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Legal record describing a husband trying to seize property, and declaring that his father-in-law’s accusations are false, even though the latter presented the court with …
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Fragment of letter containing polite formulae and mentioning the fast day of Yom Kippur. EMS
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Letter written by a man on behalf of his wife to her brother, inviting him to come out to the countryside for a full month …
Petition for charity from Bū Bakr b. al-Bābā al-Ṭūrī to an amīr with many titles (including al-isfahsalārī). In Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era, based on …
Fragment of a learned opinion on different subjects. The last section, preserved here and transcribed by Goitein, is against the 'direct method' in teaching children …
You also mentioned that a teacher in your place instructs the boys with out (first teaching them) the alphabet and the vowel signs. This is by …
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Letter from Moshe Ghaylioun (גאילייון) to Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo. Dated in the penultimate parsha of the liturgical calendar: "בסדר הרנינו גוים עמו" (Deut. 32:43) …
Verso: State document, two lines preserved and one partial line above. Due to water damage or perhaps long-term pressure and ink transfer, the document bears …
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 I, 19. Legal document: testimony on the date of a bill of divorce written by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, Yosef Lebdi's travel companion. Dated: Thursday, …
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Letter from [Yiṣḥa?]q b. Yosef to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Related to the India trade. The addressee may …
Karaite partnership dissolution agreement between two men who had been running a shop (דכאן) together. Dated Sunday 22nd Nisan 5441 AM (1681 CE). The two …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Business letter stating that Umm Bayān, who is dragged to court every day by her creditors, opened her husband’s storage crate …
Letter in Arabic script to unknown recipients from a certain Ibrāhīm mentioning a variety of Christian contacts such as Abū Adraūs and Abū Jirjis. Dated …
After [expressing our] most affectionate [?] longing [ ].
The abundance of your love is well-known [lit., ‘not hidden’], which was the reas…
A partially preserved medical prescription that mentions burnt goat-horn, eggplant, and a cup of wine. The recto (B 5664-1), in the same hand, bears a …
Letter from one of the followers of Natan b. Avraham. Dating: probably 1042 CE (GIl). The sender is seeking an appointment from the yeshiva and …
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Bill of release. Location: Damīra. The city is referred to as עיר דמירה הקטנה in Hebrew ("the city of little Damīra"). The release is granted …
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 Avraham, son of the Gaon, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the latter's …
Letter from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu Ishaq Barhun b. Musa in Busir. Contains multiple references to jahbadh fees, as well as mention …
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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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Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Avraham, in Ifrīqiyya, to his uncle, Moshe b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mid-11th century. A moving letter, …
Fragmentary record of sale; the script suggests that this was written in the Ottoman period, probably between the 17th-18th centuries. The document deals with a …
Marriage document. Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b. Bundār. Early 11th century, Cairo …
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Drafts of two legal documents, the first a declaration by a father regarding bequests to his sons. Incompletely drafted in Fustat. Dated 155?/1238-1248. (Information from …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov of Hebron to Shela the cantor, urgently inquiring about the fate of the body of his brother David, who had …
Copy of a responsum of R. Semah Dayyana de-Baba (Judge of the Gate, active ca. 870 CE). The transcription below begins on line 14 of …
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Trousseau of a female orphan, nineteen items. All clothing except for a six pillows, a trunk (ṣundūq) and a lamp. No price information. (Information from …
Letter. Second leaf of a long letter relating what happened to the writer's brother, Abū Naṣr, on an adventurous business voyage on the Nile. Abu …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), based on Weiss' paleographical assessment. Agreement probably between the daughter of Abū …
Recipes for effecting desired results with Psalms (shimmush tehillim).
Legal record (#74) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 25v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
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 from Abū l-Faraj to his paternal uncle, expressing his longing for him. The continuation is either torn away or was never written. The sender, …
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 …
Account of Abu al-Maʿālī(?), specifying weight and prices of goods. On verso there are further accounts, involving ward murabbā (rose petal jam). Someone with the …
Fragment in Ottoman Turkish. Only the second half of the text after the basmala is fairly clear in meaning with an invocation for success/divine grace …
Verso: Draft of a petition in Arabic script, addressed to a lower official. The petitioners raise a dispute regarding a synagogue (kanīsa). They are barred …
المماليك يقبلو الارض {وهو} ينهوا ان لهم بالمحلة كنيسة خرابة وهي تجمع شملهم
بالصلاة فيها والمماليك [[يمنعون]] //خائفين// من الدخول اليها لكونها …
Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fiancée: Sitt al-Dalāl. Conditions: 1. Should separation occur, the document freeing Sitt …
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Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
Letter from the Mosul Nasi whom Gil refers to as Jalāl al-Dawla. Dated: Ḥannuka 1548 Seleucid = 1237 CE. Concerns in part a negotiation between …
Deed of sale. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, end of Tammuz 4764 AM = 1315 Seleucid = July 1004 CE. In which Khalaf b. Yosef b. …
1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו //אנו החתומים למטה כי ג'מילה בת אסד אשת כלף בר יוסף בר יעקוב הידוע בן// בחמישי בשבת שהוא סוף חדש תמוז שנת
2. ארבעת אלפים ו…
IB III, 27. Three sundry accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in Yemen. Dating: 1140–44, 1149–1152.
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Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?), signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Shelomo [b. …
Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding …
Draft of a letter in Hebrew, ca. 1043, from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaon of Jerusalem (r. 1025–1051 CE). Efrayim requests …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "You have left me to die in this grief. A person would think that there is …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …
Legal document concerning the appointment by the court of an agent for orphans, who will collect what is due them from their mother when they …
IB III, 53. Fragment of a letter from Peraḥyā Yijū to Abu ʾl-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Written in al-Maḥalla, ca. 1161-72. "Peraḥyā extends to him wishes …