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View document detailsLegal documentT-S 12.39 + BL OR 5566D.22
Engagement agreement between the widow Rashīda b. Yiṣḥaq b. She'erit and the widower Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, Minyat Ghamr, Tishrei 1315 CE, under the reshut of …
כ[תא]ב[י אלי]ך יא מולאי וסיידי ואלעזיז 1
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View document detailsLegal documentCUL Or.1080 J208
Beginnings of a court record, Fustat, 1378.
ULC Or 1080 J. 208, ed. Ashtor, Mamluks, Vol.3, p.88 (Doc. #51),Beginnings of a Court Record, Fustat, 1378 Z.F. 12-15-89 (p)
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S 12.406
First 7 lines of a legal document from [Minyat?] Bani Jawad, dated the 25th of Heshvan, 1316 CE (1628 Seleucid), under the reshut of Avraham …
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View document detailsList or tableBodl. MS heb. c 13/4
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at least partially for rental income, including for the year 1337/8 CE (1649 Seleucid).
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 10578C.46
Informal note. Possibly in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. An order for various food items and materia medica, with the amounts listed, …
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LetterT-S 6J6.21
Letter from the chancellery of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (d. 1355) concerning a needy orphan. The first line is in Arabic characters, characteristic of letters …
בסם [אלרחים] 1
הנה אל ישועתי וכול 2
אלחזן אלש פרג אללה שצ יעלם [ אן 3
חאמלהא אליתום מוסי ותסל…2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 8J23.4
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) to the community of Fustat asking them to arrange a charitable collection (Information from Goitein, Tarbiz …
<<Arabic [בסם אלרחים] Arabic>> 1
הנה אל ישועתי וכול 2
אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימ[ין 3
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LetterT-S K15.18
Pledges for charity on Sabbath lekh lekha of the year 1647, the third week of the Jewish liturgical year, falling in October 1335 (Goitein). The …
שבת לך לך אסמו ללפ[קרא] 1
הד' מר ור שמואל הדיין הכה[ן …1 Transcription
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LetterENA 2958.2
Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. An instruction to a cantor to warn a woman that her husband had submitted …
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LetterT-S 12.608
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355) warning against a traveling preacher, popular in the community, who "speaks of secrets whose meanings he …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.40.29
Legal document in Arabic script, dated Ṣafar 1334 CE (735 Hijri). Sitt al-ʿAdā confirms to have received from [...] b. Samaw'il b. Rashīd b. Abū …
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View document detailsLetterPER H 129
Letter by Yehoshua Maimonides to a physician known as al-Muhadhdhab, dated Heshvan 1646 (=1334 CE), from Cairo to another city. The letter has to do …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J456
Letter with greetings for the holidays, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. There appears to be a genealogy in a different …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 321.103
Strong censure from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides that the addressee had left a guest recommended by him without food on Friday and Shabbat and, …
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View document detailsList or tableT-S NS J130
Accounts, it seems a list of loans granted by a broker of the 14th century. Information from Goitein's note card.
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LetterENA 4046.6
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic to the Nagid. Mentioning real estate and rent. The handwriting is likely that of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides.
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View document detailsLetterT-S AS 158.62
Fragment of a letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, possibly a recommendation for Yosef al-Ṣabbān (the soap boiler).
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S NS 321.97
Legal document likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. Needs further examination.
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 324.11
Letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, it seems conveying greetings for the holidays.
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View document detailsLegal documentMoss. V,387
Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and …
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View document detailsLetterMoss. VII,176
Letter to Yehoshua Maimonides (1310–55) reminding him of somebody who was excommunicated when his father Avraham II Maimonides (1245–1313) was Nagid. The letter is rather …
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LetterT-S NS J290
Fragment of a letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides including the following bitter statement: "What is the reason of this? Don't …
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 5544.2
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Mamonides, to be read in the synagogue, on behalf of an elderly, poor man Yiṣḥaq who wishes …
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View document detailsList or tableCUL Or.1081 1.36
Account, listing names, commodities, and quantities. Probably 14th century or later (among other reasons, since "son of" is written with a nun sofit).
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View document detailsLegal documentCUL Or.1081 1.39
Legal document, draft of the opening, giving only the (difficult-to-read) date. At the top is named Abdallāh the son of the brother of the Nagid …
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View document detailsLetterT-S 8K13.7
Letter of recommendation for a poor man with a family from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides.
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View document detailsLetterT-S Misc.28.64
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to a certain Avraham ha-Sar (likely the same addressee as in T-S 8J40.2) regarding an excommunication. Muslim courts …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J146
An urgent summons to appear before the court from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides.
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J336
The beginning of a letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, for a man named Eliyyahu "who has no tongue [in Arabic] or …
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LetterT-S 13J28.13
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides regarding a collection (jibaya), ordering that the addressee's 'wife' (bayt) and the wife of the beadle Sulayman collect …
אל[ג]באיה ויגתהד פיהא ויחלצהא 1
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View document detailsLegal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1367
Deed of lease. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 27 Tammuz 1613 Seleucid = Shawwāl 701 AH, which is June 1302 CE. The elders of the Qaraite …
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View document detailsLegal documentMoss. V,8
Marriage contract from the year 1301 A.D., under the authority of Avraham Nagid. Bridegroom: Jephthah b. Avraham.
