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Document in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning Zikri b. Ḥalfon, who received 50 dinars from funds belonging to …
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Legal document. Bill of release, damaged, relating to a quarter of a house. No names preserved. Probably early 12th century (familiar hand but still unidentified). …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Long letter(s) in Arabic script (recto and verso are in different hands). Dating: probably Mamluk-era based on hand/layout. Needs examination.
Right column: Petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting of some shops that Muslim granted to his wife …
عبدها مسلم بن عبد الجبار
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ثبت
قد اجاب حضرة مولاى القاضى الاجل اطال الله ب…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionte. Registered.
My lord the glorious jud…
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Draft of the end of a letter, with many corrections, sending greetings to Elʿazar ha-Kohen. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). …
Small fragment of a letter written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) on behalf of a woman. Mentions rent and possibly not wanting …
A faded letter in a late, cursive Spanish hand
Business accounts in both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very large. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some names such as Manṣūr al-Farrāsh. …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 5004 AM, which is December 1243 CE. Certificate of the purity of 180 moulds of cheese …
Text in an unidentified Romance language in Latin script. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from a father to a son. The sender reports that [She]muel intended to travel to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 11th century or early 12th. This is a long and fairly well-preserved letter from somebody close to the Jewish …
Letter in the hand of Shemuel b. Natan to a circuit judge (Goitein's index cards). Nine persons mentioned by name acting as a board of …
Brief letter from Abū l-Surūr to a faqīh. Dating: ca. 12th century. Letter of appeal for charity. The sender is in hiding from the capitation …
Document (receipt?) in Arabic script, remarkably calligraphic and carefully-written. Involves Friday, the 9th of some month, ʿAbdallāh b. Fallāḥ, wheat, 3 dinars.
Accounts, probably
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letter to a R. Shabbetai, from R. Abraham from Narbona.
This fragment contains several legal documents in the hand of a single scribe. Upside down on verso: a complaint by the judge Yaʾir b. Avraham …
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Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business …
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Recto: Table of names in Arabic script, together with sums of money mostly ranging from 1/6 dinar to 1 dinar. (But there are also entries …
Rental contract for a property (ṭabaqa) for a period of three years. Lessor (al-mālik) ʿAlī Nāfiʿ. Lessee: Mūsā/Moshe/Moses Schlesinger (موسى شليزنجر) from Austria(?), who signs …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abū Zakariyyā Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī ("Palermitan"), in Fustat. Dating: ca. March 1055 CE, according …
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Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, including part of the address on verso. NB: this must be describing a different fragment.
Letter to Abū Saʿd Yaḥyā b. ʿEzra from his cousin (ibn ʿamm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Reminding the addressee that al-Ḥemdat had sent with him אלדרקה (probably …
IB IV, 70 (ח84). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, Fustat, third page only (numbered at the top). Dated: Sunday, 5 …
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Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender congratulates the addressee on the holidays, alludes to the …
Petition addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). From Maḥmūd b. Mamdūd who describes himself as a warrior in the path of God (al-mujāhid fī sabīl Allāh). …
Top three lines of a state document in Arabic script. First a basmala, then: ثبت(؟) اصدار(؟) مالك المجلس السامي الامير الاجل المفضل(؟). In between lines …
List of names and numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Qaṣīra; Sitt al-Dār; Umm Tujjār; the orphan girl of Bū Saʿīd; Nisāʾ; al-Parnas; …
Small fragment of a legal document. It seems signed by Avraham b. Sahlān. Dating: No later than 1032 CE. Involves someone giving something to his …
Small fragment from a ketubba. Upper left piece. The groom's name [...]m (Avraham?) b. Efraim and the bride is Miryam. 11th century. AA
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Testimony made by unknown members of the Jewish community (the signatures are either cut off or were never added). Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of …
Unidentified text in Hebrew. Small fragment. Likely literary.
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Possibly calendrical: consists mainly of a list of dates in the months of Shawwāl, Dhū l-Qaʿda, and Dhū l-Ḥijja.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Accounts? State document? On verso Hebrew poetry.
Letter in Arabic script. It seems addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān al-Ḥibr (the ḥaver), whose name appears both at upper left and in the first …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the …
Recto: part of a large, effaced ketubba for Ghāliya bt. Avraham ha-Levi and an unnamed groom, dated 28th [month] in Fusṭāṭ (year and month not …