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Legal deed. Location: Damietta. Dated: 4840 AM = 1079/80 CE. Peraḥya b. Yona ha-Kohen and Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi appoint Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli as their …
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Accounts in Judeo-Arabic related to the finances of Mordechai Bilobos and Yiṣḥaq Bilobos expressed in "פצה/silver". On the right side of the recto the list …
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Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the community of Damietta, approximately 1015.
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Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …
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Recto: Account of Abū l-Faraj the physician upon his arrival from Damietta. Dating: ca. 1130 CE (based on the dating of verso). In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. A deal between an investor, possibly named Ibrahim, and three unnamed indigo dyers opening a workshop in Damietta. The active partners …
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Recto: Letter in a late hand, 16th-century at the earliest. Verso: Address to "the excellent judge" Meʾir b. Murjī (מרגי) in Dimyāṭ/Damietta (קפוטקיא). (Information from …
Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …
Letter from Fustat to the communal leaders of Damietta, Yiṣḥaq Beirav and Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen. First half of the 16th century. Mentions Avraham b. Shānjī and …
Legal document draft of a debt contract ("shtar/שטר," l. 7, 13) recording financial arrangments where Spanish Seville-minted reales "ריאליס שיבילייאנוס" are in use (l.4r). The …
Letter in the hand of Shemuel b. Natan to a circuit judge (Goitein's index cards). Nine persons mentioned by name acting as a board of …
Letter. Commercial letter from Murjī to his son, Meʾir b. Murjī, listing repayments from various individuals, including Moses [...] and David [...]. Address on verso. …
Letter from Daniel Cafsuto (aka Cassuto) and Shemuel Cafsuto (aka Cassuto) to a certain Saʿīd (or the son of Saʿīd), possibly Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …
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Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. Shemarya, regarding fundraising for the ransom …
Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic with …
Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …