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Letter from Umm Dāʾūd to her nephew (brother's son) Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu. Dating: first half of the 13th century. Describing the wedding of her …
יפיפית מבני אדם
ברוך הגבר אשר
ברוך אתה בבואך
אלי חצ'רת אלמולא אלחכים אלגליל אלכביר אלי
אלשיך אב…
In y(our name, Oh) Merc(iful). From Umm Da'u'd, your paternal aunt.
You are the fairest of the sons of man.
Blessed is the man who (…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Letter of appeal for charity from Umm Abū l-Khayr to R. Yiṣḥaq (probably Yiṣḥaq b. Sason). (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter addressed to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf al-Urjuwānī. Goitein infers that he is the recipient because it refers to 'Allān, his sister's son, and to his …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal deed. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār the banker receives a testimony concerning a certain Isḥāq who died 3–4 days after he had made a declaration in …
Verso: Draft of a deathbed will in which a man gives two houses to two distant relatives, forestalls the possible claims of two other female …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: 1152. Location: Fustat. Under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Hiba al-Abzārī b. Abū Isḥaq al-Tawwazī and Abū …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
An account from Sicily listing 63 ox hides from Syracuse and 76 buck skins. The sums are mentioned in rubaiyat (quarters of dinars). Dated to …
אלחאצל פי אלכלטה
ואלכאצה ד אלאף
תש[ ] ואיצא כה רבאעי רבח דמנש
אשתרא מן דלך סג נטע סרקוסה [
…
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1058. Details about expenses. Mentions books. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #286) VMR
Recto: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Pleading for a loan of 20 dirhams against …
مملوكه بن مملوكه صنيعته بركات بن الديان ابو الفرج
يقبل يدي المولى السيد الاجل المنعم المحسن المتفضل الكريم الشيخ
الجليل الفاضل الاصيل الكبير ا…
Letter of appeal written by Menashshe, the Alexandrian school teacher, to Abu al-Barakat Yehudah ha-Kohen b. Elazar, Thiqat al-Mulk (Goitein translates 'Trusted Servant of the …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 12 Nisan [5322] …
Letter to the Jewish community (qahal) of Fustat from a petitioner whose children were taken captive. The community has only redeemed some of them so …
Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1119–20 CE. Accounting written on the verso of a letter addressed to Judge Avraham b. Natan. The accounting …
. . . . of blessed memory, for Av, Elul, Tishri, Marheshwan,
… nightwatch, and 2 dir. due for Nayrūz, and for nightwatch. …
Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …
ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [
] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه
] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [
] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter opening, fragmentary, from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to a friend (11th century).
Recto: Petition in Arabic script. Much of it is vague and allusive. Refers to the addressee as "al-mawlā" and refers multiple times to the sulṭān. …
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Letter from a certain Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Abū Saʿīd known as al-Yatīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother has been sick. The addressee has …
Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
Court record concerning a gift of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1462 Seleucid = August/September 1151 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel …
Letter from Isḥaq b. ʿImrān, probably in al-Maḥalla, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yahya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic …
In (Your) name, O Merci(ful)
The letter of my lord has arrived, may God prolong your life and make lasting your honor,
strength, health…
Record of statement of release issued by the court of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 = 3 May 1227 CE. …
Letter from Yefet b. Ḥalfon to Eliyyahu the judge, requesting him to obtain a legal decision (fatwa) from the Nagid Avraham and to pass it …
A letter from Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he …
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf (aka Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Levi). Dated: Ḥeshvan 1439 Seleucid = October/November 1127 CE. (Goitien initially …
Letter sent from al-Ahwaz by Efrāyim b. Saʿīd to the three senior Tustarī brothers, Abū Naṣr Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef and Abū Sahl, in Fustat. …
בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא סאדאתי אלמשאיך אלפצלא ואדאם תאיידהם וסעאדתהם [ו]חראסתהְסְ
מן אלאהואז יום אלגמעה אלתאני עשר מ…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: Sunday 8th Adar II, 5548 AM (1788 CE). Location: Cairo. Avraham b. Nissīm b. Yaʿaqov aka Ḥīna is the groom, Badra …
Letter in the name of the yeshiva, probably by Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, to the communities of Egypt, probably October 1057. Gil's edition is …
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; [may those who love you be at peace].…
Letter from Yehosef b. Shemuel Bavli to the judge Anatoli b. Yosef. In Hebrew. He states that he will not hand over a security to …
Business letter in Arabic script from the circle of Nahray b. Nissim, in Arabic script. Mentions the arrival of a certain Salmān, mentions al-Ashmunayn, Abū …
كتابي الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاك وادام
عزك وتاييدك وسعادتك وسلامتك ونعمتك وكبت
بالذل حسدتك واعداك …
2 תעתוקים
Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
Small piece from the lower part of a Palestinian-style ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Engagement deed dated June 1760 CE (15 Tammuz 5520 AM). Moshe b. Avraham ha-Levi Caraso is engaged to Mlīḥa bt. Yosef Najjār. 100 arayōt (groom's …
שאלה שנשלחה אל 'ראש הסדר', ואולי הכוונה לר' יהודה הכהן הרב הגדול ראש הסדר בן יוסף, תלמידו של רבנו נסים בר' יעקב מקירואן, שחי במצרים …
Letter from a woman named Hayfāʾ bt. Sulaymān Ibn al-ʿArīq to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat. The addressee was the leader of the Jerusalemite congregation …
Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. Sender might be writing on behalf of a group of Muslim merchants as they refer to themselves in …
Entry in court notebook (#54). Prescription. Recipe for preparation of an ointment consisting of powdered litharge (martak masḥūq); calf suet (shaḥm kulā ʿijl); aged, fine …
[[יוכד שחם אלכלי]]
Fragment of a ketubba of the groom Yefet b. Avraham from Alexandria signed by Avraham b. Yaʿaqov. Dated ca. 1100. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, …
Court declaration in which Moshe b. Yeshuʿa testifies to having received all due him from Abū Ghālib Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, working for him in …
Letter from Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo, to his mother, in Damietta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. He is …
Letter from an unknown writer, probably in Hebron, to his wife (addressed as al-Sitt al-Jalīla), probably in Fustat. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab al-Khayyāṭ (the tailor), …
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir, written on behalf of his community, to the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh in Fustat regarding two matters …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
IB I, 25. Small fragment of a letter sent by a merchant in Egypt to the Maghrib. The sender asks the recipient to buy for …
…Your family
is well and safe, as you wish and desire. Of late,
all the population of the land of Egypt is enjoying justice and sa…
Letter from [Yiṣḥa?]q b. Yosef to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Related to the India trade. The addressee may …
Legal document in which Ḥusn bt. Yaḥyā ibn al-Zūrīqā, wife of Abū Naṣr Shelomo b. Saʿadya b. Hallun declares that she has received a full …
Legal document mentioning that a man in Fustat is prepared to pay 1000 dirhams for two and one-half out of twenty-four shares of a well-known …
IB I, 3. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …
[Date, place, and parties.]
…Mr. Jekuthiel claimed
that he had sold to Joseph indigo from
the House of Raisins against clearing …