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Testimony concerning a tarika (inheritance) of two women recorded at the court of Avraham b. Ishaq, Ab 1389/July 1078, Fustat.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Small part from a legal document written by Natan b. Shemuel he-Haver (active 1128–64 CE). Mentions the name Yoshiyyahu and a case involving someone accused …
תעתוק אחד
Petition or report or draft of one, in Arabic script. Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink …
Copy of a Gaon’s responsum (might be Rav Hayya Gaon) that includes details about the house of Bustenai and an answer regarding the status of …
Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Note detailing instructions for performing a wedding ceremony.
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Letter from Natan b. Nahray to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת
אעדאה מן אלמסתקר לז בקי מן אדר ראשון כתבה אללה עלינ[א ו]עליך באחסן
כאתמה…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter of questions and demands that was sent by R. Elhanan b. Shemarya to R. Sherira and to R. Hai, ca. 1001 CE. Elḥanan seeks …
Business letter from Marduk b. Musa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. There are details on moneychanging, and the order of various commodities, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעדתך וסלאמתך ונעמ[אך]
מן אסכנדריה יום אלאחד לט בקי מן טבת אכתמהו אללה עלינא ועליך אב…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
שאלה שנשלחה אל 'ראש הסדר', ואולי הכוונה לר' יהודה הכהן הרב הגדול ראש הסדר בן יוסף, תלמידו של רבנו נסים בר' יעקב מקירואן, שחי במצרים …
Engagement agreements. Two sides of what appears to be a page from the court notebook from the 1330s. On recto, there are two engagement agreements, …
Court record of the settlement of accounts and debts after the death of Moshe b. Isḥāq, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Moshe …
Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Surūr b. Abū l-Munā (a Jewish man, which we learn in v5) to Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Munā …
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Probably a betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) agreement. Dated: 19 Sivan 1432 Seleucid, which is …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document, Qaraite. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 15 Iyyar 5418 AM, which is 1658 CE. Involves Aharon Rofe Rosh Mishmarah b. Elʿazar ____[?] ha-Ḥazzan …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1058. Mentions several goods including silk, copper, and seashells. Mentions family …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמהדיה מסתהל אלול ערפך אללה
ברכתה ען סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא אלחמד [ ] …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr Nāhiḍ al-Dawla Abū ʿAlī (this is a rare laqab, likely identical with the …
الاميـ]ـر ناهض الدولة ابي علي عبد مولانا صلوات [الله عليه
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1052. To be sent to the house of Ibn Isḥāq Ibrahim …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …
Deed of sale for a house. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate].
This is what Ḥusayn ibn Ḥāzim, the (food-)vendor, bought from Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, the groc…
Fatimid decree (possibly in the hand of Ibn al-Ṣayrafī himself?). Two lines preserved. See also the separate PGP record for the letter by Yeḥezqel b. …
Letter, possibly from the physician Abu Zikri (identification based on handwriting and style), to unidentified addressees "who are to me like my parents." Fragment. The …
פלו כאן לי קדרה אלחק מטלוב מא קעדת
פאיש ל[. . .] אדיתהא מן אלגרץ אנא סאלתהא
[. . . . . . . .] אלי …
Recto: Mathematical table of the powers of 2 through 2^15 = 32768, all in Hebrew numerals. Verso: Ladino ditty signed by Moshe Ḥaddād, which reads …
Minute fragment of a legal document. Practically the only information preserved is that it was drawn up in Egypt in the year 1444 Seleucid, which …
Official confirmation at court of a debt of 60 dinars contracted three months earlier before a notary, Ab 1417/ July 1106. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Account of expenditure for the distribution of bread (100 pounds costing 31 1/2 dirhams) and for payments to a nasi, to teachers, and other officials …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ḥakīm, in Sicily, to Ḥananya ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1025 (unclear on what basis; Gil says ca. 1020, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (for the body) and Arabic script (for the closing greetings).
Letter from Salāmah b. Ibrahīm (Būṣīr) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Ca. 1053 (Gil). The writer is preparing flax to be loaded onto ships for …
Legal document, partnership. In Hebrew with business phrases in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Adar II 5578 AM, which is 23 March 1818 CE. Partnership …
Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والله لقد صدق حضرة مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده
وعلوه وتمكينه وسموه و . . . ته وكبت حسدته واعداه …
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
فلو قام بذلك على يد جهبذ الصناعة لكان اصلح له ورايها الموفق
وبن بو الغنائم فقد سالته احضار التحرير المختص بالديوان المفرد
وحضوره ايضا ات…
Recto: Letter/petition to Avraham b. Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is either intended for the eyes of Mevorakh or simply mentions previous petitions submitted to …
דלך באיאם תופי מר ור עלי הפרנס דנן . . . . . . . . .
Letter from a certain ʿAbd al-Karīm possibly to someone named Ḥasan or Iḥsān (margin, line 1). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th or 14th century, based …
ויאחסאן | סיידי | תסלם | לי | עלי | אלמלמד | פ. . . . | אל. . . . | . .[. . |
חצל . . . | .…
Letter from Farah b. Isma`il b. Farah (Busir/Abusir) to Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sigmar. Udovitch's edition was corrected and updated according to Gil's …
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a list of beneficiaries of charity similar to T-S K15.93, App. B 6, and in the same hand. Much effaced. (Information from Mediterranean …
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله…
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 18 January 1061. Location: Fustat. This document initiates a partnership in the ritual washing of corpses. Sulaymān b. Ḥusayn and …
Detailed account of monthly sales of products from the east in Sicily, especially spices and flax, covering the period from August 1064 to October 1065, …
אוביע בעד אקלאע אלמראכב פי אל[ ] מן אלול פי אלתאריך
עטיה בן אלעלאש נג רטלא נ דינ [ ] אלנפוסי כו רטלא ונצ ה דנא
צאחבה יג רטל ו…
Recto: Decree, fragment, to two local officials stating that a certain Abū l-Faraj b. Bū l-Waḥsh should be exempted from paying taxes (or from standing …
سلامتهما وحراستهما ونعمتهما
على هذا المثال يعفوا ابو الفرج
بن بو الوحش اليهودي من ضمان
الحانوت ولا ي…
(titulature) Naṣr, may God prolong
their (dual) well-being, protection and benefaction,
about this (case): they have exempted Abū l-Far…
תעתוק אחד 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
Verso: List of pledges (thabat al-pesiqa). Dating: ca. 1032 CE (based on the date on recto). Interesting entries include: 'the philosopher' (=a doctor? cf. elsewhere …
Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday 28 Tevet 1448 Seleucid, which is 24 December 1136 CE. Husband: Ṣadaqa …
Draft of a dowry list on the verso of a letter dated May 1802 CE (the 17th of matmonim i.e. the Omer = 2 Iyyar …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1060 CE, based on Gil's assessment. The letter …
Letter from Ya’aqov b. Salman al-Hariri, from Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer describes what he has been through while he …
[כתאבי] יאסידי [ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה וצרף אלאסוא ענה מן
[אל]רשיד לי בקין מן טבת ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל אן פי אל…