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Letter sent to a Nasi, possibly named Yishay, possibly in Acre. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the mention of the judge Peraḥya …
תעתוק אחד
Legal opinion of Eli ha-haver b. 'Amram regarding the estate of Shelomo b. Yefet. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 255, 483, 280.) See also …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Court document dated 15 Kislev 1469/26 November 1157 acknowledging that the court had heard the testimony of the wife of the addressee, the Shaykh Abu …
Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid (1128 CE). Yeshuʿa b. Yaʿaqov (known as Sayyid al-Kull), whose father was known as Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār …
Legal document for authorization for butchering fowl. Dated 1259 CE (1570 Seleucid).
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 14 Kislev 5527 AM, which is 1766 CE. Groom: Moshe b. Yosef b. Aharon. Bride: Miryam bt. Yaʿaqov …
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to pay the bearer, the judge, 10 dirhams out of the rent of the …
Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim to an unidentified addressee mentioning accounts and the amount of linen that the addressee has to provide. …
] עלי אנה ב'ע'ה' אכד מנא סער פ'
לספאקץ [
טרי עליי בדלך
קבץ' [
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Legal deed for the purchase of a house by a descendant of the Ṭabāṭabā family. Dating: early 5th/11th century. See also T-S Ar. 38127 (early …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Folio from a court notebook. Recto: Statement about the debt of a parnas. Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than …
Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate
of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year
…
Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi). Dating: ca. 1168–1204, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
Three, much damaged columns, seemingly in the hand of the scribe of App. C 1, 2, containing about sixty names of male persons, recipients of …
recto (left side only)
Verso: Informal note to al-Nezer (Natan b. Shemuel), active 1128–1164 CE, in which the writer bemoans his state (e.g. mā baqiya lī khāṭir), and writes, …
Bifolio of literary text (אלו הן הקרובין from Mishna Sanhedrin 3:4). On a blank page there is a draft of a legal summons: Abū l-Faḍl …
Legal document. Fragment (left side). In Arabic script. The name Muḥammad appears in line 2 and the profession al-Ṣayrafī appears in line 3. Line 4 …
بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
]…….محمد الفروقي انه..............
ا]لصيرفي مبلغ الورقة التي كانت له ومبلغها
]باسم تاريخها ثالث عشر من ذي القعدة …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter fragment addressed to "the mother" Sitt Rayḥān (potentially the wife of Eliyyahu the Judge). Dating probably early 13th century. The sender is "perplexed" at …
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1058 (Gil). Details several small amounts of money and their sum – 250 dinars. There is …
[ ]נה בידי מן [. . . .] דינ
בוציר ⳽ דינ
אבנה ⳽ דינ בידי יעקוב [ ]
ספר ק ק דינ מרדוך ה וסדס וח…
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים
Recto: Drafts of legal deeds, with places and dates left unspecified. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: ca. mid-11th century. The first entry is a deed …
Letter fragment (lower part) from a muqaddam named Moshe (b. Perahya. AA), probably addressed to the dayyanim of Fustat, complaining that after the death of …
Legal document with testimony from al-Sitt bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram and her mother Jamīla bt. Yaʿqūb describing that Yosef (the former’s father and latter’s husband) …
Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi regarding a man who married a widow, then found in her a "hidden defect" from …
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), final portion of the text on BL Or. 6197.7 (through passage 9.5); read …
When the word had spread, [the ki]ng summoned Yehudah
he gardener and said to him: “The man whom you (sg.…
Recto: Legal document(s). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Sivan 5547 AM, which is 1787 CE. ʿIsqa agreement in the "negotiation/brokerage business" = עסק המשא ומתן (ll. …
Legal document describing that Avraham b. Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations. Shelomo still owes 12 dinars, of which …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: a 'moshav' (court session?) on Thursday; Rabbi Yiṣḥaq; a dispute over expenses accrued over 9 months, and sums of 8 …
ח25 מכתב מאת ̇כַלַף אל חלפון, ובו בקשה לעזור בעסקים במצרים ודיווח על משלוח שעוכב בהודו עדן, ג' במרחשוון, אתמ"ט לשטרות, שהוא 20 באוקטובר 1137 …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Karaite engagement deed. Dated on the night of Purim 14 Adar I, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yiṣhaq b. Aharon Ḥakīm engages the previously unmarried Qamr …
Fragment of a document of sale in which Nahray b. Nissim, the well-known banker and communal lender (d. 1096), buys from his brother-in-law and the …
Legal document detailing how Ṣāfī, the slave (ghulām) and agent of the Jewish Academy in Fustat, insulted a notable in ʿAydhāb, Ibn Jamāhīr, in the …
Mercantile/trade letter in a chancery hand, in Arabic script, 11 lines. The writer seems to be trained in the inshāʾ or hired a chancery scribe. …
سالت انك يعنون……………………………………………………….
نقدا اليك منذ مدة وكذلك النصف زر (يزيد؟) قد كان قبضه
قيراط الزجاج وسالت سيدي ابا الحسن علي بن القسم ايد…
Letter from a wretched Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yūsuf begging for charity from a dignitary, probably Avraham Maimonides or his father. The handwriting appears to be …
Letter addressed to Makhlūf al-Maghribi in Jerusalem, in the 'house of Natan,' about various commercial matters. Yehuda al-Ashkenazi and Abu Khalifa are also mentioned. EMS
Beginning of a letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to "the judge" (perhaps Eliyyahu the Judge). Dating: ca. early 13th century. Opening with blessings and …
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال…
Three letters from Se’adya b. Yosef to his students in Fustat in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. Original letter …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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 …
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Malīj. He has received the petition (ruqʿa) of the Alexandrian woman whose divorced husband is not …
Court record in which the orphan Avraham b. Shemuel al-Andalusi brings his guardians for the second time to court demanding they deliver a balance. The …
Magical formulary containing unusual curses on anyone pilfering a Torah scroll donated by a person on his death-bed. It contains the names of ten angels …
This codex was dedicated by Our Master Rabbi N son of N, may his share be with the seven classes of the righteous
on Paradise, and may his plac…
Verso: Statement in Judaeo-Arabic that a list of two, apparently newly acquired books should be "recorded on a memorandum (tunqal ilā tadhkira)" and brought to …
Two legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) with his autograph responsa (r. 1205-1237 CE as Rayyis al-Yahūd and also with the title Nagid after …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter, fragmentary, from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Ḥaver b. Amram in Fustat written in his own hand. Eli Ha-Kohen expresses his anxiety …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1065 CE. It appears that Nahray and his …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Abū Ṭāhir containing interesting technical details of the capitation tax administration. The writer heard from Manṣūr al-Dimashqī "may God …
Letter in the hand of Shabbetay b. Avraham addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya. Asking him to obtain a caliphal rescript stopping the local …