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Letter from Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1045–96. Contains personal, business and communal news.
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Partnership agreement between Moshe and Yiṣḥaq, specifying each party's liabilities. Written in Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Friday, 19 Av 5330 AM = 21 July 1570 …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Upper part of a letter probably to Yīṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (active until ca. 1136 CE), here addressed as 'the great Rav.' In Hebrew and …
Fragment of a letter. Mentions Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge (the writer?), who was a teacher and scribe in Fustat during the first half of …
Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. (Identifications by Gil; Goitein understands this to …
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, probably from Qayrawan. Around 1040. The addressee in unknown, maybe it is Israel’s brother – Nahray, or another younger relative. …
וצל כתאבך [יא אכי] וסיידי ורייסי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן תופיקה
לא אכלאך ב[אלקאפ]ל[ה ווקפת מנה עלי מ]א אסרני מן חסן חאלך וסלא…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a lower official. "Mamlūk al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliya". Only beginning formula preserved. Mentions khufarāʾ (the village protectors).
Recto: Letter fragment to a distinguished person named Abū l-Barakāt b. [...], titled Sar Menuḥa and Sar Shalom. Contains profuse well-wishes for the addressee's recovery …
Collection for the capitation tax - jibayat al-jawali (verso) (for the 6th week of the liturgical year, usually falling in November). As the very small …
Karaite agreement to give a bill of divorce in case the husband will be absent for more than one year. Undated, perhaps because this document …
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
List of contributions, calligraphically written. With Greek/Coptic numerals. 32 names are preserved, of the type common among Jews at the end of the Middle Ages …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In Hebrew. Dated: 1 Tamuz 5569 AM = 15 June 1809 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Istanbuli b. Shemuel. Bride: Sara bt. Moshe …
Inventory of a wine merchant's wine cellar. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 259)
Note from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi probably to his brother Yedutun, in which he repeats five times that the recipient is urgently invited to a …
Deed of sale. Location: Ḥamida/Ḥamuda, Yemen. Dated: 24 Av במ״ד, which is likely 2044 Seleucid = 5 August 1733 CE. The parties include [..] and …
Letter fragment from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, approximately 1050. NB: The transcription for the verso must belong with a different shelfmark.
Dirge on the death of a scholar which also appears in another document (Or 5557 P. f. 56) believed to have been written on the …
Letter describing two meetings with physicians. At least part of the letter is addressed to the sender's mother. The first meeting was a visit to …
2 نسخين
Copy of an epistle from Saʿadya Gaon to the Jews of Fustat, on the occasion of his assumption of the Gaʾonate in 928. This copy …
Note containing medical advice, with recipes to improve vision, treat sciatica and painful joints, act as a purgative; and protect against the cold, humidity and …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ibrahim b. Farah to Yehuda b. Musa b. Sighmar in Fustat, dealing with merchandise sent to Sicily, describing the itineraries …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from the Jewish community of Qafṣa (Gafsa), Tunisia, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1016 CE, as it mentions Manṣūr b. Rashīq's …
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 …
Letter fragment on parchment. Probably a letter of appeal for assistance, written in a flowery style in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Most of …
Business letter from Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy in Alexandria to Abū l-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef in Fustat. The letter contains an accounting for a …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ו[ ]
לד בקין מן תמוז כתמה אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ען ח[אל סלאמה] ונעמה
ושוק אליה קרב אלל…
Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar to 'the officials of the treasury.' In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. Concerning a wikāla containing multiple …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Document of sale dated 447 AH. There are many parties to this sale. The buyers are Marqūrah and Buṭrus, the two sons of Rabābīl, who …
Fragment of a settlement with a widow. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE, under the authority of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Accounts of a woman named Umm Abū l-Riḍā. For the month of Nisan "143." This probably means 4800 + 143 = 4943 AM, which is …
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
Letter from an unknown merchant from Alexandria, early 11th century. The writer might be from the Taharti family, maybe Yishaq b. Barhun. Describes his deep …
Document of a full-fledged barāʾa (release of spouse from obligations upon divorce) in which a husband (Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faraj) and wife (Maʿālī bt. …
Legal document drawn up in Qayrawān. Dated: 4815 AM = 1054/55 CE. Consisting of copies of several other documents, drawn up at the request of …
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات
Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …
Recto (secondary use): Letter to 'al-ḥaver al-meʿulle ḥakham ha-yeshiva" (possibly this is Mevorakh b. Saadya, although Goitein suggested that the letter was actually intended to …
Letter in the hand of the professional scribe Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (fl. early 13th century). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a draft. He is reporting …
Ten weekly payrolls for the second through the tenth weeks and then again for the fourteenth week of the liturgical year, which begins after the …
Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
Two drafts of a bill of divorce (get) from Cairo for Makhlūf b. Yiṣḥaq and Zahrah bt. Yaʿaqov, probably dated Sunday, 17 December 1[8]26 CE …
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Regarding silk and flax. Mentions that his brother’ son (his …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר הגדול גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה
מן אלאסכנדריה לט כלון מן מרחשון ערפה אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה בר…
Letter from a son to a father. Same writer and recipient as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat al-Qa'id) and Stras. 4110/90 (see …
Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding the request that Nahray will deal with selling goods that the …
מולאי וסיידי ורייסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ותאידך מן אסכנדריא ליו כלון מן מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה ואלחאל סלאמה
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