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Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. [NB volume number in shelfmark is roman numeral I, not Arabic numeral …
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Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
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Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a beautiful hand, different from recto. The sender seems to be in Akhmīm in Upper Egypt and to be upset …
Letter sent from the Egyptian capital by a man to his brother in the countryside, reporting that their mother is well and praying for him …
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Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd …
בש` רח` וחנ`
Accounts and other jottings in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Right side of recto: calculations in Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left of recto: list …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Probably in February 9, 1053. Mentions collecting debts from Kamel and b. Hajaj, which …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם [עזך…וצרף אלאסוא]
ענך ברחמ ליב בקין מן אדר [ראש]ון ואלחאל סל[אמה
ענכם מן יום וצלת סוא כתאב ואחד …
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Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to Abū Naṣr b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him that Abū l-Najm Hillel had sent him five jars containing …
Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …
Fragmentary list of sums received and final expenditures, including a Passover gift. Hand of Yefet b. David.
Letter from the daughter of Yosef b. Yoshiyya, in Damascus, to her younger cousin (father's brother's daughter) and daughter-in-law Sitt al-Nās bt. Moshe b. Yoshiyya, …
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Legal document concerning a nasty financial quarrel between Shemarya b. Ḥalfon and his son Eli, detailing that Eli initially took their dispute to a shari‘a …
Recto: Letter from the daughter of Rāfiʿ al-Ḥarīrī to the Nagid asking for a new veil for the holidays. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. She …
Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Poorly preserved letter containing biblical verses and a request by Abu Mansur for assistance from Saniyy al-Dawla, the supporter of every troubled person. (Information from …
Responsum from the court of the Baghdad Gaʾon Shemuʾel b. ʿEli. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1478 Seleucid (1166 CE). Concerns inheritance issues between Yosef and Maʿālī and …
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State document, small fragment. Written in enormous script, which seems most suited to a decree except that the formula bears resemblance to standard petition formula …
Marriage contract in Arabic script. Dated 29 [Dhū] l-Ḥijja 1002 AH (1594 CE). The JRL catalogue lists the date as 31 January 1680 (29 [Dhū] …
Muḥammad and his family, the go…
A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above …
Letter in Judaeo--Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th or early 12th century. The sender congratulates the addressee(s) on the holidays and reminds them of a promise …
Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1060. Daily account that was probably a draft. Might be the account of Maymun b. Khalfa. (Information from …
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Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
:Right side of bifolio 4v (Document 30)
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Missing only the first couple lines. The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's …
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اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على الاحوال السارة بمنه ولطفه ومما اعلمك اطال الله بقاك ان قد انفذت [اليك
الثوب والشعير ربعهم(وبعتهم/ر…
Commonplace book in Arabic script. In a childlike hand with numerous misspellings. There are several pages of poetry and several more pages of drafts or …
Legal record (#70) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: 5324 or early …
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 5448 AM, which is 1688 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham ha-Ḥakham ha-Rofe b. Aharon ha-Rofe ha-Ḥakham. …
Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b. Shabbat left few years ago …
Letter. One of the small handful of Judaeo-Arabic papyri. Labeled "papyrus I" in the classification of Blau and Hopkins. Dating: Probably 9th century or earlier. …
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Verso: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Monday, 5 Tammuz 1440 Seleucid = 24 June 1129 CE. Nissim b. Benaya and …
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Large Arabic script on the top.
Alms list in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly women, children, and/or sick people. JRL SERIES A 293 mentions the sister of Abū l-Faraj b. al-Munajjim; al-ʿAkkāwiyya; the ḥazzab …
Letter to the head of the Academy Avraham b. Mazhir, from [Natan] b. Shemuel ha-Haver. Dated Marheshvan 1453 Sel. (October 1141 CE). Includes a reference …
Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) …
Letter, possibly a draft, to a certain Sulaymān, inquiring about various business transactions and whether the addressee had taken the two copies of the Halakhot …
Legal document. Record of release. Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms …
מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין דחתימין לתחתא חצר אלינא אברהם הכהן ביר דניאל
//ועובדיה// ועבד אללה בן משלם אלצורי בעד מגלס אן תקדמ[ו אליה]א [.…
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Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
Letter from "the sons of Palṭiel" to Yosef the Turgeman/Turjumān. In Hebrew with a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. The …
Karaite bill of divorce. Date: 3 Iyyar 5437 AM (1677 CE). Location: Cairo. The husband Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon b. Mordekhay Rofe issues the get to …
Letter. Personal letter in which the writer reassures the recipient that he had acted according to his wishes and delivered five letters to his brothers-in-law …
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a relative (his father-in-law Abū l-Faraj?) complaining about the behavior of Abū l-Barakāt (Sitt Ghazāl’s paternal uncle and Shelomo’s first …
Opening of a letter from the yeshiva, probably fall 1053.
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī …
Legal document drawn up in Qayrawān. Dated: 4815 AM = 1054/55 CE. Consisting of copies of several other documents, drawn up at the request of …
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Fragment from the opening of a short note, addressed to Abū l-Munā and instructing him regarding the choice of two copies of a book, one …
א]מתתלת אמר מולאי
אלשיך אבו אלמני אדאם
אללה עזה פי אלתכייר בין
אלנסכתין ואלדי ענדי אן כאן
אלתמן ואחד פכד אלרק
ואן כאן אלרק אזיד ת…
Legal document listing funds from the estate of a deceased man. Dated 9 Av 5523 AM (1763 CE). The estate is connected to the income …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, Fustat. April 2, 1030 (the addressee received the letter in Rabīʿ …
Legal document. Dated: Sunday, 23 Av 1402 Sel. (10 August 1091). Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), …
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Legal record (#40) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 14v-15r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 1873 …
Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel with the responsum of Menahem b. Yiṣḥaq. The question deals with a woman who had permitted …