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IB IV, 10 (ח5). Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Natanʾel in al-Ghuwwa, Yemen, ca. summer 1131, concerning the controversy over the …
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Fragment of a poem praising the Nagid, whose name is only hinted at. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Letter from Yisraʾel b. Natan b. Nahray, in Fustat, to Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1048. Pending more complete description. (Information from …
כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך מן מצר
לסתה כלון מן שבט ערפך אללה ברכתה ומא יליה מן אלאשהר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק א…
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Memorandum of testimony concerning the legacy of a certain Isma'il al-'Azazi al-Halabi, who died in Acre, written in Fustat, Kislev 1411/November 1099. Signed by Yiṣḥaq …
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Bitter letter by a public officer complaining about his lot. The sender's name is not preserved. Refers to Rabbenu; acknowledges receipt of a letter from …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give 3 dirhams to the relative of the Andalusī rabbi ("Toledan" is …
End of a document about pledges (rahāʾin) signed by Moshe b. Binyamin ha-Sefaradi and Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by Elʿazar …
Letter sent to Avraham b. Salhun in Fustat from Masliah b. Moshe b. Salhun, with instructions to be delivered to him at the Market of …
Detailed Karaite marriage contract of Elʿazar b. Shemarya and Rivqa bt. Yosef. Dated Tishrei 1512 (September 1200), Cairo. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 409)
Legal document. Formula of a Bill of manumission of a slave girl. Recto: Recto: A formula writ (מודע, ‘notification’) for invalidating the manumission of a …
Testimony about what took place in our presence, we the witnesses signed
below on this deed of disclaimer: A son of B appeared before us
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List of contributors containing Coptic numerals. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. (Information in part from Goitein's typed texts)
Verso: Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham, in Minyat Zifta, to the judge Zakkay b. Moshe, perhaps in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Zakkay was in al-Maḥalla in …
Recto: Poem. Long Hebrew poem, congratulating Shelomo on being elevated, like a second Yosef, from prison to the rank of the "Deputy of the king" …
Letter by Akhlabu b. Aharon ha-Kohen from Alexandria to Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen Fasi. The writer apologizes for not having accompanied the recipient on his …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is 29 November 1161 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. …
Letter from Damascus, from a Maghribi who intends to go to Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hajay, approximately 1035.
State document, unidentified genre. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Dating: mentions the year 421 AH, corresponding to 1030 CE. Possibly a record of …
IB VI, 20a. Karaite Nesiim. A memorial list.
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Written in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dated: 2 Iyyar 1529 Seleucid, which is …
Fragment of a letter mentioning the plight of a woman who has a house 'under the administration of the court' but whose requests are not …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper part only). In which Abū Saʿd al-Ḥarīrī Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq, the …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (right side only). Dating: Unclear if this is the date of the document itself, but the document mentions the …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Qalyūb, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with various small business matters and ordering …
Bill of release, issued by Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Maṣliaḥ al-Ghazzī to Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi. Signed by Yefet b. Menashshe, ʿOvadya b. […], and …
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭa'if to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Yefet has sent with Efrayim a vessel containing 20 …
Legal agreement. Sittān bt. Yefet, widow of Abū Naṣr, pays 40 dinars to Abū Kathīr, which her husband owed him from a business arrangement. (Information …
Draft of a genealogy of Qariate exilarchs. Probably mid-11th century. The genealogical list of Yehezkiyahu b. Shlomo, one of the Karaites’ leaders in the 11th …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Yahaboy, probably in Amalfi, to a partner, in al-Mahdiyya. Dating: ca. 1040. Describes a long sea voyage that lasted …
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Court record concerning the inheritance of Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov Qābisī, of the Ibn Jāmiʿ family, left to him after the death of his …
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan (aka Musāfir b. Wahb), in Alexandria, to the Nagid Mevorakh, in Fustat. The sender and addressee are not named in …
Legal record (#97) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Sivan 5326 …
Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat …
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to someone titled al-amīr al-ajall reporting on a ship bearing wood (markab al-ḥaṭb) that arrived at the port of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اعلم حضرة مولاي الامير
الاجل ادام الله عزه رب(؟)
انتق….. اقول لك فيما يتعلق
مركب الحطب الذي وصل
الى الصناعة المحرو…
In the name of God, the most merciful and benevolent
I inform my master, the illustrious Amīr
may God perpetuate his glory
I report to you re…
Note containing medical advice, with recipes to improve vision, treat sciatica and painful joints, act as a purgative; and protect against the cold, humidity and …
Formularies for divorce-related documents. The one on recto is clearly based on a real document and a real case, but gives "peloni" for the month …
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tahartī (CUDL), Yosef b. Berekhya or Moshe b. Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawān (PGP), to (Efrayim b.) Shemarya, Fustat. Discusses responsa of …
Bifolio of (communal?) accounts and/or legal records, mainly in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Judaeo-Arabic interspersed. There are two or three discrete text …
IB III, 28. Account by Avraham Ibn Yiju of Indian products sold for another merchant, Aden, ca. 1141-44.
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Letter from a certain Meʾir to his 'friend and brother' Abū ʿImrān ('ha-talmid ha-navon'). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand is familiar from other documents (distinctive …
Letter from Barhūn b. Yisḥaq al-Tāhartī to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96 CE. The sons of the late Nagid, who are owed favors, have asked …
Letter in the hand of Avraham b. Natan, probably addressed to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya with blessings for his son Moshe. Explaining the circumstances surrounding the …
Legal document. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has …
Letter from Manṣūr b. [...] to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār al-A[..]ī, in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The letter was sent together …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032 CE), Fustat, probably December 1028. Dating: 1025–1032 CE based on the years when …
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Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, in Alexandria, to his mother and father, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The address bears the name of …
כתאבי יאואלדתי אלעזיזה עלי אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם סלאמתהא וסעאדתהא
מן אלסכנדריה סלך איאר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק א…
State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
Recto: fragment of a recommendation letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli ha-Ḥaver b. Amram, Fustat. The name of the person who is recommended is …
Accounts in the hand of Nissim b. Ḥalfon, presented to Nahray b. Nissim; 1066 CE. Lists payments for various goods, made either directly or through …
לר נהראי [ ] מן גמלה אלורק
אלדי קבל האדי קאי ותלת ותמן
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לה בחק אלברקלו(?) מן אלצרה אלתי
וצלת מן אטראבלס א…
Letter from Jerusalem addressed to Efrayim b. Shemarya (Maḥfūẓ), concerning the revenue from the Compound of the Jerusalemites in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1040 CE (per …
…the Ḥāvēr, may God give you a long life and everlasting (favor and grace)
… your diving into abominations too enormous to be described