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List or tableENA 2591.2
Account, possibly for the collection of tax on real estate. Many names. (Amir Ashur)
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LetterENA 2730.2
Letter from Dawud son of the haver to a certain dayyan. It seems some dramatic event has taken place off-scene (maybe in Palestine?) and here …
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LetterENA 2808.29
Letter from Mūsā, in Ṣandafā, to his brother, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Written in a lovely …
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LetterT-S Misc.28.131
Letter from Hillel b. Eli (identified based on handwriting) to Avraham al-Ḥemdat b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. He complains of something to do with the tax (? …
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LetterENA 2735.3
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "my child Ibrahim" . After the usual greetings we read: "I have no instruction to you except that do not let …
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LetterAIU VII.E.173
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, perhaps a draft only because the text abruptly breaks off on verso. The text on recto is almost entirely formulaic. …
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LetterT-S 8J21.6
Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …
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- שלום לך ושלום לעזרך וג'
- אלי אח וריע וגדל דיע אהוב וחביב וקשור נפש בנפש
- וחקוק בלב הוא אדירי וכבירי ועין ימיני וזרוע עזי
- כבוד גדו קדו מרי ורבי…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/38
Letter preceded by a Hebrew poem consisting of three verses, from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf Yehosef (Manbij), the tax-farmer of the local …
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LetterT-S Ar.41.109
Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتابي الي اخي ومولاي وتاجي واعتمادي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
- ونعماه ومن حسن توفيقه لا اخلاه وعن حال سلامة وعافية
- وشوق …
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State documentT-S NS 297.193
State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …
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List or tableT-S AS 153.257
List, probably of tax or rent revenue. It describes the houses and apartments in a particular street darb al-Sadu[...], mentioning the house of the company …
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LetterENA NS I.6
Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had previously sent a …
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LetterENA NS I.16
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. Paying this tax is …
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LetterENA NS 52.13
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …
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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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LetterENA NS 22.1
Business letter sent from Alexandria by Avraham b. Farah to Yaaqov b. Avraham
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LetterT-S AS 145.396 + T-S AS 145.393
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …
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LetterMoss. II,196.2
Fragment from the opening of a deferential letter. On verso the writer mentions 'the tax' (? al-mās) and 'your promise'—perhaps he is requesting charity.
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LetterMoss. VII,196.1
Letter of appeal in Hebrew, probably 14th century or later, including lengthy praises for the addressee and then a request to help with the [poll?] …
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LetterNLI 577.3/10
Letter from Shelomo b. Aharon to Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Opens with a cryptic mention of the writer's departure for the sake of paying the …
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LetterAIU VII.E.2
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J258
Letter from Abu Nasr b. Ibrahim, Alexandria, to his partner Abu Ishaq the nāʾib (deputy). Dating: 11 May 1141. The first page of the letter …
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- עונך יא רב
- מגארי גמאדי וגמאדי ורגב פי גמלה תוקיעאת
- ביד אלצמאן הדא אלדי וגדת פי אלדיואן פאן
- כאנא אלכרגין המא לרביעין פקד צאעא
- אגעל צאחבהמא יאכד…
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LetterENA NS 22.2
Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …
- אכד קדמי חתי נאולוני אלוטא מן אלבאב
- ורחת אלי אלדיואן לקית אלממלוך קאעד
- קאל לה אלשיך שעיא אלגאליה ענד
- הדה אליהודי להא תלת שהור ונחן מא
- מא נקדר עליה ק…
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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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State documentT-S AS 177.175
Receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the office of Accounts on …
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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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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 348
Tax receipt(s). There are distinct documents on recto and verso. Needs examination.
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/38
Letter from Hārūn to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. The sender reminds Moshe that it is his custom …
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LetterT-S Misc.36.176
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. In Hebrew. Contains a rich account of communal controversy and highly unflattering …
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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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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 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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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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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 document is the continuation of a letter on the recto. The business letter describes commercial transactions, including taxes paid at …
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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 איצא
- עוץ ען אלנצף אלמתקאל…
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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 …
- ........................]ב.
- ....................] בלג ח ע ולי
- וקדר עלי[................]יקדרו
- עליה וקד פישתר[.......] מן ענדי
- ......ע]ם אלשיך אבו גא…
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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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Legal documentT-S AS 149.13
Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …
- שהדנא עלי אלשיך בקא בן אבו אלסרור תא[גר אלניל
- אן ענדה לתמים צאמן אלברקאניה ארבעה אלדר
- פי כל שהר טאלמא הוא צאמן וטאלמא צמ[ן
- קליוב פי צמאנהם אול רמצאן…
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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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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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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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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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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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LetterMoss. VII,159.1
Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant named Abū Saʿīd to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the …
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LetterENA 2935.24
Recto: Letter fragment to 'my brother.' Written in Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphic, large quadrangular characters. No detailed are preserved. Verso: In Arabic script (and two different inks), …
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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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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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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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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 …
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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 Ar.39.26
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl on behalf of his father Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, …
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