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Official letter of correspondence or report, in Arabic script. The letter begins with a basmala and ṣalwala (blessings on the prophet) followed by a taqbīl …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله سيدنا محمد وسلم تسليما
[المملوك] يقبل الارض وينهي بعد وصف ما هو عليه من الاشتياق
]..الى كريم مامنه ورؤية طلعته…
תעתוק אחד
Legal document, investment partnership. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5555 AM = May/June 1785 CE. Involving Meʾir Ben-Naʿīm investing 100 reales with Yiṣḥaq Zamero. Signed; Yiṣḥaq …
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). Dated: Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid = 4 December 1141 CE. In which Bishr b. Ibrāhīm sues …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding ships movement from Alexandria to Sicily and back. Mentions several …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליב
כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
State document, two fragmentary lines in Arabic script. Not much is preserved but what remains reads as prayers and invocations.
Letter from Avraham ha-Ḥaver b. Amram from Jerusalem to an Andalusian merchant staying in Ramla. Ca. 1050.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei 5323 …
Letter from a certain Jāmiʿ, in Aswān, to his brothers Khalīl, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān. The sender is in desperate straits "without clothes" and urges his …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment (lower part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning administration of a legal affair. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ayyūb, who owned property on …
Recto: end of a betrothal deed (לארוסה זו), mentioning the name Shemuel. Witnessed by Ḥananya b. Yosef and Yosef b. Ḥananya. Dated: Adar I of …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
ח50 מכתב מאת שלמה בן מַיְמוּן אל חלפון ספרד, כנראה 1138–1139 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו 18.7 x 17.5 ס"מ.1 כותב המכתב, שלמה בן מַיְמוּן (ששמו …
Letter from Yehuda b. Saadya to the leader of the community of Sahrajt demanding that the case of a widow, the sister of a prominent …
Unsigned Karaite bill of debt, possibly a draft given the reusage of the recto for a liturgical(?) text. Dated Friday 4 Nisan 5403 AM (1643 …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents from 1100-1138). It is possible that the agreement reflects special circumstances: the marriage …
Legal query in Arabic script. The case is that of two brothers who inherit 3.5 shares in a property from their third brother, but upon …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from 'your father' (wālidak). mentioning a faqīh named ʿUbayd, instructions for the addressee to come, and the Nasi. (Information in part from …
Letter from Nathan b. Abraham to one of his followers, October-November 1042. (FGP)
Detailed trousseau of Bint Menahem (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 403, and from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Fifty-two closely written lines of a legal verbiage written by Hillel b. Eli, dealing with the settlement of the debt of half a dinar …
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Letter from the judge Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo (in office ca. 1125-1150) to Abū l-Ḥusayn Efrayim ha-Kohen b. Yosef the silk-merchant of Damietta. The letter …
List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat, to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥarīrī b. Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. He alludes to political unrest …
Letter of business in which the writer requests the recipient purchase for him a measure of oil, two ‘futa’ (sari-like cloth), and two dinars of …
List of contributors to charity, no sums given.
Verso: Record of the donation of one quarter of a compound by Sitt al-Naẓar bt. Ḥalfon to the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1161 CE. She also …
(1-4) Sitt al-Naẓar, the daughter of [Ephraim] Ḥalfōn, dedicated one quarter of the compound that is in Mahra, leading into the darb, (Dār) …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Verso: transfer of the debt detailed on recto. Dated: last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid = November 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. …
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active 1170s–1219). In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a complaint about illness. The purpose of writing seems …
Legal record (#49) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 48-50) Folio 13v
Letter addressed to Avraham ha-Dayyan (called ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad). In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a letter of recommendation for charity for the bearer. He was one of …
Legal document. Partnership record. Dating: 1085 (per Goitein's index cards). Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (probable, per Goitein). This document is the …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Response from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Yedutun, probably in Fustat. Instructing him to have Ibn Abū l-ʿAysh take …
ח83 מכתב מאת אבו נַצְר על מיתתם של שלושה גדולי ישראל אלכסנדריה, י"א בכסלו, שהוא 12 בנובמבר 1141 ד78. TS 10 J 24.4 חומר הכתיבה: …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Yefet b. Shemuel to Moshe ha-Sar b. Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the affairs of scholars and inquiring about the needs of a little …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely first half of the 12th century based on handwriting and the names mentioned, but this is tentative. Mentions dealings …
Legal declaration. Dating: refers to the year 4826 AM, which is 1065/66 CE. (The document itself may be later.) Concerning Nahray b. Nissim's occupancy of …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1690 Seleucid = October/November 1378 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid ʿAmram. Concerning the sale of the part …
Court record regulating the inheritance of the estate left behind by a Jewish merchant who drowned at sea near Alexandria. His estate was transferred to …
Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. The petitioner …
مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها
الخلف(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]
الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها
وادام …
The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal
(al-Khalaf?)
In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
The slave of our…
Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه توفيقي وصلى الله على محمد
الى عند الا[جل؟] سلام الله ورحمته
اما بعد فانَّ كان سبب اجتماعي بك وكنت
اظن انك ساعد لل…
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
المذكور…
Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,
together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,
in whose left e…
Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed …
Account of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning valuable textile goods including a brocade (dībāj), Sitt al-Ahl, and the house of al-Qāḍī al-Muwaffaq. In the hand …
Recto: Genealogical list for the daughter of Dosa b. Yaʿaqov (דוסא בר יעקב) and underneath for the family of her son, Mishaʾel b. Yeshaʿyahu (the …
Karaite agreement to give a bill of divorce in case the husband will be absent for more than one year. Undated, perhaps because this document …
Marriage contract from Ramla, ca. 1062 or 1070. The groom is Avraham b. Sedaqa. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, p. 358-61) EMS