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Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: 28 Heshvan 5557 AM, which is 1796 CE. Testimony that Raḥamim Ashiyahu (אשיאו) received from Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Re'uven an …
1 نسخ
Business letter in Arabic script. The sender seems to be having problems with someone. He has purchased a camel and it or something else is …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Safāqusī, probably in Būṣīr, to Abū l-Ḥayy Khalīla (the father of Mūsā), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1048 CE. Deals …
תקדם כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך
ונעמאף ואעלמתך פיה חאל בוציר וגמהא ותעבהא ואנה
בלד אן כתיר אלשגב ואלתעב ולו חלפת …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Faraj Ḥayyim (b. Shelomo, the ḥaver) and Abū l-Faraj Hiba (b. Ṣemaḥ), in al-Ramla. The …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 145[5] Seleucid = December 1143 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. (This …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Responsa on familial matters – undated – Museum of Islamic Art (number 256) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
Verso: Literary text in Arabic script. The story of the man who complained against ʿAmāra b. Ḥamza before the Abbasid caliph al-Manṣūr (فقال مظلوم امير …
Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Long and well preserved. Awaiting fuller description.
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאיי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
לט כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד דאימא
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
P21: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: Abū Yaʿqūb; Abū Saʿd and his paternal cousin (ibn ʿamm); …
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and groom from Qalyūb. Date and names of witnesses are not preserved. The last 3 lines are …
1 مناقشة
Petition from ʿImrān b. Khalaf to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (r. 1127-1139). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). …
Legal document. Location: Damietta. Dated: Monday, 7 Nisan 1452 Seleucid = 17 March 1141 CE. In a matter of inheritance, ʿAmmār b. Makhlūf had been …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'my brother.' Unusual handwriting and wide space between the lines.
Letter fragment, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. Only the first few words of 12 lines are preserved. Seems to contain praises for somebody …
Minute fragment of a legal document. Same hand as the unusual Palestinian ketubba T-S 8.129; the Khalaf ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned here may be identical with …
Legal fragment. On parchment. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions collaterals; a period of 10.5 months beginning in Tishrei; granting somebody permission …
Recto: Legal document (lammā kāna. . .) in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand. Mentions various names. Difficult to understand any of the content.
Legal query. Dating: Early 13th century (per Goitein). Concerning the wife of a Kohen who traveled two or three times without letting her know how …
What does our lord—may his splendour be exalted and his honour increase—say concerning
a woman whose husband, a Kohen, has travelled, once…
Draft of a letter in Hebrew, ca. 1043, from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaon of Jerusalem (r. 1025–1051 CE). Efrayim requests …
Documents in difficult Arabic script, possibly Ottoman Turkish. The fragment on the right features an ink stamp: "قايم في ...٣٠٣", which may indicate the year …
Legal query with the autograph responsum of Yehuda ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Seder b. Yosef (aka "the Rav"). Yehuda b. Yosef was a student of Rabbenu Nissim …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Ownership note on a book acquired by Natan b. Yeshuʿa. There is also a date based on a biblical verse but hard to interpret.
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Legal document; release. Bottom part only. Dated: 14[.]7 Seleucid, probably 1407 Seleucid, which is 1095/96 CE. Signed by Ghālib b. Ḥalfon in massive letters.
Densely written mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand: T-S NS 69.4 (PGPID 26151) T-S NS 223.74 (PGPID 23973) T-S AS 158.155 (PGPID 41643)
A legal declaration regarding lease of a land
Letter sent by Abu al-Barakat to Abu Nasr, asking him for 3 dirhams to hire a riding beast and asking another 3 dirhams from the …
Letter from Maḥāsin b. Abū ʿAlī, probably in Alexandria, to his mother Sitt Ghazāl bt. Abū ʿUmar, in Fustat. (The letter is to be delivered …
Recto: Letter from Hayya Gaʾon to Neḥemya b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1348 Seleucid, which is March/April 1037 CE. Neḥemya had had a fight …
3 نسخ
Very small text in Arabic, perhaps documentary on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Small receipt or order for 5 raṭls. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the top, and …
State document in Arabic script. Most-likely a petition or report reused for a letter on recto. Both sides have the glyph, which signifies a basmala. …
Verso: Probably an alms list in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. There are also some names of people who may be contributors. Mentions names including ʿAzīz; Rashīd; …
IB VI, 2. Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein …
2 نسخين
Two legal documents (or two drafts of the same document?) regarding Masʿūda the widow of Maymūn Boṭon and her sons Shalom and David and Yaʿaqov. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew script. Verso: Faded and damaged documentary fragment mentioning al-Ramla and "to Egypt" and "Adonenu." Dating: likely 11th century. Needs further …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (narrow vertical strip). Mentions the name Khalaf b. [...] on verso.
Communal list (record #18) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 53[..] …
Fragment of a letter from Abū ʿAli b. al-Dimyāṭī to his brother Abu Saʿīd b. Hibat Allah (Ḥalfon b. Netanel). The writer mentions the silk …
Strip from what seems to be an end of a letter consisting mainly of biblical citations. Written on a long horizontal strip of paper. The …
Unidentified text with Arabic and interspersed Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a glossary of some kind. In one place it says עצם (bone) in Judaeo-Arabic followed by the …
Decree? In Arabic script, chancery hand, large letters and huge space between the lines. One and a half lines are preserved. It is difficult to …
Small fragment of official-looking correspondence, likely a petition. Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālī al-makhdūmī."