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Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script involving [...] b. Hārūn al-Yahūdī (and?) a supplier to the mint ([mū]rid bi-dār al-ḍarb). There are …
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Recto: Legal query involving partners in the royal mint whose money was stolen. In particular, when one of the partners runs away and hides so …
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Partnership/investment agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word …
Recto: Testimony by Nissim b. Shemarya that Sason b. Natan had deposited with him seventeen counterfeit dinars. The counterfeiter was the mutawallī al-sikka, or the …
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Recto: Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: November 1076. Manṣūr b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) will partner with Yefet b. Avraham and Shelomo b. Avraham for …
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פהו בינהם בחסב מא בינהם
פי אלשרכה והו אן כל מא
יופקה אללה תעאלי בינהם
יכון למר ב יפת בר אברהם נע
ולשלמה בר אברהם שצ
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Legal document. Record of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Second third of Elul 1482 Seleucid, which is August 1171 CE. The mutual release of the metal …
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Court record concerning mint management. Dated: 1513 CE. Issued in the court of the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal. Witnesses include Yaʿaqov Beirav and Nissim Biba. The …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a lovely hand; the same scribe seems to have reused numerous Arabic-script documents for literary/liturgical text (see Joins Suggestions). This letter …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Ṣedaqa b. Khalaf b. Fuhayd, in Tyre, to al-Shaykh al-jalīl Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Sheviʿi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century …
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 …
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Legal document: three legal documents on a single rotulus. Dated 27 Iyyar 4846 (14 May 1086). All the cases concern Maʿālī b. Khalaf and some …
Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo …