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Accounts of an ʿaṭṭār (druggist/perfumer) including names of persons, goods, and sums of money. Handwriting of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights …
Letter from Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to his father-in-law, Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060s CE according to …
Copies of two letters by Ḥizqiyya the Exilarch and Gaʾon. One is in Judaeo-Arabic and dated Av 1351 Seleucid = July/August 1040 CE. The other …
2 نسخين
Letter in Hebrew, in a Byzantine hand, reporting on a highly secretive transaction involving gold dust. According to Avraham David, this is a 16th century …
1 نسخ
List of expenditures for a week. Here, 100 pounds of bread and its transportation cost 22 1/2 [1/4 MR Cohen] dirhams. The salaries recorded are …
Deed of restitution written in Jerusalem regarding alimony, in the hand of Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen Gaon, June 1071 CE, based on Gil's inference of [Tammuz] 4831 …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a certain Avraham, c/o the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣā'igh, in Fustat. The sender asks the addressee to send …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Addressed to a lower official requesting to summon some people. Portions of 5-6 lines are preserved. Refers to agents, a …
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Fustat, to his cousin Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen, in a smaller town, in which the writer refers to the …
Memorial list for Nethanel ha-dayyan listing five generations. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give 10 dirhams to Yeshuʿa for teaching Ibn al-Ziftāwī through the end …
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 ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yeḥezqel, Jerusalem, to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060. The address says the letter should be delivered to …
מוסתהל אב האים יהפוך
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Confirmation of the payment of a loan of 22 'half silvers' (muʾayyadīs), from Yosef, followed by an instruction to return the pledged copy of the …
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Fragment of a literary anecdote containing ten pieces of marital advice to a daughter. The ten pieces of advice given by a mother to her …
(1-5) (The first) and the second: accepting advice and acquiescing for they are hearing and obeying. The third and the fourth: takin…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The sender was pained by the news from the addressee's letter. "I did not cast it from …
Verso (original use): Marriage contract (ketubba). Central piece. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Groom: Mordekhay b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. Containing many …
Miscellany containing formularies for excommunication (invoking the Shem ha-Meforash) on 74/70v, flowery rhymes for letter openings, etc. On 74/72r a copy of letter of interest …
Legal document (deed of sale). In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Venue: The house of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen Khāzinī. Dated: Thursday, 19 Heshvan 5527 AM, which …
Recto: Fragment from the middle of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains about the lack of letters, thanks God for some good outcome, and …
IB I, 15. Three testimonies regarding collateral deposited by Yosef al-Lebdi the India trader. Lebdi owed Ḥasan b. Bundar, the representative of the merchants in …
IB II, 69b. Drafts of a panegyric in honor of Madmun II. Cairo, after 1186. A fuller fragment of the panegyric can be found on …
אני אודה לעל נורא עלילה / ואשפוך לו בכל עודי תפילה:
עלי תובו וחסדו הגדולה / אשר יעש לאום יפה מעולה
ומושיע בכל עתים יקימו / להצילם בעת דוחק סגול…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Short business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. With a request to send a reply with the same mail courier (fayj) and mentioning …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when …
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Part of letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, probably to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat.
Letter from Moses the schoolmaster petitioning ʿAmram ha-Levi for a charitable donation. He had not earned any fees over the holiday period. He asks for …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality, 1042.
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ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
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الاقرار الشرعي في صحته وسلامته] وطواعته واختيار…
Letter in Hebrew from Yosef, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …
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 …
Legal document draft from Cairo dated 24 April 1798 (8 Iyar 5558), stating that Me'ir Ben-Naʿim has invested 5500 muayyadis with a Karaite Jew ("bnei …
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. List of expenses, beautifully written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Materials for the construction of a …
dirhem. Paid for 7 bundles of twigs, 14 dir. Paid for a bundle
of ropes, 5 dir. Paid for 6 bundles of palm branches, 3/4 dinar.
For saw…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Karaite bill of debt, incorrectly listed as a ketubba in Ktiv. Dated 4 Iyyar 5421 AM (1661 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the signature …
Legal record (#36) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:Left side of bifolio 5r (Documents 35-37)
Marriage document. Two fragments of a Karaite ketubah of Ḥusn and David [?]. Early 11th century [?]. The smaller fragment, ENA NS 3. 27 was …
Investment partnership in which Shemuʾel Leon receives 4,000 medin from Mercada (מרקאדה) bt. Yaʿaqov Arubaṣ (ארובץ) to invest in his business. Dated Tammuz 5561 (= …
Letter from an unknown sender to an eparch. The sender acknowledges receipt of a letter from the eparch, in which the eparch reported having sent …
IB II, 41. Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.
ולה קינה מתל דלך
Letter fragment (the end only) from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, referring to a debt. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years …
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …
Letter from Yosef b. Yefet al-Shaʿrānī(?) to his relative Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Khayr al-Kohen, congratulating him on the birth of a son. (Information …
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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Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Yahaboy, probably in Amalfi, to a partner, in al-Mahdiyya. Dating: ca. 1040. Describes a long sea voyage that lasted …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
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, …
Megillat Evyatar, probably composed by Evyatar Gaon and was read in synagoges. Probably was composed in 1094. (The scribe might be Shmuel b. Ya'aqov- a …
Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …
Legal document for authorization for butchering fowl. Dated 1259 CE (1570 Seleucid).