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Autograph letter from Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), in Cairo, to a physician known as al-Muhadhdhab, unknown location. Dated: Heshvan 1646 Seleucid = October …
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Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), who is introduced with his usual motto, to the community in Cairo concerning a …
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An alimony of 6 dirhams, probably a case of divorce. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Also contains a booklist.
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Booklist. Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
List of books found in the estate of Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, the local judge (nāʾib) of Sunbāṭ, in Lower Egypt. Dated: Jumāḍā II 545 AH, …
Booklist? Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
Letter from the judge R. Hanan'el b. Shemuel to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū in Alexandria. AA
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סיבת משלוח הטורים האלה לכבוד וכו' היא בראש ובראשונה ברכה על הנצר האציל שלו, התלמיד המפואר ר' יוסף, שמרו צורו. המקום ברוך הוא יזכה…
A family letter written by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq to his three brothers. He objects to the marriage of Abu al-Mufadal, one of his …
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Recto (original use): Power of attorney. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Ḥeshvan 4835 AM = 9 November 1074 CE. A woman, Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba …
Letter from Miryam to her brother, Moses Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168-1204 CE). Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her …
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to Fustat against improper competition in the making of cheese. Information from Goitein's index card.
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Letter by Sahlan ha-Mumḥe (b. Avraham) discussing the meaning of difficult words in a piyyut by ha-Qalir. In Hebrew with the address in Arabic script.
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Letter (communal) in the hand of Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, writing on behalf of the community of Alexandria. Only the elegant rhymed prose opening of the …
Bifolium from Saadya Gaon's Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq. Information from FGP.
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List of persons, headed by R. Nahray (Nahray), on the payroll of the community. Goitein says: scholars on the payroll of the Cairene commuity. Similar …
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Monograph; Saadia's formulary of legal documents - sections pertaining to divorce and halisah; published, with translation, by Ben-Sasson, 'Fragments from Saadya's Sefer Ha-Edut ve'Ha-Shetarot' in …
Strong censure from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) that the addressee had left a guest recommended by him without food on …
Letter. A Hebrew address is all that survives from a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, the judge, to the school of higher studies (Heb. …
Court record regulating the inheritance of the estate left behind by a Jewish merchant who drowned at sea near Alexandria. His estate was transferred to …
Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and …
Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yosef in Alexandria to the community of Fustat. The handwriting is Yeshua's and the letter is written in rhymed prose. …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi (Nīsābūrī), in Alexandria, to Ṣadaqa b. Yaḥyā al-Nāʾib ('the deputy'), in Fustat. He writes about a partnership in a …
Copy of a letter from Menaḥem b. Eliyyahu, in an unspecified location near Salonica and Constantinople. In Hebrew, with occasional phrases in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably composed …
A bookseller keeps books, some of them borrowed from others. (Information from Goitein typed text and Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
Letter from Abu Nasr b. Ibrahim, Alexandria, to his partner Abu Ishaq the nāʾib (deputy). Dating: 11 May 1141. The first page of the letter …
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Letter from Avraham b. Natan in Tyre to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1090–93. During these years, Avraham b. Natan had to flee Tyre due …
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) dealing with the capitation tax and with the kashrut of meat, first half of the …
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Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (b. ca. 1310–d. 1355) to the community of Fustat asking them to arrange a charitable collection (Information from …
Letter from Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The letter informs Shelomo …
Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …
Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. Maḥfūẓ, dictated to …
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Verso: Addendum of a letter from a judge in Fustat to his wife in Alexandria, encouraging her to buy a robe and advising her about …
Letter from the chancellery of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. ca. 1310 – d. 1355) concerning a needy orphan. The first line is in Arabic …
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Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) regarding a collection (jibaya), ordering that the addressee's 'wife' (bayt) and the wife of …
Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
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Letter of recommendation from Yehuda to Avraham ha-Zaqen about a righteous silk weaver named Tahor al-Talmid from the pupils of Avraham Maimonides (min jumlat aṣḥāb …
Top of a legal document. Location: M[inyat Zif]ta Jawād. Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid = 11 November 1316 CE, under the authority (reshut) of …
Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti to Yosef b. Awkal and his sons Hillel and Binyamin (written 8.21.1008, received 11.1.1008), upper fragment only.
Letter from Isma'il b. Yosef b. Abi Aqaba, Damsis (Egypt), to his mother's brother Yusuf b. Awkal, first quarter of the 11th century. Ed. S. …
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshua from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes the situation in Alexandria before the shipping season …
Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, in Fustat, ca. 1030. Mentions Palermo and Mahdiyya; ships of Ibn Daysūr …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Atrablusi, Qayrawan, to Yosef b. 'Awkal.
Letter from Khalluf b. Zakariyya, Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal. The date of the letter's arrival was written in Arabic script on verso (AH).
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Letter from Hārūn b. Yosef Ibn al-Ghazzāl, in Qayrawan, to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.
Letter from Ismā'īl al-Tāhartī, Ifrīqiya, to Abū l-Bishr Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, Egypt. Mentions "the remnants of an illness" (athar al-ʿilla, l. 4.
Verso: India Book (IB) IV,72 (*ח24). Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to an India trader (probably not Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel). Dating: 20 …
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Letter from Avraham b. Natan, possibly in Tyre, to a tenant of his, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Gil identified the sender based on his handwriting. …
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Letter from Yosef b. Yeshu'a, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Awkal (1028 or 1029).
Letter from Natan b. Nahray in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, from 1080s. Natan sends his regards to Avraham b. R. Yaʿaqov Darʿi. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלאסכנדריה גד ראש השנה אעאדה אללה
עלי מולאי סנין כתירה ועל…
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