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Recto: Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: middle third of Av 1481 Seleucid (= July/August 1170 CE), with the signing delayed until the middle third of …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal query addressed to a Muslim faqīh. In two drafts. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish man who teaches medicine in public and in the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
ما تقول ائمة الدين فقها المسلمين ايدهم الله
رب العالمين في يهودي يقري علم الطب على
قارعة الطريق وف…
תעתוק אחד
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 …
Draft of legal document; the merchant Nahrir b. Mawhub appears before the rabbinical court of Fustat on 23 Ḥeshvan (Shawwāl) 521 AH = October/November 1127 …
Letter draft from an anonymous shaliaḥ, in Fustat/Cairo, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 22 Raḥamim, 5595 AM, which is 1835 …
כתיב יום ב׳ כ״ב לחודש | [ר]חמים שנת התקצה לפ״ק
ראשית דברי בקידה ובהש|תחויה למאור הגדול מורינו ורבינו ועטרת ראשנו הרב
הגדול מעוז ומגדול…
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IB VII, 54. Mercantile letter, possibly sent from Aden to India. Reports that Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥalābū (?) was in a shipwreck at Dahlak, …
3 תעתוקים
Legal document dated 25 Tammuz 5548 AM (July 1788 CE), Cairo, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, from Yiṣḥaq Aripol for part …
Note in Arabic script addressed to a Nasi ("al-mawlā al-ajall al-nāsī al-jalīl al-nabīl..."). Conveying a message about the bearer (recommendation?). Needs further examination.
Quittance from uncle named Yeshuʿa b. Avraham to his nephew, Saʿdān, after the latter returned a piece of land which had been taken illegally by …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Paraliterary text. Very early calendar calculation using the fixed rabbinic calendar. Dating: 842-843 CE, based on the example year given in the calculations. "This text …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Bifolio purporting to contain copies of documents from the year 5 AH (probably a copyist's error for 9 AH, hence from Friday, 3 Ramaḍān 9 …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part). Asking for help from the addressee. Mentions R. Avraham; being in great distress (wa-l-sāʿa al-shidda ʿaẓīma); lack of clothing …
Small fragment from a court record. Regarding a the settlement of a debt. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' …
Recto: Digest of a legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: November 1076. Manṣūr b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) will partner with Yefet b. Avraham and Shelomo …
Small scrap of parchment containing the closing line of a marriage contract and its signatures. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 374) EMS
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IB II, 9. Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿaqov to Netanʾel b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Ḥusayn). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter concerns a consignment …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Letter from Avraham b. David Ibn Sughmār (according to Gil), in Fustat, to the Nagid Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram, in Qayrawān. Dating: Probably spring or summer …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A settlement in connection with the dissolution of a partnership between Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel ha-Levi and …
Legal document containing the wording of the vow to be made by Bū Isḥāq Ibn Kathīr. Also mentions ʿOvadya b. Aharon and the wife of …
והאדה כתאב אלדמה אלדי אדם אלנבי מחמד עלא בני אסראיל ע"אל ורחמת אללה
וברכאתה.
Fragmentary Fatimid petition dated to the period of al-Mustanṣir. A beuatiful raʾy clause tucked at the bottom.
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
Letter of complaint, calling on the harassment of Abū l-Najm the filthy "al-Khabīth". Abū l-Najm broke the writer's trust, disobeyed their friendship (lit. sold off …
الى حضرة اخي وسيدي الشيخ ا[….
اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه ونعماه [وجمع الشمل به عن
قريب وانهي للمولى ما لحقني من الشيخ ابي النجم
الخبيث ا…
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo Barūkh to Meʾīr Ben-Naʿim. Dated: 20 Av 5560 AM (August 1800 CE). Locations: the letter was sent from Dimyat …
בע׳׳ה היום ב׳ כ׳ מנחם ש׳(ת)ק׳ס
הודינו והדרינו ועטרת תפארת לראשינו ה׳׳ה היקר
נבון וחכם כמה׳׳ר נר׳׳ו
אחדש׳׳ו בעד תקבל איאדיכם אלכוראם מע…
Address of a letter to the Nagid Shemuel (b. Ḥananya), in Fustat, in the Muṣāṣa neighborhood. In the Arabic-script portion it seems he is referred …
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1120. Revenue from different people is listed, mostly without specifications. The sums seem to represent money of the qodesh deposited …
…. the sugar-refineries, 17 dinars. Paid for the slave girl
…. Abū ʿUmar, 7, 71⁄2
…. dir., 2 qīrāṭs and 7 .... the tenant, the hired w…
Recto (secondary use): Fragment from the end of a letter regarding the postponement of a meeting. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Responsum sent by Rav Sherira Gaon, head of the Pumbedita Jewish Academy in Baghdad, to Masīla (in modern Algeria). Dating (text): late 10th–early 11th century, …
Najiya bt. Yūsuf (aka Sitt Hidhq), releases her husband Abū al-Surūr (aka Sasson) b. Natan from all obligations and resulting from her marriage contract, and …
Bill of rent for Shemuel Maṭāwīṭ. Dated: Sivan 53[..] AM = 1540–1639 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, the portion of the word that is visible before …
Letter from ʿEli ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1045 …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
הדרת אדוני ורבי אבו אלפצל, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתו, סהל בן חסן אלסכרי נ"נ, אלוהים שומרו; מעבדו מוסא בן יצחק נ"נ בן ברהון .…
Informal note from Bū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side). Mentions something that happened yesterday at the physician's shop (dukkān al-ḥakīm); the sender may be …
Letter dated 25 Tishrei 1212 (4973) from Yehuda b. al-Ammani, a cantor, schoolmaster, and clerk in Alexandria, to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, a senior …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Ya’aqov b. Nahum, Fustat. Around 1045. Regarding a very large amount of goods and deals. …
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פגאהדת קואי ו…
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
:Right side of bifolio 4v (Document 30)
Petition in which the sender reports that a certain person (dhāt al-shakhṣ) had not come down from the citadel (al-qalʿa), and the ruler and Jamāl …
Description for T-S 6J10.12: Fragment of a letter from Amram b. Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1075. The writer informs …
חצרה מולאי אלחבו אלגליל גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאה
ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ותאיידה ונעמאה ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה
ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ב…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document. Record of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Second third of Elul 1482 Seleucid, which is August 1171 CE. The mutual release of the metal …
Lower fragment: Fragment of a letter to Nahray b. Nissim mentioning Yusuf and Abu al-Ḥasan. The city of Tarablus (Tripoli) is referred to twice. EMS …
Letter from Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef (active 990s–1030s CE), in Qayrawān, to his brother-in-law ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim. The sender reports that the addressee's son …
Several fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with wide line spacing. From the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–1159 CE) to Sason (b. Meshullam) the …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 16v-17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo, based on …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 3v-4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
IB III, 57. Letter from Yosef b. Peraḥya Yijū, in Mazara, writing to an important merchant, also in Sicily., ca. 1154. Yosef states that his …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Medical text. Dating: post-10th century, based on the physicians cited within the document. Contains descriptions of the health benefits and medical uses of different fruits--such …
(ln. 1-4)
There are people who dry apricots and soak them in cold water and drink that water on an empty stomach for cooling and quenching. An…
Letter from Naṣr b. Kanz al-Dawla to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm, appearing to establish a new relationship between Naṣr (son of Kanz al-Dawla) …