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Letter probably from the leaders of the Jewish community in Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ (fl. 1007–1055 CE), describing the ransoming and generous …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter of petition, draft, addressed to “our lord” Mevorakh during his first term in office, from the “holy community of Malij and its cantor.” Only …
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Shevat 5535 AM = 30 January 1775 CE. Groom: Eliyyahu Goren b. Nissim. Bride: Hermoza bt. Nissim Navaro. Total …
תעתוק אחד
State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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
State or private petition in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Uses the terms murā`ī and mamālīk.
الذي ضمن المراعي بالـ[
ويلاذ به المماليك و[
]رقل بالمماليك وحـ[
ولهم ثلثة سنين يجادلو[
] والابعاد(؟) التي يجب عليها
ـ]ـر على المما…
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Letter addressed to R. Peraḥya ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Maybe Ayyubid or Mamluk-era based on the hand and formulae, but this should be …
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
His servant and slave,
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Dāʾūd
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty, much-sough…
Legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Small vertical strip from the left side. On parchment. Possibly concerning the manumission and …
Verso: Beginning of a letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Barakāt (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Maḥāsin.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 1529 Seleucid, which is November 1217 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The virgin Sitt …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to a personality in Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1030 CE. Describes the aftermath of the excommunication of the Qaraites on …
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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Right fragment of a marriage contract, containing high-priced items in the trousseau (dowry). Groom: Avraham. Dated [13]35 Seleucid, which is 1023/24 CE. (Information from CUDL …
Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The sender received the addressee's letter with concern about the whereabouts of Abū l-Ḥasan …
Family letter addressed to Bū l-Ṭāḥir. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender plans to leave for al-Maḥalla after the holiday to retrieve some money from a dyer. …
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 …
Recto: Letter from Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel to a certain Shela (and/or David he-Ḥaver?). The opening greetings include a complaint about lack of letters and mention …
Lower fragment, verso (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (left side only, long vertical strip). Mentions people such as [...] al-Ḥaver al-Jalīl; Abū l-Qawām; and …
Legal document. Court proceedings. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf claims that Da’ūd and Ṣedaqa, sons of Ṣemaḥ b. Da’ūd al-Raqqī, have withheld profits from a partnership in …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter (fragment) containing greetings and copious praises for Shemuʾel Rosh ha-Seder. (Information in part from CUDL.)
List on a small slip of paper, 22 names of indigent persons, mostly women. The first three are in T-S NS J239v (Information from Mediterranean …
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Litigation in court between the two partners, Farah and Yosef, concerning a business deal for merchandise that was apparently imported from Buna (Bone, Algieria) to …
Unusual hybrid between a legal record and a letter. Ghāliya bt. Yiṣḥaq, the widow of Furayj, and Ḥusn bt. Ibrāhīm Ibn Fūla(?) al-Ṣayrafī acknowledge in …
Business letter from Rahamim b. 'Imran in Tinnis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dated ca. 1055.
כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ו[אדאם תאידה…וכאן לה וליא וחאפטא]
פי גמיע אמרה מן תניס ליב כליו מן [
נעלמך יאמולאי אן וצלת אלי תניס יו…
Letter fragment. Beginning of a solemn letter addressed to the community, apparently of al-Mahalla, probably by Mevorakh ha-Nagid b. Saadya (1094-1111). Verso: Arabic jottings including …
Letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay from the town of Bilbays containing local news and sending greetings to the Nagid David b. Avraham …
Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …
Testimony about power of attorney regarding Mūsā b. ʿAllush’s bequest. Dating: 1046 (Gil). Mūsā, from Jerba, had businesses in Sicily and drowned on his way …
[ ]לה אלחריר באלמדינה
חין וצולה מן דמנש וכאן לה ענדה שי אכר יחאסבה [ ] כאן תעדר פי דלך אלחין אלי אן חצר אלספר
למוסי שריכי פי מרכב ערף במ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from a woman named Hayfāʾ bt. Sulaymān Ibn al-ʿArīq to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat. The addressee was the leader of the Jerusalemite congregation …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A woman gives to a man a gift consisting of two objects delivered …
Bifolium with seven legal document entries, likely from a court register. Dated in several entries as Tishrei 5491AM (September/October 1730 CE). (1) The first document …
כ'ג'ק' מרנא ורבנא נתנאל התלמיד החכם והנבון אוהבו ודורש בר כ'ג'ק' מרנא ורבנא חלפון הזקן הנכבד נ'ע' שלומו מאיר בר הלל ביר' צדוק אב זצ"ל …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī in Susa to Abu Zakariyya Hayyim b. `Ammar, who writes about a disaster at sea that overcame the boats, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך
ונעמתך ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל פי אלסר מן מא קדר אללה תעאלי
וחכם אלדי…
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Confirming the arrival of 10 dirhams with Abū ʿImrān, …
Deed of sale of a property on recto, with multiple related addenda documents on verso. Dated 2 Muḥarram 777 AH on recto (1375 CE). In …
[ ] its witnesses ... drawn up f[or] [ ]
[ ] well-protected al-Qāhira, in Ḥārat Zuwayla, in the lane with no outlet known as the ‘b…
Legal document. Dated: Wednesday, 30 Nisan 1456 Seleucid = 25 April 1145 CE. The document describes how ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar the widow of Abū l-Khayr …
Legal proceedings that took place before us, the court and those undersigned with us on this deed:
In the month of Nissan, year 1456 AG (…
Business letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf dealing with shipments of textiles within Egypt. The name Abū l-Ḥasan is mentioned, as well as merchandise sent with …
Verso: Legal document: agreement with the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160. An agreement is concluded between a certain Ṣubḥ and his wife, and the qodesh, represented …
There were present (in court) Ṣubḥ and his wife and it was legally acquired from both of them that
they relinquish any claim to the 9 qīr…
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, the Karaite, Jerusalem, to one of the Karaite notables in Fustat, around 1040. He reports having received one dinar that …
Letter from Yosef b. Farah, Fustat, to his brother Farah b. Ismail in Busir, December 1055 (Gil), or to his nephew Ibn al-Surur Farah b. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Betrothal contract draft, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 5 Tishrei 5398 AM, which is 1637 CE. The scribe misspelled the number 8 as 80 twice …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. Similar to the letter that Barhun’s brother, Yosef, wrote. …
This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Upper left fragment: Legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128/29 CE. …
Fragment from the top of a petition. May be addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). Reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 5591 AM = 23 …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee about a cryptic matter that he and his in-law (silf) agreed upon, and telling him not to …
Letter to a dignitary. Concerning travel and business transactions, including in military gear and enslaved people. Alternate readings (ASE): - instead of الحتة in r10 …