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Deed of compensation to peqid ha-soharim (representative of merchants) in Tyre, January 1037. CUDL: Deed of indemnity, written by Yefet b. David, dated Monday, 27th …
[[ושבע]] מאות ותשעים ושבע
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from a man who has been seized with unbearable chills to Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, appealing for his help. The letter ends with extensive prayers …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE. (Cited in Khan, BSOAS 53 (1990) 25; Arabic Legal and …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله بركاته ونوامي زكواته وافصل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا]
الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله [امير المومنين…
תעתוק אחד
State-related report on unrest all over Egypt, from the Delta (Ṭalkha and Suwayd on recto) to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd on verso). Mentions Bedouins (al-ʿurbān and …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Maybe ca. 1100, if the "Sar ha-Sarim" mentioned is the Nagid Mevorakh. Also refers to Ibn …
Account of the Qodesh. Revenue from rent. Dating: probably ca. 1043. The right margin of the leaf is missing; however, we have in it an …
.... 3 dir. From Ṭaʾūs, 3.
.. . .Dār al-Ḥaffār : The room of al-Baʿlbakī, 4.
. the room of b. Sulaymān, 6 dir.
. . . . added it …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Business and/or administrative letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than the reign of al-Afḍal (based on the titulature of the petition in T-S Ar.40.38) …
Letter from Mubarak ha-Levi b. Yosef to Alexandria concerning business matters. The writer calculates how much he has paid the addressee and how much of …
Letter from a certain Meʾir to his 'friend and brother' Abū ʿImrān ('ha-talmid ha-navon'). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand is familiar from other documents (distinctive …
Legal document drawn up in Qayrawān. Dated: 4815 AM = 1054/55 CE. Consisting of copies of several other documents, drawn up at the request of …
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 3 דיונים
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 from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to his son Farah, Fustat. Dating: November 1056. The writer describes the terrible famine in Egypt, which even leads …
קד כאתבך ר נהראי אדאם אללה ע[זה] פי מא בקי לנא במצר וקד אעלמתך איש הו אן לם יקר לי עלי שי
או אעמל עלי טלועי [ ] בל אנה יטלע ללמדינה ול…
3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד
Two documents in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning houses. 1) Awaiting description. 2) The wife of Abū l-Faḍl Ibn …
List of contributors and payments in which some entries comprise both a name and a sum, whereas others have names only. Dating; probably 12th century. …
Legal document in Hebrew, investment partnership. Dated 30 Iyyar 5551 AM (June 1791 CE). Location: Cairo. David Kariyo (Carillo) invested quantities of silk, cotton, and …
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 …
IB III, 10a. Letter (top fragment only) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Avraham b. Yiju. Salutation to Avraham b. Yiju and acknowledgment of receipt of …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard …
Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dated 27 Iyyar, which Gil renders 1 May 1052. Contains details about the sailing …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
יום אלגמעה אכר אלנהאר ללילתין בקית…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1060
Letter from Avraham b. David b. Sughmār, probably in Alexandria, to his son, David, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. The father rebukes his son …
כתאבי יאולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן
תופיקה לא אכלאך ראש חדש מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך [ועלינא באחסן]
כא[ת]מה וקרב אלגמע …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter about the birth of David, the grandson of Maimonides, early 13th century (ca. 1226). Description from PGPID 6237: A list with details about the …
Recto: Upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic written in a scribal hand to ha-Nasi ha-Gadol, reporting on the writer's troubles while traveling with Rabbi …
Original document: Petition from a woman (al-mamlūka), probably in Tinnīs (المقيمة بمدينة تنيس حماها الله تعالى) to a dignitary with the title al-Juyūshī. The addressee …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Informal notes on the settlement of a legal dispute (or several), involving [...] ha-Ḥazzan b. Avraham, Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa, Yūsuf b. Barakāt, Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq, …
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 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…
Legal query with the autograph responsum of Yehuda ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Seder b. Yosef (aka "the Rav"). Yehuda b. Yosef was a student of Rabbenu Nissim …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: May 14, 1238. Written in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (identified by Goitein), teacher and court scribe. Concerning a …
Verso: Outline of a deed of sale. Elʿazar b. Yaʿaqov sells to Shelomo b. Avraham ha-Kohen Peʾer ha-Kohanim 2.25 shares of the maṭbakh known by …
Letter from a scholar from Ramla (who had lived for twenty years in Baghdad) to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1095. Seems like a part of …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
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 …
Letter from Yisra'el b. Daniel, in one of the towns of the Rīf, to Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. …
כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך סלך צפר ען סלאמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וכאן קד וצל אלחאיך אלי הונה וסט אלעיד וגאתני
ר…
Multi-fragment shelfmark with two documents. The upper fragment is from a letter to a Nasi, opening with the formula: אלממלוך יקבל ידי סידנא הנשיא. MCD.
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …
Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved, mentioning the amīr Zayn al-Mulk wa-ʿAlam [al-Dawla, probably]: لم تمسك بها واعتمد عليها . . . الامير …
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Der'i to Mevorakh b. Saadya. A new governor arrives at the city and is received by the leaders of the …
Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. Goitein identifies the handwriting as that of Avraham b. Shabbetay (cf. T-S 13J13.20 (PGPID 3218)). …
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir to the Nagid (Moshe b. Mevorakh, based on T-S 24.55 (PGPID 1806)). Fragment. Mentions conflict over the …
List of communal accounts for the "ʿQ[ahal] Q[adosh] ʿEzra ha-Sofer" congregation (ק׳׳ק עזרה הסופר). Dated 21 Tishrei– the seventh day of Sukkot "יום הושענא רבא"–on …
:Right side of bifolio
Recto: letter to the Nasi Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Yishay, mid-13th century). Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#36) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 34-36) Folio 9r
State document in Arabic, two lines are visible. Fatimid-era. There is also a remnant of an Arabic text on recto mentioning "Isrāʾīl ʿalayhi al-salām," probably …
Legal record (#17) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb, to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Report of transactions, payments, and assets, mentioning a payment to patrolmen and customs, probably in Alexandria.
Public letter in Arabic script. An appeal to the community, to be read in the synagogue, against a certain 'Rayyis' who had rented a newly …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يا معشر اليهود اين انتم من
الله تخلوا الريس يسكن ابن
المصموري في الدار الذي
خلف كنيسة العراقين
التي اشتروها ملا…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from an army doctor, in Ashmūm Ṭannāḥ (present-day Ashmūn al-Rummān), to his son, in an unknown location. The purpose of the letter is to …