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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Concerning an audience with a state official, potentially even the caliph, based on the involvement of the …
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Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) (in Cairo) to the community of Fustat about a conflict between two butchers who had caused …
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Court record. Dating: mentions Nisan 1410 Seleucid = March/April 1099 CE (terminus ante quem). Dealing with a complicated lawsuit of a case in which Abū …
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Letter fragment reporting about a dignitary in prison from whom a declaration was taken to be given both in a Jewish and a Muslim court. …
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander …
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Legal declaration. After the death in Sicily of Abū l-Surūr b. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥibrī, his brother Futūḥ claimed his inheritance and the court establishes that …
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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 …
IB II, 4. Letter from Amram b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim requesting to forward a letter to Hassan b. Bundar. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 …
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Recto: Letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb to an unknown recipient. Written in a good hand and pleasant style. This letter implores the addressee to …
Public letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). The cantors of Fustat are instructed to read it aloud in the synagogue on …
Recto: Letter by Shemuʾel to his brother Abū l-Rabīʿ Shelomo. Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script and the draft of another letter (introduction only) …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Av 5386 AM, which is 1626 CE. Concerning Malka/Milka bt. [...] Amarillo, the widow of the …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Faraj al-Makīn (probably his father-in-law). In Judaeo-Arabic. Prefaced by a single line of decorated biblical quotation. Shelomo mentions …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Acknowledgement of debt. A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in a town in the Rīf, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Shelomo's bad handwriting. He greets …
Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: no earlier 1155 CE based on the original use on verso (PGPID 11413). Goitein dated it to 1181–1200 but …
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Thursday, 2 Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. Shemarya. Wife: Esther bt. Namir. …
Legal document acknowledging a debt on account of a dowry. Date: 29 Sivan 1293 Sel. (982 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom is Yosef ha-Kohen b. …
ומאתים ותשעים
Legal fragment regarding a partnership. Involves Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen; Minyat al-Qāʾid; 20 dinars; splitting shares equally; and Ṣedaqa Neʾeman [ha-Yeshiva].
IB IV, 51 (ח43). A letter from Ibn al-Fakhar to Halfon b. Netanel Halevi, asking for assistance and sending regards to R. Yosef Ibn Migash …
Description for T-S 6J10.12: Fragment of a letter from Amram b. Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1075. The writer informs …
חצרה מולאי אלחבו אלגליל גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאה
ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ותאיידה ונעמאה ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה
ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך…
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Forms of excommunication in Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, 332) VMR
Deed of sale for a male Abyssinian slave (ghulām ḥabashī) named Muqbil, a minor (dūn al-bulūgh), who was tattooed (or rather branded?) on a covered …
Agreement between Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān, the husband of his daughter Fāʾiza, in which Barhūn undertakes to redeem the silver vessels belonging …
פאיזה זוגה ברהון בן סהלאן
Letter from Yeshua b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī from Alexandria, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1056. In the handwriting of Yeshua b. Isma’il, with an …
Declaration about five generations of males and females related by ramified family connections. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 286)
Letter from Abū l-Barakat b. Abū l-Ḥasan to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is evidently a family member of Shelomo's wife Sitt Ghazāl …
The distinguished master's goodness…
and punishing her every Friday. However, your own words testify against you, and the proof is
that …
Fragment of a letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (d. 1355) addressed to the cantor Abu al-Faraj, like several other letters from the …
Letter sent by Yaʿaqov b. Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another …
Legal document. According to Ashtor, "an agreement concerning a levirate marriage, second half of the 15th century." However the basis for the dating is not …
Legal testimony. Location: Sunbāṭ (Sambuṭya). Dated: Adar 1427 Seleucid = February/March 1116 CE. In which Hilāla bt. Natan (aka Hilāla bt. Hiba), a widow with …
Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 …
Legal record (#131) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 29 Elul 5329 …
Contract of debt in which Mufaḍḍal b. [...] ha-Kohen acknowledges that he owes a sum of money to someone. (Dating: 13th century. Probably written by …
Verso: Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the cantor Abū l-Ḥasan (=Yedutun ha-Levi?) 9 dirhams. T-S K25.240 consists …
Letter from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
Record of a collection containing 22 names with Coptic numerals. On verso 5 names are repeated with the same numerals, the beginning of a final …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy. Around 1063. The writer informs the addressee about Nahray b. Nissim’s illness. Seems …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתק[ר ל ] בקי מן אב יהפך
לשמחה כתמה אללה עלי מולאי באחסן כאתמ…
Will of Moshe b. Adiyya who declares that his wife did not owe him anything, but that not all she was owed in her marriage …
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Bill of gift and release granted to grandchildren. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One of the parties name is …
Letter from David b. Daniel asking to arrange a short meeting. (See Gil, Palestine, volume 1, sec. 905.)
Collection for the capitation tax - jibayat al-jawali (verso) (for the 6th week of the liturgical year, usually falling in November). As the very small …
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List of collections, all crossed out. Recto contains a letter requesting payment or distribution of bread to various young women?
שוליים: ומן אלרנע אלכביר תכון אל…
Legal document(s) in Arabic involving a ḍamān (tax guarantee) and ḍumanāʾ (tax guarantors). Dating: 1101–21 CE, based on the invocation of the caliph al-Āmir (r. …
حضرت الكشف المذكور والامر على ما ذكر ووصف فيه
وشهدت على اقرار الضمنا المذكورين [فيه بما يضمنه] هذا
العمل بالموجود المذكور وكتب يحيى بن اس…
Letter from the year 1103 (established according to Shela's biography, see Frenkel, Compassionate, p. 76). The letter is written in the hand of Shela b. …
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Deposition by Yosef ha-Kohen b. Nataniel recording that he would not honor an agreement according to which 25 dinars out of a debt owed to …
Letter from the leader of the Jewish community in a small town to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (1094–1111) complaining about trouble he has had …
Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described …
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 …
Two short fragments of a legal document (or prescriptive text?) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) that contain instructions for conducting …