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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 …
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Three, much damaged columns, seemingly in the hand of the scribe of App. C 1, 2, containing about sixty names of male persons, recipients of …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an unidentified benefactor. Shelomo asks him to help him out with the payment of the capitation tax, as he …
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The lord will keep you from all evil.
The insignificant slave Solomon the teach…
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State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is d…
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List of about ninety persons receiving subsidies for their capitation tax obligation, similar to T-S K15.14 + T-S K15.66, Apps. 4-5. Many names and sums …
Letter of petition from a man to a potential benefactor: 'I hereby inform you that I have been in good health, "concealed" among the people …
Letter from the wife of Shemuel, a poor woman from al-Maḥalla, addressed to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. She asks for assistance for herself and for her …
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Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …
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Recto: Letter from somebody, in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1230s. The purpose of the …