Documents

Primary language

Arabic

comprising the waqf for the poor of the Jews ("...al-mawqūfa ʿalā ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd...") in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

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Primary language

Arabic

An archival note with an ʿalāma "alḥamdu li-llah rabb al-ʿālamīn" on verso.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1101–1130 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, might be the same scribe.

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العلامات

• dimme
• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragments from an Arabic state document, containing the grand titles of the addressee ([...] al-mulūk [...] al-dawla [...] al-mujāhidīn sayf amīr al-muʾminīn) and blessings for him.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 5th of Kislev Anno Mundi (17 November 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel, probably in Alexandria. Dating: November 17, 1140 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably written after Ḥalfon traveled to Alexandria to meet Yehuda ha-Levi. Yeḥezqel writes about the fear that gripped him when Ḥalfon left and boarded the boat, while ill and without any companion. […] It may be sent to Yeḥezqel in Qalyūb or to 'the Jew' (the tax farmer) in Shaṭnūf, which is the iqṭāʿ of Razīn al-Dawla. Yeḥezqel asks for news of Ḥalfon's arrival in Alexandria and asks him to convey an apology to Yehuda ha-Levi for not having written to him or come to Alexandria to greet him in person.

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العلامات

• damin
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• (+ 7 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Same addressee as CUL Or.1080 J40 (also a Yaḥyā ha-Sar with some of the same titles: שר בית ישראל זקן התפארה הוד השררה). […] maʾūf) in-law with a woman (ll. 4–5). Mentions Ṣārim al-Dawla and something which the governor of the town said (...fa-qāla wālī al-balad...). Someone is under intimidation (...taḥta takhwīf...).The addressee is asked to obtain a document from al-Muʾayyad (or perhaps this is another al-maʾūf, "regarding the maʾuf")) addressed to Asad al-Dawla, the son of al-Muaʾayyad.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are a few words, also in Ḥalfon's hand: "10 years and 3 months...." (A previous description said that there is also a Zekharya ha-Levi mentioned in this document.) […] AA/ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• legal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein makes much of the addressee's matronymic and also reads the address as kanīsat al-muʿallima, "literally, "the synagogue of the woman teacher" (since school often was held in the synagogue compound, the school itself came to be called synagogue)." But it is also possible that the letter is addressed to the neighborhood of the Hanging Church (Kanīsat al-Muʿallaqa) and that the addressee is Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Muʿallim, that is, the son of the male teacher. […] Otherwise, the letter is almost entirely taken up with expressions of preoccupation and urgings to write.

العلامات

• ascalon
• book trade
• captives
• crusade
• illness
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Allush ('Lamb') b. Makhlūf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Yaʿaqov. […] MS heb. b 11/21]. The letter also mentions Abu Said Makhlūf and Ibn Elisha, travel to the Maghrib and Aden, and shipments of pepper. On verso, the writer asks the addressee to intervene in a matter concerning his brother, the well-attested India trader Yiṣḥaq ben Makhlūf al-Nafusi. Mentioned also are the elder Madmun, Ibn al-Dimyati, and Abu Said.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• pepper
• trade

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Document date

4861 Anno Mundi (6 September 1100–25 August 1101 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham and Yiṣḥaq b. [...] also appear in the validation. First validation: Signed by Yosef b. […] These figures comprised the court of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya in Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) See also T-S 13J7.11 (PGPID 1186).

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel, Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf on the conclusion of the latter’s second or third voyage to the south. […] ʿAzrūn of Alexandria had sent from a previous journey so that his family could benefit from the proceeds (Khalaf b. […] Hillel is planning to depart from Alexandria westward selling some of what ʿArūs b. Yūsuf has acquired in the south.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• hinge
• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

A Fatimid state official by the title ʿAmīd al-Dawla appears in at least seven documents (see: T-S AS 145.353, BL OR 5561A.2, ENA NS 48.20, CUL Or.1080 J156, T-S 10J21.10, and T-S 10J23.2). One was active during the reign of al-Ẓāhir and toward the beginning of the reign of al-Mustanṣir and was a close associate of the wazīr al-Yāzūrī (al-Maqrīzī, ʾIttiʿāẓ II, 161, 243). He also appears on a state document dated to 1024–27 CE along with Tāj al-Dawla (see BL OR 5561A.2 and cf.

