Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramlī, announcing to him that five boats had arrived from Suwaydiyya, the port …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …
IB IV, 56 (ח63). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. The left side of the letter …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from a woman, referring to a previous conversation during which the addressee had pointed out that the writer was owed money by a third …
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Legal record (#43) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 42-44) Folio 11r
Fragment of a letter perhaps to a brother mentioning among other things that one bale sent by the writer on a ship that sank was …
Fragment of an engagement contract concerning an esteemed family; five generations headed by a “grand mufti,” the highest juridical authority. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, …
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IB IV, 62 (ח65). Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusī ha-Levi, probably in Fustat, to his uncle Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. February …
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Bill of release, issued by Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Maṣliaḥ al-Ghazzī to Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi. Signed by Yefet b. Menashshe, ʿOvadya b. […], and …
Petition from Yusuf requesting help from the addressee, Natan, for a woman who has weak vision and a blind daughter. The sender also enquires after …
Legal document. Testimony. Dated: Sivan 1470 Sel. = May-June 1159 CE. Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing …
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Legal document. Dated Thursday 26 Elul 1386 Sel. (September 1075 CE). There is an invocation of the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya at the beginning. Yiṣḥaq …
מעשה שהיה בפנינ[ו ] אדוננו כב גד קד מר ור יהודה ראש המעולים
וראש כגק הנגיד יהו[דה ירום] הודו ויגבה . . . לי בן כבוד גד קד מר ור סעדיה זקל
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Verso: Letter from Moshe Maimonides. Autograph. Giving instructions to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi) to go to the dyehouse (maṭbakh, maṣbagh) where Abū …
Letter addressed to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of …
Fragmentary business letter concerning the author's opponents. The writing appears to be in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Revenue from rent in Damascus, date unknown. Leaf of a notebook, recording revenue from rent from shops and apartments belonging to the qodesh of Damascus. …
Darb al-Jawzānī, the room of . .
Beneath it, the apartment of Naṣr b. Sālim
the dyer, 18 dir.
Darb Quzmān,
apartment of Ibrāhīm a…
Recto: fragment of a legal document. Date not preserved. Verso: quotation from a Hebrew poem by Shemuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela of Granada (d.1056), apparently quoted …
Account of expenditures ca. 1200. Various expenditures, mostly on repairs, are recorded by a parnas, R. Yeshu'a. Written on both sides of a leaf, of …
IB I, 34b. Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yosef Lebdī and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya ha-Levi b. Binyamin/Binyām. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. …
Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والله لقد صدق حضرة مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده
وعلوه وتمكينه وسموه و . . . ته وكبت حسدته واعداه …
Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew …
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 in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (d. 1355), or at least by the same person as PER H 129 (PGPID 9391), which Goitein identified …
Fragment of a large and beautifully-written letter or sermon addressed to a community. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The purpose …
Letter from Hilāl b. Avraham, in Alexandria(?), to his brother Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Fustat(?). The sender is worried about Abū l-Karam whose only …
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Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer deals with selling goods that arrived from the Maghreb. …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך נצף תמוז ואלחאל סלאמה
ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך וצלני כתאבך ולם ארא מנך כתאב סו…
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Petition, in Arabic script. Apparently from a Muslim sender (there are the standard prayers for Muḥammad in the last line) to a Jewish addressee (something …
الفخري ادام الله ظله وينهي انه بلغه يوم الاربـ[ـعـة]
ان المولى طلبه وكان المملوك في القلعة لم يقدر يحضر بين يديه
…
Legal document: deathbed declaration, made by a woman whose name is not preserved. The upper part of the document is missing, but the reconstruction, as …
And her speech (was) correct and her language was right in her mouth and she could hear and speak and knew
what was being dealt with and her mi…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter from ʿAmram b. Natan to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Tūnī in Alexandria, ordering him to send two ḥuramdāns with paper, a kerchief, two …
IB ח94 (דף ב). Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, perhaps in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. …
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Letter from Yehuda b. Saadya to the leader of the community of Sahrajt demanding that the case of a widow, the sister of a prominent …
Drafts of Karaite conditional divorce documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sivan 5503 AM, which is 1743 CE. Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how …
:Draft one
IB VI, 25. Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering …
Legal document, Sunday 3 Adar II 4845 A.M. (1085), Alexandria. Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sighmar appoints Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim (=b. Yahya) as his agent …
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Letter of appeal for charity/help from a man who is housebound on account of his illness and poverty (wajaʿ, ḍuʿf, ḍīq ḥāl). Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav, …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
Legal record (#35) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Sivan 5320 …
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dated: June 1, 1054. Mentions shipments and details about ships. Also …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך
ברחמתה לז בקין מן סיון כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך באחסן כאתמה וא…
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Same sender as Moss. V,274.2B + Moss. V,274.2A (PGPID 16946).. Mentions Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd; Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shofeṭ and Abū Isḥāq. …
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh), in Fustat. The sender …
Legal record (#76) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 26v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Tammuz 5325 …
Letter, first part, flowery, from the Qaraite community of Egypt to that of Damascus. Mentions specifically Moshe Melammed Fayrūz, Binyamin Nasi, and Eliyyahu Nasi. Dating: …
Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning that the sender sent textiles marked with his name, and …
Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. In the handwriting of ʿAllūsh the …
אטאל אללה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ומן תופיקה לא
אכלאך כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי נצ אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק
אלי…
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