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IB II, 8. Power of attorney to Perahya ha-Kohen to travel to India and sue Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. al-Raqqī for the recovery of goods--primarily …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter of business from Isma'il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, in Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim. The writer alludes to his great losses at sea while simultaneously …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Naḥum b. Manṣūr, in Malīj, to the parnas Abū Kathīr, in Fustat. The scribe is the cantor Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, who adds messages of …
In Your name, Oh Merciful,
Peace and peace again from the Lord of Peace and from Him who makes in heaven peace. The Creator of All knows
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with a motto (ʿalāma) at the top. The cantor Faraj is instructed to …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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 …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter contains instructions about money to be received and/or paid; mentions the army (al-ʿaskar); mentions Abū l-Maḥāsin …
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat, to his son Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. To be delivered to …
Legal document (debt settlement) issued by a qāḍī court in the Musallamiyya madrasa of Damietta. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 10 …
Praise be to God.
In the law court referenced on the r…
Letter from Nissim b. Salāma to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Salāma. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning commercial matters, including a grocer ordering for his store one hundred …
Prenuptial contract containing a stipulation allowing the bride to opt out of a patrilocal household even without proof that she had been mistreated: “Whenever she …
Fragment of a letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (d. 1355) addressed to the cantor Abu al-Faraj, like several other letters from the …
תעתוק אחד
Fragmentary record of sale; the script suggests that this was written in the Ottoman period, probably between the 17th-18th centuries. The document deals with a …
Legal document. Record of release. This document describes the termination of a partnership and a release from Efrayim b. Ḥalfon Ibn Zaffān, upon the apparent …
Legal document. Fragment (left side). In Arabic script. The name Muḥammad appears in line 2 and the profession al-Ṣayrafī appears in line 3. Line 4 …
بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
]…….محمد الفروقي انه..............
ا]لصيرفي مبلغ الورقة التي كانت له ومبلغها
]باسم تاريخها ثالث عشر من ذي القعدة …
Litigation in court concerning an inheritance, in Damsis. The two heirs of the late Ḥalfon ha-Kohen, Hilāl and Abū l-Karam, are the litigants.The former accuses …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Details about goods that Nahray ordered in Alexandria, probably materials …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Abū l-Riḍā to Yeshuʿa b. Zekharya (same addressee as T-S AS 161.172). He expresses sorrow that he had neglected his …
Poem praising the generosity of a philanthropist. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
A complete maunuscript of the Five Books of Moses from the tenth century. Includes two dedicatory inscriptions, of a father and his son, dedicating it …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (or Natan b. Shemuʾel?). Invokes the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). [...] b. Yehuda and Shelomo …
Legal document. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Ṭevet 1377 Seleucid = 14 December 1065 CE. In which Ḥabība bt. Natan b. Sason. acknowledged receipt from Moshe b. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 7 Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133 CE. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed …
Legal declaration in which the witnesses attest to the victory of Mūsā b. al-Ahuv (alias Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) over Yiṣḥaq al-Siqillī in retaining the …
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …
IB III, 41. Letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Fustat, to his brother, Yosef, in Mazara, Sicily. Dating: September 1153 (Goitein) or 1152 (Friedman). It …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Court record. Abū Saʿīd Khalaf/Ḥalfon (aka "Segulat ha-Nedivim" or simply "al-Segulat") received 18 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel the trader, who had been guarantor on …
Recto: Receipt of rent, in Arabic script. For al-raʾīs al-Dāwūdī, probably a Jewish communal leader, for a stable. The rent is 7 dirhams for the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صح لصاحب الشيخ(؟) الرىيس الداودي
ادام الله عزه عن اجرة الاسطبل
بالممصوصة لذي القعدة سنة ثلث وثلثين اربعمئة
من الورق…
IB III, 40b. Instructions for manumission of a female slave written by Avraham Ibn Yiju. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. III, …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal declaration, probably the concluding page of a deposition, signed by Shem Ṭov al-Ḥāmī. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Late. Shem Ṭov declares that he …
Probably a continuation of the letter on recto, referring to 'the medium board' (al-lawḥ al-wasṭānī) of the boy Yiṣḥaq. The writer wants to be informed …
Dissolution agreement and settling of accounts between two partners in a goldsmithing business (צנעה אלציאגה). Dated 8 Kislev 5514 AM (1753 CE). Location: probably Cairo, …
Protocol of a case heard at the court of Natan b. Avraham, head of the yeshiva in Palestine ca. 1040 (during his rivalry with Shelomo …
2 תעתוקים
Letter from ʿEli Ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: approximately 1045 …
On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …
Lower text block: Agreement to nominate a Dayyan in the Maghrebi congregation (FGP)
Deed of gift. In Hebrew, calligraphic. Location: Fustat. ʿEli b. Ḥasan ha-Levi the dyer gives to his youngest son Shemuel five and a 1/3 shares …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from Malīj containing a detailed description of a legal case involving a fabric manufactured while evading the tax due on it and sold to …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
[כתאבי אט]אל אללה בקא מולאי אלסיד אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
[וסעאדת]ה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה לי מצא מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלי
מולאי באחסן כאתמה ו…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad …
له اجمعين (؟) شهد (؟) الدين (؟)……فخر…
والسلاطين خالصة امير المؤمنين اسد الدين ثبت الله
مجده وضاعف سعده واهلك شانئه وضده وقرن
بالتوفيق …
Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Alexandria, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dating: Shortly before 1227 CE. Abū Zikrī tries to …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document draft from Cairo dated 24 April 1798 (8 Iyar 5558), stating that Me'ir Ben-Naʿim has invested 5500 muayyadis with a Karaite Jew ("bnei …
Legal document, Sunday 3 Adar II 4845 A.M. (1085), Alexandria. Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sighmar appoints Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim (=b. Yahya) as his agent …
4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated (v2–3): 16th of the ʿOmer '195, meaning 4800+195=4935 AM, which corresponds to 15 May 1235 CE. (Not 1595 Seleucid, corresponding …
Letter fragment in the hand of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Nisaburi about his cost in an affair concerning Abu Sa‘id Makhlūf al-Nafusi. (Information from Goitein's index cards; …
Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …
Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had …
A petition was submitted by the Rabbanite Jewish Community to the Court of the Commander of the Faithful in which they requested that they be treate…
2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 3 דיונים
Informal note from Sulaymān to Abū l-Bayān. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to kindly bestow the favor that he previously bestowed, by coming …
Court record in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Nisan 5285 AM = 19 April 1525 CE. Signed by three known figures: Yisraʾel b. Yeḥiel, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic accompanying a dispatch of five dinars and instructions to the addressee on how to spend it. The sender complains that someone stole …