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Legal record (#108) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 26 Tevet 5326 …
1 نسخ
Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB IV, 28 (ח29). Fragment of a partnership agreement in which one of the partners is Abū l-Saʿd Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Location: likely Lucena. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Sales contract between Yosef b. Efrayim and Sadaqa b. David Ha-Kohen. Fustat, 1103. The verso contains a beautifully drawn-up poem by the Egyptian poet Sahlan …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter sent by Yaʿaqov b. Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another …
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 from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. ʿAyyāsh buys goods in Alexandria for Nahray. The …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכריה לי כלון מן סיון אערפך אללה בר[כת]ה וכתמה עלינא
Legal document from Cairo dated 15 Shevaṭ 5505 AM (= 1745 CE), describing the appointment of Joseph ha-Levi as cantor. The location given for the …
בע׳׳ה
בהיות שהבית הכנסת שבפנים חארת אלקראיין שהיא תוך המבוי שאצל הכ'ורונפש הנודע בק׳׳ק
כ'אלתי מסעודה כיון שנתעוללו על הקהל הנז׳ הגוים ה…
List of contributors to charity, preserving only 26 names, many identical with T-S K15.106. First two, including again the representative of the merchants al-Hakim, give …
אלדמיאטי ב'
א…
Letter from David b. Daniel to Aaron the cantor
[From:] The son of the exilarch.
The news reached us—our splendorous one, my dear ḥazan, R. Aaron, may God support you…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ḥusayn informs Uruwī that the bearer of this letter brings with him …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon.
Deathbed declaration of a druggist (ʿaṭṭār). Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Tammuz 1555 Seleucid = June 1244 CE. Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Ḥasan …
Recto: Upper part of a letter from Shelomo (b. Eliyyahu?) to "my honored father." In Hebrew (which is unusual for him). He reports that he …
Calligraphic letter from Ya'qub to someone named Ismail in Alexandria, asking urgently for some cloth. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen, unknown location, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (= ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen, active ca. 1057–1107), in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic …
Legal query addressed to Maimonides, whose autograph responsum is written underneath the query. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active …
Note from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Taharti, probably from al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1045 (Gil). Nahray is in his early days in Egypt, …
תדכרה לברהון בן אסחק זל [מא] וצל לנהראי בן נסים
אסלך יאסידי סלמך <אללה> אדא תפצל אללה עליך באלסלאמה תקבץ מא כאן לך פי
אלמראכב למולאי…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shemuʾel b. ʿEli gaʾon, in Baghdad, in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl, second half of the …
Letter fragment from Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shām; 20 nuqra dirhams; dār sayyidinā in Fustat, and various people's names. Dating: probably late 12th or …
Letter from Musa b. Yiṣḥaq b. Hisdai, Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes his difficulties with shipping flax. He is …
IB III, 17. Deed of manumission for Ashū, an enslaved woman (shifḥa) in the Tuḷu region of the Malabar coast. Avraham Ibn Yijū wrote this …
Letter from a mother to her daughter الست الجليلة بيننا ادام الله نعمتها, containing a taqbīl clause and mentioning their long-distance relationship. Written on parchment, …
من عندك(!)
والدتك
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
تقبل الارض بين يدي الست الجليلة بيننا ادام
الل…
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
Deed of sale for a residential building and its upper-story apartment in the Jewish quarter of Cairo. Dated: in the first third of Nisan 542[4] …
Letter from a Mevorakh b. Avraham from Sham (Syria). The addressee's is name not given. The writer asks for a shirt (qamis) because he is …
Fragment of a legal document. Menahem b. Shemuel mentioned. Avraham b. Shemaya and Avraham b. Natan Av are signatories, which dates this to end of …
Letter from ʿAyash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Aruond 1045. Mentions a disagreement with a person that was supposed to send ʿAyash …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך [
ליומין בקין מן שהר [ כתמה אללה עליך] ועלינא באימן כאתמה ואלחאל סלאמה […
Fragment of a legal query mentioning a woman and a daughter, the father having been absent 16 years.
Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …
Report to a Jewish official, perhaps the Nagid. The sender had been ordered to intervene with Abū l-Makārim, who had been delinquent paying the 20 …
Nine entries, names of recipients of alms, on vellum in huge calligraphic letters, such as 'two freed women, two persons from Hijaz, two from Sahrajt …
Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid = 5 October 1495 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yehonatan …
Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
:Right side of bifolio 5v (Documents 37-38)
Beginning of a court record dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 13-15) Folio 4v
Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the community of Damietta, approximately 1015.
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in …
Poetical letter of greetings in Aramaic addressed to Rabbi Shemuel and mentioning the 'Nasi and Gaon of Tiberias.' On verso a poem is written in …
Fragment of a ketubba of the groom Yefet b. Avraham from Alexandria signed by Avraham b. Yaʿaqov. Dated ca. 1100. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, …
Letter by Shemuʾel b. ̔Elī Gaon to Egypt appointing one disciple as receiver of collections for the Academy. Dated Iyyar (1)487 (Sel.), which is April-May …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
הרון אכי אלאכרס ולה רבאעי
סלאמה בן הרון בצמאן כלף בן קבה
הבה בן מוסי צבי חנין
הבה בן //אברהים//
יוסף בן כלף צבאג //תפליסי//
סעד בן פרג אלמג
ברכאת בן …
2 نسخين
Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria to David b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, requesting 33 1/3 dinars for the ransom of a prisoner. Dated: Shevaṭ (4)791 …
Bottom part of a legal statement/letter addressed to a higher authority concerning a legal case. Dating: Tammuz 1477 Seleucid (June 1166 CE). Written and signed …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1060 CE, based on Gil's assessment. The letter …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Draft of the beginning of a letter to a notable. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.