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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 …
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Letter of greetings from Sedaqa he-haver to Yehuda or to Mevorak Nagid (1095-1112). Alternative description: the title "prince of princes" (שר השרים) is obviously meant …
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IB IV, 60 (ח70). Letter from Yeḥezqel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon in Alexandria. Dated/dating: Iyar 1140. Yeḥezqel complains rather winningly and at …
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IB I, 25. Small fragment of a letter sent by a merchant in Egypt to the Maghrib. The sender asks the recipient to buy for …
…Your family
is well and safe, as you wish and desire. Of late,
all the population of the land of Egypt is enjoying justice and saf…
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Genealogical list of the family of Avraham Maimonides' mother (the wife of Moshe Maimonides), a family in which nearly every member is described as "he-Ḥasid" …
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Letter from Isḥāq b. ʿAlī al-Majjānī, probably in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Around 1040. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with disagreements …
[יאסידי וריי]סי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלא[מתך]
[ ] אד כרגת יאכי ולם תעלמני בכרוגך פשק עלי דלך עטים אסל [אללה]
[ ] ע…
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Letter sent by a son to his father in a silk shop in Minyat al-Qa'id. He inquires about the eye disease of the addressee and …
IB IV, 37 (ח36). Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi in Toledo to Ḥalfon b. Netanel regarding the collection of funds in al-Andalus for the ransom of …
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Private accounts of Abu Zikri Tabib in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim (Goitein) or Yehuda b. Saadya (Gil). Dating: ca. 1065 (Gil). Draft. Mentions …
Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal from Fustat. Around 1010. Regarding a shipment of silver which b. …
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Legal document dated 25 Tammuz 5548 AM (July 1788 CE), Cairo, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, from Yiṣḥaq Aripol for part …
Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim to an unidentified addressee mentioning accounts and the amount of linen that the addressee has to provide. …
] עלי אנה ב'ע'ה' אכד מנא סער פ'
לספאקץ [
טרי עליי בדלך
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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 …
Shipping certificate of Yosef b. Khalfa. Summer 1062. Details about textile products to send with boxes of crocus. The same goods are mentioned in Bodl. …
Draft or copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with biblical citations in Hebrew. Concerning a communal conflict.
State document, in Arabic script. One line in a chancery hand. Mentions farming and possibly the Egyptian village of Banī Murra (near Asyūṭ) — although …
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Tyre. October 29, 1056. The letter is addressed from Nahray b. Nissim …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ
מן אלאסכנדריה ליג בקין מן מרחשון ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא …
Legal record (#105) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Kislev [5326 …
Letter from the Jewish community of Qafṣa (Gafsa), Tunisia, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1016 CE, as it mentions Manṣūr b. Rashīq's …
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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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Elul 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. The widow of Avraham Yedid invests 9000 medins with Yeḥezqel …
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: April 1076. Location: Fustat. Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a …
Four (?) court records in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Fustat September 1133 a: The court prohibits Yosef b. Avraham to enter a …
Order of payment relating to communal administration. The addressee is supposed to settle accounts with Sālim and Maḥfūẓ 'the collectors' (jābīs) for the 20 dirhams …
Deposition. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Monday, 18 Sivan 1486 Seleucid = 9 June 1175 CE. In which two persons testify to the poverty of a …
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Letter from a former official and representative of the Nagid (na’ib) of the Alexandrian community to the Nagid, requesting that he intervene on the writer’s …
Recto: Letter fragment to the congregations of Fustat and in particular to the dayyan Elazar. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, active …
Account for burial expenses. Goitein (Med. Soc., 4:160) interprets the deceased as belonging to the lower middle class, but he may have been affluent: in …
Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of …
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Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. On a narrow sliver of paper. Dating: probably 13th century. Recto: Letter addressed to Elʿazar, complaining about the addressee's delay in copying …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būṣīr to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Andalūsī (c. 1061 CE).
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך מן בוצ[יר]
יא בקין מן אדר ראשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמ…
Letter fragment from Mubārak b. Isḥāq (=Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The hand does not appear to be the …
Letter from a weaver to his wife including family news and instructions, and notifying her of his dispatches to them. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
Marriage contract (ketubba) on parchment with an ornate border. The design is well-preserved and may have been rendered with watercolor paint. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, …
Letter from Iṣḥaq b. David b. Sughmār to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, mid 11th century. The writer asks Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī to purchase for …
לאדוני ורבי אבו יצחק ברהון בן מוסא התאהרתי נ"ע, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לו; מודה חסדו אסחק בן דאוד נ''נ בן סגמאר.
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Two fragments, probably from the same ketubba (marriage contract) showing elements characteristic of North African custom, perhaps as early as the 9th century.
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r
Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to the Head of the Congregations, perhaps R. Eliyyahu the Dayyan, describing a meeting of about fifty elders …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-haver containing congratulations to Passover for Shelomo ha-Rofe and "the sons of the generous Yeshua" (Hebrew: "Benei Yeshua Ha-Nadiv"). Verso: …
מבורך בן נתן בן שמואל החבר
Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq in Alexandria to Yahya b. Ismail in Fustat. The sender inquires about a shipment of tin sent to the addressee. …
Letter from the wife of Baṣīr (or rather Nuṣayr) the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David II Maimonides, asking him to help return her husband, …
In your name, You Merciful.
To the high Seat of our Lord the Nagid, may his splendor be exalted and his honor great.
The maidservant
th…
Legal deed in Aramaic copied three times, partially written and signed by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen and signed by Moshe b. Yahya Majjani. Ca. 1060.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Dating: ca. 1135 CE, based on the appearance of Maḥfūẓa bt. Yosef Zayn al-Tujjār. Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon Muḥammad, his prophet, and his pure family [ …
Letter (ending only) addressed to David Ben-Naʿim and Moshe Ben-Naʿim in Alexandria ( נא אמון) presumably from their father, Meʾīr, who only signs with his …
Letter fragment by Shelomo b. Yehuda, who signs with Gaonic honorifics (which support an inferred date range of 1025–1051 CE). Reused on verso for jotted …
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Letter of request in which the widow of Abu Sa'id b. Shalom, writing to a Nagid, expresses a cry for help on behalf of her …
IB ח94 (דף ב). Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, perhaps in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. …
Beginning of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract mentioning in the dowry list, among other garments, a 'jukaniyya,' a garment covering body and head, made of 'white dabiqi'' and worth two …
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Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. In which the daughter of Menaḥem ha-Talmid …
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