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The opening of a circular letter for "all the cities of the Rīf" in the name of Moses Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on …
1 نسخ
Ketubba dated 15 September 1847 CE (5 Tishrei 5608 AM) from Tangier (spelled: טאנג'אר) for Ḥayyim Naḥmias b. Avraham b. Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Ordueña …
Letter from Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, about a shipment of yarn from Fustat to Alexandria. Marduk notes that a baqyar …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an …
1 مناقشة
Karaite bill of sale for a shop in the coppersmith market of Cairo that also provides details on the prior terms of its ground rent …
Marriage contract between Eli b. Qimoy and Sutayt b. Yair, written by Shemarya b. Elhanan. Dated Shevat 1306/995 (January-February). (Information from Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, p. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document from Cairo, from the first third of Heshvan 556[.] AM (1799-1808 CE). Me'ir Ṣevi and his partner Raḥamim Ḥamīs acknowledge an investment of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The sender may be named Abū l-F[...]. Unclear if any of the content …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Natan Ha-Kohen, Jerusalem, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1070. The sender establishes himself in this letter as a …
Legal record (#33) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 32-33) Folio 8v
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…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
A short note: "Ibrahim al-Maghribi ordered (?) my brother to take 2 dirhams and a half and an eighth from Ibn al-Dayyan Menashshe the brother-in-law …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions a deposit (wadīʿa); goods for a …
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, …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Account fragment in Arabic with figures expressed in eastern Arabic numerals. Based on the paleography the dating may be estimated as 16th- early 19th-century. The …
Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …
Upper fragment: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. He reports that their letter and the chebulic myrobalan …
An ethical treatise, in a personal tone (yā akhī...), about fulfilling the religious duties
Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Hayyim b. Immanuel to Mevorakh b. Saadya in Fustat, dealing with a purchase of books for Mevorakh from the estate …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Court copy of a Karaite ketubba (marriage contract), Ramla. Ca. 1030 (per Friedman) or 1010s-1020s (per Olszowy-Schlanger). Bride: Ḥusn bt. David. Groom: Shelomo b. ʿAmram. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Lower right corner. Mentions Sitt al-Ahl bt. [...] and a husband (Abū) l-Faraj Hibatallāh. No signatures.
Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 11v-12r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
Guide for the Perplexed. Maimonides autograph. Join: Amir Ashur.
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …
….يبيعها له في صور
وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة
الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض
ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري
عن ثمن سكر…
Calendrical tables with colorful drawings, mentioning the year 1238 AH = 1822/23 CE.
Letter sent from the Maghreb by the Judayla family to Ismail b. Barhun al-Tahati, asking him to obtain flax from Sha'ya in return for the …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Expenditures for a funeral and the meals after the funeral or during the mourning. Goitein suggests that it …
Verso (original use): State (fiscal) document in Arabic script. Mentions 300-something al-kharājiyya (a year? in which case this would be ~1009 CE at latest). There …
Two recipes/prescriptions in Arabic script, likely medical.
Recto: Qaraite legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 5335 AM, which is 1575 CE. The context is a communal struggle over who would …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Recto: Letter/petition, or letter in the style of a brief petition, from "your student Bū l-Majd" to a high-ranking physician. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably …
الحكيمي
بو المجد تلميذه
المملوك يجدد الخدمة الكريمة المولوية المالكية
الحكيمية ويسأل اجابة حضوره فان
المملوك حصل له الم في رجله وباب العمار…
Accounts. Late.
Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to Efrayim he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle. EMS
Small fragment of a legal document, comprising the lower left corner. A portion of the location is legible, נילוס נהרא מותבה, and the signature of …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters. Might say רבינו היי ורבינו שרירא followed by מסלה אל . . . .
Court record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Tammuz 1471 Seleucid = June 1160 CE, under the authority …
Legal record (#17) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r