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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning a letter 'to the cook' (al-ṭabbākh); that the sender advanced 2 dinars to someone; the [sec]retary(?) of Muʾayyad al-Mulk came and …
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on …
My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your well-being and happin…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
IB III, 38. Letter from Yeshua b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the death of Madmun b. Yefet, Dhu Jibla, 1151.
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
IB ח96. Copied in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, a very small section of a gaonic responsum in Hebrew and Aramaic containing a discussion …
Legal record (#58) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Adar I …
Legal document, mentions ziqnei ha-yishmaelim. Deed of authorization of son to represent mother before her two brothers concerning the collection of debt at Efrayim b. …
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Twitch divination (palmomancy) fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Wagner, E., & Bohak, G. (2008). T-S AS 157.50: A twitch divination text …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
IB I, 34a. Legal proceedings whereby two friends of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt al-Ahl b. …
מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא
לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אסחק מר' | ור' אברה…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
List of payments made on a Thursday. In addition to the usual expenditure for bread, salaries, and extras, the official twice paid 3/4 dirhams to …
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Safed, Palestine, written by a man from Cairo to his cousin (ibn ʿamm). He had traveled to Safed, mainly, it seems, to settle …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 1493 Seleucid = August 1182 CE. Regarding the conveyance of 1/6 of a house for 21 dinars. The physician …
Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The sender received the addressee's letter with concern about the whereabouts of Abū l-Ḥasan …
IB III, 29b. Responsa in Avraham Ibn Yiju's hand: legitimacy of a manumitted female slave's marriage and status of her children, Yemen, ca. 1140.
Letter 1 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letters 1 and 2 are pro-Babylonian. Both …
ישראל עוד כתב כי על כל המעשה נאמ' לא תסיג גבול רעך ולא התבונן
בתוך הפסוק שכת' בו אשר גבלו ראשונים והגבולות האלה המתוחמים בארבעה
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB I, 13. Draft of a letter from Yosef Lebdi, the India trader, to Ḥasan b. Bundar, 'the representative of merchants' in Aden, dealing with …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
IB IV, 18 (ח3). Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Lukhṭūsh, in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Fustat. Dated: middle of May, 1130 CE. The …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Verso: Note from Rashīd inviting a physician to come urgently to Rashīd's home, and to bring a friend. Recto: The physician responds that if he …
Communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Opens with blessings for the addressee, then reports that a letter arrived from the Jews …
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script …
2 نسخين
Testimony. Dated: Shawwāl [6]54/October–November 1256. In which Ibrāhīm b. Ismaʿīl is certified as a Khaybarī Jew originally from al-Jawf, and therefore entitled to privileges granted …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The people recording their testimony at the end of this court record testified [that they …
Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her …
הסכם בין בעל ואשתו
Petition from a certain Jaʿfar to a Fatimid dignitary (qāʾid) in which Jaʿfar asks that the support (maʿūna) granted to him not be withdrawn because …
العبد جعفر
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاى القائد الجليل اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وحراـ[ـسته…
The slave Jaʿfar
The slave of my master, the glorious leader, may God prolong his life and …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter, with the introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to a controversy involving …
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to his father Mūsā b. Barhūn, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055. Mentions the capitation tax (jizya); Yosef b. …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריס[י ותא]ג ראסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצ[רף]
אלאסוא ענך במנה וצל כתאבך ווק[פת עלי] מא דכר[תה] וגמיע מא ד…
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: al-Ramla. Dated: Adar 4786 AM = January/February 1026 CE. Husband: Menashshe b. Shemuel. Wife: Ḥusn bt. Yosef. Signed by the …
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). Dated: Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid = 4 December 1141 CE. In which Bishr b. Ibrāhīm sues …
Guardian deed from the heirs of Israel b. Yosef Januni to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1065. Marduk and Yosef, the sons of Israel, probably from …
Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat. …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Milāḥ sells her Nubian female slave ʿAlam to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā for 23 dinars. Her …
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 143[.] Seleucid, which is 1119–29 CE. Apparently …
Deed of sale of an enslaved woman named Shaʿal (or Shuʿl or Shuʿal). Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Last third of …
Recto: part of a letter concerning communal politics. The writer excuses his writing because he wrote this at night, "and my eye hardly sees in …
IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
State document, probably a fragmentary petition, in Arabic script. Contains a partial taqbīl clause and a name which may read as "al-Ṣāli[ḥī al-Najmī", the penultimate …
Letter/petition. In Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew and Arabic on verso. Fragmentary (bottom part only). "I informed him that people only serve us on account of the …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, Fustat. April 2, 1030 (the addressee received the letter in Rabīʿ …
Recto: Fragment of a letter by a very unhappy man describing his state as ״drunk, but not with wine,״ asking for legal help. (Information from …
Accounting of building expenditures ca. 1230. Fragment of a leaf, of which the bottom left part is missing; it includes three columns of items on …
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
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Recto: Poem. Long Hebrew poem, congratulating Shelomo on being elevated, like a second Yosef, from prison to the rank of the "Deputy of the king" …
Letter from Avraham b. Saadya to Moshe b. Avraham (Barhun) al-Taharti in Fustat, who is about to sail from Qayrawan to Jerusalem. The writer wants …
Letter from X b. Ya’qub from Qayrawan, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Describes a dangerous situation in Fustat. Also informs about the passing …