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מכתב מאת ̇כַלַף אל חלפון, עַיְ̇דַאבּ עדן, שנת 1131 לערך ב47. ENA NS 21.7 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 15.4 x 15.5 ס"מ. פרסום ראשון בספר …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
India Book (IB) I, 31a. Legal document: testimony about the will of Yosef Lebdi. This fragment, written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. …
Testimony given before us, the undersigned [. . . that]
Joseph Lebdi—may God be pleased with him!—son of R. David [before he set out on the voy…
Inquiry whether a meeting should be held in the Palestinian Synagogue (kanīsat al-shāmiyyīn) concerning "the affair of ʿAmram ha-Talmid Ibn al-Duājī". Dating: looks ca. 13th …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal query, draft. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Addressed to Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. The page is crossed out. A man gives half a …
2 תעתוקים
Legal document: power of attorney in which Shelomo b. Ḥātim appoints Menaḥem b. Shelomo to pursue his claims against Ḥasan b. Avraham and Shemuʾel b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Mentions goods like saffron and …
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Colophon to R. Saadya Gaon's commentary to one of the prayers (תפילת שמונה עשרה), written in Ashkelon in 1061. Verso: the beginning of R. Saadya …
Recto (secondary use): Note of seven short lines written in beautiful oversized majuscules, written on the back of an earlier Arabic document. The writer praises …
Everyone knows that fantasy and error are not fitting for a clever banker and a discerning assayer, who should understand everything that a person s…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham the judge of Minya Zifta to Yehuda b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen. Complaining that Abū l-Makārim b. Abū l-Dhamm (this is probably …
Letter from Nissim b. Berekhya, in Qayrawān, to Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Fustat. Mentions shipments of goods from Egypt to the Maghreb. The writer …
Letter, a short fragment to Abū l-Barakat, whose names appear with many honorifics. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? On the back there is …
תעתוק אחד
Verso: Informal note, instructing the scribe of the court to write a promissory note on 96 dirhams—obviously the outcome of former litigation. Writtnen in Judaeo-Arabic …
Letter in Hebrew to all congregations, mentioning David, “Head of All Diasporas of Israel.” Directions on verso in Arabic script, mostly lost. (Information from Goitein's …
IB I, 23. Draft or notes of court proceedings (legal document) regarding a sale of half a house for 300 dinars. Abu Sahl, Menashshe b. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from Eliyahu b. Nissim, in Alexandria, to Shela b. Isḥāq, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. The sender, a foreigner, asks …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Fragment of a letter from Farah b. Isma’il to Nahray b. Nissim. Regarding money exchange and shipments of linen. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, …
כתאבי יא[ס]יידי ו[מולאי
דונך ברחמתך מן אל[
בנתכם ושק עלי דלך [
הדא אלוגה פלם אתדכר [
יגפל ען שיי יתעלק ב[
אדאם אללה עזה פי מא ק[
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: Thursday, 1 Iyyar 1418/April 1107. Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan acknowledges that he will repay the parnas Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī …
Hastily written list of about 40 contributors, 18 of whom are called Rabbi. An indication of very late origin is that the father's name follows …
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Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Damascus, to Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dated: 19 January 1055 CE. Concerning financial transactions. Moshe …
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (1172 CE). Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū …
List of payments of rent on heqdesh houses collected in the presence of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Written by Yefet b. David. Dated [4]38/1046-7, in line …
Letter sent by a man from Sicily who had immigrated to Tyre, describing a civil war in Sicily and the bad economic conditions under which …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Sadoq Ha-Levi b. Levi, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: probably 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on the …
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Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …
[ ] . . . عنده لاحد المماليك يسمى علم الدين سنجر المحمود[ي]
مبلغ وصـ[و]لات في ثمن قنده المبيع من شونه وهو
الف واربعمائة . . . . . …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (or Natan b. Shemuʾel?). Invokes the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). [...] b. Yehuda and Shelomo …
List (fragment) of recipients of alms
בנת אכתה
IB II, 3. Letter from Amram b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim inquiring about a letter sent to Aden Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97. The first 27 …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr and Minyat Zifta. Dated: 20th day of the Omer …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably in Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Around 1046. The writer is about to travel to Palestine. Mentions …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מו]לאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ו[ מ]ן סיואן ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
ללה וק[ד כנת אנפדת א]לי מולאי כתב לם אחציה…
Letter from Salāma b. Abī l-Ḥayy to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. The writing place is unknown. Mentions several partners of b. Awkal and it …
Complete business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila in Fustat. Dated September 1051. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך לה בקין מן אלול
עליך באחסן כאתמה ותקבל מנך ומנא הדה אלאיאם אלמסתקבלה ותכתב בספר חי…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Verso: Formula for a validation by the court in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108), including an interesting addition. (Information from Goitein's index …
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his two sons Abū Zikrī and Shelomo. Dating: early 13th century. According to Motzkin, Eliyyahu is asking his sons …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef, Fustat. Dating: around 1080. Concerns trade in saffron and other spices, and …
IB II, 67. Letter from Madmun b. David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202. …
2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …
….يبيعها له في صور
وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة
الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض
ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري
عن ثمن سك…
Copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a reused fragment of a letter in Arabic script (the only part preserved is the basmala and …
Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, …
Letter by a Karaite woman to three different family members. The language is opaque in many places. (1) To her mother, she opens with her …
Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v
Fragment of a letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli b. Amram, Fustat, mentioning the successful visit of Eli ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver b. Yehezkel in Fustat …
Letter from Ibrāhīm, unknown location, to Ḥayya ha-Kohen the teacher, in Palermo ("al-madīna"), Sicily. The addressee is asked to deliver two tailored woolen mayzar covers, …
Verso: Record of the donation of one quarter of a compound by Sitt al-Naẓar bt. Ḥalfon to the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1161 CE. She also …
(1-4) Sitt al-Naẓar, the daughter of [Ephraim] Ḥalfōn, dedicated one quarter of the compound that is in Mahra, leading into the darb, (Dār) …