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Letter in the hand of Shabbetay b. Avraham addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya. Asking him to obtain a caliphal rescript stopping the local …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Trousseau list. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Mentioned in Med Soc. IV, section IX, B, 2, notes 465, 472, 486–88. Dating: ca. 1155 CE (based on?).
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the Judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen regarding alleged arrears in a compound of the Qodesh, ca. …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
The purpose of these lines is to inform Your Honor,
our Master may he Live for ever, that I received a letter…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a learned opinion on different subjects. The last section, preserved here and transcribed by Goitein, is against the 'direct method' in teaching children …
You also mentioned that a teacher in your place instructs the boys with out (first teaching them) the alphabet and the vowel signs. This is by …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Verso: Legal document. Appointment of a general administrator of the qodesh, ca. 1150. Copy of a decision taken in the court presided over by Nagid …
(ר' ישעיה הלוי הזקן)
…our dear… b. R...., may God preserve him,
concerning his appointment as administrator of the heqdēsh, under the authority of…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal agreement between spouses on the issue of second wife, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel Ha-Ḥaver (fl. 1128-1164 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom, …
Letter of a refugee from Acre, who lives in Alexandria and who is experiencing problems with the community there, to Yosef b. Yahya, Fustat. Approximately …
Declaration of a father and husband, testifying that he had not married anyone before the mother of his first-born and that he had not sired …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1108 CE(?), further context is needed for this estimate given that the document only lists a partial year 14[..] Seleucid. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177-1195) in which the wife of Abu al-Ḥasan, the miller, requests that the latter not be permitted …
Recto: (I) The upper text block is the bookseller's accounts, apparently referring to a woman (שפתל?). (II) Record of a deposition regarding donation of parts …
(1-3) I, and (A)bū Surūr b. al-Ṣabbāgh, and Faḍāʾil al-Ḥazzān Maʿālī b. al-Arbilī are witnesses concerning Sitt Riyāḍ
None
Friday, 17 Siwan 1493, in Dār al-Zayt: Clay, 2. Gypsum, 2 1⁄2 1⁄3.
A jar and a buckle, 1⁄2 1/3. Food, 1 1/2. A ladder, ¼ ⅓. Removal of garb…
Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: 1152. Location: Fustat. Under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Hiba al-Abzārī b. Abū Isḥaq al-Tawwazī and Abū …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
List in large, beautiful Arabic script (perhaps of the judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi?), containing about 55 names, followed by a column in Hebrew characters …
2 نسخين
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]
واب…
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Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid = December 1150 / January 1151 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the jurisdiction of Shemuel b. Ḥananya …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon drink. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out a raṭl of lemon juice and three dirhams. (Information from …
IB I, 26. Court proceedings in the case of al-Wuhsha (or al-Wahsha) against Yosef al-Lebdī. Wuhsha's representative, Moshe b. Yeshuaʿ, sues al-Lebdī for her share …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات
Letter from Perahya b. Yosef, the learned nephew of the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju, beginning with Bible verses, including Job 23:28. (S. D. Goitein, …
Letter from Zekharya b. Ḥayyim, in Palermo ("al-Madīna"), to Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Avraham (Ibn al-Amshāṭī), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Elul (4)932 …
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh in Ascalon, to Ulla Ha-Levi Ha-Parnas b. Yosef in Fustat, probably ca. 1110.
India Book (IB) IV,45 (ח2). Letter from Mūsā b. al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1120s CE. The sender mentions among …
Recto: Letter sent to al-Mahalla concerning various business matters and dealing with the sale of sugar, chewing gum (mastaka) and rice. Dated 1165. Mentions a …
India Book III, 33: Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov, in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the renting of a house. Around …
India Book (IB) IV,46 (ח49). Letter from a member of the Ibn Muhājir family, probably in Seville, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. …
Petition from Hibatallāh b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1180 CE or generally 1168–1204, based on the years Maimonides was active …
looses the bands, removes sadness, dismisses the ghosts . . .
