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Letter written in the 11th century, mentioning Abū Isḥāq Barhūn. Mentions a package (ruzma) and a cotton worker (al-qaṭṭān). (Information in part from CUDL)
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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List of payments of rent on heqdesh houses collected in the presence of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Written by Yefet b. David. Dated [4]38/1046-7, in line …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Ḥassān, bearing the patronymic Abū ʿAlī, ibn [Ibrāhīm ibn Azhar], the…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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 …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (r. 1025–1051) to the community of Fustat. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. On verso there is a fable about a …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Jerusalem addressed to Efrayim b. Shemarya (Maḥfūẓ), concerning the revenue from the Compound of the Jerusalemites in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1040 CE (per …
…the Ḥāvēr, may God give you a long life and everlasting (favor and grace)
… your diving into abominations too enormous to be described
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Court record. Dating: 8 Iyyar 1406 (16 April 1095) (Lieberman reads 1410, but it's fairly clear it's 1406; or could potentially be 1407). …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from a merchant in the Maghreb to his business partner in Fustat (might be a person from the Taharti family). Beginning of the 11th …
Fragment of a marriage contract concerning the remarriage of Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and his wife Sittat, containing details about the dowry. Dated 1378/ 1066-1067. (Information …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1007–55 (speculative). This document records a partnership agreement between Manṣūr b. Yisraʾel ha-Levi and Mas‘ūd b. Mevorakh, who placed 200 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon or from Avraham, the son of Shelomo b. Yehuda (Gil identifies the hand differently for different fragments of the …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from the people of the Palestine Yeshiva to the community (qahal) of Fustat, mentioning Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1080 CE.
Letter fragment from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060, the 17th of Tamuz. Mentions Ramla. (Information from Ed. Gil, …
2 نسخين
Letter from a Qaraite leader in Damascus to a Qaraite leader in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Goitein suggests ca. 1000 CE, likely too early; Gil’s …
1 نسخ
Letter from Yosef b. Faraḥ in Būṣīr to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, c. 1055 CE (Gil).
[לא ] ען סידי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמאה אלא אתר אלתכפיף ען קלבה לכתרה אשגאלה פלמא
כל[ ] בקי אלאסטור [ ] אבי עמראן ומא כפי ענך …
Legal document, testimony from a woman concerning her debt and her husband's inheritance. In the hand of Yefet b. David, the scribe of Efrayim b. …
Deed of compensation from the court of Efrayim b. Shemarya and in his handwriting. Concerning people from Tyre and a partnership, starting with an Arabic …
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to a younger relative. Around 1050. Barhūn informs that a shipment of goods is on its way, …
[ ] עלי אלאסגאר [ו]אלאכבאר ואלדי אערפך בה אני אסתכרת
אללה וחמלת פי הדה אלקאפלה צחבה מחמד בן סלאמה בן אלואלדה …
Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to his business associate Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim, in Fustat. Advising him to dispose of goods costing …
Letter from Ezra b. Hillel to Nahray b. Nissim instructing him to exchange the 50 dinars sent to him by the writer, which are “out …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
Letter from Mevasser (Bishr) b. David, Busir, to Abu l-Faraj Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAllān, Fustat. Around 1052 (Gil). The writer wants to ship flax …
Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Faraḥ. Dated 5 Elul, early or mid-August. …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). On verso is the continuation of the …
[סררת יא]מולאי אלי וצול כתאבך תדכר סלאמתך אדאמהא אללה לך במנה ותדכר וצול מפרג וקד
[וצלני] כתאבה אנה אקלע מן ברניק ועדא ארגו מן אללה יגעלה פ…
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa al-Maḡribī, Jerusalem. Dating: ca. 1067 CE, Gil's estimate based on another letter that it mentions, …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Mevorakh b. Yisrael Januni in Palermo to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. July 31, 1052. The writer tries to take care of shipments …
Letter. Family letter dealing with grain and payments, and extending greetings. Largely effaced. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter fragment in the hand of Avraham b. Farah al-Iskandarani, in Alexandria, to one of the merchants in Fustat, regarding shipments being forwarded to the …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham, in Ḥevron, to Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin (aka Yeshuʿa b. Thābit), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE (Gil) or 1075 CE …
Letter from Masliah b. Yehuda of Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in which he asks for help retrieving some money that his associates in Fustat …
Letter from Farah b. Yosef Qabisi in Alexandria to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Naja al-Dimashqi ('Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef). Dating: ca. 1065. Concerns the dispatch …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Ismail, Upper Egypt. The recipient is buying goods. Nahray writes with the news of …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yahya b. Musa al-Majjani, al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī, Cairo, asking him to intervene on his behalf against Ibn Farah al-Fasi and …
כתאבי יאכי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ורעאיתך וכפאיתך וזאד מן
פצלה ואחסאנה לדיך ועליך טו איאם כלת מן אדר ראשון ען אחואל…
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Fustat, to [ ] b. Isḥạq b. ʿAlī Majjānī in Alexandria. Mentions an ullaba (container) holding bible codices, details about …
Power of attorney. From the court of the Gaʾon Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Location: Ramla. Dated: Sunday, 7 Elul 4825 AM = 11 August 1065 …
Letter fragment from Yosef Ha-Kohen Ha-Ḥaver b. Yaʿaqov, the head of the Jewish community in Tyre, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1040 …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when …
Megillat Evyatar, probably composed by Evyatar Gaon and was read in synagoges. Probably was composed in 1094. (The scribe might be Shmuel b. Ya'aqov- a …
Recto: Letter from Yefet b. David, Tyre, to his father, David b. Shekhanya, Fustat, informing him of his arrival in Tyre and expressing his disappointment …
Letter from Hillel Ha-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa Ha-Hazzan, Tiberias, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1050.
Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the community of Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Gil suggests 1025 CE, however this seems inconsistent with the events mentioned; …
Letter fragment (missing the upper right corner), mercantile, from someone to "my maternal uncle [...] Avraham b. Salih b. [...]," probably 11th century. The writer …
Letter from Toviyya b. Moshe, Jerusalem, to Perahya b. Muʾammal, Fustat, probably 1048.
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition. Dated 1034 CE (Elul 4794 AM). The groom is Yefet b. Avraham.