العلامات

• dimme
• iqta'
• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1024–1134 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition from Ṣāliḥ al-Khaybārī, a Jew from the community of Baghdad, to the Fatimid amīr Tāj al-Dawla. […] There are two amīrs by the title Tāj al-Dawla attested in chronicles: Tāj al-Dawla b. Abū l-Ḥusain, the governor of Sicily in the period of al-Ẓāhir, active in 415/1024; and Bahrān the Armenian, governor of al-Gharbiyya province under al-Ḥāfiẓ, active in 529/1134 (al-Maqrīzī, Ittiʿāẓ, II, 161 and III, 159).

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العلامات

• khaybari
• petition
• prison

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan at the gate of the Dār al-Ṣarf. The two parties were dragged before the qāḍī, the parnas came and said he’d represent one of them and take care of it the following day in the Jewish court, but then an hour later the amir Shahm al-Dawla had the two squabblers and the parnas dragged before the Ṣāhib al-Bāb (possibly even the high Fatimid official also known as al-wazīr al-ṣaghīr). Salāma and Sason reached a settlement and had to pay a brokerage fee (5 dirhams each?). "They also said" that someone had tried to beat Shelomo with a crop (miqraʿa), only for Sason to intervene and grab the crop out of his hand, 'out of fear lest the gentiles intervene between them.' #2: A testament in which a father gives the house in which he lives to his baby daughter Sitt al-Gharb, who was still nursing, with the exclusion of her brothers.

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العلامات

• amir
• brawl
• violence

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sayyid al-Kull b. Yeshuʿa, since one of them is sick, and "death and life are in the hand of the Creator." […] Another version of the same document is found in JRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/10 (PGPID 32317) (upper left fragment), which also involves Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi a.k.a. Sayyid al-Kull and a mutual release. T-S AS 152.2 (PGPID 4197) is also related. Verso of one of the fragments (Bodl.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entries here include a remarkable range of Turkish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, and, possibly, also Greek and/or Coptic names. The title רייץ also appears on several occasions, which is the scribe's idiosyncratic manner of spelling "raʾīs/reʾīs" (ship captain). The full list of those mentioned includes: (recto) Iani (יאני), Antonio, Giorgi/Georgi, Reʾīs Mikhālī, Osṭa (Master) Fānī/Pānī, Estefānī, (verso) Reʾīs Antonio, Estefānī, Ḥamza b. ʿAlī, Fiuli Benadiqa, Paroza/Padoza, Iacomo, Mikhālī, Muḥammad b. Musṭafa. The recto may also mention someone indirectly by their military/occupational role: yaycı יאגיי "archer" or "bow-maker" in Turkish—although this could be the surname Yaycı.

العلامات

• 16th c
• archer
• archery
• cmp
• ottoman shipping

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions ships from various places including three from al-Mahdiyya and others from al-Andalus. The writer had three successive illnesses over the last month and a half, but he is now better and back to work (al-yawm anā mutaṣarrif), "unless another one comes over me." […] Alas, "the ḥiṣrim here is not like the Levantine ḥiṣrim" (cf. T-S 13J23.17, also featuring ḥiṣrim shāmī). Further down, the writer discusses the price of silk.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: relapse
• materia medica
• nisaburi
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

20 Elul 5544 Anno Mundi (6 September 1784 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The letter carrier is named in the opening line: Ḥusayn Qāfīẓ Arnavūt, "the Albanian" or lit. "of Albania." The letter sender Yiṣḥaq may have been in Albania based on line 22: "and another Albanian (ship) will depart from here in 30 days" (y en otra Aranavuta ke partirá de aki 30 dias). It also seems possible, based on ll. 33-34, that the letter sender is in Izmir because he states: "you will send the kerchiefs (tokas) to Izmir, in the desert/wilderness (fī ha-midbar), your brother Yiṣḥaq." […] Salonica and Rosetta are also mentioned as shipping destinations. MCD

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentioning sums of dinars and names (mostly Syrian) such as Ibn al-Ḥimṣī (from Homs), Ghālib Ibn al-Raqqī, and someone from the Ibn Zawbaʿa family. Also Ismāʿīl b. Ṭalyūn (=Shemuel b. Avṭalyon, active as judge in Fustat from ca. 1016 CE through at least 1041 CE; see Goitein, Med Soc II, pp. 438, 511.) (l. 14). Also seems to mentions a Byzantine dinar (dīnār rūmī) (l. 13).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 1406 Seleucid (14 September 1094–2 September 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Mevorakh al-Maqdisī and Abū Saʿīd ʿAmram b. Yosef each bring three hundred dinars into a joint venture in an apothecary shop, and agree to split profit and loss equally. […] Goitein deduces that ʿAmram "was not supposed to contribute work regularly" as the text implies that he will not always be in Fusṭāṭ. However, it's also possible that ʿAmram traveled as part of his responsibilities to the partnership, perhaps buying commodities to be sold in the apothecary shop. The sale of certain commodities in the shop were allocated to the partnership, while the partners were alsoallowed to sell other commodities and credit their individual accounts with the proceeds.

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العلامات

• drug store
• partnership
• pharmacy

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

First decade of Ramaḍān 495 Hijrī (June 1102 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAskar al-Qarīṭī and his wife. The record is witnessed and signed by Naṣr b. Badr al-Salūlī, Jawwāb b. Naṣr al-Salūlī, Zaydūn b. Mahdī al-Salūlī, Rikāb b. Jawhar al-Salūlī, Futūḥ b. Qāsim and Sughlūl b. Mahdī.

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Primary language

Arabic

A precise date may appear somewhere on the document since almost the complete document seems to be preserved here. The Qaraite Mūsā b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. ʿAbd al-Karīm known as al-Māwardī confirms to have rented (istaʾjara) from the Qaraite [...] b. […] Mentions Dār Ibn Samīḥ (= the Dār Simḥa synagogue) in ll. 4 and 7, probably as a landmark in describing the location of the waqf property which was rented. Also mentions "the properties of the Christians" (amlāk al-naṣārā) in l. 6.

العلامات

• arabic script
• awqaf
• dar simha
• qaraite

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer wishes to move his children to Alexandria. He complains about R. Anatoli ('It is not concealed from you all the 'informing' (מסרות = מלשינות) that took place among us, nor the anger (khulq) of R. […] The writer mentions Manṣūr al-Miṣrī in the context of business matters; sends regards to Abū Zikrī; and the title of a lady (al-sitt al-rayyisa) appears on verso, apparently not as part of the letter. […] Anatoly Muqaddam of Alexandria," [Hebrew], vol. 83 (2015), p. 155, n. 80.

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العلامات

• anatoli

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regards from Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣayrafī and Abū l-Ḥasan al-Khāzin. The addressee should pass on greetings to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen and tell him that his son is well and that "all the friends" were pained to hear about his illness. […] Then: "Yours is the noble opinion (wa-lak ʿuluww al-raʾy). [Please kiss for] me the hand of my master the father." (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

العلامات

• idleness
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: sympathy
• ra`y

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments of different kinds of grains in different kinds of containers, including shipping grain to Ṣanʿāʾ and a delivery to "the house of the dome" (bayt al-qubba). Mentions several names including ʿAbd al-Munʿim, Ḥusayn, Zayd, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj, Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī, Sulaymān al-Sharāʿī (? אלשראעי), and the sender's son Sālim.

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Document date

436 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

There are three or four distinct documents present: (I) the end of a petition with blessings for the caliph or a high authority (wa-li-mawlānā ṣallā Allāhuʿalayhial-raʾy al-ʿālī) (II) account for the receipt of grain(?) […] Reused on the other side for a Hebrew sermon or prayer about sinfulness and repentance. Also reused on the same side by a different Hebrew scribe for an unidentified text.

العلامات

• dimme
• matbakh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Little of the content remains. "... the response... may he please inform me the [n]ews of the effeminate young man (al-ghulām al-mukhannath) who was with Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan Ibn al-Turkash (or Ibn al-Tarkash) [and if] he arrived in health..." […] In the upper margin mentions 'the island' (al-jazīra). Underneath the address on verso is the name (one of the bearers?) Muḥammad b. Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥusayn. ASE

العلامات

• arabic address
• island
• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. He also addresses the letter to his brother Abū l-Barakāt. […] Greetings to people such as Abū ʿAlī and Abū l-Munajjā. On verso there are also jottings in a different ink.

