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Karaite partnership dissolution agreement between two men who had been running a shop (דכאן) together. Dated Sunday 22nd Nisan 5441 AM (1681 CE). The two …
1 نسخ
Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife (or co-wives?). Dating: ca. 16th century.
Begging letter from Fuḍayl, the brother of Abū l-Ḥasan, and from Abū Saʿd, to his relative Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b. Ṣammūh b. Sasson requesting help …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Upper left fragment: Legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128/29 CE. …
Letter from Barhun b. Salih Tāhartī in Fustat to his cousin and partner, Barhun b. Moshe Tāhartī in Alexandria, reporting about merchandise sold in Fustat …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן מצר לט בקין מן אב כתמה אללה עליך
באחסן כאתמה ען סלאמה …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of …
Marriage contract for two enslaved people, both born into slavery (muwallad(at) al-jins), Muwaffaq and Dhahab. In Arabic script. On verso reused for the Passover Haggada. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter mentioning Damascus and possibly Ramla (though Goitein subsequently read this word differently). Very faded. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1058. Details about expenses. Mentions books. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #286) VMR
Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the community of Jerusalemites in Fustat, approximately 1020.
Legal record (#18) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r
Agreement in which Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen and Nisim b. Ya'aqov, who bought half a house from Makki b. Abu Sahl for sixty dinars, rent …
Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a relative (his father-in-law Abū l-Faraj?) complaining about the behavior of Abū l-Barakāt (Sitt Ghazāl’s paternal uncle and Shelomo’s first …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat. Probably Ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. …
Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
Minutes of court proceedings, recto dated Kislev 1454 sel. (December 1142), written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Verso a different recording, related to the …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. [NB volume number in shelfmark is roman numeral I, not Arabic numeral …
2 نسخين
Petition from a woman to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerning a debt of 25 dinars owed to her by Ṣedaqa al-Ḥalabī, of which he …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. …
Letter of holiday greetings from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt. 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
List. Fragment containing names of recipients of charity, including a blind woman, the widow of Shemuel the hazzan, and Mukhtār the doorkeeper. In the hand …
Letter from Shemuel he-Ḥaver b. Moshe, Tyre, to Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1025.
IB II, 64. Letter from Bū ʿAlī b. Bū ʿUmar, in Upper Egypt, to his family (his son or possibly nephew Abū l-Maḥāsin and his …
Bū ʿAlī b. Bū ʿUmar.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
My letter (to you)—may …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b. …
Recto: Family letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to Abū l-Faraj, asking for news of female captives which had been expected to arrive with ships from …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
IB II, 44. Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī. Aden, 1130s. See also Moss. IV,84.2 (PGPID 36651). In the margin: من عدن الى(؟) …
בש רח
ת[דכר]ה אסחק נפו[סי ...]
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Letter in Arabic script, in a beautiful hand. Dating: 11th century, based on the reference to the Tustaris. The sender is a professional scribe, probably …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
قد عرف مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه //وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه// شرح حالي مع خصومي على اختلاف احوال المطالبة وصفاتها
Fragment on vellum listing communal officials and needy families in receipt of loaves of bread; ca. early twelfth century. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, …
Marriage contract in which the bridegroom promises to feed and clothe the son of his future wife, a divorcee, to let him learn a craft, …
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Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …
Letter from Toviyya b. Moshe, Jerusalem, to Perahya b. Muʾammal, Fustat, probably 1048.
Letter from an unidentified sender addressed at least in part to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is the second (or at any rate final) folio …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon in Tyre to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1055.
Two legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) with his autograph responsa (r. 1205-1237 CE as Rayyis al-Yahūd and also with the title Nagid after …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
IB VII, 1. Partnership agreement. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid = 8 June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. …
[אק] חצר ר שמואל בן סהלאן אלברקי [ושרט עלי נפסה]
[ברצאה בלא אונס] וקאל לנא אנה כאן אנפ[ד] מעי פראח
בן סהלון [מעי] מרגאן מן אלקירואן ווצלת…
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Upper fragment: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. He reports that their letter and the chebulic myrobalan …
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. …
Esther writes to her parents in law after having returned from Safed to Cairo, describing how she learned certain needle work and expressing thanks to …
Letter sent from Acre shortly after it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104, in which a merchant describes to his parents the terrors of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ḥakīm, in Sicily, to Ḥananya ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1025 (unclear on what basis; Gil says ca. 1020, …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, Fustat. April 2, 1030 (the addressee received the letter in Rabīʿ …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq de Curiel. In Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Dating: early 19th century. Opens with a list of items received (ריסיוי...), including a …
Letter, fragmentary, from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. ca. 1065
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (= 1105 CE). Statement in which Shelomo b. Avraham al-ʿAssāl …
Fragments of legal document(s) in Hebrew. The document on Page 2 is dated April 1818 (Nisan 5578). The first legal fragment only retains some of …
Qaraite ketubba. The bride is Karīma bt. Ḥasan b. Moshe. Mentions the names Ṣedaqa b. Naḥum ha-Kohen and Moshe b. Sibāʿ. The groom appears to …
אליה על…
אליה ולא שתי הכליות ולא יותרת הכבד ולא …
לחם הגוים ולא ייניהם ולא טנופם ולא יבעיר נר בלילו[ת השבתות ולא] …
אש בלילות השבתות ול…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Umm Khalaf, in Sunbāṭ, to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat. About small debts owed to her by her cousin. She has not …
בשמ' רחמ
כתאבי [אלי] אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלדשיך אלגליל ואדאם
עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ועאפיתה
ען שוק אליה שדיד גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר…