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Part of a legal document. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar II 5323 AM = 24 February 1563 CE. Signed by Pinḥas b. Moshe …
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Recto: Accounts in Ladino in muayyadis, naming Shelomo, Hakham Moshe, Yizhaq M[...?], Shemuel Ḥarran, Reuven, and amounts owed to and received from different parties. On …
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: Note to a man with many titles. In the margin there is the actual information: someone had gone to Rashid and Abu l-Faraj and …
List of account calculations in Judeo-Arabic designated on the verso according to months of the Hijri calendar. The paleography helps to estimate the dating of …
Possibly a late letter in Hebrew. Rashid is named at the bottom. Needs examination.
A letter to Ya'aqov Fransin in Rashid Also mentioned Nissim Faranji. 15th century?
Letter fragment Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions a silk merchant (qazzāz) and a fuller or bleacher …
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Legal deed. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: 17 Tevet 5318 AM = 8 December 1557 CE. Settling debts between Shelomo, Rahamim and Reʾuven. Signed by Avraham …
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Debt acknowledgement in Hebrew. Dated 8 Sivan 5536 AM (May 1776 CE). Location: Cairo. Yaʿaqov Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ commits to repay a debt of 68.5 reales abūṭ[aqa] …
Letter drafts in Judaeo-Arabic from an unknown sender to Yaʿaqov Maṣlīaḥ. Dated 15 Tammuz 5578 AM which is 1818 CE. There is writing on Page …
Marriage document. An ornamented ketubah from Rashid, 1785 CE. The text is complete, but the left margin with the decorations is torn. The groom is …
Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …
Letter from Moshe Bibas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The port city Rashid is mentioned at the opening of line 20. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century, since it mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly with business matters. Mentions …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …
Business letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Monday, 5 Adar [5318 AM], which is 1558 CE (see A. David's …
Bill of divorce (get) from Rashid, for Shemuel b. Avraham and Diamante bt. Yosef, dated 6 September 1751 CE (16 Elul 5511 AM).
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement between Nissim Zeraḥya and Miryam bt. Shelomo ha-Levi. Dated 1749 CE (21 Heshvan 5510), Rashid. Currency: the gold zeri maḥbūb coin (זהובים …
Letter from Moshe b. Abudarham, probably in Rashīd, to Elʿazar al-Kātib, probably in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of 16th century, based on Avraham …
Ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Rashīd. Dating: Although it is extremely damaged, a year is legible in line 2 as 548_ / 5408 / or 5418 …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Thursday, 13 Heshvan 5311 AM, which is October 1550 CE. Witnesses: Seʿadya b. Yehuda קוננטיני and Yosef …
Ketubba, illuminated, from Rashid. Date: 14 Nisan 5542 AM (1782 CE). Bride: Simḥa bt. ___m[?] Fes. Groom: Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq Fes. The total ketubba value …
Legal deed in Hebrew detailing a sarraflık partnership involving members in Cairo and Rashīd. Dated: Shevat 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. The shared purse …
Drafts of court records that were copied into the register of the court in Cairo. Regarding items sent from Salonika to Rashid and various marital …
Legal document, a one-year employment contract for the services of a kosher butcher. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: First third of Tishrei 5534 AM = September …
Letter from Moshe Binyamin to Isaac Luria (CUDL). "A certain Moshe Binyamin sent two letters from Rashid to Luria in Egypt, probably either in 1555 …
Letter from Moshe b. Abudarham, probably in Rashid, to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …
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 Shemuel Sidi, in Damietta, to his brother-in-law and business partner Gabriel (likely Gabriel Conforte, son of the famous David Conforte). In Ladino. See …