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العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the claims of Ṭurfa Sitt al-Kamāl, the widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, to an estate. […] Payment to be made in Alexandria. In Fustat, a guarantor (ḍāmin) stands security that he would pay in Fustat, if a letter from Alexandria to the court in Fustat states that the debtor had not paid within 15 days of his arrival in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• widow

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 9 Tammuz 4793 Anno Mundi (9 June 1033 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Court deed, in which five representatives of the Alexandrian Jewish community, Yosef b. Avraham (known as ʿIrāqī), Binyamin b. […] Efrayim, receive a donation of ten dinars given by Yosef b. Khalaf Ibn al-Bannāʾ (the mason), and delivered by Thābit b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen (known as the Babylonian), for the building of the holy ark of the Great (i.e. the Palestinian) Synagogue in Alexandria. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Tammuz 4793 = 9 June 1033 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard from the Ḥazzan Ṣadaqa Ibn Nufayʿ (the go-between) that the younger daughter Sitt al-Ahl and not the elder daughter was to be the prospective bride. […] (Information from Goitein's note card.) Alternatively, the sender is already the son-in-law of the addressee, and Ṣadaqa Ibn Nufayʿ is also hoping to marry one of the addressee's daughters, specifically the younger daughter ("I met with him. . . and saw that he preferred, for his part, the younger daughter" wa-raʾaytuhū mūthir li-janbihī al-ibna al-ṣaghira).

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العلامات

• marriage

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

25 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (19 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Amount of payment: one-half dīnār. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) (in) the presence of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār on his behalf; (3) (under) the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

7 Rabīʿ I 644 Hijrī (23 July 1246 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in ʿAmal al-Sharqiyya (present-day al-Minya in the district of al-Ṣaff in the province of Giza). […] Beautiful handwriting. Dated: 7 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 644 AH, which is 23 July 1246 CE. The sender asks the help of the addressee, "because, as everything is so expensive, he has contracted debts, and himself eats only bread and onions.

العلامات

• arabic script
• damin
• iqta'
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1218–1227 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from ʿAlī b. [...] addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn of apparently requesting clarification of a decree. Full address (unclear where Baker/Polliack got this from): al-malik al-muʿaẓẓam Sharaf al-Dīn, Ayyubid Sultan of Damascus (1218-27?). […] On verso there are Hebrew pen trials, citing Mishna Berakhot 4:7. Also citing Yiṣḥaq Kanzi's poem יום באתם לחלות (see Davidson, Oṣar ha-Piyyuṭ, X, no. 1633).

العلامات

• ayyubid
• decree

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rajab 495 Hijrī (21 April 1102–20 May 1102 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, representative of a sugar cane extraction factory (al-maṭbakh) and a honey factory (dār al-ʿasal), to the office of supervision (dīwān al-ishrāf). The makhzūma is witnessed and signed by ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī. The accounts are for the kharājī years 490 and 491, corresponding respectively to 493/94 H and 494/95 H.

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العلامات

• honey
• makhzuma
• sugar
• tax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Further down mentions "all the Jews" (jamīʿ al-yahūd), and mentions musk in the margin. T-S NS 342.34 may also be part of the same letter (lower right corner). AA/ASE. Joins: Alan Elbaum and Oded Zinger.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

26 Adar II 1600 — 26 Elul 1601 Seleucid (20 March 1289–3 September 1290 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Release between [...] Ibn al-Ghuzūlī and Abū l-Surūr [...] Sar Shalom. Also mentions the name Elʿazar "which is written in the shimmush" — perhaps the witness of the original document. […] The entries on verso are also crossed out and too damaged to read. T-S NS J297b + T-S NS J297a: 1. […] (Compare DK 236, probably unrelated, but also about the tax farming of al-Maṭariyya.) 6.

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2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

Crossed out with vertical strokes. Possibly also containing accounts. Late. "And also tell them. . . between you and her, because she has only 20 peraḥim."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to al-Ḥedvat. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Letter of recommendation for the poor man al-Shaykh al-Kohen al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• recommendation

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning business issues in which the writer discusses the price of silk and references a previous conversation between Abu al-Tahur and the addressee. Abu al-Muna is also mentioned.

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document from Alexandria (מדינת אכסנדריה ). Dated: [..]69 AM, probably 4869 AM = 1108/09 CE, but 4769 or 4969 are also possible.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر