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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso: Response from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Yedutun, probably in Fustat. Instructing him to have Ibn Abū l-ʿAysh take …
Contract of debt in which Mufaḍḍal b. [...] ha-Kohen acknowledges that he owes a sum of money to someone. (Dating: 13th century. Probably written by …
1 نسخ
Petition to the caliph al-Mustansir concerning the schism of 1038–42 between Shelomo b. Yehuda, the gaʾon of Palestine, and a pretender to the gaonate, Natan …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاد الله شرف حالهم وذلك ان لما
جرى على ريسهم …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
Court record draft in the hand of David b. Daniʾel (ll. 1-19) and Hillel b. Eli (ll. 20-33). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, based on the years …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = 1126/27 CE. In which Elʿazar aka Manṣūr …
Letter from Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document involving halloumi cheese. Dating: ca. 16th century. A. David's transcription is erroneously attached to JRL SERIES B 8194 in FGP.
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). Dated: Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid = 4 December 1141 CE. In which Bishr b. Ibrāhīm sues …
Recto: Fragment of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to one of the main members of the community in Fustat. Dated: Av 1319 Seleucid, …
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلام…
Recto: Claim on money (one dinar), though other property is also mentioned, and an acknowledgement of debt. The document has witness signatures in a different …
Recto: Letter from a teacher to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 11th or early 12th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Bishr …
Account for Shevat and Adar 1495 sel. ca. 1184. This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. …
The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar,
corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿd…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. The first part contains greetings for Nahray’s marriage. The writer wishes …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך [וסעאדתך מן]
תניס לב בקין מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידני ומולאי.... אן פי]
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Accounts of community of revenue from houses rent, Ca. 1250. Contains, listed in two columns, several current entries of revenue and expenditures. Both Hebrew letters …
Recto and verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1053 (Gil). Listing flax purchases. Nahray organized the list by …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Important business letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat by a Maghribi merchant named Nissim who, coming from al-Mahdiyya, had arrived in Alexandria at time of …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Part of letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, probably to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat.
Legal testimony, fragment. In Hebrew, with some unusual formulae. Muʿammar and Aharon the sons of Bāqī(?) came to the court complaining about a matter of …
Letter sent by Abu l-Barakat Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Binyamin the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-isrāʾīlī). The writer sends the recipient good wishes on Hanukka, congratulates …
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 …
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 …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Busir. Probably ca. 1050.
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Meʾir b. ʿEli ha-Kohen, in Damascus (חדרך סוריא), to his brother Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli, in Fustat. Dating: beginning of September 1127 CE. The …
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably another decree of ʿAbd al-Majīd (al-Ḥāfiẓ) concerning the monks at Mt. Sinai, however, he is not mentioned by name. …
… the customs of lords, never ceases wandering upon the path of his noble fathers and ancestors
and following the traces of their justice in Go…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Sheʾerit to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Talmid. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender heard from Abū l-Barakāt that the addressee is sick (ḍaʿīf) and is very …
Contract in which a payment of 25 dinars is agreed upon for a copy of sections of the Torah, to be copied after the model …
Legal agreement. Sittān bt. Yefet, widow of Abū Naṣr, pays 40 dinars to Abū Kathīr, which her husband owed him from a business arrangement. (Information …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee about a cryptic matter that he and his in-law (silf) agreed upon, and telling him not to …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1040 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Includes details about the agreement between Daniel b. ʿAzarya and the brothers Yosef and …
Business letter describing dire market conditions where prices are high and an environmental catastrophe destroyed most of the crops. In Arabic script. Mentions cotton and …
ويكون جواب كتابي هذا الى بلبيس باخباره واحواله والعارض من حاجاته فانه يسرني بذلك
وساير البضايع غلت واقفة من السقط وغيره وسرت عن خلت(؟) و…
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Describes his tribulations due to the winter; mentions business in flax; the animals …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם
עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה מן אל[א]סכנדריה ליב בקין מן טבת כתמה
אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ע…
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Avraham b. Nissim gives part of a house to the wife of Shelomo, …
Lower part of a marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Avraham b. Shabbetay. Groom: Yefet b. Nissim. Bride: Sitt al-Dār bt. Yiṣḥaq. Location: Fustat. …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
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 …
Letter from Ḥayyim he-ḥaver b. Shelomo/Salāma, Jerusalem, to Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov he-ḥaver, Fustat, regarding a debt owed to the latter from someone named Thābit who …
My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your strength—from Jerusale…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
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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Letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya, gaʾon of Jerusalem, as identified by the titles “our Nasi, our Gaon.” Dating: 1051–62 (Daniel's gaonate). In which the correspondents …
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…
Draft(?) of a court record. Dated: 29 Nisan 1543 Seleucid, which is April 1232 CE. The widow (Sitt al-)Tujjār bt. Manṣūr claims that 10 shares …
Letter conveying holiday greetings to Elazar, who is given five titles. Other side (PGPID 1937): Prescription for pills against coughing.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, end of 1042. Detailing "the peace" and the settlement between the Shelomo and Natan b. Avraham …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭa'if to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Yefet has sent with Efrayim a vessel containing 20 …
Letter of appeal from an elderly, blind woman, mother of several sons and grandsons, to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. Dating: 1127–38, based on the tenure of …