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Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different hands. The writer asks the addressee to let the …
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Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
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Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …
וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה
גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמתה…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the ending is preserved. Greetings to Zekharya and Berakhot and to the addressee's wife. (So possibly addressed to Eliyyahu the …
Official copy of a court record. The first three lines state that Khalaf b. Natan b. Shabbat came to the court and asked to examine …
IB II, 60. Bill of sale for the purchase of a house by Maḥrūz. Constructed from three fragments: T-S NS 184 52, T-S NS 184 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Ar3 in Bohak's edition, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 4.1–5.1; join with New York, JTS 2529.2 (Adler 2102.2) (PGPID 41695), written by …
[ ... ] that if you wish we will send and summon
Yoḥanan the Dyer and see what he says
and pass judgment upon them (i.e.,…
Letter to the Jewish community (qahal) of Fustat from a petitioner whose children were taken captive. The community has only redeemed some of them so …
Letter from Abū ʿUmar b. Hilāl to Abū l-Faraj b. Ibrāhīm, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address both in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: …
Legal document. Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Sefaradi gives to his son, Shemuel, power of attorney to sue Aharon b. Yosef (aka Hārūn b. Yūsuf), known as …
IB II, 10. Memorandum to a traveler carrying Indian goods to Yiṣḥaq b. Bundar. India, ca. 1110.
Letter of the cantor Yefet b. Shekhanya to Egypt. The transcribed portion of the letter describes how he came to Acre but did not take …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
IB III, 51. Calendar for September 1153-September 1156 for Avraham Ibn Yiju's private synagogue.
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Legal document. Location: somewhere in Egypt, probably Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1286 Seleucid = November/December 974 CE. The merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq b. David acquits another …
Letter to Avraham (judging by the formulae, most likely Avraham Maimonides). (Information from the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit via FGP).
Letter from the wife of Wahb, Tiberias, to her brother Khalfa b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭabīb b. al-Ṭabarī, Fustat, eleventh century. She dictated the letter to her …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo …
IB III, 4 + 5 + 6 + 6a. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham b. Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last, discovered …
this year in the ship of ⟦Nbrdwy {or read: Nbyrwy}⟧ Fidyār. I sent with him {alt. tr.: wrote and sent with him} a letter of proxy,
{which I…
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Letter concerning business matters. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many tantalizing details, but too fragmentary to understand. Mentions: 1000 dirhams; "whatever you wish, send it and I will …
An account for Yosef b. 'Awkal followed by a short letter, probably to Ibn 'Awkal.
פירוט החשבון של האדון אבו אלפַרַג׳ יוסף בן יַקוּבּ בן עַוְכַּל.
לזכותו י׳׳א משאוי וחצי ומשאוי לאבו אלחַי, ושלח עם יוסף מֻדַלַל
משאוי פלפ…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights …
Account of the Qodesh: personal account of a parnas, ca. 1040. Small fragment, the right part of a leaf, in which Yefet b. David b. …
On the 25th Tammuz
Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī, his turn(?):
collected from me by b. al- ….
4 1⁄2 dir. ....
and a half ....
dir. His compound,…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in which Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237) recommends to the judge Perahia and his sons a man who wishes to marry the judge's daughter.
Official confirmation at court of a debt of 60 dinars contracted three months earlier before a notary, Ab 1417/ July 1106. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Recto: Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. He writes that he intends to come today with two witnesses to document how …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya to his 'brother and father' Wāfī b. Ḥasan and Avraham b. Ṣedaqa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Dealing in …
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ b. Yosef to Yehuda b. Sighmar. The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Lease of a compound in Ascalon, ca. 1120(?)-1146. A compound in Ascalon is leased by the representatives of the qodesh to to Shelomo ha-Zariz …
.... we leased (a compound ….)
(that stands) in its place and is inhabited …. its buildings, trees, and ....
this (deed) of lease I…
Letter from a woman to her brother Ḥusayn, the ghulām of Rashīd al-Dawla. In Arabic script. The sender may be complaining about the character of …
Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 4 Sivan 5516 (1756 CE). Groom: Moshe b. Yahūda b. Aharon. Bride: Qamr bt. Israel b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The …
Letter from the lepers of Tiberias to Furayj b. Ḥasan. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Asking for donations be given to the emissaries from Tiberias collecting …
Tax guarantor contract (kafāla wājiba "binding guarantee" or "obligatory surety," line 6). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 431 AH (1040 CE). Two individuals, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥajjāj and …
اعترفنا عندي المقرين بذلك وكتب مسلم بن الحسين بن محمد الـ…ـي
والحمد لله وحده
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام ا…
Letter. Fragment refers to someone designated as 'the elevated presence.' Verso of the letter mentions the murder of Fakhr al-ʾUmara near Alexandria and also mentioning …
Memorandum of testimony concerning the legacy of a certain Isma'il al-'Azazi al-Halabi, who died in Acre, written in Fustat, Kislev 1411/November 1099. Signed by Yiṣḥaq …
Verso: note from an invalid begging for oil for the synagogue lamp (al-tamid) for the sabbath to be sent with the carrier of the note. …
Letter (with Fatimid petition/report formulary) sent by the shammash (beadle) of Sunbāṭ in the center of the delta to Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59) describing a brawl …
Short note to Muwaffaq, accompanied by quantities of “hindi” and “lādan” (labdanum), instructing the addressee to sell them. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
Interesting fragment with a Judaeo-Arabic midrash about Moses quoting Isaiah 63:12, Deut. 3:26, and Exodus 34:6. (Information in part from FGP.)
Letter from David Kohen to the Nagid R. Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.
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 …
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Ya’aqov b. Nahum, Fustat. Around 1045. Regarding a very large amount of goods and deals. …
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Account of building operations ca. 1240. A double leaf taken from a notebook, written in Arabic script. The document mentions work on a dome and …
Letter on vellum to Ali Abi Sulayman (? this description and transcription belong to a different fragment).
Legal query (in a different hand than recto) concerning the case of a widow holding a statement of trustworthiness, who had declared that she possessed …
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Ketubba dated 13 December 1799 CE (15 Kislev 5560 AM) from Cairo, for Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Muḥibb and Palomba bt. Shalom ha-Levi. The me'ukhar is …