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Two or three different documents stuck together. (1) Ketubba. Only a few words from near the beginning are preserved. (2) Draft of a legal document …
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the ground rent (ḥikr) several times.
Receipt of some kind for Ibrāhīm b. [...]. A period of one year is specified. There is a word that looks like "halīlaj" (myrobalan), but …
Accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if private or state. One entry in the right column of T-S 12.109v refers to the ḥikr (ground rent) in …
Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat. …
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Legal records or drafts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly from a court ledger. There are at least two distinct records in at least two distinct hands. (I) …
Accounts. Mentions someone called 'al-ḥikrī,' i.e., the collector of the ḥikr (ground rent) tax (cf. T-S K6.44).
Small receipt for payment made by Abū l-Najm on behalf of 'the poor Jews' (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment for Jumādā I. …
Receipt, crudely written on a small slip, for a person whose name is given in the first line. It seems for a ḥikr (ground rent) …
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
Tax receipt. Layout is that of the usual jizya (capitation tax) receipts, however this is for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment of a group of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 514 AH = February/March 1121 CE. Mentions Fustat, ḥikr (ground rent), and repeated references to renting (ijāra, …
Small receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent) payment of Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh.
Receipt of some sort for Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] al-Yahūdiyya for something (ḥikr payment?) for the 1/4 dār al-muntaqal ilayhā min (another?) Sitt al-Ahl bt. …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (vertical strip from the right side). Probably concerning payments to a …
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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صح باسم ضعفا اليهود عن
الحكر بقصر الشمع لصفر
سنة خمس عشر وستماية
من الف خمس قراريط
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Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
Verso. Very small tax receipt, but complete with registrations/mottos/multiple hands. It is "for the poor Jews (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) in Fustat. The year 615 AH is …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his handwriting (should be …
Bifolio of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe pertaining to the properties of the qodesh. Mostly has to do with real estate and mentions the ground rent …
Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
May be a receipt (? istiqbāl) for rent for government property (=ḥikr / ground rent?) from Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī (this is tentative, as the end of …
Official receipt in Arabic. For a physician (al-ḥakīm) possibly named Abū ʿAlī. Seems to be for his rent (ujrat sakn[ih]). May also mentions the ground …
Digests of legal documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Document #1: Manṣūr/Elʿazar b. M[...] sells 1/8 of a house for 14 dinars. Specifies …
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Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very long and quite damaged. Involves Shela, his paternal uncle and father-in-law Ḥalfon b. Shelomo, and his deceased wife, who …
Official document in Arabic script. Certifying that the teacher Gedalya Eliyyahu the Jew will pay (or has paid?) the ground rent (ḥikr) of a certain …
Letter, probably, or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination. [Or rather likely a legal document …
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
الحكر بقصر الشمع لربيع الاول
سنة خمس وستماية
Verso: Receipt. In Arabic script. For Ibn Mazhar the Jew. The scribe's name appears at the bottom: Abū l-Majd b. ʿAlī. Dated: 506 AH (or …
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Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The wife of the speaker had given a share in a house to the widow of …
Copy of a receipt of payment for two months of ground rent (ḥikr) in Qasr al-Shamʿ issued to the elder Abū Ḥasan b. Efrayim b. …
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Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1119–20 CE. Accounting written on the verso of a letter addressed to Judge Avraham b. Natan. The accounting …
. . . . of blessed memory, for Av, Elul, Tishri, Marheshwan,
… nightwatch, and 2 dir. due for Nayrūz, and for nightwatch. C…
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Receipt issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف) for "ground rent" (حكر) of properties in the "the Jewish quarter" of Cairo (حكر القاعات بحارت اليهود). …
List of the houses owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160 CE. The beadle Maḥfūẓ presents a list of houses belonging to the qodesh which …
Record
of the compounds that are at present foundations of the Jews for their poor
(3-4) as cited in their entirety and specified by …
Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
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Account of the qodesh, ca. probably 1158. Fragment of an accounting between the qodesh and, apparently, its partner in the ownership of a compound, known …
To his credit, for ḥikr of 1/8 of the compound which …
known as Dār Hiba al-Abzārī,
beginning Kislev 1461, ending…
dir. l…
Letter of complaint to Maimonides regarding funds for the Qodesh. Written in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Dating ca. 1168–1204 CE, …
. . . (R. Isaiah ha-Levi was appointed to be in charge of the qōdesh since he excelled in)
piety and trustworthiness in his administration o…