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Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
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Legal document from Fustat dated 24 April 1798 (8 Iyar 5558), stating that Me'ir ben Naʿim has invested 5500 muayyadis with the Karaites ("bnei mikra") …
Ketubba dated 13 December 1799 CE (15 Kislev 5560 AM) from Cairo, for Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Muḥibb and Palomba bt. Shalom ha-Levi. The me'ukhar is …
Letter in Hebrew and Ladino from Nehoray (?) b. Moshe Ṭoron[.]ah (?) to Shabbetay ʿAdda regarding a new business partnership between them. The date is …
No Scholarship Records
A letter in Ladino, possibly to Ya'aqov b. Habib, however, not the same person as the famous author of 'Ayn Ya'aqov. A Ya'aqov b. Habib …
Short note by the gabbai Avraham Yuʿbaṣ affirming that Kasīm (?) Meyuḥas will rent a house on "darb al-midrash" (on the street of the beit …
Partnership agreement dated Sivan 1735 CE (5495), to last for eight years, it seems for a business venture dealing in etrogim. The six partners are …
Drafts of Karaite conditional divorce documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sivan 5503 AM, which is 1743 CE. Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how …
:Draft one
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 1 Tevet 5490 AM (1729 CE). Location: New Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Esther bt. Yeshūʿa b. Avraham and the …
Letter of business from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez (חפז) to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances, dated 1797 CE (looks like 7 Adar II 5557 …
List of donations to the fund for clothing for the poor for the year 550[9] AM = 1747/8 CE. The list of contributors' names is …
Legal document for a investment partnership to benefit the communal fund for study of the Sefer Zohar in Old Cairo (Fusṭāt). Avraham Mosseri receives money …
בע׳׳ה
בהיות שנכתב שטר עסקא כהוגן וכשורה וענינו שהיקר נשא ונעלה כמה׳׳ר אברהם מוצירי יצ׳׳ו בן לאותו
צדיק החכם השלם חסידא קדישא כמה׳׳ר רחמים מוציר…
Letter in Hebrew dated 1766/67 CE (527 = וה(י)כינו את (אשר) יביאו) from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging …