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Petition from a woman to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerning a debt of 25 dinars owed to her by Ṣedaqa al-Ḥalabī, of which he …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sugmar, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1070. Nahray is called “Our Rabbi, the head of …
הדרת רבנו גדול הישיבה אבו יחיא נהוראי בי"ר נסים נ"ע; המודה לו, יהודה בן מוסא נ"ע בן סגמאר.
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document, in Arabic script. Four fragmentary lines preserved. Dated 446 H/1054 CE. Probably a decree ordering the safeguarding of the affairs of the people …
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Ismail al-Andalusi, in Sicily, to Yoshua b. Natan al-Andalusi, in Fustat. Dealing with business matters and listing prices of goods in …
לאדוני ורבי הנכבד מר אבו אלסָרוּר יושע בן נתן נ"ע, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומו ואת אושרו ואת דאגתו לו; מאוהבו, יעקב בן…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
ח35 מכתב מאת יהודה הלוי אל חלפון בעניין פדיון שבויה ספרד, כנראה טולדו, חודש אוגוסט 1138 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 17.5 x 17.1 ס"מ. פורסם …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 21 Heshvan 5500 AM (1739 CE). Location: Cairo. Groom: Moshe b. Shabbetay b. Moshe ha-Kohen. Bride: Nazha bt. Yeshūʿa b. Eliyahu …
Legal record (#22) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Tevet [5321] …
IB III, 1. Business letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, on the Malabar coast of India. Dating: ca. 1137–40. The …
In Your name, O Merciful.
The letter of your excellency, the illustrious elder, my master, has arrived. It was the most pleasant letter th…
Three consecutive entries on the same fragment, related to a property sold by the Jewish community of Cairo in the early 15th century. The fragment …
الحمد الله رب العالمين والصلوة على ساير الانبيا والمرسلين
يشهد من يضع خطه اخره بمعرفة الخط العبراني المك…
3 תעתוקים
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No names preserved. Release from legal obligations in a business relationship involving …
Letter from Asad b. Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, …
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Genealogical list of Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen
Letter from Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. Mentions trade business with Sicily, an event with the …
כתאבי יאסידי [ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וצרף
אלאסוא ענך [ ] תשרי כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך באח…
Letter from Abū l-Faraj and his son Abū l-Majd in Bilbays to Eliyyahu the Judge (who is the cousin, ibn khāl, of Abū l-Faraj). They …
מן ענד ממלוכה אבו אלמגד וואלדה אבו אלפרג
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Fragment of an engagement contract in the handwriting of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The bride is a widow, but there are no …
. . . . . 1 שידך בפנינו אנ[ןִ בית דין דחתימין לתחתא ...]
. .2 בר כגק מר[ור ]
3 אלמנתא בת כגק מ[רור]
4 ועשרין ואלתזם עלי נ[פסה שתהא ... נאמנת בדיבו…
Letter, possibly a draft, from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (fl. early 13th century) conveying blessings, probably on the occasion of a wedding.
Court record. Dated: Monday, 14 Adar I 1464 Seleucid = 10 February 1153 CE. The cantor Yosef b. Mikhaʾel sells a little house in Fustat, …
בנוע אלמלך
Recto: Letter from Simḥa Kohen in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj (Eliyyahu the Judge) in Fusṭāṭ, early 13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Introduced by Proverbs 22:1. The …
Fragmentary legal testimony in Hebrew. In which Yeshuʿa b. Manṣūr ha-Kohen declares that his wife owes no debts to him.
Fragments of 4 lines of a Fatimid decree. Mentions the caliph (amir al-muʾminīn) and the date (but the date is missing). The blank space on …
]ـه على احدهما دا
]ده
]د ووضعت عند نقله الى صـ[
اميـ]ـر المومنين بتاريخ سـبع[
[.......................]
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be'). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Iyyar 1484 Seleucid, which is 1173 CE, under the authority …
Legal document. Deed of compensation / bill of release. Dated: 1337 Seleucid = 1025–26 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Avraham, son of …
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3 תעתוקים 3 דיונים
Rhymed opening of letter to "the great cantor Hillel." Excellent script, large space between the lines, obscure vocabulary. JP
הרון אכי אלאכרס ולה רבאעי
סלאמה בן הרון בצמאן כלף בן קבה
הבה בן מוסי צבי חנין
הבה בן //אברהים//
יוסף בן כלף צבאג //תפליסי//
סעד בן פרג אלמג
ברכאת בן…
2 תעתוקים
Declaration of a patronage relationship? After quoting Isaiah 50:7, several lines of eloquent prose in artfully arranged lines, starting with, "I am your slave, never …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Business letter stating that Umm Bayān, who is dragged to court every day by her creditors, opened her husband’s storage crate …
Responsum; apparently sent to Abraham Maimonides; on verso Abū ʿAlī is mentioned. The dating is c. 1213–1237 CE given that Abraham Maimonides is referenced with …
IB II, 68. Letter (or draft of letter) from a certain Ḥ[alfon] (?) to Shemaryāhū b. David (i.e. the Hebrew name of Maḍmūn b. David) …
אלעבד חל[פון ...]
י''ק צפ' תפ' הוד ועטרת וצניף כותרת מ[רנא ורבנא]
שמריהו הנגיד הגדול נגיד הנגידים וראש
החסדים וינהי אנה מן בעץ צנאיעך דאע…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Fragment of a marriage contract listing items such as a pair of golden ‘dablas’ (a ring without a stone). The notation “’lq” opens the jewelry …
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananʾel, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060 (Gil). Discusses prices of wheat and fava beans and a …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Prenuptial agreement. The groom, Abū l-Barakāt, commits to not marrying a second wife or acquiring a female slave. Also mentions [...] b. Yefet.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. He also addresses the letter to his brother …
Verso: Page from the court register (שימוש) of the Babylonian community of Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 27 Nisan 1339 = 25 April 1028 CE. Mubārak b. …
Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Possibly addressed to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is an extremely polite reminder to give the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning a transaction, quoting a certain Avraham and mentioning Abū ʿAlī and the …
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יביעה לי הנאך ולא[
צ̇מאן קליוב ולא נ[
ואלסנה אלדאכלה בכמאלהא [
דלך ולא אלאחתגאג פיה בחגה [
ולא אואטי מן יזיד עליה ולא…
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: 28 Heshvan 5557 AM, which is 1796 CE. Testimony that Raḥamim Ashiyahu (אשיאו) received from Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Re'uven an …
Letter from David b. Binyamin to Pineḥas ha-Kohen he-Ḥasid. In Hebrew. Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Elul 1648 Seleucid = Muharram 738 AH = 13 August 1337 CE. Ṣafiyy b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazzān accepts a …
Letter from Shemuel b. Ḥofni to Shemarya b. Maṣliaḥ, probably the father of Efrayim b. Shemarya, the leader of the Palestinian Jewish community in Fustat …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm addressed to 'ha-Rav ha-Gadol,' someone close to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dealing entirely …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya to Nahray b. Nissim.
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך
מן דמסיס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך מן תניס סאלתך
תנצר בקיה מא תבקא לי…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter from both Nahray b. Nissim (recto) and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa (verso) to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Written on Isru Ḥag (the day after the …
Official letter or document in Arabic script. Maybe a petition asking the addressee to reprimand and threaten a group of people: والزجر لهم . . …