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Copies of letters by Rav Sherira Gaon, dealing with money matters.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, probably to Barhūn b. Isḥāq, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer mentions details concerning goods from the Maghreb and …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי [אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך [
וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא [ו] צר[ף אלא]סוא [ענך] ברחמתה מן ס[כנדרי]א נצף תמוז [ען ח…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Nissim b. Benāyā, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1085 (Gil) or 1100 (Goitein). Nissim brought a …
בשמך
כאן קד תקדם כתאבי אלי סיידי ומולאי אלשיך אלגליל
אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה וסעאדתה ונעמ[תה]
אעלמה פיה אדאם אללה עזה אן קד וצל לה…
IB VI, 46. Legal document. Partnership. Dated: 1215-1216 CE. This fragment emerged from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. Bū …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal draft, in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Court record. Dated: 1395 Seleucid (1083/84 CE). Location: Fustat. Abū al-‘Alā ‘Ūlla ha-Levi b. Joseph …
Fragment of a draft letter in the name of the community of Fustat regarding the imposition of an excommunication a certain Avraham, ca. 1035. Gil …
3 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
IB III, 40a. List of customs paid in Aydhab by Avraham Ibn Yiju, around 1152. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. IB …
תעתוק אחד 3 תרגומים
Ketubba, Palestinian, dated to the 10th or early 11th century. Reused for a magical text in Hebrew. Unusually, the later scribe also wrote over the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate …
ינהון אן ואלדהם סק[ט באלופאה ]
צגאר ואן מתולי אלמע[ונה ]
ואלדהם וואלדתהם ולמ יבקי אלמאל [ ]
בה וכלף להם דוירה יסתקרון פיהא [ ]
מן אל…
They report that their father has died [ leaving three] .
small [children] and that the head of the police [ ]
their father and their m…
Court record of a divorce settlement initiated by Ḥasana bt. Yiṣḥaq against her husband Perahya. (Information from Niessen and Shivtiel, p. 613.) EMS
Late Hebrew letter from Jerusalem, from a pious man who recently settled there and does not like what he sees. He opens with describing how …
תעתוק אחד
State document, in chancery hand. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." …
Legal query addressed to the Gaon and Nasi Daniel b. ʿAzarya in Jerusalem with regard to the goods of a merchant, Moshe b. Yehuda ha-Ma'arvi, …
Document of legal import for a woman who has appointed a wakil. Composed in letter form and addressed to the community in Jerusalem. Probably late …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: March 1062 CE. Among other matters, Yisrael reports that he is in bad …
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46v: A renewed betrothal contract dated Tammuz 1493 Seleucid = June/July 1182 CE. Groom: Abū l-Baqāʾ Sheʾerit b. Yefet. …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060 in the month of Ab.
Excerpt of a writ written in Ramla, 1076.
מכתב מאת יוסף בן עזרא ואברהם בן מֻעְטִי אל חלפון על כוח אויב המתקרב וסכנת הנסיעה תִלִמְסַאן, אחרי פורים [דתתצ"ח], שהוא 27 בפברואר 1138 גויטיין …
Petition from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-ʿAnīnī to the Nagid. The addressee can be identified as Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–60) based on …
Badly damaged letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning shipments of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman …
[ ] peder-i ʿazīzim //el-Ḥāc Muḥammed// ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-i şerīflerine
[ ] selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñr…
[ ] To my most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father //al-Ḥājj Muḥammad//,
[ ] ...after offering greetings and sincere p…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Settlement of a marital dispute between Elʿazar and his wife.
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Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Der'i to Mevorakh b. Saadya. A new governor arrives at the city and is received by the leaders of the …
Segment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Mevaser. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as …
Letter from Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to Barakāt b. Hārūn Ibn al-Kūzī, in Alexandria, sent via the shop of Maḥāsin al-Ḥarīrī. …
Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Accounts of an ʿaṭṭār (druggist/perfumer) including names of persons, goods, and sums of money. Handwriting of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi …
Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Legal query addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon (r. 1127–1139 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138). Also signed by Natan b. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …
Letter relating the affairs of a teacher and scribe who had been offered a contract by the community to teach for 20 dirhams a week …
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Head of the Jews (entitled Gaon) concerning the difficulties she is having with her …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Communal/legal record. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid, which is December 1181, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū l-Munajjā al-Kohen, surnamed …
Deed of release (שטר אביזאריה/פיצוי). Location: Almost certainly Fustat (and not Tiberias as Gil suggested). Dating: Late 10th century. Concerning property in Tiberias. A man …
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ואפילו [נתנו לו בית דין הג…
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. Moshe known as al-Shay[kh?], Moshe b. Shelomo (known as Ibn Ḥassān), and the late Abū Naṣr "who used …
Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to find out from Abū l-Bahā' if …
IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …
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Karaite betrothal document. Date: 26 Adar 5487 AM (1727 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Najma bt. Yeshūʿa bt. Moshe and the groom …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …
Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Cairo, to Shelomo b. Yishai the Mosul Nasi, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1240 CE. The writer had sent …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic from Bū l-Majd to al-Raṣuy asking him to send the jarāʾid(?) belonging to the compound, urgently. Dating: early 13th century. …
Court testimony. Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh b. Shemuel attests that the estate, consisting of cloths, textiles and other things, of the late …
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent and building expenditures, probably ca. 1043. The recto of this leaf is a continuation of the two preceding …
. . . . The old woman, 2 dir.
The two rooms of al-Ṣaydalānī, 8 dir.
Dār al-Barqī, 5.
From Dār al-Ḥaffār:
The room of Ḥasan a…
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 from Yosef b. Shemuel al-Dani in Palermo to Isma’il b. Avraham in Damsis. The first part of the letter deals with the tragedy that …
My elder and master, may God prolong your life and make your welfare and happiness permanent. May he augment his bounty and spiritual gifts gr…
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from Yūsuf b. Hārūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with idiosyncratic spellings. Addressed to Qayrawān, it seems. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with trade in ṭabarī cloth, …
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 11-13) Folio 4r
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Trapani, Sicily (Gil prefers to read אטראבנש in line 2 over Goitein's and Ben-Sasson's אטראבלש), to Nahray b. …
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך ונעמאך] וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
אטראבנש לה כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה ל…
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Ibrāhīm, in Sunbāṭ, addressed to a Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting assistance for his family in time of need. His family members are all …