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Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to his business associate Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim, in Fustat. Advising him to dispose of goods costing …
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Bill in which Shelomo b. Hakim promises to pay back to Nissim b. Yaʿaqov a sum of thirty 'pieces of gold' (dinars). The latter is …
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Legal record from the early thirteenth century explicating a communal conflict. The sermon of local Jewish judge describes accusations concerning women in the city lending …
Letter from Ovadiah in the inn to Abu 'Amran in rhymed prose. On verso is an address in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from Goitein's index cards and …
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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 …
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Karaite engagement deed between Avraham b. Eliyahu Fayruz and Zamorda d. 'Aziel/ 'Uziel. Dated Monday 10th Adar 5513 AM (1753 CE). Based on line 5, …
Letter from Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq he-Hazzan from Jerusalem to Eli b. Sadaqa. Probably ca. 1060.
Legal record (#106) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated [27 Kislev 5326 …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This …
Document of release concerning Avraham b. Shemuel and Saʿdān b. Saʿīd, witnessed by Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 …
Recto with address on verso (original use): Letter from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAyyāsh to his 'brother' (ʿArūs b. Yosef?) in Fustat. In Arabic script. The …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتابي ياخي وسيدي والعزيز علي وعندي اطال الله[
حماها الله ثمان بقين من ذي القعدة عرفك الله يوله بقطر واسعـ[
من ب…
IB IV, 53b (*ח53). Letter from an unknown correspondent to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1128 CE. In which the writer asks Ḥalfon to inform …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1v: …
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IB IV, 35 (ח44). Letter from the physician Yaʿaqov, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March …
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Document(s) in Arabic script. Recto has two closing lines of a standard Fatimid petition or report: ḥamdala, taṣliya, and the ḥasbala. The verso seems to …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Perahya b. Muʾammal, in Fustat, spring 1039.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Tevet 5416 AM, which is 1655/56 CE. Marḥaba the widow of Elʿazar(?) leases the large līwān …
Letter from the mother of Dā'ūd, in a provincial town, to her son Sulaymān al-Jamal, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She complains about a lack of …
State document, probably a petition. Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in …
Letter of recommendation. Avraham Maimonides recommends the Nasi ʿOvadya to the community of Bilbays ('to honor him and give him hospitality') after having given special …
Informal note to Abū l-Riḍā ha-Talmid ha-Vatiq (appears also in T-S 10J4.14 (PGPID 3017) as al-Wathīq). Dating: ca. early 13th century. The sender reports that …
IB II, 21 + 21c. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Fragments of four or five …
The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,
with regard to what you owed h…
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Calligraphic letter sent by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemarya to Rabbi Benjamin, containing greetings to his two sons and describing how he fell from his wealth, lost …
Long piece from a deed of sale of an enslaved woman. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi sells an enslaved person named Jaḥūn(?) to Abū l-Riḍā. In …
IB I, 29. Court proceedings in which the two brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Shela (for this identification, see T-S 10J21.11 | PGPID 2956) and Maʿālī, the …
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Legal documents, four entries on the recto and verso. Possibly drafts from a court notebook, including one completely crossed out. Location: Cairo. Dated in multiple …
Letter in Arabic script. The sender is a man from Alexandria who was forced to flee from that city because he was unable to pay …
Document dated 21 December 1817 CE (12 Tevet 5578 AM) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his …
Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Letter from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, (the muqaddam of?) Bilbays, to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Sefaradi, Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century. Discusses in …
Small and damaged fragment from a prenuptial agreement. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) in his cursive hand. From the little that …
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim to his son Abū Najm residing abroad. The father conveys a strong message to his son to return to God …
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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 …
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Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions the execution of something with "riḍā"(agreement). Dating: Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era, but this should be checked. 11 fragmentary lines …
IB III, 29c. Responsa in Avraham Ibn Yiju's hand: legitimacy of a manumitted female slave's marriage and status of her children, Yemen, ca. 1140. When …
Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning …
List of men's names, including: [...] Kawkab; Barakāt Ibn al-Maghāzilī; Surūr al-Ṭawīl; Mukhtār al-[...]; Hiba al-Baḥshūr; Bū Surūr Ibn Ḥashīsh; Khalaf b. Bishr; Ṣadaqa b. …
Power of attorney granted in a divorce settlement. Dated to the 11th century (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1058. Regarding different matters and people. Some of the lines are erased with a line through and a …
Letter from Abu al-Hayy b. Barhun Khalila, in al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Musa Tāhartī, reporting several losses of ships and merchandise. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא
ואגתת אעדאך מן אלמהדיה יום אלכמיס לי בקין מן מרחש…
Letter from the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm to Abū l-Ṭāhir. Uruwī addresses Abū l-Ṭāhir as "my son," here a term of endearment to a …
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Legal document: bill of sale for an enslaved woman to a certain Elʿazar ha-Kohen. The enslaved woman is called "So-and-so" (פלונית) and the woman who …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower left corner). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Bride: Ḥasana bt. Shelomo. Groom: Avraham b. Simḥa. …
List of daily collections in which almost all the benefactors give one or two dirhams. The lower parts of columns three and four contain accounts …
Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …
Legal document. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February 1225 CE, under the …
We were present, we the witnesses, when the following, explained in this
record, transpired, and we signed (this record) on the bottom (of …
Page from a court notebook concerning the verdict of the court in Fustat, written by Avraham, son of the Gaon, December 1026. See also T-S …
Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 14v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 …
Letter to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm from Abū al-Futūḥ b. Kanz al-Dawla, with which he sends the eparch two silk garments, four textiles …
Letter from a woman, unknown location, to her brother Yūsuf b. Makārim the cantor and dyer, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both …