(2-3) to confirm the rules of the Mishnā, to abolish any pretext, to pull dow…
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1130–38 CE, based on Ḥalfon's dates and the fact that Abū l-Barakāt …
Legal document. Deathbed will of the wife of a scholar, ca. probably 1151. A personal record of an anonymous writer, apparently a member of the …
On Saturday, the 15th
Siwan, together with "the Diadem" (of the Scholars) R. Nathan b. R. Samuel, the ḥāvēr,
of blessed memory, while the…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Poems by Yehuda ha-Levi, copied by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yijū. Written on cloth (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card)
1 مناقشة
Legal document concerning a wife agreement to the reduction of her delayed marriage gift from 70 to 20 dinars and renounces the title of trustworthiness …
(1-2) His H(onor), Mr. Sar Shalom, may the Rock [preserve him] b. his H(onor), Mr. Yeshuʿa m(ay he rest in) E(den), asked us, the witness und…
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, whose signature is partially visible. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. …
Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 …
The Amīr Ḥiṣn al-Dawla b. Sayt al-Dawla, for two murattabs,
seven waybas of wheat. Still due to him, eight
waybas of wheat, whose cost
of 7…
Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1119–20 CE. Accounting written on the verso of a letter addressed to Judge Avraham b. Natan. The accounting …
. . . . of blessed memory, for Av, Elul, Tishri, Marheshwan,
… nightwatch, and 2 dir. due for Nayrūz, and for nightwatch. C…
Legal record. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1156. Summary of contract terms wherein Abū al-Faraj b. Ghilāth invests 150 dinars and Tamīm al-Sukkarī, the active partner, invests …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1156. An unsigned and undated non-compete contract between Abū al-Makārim al-Dimashqī Nadiv b. Mevaser and an unnamed party. Nadiv agrees …
יכתב שטר עלי אבו אלמכארם אלדמשקי נדיב בן
מבשר אנה לא יתעארץ לשרי חריר ולא לביעה
לא כאם ולא מצבוג ולא ישארך פיה ולא ירסלה ומתי מא
תביין עליה ש…
IB V, 25. Legal document. Commenda. Dated: November 1132. Abū Zikrī Yehudah b. Yosef ha-Kohen and Ḥananel b. Nissim partner in a shop. The active …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Account and agreement between the Qodesh and a partner, ca. 1156. A certain al-Nadiv, otherwise known as the perfume maker, tenant of a compound partly …
The honorable elders declare that they
settled the account of al-Nādīv, the result
of the account being that there is a balance to his …
Accounts of the qodesh. Gil edited 12 lists of revenue and expenditure pertaining to Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī b. Abu Naṣr Elʿazar ha-Levi al-Ḥalabī spanning the …
Collected from Abū (I)sḥaq al-ʿAdanī, 100 dir.
waraq, of Egyptian tender, for the rent of his apartment in the ṭabaqa of the upp…
Report on a compound dedicated to the Qodesh ca. after 1127. A fragment of a report, or memorandum, about the compound known as Dar Naqa …
the poor of the two above-mentioned congregations concerning
the aforesaid matter, under the control of the Court
or of whom it would …
Account for building operations. Dating: (mentions expenses for a period from Elul 1466 to Shevaṭ 1467 Seleucid, so likely shortly after Shevaṭ 1467 Seleucid, which …
(1-2) … and a woman. . . .
. . . . 3
. . . . 1/2 dir.
.... helpers, 6
. ... the qāʿa.
The expenditure for buil…
Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av, judge in Cairo, to al-Mumhe, i.e. "the specialist," meaning a permanent member of the court, whose name is not …
....
....appointed my friend, the son…
.....it is easier for me to walk than to ride an animal, so that when
. . . . my life, and th…
Recto: Partnership agreement. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Tammuz 1436 Seleucid = June/July 1125 CE. Settlement of a dispute of two …
List of distributions for charity, some of the entries similar to the T-S K15 lists, dated ca. 1107 (see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, Appendix B …
IB V, 38.1. Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of rose and lemon (preserve). …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and rose drink. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of rose and lemon preserve. (Information from CUDL)