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LetterT-S 12.533
Fragment of a letter from a mother in the Maghreb to her merchant son in Fustat. The beginning of the 11th century. Including information about …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 101/13 + Bodl. MS heb. f 102/43
Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …
Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13
- נקול מן אתבת כטה אכר הדא אלמסטור אנה למא כ[אן פי יום
- שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ותרתי שנין לשטרות [
- מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידי…
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Legal documentENA 2558.30c
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a group of people who share an underground(?) storage room of wheat in a single courtyard; …
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Legal documentT-S 13J3.12
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu al-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
- למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלתאסע מחדש כסליו שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין לשטרות
- בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרי…
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LetterT-S 10J16.14
Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …
- מן ענד מנצור רביבה
- . . . ]תצטירהא אלי אלאך אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
- ואדאם עזה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה
- גמע אלשמל בה קריב גיר בעיד וינהי אלי אלאך אלכרים…
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J88
Letter sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor teacher and his son. (Information from Goitein's …
- . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
- הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
- ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
- שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
- אמן סלה . . .…
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Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 56/13–19
Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …
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LetterT-S NS J241 + Moss. IV,21.1 + T-S NS J240 + T-S 20.137 + T-S NS J1 + JRL Series B 4089
JRL Series B 4089: This business letter describes commercial transactions and what the author describes as favors or 'gifts' to a fellow trader. The main …
JRL Series B 4089 verso
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- אלתמן גפד וצח וזן אלגוניה אלאכרא
- בהארין גיר סבעה ארטאל סער ה מ
- אלתמן ט פ דינ ולה מן תסלים יאקות א…
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 262
Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.
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State documentENA 2747.16
Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …
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LetterBL OR 5566C.5
Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …
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LetterENA NS 22.1
Business letter sent from Alexandria by Avraham b. Farah to Yaʿaqov b. Avraham. The writer describes the difficult situation, probably in North-Africa, and writes about …
- בסם אללה אלעטים
- כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ועלוה וכבת אעדאה מן אל
- אסכנדריה ליב כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה בבקא מולא…
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LetterENA NS 68.6
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …
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State documentT-S NS 306.137
Recto: Bottom of a letter (official letter?) in Arabic script. Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to …
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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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Legal documentT-S 8J10.17
Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …
- חצר אבו אלפרג בן גזאל אל
- קיסראני אקני מן רוחה טאיע
- גיר מגבר אנה יקום ל[זוגתה
- אם אולאדה פי כל שהר בכ
- דרהם כל אס //ביע// ה דראהם וובתין(!)
- קמח טייב וח…
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State documentL-G Ar. II.79
Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …
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Legal documentAIU VII.E.232
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 …
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LetterT-S 13J21.10
Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …
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- שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
- ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
- רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
- ובנותיך ריינה…
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LetterMoss. VII,159.1
Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …
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LetterT-S 13J6.30
Letter from Yosef to Abū l-Fakhr asking him to help contest his obligation to pay the capitation tax of his brother, who was missing in …
- בשם אל עולם יתברך נצח סלה
- שארע מן כאדמהא יוסף לכ גד קד מר ורב השר הגדול
- בעם ייי צבאות הנדיב והשוע שהוא עשה כמה חסדים
- וטובות בסתר ובגל[וי מ]ולאי אלאג…
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LetterT-S Misc.25.22
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. After many nice phrases, the body …
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List or tableT-S 8J41.13
Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …
- בו סעד בן [
- אולאד נביקה אבו ע.[
יט ך
- יחזקאל זהרה אסחק כהן כרים בן [
כג כד
- וסרור בן גוית אבו [[עמר צבאג]] אבו אלכיר טיב? אם ב..
כה כו כז
- תנא לו…
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LetterDK 123f
Letter from Avraham b. Shelomo b. Yehuda perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Complains about a Coptic kātib (הסופר הערל, lit. "the uncircumcised scribe") …
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List or tableBL OR 5549.8
List of prisoners imprisoned for nonpayment of the capitation tax. Fragmentary. twenty-four names preserved, with sums representing the amounts still due, to be provided by …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.161
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.1
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.17
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.10
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …
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LetterMoss. IV,14.3
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting format: the opening praises are written in large blocky Hebrew, with the remaining content in …
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LetterT-S AS 132.237
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
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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
- עליהם חוקים חקו[קים
- תחלה המס הכבד אש[ר
- והעונש אשר לשום ל[
- העיר …
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Legal documentENA NS 77.254
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for a slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties is …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/135
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to collect money to pay the capitation tax of …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/40
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
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LetterENA 4020.30
Letter by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe to his brother in law, with a long narrative about the difficulties he encountered procuring a tax receipt …
- בשמ רחמ
- רקעתי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם חראסתה ונעמאה
- וכבת באלדל חסדתה ואעדאה מן תופיקה אלחסן לא אכלאה וכאן לה
- . . . ] וחאפטא פי ו…
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State documentENA 3971.14
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.15
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.16
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.17
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.18
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.19
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.20
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.21
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.22
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.24
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.31
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.34
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/53
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying the capitation tax (jāliya). The addressee had previously said something about talking to …
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LetterAIU VII.E.165
Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …
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- ] תורה בר הדרת יקרת
- החבר] בסנהדרין גדולה החכם והנבון
- ] זלהה אנה לה אליום פי אלבלאד
- ] פסיקה ולא פי רסם מן אלציבור
- ] . ה אלפנא ואלגלא כאן ודין י…
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