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בתלאתא בשבא דהוא תלאת עשר 1
לירח תשרי דשנת אלפא ושית מאה 2
ותלאת עשר שנין לשטרות …1 Transcription
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LetterT-S K25.190
Letter from the office of Yehoshua the Nagid (d. 1355), a grandson of a grandson of the Rambam, to the Jerusalemite synagogues concerning an erection …
TS Box K 25, f. 190, ed. S. D. Goitein, "The synagouge building and its furnishing according to the records of the Cairo Geniza", Eretz Is…2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S NS J201
Settlement between a husband and his wife, Fustat, 1334.
TS NS J 201, ed. Ashtor, Mamluks, Vol.3, p.80 (Doc.#46), A settlementbetween a husbant and his wife, Fustat, 1334 Z.F. 12-12-89 (p)
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Legal documentT-S 13J17.13
Marriage contract containing details of a dowry and written at the time of the Nagid ʿAmram (1378-1383). The name Avraham is preserved. (Information from Goitein's …
ה[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
רשותיה דאדוננו נגידנו הודנו והד[ר] . . . . . . . . .…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 8J40.2
Fragmentary letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to a certain Avraham, concerning the affairs of a man, his wife, and a young boy, and …
הדרת החכם הנכבד . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . 1
ורבנו אברהם עטרת החכמים [ . . . . . . . 2
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LetterT-S 16.296
The Nagid R. Yehoshuaʿ warns against disqualified kosher butchers. Middle of the 14th century.
יברכם 1
[אלמקי]מין במצר 2
[נא]צר אלגואלי ביחרק …1 Transcription
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Legal documentT-S 12.573
Document concerning the sale of the part of a house owned by a young woman named ‘Shams.’ The names of her father, uncle, grandfather, and …
למא כאן בתאריך [יום אלא]תנין אל....[מ]רחשון שנת אלפא 1
ושית מאה ותשעין שנין לשטרות למניינא [דרגיל]נא לממני ביה הכא 2
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View document detailsLetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/68
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) (in Cairo) to the community of Fustat about a conflict between two butchers who had caused …
בסם אלרחים 1
הנה אל ישועתי וכולי 2
גמאעה אלזקנים ברוכים יהיו יעלמו …2 Transcriptions 1 Translation
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View document detailsLegal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/140
Testimony in the Jerusalemite synagogue regarding an estate of a Maghribi pilgrim to the Holy Land. Dated: Av 1652 Seleucid, which is July 1341. (Information …
זכרון עדות 1
למא כאן יום אלארבעה ראבע חדש אב 2
יהל שנת אתרנב לשטרות אנן חתומי מטה חצ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 8J9.15
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named Yeshuʿa to travel …
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ישועה 2
אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין 3
במצר יברכם צורם אנס…2 Transcriptions 1 Translation
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Legal documentENA NS 17.16
Deathbed declaration dated Tevet 1665 / December 1353, in which Yehuda b. Hananya assigns to his wife, Wazira daughter of the elder called al-Udi, the …
זכרון עדות 1
בתאריך יום אלאתנין אלכז מ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 8J17.13
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, in which the nagid asks the community in Fustat to take up a charity collection for a …
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אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר יברכם …1 Transcription
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LetterT-S 8J17.30
Official letter from either the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (r. 1310–55) or his father Avraham II Maimonides (r. 1300–13). (Goitein favors the latter, even though …
ותכלי ביתך ובית אלשמש סלימאן יגבו 1
מן אלנשים וכדלך אלגבאיה מא יגביה 2
אלא אנת ותגתהד פיהא ומהמא ת 3
מן אלגמיע תכליה ענדך …1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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View document detailsLetterENA 2559.11
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) seeking to bring peace to the community and also urging them to be charitable and especially …
הנה אל ישועתי וכול 1
אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר 2
י]ברכם צורם אנס' יעלמו אן קד וצל 3
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LetterT-S NS 31.7
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (d. 1355) in which the cantor Faraj Allāh is ordered to arrange a collection for a …
<Arabic>בסם אלרחים </Arabic> 1
הנה אל ישועתי וכול 2
אלחזן אלשיך פרג אללה שצ יעלם 3
באנך(!) תתוצא בחאמלה אלשי…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterENA 3796.12
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355) to Fustat against improper competition in the making of cheese. Information from Goitein's index card.
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Legal documentT-S 18J5.10a
Part of a Karaite deed of betrothal for Khalaf b. Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Ama al-Qādar bat Ephraim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). Dated Thursday, 17th …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J258
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides for the bearer who is named Moshe. See Moss. II,177 for another version of the letter, …
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LetterT-S 8J17.12
Stern letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides, requesting the addressee’s quick appearance together with money he owes. An Arabic basmala (or perhaps authentication mark, …
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