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State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a lower official. "Mamlūk al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliya". Only beginning formula preserved. Mentions khufarāʾ (the village protectors).
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Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from …
Original text(s): Document(s) in Arabic script in a chancery hand. Recto and verso have pieces of what are probably two different documents. Recto looks like …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a debt. Mentions 'our master the Gaʾon' (Maṣliaḥ) twice; …
State document, Fatimid period. Letter of a Fatimid dāʿī addressed to a chief qāḍī to congratulate him on a new honor the caliph had bestowed …
وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل
رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير]…
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Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …
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Letter. Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl. MS …
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Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1432 Seleucid, which is December 1120 CE. Detailing …
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Letter from a man in Minyat Ghamr to his brother Maḥfūẓ in Fustat. In Arabic script. The writer has been ill, and people tell him …
Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …
Deed about paying a debt in installments, probably by a husband (Meshullam, known as Abu al-Makarim) to his wife (Sitt al-Baha bt. Yehuda). The document …
Court register fragment containing the remnants of 13 documents, most of which are fully intact. Dated Tevet-Kislev 5460 AM which is 1699-1700 CE. The scribal …
Legal record, likely from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: 8 Heshvan 1473 Seleucid = 30 October 1161 CE, under the authority of Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
Letter from an in-law probably to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, entreating him to divorce his wife (Sitt Ghazāl).
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Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …
List of names of poor persons, without numbers. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 456.) On the smaller piece (T-S AS 146.218), names include Abū …
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat; 21 July 1046 (Gil). Talks about sending back sacks and about an inkstand (Gil) …
בשמך רח
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמאך וסעאדתך מן אל
מסתקר יום אלאתנין אלנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה אלדי ת…
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Marriage contract in Arabic script. Dating: 1028–36 CE, based on the mention of the judge ʿAbd al-Ḥākim b. Saʿīd (b. Mālik) b. Saʿīd. Groom: ʿAlī …
هذا ما أصدق على بن طاهر البواب فاطمة ابنة أبي الحـ[ـسن]
ذهبا عينا وازنة مجربة جيادا على ان من ذلك دینارین نقدا حالا [سنوات]
متواليات کوا…
This is what ʿAlī ibn Ṭāhir, the gatekeeper, granted to Fāṭima ibnat Abī al-Ḥasan [ ]
gold, in minted coin, full weight, assayed, of good allo…
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Responsum of Daniel b. Azarya about a dispute between men named Avraham and Yaʿaqov.
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 36
Inventory of a wine merchant's wine cellar. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 259)
Extremely faded letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. The overall tone is distressed. When the content starts to …
Testimony concerning a tarika (inheritance) of two women recorded at the court of Avraham b. Ishaq, Ab 1389/July 1078, Fustat.
Legal record (#125) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 14 Av 5329 …
Recto: Release written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe in Fustat. Using the standard formulae, a woman named Mawlāt releases her husband, Abū l-ʿAlā, from all accusations …
Letter from a ḥaver of the Jerusalem yeshiva, identified by Frenkel as probably Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in …
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Bifolium from a court register. Dated in several entries as Kislev 5496 AM (1735 CE). This reading of the final ligature as צו is confirmed …
:(Documents 1-4) Right side of bifolium
Letter from Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥayy to his "father" the leader (ʿaqīd) Danī b. Kannān. Complaining about people who have interfered with the ploughing on …
Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 12 Kislev, 1026, in the hand of Yefet ha-Hazan b. Daud, who signs alone. Sulayman b. Yusuf made …
Fragment of a ketubba (marriage contract) which stipulates that the bride would move from Tyre to Akko in twelve months, ca. 1028-1037. The bride's father …
Letter by Akhlabu b. Aharon ha-Kohen from Alexandria to Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen Fasi. The writer apologizes for not having accompanied the recipient on his …
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Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer and Abū Zikrī owe the son of Rabbenu Merayot 7 dinars for silk. Goes on to list various transactions …
Recto: letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, presumably in Qalyub, to his father, presumably in Fustat, late 12th century or early 13th. "If you have …
Legal record (#123) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 28 Sivan 5329 …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1011 CE. Mentions the deaths of Shemarya b. Elḥanan and the cantor Palṭiel, as well as the …
Dirge on the death of a scholar which also appears in another document (Or 5557 P. f. 56) believed to have been written on the …
Fragment of a letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to ʿEli b. Amram, in Fustat. Daniel is expressing his support of ʿEli b. ʿAmram against people …
Fragment of an official letter from Fustat addressed to a certain town in the Rīf (or perhaps a circular), exhorting them to be generous and …
Recto (probably secondary use): Prognostications or advice in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
Letter from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand of the letter resembles that of T-S 16.272, written by an Alexandrian judge. Fragment: Bottom half …
Bifolio with several different sorts of writing in both Hebrew and Arabic script. 1. A copy of a letter from Yeḥiziyahu b. David b. Yeḥizqiyahu …
List of about sixty recipients of charity, some identical with those in T-S NS J293. One section is superscribed 'In the Tujib' (a quarter of …
Verso: Legal document, in Arabic script. A divorce document involving a high-level Ayyubid official described as one of the mamlūks of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aḥad al-mamālīk …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal documents", 42, no.144). Groom: Aharon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. …
Verso: Letter of appeal for charity addressed to al-Rayyis Yūsuf. In Arabic script, calligraphic with large letters. Asking him to bestow two garments (thawbayn) on …
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46v: A renewed betrothal contract dated Tammuz 1493 Seleucid = June/July 1182 CE. Groom: Abū l-Baqāʾ Sheʾerit b. Yefet. …
A complete manuscript of the Bible, known as "Leningrad Codex", copied and punctuated and added with Masorah notes by the scribe Shemuel b. Yaaqov, a …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card contains several conflicting suggestions about the handwriting of the sender and the dating. The sender is pained that his …