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Recto: Letter from somebody, in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1230s. The purpose of the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Petition addressed to Masliah Gaʾon, requesting that he allow Abū l-Riḍā b. Yehuda he-Ḥaver to lead services in the synagogue of the Palestinians (אלשאמיין), because …
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IB II, 72. Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1156 CE. Sitt al-Ahl bt. Sayyid al-Kull, the widow of Hiba b. Abū Saʿd …
שהדותא דהות באכפנא אנ[ן שהדי דחת]מות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן הוה בחדש [...]
בפסטאט מצרים רעל נילוס [נהרא מותב]ה רשותיה דאדוננו שמואל הנגיד הג…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Recto (secondary us): Poetry, possibly a riddle, with allusions to Moshe, Abraham, and the spies from Numbers 13-14, (Hosea) b. Nun and (Caleb) b. Yefune. …
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Munyat Sammanūd, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1056. Regarding wheat and flour. It is hard to get wheat, …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן מנית סמנוד ען סלאמה ונעמה ותעב קלב וסר
אללה גלת קדרתה קאדר אן יפרג ו…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Karaite marriage contract (previously catalogued in PGP as betrothal document per Ktiv metadata). Dated 6 Nisan 5528 AM (1768 CE). The key clause that qualifies …
Letter to the Judge Eliyyahu from a woman, probably his mother or his former mother-in-law. Containing many details about a house in Alexandria. (Information from …
Letter from Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo, to his mother, in Damietta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. He is …
Formulary or draft of the opening of a petition to a vizier and qāḍī. Cuts off right after the "wa-yunhī."
Verso contains greetings and the name of the addressee, Neḥemya b. Perahya. Recto also contains the name of the addressee. The letter may have been …
Letter from the teacher Abū Saʿīd to al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy, in which he asks in the most humble terms to be paid the fees due to …
Your servant Abī Saʾīd kisses the ground before my lord, the elder al Rāṣūy. May God increase your income, stabilize your success and enhance your h…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal text or responsum about parental custody and child-rearing. (EK)
תאכדהא אליהא לאנהא מחוט לה וצולי
בתקוימה ואקום בתעלימה ותאדיבה
ומנעה ממא יצר בה ואהלה פאן
אנקסעת ולאיה אלאם במהצהא או
בארתדאדהא או בתזויגהא בגיר…
Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
Letter from Musa b. Abu al-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandise …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי] אט[אל אללה בק]אך ואדאם סלאמתך [ועאפית]ך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
[ ]יה לי בקין מן סיואן ען חאל סלאמה ונ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver (judge active in Fustat, 1150–81) to Shabbetay b. Avraham (judge in Minyat Zifta, 1135–78). Concerning (1) a muqaddam who …
State document, probably Fatimid. Closing formula of a decree, possibly, or another state document written in a thick pen. The preserved text is a ṣalwala …
Draft of an appointment deed for Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver to a public role, or at least a letter concerning his learnedness and humility …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from a certain Avraham to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Little is preserved of the content. The third line …
Business letter mentioning the copying of quires (karārīs) for Sayyidunā al-Nasi. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān has told the writer that the addressee had sent 4.5 dirhams, …
Informal note probably from a woman to her mother. May be an abandoned draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks for the addressee's news and says …
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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ולא אואטי מן יזיד עליה ולא…
Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray. Regarding trades, especially of silk, and complains about the situation in Mahdiyya, that he has heard about …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Un-conserved. Fragment of a letter contains personal and business issues. Probably 13th century.
Beginnings of two legal documents and one responsum. The legal documents are from the rabbinical court of Nagid Avraham Maimonides, and the responsum is addressed …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furāt ha-Kohen. Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) and the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram …
Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. The spellings are closer to classical Arabic than usual (e.g. שיא for شيء). The two folios were originally two folios …
Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. (Identifications by Gil; Goitein understands this to …
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Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
Letter/petition of a woman to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127–39). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Describing in detail an episode related …
IB III, 11. Letter (large but fragmentary) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Ibn Yiju, India. Dating: 1140 [1139]. Written in the hand of Shemuel …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from an ardent supporter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1055 CE (per Goitein). This is the first leaf of a longer …
2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Letter to the head of the Academy Avraham b. Mazhir, from [Natan] b. Shemuel ha-Haver. Dated Marheshvan 1453 Sel. (October 1141 CE). Includes a reference …
Bottom of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1455 Seleucid = February/March 1144 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Declaration …
Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle. …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
ח24 שטר פיצוי מטעם אבו זִכְּרִי כהן לטובת חלפון פֻסטאט, השליש השני של חודש שבט אתמ"ז, שהוא 15–25 בינואר 1136 זהו החלק התחתון, הפגום בצדו …
2 תעתוקים
Legal document for authorization for butchering fowl. Dated 1259 CE (1570 Seleucid).
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat, to his 'brother' Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address both in …
Letter from Yehuda, unknown location, to Shalom, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 13th century, based on handwriting, overall appearance, and linguistic evidence. …
Legal document. Partnership release. Dated: 7 Shevat 1390. Location: Fustat. An olive-oil partnership is dissolved. This fragment contains two documents related to the same partnership …
Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices …
Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon. Dating: probably 1024 CE. Describing the imposition by the Muslim authorities of a special, heavy tax on the Jews of Jerusalem. …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Ṭevet 1378 Seleucid = 25 December 1066 CE. In which Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī acknowledges having receiving …
Personal letter sent by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150-1181 CE), apologizing for his younger brother Abu al-Fakhr Yehosef, who had made fun …
Legal document. Dated: First decade of Elul 1458 Seleucid (July/August 1147 CE). In which Abū l-Riḍā Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, "the noble and generous," takes over …
"נדיב ושוע" אחד מקבל מידם של חוכרי מסים, שפשטו את הרגל את חכירת אלמחלה
Fragment of a literary anecdote containing ten pieces of marital advice to a daughter. The ten pieces of advice given by a mother to her …
(1-5) (The first) and the second: accepting advice and acquiescing for they are hearing and obeying. The third and the fourth: taki…
IB I, 32. Letter from Nahray b. Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to a certain Abū Saʿīd. Fragment (upper part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late …
[Introductory phrases.]
…I have received a letter from Sheikh
Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd Ibn al-Lebdi, who has also sent a memorandum.
I have …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד