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3051
Paraliterary textT-S NS J17
Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar b. Eliyyahu Gaon b. Shelomo Gaon b. Yosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Evyatar was titled "the fourth" (ha-reviʿi) at …
TS NS J 17, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp.347-348 (Doc. #545), N.H. 10-23-87 (p) Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyahu Gaon
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3052
Legal documentT-S 18J1.35
Legal document. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5509 AM = 17 June 1749 CE. Location: Cairo. In which Mordechai ben Naʿim and David ben Naʿim settle the …
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3053
LetterT-S 10J19.25
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Sivan 5568 AM, which is 15 June 1808 CE. …
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3054
Legal documentT-S 20.11
Ketubba from the late 13th–14th century, with no names preserved other than a signatory, Joseph ha-Levi. Information from CUDL.
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3055
Paraliterary textT-S K6.88
Recto: geomantic designs consisting of series of horizontal dashes organised in groups of 4 lines each and laid out in two columns. At the end …
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3056
Paraliterary textT-S K25.210
Medical recipes for dental hygiene. Medical text regarding the importation and trade of miswāk sticks to be used as toothbrushes, of honey, ginger, pepper, zatar …
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3057
Paraliterary textT-S Misc.34.22
A magical recipe with a drawing, entitled מצדת שפטים. Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Deuteronomy 3:21-24 on f. 1v. (Information from CUDL.)
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3058
View document detailsLiterary textT-S Misc.34.24
Leaves from Maimonides' Judaeo-Arabic draft of his Arabic treatise on sexual intercourse, commissioned by the Ayyubid prince Taqī al-Dīn Umar. Maimonides prescribes various concoctions to …
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3059
Literary textT-S Misc.35.37
A commentary on poetry, and piyyuṭim, including one by Hayye Gaʾon on the topic of circumcision. F. 1r begins, after a בשמ׳ רחמ׳, ‘A synopsis …
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3060
Legal documentMoss. VII,90.1
Qaraite ketubba. Dated: [13]52 of the Seleucid era, which is 1040/41 CE). Mentions the names Ṣemaḥ, Ḥizqiyya, Mevorakh b. Barhūn, and Ṣedaqa b. ʿAllūn. (Information …
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3061
Legal documentT-S 8.192
Legal document. Opening of a ketubba for Malika bat Mukhtār and Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa dated Wednesday 3 [month] [1]365 (= 1054 CE) in Fusṭāṭ. Malika …
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3062
State documentT-S AS 183.66
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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3063
LetterT-S AS 145.108
Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in slightly broken …
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3064
State documentT-S AS 183.172
Recto (secondary use): Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by …
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3065
LetterT-S 6J11.9
Verso, continuing onto recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a jāmakiyya (government salary) of 80 (dinars?). Two lines further down, mentions a term for …
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3066
Legal documentMoss. VII,4.1
Recto (original use): Isḥāq b. Avraham appoints Furāt b. Yosef as a power-of-attorney against neighbors who had taken possession of the house he had inherited …
- ]חותמים עדותנו מטה בכתב הזה
- הק]רוי בוריה אלשירגי בר יצחק וכן
- ] . . כי אבה מרי אברהם בר יצחק
- ]בה מכמה שנים וכי אני יצחק בנו
- ] דירה במקום הקרוי כפר מנ…
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3067
LetterT-S 20.173
Long letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm, in al-Juwwa (near Aden, Yemen), to the judge and parnas Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, in Fustat. Quoting Deuteronomy 32:43 …
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3068
LetterT-S 6J5.14
Letter, referring to the Nagid, a certain Menaḥem, Dammūh, the cloth trade, the death of a woman’s child and the desire of the writer to …
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3069
LetterT-S 8J20.32
