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Expenditure of 427 1/2 bakhaya dirhams on clothing for communal officials, on payment of a balance due for the distribution of wheat and other items. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Left lower corner of a will from Fustat. The elder daughter is in charge of the partitioning of the house. The dying man says that …
Details of an oath to be taken by Abu al-Ḥasan Qasim as demanded by the haver Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham with regard to a consignment of …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give to the messenger of the ḥaver …
Letter addressed to a certain Shemuʾel. In Hebrew. Large but very damaged. Goitein identifies the hand as "European." Mentions Yehoshuaʿ and Moshe. Also mentions a …
Legal document. Commenda. Following the Talmudic isqa method whereby the agents have some responsibility for losses, the active partner or partners (Abū Sa‘d and his …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Salama b. Musa ha-Sfaqusi from Alexandria probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1068. Mentions several people including Avraham b. Farah and Yosef b. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter, probably sent from Alexandria by a man to his brother, a student of Maimonides, who participated in a class of Rabbi Moshe (ll. 18r, …
IB II, 69a. Panegyric in Honor of Madmun II Cairo, after 1186. The author seems to have been in dire straits and unable to pay …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic regarding a political conflict within the Jewish community, in which the parties have recourse to the government. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …
Engagement agreement. Fiancé: Ṭāhir b. ʿIwaḍ al-Jazzār. Fiancée: Mudallala bt. Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar. Dated: Wednesday night, 28 Sivan 1581 Seleucid, which is 1270 CE. The …
זכרון עדות
Letter from one community addressed to another. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Opening and closing with blessings for the addressees. Reporting on the arrival of Saʿīd …
Letter possibly in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi, possibly sent to Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Containing an answer to inquiry whether a family had …
Letter/petition from a 'foreign' widow (marʾa armala gharība) to a notable. Appealing for charity for herself and her three girls during this cold spell, in …
State document, in Arabic script. Fatimid petition. Mentions a state official by the name Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd, a partnership, and some financial …
]من امره [ ]ـلى ما يجب ان[
]الشيخ ابو الحسن علي بن حديد ادام الله عزه[
]الحضرة الجليلة ادام الله سلطانها واحق…ك. ها
]ـناله وحمى .[]بها وال…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …
Fragment of a letter from Maymun b. Efrayim of Alexandria to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal. (Information from Goitein index cards; also Gil)
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Yisrael ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel b. Ḥofni to one of Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Se’adya’s sons in Fustat. January 1021, in the handwriting of …
2 תעתוקים
Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, …
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic about a young woman. Potentially the same hand (and/or indirect joins): T-S NS 292.56 (PGPID 24738), T-S 13J7.24 (PGPID 1197), T-S …
Notice from Eli 'Keton ha-Ḥaverim' to Josiah ha-Nasi b. Shelomo ha-Nasi. Informing Josiah ha-Nasi that his opponent Abu al-'Ala had not appeared in the synagogue. …
Deed of acknowledgment of a debt of 76.25 black dirhams to be repaid in weekly installments by Bū l-Fakhr b. Bū l-Futūḥ al-Levi, who works …
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله …
Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 AM = 28 April 1546 CE. Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold …
Note to Umm Bū Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer tells her to pack her belongings and to come immediately with the bearer of the letter …
An almost complete manuscript of the pentatueuch, with Sa'adya's Tafsīr and masoretic annotations, copied in the early years of the eleventh century. A series of …
Inventory of the Sarcocolla (‘anzarut), a medicinal resin, in the possession of Abu al-Khayr Sedeqa, recording the numbers of ratls that have been taken out …
Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments …
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r
Two legal documents written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38). Recto: Possibly a debt acknowledgment. Fragment (upper right corner). Involves Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Yehuda …
Recto: fragment from a legal manual or formulary discussing protocol for the writing of conditions attendant to a debt agreement, including procedure when a debt …
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
Fragment of an unfinished marriage contract. Groom: [...] b. Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the …
Letter from Barhun Levi b. Ishaq concerning a deceased man, a debt, and power of attorney. He informs the addressee, whose name is lost, that …
Legal record (#42) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tammuz 5321 AM …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat …
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin ("the Glory of the Cantors and their strength"), in Fustat. …
State document in Arabic script, an internal memorandum or report containing multiple hands. Containing (on the last fragment) the signature of the vizier Ḥusayn b. …
… if God wills.
My sufficiency is God. How excellent a keeper is he!
The slave of our lord and master the imām al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh, commande…
3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 3 דיונים
Legal record (#129) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Date lost to damage …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1422 Seleucid, = 31 January 1111 CE. Quittance of the debt of Shelomo b. Ḥayyim ha-Sheviʿi made …
Version of the letter in: Mosseri VII 155. Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around …
IB II, 60. Bill of sale for the purchase of a house by Maḥrūz. Constructed from three fragments: T-S NS 184 52, T-S NS 184 …
Legal document: partnership agreement. Dated: July 18, 1107. Location: Cairo. Partnership agreement between Nethanel b. Tiqva and Eli b. Mevasser in a clothing and tailoring …
Letter from Binyamin Castro to a business partner. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. Informing the addressee about the death of Moshe b. Shoshan (ll. 2–3), …