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Recto: Draft of a letter from Fustat to Daniel b. Azarya, concerning "tarima" - a room or apartment, made of wood, that was added to …
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Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, draft. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Responsum by Yosef Tawazi concerning religion and marriage
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Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham, in Ḥevron, to Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin (aka Yeshuʿa b. Thābit), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE (Gil) or 1075 CE …
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Deed of sale issued in Jerusalem and executed in Fustat. Dated 8 Adar II 4826 AM (March 1066 CE), in Jerusalem. Sittuna bat Yefet sells …
State document, in Arabic script. A petition asking for a rescript, probably directed directly to the caliph, because of the raʾy formula towards the end. …
Recto: (I) The upper text block is the bookseller's accounts, apparently referring to a woman (שפתל?). (II) Record of a deposition regarding donation of parts …
(1-3) I, and (A)bū Surūr b. al-Ṣabbāgh, and Faḍāʾil al-Ḥazzān Maʿālī b. al-Arbilī are witnesses concerning Sitt Riyāḍ
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), opening of the text (from passage 1.1); read consecutively with T-S 8 Ka …
of Heaven and misled the people…
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Legal record (#22) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 1 …
:Left side of bifolio 3r (Documents 22-23)
Incomplete letter from Abun b. Sadaqah, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 1065 according to Gil. Deals with the sale of quarter dinars. Two …
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Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic regarding a political conflict within the Jewish community, in which the parties have recourse to the government. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
IB II, 52. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Egypt. Aden, ca. 1130-39.
ג' כתב מרבוטה בכיט ואחד אלואחד מנהא
ללשיך אבי זכרי ואלתאני ללשיך אברהם
אלעכאוי ואלתאלת למסלם אלכעכי אדא מן
אללה תעאלי באלס…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Khalaf ha-Kohen and his son Yaʿaqov, in Qifṭ, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1070 CE. Describes the hardships …
Note from a teacher (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to (his brother?) Abū Zikrī, complaining, "The master promised to talk to our lord Ḥananel and tell him …
Account of building operations. Dated 6 Heshvan 1527 AM (1215 CE). A list of expenditures made at Dar b. Pinhas in the course of several …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Abū Ṭāhir containing interesting technical details of the capitation tax administration. The writer heard from Manṣūr al-Dimashqī "may God …
IB II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arriv…
Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to find out from Abū l-Bahā' if …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is April 1120 CE. Settlement between …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides concerning a husband's financial obligations towards his wife. The text mentions several objects including the wife's household effects and …
Investment partnership in which Avraham Munīr b. Saʿd declares that he has received 25000 מ״ך (medin) as an investment from Rabbi Moshe Kandiote (קנדיוטי). Moshe …
Account of the Taharti brothers dealing with the sale of flax worth 800 dinars in the Maghreb and containing details about buying textiles in the …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
State document in Arabic, two lines are visible. Fatimid-era. There is also a remnant of an Arabic text on recto mentioning "Isrāʾīl ʿalayhi al-salām," probably …
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, the muqaddam of Bilbays (ca. 1170s–1218) to Pinḥas b. Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. …
Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
Your slave Yaḥyā the Alexandrian
b. ʿAmmār
In (your) name O M[e]rc(iful)
“Happy is he who is thoughtful of the wretched; in bad times …
Letter sent by Mubarak b. Hanina to Abu Yusuf Yaʿaqov b. Musa, giving details about persons who perished or survived an earthquake, most probably in …
Right fragment of a marriage contract, containing high-priced items in the trousseau (dowry). Groom: Avraham. Dated [13]35 Seleucid, which is 1023/24 CE. (Information from CUDL …
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
Court record written by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. In which Yefet and Yosef b. Binyamin the banker, as guardians of Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi, collect a …
Court record. Abū Saʿīd Khalaf/Ḥalfon (aka "Segulat ha-Nedivim" or simply "al-Segulat") received 18 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel the trader, who had been guarantor on …
P19: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unidentified sender and addressee. Fragment (horizontal section from the middle). Mentions: Khiyār; someone who said in his letters that he would …
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 …
Legal query concerning some property a man wants to sell or inhabit. The writer asks for some Arabic document establishing the man's rights to the …
Letter by the Palestinian cantor, Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī/Ghāzfīnī, praising his host Hillel, the elder son of prince Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, and …
Letter from Shemuel Sidi to Moshe ha-Levi. Written on Friday, 1 Heshvan. The letter's origin and destination are unclear. See T-S 12.318 for another letter …
Collection by R. Baruch during the week 'In the Beginning' Twenty-seven contributors totaling 36 1/2 (dirhams). With the exception of two scholarly persons, a banker, …
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Letter to Avraham Maimuni (ha-Nagid) from Yehuda Melammed b. Aharon ha-Rofe. Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Nagid support an inferred date range estimate of …
Deed of indebtedness. Location: Fustat. Dated: 5 Iyyar 1603 Seleucid, which is 1292 CE, under the authority of David I Maimonides. Legal document concerning a …
Betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 19 Sivan 1418 Seleucid, which is 1107 CE. Fiance: Yosef ha-Levi b. Berakhot. Fiancee: Sitt al-Kull bt. Yefet. Wedding …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Debt contract. Debtor: Ṣibyān b. Abū Ṣaʿd Efrayim b. Ṣibyān ha-Kohen. Creditor: Abū …
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Letter from the Egyptian physician ʿAfīf b. Ezra, in Gaza (detained there en route from Cairo to Safed), to Shemuel b. Yequtiel al-Amshāṭī, in Cairo. …
Letter from Ḥasan b. Yiṣḥaq al-Khawlānī(?), probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1015. The writer informs Ibn ʿAwkal about …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to the author's sister Sabaqīya (סבקייא), probably from one of the three siblings mentioned on the verso legal document (Gentīl, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a father to a son ("who is in my heart like Abu l-Faraj"). He asks his son to collect a debt …
Letter fragment from the cantor Khalfa Ibn al-Qafṣī (i.e., from Qafṣa/Gafsa, in Tunisia; Abramson and Golb incorrectly read "al-Qifṭī," from Qifṭ in Upper Egypt). The …
Marriage contract (ketubba). One of the very few Byzantine ketubbot to have survived. Location: Mastaura, on the Meander River (in Asia Minor). Dated: Friday, 4 …
4782 of the Creation of the World, by the reckoning
current in the city of Mastaura near the r…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter addressed to the amir Muḥammad b. Baghdād. In Arabic script. Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Begins, "baʿd al-taḥiyya wa-l-taslīm wa-l-ʿizz wa-l-takrīm bi-l-jināb al-karīm...." There …
Fragment of a marriage contract, the section listing the outfit of the bride. ( E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 267, and from Goitein's index cards)