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Hebron, to his 'brother' Yeḥezqel Ḥefeṣ, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Sunday, 17 Av [5]529 AM, which is 1769 …
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3070
Legal documentMoss. VII,37.1
Legal document concerning the appointment by the court of an agent for orphans, who will collect what is due them from their mother when they …
- אן . . . . א וראינא תאכיר דלך וראו איצא עמומתהם דלך ורציו בה ורגענא
- . . . ] . וכם אלא מא קאלת אלאבא ועלמתנא והו קולהם פי אלפקה מאן דמיחייבי
- שב]ועה ל…
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3071
Legal documentMoss. VII,43 + T-S Ar.53.53
Draft of a legal document, notably made in a mixed Qaraite-Rabbanite court. Agreement by two parties in a complicated inheritance case stipulating obligations should one …
Moss. VII,43 1r
- בחמשה בשבה דהוא חמסר יומין בירח תמוז שנת אלפא ותלת מאה ושתין
- ושתה שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה
- חצר כב…
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3072
Legal documentT-S 13J4.21
Legal document. In Hebrew. Concerning a debt of 52 Venetian ducats (peraḥim) owed by Avraham Aripol (אריפול) to Yaʿaqov Castro (קשטרו). Dated: Monday, 20 Av …
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3073
Legal documentT-S J3.47
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
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3074
Legal documentMoss. VII,19
Replacement ketubba. Location: Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen. Dated: Wednesday, 6 Tammuz 2210 Seleucid = 14 June 1899 CE. For Sālim b. Hārūn al-ʿUzērī, known as Zuhra, and …
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3075
State documentT-S AS 184.45
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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3076
LetterT-S AS 155.101
Mercantile letter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. Later (l. 18) reports that Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī traveled this year to …
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3077
LetterT-S NS J241 + Moss. IV,21.1 + JRL Series B 4089 + T-S NS J240 + T-S 20.137 + T-S NS J1 + T-S AS 151.222
India Book II, 21–24 (synoptic edition). Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Altogether, six fragments of …
II, 21
- מכלוף בן עינין סרה אליתים מצאלחה
- ען מא כאן לה מעה בעד אלפתנה ואלתעב
- תלאת מאיה דינ וביד סידאן ק מתקאלא
- מצרייה אלתמן דתכ דינ וקימה בהאר
- ונצף דר…
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3078
List or tableT-S AS 153.287
Communal accounts, probably from the early 13th century. Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), …
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3079
Legal documentT-S AS 146.406
Ketubba of (Sitt al-)Tujjār marrying Ḥalfon; on verso trousseau list. (Information from CUDL)
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3080
Legal documentT-S 20.42
Part of a Qaraite betrothal deed from the time of the Nasi Ḥizqiyya b. Shelomo b. David. Dated: Thursday, 9 Shevaṭ 1373 Seleucid = 22 …
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3081
LetterMoss. II,140
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic the recipient of which is unknown, but this individual is referred to with an honorific form of address (l.2-3). The letter is …
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3082
Legal documentMoss. V,206
Draft of a ketubba from Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Tishrei 1613 Seleucid = 16 September 1301 CE, written under the authority of the Nagid Avraham …
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3083
Legal documentT-S 8.254 + T-S 8.248
Part of the opening of a ketubba. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: 23 Av 1391 Seleucid = 11 August 1080 CE. Groom: …
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3084
Legal documentT-S 8.156
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yumn. Known handwriting. (Information from CUDL)
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3085
Legal documentMoss. VII,10.1
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
- במזל טוִב והצלחה
- אסתקר בין ̇ר אפרים התלמיד בן ̇כג̇ק
- מר̇נ ורב̇נ משולם החכם והנבון ̇זלֹ ובין
- ̇ר ישועה הלוי ב̇ר צדקה אלרמלי עלי ולדה
- אלכבירה סת אלפִכִר…
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3086
LetterT-S AS 147.5a
Fragment of the draft of a document in support of a man (the bearer?) who is in danger of being reduced again to captivity if …
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]יעה וטלע בה אלי מצר לתגמע
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ו]קת לה וקת יסיר גדא וקד
- . . . . . . . . . . . א]ללה תעאלי ולכם פ…
