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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Petition from a certain Jaʿfar to a Fatimid dignitary (qāʾid) in which Jaʿfar asks that the support (maʿūna) granted to him not be withdrawn because …
العبد جعفر
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاى القائد الجليل اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وحراـ[ـست…
The slave Jaʿfar
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of my master, the glorious leader, may God prolong his life and…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
…..والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلامه على اله الائمة الطاهرين
תעתוק אחד
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Approximately 5 fragmentary lines are preserved both on recto and on verso. Recto refers to Dīwān al-Mufrad al-Khāṣṣ, possibly …
[بسـ]ـم الله الرحمن [الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
[الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين و…
Short note recording the receipt of payment for some purchased goods with part of the date preserved (Kislev 1412 Seleucid = November/December 1100 CE).
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card contains several conflicting suggestions about the handwriting of the sender and the dating. The sender is pained that his …
Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria. Regarding trades. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #442) VMR
Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …
Court testimony. Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh b. Shemuel attests that the estate, consisting of cloths, textiles and other things, of the late …
A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون م…
Letter fragment (right half of recto, left half of verso) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. It is primarily …
Letter from Yusuf b. Ḥalfon in Damsis to Abu Nasr Da'ud b. Nahum in Fustat, mentioning business with the prominent merchant Abu Zikri. Dated to …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
List of pledges arranged in two sections, separated by a blank space. Thirteen donations are in the first group and ten in the second; two …
Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
A Karaite engagement deed recorded in the home of Shemuʾel b. Yeshūʿa Melamed (probably the brother of one of the witnesses listed). Dated Wednesday, 15 …
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 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…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Complete business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila in Fustat. Dated September 1051. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך לה בקין מן אלול
עליך באחסן כאתמה ותקבל מנך ומנא הדה אלאיאם אלמסתקבלה ותכתב בספר חי…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Legal record (#125) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 14 Av 5329 …
Report, or petition, in Arabic script. Probably Fatimid. About five lines are preserved along with some text in the margin. More diacritics and vowels than …
ח26 שטר שותפות בין חלפון לבין יוסף בן שֻׁעַיְבּ בן אלנַגִרַה פַאס, עשרת הימים האחרונים בטבת, דתתצ"ח, שהחלו ב-5 בינואר 1138 לפנינו הסכם 'עיסקא' כמעט …
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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Memorial list. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
בית בן ברוך ישראלים אלקאבלה בית אמהא
ברוך וח יפת וח שארית הלל וח נתנאל
Court record draft in the hand of David b. Daniʾel (ll. 1-19) and Hillel b. Eli (ll. 20-33). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, based on the years …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051), in Ramle, to his son Abū Isḥāq Avraham, in Tyre or Damascus (Shelomo does not know …
Recommendation letter for an Iraqi merchant who lost everything in a shipwreck. He is advised to write to Abū l-Bishr and his cousin. (Information from …
Letter sent from Alexandria by a father (Manṣūr b. Sālim) to his son, who had run away to the army, trying to bring him back. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
A draft version of the same legal query to a jurist (istiftāʾ) as in T-S Ar.41.105 (edited by Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents, …
ما يقول الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الزاهد الورع الامين عماد الدين
اقضا قضاة المسلمين مفتي دولة امير المؤمنين وفقه الله …
Bifolium with multiple document entries, probably a fragment from a court register. Dated in fourth entry on 2v as Thursday 2 Kislev 5496 AM (1735 …
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Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking Manṣūr to slaughter for Bū l-Faraj on the 14th of Shevaṭ (i.e. serve as substitute slaughterer?).
Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1440 Sel. (1129 CE), written under the authority of the gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Maʿālī b. …
Letter from Ḥizqiyya b. Shelomo to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. In Hebrew. Letter of appeal for charity, reporting that he lost money and asking him to …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Perahya b. Muʾammal, in Fustat, spring 1039.
Petition in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
Hebrew letter of congratulation addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal, containing Purim wishes and blessings for his sons, Hillel and Benjamin. (Information form Mediterranean …
Bifolium from a court register. Fol. 1v: Verbatim copy (nuskha... naqalnāhā mila be-mila) of a marriage contract. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid = 27 …
Document of divorce settlement between Karīma bt. Yosef (represented by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham al-Qābisī) and Salmān b. ʿAlī / Shelomo b. ʿEli. Signed by ʿEli …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: [15]35 Seleucid = 1223/24 CE. The century is confirmed by the partial signature of [...] b. Meyuppe on …
Letter from Yusha` b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.
תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה [ואדאם עזה וס]עאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה עדה ואכ'רהא עלי יד[י וכנת מ]נתטר
לוצול כתא…
Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1806 Seleucid = 10 June 1495 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar Bek leaves some of her …
הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …
IB VI, 29. Fol. 3: Legal document. Left side of an agreement with a wife that she would receive the rent from the middle story …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf (aka Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Levi). Dated: Ḥeshvan 1439 Seleucid = October/November 1127 CE. (Goitien initially …
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …
Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
Letter sent to a Nasi, possibly named Yishay, possibly in Acre. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the mention of the judge Peraḥya …