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Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi addressed to a judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1221–52 CE, as it mentions Crusaders ("Franks") …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document. Court proceedings. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf claims that Da’ūd and Ṣedaqa, sons of Ṣemaḥ b. Da’ūd al-Raqqī, have withheld profits from a partnership in …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions the phrase/title/name "Sar Shalom." Little else …
Responsum; apparently sent to Abraham Maimonides; on verso Abū ʿAlī is mentioned. The dating is c. 1213–1237 CE given that Abraham Maimonides is referenced with …
Marriage contract (ketubba) stating that the 200 zuz were "established by the holy college" and the dinars bear the sign "of the temporal ruler." Date, …
ו[מיי]קרין ית נשיהון …
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Fragment of a state document, most likely a report. Reports on the arrival or order for produce "ghalla", of a certain district "bi-ʿamal". The first …
Recto: Letter fragment to the congregations of Fustat and in particular to the dayyan Elazar. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, active …
Letter draft. In Hebrew. Abandoned after the introduction. Addressed to Aharon (identified by Scheiber as Aharon b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-ʿAmmānī) and conveying blessings to his …
Recto: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Asking the addressee (al-Maghribī Isḥāq?) to convey something to a certain scribe or secretary (kātib), perhaps …
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 21-23) Folio 6r
Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes …
Letter to a certain Abū Saʿd ('the dear boy') likely from his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century (paleographic dating). Contains inter alia a …
Partnership document in the "silk business" (עסק המשי). Date: Kislev 5562 AM (1801 CE). Location: Cairo. Several people are named in the opening lines. The …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card contains several conflicting suggestions about the handwriting of the sender and the dating. The sender is pained that his …
Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part …
Letter from Alexandria to Abū l-Maʿānī. Business letter fragment concerning various transactions, some of which are taking place in Alexandria, and mentioning the purchase of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE, under the authority …
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 4 days remaining in Nisan 1415 Seleucid = 24 April 1104 CE. Inquiring about a traveler, whether his ship …
Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Lender: Abū l-ʿAlā al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer) b. Abū Saʿd. Borrower: Abu ʿImrān ʿAmram ha-Levi ha-Talmid. Verso: Records of completed payments. (Information …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1440 Seleucid, which is 1129 CE. About the valuable goods (aʿlāq) from …
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably from Alexandria, to Yeshua b. Isma’il, Fustat. Around 1050. Some mentions of trading oil and crocus. …
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] קבלך ואגתה[ד ] פי חמל אל[
] לי אכי אבי אלסרור אכדהא לם יפ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fragment of the beginning of a deathbed declaration, issued by a court whose judges were appointed by Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112-ca.1126) and Mevorakh b. Saadya …
Legal document concerning a husband who wanted to travel to see his mother and relatives and his wife took him to court for it. He …
List of daily collections in which almost all the benefactors give one or two dirhams. The lower parts of columns three and four contain accounts …
Letter written by Nissim b. Ḥalfon on behalf of Mardūkh b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī (Gil) and sent from Alexandria to Abu Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
ח56 מכתב מאת יהודה הלוי אל חלפון על הכוזרי והנסיעה מזרחה ספרד, 1139 ד39. ENA NS 1.5 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 17.7 x 21.5 ס"מ. …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: August 28 (Elul 24), 1065 CE, based on Gil's …
The letter of my master, the sheikh—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your peace and happi…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1020. Mentions a shipment of money and papers, …
Letter to Shelomo ha-Nasi concerning destruction of houses and oppression of his mother's brother in Mosul (May 16, 1237). Context is likely the Mongol invasion. …
Letter from Yosef b. Menashshe, in Ashqelon, to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: 1085 CE. The writer describes the conditions …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Business letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi, a wholesale silk-dealer, to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Nissim ha-Levi in Fustat, dealing with goods …
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated solely as a …
Letter from Sherira bar Ḥananya Gaʾon and Hayye bar Sherira to Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal enclosing letters for Yaʿaqov b. Nissim in Qayrawān. It is unknown …
Letter from ʿEli ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
A testimony of a person who received 47.5 harf (each of them equal to 40 baqsha silver coins) for selling his part of a house …
Communal records, perhaps defective, consisting in payments to specified persons (all in promissory notes, ruq'a), to three officials, for bread, and for the transport of …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on …
My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your well-being and happi…
Legal record (#111) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 10 Iyyar 5327 …
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
List of 54 contributors, by the scribe of T-S K15.70, ed. Mann, and T-S NS J41 and T-S Misc.8.9, headed by the representative of the …
Address of a letter/petition/report (khidma) to the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, or else a pen trial. If it was originally attached to a larger document, that …
Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …