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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Monday 2 Adar 5497 AM, which is 1737 CE. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz acknowledges a debt of 31 golden …
1 نسخ
Letter in Hebrew. Late and non-Geniza. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. The sender is evidently a circuit judge, based on …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Literary text, compilation of poetry (dīwān). A portion from the long didactic poem (originally of around 90 verses) stretching through five pages from the dīwān …
Hebrew text, maybe liturgical.
Letter addressed to a certain Avraham b. [...] and mentioning [Abū] l-Faraj. Dating: Probably 13th century based on handwriting and typical terms (e.g. the title …
Colophon for an unknown work dated Shawwāl 896 Hijri, which is 1491 CE. "This work and its companion were written in the name of (=by?) …
Karaite documents on bifolium regarding ownership of real estate shares in a house and a shop. Dated in the first document as Monday, Iyyar 2nd, …
Bottom of a legal query, possibly with responsum underneath (but too faded to read).
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Minute fragment. Few words from a list. Recto (but not verso) looks like the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal query written by Halfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi sent to Elʿazar al-Qasabi. Addendum to India Book IV. AA
Small fragment with the ends of a few lines in Ladino. Likely literary or a letter.
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. The sender says that Ṣāʿid b. Shuʿayb ordered mats(?) from him, so …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Containing part of the trousseau list. This is the wife's first marriage …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …
Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …
Mystical poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (headed "shughl ilāhī" and beginning "yā nafs").
An IOU specifying a sum owed to al-Ḥājj al-Fawwāl.
Court record. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Location: Fustat. Describing a married woman—Mudallala aka Sitt Baghdād—depositing part of …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Bottom of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Only signatures are preserved: [...]ram ha-Shofeṭ; …
Legal record (#16). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. It is a complicated settlement with multiple sections. (1) Sitt al-Ahl bt. Barakāt b. …
Tables in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, divided into rectangular boxes. Needs further examination.
P9: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the beginning. Mentions two judges and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla.
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
Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding division of a property; mentions Seʿadya, Maṣliaḥ and his brother, and ends with the phrase, "my wife is ne'emenet." …
Legal document, in Arabic script. An iqrār document for the lease of a house, for the term of a year. The rent is 9 dinars …
Small letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Addresses "al-akhawayn al-shaykhayn al-akramayn" Abū [...] and Hiba. It seems to be from their brother Mubārak. There are only …
State document, fiscal. Maybe concerning two months of agricultural taxes. Dated: looks like 403 AH, but this should be checked. The main text after the …
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script; portions of 3 lines are preserved with wide space between them. Difficult to read any full phrases. …
Letter from Abū Manṣūr to [al-Shaykh] al-Makīn al-Ṣayrafī, in Qūṣ (here called "thaghr Qūṣ"). In Arabic script, elegantly written. The sender opens with respectful greetings …
Legal document, Mamluk-era. Probably a sale contract, partially legible. Second part of the date is legible 7xx H.
Letter about a banker, an honest man from a provincial town, who wasn't able to meet his obligations because his customers were remiss in their …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with long introductory formulae in Hebrew. …
Ketubbah for [...] b. Eleazar (bride). Dated 28th Elul 15[.. Sel.], in the time of R. Abraham (possibly Maimonides?). Might be by the hand of …
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 …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
Legal document concerning the financial claims of Yeshu'a Abu al-Khayr against Ovadya. Goitein describes the endeavor as "civil law" (אלחק פי מא בינהם) adjudicated by …
Letter, draft, very cursve and hard to decipher. Mentions an illness, a ghulām. Telling a narrative. Recto contains few words in large Arabic script. Also …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly recorded by a bookseller and, based on one type of coinage in use, the yüzlük ("יוזליס" l.3r), the document dates probably …