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Letter from a man, in Damietta, to his brother Abū l-Majd, in Damīra. (The sender's name may be legible in the Arabic address -- perhaps …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Small fragment with unidentified Arabic.
Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, on his way to Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer apologizes for the delay …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Informal note to al-Nezer (Natan b. Shemuel), active 1128–1164 CE, in which the writer bemoans his state (e.g. mā baqiya lī khāṭir), and writes, …
1 نسخ
Letter, quoting Proverbs 3:4. This is a letter of appeal for charity. "God {knows} that I have only sent this petition groveling in shame." (Information …
Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון). Probably addressed to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה) like his other two letters. Dated: Monday, 17 Ḥeshvan [5318 AM], which is 1557 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1443 Seleucid = 1131/32 CE. Probably a summary/digest. Describing a settlement between …
Letter from Bū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin) to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Bū l-Maḥāsin, in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Kislev 1528 Seleucid = November/December 1216 CE. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفض…
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1422 Seleucid, which is February–March 1111 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (who died …
1 مناقشة
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic in a 13th-century hand.
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yaḥyā al-Sofer(?) addressed to the Nagid David I (b. Avraham Maimonides, served ca. 1237–1300 with …
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Two bifolios from a mercantile account ledger written in the same hand. These were written several years apart (T-S NS 83.12 dates to 1050–52 CE …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Verso (original use): Ketubba fragment. Bride: the widow Jawhara bt. Salmān. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. Hosheaʿ. Dated: Thursday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1[3.]2 (ca. 11th century). Location: Fustat. …
נחשא טבא וסימנא מעלייא יבנו [ויצליחו
בחמ[שה בש]בה דהוא תל/י/סר יומין לירח מרחשון שנת אלפא [ות…
Recto: phrases of blessing for a boy named Yehuda b. ʿEli. A subsequent scribe has replaced the name with Yosef b. Saʿadya (in one place …
Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or ninteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. Headed with an elaborate Emet. Perhaps instructing Avraham ha-Zaqen to help the bearer …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Record of release. Dated 1085. Location: Alexandria. This document is a largely-complete release signed and executed by well-known members of the rabbinical court …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Colophon on the verso of a Qur'anic writing exercise, Cairo. Dating: 1872-1897 CE. The colophon identifies its young author as affiliated with Madrasa al-Qarabiyya, one …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in Hebrew mentioning Avraham b. ʿAllūn, 20 gold coins, a deposit and a lawsuit. Dating: Might be 11th century. Elevated style, partially rhymed, with …
Minute fragment with Arabic text on one side and a rabbinic text on the other.
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: 1150-1181. Written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Nathan. In this document, Abū al-Makārim Nadiv ha-Levi b. Moses ha-Levi …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter about naval warfare off the Ifrīqiyan coast (1100).
I am writing this letter- -may God prolong the life of my lord, the
Sheikh and. make permanent his honoured position, his- success and hap…
Letter from Sitt Dhahab, in an unknown location, to Abū Naṣr b. Karīm, in Qāʿat al-Fāḍil, Fustat. She refers to herself as his daughter. Goitein …
Draft of a formal letter or petition in Arabic to 'al-rayyis al-jalīl.' This side was reused for a document or composition that appears to be …
Dirge of 38 lines by the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128-1164) on one Moshe. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 574)
Fragment of official correspondence. In Arabic script, chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Portions of ~5 lines are preserved from near the beginning, mainly …
2 pages from a list of revenues and expenses for the end of 1200, written by Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Published Vaza, pp. …
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1037. In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. A very damaged record, mentioning the supply of …
cut in the clay ....
and 20 dir. ....
.... in … and in ...
paid for oakum .. . . 23
2 1⁄4 dir. ... meal of the sawyers during . …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed and well-preserved. People named: Ibn al-Maqāniʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī; Zikrī b. Yaḥyā; Yūsuf b. A[...]; Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār (perhaps the same …
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Ten weekly payrolls for the second through the tenth weeks and then again for the fourteenth week of the liturgical year, which begins after the …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Outline for the sale of enslaved people (bayʿ jalb). Seller: Moshe b. …
IB VI, 7. Letter from Dāwūd Fāsī to the cloth merchant Abū l-Afraḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes attached to …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved: to [...] Ashqar. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient His blessings be upon his servants, whom he has cho…
Verso (original use): Letter fragment, with very little context. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The last line indicates the announcement of something, "in …
Fragment of a power of attorney, written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). No names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.
Legal record (#52) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 50-52) Folio 14r