Search Documents

Filters

280 total results

  1. 51

    LetterMoss. VII,173.3

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  2. 52

    LetterT-S AS 152.8

    Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks how the capitation tax (al-jāliya) promises to be this coming year. The sender seems to …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  3. 53

    State documentT-S Ar.40.142.1

    Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (Bondioli et al.) or 402 …

    1 Transcription 1 Translation

    Tags

    • 1r
    View document details
  4. 54

    State documentT-S Ar.40.142.2

    Receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafāʾ against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 8 Ramaḍān 405. Note: Khan's publication reverses the …

    1 Transcription 1 Translation

    Tags

    • 2r
    View document details
  5. 55

    State documentT-S Ar.40.13

    Recto: 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 …

    1 Transcription 1 Translation

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  6. 56

    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

    1. .....[....................
    2. אלתמן גפד וצח וזן אלגוניה אלאכרא
    3. בהארין גיר סבעה ארטאל סער ה מ
    4. אלתמן ט פ דינ ולה מן תסלים יאקות א…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    • 1r
    View document details
  7. 57

    State documentJRL Gaster ar. 262

    Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1 / 1 leaf, recto
    • 1 / 1 leaf, verso
    View document details
  8. 58

    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 …

    Recto

    1. [... الوقـ]ـت الذي جرى الرسم باستفتاح الخراج فيه قدم استخراج  
    2. …[نجـ]ـم من نجوم هذه السنة وما لعلّه يتاخر من مال الابواب في وقته وجمـ[ـيع الـ …

    Recto

    1. [ …(if ... at the tim]e when the levying comes at the beginning of the kharāj (cycle, i.e., the fiscal year), the collection is moved forward …

    1 Transcription 1 Translation

    Tags

    • 1
    View document details
  9. 59

    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") …

    1 Discussion

    Tags

    View document details
  10. 60

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  11. 61

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  12. 62

    State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.17

    Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  13. 63

    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; …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 00000001.tif
    • 00000002.tif
    View document details
  14. 64

    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 …

    1 Transcription 2 Discussions

    Tags

    View document details
  15. 65

    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") …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  16. 66

    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 …

    1 Discussion

    Tags

    View document details
  17. 67

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  18. 68

    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 …

    ....

    1. ומו[
    2. זוכרי[ם
    3. עם ב[
    4. שכינת עו[לם
    5. ישמרו צורנ[ו
    6. אשר עלינו וטוב [
    7. אוכלים אותנו ח[יים
    8. עליהם חוקים חקו[קים
    9. תחלה המס הכבד אש[ר
    10. והעונש אשר לשום ל[
    11. העיר …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  19. 69

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1
    • 2
    View document details
  20. 70

    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 …

    1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 1v
    • 1r
    View document details
  21. 71

    LetterCUL Or.1080 J88

    Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …

    1. . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
    2. הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
    3. ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
    4. שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
    5. אמן סלה     מ…

    2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  22. 72

    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 …

    1. חצר אבו אלפרג בן גזאל אל
    2. קיסראני אקני מן רוחה טאיע
    3. גיר מגבר אנה יקום ל[זוגתה
    4. אם אולאדה פי כל שהר בכ
    5. דרהם כל אס //ביע// ה דראהם וובתין(!)
    6. קמח טייב וח…

    Recto

    1. Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came

    2.  And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will

    3. And not under duress, (so) that…

    1 Transcription 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  23. 73

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  24. 74

    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). …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1
    • 2
    View document details
  25. 75

    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 …

    1. בו סעד בן [
    2. אולאד נביקה אבו ע.[

    יט ך

    1. יחזקאל זהרה אסחק כהן כרים בן [

    כג כד

    1. וסרור בן גוית אבו [[עמר צבאג]] אבו אלכיר טיב? אם ב..

    כה כו כז

    1. תנא לו…

    1 Transcription 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  26. 76

    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 …

    1. בשם אל עולם יתברך נצח סלה
    2. שארע מן כאדמהא יוסף לכ גד קד מר ורב השר הגדול
    3. בעם ייי צבאות הנדיב והשוע שהוא עשה כמה חסדים
    4. וטובות בסתר ובגל[וי מ]ולאי אלאג…

    1 Transcription 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  27. 77

    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 …

    Recto

    1. שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
    2. ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
    3. רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
    4. ובנותיך ריינה…

    1 Transcription 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 1r
    View document details
  28. 78

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  29. 79

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  30. 80

    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 …

    1 Transcription 1 Translation

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  31. 81

    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 …

    2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

    Tags

    View document details
  32. 82

    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 …

    Recto

    1. פראית אלצביה עלי אפעאל אבוהא (!) 
    2. אלצום ואלצלוה ואלצדקה פאעתרץ' 
    3. עליהא אלזיגה פאמתנעת וקאלת
    4. מא אגיר מא אנא פיה לאן אלזיגה
    5. תשגלני ען הדה אלאשיא…

    1 Transcription 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 14 recto
    • 14 verso
    • 15 recto
    View document details
  33. 83

    List or tableHalper 468

    List of persons for whom the capitation tax was to be paid. Late eleventh century. (Information from Halper, Catalogue and Goitein, Med. Soc. II:467)

    הרון אכי אלאכרס ולה רבאעי

    סלאמה בן הרון בצמאן כלף בן קבה

    הבה בן מוסי צבי חנין

    הבה בן //אברהים//

    יוסף בן כלף צבאג //תפליסי//

    סעד בן פרג אלמג

    ברכאת בן …

    2 Transcriptions

    Tags

    • p. 2
    View document details
  34. 84

    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 …

    1 Transcription 1 Discussion

    Tags

    • 135 recto
    • 135 verso
    View document details
  35. 85

    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 …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 40 recto
    • 40 verso
    View document details
  36. 86

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 53 recto
    • 53 verso
    View document details
  37. 87

    State documentENA 3971.13

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  38. 88

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  39. 89

    State documentENA 3945.8

    Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • verso
    View document details
  40. 90

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  41. 91

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  42. 92

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  43. 93

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  44. 94

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  45. 95

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  46. 96

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  47. 97

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  48. 98

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  49. 99

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  50. 100

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details