Documents

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment reporting about a dignitary in prison from whom a declaration was taken to be given both in a Jewish and a Muslim court. …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• prison

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, apparently written by ʿEli he-Ḥaver b. ʿAmram, introduced with two poems in honour of Elḥanan b. Shemarya, and mentioning Joseph b. Abraham. (Information from …

العلامات

• 11th c
• poem

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1393 Seleucid (June 1082 CE)

Court record of a case in which an orphan girl wishing to dispose of a piece of property that was held in trust by the …

العلامات

• 11th c
• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy from Alexandria to Yosef b. Musa ha-Tahirati, Fustat. Around 1055. The writer is available to work because Avraham b. …

العلامات

• 11th c
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from the Qaraite Mahbub b. Nissim, Ramla, to Abu al-Faraj in Fustat, middle of the 11th century (12 Iyar). Mahbub has traveled from …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• karaite

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sheet folded so as to form a booklet of 4 pages. But only one page, headed by the superscription 'In your name' (which indicates the …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1028 – 1028 CE

Deposition in the Jewish Court of Tyre, ca. 1028. The rent of a compound in Aleppo has been dedicated by its owner, Hilla b. Joseph, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• tyre

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1006 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document: deathbed declaration, made by a woman whose name is not preserved. The upper part of the document is missing, but the reconstruction, as …

العلامات

• 11th c
• deathbed will

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues, ca. 1047. A deposition given by four witnesses, prominent persons, confrims …

العلامات

• 11th c
• rabbanite

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record of a deposition in court, written in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. Eli, ca. 1095. The record states that Perahya b. Ya'aqov …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

441 Hijrī (1049 – 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Abu l-Khayr Musa b. Barhun, asking him, among other things, to retrieve his capitation tax receipt for the year …

العلامات

• 11th c
• capitation tax

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

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 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• gift

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

8 Iyyar 1406 Seleucid (16 April, 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Court record. Dating: 8 Iyyar 1406 (16 April 1095) (Lieberman reads 1410, but it's fairly clear it's 1406). Signed by Nissim b. Nahray, …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• register

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Hillel Ha-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa Ha-Hazzan, Tiberias, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1050.

العلامات

• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• tiberias

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• shelomo b. yehuda

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Toviyya b. Moshe, Jerusalem, to Perahya b. Muʾammal, Fustat, probably 1048.

العلامات

• 11th c
• jerusalem
• toviya b. moshe

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yahya b. Musa al-Majjani, al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Salih al-Tahirti, Cairo, asking him to intervene on his behalf against Ibn Farah al-Fasi and …

العلامات

• 11th c
• inheritance
• intercession

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

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 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• evyatar gaon
• megilla

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• jerusalem
• yisrael b. natan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from Yosef Ha-Kohen Ha-Ḥaver b. Yaʿaqov, the head of the Jewish community in Tyre, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat, approximately 1040, concerning …

العلامات

• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• tyre

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• personal
• yefet b. david

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, approximately 1030.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• efrayim b. shemarya

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment of thanks from Daniel b. Azarya (1051-1062) to the parnas.

العلامات

• 11th c
• daniel b. azarya
• thanks

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Semah, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, ca. 1030.

العلامات

• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• ramla

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: …

العلامات

• 11th c
• aleppo
• communal

1 نسخ

Document date

31 July, 1052 CE

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 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• palermo

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Letter from Sadoq Ha-Levi b. Levi, Head of the Court of the Yeshiva of the Land of Israel, in Ramla to Efrayim b. Shemarya, probably …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• ramla
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter. Family letter dealing with grain and payments, and extending greetings. Largely effaced. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

العلامات

• 11th c
• business
• family

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

10 Shevat (48)43 Anno Mundi (10 January, 1083 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Acknowledgement made in front of the rabbinical court of Denia, Spain, by Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Yiṣḥaq states that a certain Ḥasan b. Ḥasan had received …

العلامات

• 11th c
• denia
• slave

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter written by Daniel b. Azarya, probably in 1051. A complaint about harassment by the brothers Yosef and Eliyyahu ha-Kohanim, sons of …

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• complaints

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Aramaic

Marriage contract (ketubba) in the Palestinian style, probably from Tyre, ca. 1089–99. Mann notes that the Greek term אקוליתוס (ἀκωλύτως), "without hindrance," appears in the …

العلامات

• 11th c
• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Aramaic

Marriage contract (ketubba); line two begins with the phrase "on the river," the only clue to establishing the provenance of the document. Dated 4844 A.M. …

العلامات

• 11th c
• ketubba
• marriage

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tahirtī, in al-Mahdiyya, to a younger relative. Around 1050. Barhūn informs that a shipment of goods is on its way, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• corpse
• family

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

6 November, 1056 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli, Fez. 6 November 1056. Discusses goods arriving from al-Andalus, Italy and the Maghrib; mentions cotton, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• commodities
• cotton

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

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 …

العلامات

• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• partnership

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of recommendation written by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq, 'av bet dinsellekol yisra'el', for Yehoshuaʿ b. Eli and David b. Shemuel.

العلامات

• 11th c
• captives
• recommendation

2 نسخين

Document date

449 Hijrī (1057 CE)

Two pages of a large account written for a partner, divided into sections. The account mentions sales of linen, lacquer, precious stones, ammonia, clothing and …

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• material culture

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

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, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Accounts of Nahray b. Nissim (on the basis of handwriting), 1051, noting sums of money and giving some details about the wares. (Information from Gil, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to a hazzan, Ben Sadoq, who is asked to intervene on behalf of the writer, Menashshe nin Shemaiah, before Sar Salom, head of the …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a merchant in Alexandria to a business associate in Fustat, advising him to dispose of goods costing a large amount of money and, …

العلامات

• 11th c
• merchant
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to a personality in Fustat, approximately 1050. He quotes 1 Samuel 2:30 and signs his name with his motto …

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• shelomo b. yehuda

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

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.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Poem on the occasion of a marriage, followed by a letter from Shelah b. Nahoum, probably from Tyre, to Abu al-Khair Efrayim ca. 1085, which …

العلامات

• 11th c
• marriage
• poem

1 نسخ