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A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). On left hand side of …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an Abu al-Barakat whom he addresses as 'brother' and 'friend'
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Recto: Upper part of a letter from Shelomo (b. Eliyyahu?) to "my honored father." In Hebrew (which is unusual for him). He reports that he …
Letter to Avraham son of Gedol ha-Gola Nethanel. Opens with biblical quotations (line 1, Micah 5:8; line 2, Prov. 3:26). The sender starts in Hebrew …
Letter from a mother to her daughter الست الجليلة بيننا ادام الله نعمتها, containing a taqbīl clause and mentioning their long-distance relationship. Written on parchment, …
من عندك(!)
والدتك
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
تقبل الارض بين يدي الست الجليلة بيننا ادام
الل…
Letter from Shemuel b. Yaḥyā, in Fustat, to his wife ʿAzīza, perhaps in Gaza. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century. He informs …
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Karaite betrothal deed. The groom, Ḥayyīm b. Nissīm known as Revaḥ, taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 10 years, except in the …
A manuscript of the Five Books of Moses (incomplete), which was once continued in RNL Yevr. II B 42 (PGPID 38536). Three colophons, one at …
Letter from Ḥasan b. Sahl (aka Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Ḥasan aka Yedutun ha-Levi). Very deferential ("I am illuminated by the light of your opinions," …
List of names in Arabic characters with sums in Coptic numerals. (Information from Goitein index cards)
Account of Barhūn b. Sāliḥ ha-Tāhartī, 1055. Three bifolios (six pages) with two binding-holes on either side of each centerfold. Contains details about commodities such …
ברכת יי היא תעשיר
שרח מא בקי לנא במצר ענד אבי יחיי סלמה אללה
ממא הו לכאצה אבי אלפרג ישועה זוג שקאק כאם
וממא הו ללכלטה א…
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated Kislev 5480 AM in one entry, which is 1719 CE. (the dating info in FGP is incorrect). Verso: …
Ketubba. Fragment (first few lines only). Dated: 27 Shevat 1282 Seleucid, which is January 971 CE. (Information from Moshe Yagur.)
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
Fragment of a Karaite ketubba, 11th-century Fustat. Information from FGP.
Official report addressed to a Fatimid vizier. The addressee's titles (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ tāj al-aṣfiyāʾ qāḍī l-quḍāt dāʿī [l-duʿāt ʿalam al-majd] khalīl amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuhū) are …
P1: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably a partnership agreement.
Account book of Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī containing payment orders. Dating: ca. 1048 (Gil). (Information from Gil) NB: in l. 11 below, it is probably …
שרח חסאב אלשיך אבו [ ]
קבץ ש דינ כה דינ [ ]
דלך שכה [ ]
וקיר [ ]
לה מן דלך צו דינ תנקץ [ ]
ולהא צרף תולתי תכון אלגמלה [ד]ינר [ ]
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Letter from Sahlān b. Avraham to a Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1035. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 622-623, #339). Goitein …
IB VII, 64. Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, congratulating him on his …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
Description from T-S 12.502 (PGPID 7245): Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (per Weiss). Dated: Av 1434 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. …
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Legal question sent to “Rosh ha-Seder” who might be R. Yehuda ha-Cohen ha-Rav ha-Gadol, Rosh ha-Seder b. Joseph, the student of Rabbenu (“Our Master”) Nissim …
Engagement contract between Ḥusayn b. Faraj and his prospective father-in-law Fuḍayl b. ʿAllūn, for the hand of Fuḍayl's elder daughter Mufaddāt. Dating: Ca. 1000, per …
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Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …
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ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[
الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[
اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب وعند مولا…
Letter from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. Nahray is sending goods to the …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ṭevet 1441 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Acknowledging the deposit of an inheritance. Abū l-Ḥusayn …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script.
P3: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to the purchase of a property; someone titled 'sar'; "that is …
IB III, 52. Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yijū, in al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-Fakhr Saadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. Dating: 1161–72 CE. Peraḥya …
Recto: Draft of a legal testimony from Fustat. Dating: late 10th or early 11th century. Concerning the legitimacy of two cantors and slaughterers, the brothers …
Fragment of a query seeking a responsum, addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) regarding an unmarried man living with a female slave. Avraham Maimonides served as …
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Legal record (#8) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 6 …
IB IV, 47 (ח50). Letter from Shelomo b. Maymūn, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Consists almost entirely of polite expressions of longing and flattery. …
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Calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Dated the 19th of Kislev 5422 AM (1661 CE). Location: Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known …
Letter from Moshe b. Ya'qub, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing its top part. Dated 8 Tammuz יהפך אבלו לששון, but no year is given; likely 14th or 15th century. The sender …
Letter in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya (Gil) to ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Daniel b. Azarya refers to notebooks of responsa (including some by Samuel …
Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. Moshe known as al-Shay[kh?], Moshe b. Shelomo (known as Ibn Ḥassān), and the late Abū Naṣr "who used …
IB II, 13 + 14. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: three fragments of two copies. Aden, ca. 1130s. An additional copy …
Your hands shall prevail over your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.
To our esteemed master and lord Abraham—may G…
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Business letter describing dire market conditions where prices are high and an environmental catastrophe destroyed most of the crops. In Arabic script. Mentions cotton and …
ويكون جواب كتابي هذا الى بلبيس باخباره واحواله والعارض من حاجاته فانه يسرني بذلك
وساير البضايع غلت واقفة من السقط وغيره وسرت عن خلت(؟) و…
Left side of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew sent by Yosef ha-Kohen b. Gaon Shelomo to Efrayim he-Ḥaver, in the name of a widow, asking …
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Letter from a cantor of Mosul. T-S 12.257r is continued in T-S K25.209 and ends in T-S 12.257v. The letter is written in childish script, …
Letter from the Jerusalem gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–51) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1025–26 (Gil). Written in a high register of …
Letter of appointment for Shabbat ha-Melammed (the teacher). According to Goitein, this is Shabbat b. Elʿazar ha-Melammed. Dated: Tammuz 1366 Seleucid = June/July 1055 CE. …
Draft of a legal document, or of a letter containing a record of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning copies …
An almost complete manuscript of the pentatueuch, with Sa'adya's Tafsīr and masoretic annotations, copied in the early years of the eleventh century. A series of …