Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Small piece of paper with only one line of text with the name Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa known as Ibn al-Kāzarūnī. On verso there are a …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document. Dating: mentions Av 1346 Seleucid = July/August 1035 CE. Concerning Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov, who had disregarded the ruling of the court in Qayrawān. …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1793 Seleucid = 5 June 1482 CE. An agreement concerning levirate marriage. Yeshuʿa the son of the …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
None
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Faḍl al-Muḥassin b. Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān, the merchant, buys part of a ruined house (which he already owns …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate.]
This is what Abū al-Faḍl al-Muḥassin ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān, the merchant, bought from Ju…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Tammuz 1358 Seleucid = 21 July 1047 CE. Faraj b. Sulaymān known as Ibn al-Muqashshir was asked about …
תעתוק אחד
Deed of sale for a slave. Dated: Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid = 8 July 1260 CE. Seller: the Bilbaysī Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen. …
זכרון עדות
ע"א
2 תעתוקים
Legal document in which [...] b. Yosef [...] acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver medin. The paleography supports of dating estimate of …
Legal document concerning inheritance issues of the late Jamīla al-Musulmāniyya, mother of Avraham and Eliyyahu Levi, who had converted to Islam and married Ḥasan al-Sharqāwī …
Original use: Letter from Eliyyahu b. Shelomo Gaʾon to David b. Yeḥizqiyya Rosh Ha-Gola. Dating: ca. 1046. In Hebrew. Published by Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, …
[כאשר]
Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1432 Seleucid, which is December 1120 CE. Detailing …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 13-15) Folio 4v
Letter from Yishaq b. Avraham al-Mishmar (ha-Kohen?) from Fustat, to his son in Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya). The writer instructs his son to pay his debts and …
Fragment of a late letter in Hebrew signed by Seʿadya b. Moshe ha-Dayyan. See Arad, D. (2008). Syria’s links with the Jews of Cairo in …
Letter (khidma) in Judaeo-Arabic, complete, handwriting resembles that of Berakhot b. Shemuel. He begs for a small loan in preparation for the upcoming holiday. See …
Legal record (#78) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 27r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Av 5325 …
Legal document. Iqrār (Hebrew script) in which Yūsuf b. ʿAlī buys a Maghribī female slave named Ḥadaq ("pupil [of the eye]") from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ …
Letter. Petition in Hebrew of which only the first 20 lines, containing introductory wishes, have been preserved. The letter contained a request for help. The …
Legal document. Partnership agreement in a press (maʿṣara). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 4 Tamuz 5275 AM, which is 1515 CE. Currencies: Peraḥim. The …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu al-Faraj Daniel b. Allan ha-Kohen in Alexandria, discussing the problem of the ransom of captives and …
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך]
[ונעמ]תך מן מצר לי'ב' כלון מן אב ערפך אללה ואי/א/נא ברכתה [ ]
ו[י]זכינ…
3 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…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Copy of a letter supposedly from a Khazar Jew to Ḥasday b. Shapruṭ describing the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. Sometimes known as "the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter addressed to the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya, expressing a declaration of fellowship. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) For the Arabic document on verso, see …
Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …
אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו
ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל
החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך
אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד
אנפצלת מן בין …
I (would like to) inform the august,
exalted and gracious presence of our master
and teacher Elijah the enlightened,
wise and understa…
Bottom of a legal document signed by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), Munajjā b. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa b. Yaʾir. An addendum …
Declaration of receipt of money. In Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 4 Shaʿbān 438 AH, which is 3 February 1047 CE. Ghālib b. Ḥabāsa, son of …
Letter from an unknown writer, probably in Qūṣ, to an unknown addressee, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century, but this is a …
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to the brothers Abū l-Makārim and Abū Yaʿqub ha-Kohen. The writer describes in detail the severe fever and dysentery …
End of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably to one of his brothers. Comprising greetings to various acquaintances. Mentioned are …
Letter fragment by a certain Yaʿaqov recounting the episode that led him to break off his partnership with others in a wine press. While he …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around 1080. Regarding several shipments of goods. Details about payments and supplies …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר לי בקי מן אלול כתמה
אללה עלי מ[ולאי באחסן כאתמה ויתקבל]…
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Gaon concerning the difficulties she is having with the son of her late husband …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Letter of Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1065 CE). Includes reports from Sicily transmitted from Palermo and …
Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …
Legal document. Dated: 1156. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in the Fayyūm, …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter from [Yiṣḥa?]q b. Yosef to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Related to the India trade. The addressee may …
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 …
Letter addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Mentions goods like saffron and …
Deed of rental. Dated: 531 AH, which is 1136/37 CE. ʿAlī b. Ḥassān b. Maʿālī al-Tarābulusī rents a small garden house on the Nile from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone [ ]
This is what ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān ibn Maʿālī al-Tarābulusī, the sew…
Karaite documents on bifolium regarding ownership of real estate shares in a house and a shop. Dated in the first document as Monday, Iyyar 2nd, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a notable (yeḥid ha-dor, sayyidnā), possibly named al-Shaykh Yaʿīsh. Reporting on developments in the community after the addressee (or another 'sayyidnā') …
State document, in Arabic script. Either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft …
Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā, from Tinnis, to Nissim b. Ḥalfon, Fustat. Around 1060. Regarding a shipment of scarlet for the Byzantines that was sold …
באסם אל[לה]
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן תניס ען סלאמה תתם בבקאך ואלחמד ללה רב אל
עאלמי…