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Letter by a father to his son, complaining about the son's failure to visit the family, urging him to visit, and requesting a blanket and …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Karaite marriage contract, dated ca. 1000. Bride: Farajiyya bt. Yehuda. Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yiṣḥaq. The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Testimony. Dated: Sivan 1470 Sel. = May-June 1159 CE. Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to 'Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef, in Fustat. Gil identifies the author of the letter by his handwriting. …
Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business …
Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments …
1 نسخ
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's …
Fragment of a letter consisting mostly of greetings.
Letter from a man of communal standing, perhaps Daniel b. Azarya (1051-1062) bestowing the title 'Hod Ha-Zeqenim' upon the worthy elder and physician Avraham Ha-Kohen, …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Renewed ketubba after an incomplete divorce. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 5 Elul 1438 Seleucid = 14 August …
List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor). In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Testimony about power of attorney regarding Mūsā b. ʿAllush’s bequest. Dating: 1046 (Gil). Mūsā, from Jerba, had businesses in Sicily and drowned on his way …
[ ]לה אלחריר באלמדינה
חין וצולה מן דמנש וכאן לה ענדה שי אכר יחאסבה [ ] כאן תעדר פי דלך אלחין אלי אן חצר אלספר
למוסי שריכי פי מרכב ערף במר…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1088 CE. A widow named Khazariyya bt. Murajjā sued her three sons — Yosef, Avrahram, and Aharon the sons …
Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and …
Fol. 1v: Letter in which ʿEli b. ʿAmram invites a scholar to give a lecture in the synagogue on the following Saturday and requests a …
Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman with the strange name of Qirā al-Lawn (קרא אללון), the widow of the late Marwān, appoints Shelomo b. …
Note accompanying an epistle (risāla) (or possibly a gift?) sent by Avraham b. Abū Yūsuf to Manṣūr b. Yefet Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. Recto and verso …
Verso (original use): State document. One line from a petition in Arabic script addressed to an amīr. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, probably, or a question to a jurisconsult. The writer complains about a debt he owes to the people of a town (qariya). The last …
Letter concerning various business issues and the new agent Abū […]. Mentions a qāḍī, a widow, and a girl. Also mentions the Sar ha-Sarim and …
Begging letter in Hebrew addressed to the 'community of foreigners (loʿazim) from a widow with five children. Already a recipient of communal charity, the writer …
Letter from Abū l-Majd ʿUzziʾel, in Damira, to the judge Moshe b. Peraḥya. Informing him that he would take up the post of teacher in …
Recto, left side and verso, right side: Distribution list for clothing, including for several widows and orphans, in a different hand than the other pages.
Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060. Detailed lists about buying flax in several villages, shipping them to the Nile, preserving them, and …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter from the amīr Kanz al-Dawla, probably in Aswān, to al-Bazīl, the deputy (nāʾib) of the eparch Abū l-Khayr Darmā, in Qalʿat Ibrīm. The sender …
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, in Alexandria, to Nahrāy b. Nissīm, Fuṣṭāṭ. August 4, 1045. ʿAyyāsh writes about the movement of ships from Mahdiyya and …
[ ] וצרף
[אלאסוא] ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה יום אלאחד ליב בקין מן אב כתמה
אללה עלינא ועליך באחסן כאתמה ואלחאל סלאמה //ונעמה// ואלחמד ללה ר…
IB V, 5. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fustat, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān b. al-Shāmī, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṭevet 1452 …
Letter fragment asking for a favor and stating that the writer relies on God and on the recipient for the solution of the matter. Mentions …
Verso: State document. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. Possibly a decree? Talking about the destruction of …
Letter from Yehuda b. Salāma, in an unknown location, to Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen Fāsī, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1054 CE. Concerning money shipments. The …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 5 Shevaṭ 1378 Seleucid, which is 1067 CE. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Groom: Wuḥaysh b. …
Legal record (#115) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Tammuz 5326 …
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, recommending a man who is “poor but from a good family.” The community of Fustat is asked …
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 …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham, Ramla, to Netanel b. Rawḥ, Fustat, July 1039.
Legal document from Cairo, dated 28 December 1812 CE (25 Tevet 5570 AM) in which David Dayyan b. Avraham declares that he owes 12000 silver …
Letter from a Qaraite to his community. In Hebrew. Seeking to clear his name against the accusation of Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Munā's mother-in-law that …
בשם אל עולם
Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat …
Letter of condolence from a woman (name unknown) to Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ, the son of her late brother. Opens with four lines of biblical verses …
Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)
List in same large characters as T-S 16.209v, mentioning everybody by his first name or otherwise abbreviated. At bottom, a line followed by 'al-shamiyyin b' …
Record of a collection containing 22 names with Coptic numerals. On verso 5 names are repeated with the same numerals, the beginning of a final …
Small piece from the lower part of a Palestinian-style ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his brother Abū Zikrī. Mentions the arrival of Ibrāhīm b. Miṣbāḥ, who reported that Abū Zikrī and his wife …
]יז אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
עזה ומן חסן אל]תופיק לא אכלאה וגמעני בה
עלי אחסן …
] .. may God lengthen h…
Letter conveying holiday greetings to Elazar, who is given five titles. Other side (PGPID 1937): Prescription for pills against coughing.
Will of a wealthy man in favor of his wife, concerning twenty-seven assets and liabilities. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[5]31 Seleucid = 1219/20 CE, under the …
Expenditure of 427 1/2 bakhaya dirhams on clothing for communal officials, on payment of a balance due for the distribution of wheat and other items. …