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Legal record (#34) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 34-36) Folio 9r
1 نسخ
Verso: Two distinct text blocks in Arabic script. (1) The names of the months of the Coptic calendar. (2) Accounts, recording credits and debits and …
2 نسخين
Legal record (#103) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 34v-35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tevet 5326 …
Letter by Dā'ūd b. Yehuda to the Judge Eliyyahu expressing astonishment that the Nagid (i.e., Avraham Maimonides) had not sent a letter of condolence at …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Acknowledgment by Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham ha-Maʿaravi of debt amounting to 600 niqar which he owes to David Kohen b. Shelomo, written in Fustat, 967.
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Letter in which the writer asks not to be removed from the addressee's service or friendship. Very effaced. Dated to the late 12th century. (Information …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …
. . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [
اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [
وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [
وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[
الثاني من صفر سنة تسع…
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 Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the community of Damietta, approximately 1015.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
IB III, 57. Letter from Yosef b. Peraḥya Yijū, in Mazara, writing to an important merchant, also in Sicily., ca. 1154. Yosef states that his …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Private account by Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Dating: ca. 1080. Concerning shipping goods from the Maghreb to Alexandria. Mentions different expenses in the ports and …
ב الله الرحيم الرحمن
אלדי צח פי וזן אלצ[ו]ף קקלב רטל
ביע כ דינ אלקנט אלתמן מו דינ ות[מ]ן
ופי אלקטעה אלתאניה אלוזן קקמו [ו]נצ[ף
ב…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal deed. Bill of sale for a female slave named Nisrīn for 20 dinars. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1459 Seleucid = March/April 1148 CE. Seller: …
Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abu ʿImrān Moshe "The Pride of the Priests" (Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic …
Left side of a letter concerning a slanderous woman (al-Shāmiyya) who is always insulting people and her two daughters, one of whom is the wife …
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū ʿUmar, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū ʿUmar, Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Faraj (Abū l-Majd is also …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Court record from Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Av 1473 (17 July 1162). Incomplete record of proceedings of the court of Netan’el ha-Levi (ga’on …
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 …
Query and response in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya, who was the leader of the Jerusalem congregation in Fustat between 1007 and 1050. Bareket …
Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Ḥassān, bearing the patronymic Abū ʿAlī, ibn [Ibrāhīm ibn Azhar], the…
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on Abū ʿImrān b. Abū l-[...] who stole six good orange trees (uṣūl nāranj min khiyār al-uṣūl) from a ruined …
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
]. دولة……..
المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه
كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة
Karaite betrothal document, with some water/liquid damage toward across middle lines. Date: 15 Heshvan 5485 AM (1724 CE). Due to discoloration/damage, parts of the document …
Four pages from a Rabbanite court ledger with copies of 17 different legal documents (witness names appear in the hand of the scribe). All are …
(Documents 1-3) Page 1r
Business letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century (paleographic dating). Written in a chancery hand with very large space between …
فاما ما اتمنته في معنى التمر والصباغ [------]ـين
صحبة المندوبين عليهما فمنها صح بلا عنبار
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment to a brother conveying good wishes. The addressee is apparently an accomplished cantor and had studied with a notable and "his brother the …
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Samuel concerning a debt of ten ounces of Dūqī (= ducal) gold "in the weight of …
Letter in elegant Arabic script and style. The continuation seems to be praising the eloquence of the addressee, and it cites two lines of poetry …
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
Recto: Praises for the King Don Pedro, in Hebrew, followed by some Hebrew poetry. Verso: Two lines of accounts(?) mentioning a doorkeeper (kapıcı), followed by …
אחר לחתן
Rent receipt(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026–28 CE. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the …
Report to Al-Afḍal ibn Badr al-Jamālī for the attention of the amir Ḥusām al-Dawla regarding a quantity of produce that had been left unattended. The …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, the praise of the thankful.
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: David; a court session; a dead man; sending 'upright elders' …
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
المذكور …
Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,
together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,
in whose left ey…
Marriage document. Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b. Bundār. Early 11th century, Cairo …
Fragmentary letter mentioning several names and a parnas.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …
Letter from Abū l-Majd, in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal the judge, in Fustat. Mentions Egypt, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibn Ibrahim al-ʿArīf, Abū l-ʿAlā b. Ḥassūn, Abū …
Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and …
Letter from a merchant from Sunbat demonstrating his dedication to the community by relating how he had once traveled at a time of cold and …
Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذ]ا ما اشترى مكارم بن أبي الفرج بن يوسف الـ[ ]
[ السمـ]ـرة واضح الجبهة وبها غضون مقرون خفي وبقرن جبهتيـ[ـه ]
This is what Makārim ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf the [ … ] bought [ … ]
[ … brownness]…
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1070. The writer answers Nahray’s request to check the option of …
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
Draft of a letter from Wāfī b. Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī, 16 July 1059, written at the back of an earlier letter from his father …