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על פי קוצר השעה כתבתי אלו הטורים
לאחי הנכבד מרנו ורבנו ברכות
החכם והנבון הרופא סגולת הנשיאות
לרוב תאותי…
Your admirer Solomon son of R. Elijah the judge, (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd).
As time is short I am writing these lines
to my honora…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Leaf from the court notebook. Recto: Legal record of the court of Fustat. Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document regarding the inheritance of the late David Ṣanuaʿ. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 5524 AM = June 1764 CE. Among …
תעתוק אחד
The other side: Four fragments of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, seems geometrical and/or geographical.
אין רשומות קשורות
List. An almost entirely 'egalitarian' list of contributors from the first half of the eleventh century' (Goitein) Forty-four persons pledge 1/2 (dirham), nine parties, of …
Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter to Yehuda b. Elya to Egypt (FGP). Image not available.
Court record of a testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning a dispute among the heirs of a murdered woman …
Ketubba. Groom: Meʾir b. Yakhin (a well-known cantor and communal official). Bride: Muʿazzaza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. Location: Fustat. Dating: the 4th of a month, …
Letter from Khallūf b. Mūsā Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, in al-Mahdiyya (Gil) or Qayrawān (Goldberg), to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī in Fustat. Dating (Gil): September …
כתמה אללה באחסן כאתמה ואברכהא ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ללה אלחמד וצל
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from Yeshūʿa ha-Kohen b. Avraham ha-Galili, in Shubra Damsīs, to Efrayim b. Meshullam (judge, active 1142–54). Dated: Av 1453 Sel. = July/August 1142 CE. …
Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
Fragment of a letter in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh concerning the disagreement about the Jewish community's leadership in Ashkelon. Describes how a …
Draft of a letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman era. Contains formulaic opening phrases followed by a list of commodities and prices ("raisins, the price …
Letter from Shemuʾel b. ʿEli gaʾon, in Baghdad, in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl, second half of the …
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (d. 1355), or at least by the same person as PER H 129 (PGPID 9391), which Goitein identified …
Recto: Petition. The endings of 5 lines are preserved, with a raʾy clause at the bottom. The nature of the request is unclear, but requests …
Verso, 90 degrees: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Mentioning several scribes and skins (presumably as writing surface). The …
Mercantile letter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. Later (l. 18) reports that Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī traveled this year to …
Extremely polite business letter dealing with a consignment caraway dispatched from Fustat. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 340, and from Goitein's index cards)
Fragment of a text in Hebrew, possibly legal. Mentions a "לבעל חוב דינא". Requires further examination.
Probably from an Halakhic monograph relates to marriage. On verso a draft of a ketubah which contains the immersion clause, so can be dated after …
Fragment of a release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May have to do with India traders. Release formulae include "and …
Recto: One of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's many small notes in which he orders small quantities of materia medica to be given to the bearer. In …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mentions 3 dinars. Two witness signatures. Dated Ṣafar 449 H, and the beneficiary is a descendant of the Abbasid …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلم على عبا[ده الذين اصطفى
اقر جعفر بن محمد بن جعفر بن الفضل بن الفرات[
في صحة عقله وبدنه وجواز امره وقد اش…
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions. The main …
Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Eliyyahu b. Moshe, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Neḥemya Kohen, [… b. She]lomo, Barukh …
Literary text in Arabic.
Legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides, referenced with the title "Nagid" (post-1213 CE). One involves a man who confesses to adultery with the wife of …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥayyān(?) b. Jamāl al-Tājir makes a declaration. The Fātimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 495–525 AH = 1101–1130 CE) …
דיון אחד
Formal note, in Arabic script. Probably in answer to a question "innaka saʾltanī". Mentions a strong vow "bi-akhaṣṣ al-yamīn".
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Nissim of Qayrawan to the Tunisian port of Qabis, c. 1000. The letter concerns legal questions asked by the addressee from …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.
Legal document draft laying out the terms for the division of a a house given to four brothers by their mother ʿAzīza bt. Elishʿa Levi …
Literary text, notable for a marginal notation that repeats the phrase "rayyis al-sayyāfīn" (head of the sword makers) multiple times.
Accounting for the qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. On recto there is the beginning of the ʿamida.
Small bifolio with an unusual poem or popular song in vocalized Judaeo-Arabic, with the line "you've taken me to Istanbul," and dealing with themes of …