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Address of a letter/petition/report (khidma) to the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, or else a pen trial. If it was originally attached to a larger document, that …
1 نسخ
Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment: upper left corner. Dating: Probably 15th–17th century, based on the handwriting. Contract of a debt between Yehuda Ṭali, Yiṣḥaq b. …
Letter from Yosef b. Aharon the cantor to a certain Abū l-Faraj. Mentions the Nasi; his brother-in-law Abū ʿAlī; the gloating of enemies; then, "by …
A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). On left hand of Verso, …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Lāmiʿ b. Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm regarding unfulfilled exchanges and obligations. Reflects the complex relationships between Muslim officials …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Litigation in court between the two partners, Farah and Yosef, concerning a business deal for merchandise that was apparently imported from Buna (Bone, Algieria) to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a business associate and/or family member. Mentions "your father" and "your paternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl." The overall tone …
P24: Legal document. Refers to a half-dinar; Avraham; Abū ʿAlī; and the house where they live together.
]א ואפילו על ידי גלגול ואפילו חרם סתם ואלתזם כל
] אלינא פי אלפאידה ופי צד אלפאידה ופי אכד אלנצף דינ
].א דלך משרוח לעילא ופי…
Letter from Avraham Maimuni informing the Nasi that a certain document was not found among papers brought forth by a third party and that the …
Dirge on the death of a scholar which also appears in another document (Or 5557 P. f. 56) believed to have been written on the …
No. 1: Letter of condolence from a Gaon on the death of the addressee's son. (Bamerkazim, pp. 69-72); No. 2: Copy of a letter from …
3 نسخ
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer describes the event when the customs officers chased …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה וכבודה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין ושוק אלי…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Lower fragment, verso (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (left side only, long vertical strip). Mentions people such as [...] al-Ḥaver al-Jalīl; Abū l-Qawām; and …
Lower part of a carefully written list of contributors, practically all of whom appear in earlier or later lists, e.g. T-S NS 320.35 (PGPID 4259). …
Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). …
Letter to Moshe b. Maimon (Maimonides) from an unnamed friend. Includes poetic verses by Yehudah haLevi. (Identification and information from Joel Kraemer, "Six Unpublished Maimonides …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …
Letter from Sahlān b. [...] to Abū Zakariyyā. Dating: mid-11th century. Regarding a silk binding that a Spanish person gave the addressee with instructions who …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No names preserved. Release from legal obligations in a business relationship involving …
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 …
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. …
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Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and …
Upper part of a petition (first 9 lines) addressed to "al-amīr... al-mujāhid al-muthāghir al-murābiṭ al-isfahsalār... Shihāb al-Dīn." Dating: 13th century, or possibly later. The petitioner …
Letter probably from the leaders of the Jewish community in Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ (fl. 1007–1055 CE), describing the ransoming and generous …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday night, 5 Av 1443, which is July 1132 CE. Connected with the …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Draft of a release from legal obligations in a business relationship, mentioning one Abū Naṣr, possibly an India trader, as the epithet is very common …
Tax receipt issued to the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: (Khan reads 3 Ramaḍān 402). Written by …
[يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
ان شا الله
[اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد
[سوا]
والحمد لله على نعمه
[Let it be registered] on behalf of the Bureau of (Tax) Supervision,
if God wills.
[It has been registered, and] the amount…
3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Deed of manumission written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan in which Sitt al-Hasab bt. Shela ha-Levi ha-Sar manumits an enslaved woman, named Salaf, who …
Collection for the capitation tax - jibayat al-jawali (verso) (for the 6th week of the liturgical year, usually falling in November). As the very small …
State document, a decree from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Probably a copy of a decree, than an original decree as it is less elegant and …
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…
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, …
Letter from a physician to his uncle. Tells the writer's sad story, which involved the death of his beloved wife, an unfortunate second marriage, and …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Letter of recommendation for charity, addressed to Mishaʾel ha-Sar. Written on behalf of Hiba Ibn Zaʿfarān (the word before "saffron" isn't entirely clear, it could …
State document, in Arabic script. Addressed to two addressed in a dual tense. The sender is in Damsīs. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Reused for …
Informal note related to business matters. Probably sent from Fustat. In Arabic script. The sender instructs the addressee to acquire a blue Dustarī (=Tustarī) fabric …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower left corner). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Bride: Ḥasana bt. Shelomo. Groom: Avraham b. Simḥa. …
Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tishrei 1449 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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 …
2 نسخين
Letter from the community in Ashkelon to the community in Fustat. Dating: Probably 1025 CE. Mentions praises to two of the Fatimid governors in Ashkelon. …
Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants …
[ ]ומו'ת'[ ]ת' [ ] ובות' משוכן
ער'בות אל'[ ]י יחידי' ידידי מ'
פודאיל' מ[ ] א'מ'ך' ארכודו ומבעלי'
מ' אליה קבל ר…
[Blessings etc. ?] from Him who dwells
in the heavenly expanse. To [my son?] my beloved only son Mar
Fudhail, from me, your mother Arc…
Account of a partnership. Dated: Sivan 1529 Seleucid = May/June 1219 CE. Fragment of a leaf on which the accounting for the apartment of Ibrāhīm …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, mentioning a realease valid in both Muslim and Jewish courts. A third person is asked …
Letter from Ezra b. Hillel to Nahray b. Nissim instructing him to exchange the 50 dinars sent to him by the writer, which are “out …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Folio from a court notebook. Recto: Statement about the debt of a parnas. Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than …
Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate
of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year
…
Letter, apparently written by ʿEli he-Ḥaver b. ʿAmram, introduced with two poems in honour of Elḥanan b. Shemarya, and mentioning Joseph b. Abraham. (Information from …