Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Letter, anonymous, saying that a certain Sefaradi gave a sermon in synagogue and failed to mention the gaon. Gil speculatively dates it to 1038, at …

العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, probably summer 1029 (Gil). Concerns, among other things, Shelomo b. Yehuda's traveling to Egypt to excommunicate …

العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Letter from an unknown writer to the brothers Mevorakh b. Saadya (in office 1078-1082 and 1094-1111) and Yehuda b. Saadya (in office …

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العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

July 1039 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, a Qaraite in Jerusalem, to the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Binyamin b. Yosef in Warjalan, July 1039.

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter opening to Joseph the Nagid (יהוסף, probably the Nagid Joseph b. Samuel, from the second half of the 11th century CE). Only extensive …

العلامات

• 11th c
• bible

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of business written in the 11th century by Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl, sent to Alexandria to [...] b. Abī l-Ḥayy. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• 11th c
• business

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of business written in the 11th century, mentioning the rīf (‘the (Egyptian) province’). (Information from CUDL.) Looks like the same handwriting as T-S 10J15.24 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• business

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter written in the 11th century, mentioning Abū Isḥāq Barhūn. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• 11th c
• al-tahirti

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1046 – 1047 CE

List of payments of rent on heqdesh houses collected in the presence of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Written by Yefet b. David. Dated 438/1046-7. (Information from …

العلامات

• 11th c
• list

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Sadoq Ha-Levi b. Levi in Ramla on Palestinian affairs, probably 1029. He refers to the arrival of a letter from Yoshiyyahu. (Information from …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• ramle

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Nissim of Qayrawan to the Tunisian port of Qabis, c. 1000. The letter concerns legal questions asked by the addressee from …

العلامات

• 11th c
• legal query

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in calligraphic style from a community written by Sahlān b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)

العلامات

• 11th c
• jewish community

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, in Fustat, ca. 1030. Mentions Palermo and Mahdiyya; ships of Ibn Daysūr …

العلامات

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Natan b. Avraham, probably Fustat, to Mevorakh b. David in Qayrawan, approximately 1037.

العلامات

• 11th c
• qayrawan

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Court record of an excommunication ban pronounced against Sulayman the blacksmith after he insulted the court when it failed to take his side in a …

العلامات

• 11th c
• excommunication

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to David b. Aharon, ca. 1040, concerning an inheritance that was left by a person from Ramla (Mevaser) who had …

العلامات

• 11th c
• inheritance

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from 'Amram b. Moshe al-Barqi, sent via Alexandria, to Mevorakh b. Saadya (1094-1111) asking for assistance, which the recipient had already granted in the …

العلامات

• 11th c
• mevorakh b. saadya

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter opening in the handwriting of Avraham, son of the Gaon, to Yiṣḥaq Ha-Kohen b. Furat in Fustat, 11th century.

العلامات

• 11th c
• avraham b. shelomo

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Fol. 2: Deed fragment in which 'the people of Haifa's fortress' are mentioned, 11th century. CUDL description: Recto: the very beginning of a legal document …

العلامات

• 11th c
• haifa

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from the brothers Yosef and Nissim the sons of Berekhya, Qayrawan, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, Fustat (sent in 1007-1013). (pp)

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العلامات

• 11th c
• qayrawan

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

12 Tammuz 1402 Seleucid (1091 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1402 of the Seleucid Era (1091 C.E.). Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi is mentioned, no other details …

العلامات

• 11th c
• court record

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Letter from Yosef b. Farrah in Busir to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, c. 1055 CE.

العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation from Daniel b. Azarya to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yitzhak b. Furat. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 672, #360). VMR

العلامات

• 11th c
• recommendation

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Sahlan b. Avraham, leader of the Babylonians in Fustat, to Aharon the Cantor ha-Mumhe b. Efrayim, in which he informs him that a …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning that the sender sent textiles marked with his name, and …

العلامات

• 11th c
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu Yaʿaqov Yosef the Dyer, from Perahya b. Yosef informing him that he arrived in Alexandria and found Yosef’s wife and children to …

العلامات

• 11th c
• business

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Epistolarium fragment in Hebrew. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS Part of a letter, with widely-spaced lines, probably 11th century and from Iraq. It addresses …

العلامات

• 11th c
• formulary

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jerusalem addressed to Efrayim b. Shemarya (Maḥfūẓ), concerning the revenue from the Compound of the Jerusalemites in Fustat, ca. 1040. This letter is …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1087 – 1090 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the handwriting of the Ascalon scholar and scribe Natan b. Mevorakh, from Avraham (Ibrahim) b. Ḥalfon b. Nahum to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. (Identifications by Gil; Goitein understands this to …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef to the fifth in the Yeshiva, probably 1064. The writer strongly advises against travel to a distant land (possibly …

العلامات

• 11th c
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Shelomo Ha-Rofe b. Eli, Tripoli (Lebanon), 1039. Shelomo b. Yehuda writes about Natan b. Avraham, a young challenger …

العلامات

• 11th c
• excommunication

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal deed concerning Yosef ha-Parnas the physician, who claims to be unable to support his daughter Sittūna, and her little son, after she was divorced …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• divorce

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the community of Fustat. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. On verso there is a fable about a king and a …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salmān b. Hārūn, al-Faḍl and Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early 1054 (Gil). Salmān b. Hārūn, who had married …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• ibn al-ba'ba'

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 29 Kislev 1377 Seleucid (30 November, 1065 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of release. Dating: signed on Wednesday, 29 Kislev 1377 Seleucid = 30 November 1065 CE. In which Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen gives a bill …

العلامات

• 11th c
• release

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 6 Nisan 1409 Seleucid (11 March, 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court ledger. Document regarding claims made at court. Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾ al-Halabi and in the body …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• court

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, approximately 1048.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ

Document date

Thursday, 10 Sivan 1409 Seleucid (13 May, 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). Two months after a previous …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• court

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the cantor Elazar ha-Hazzan b. Avraham to Mevorakh b. Saadya, before he became Nagid (thus, before 1078). Informing that three pieces of copper, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• mevorakh b. saadya

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in which he urges his supporters to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles, lest their party be …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• natan b. avraham

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mevasser b. David from Busir, to Yaaqov b. Avraham b. Alan, Fustat. Around 1052. The writer makes merchandise in Busir to ship to …

العلامات

• 11th c
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sunday, 5 Adar 1403 Seleucid (February 1092 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Probably related to the legal document on recto, since some of the same names appear. At the top the names …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• partnership

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the Gaon Shemuel b. Yosef ha-Kohen perhaps to Shemarya b. Elḥanan. (Gil revised his guess as to the letter's writer after Menahem Ben-Sasson …

العلامات

• 11th c
• yoshiyyahu gaon

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1025 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, 1025.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …

العلامات

• 11th c
• tax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

6 Shawwal 401 Hijrī (13 May, 1011 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. al-Majjānī to Yosef Raʾs al-kull b. ʿAwkal, spring 1011.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshu‘a b. Ismāʿīl, in Malīj, to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. ʿAlī ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Concerning business matters. The sender delivered something on …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• business

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة