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Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim and Barhun b. Ishaq. mentions the year 452 AH (1060-61). Details about shipment of silk and linen cloths …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Official letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). The addressee is an amīr with various titles including [...] al-salāṭīn. ِA state official by the …
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IB VI, 20a. Karaite Nesiim. A memorial list.
Legal document dealing with a loan granted by Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Karmī Ibn Shabīb to Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar Ibn Zabqala. Dated: Tammuz 1543 Seleucid, …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Memorial list (ancestry tree) of Maimonides’ wife’s ancestors. Written in 13th century handwriting (Goitein). Verso: List mentioning Netan'el, his son Berakhot and grandson Menakhem, …
Petition. Dating: Late 16th or early 17th century, as it involves the well-known rabbi and judge Ḥayyim Kapūsī (1540–1631). The petitioner makes accusations against a …
يقبل الارض بين يدي الموافق العالية اعلاها الله تعالى
وينهي ان ثم رجل يهودي يسمى سعد بن العيصي كان ملتزم بمقاطعة الجوالي سابقاً فانكر عليه
Letter from Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. Barhun is in the Maghreb and makes business with the …
[יא סיידי] ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
[ ] מן אלמהדיה לי כלון מן אלול ערפך אללה
[ברכתה ע…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment from Yosef Ha-Kohen Ha-Ḥaver b. Yaʿaqov, the head of the Jewish community in Tyre, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1040 …
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Letter from a ḥaver of the Jerusalem yeshiva, identified by Frenkel as probably Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in …
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Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Dating: possibly late 11th century, based on Frenkel's identification of the addressee. An unidentified sender wrote this letter to a …
Letter from the congregation of Tripoli, Lebanon, to Hesed b. Sahl. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. Synagogues in other places have been returned to the Jews, …
Informal note to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. The writer was forced to go up to Cairo, so he informs the addressee that he is sending …
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 4974 AM = 1525 Seleucid, which is 1213/14 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Having …
Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With crude handwriting and spellings. The addressee is called 'my son' and rebuked for his obstinacy and urged …
Legal document. Partnership settlement. Dated: October 1143. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Nathan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The recto records the settlement of a …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter, neatly written, in which the writer, Ṣedaqa b. Yehuda, being financially dependent on the recipient, expresses his disappointment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter fragment from Moshe to 'my brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks him to bear the hardship (yatajashsham al-ʿanā) and spend the night . . . …
Record in a court notebook. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Two complementary fragments, not providing a complete document. A venture on behalf of …
Legal document from Minyat Ghamr concerning a debt; during the holiday of Passover 1537 sel., mid-April 1226 CE. Reshut of Abraham Maimonides. Ḥalfon b. Elazar …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the kashrut of cheese it seems purchased by Abū Naṣr b. Hārūn. The distinguished addressee is asked to help, presumably …
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Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Abī l-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā. Around 1075. The writer is worried about their sister, Jarba, who is about …
כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
וסעאדתך וסלאמתך מן אסכנדריה ליב כלת מן שהר אייר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
P24: Legal document. Refers to a half-dinar; Avraham; Abū ʿAlī; and the house where they live together.
]א ואפילו על ידי גלגול ואפילו חרם סתם ואלתזם כל
] אלינא פי אלפאידה ופי צד אלפאידה ופי אכד אלנצף דינ
].א דלך משרוח לעילא ופי…
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 …
Prenuptial agreement between Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Levi and Turfa bt. Elʿazar. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1428 Seleucid, but signed mid-Kislev (November 1116 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Legal record (#115) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Tammuz 5326 …
Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh (Ikshīl, Master of the Horses, and vizier of the king). In which …
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses and vizier of the king—
may God prolong his…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter starting with extensive blessings for the recipient in Hebrew, including a biblical quotation (l. 7, Dt 30:1), and thanking the addressee for the great …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same scribe as T-S 13J34.5 (Alexandria, 1090 CE), T-S 13J35.5, and T-S AS 117.131 (PGPID 38280). Mentions Avraham the …
Letter to a hazzan, Ben Sadoq, who is asked to intervene on behalf of the writer, Menashshe nin Shemaiah, before Sar Salom, head of the …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, Tripoli (al-Shām), to Nahrāy b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ. Commodities mentioned include wheat, figs, and cotton. Goitein dates the letter to …
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Legal record (#68) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …
List of 19 items in a marriage gift. The groom is Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Avraham b. Moshe ha-Kohen releases his cousin Sāda (i.e., Sitt al-Sāda) b. …
Letter addressed to Shelomo Ḥalafta Yerushalmi and Meir Ashkenazi, concerning business, the commodity saffron (זעפראן)" is mentioned. R. Yiṣḥaq Luria (ha-Ari) was a part of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Concerning an audience with a state official, potentially even the caliph, based on the involvement of the …
Betrothal contract draft, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 5 Tishrei 5398 AM, which is 1637 CE. The scribe misspelled the number 8 as 80 twice …
Fragment of a letter from Barakāt Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, conveying greetings and expressing sadness about being separated from the recipient. Likely …
A qiyyum (approval of a legal deed) signed by [Moshe Sofer] b. Yiṣḥaq Ḥaver and Eli Ḥaver b. Amram and others.
Letter addressed to an important person (perhaps Eliyyahu ha-Kohen Av Bet Din, who is greeted 3 lines from the bottom). In the hand of Yefet …
Petition from a certain Manṣūr to an unidentified addressee (though Goitein assumed that "Sayyidnā" meant "the Nagid"). In Arabic script. The sender is a poor …
IB IV, 22 (ח30). Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 AM = 10 July …
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Investment partnership from the late 18th- or early 19th century between Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm and Barūkh Shalom. The document concerns the lending of a sum of …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition or letter to an official. Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary. Dating: 11th century. The sender has sent a purse containing 8 dinars to be given to his family members; mentions …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to Sahlān b. Avraham, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Confirming the arrival of 10 dirhams with Abū ʿImrān, …
Letter from Labrat b. Yishaq from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Dunash, Fustat, in the handwriting of Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq b. al-Sahl. Both the sender and …