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3087
LetterT-S 13J18.5
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov the judge, whom he calls his son. He writes about some small business matters …
- בשמך רחמנה
- ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח בייי והיה ייי מבטחו בורא
- ניב שפתים שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב אמר ייי ורפאתיו
- ישא ייי פניו אליך וישם לך שלום ואמרתם כה לאח…
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3088
LetterMoss. Ia,12.1
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …
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- ומו[
- זוכרי[ם
- עם ב[
- שכינת עו[לם
- ישמרו צורנ[ו
- אשר עלינו וטוב [
- אוכלים אותנו ח[יים
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3089
LetterMoss. V,355
Letter from the wife of Khalaf b. Harūn to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, seeking help against her cruel husband, written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. …
- אלממלוכה אבנה אברהם אלחזן נע
- זוגה כלף בן הרון אלמערוף באבו אל
- מעאלי
- בשמ רחמ
- אש[רי] משכיל [א]ל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי
- אל[לה...]..לת..ה יסתגיב הדרת אד…
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3090
LetterT-S Ar.18(1).135
Letter fragment from Daniel b. ʿAzarya (active 1052–62), in Palestine, to a dignitary in Fusṭāṭ. An urgent request to ask the authorities to stop an …
- דאכר למ[
- אלאמור ומ[
- ומא כאן יפעל [
- ערצו ויתגאהו פי דכרי [
- וקד קוית נפסה וליס לי בה[
- סידנא אלקאצי אלאגל תקה אלדולה [...אבו]
- מחמד אדאם אללה עלוהמא פי …
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3091
LetterT-S Ar.18(1).34
Letter draft from Hillel b. ʿEli, in Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fusṭāṭ. Ca. 1094 CE. (Information from CUDL)
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- כת אטאל אללה בקא חצרה סידנא אלריס [א]ל[גלי]ל //שר השרים// אלוף
הבינות
- חכם בינו סנהדרא רבה נגיד עם יי צבאות [ ] בבקאיהא
- סנד אלאמה ורפע בעזהא בנד …
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3092
Legal documentT-S Ar.50.181.2
Marriage contract, upper right portion, between Yosef b. Mawhūb and Sittān bt. Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction …
- [ברב]יעי ב[ש]בת בחו[דש ... ...]ה ימים בו בשנה ה..[...]
- שנים לחרבן בית מקדשינו ושמום היכלו צור יפן ע[...]
- על משפטו יישב ואת .ותיו לבנות חרבותיו לעמי …
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3093
LetterMoss. IV,14.2 + AIU VII.E.119
Letter from Mufaḍḍal, probably in Fustat, to Abū l-Majd al-Melammed, in Qūṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Uncertain, but perhaps ca. 1230s CE, since T-S 13J26.6 (1234 …
Recto:
- ממלוכה מפצל
- יצל הדא אלכתאב אלי אלמולא אלאגל אלמנעם אלמתפצל עלי פי כל וקת
- חאצר וגאיב אלשיך אבו אלמגד אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
- ונעמא|ה ומן חסן …
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3094
LetterT-S 16.350
Recto: letter of recommendation from Jerusalem to all cities on behalf of Shabbetay Karira b. Raphael (שבתי כרירא בן רפאל), dated Adar 5596 (= ca. …
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3095
Legal documentT-S NS 320.34a + T-S NS 320.34b
Recto: fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Ghāliyya bt. Yosef b. Abraham and Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. The bride’s father acts as her agent. Dating: ca. …
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Legal documentT-S AS 145.167 + T-S AS 145.165 + T-S AS 145.168 + T-S AS 145.169
Recto, and lower part of verso: Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Location: Fustat. Drawn up under the authority of …
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3097
LetterMoss. I,80.3
Letter from Moshe b. Binyamin Ashkenazi, probably in Fustat/Cairo, to Avraham Castro, probably in Alexandria or Jerusalem. Dating: 16th century. The sender describes how "from …
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3098
LetterMoss. Ia,10.2
Letter sent to ha-Talmid ha-Baḥur Nissim Agostaro (אגושתארו) in Alexandria from his father Shelomo Agostaro, including a warning that he should not come to Cairo …
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3099
LetterMoss. II,109.1
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in an elegant hand with tall, flamingo-like lameds. The sender appears to be a well-connected physician or medical student. Dating: Probably …
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LetterMoss. II,174
Letter probably from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based …
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