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Fatimid state document, fragment, probably an investiture. The document is written in the dual, addressed to two officials: "Hurry up with it and report what …
]العمال للنائب عليها خطوط المشارفين
]فبادرا بذلك وطالعا بما يتضح لكما مبينا ليتأمل
]ويكون العمل بحسبه
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr Ḥananʾel (Khiyār) b. Yaʿaqov releases Benaya b. Moshe from a partnership with ʿAllān b. Nahray, after the former …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Damaged court record signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel, Avraham b. [...], and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Concerning Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. ʿAyyāsh, Faraḥ, …
Letter from Iṣḥaq b. David b. Sughmār to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, mid 11th century. The writer asks Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī to purchase for …
לאדוני ורבי אבו יצחק ברהון בן מוסא התאהרתי נ"ע, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לו; מודה חסדו אסחק בן דאוד נ''נ בן סגמאר.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: January 9 (12 Shevat), 1058 CE (Gil) …
על שמך
כתבת אטאל אללה בקא אכי ושקיק רוחי ועזיז נפסי ואדאם חראסתה וחמאיתה
וכפאיתה ונעמאה וחסן עקבאה מן אלמהדיה ליב כלון מן שבט ערפה אללה …
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal record (#67) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 [El]ul 5324 …
Large fragmentary list of ca. 70 men; possibly people who are unable to pay the capitation tax. Many individuals are mentioned together with their brothers …
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Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis), in Fustat. Manṣūr asks Eliyyahu to help find his son, …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle. Much …
Petition from a certain Manṣūr to an unidentified addressee (though Goitein assumed that "Sayyidnā" meant "the Nagid"). In Arabic script. The sender is a poor …
Legal document, investment partnership. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: middle third of Kislev 5555 AM, which is 1795 CE. (The signing of the document was …
Accounts of community of revenue from houses rent, Ca. 1250. Contains, listed in two columns, several current entries of revenue and expenditures. Both Hebrew letters …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
IB III, 47. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b. …
Letter from Yosef b. Farah, Fustat, to his brother Farah b. Ismail in Busir, December 1055 (Gil), or to his nephew Ibn al-Surur Farah b. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal record (#37) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …
Legal document. A physician Shemuel grants a loan of 400 cut-up dirhams to Abū l-Faraj the broker (simsār) in Fustat and Cairo, to be paid …
Two folios from a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem. Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of …
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Leaf from a court ledger. At the top of recto: Contract of debt. Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Manṣūr ha-Kohen owes Abu al-Makārim b. Barakāt al-Khāmī …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya (=Abū Kathīr Efrāyim b. Maḥfūẓ), Fustat. Dating: 1040 CE (after Kislev) per Gil and ca. …
Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Sitt ʿAnbar is very sick, and she has developed a delusion …
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلال…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sh…
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Three columns of contributors, giving fidda, 'silver' (a late equivalent for 'dirham'). Characteristic names: Somekh (assistant cantor, Heb.) Furaykh ('Little Chick,' twice), Frjlh (also twice, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but this is a guess. Record of a dispute between the proprietor and manager of a …
IB II, 55. Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, Mangalore, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Bharuch, Gujarat, ca. 1145–48. Abū Zikrī was a representative …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים
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
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Communal petition. Petition from a man claiming to be without shelter and saying he was living in a donkey's stable without anything to eat. He …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give R. Yiftaḥ 10 dirhams to cover his support (mezonot) …
Continuation of a long business letter sent from Alexandria to Cairo. Dating: Ca. 1235 CE, based on the date of T-S Ar.54.66 which is by …
(If) they have already left for Alexandria, open the letters and read them. You will find in them the weights of the (various consignments of)…
Letter from David b. ʿAmmar al-Madinī. Around 1040. The addressee and place are missing. The writer expect deliveries from the addressee and suggests he would …
[ ]אה אלדי תריד עלמה סלמך אללה אן וצל כתאבך
יאמולאי ואנת תדכר פיה אן אשתרית גמיע חואיגנא
ולם יבק מנהם שי וקד אשכית אן מא כאן יקבצוהם
List (fragment) of distribution of sums of money for charity, with accounting notes. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Būṣīr. Providing instructions about purchases to be made in …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Text from the Calendar Controversy of 921/2. What survives of this text consists mostly of an argument that calendrical decisions can only be taken by …
[ ] בחוצה לארץ ורבי עקיבא עיבר בחצה [לארץ] וששבט
[ ואין] משגיחין בעיבור החדש ובקידוש החדש [א]לא על בני
[ארץ ישראל] […
Panegyric (madḥ) in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Addressed to Abū Saʿīd al-Dāʾūdī (a Nasi). In Hebrew with the heading in Arabic script. Calligraphic. …
Letter from Shemuel b. Yaḥyā, in Fustat, to his wife ʿAzīza, perhaps in Gaza. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century. He informs …
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir, written on behalf of his community, to the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh in Fustat regarding two matters …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Official letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). The addressee is an amīr with various titles including [...] al-salāṭīn. ِA state official by the …
Business letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions merchants such as אבן אלטבני, Mūsā Ibn al-M[ajjānī?], and ʿAmmār …
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The letter deals with shipments of goods and …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלמסתקר
אסרו חג סכות אעאדה אללה עליך סנין כתירה שש ושמח ואלחאל סלאמ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Fragment of a letter by Israel ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel to a certain Alluf, concerning books which he promised to send the addressee. The sender …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter sent to Moshe Qassas from Jerusalem, saying there was no point in remaining any longer in the Holy City since it was impossible to …
Memorial list, or a dirge, not mentioning the dead by name, but by title or profession, e.g. ‘the Damascene doctor' or ‘the Babylonian baker'. Included …
An account list by Nahray b. Nissim, mentioning consignments from Būṣīr via Fustat. Bifolium from an account book (daftar) (LB)
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …