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Tax receipt, Fatimid.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script. The sender's name probably appears at upper left. He is writing from Jerusalem (al-Quds al-Mubārak, 6 lines from the bottom). …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a formulary, in the most general terms, written in large, monumental script. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
1 مناقشة
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions something valued at 150 dinars. No other details preserved. (Information in …
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Minute list fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with a column of figures expressed in Hebrew alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060 in the month of Ab.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Possibly a fragment from a petition, addressed to a Caliph based on the beginning of a "raʾyy" clause in the penultimate line.
تو]قيع الامر مط.. بان الحديث فيهم
جرى به عادته وحملهم
…..واطفالهم
]الى كافة الخلق
]ولمولانا
[صلوات الله عليه علو الراي في ذلك ان شا الله]
1 نسخ
Accounts. Mentioning several names and several interesting commodities (e.g., black cumin, ushna/lichen, mastic). Dating: looks ca. 1150–1250.
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Bill of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1400 Seleucid = 28 August 1089 CE. Release given …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 7 Jumādā I 1243 AH = 26 November 1827 CE. May involve Mūsā Naʿīm al-Ṣarrāf (=Moshe ben Naʿim). …
Legal formulary with instructions in Judaeo-Arabic, including the template for a bill of divorce. On the last page contains the interesting stipulation that if you …
Legal testimony. Dated: Friday, 25 Sivan 1462 Seleucid = 11 June 1151 CE. Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b. Shemarya, Shela b. Yakhin, and Natan b. Yosef …
Letter from an unknown man. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a blocky hand and with אללה spelled אלי. He alludes to a terrible misfortune afflicting him. "If …
Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and his family and save them.
Ḥasan, called Abū …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Note to a man with many titles. In the margin there is the actual information: someone had gone to Rashid and Abu l-Faraj and …
Draft of the opening lines of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 2 Elul [....], under the authority of Avraham [Maimonides], with the title "Nagid" thus …
Receipt for Hilāl b. Yūnus (?).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Header: "The ginger(?) of Rabbenu Nahray." Includes conversion rates for murābiṭī dinars and "the weight of al-Andalus" (וזן לנדלוס).
Letter possibly from the ḥaver Yehoshuaʿ b. ʿEli, in Ramla, probably to Yehuda b. Seʿadya here called Rosh Kalla, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. …
Verso: note from an invalid begging for oil for the synagogue lamp (al-tamid) for the sabbath to be sent with the carrier of the note. …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلام…
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic.
Much damaged fragment from a bill of receipt(?). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Mentions [...] b. Khalfa.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "I have salted for you a barrel (barmīl) of lemons, but no one from around here will transport them, perhaps …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat; 21 July 1046 (Gil). Talks about sending back sacks and about an inkstand (Gil) …
בשמך רח
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמאך וסעאדתך מן אל
מסתקר יום אלאתנין אלנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה אלדי ת…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Series of (copies of) letters sent from Hebron to Egypt, mainly asking for financial assistance. First half of the 17th century. Information from FGP.
List or accounts, in Arabic script and numerals.
Letter fragment from ʿOvadya to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; asks the addressee to help al-Shaykh al-Rashīd in some legal dispute on …
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Details debts owed to a certain person by Yaʿaqov al-Yahūdī; Avraham al-Yahūdī; the acquaintance …
Legal document containing the wording of the vow to be made by Bū Isḥāq Ibn Kathīr. Also mentions ʿOvadya b. Aharon and the wife of …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Writing on both sides. A settlement concerning arrangements for the dowry items of …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Not completed (perhaps because of an error in lines 4 and 5). Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1552 Seleucid, which is 1241 CE. …
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshua from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes the situation in Alexandria before the shipping season …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Sent to the qāʿa of ʿAbdallāh al-Damīrī, near the grave …
Outline of a marriage document and/or dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Groom: Levi b. אמר(?). Bride: Ittifāq, a freedwoman. Marriage payments: 1+ 10. The dowry follows; the …
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.