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Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), regarding evasion of the capitation tax in the community. The previous year they had …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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תעתוק אחד
Letter from an unknown man, in Damietta, to his mother, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 13th–15th century. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Verso: Letter from Moshe Maimonides. Autograph. Giving instructions to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi) to go to the dyehouse (maṭbakh, maṣbagh) where Abū …
Letter from the Jewish community of Qafṣa (Gafsa), Tunisia, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1016 CE, as it mentions Manṣūr b. Rashīq's …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from [Yosef?] ha-Kohen b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen, in Tinnīs, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajja al-Dimashqi (perhaps the same as Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid …
בשמ̇ רחמ̇
יאר ייי פניו אליך וישם
לך שלום
וצל כתאב חצ̇רה מולאי אלשיך אלג̇̃̇ליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם ת[א]יידה ועלאה
ותמכינה וכבת אעדא…
Letter or letter draft from Muʿammar ha-Kohen ("the teacher of Qalyūb") to ʿAmram ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recto consists entirely of pleasantries and flattery …
Receipt for payment of a tax farmer (dāmin, line 2) in Fustat. The month of Ramadan al-Muʿaẓẓam of the year 701. Alama: al-ḥamdu lillāh sallama …
Legal/official document in Arabic script. Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
حضر مجلس خدمة الامير المقدم الامير الامين مجد الخلافة عز الدين جمال الامرا فخر الملك
سيف الدولة…. العميم صنيعة ام…
Letter from Simḥa Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Manṣūr. Dating: ca. 1205 CE. The writer complains about the extortions of a tax farmer who …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in Arabic script. The sender is a man from Alexandria who was forced to flee from that city because he was unable to pay …
Recto and part of verso: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to his father in Fustat. He is concerned about how they will pay …
. מנדיל וחא . . . . . . מ [ ]
ואן כונתו דפעתו אלדרהמ[ין]
לבנת עמי ואיש ביקולו ענ . [ ]
ע . י אחתמלוהם וקולו להם אני [ ]
[[אנשא…
The Case of the Great/Fat Eunuch: five-part join of a court record from Fustat in the hand of Yefet b. David dealing with a case …
Petition/letter of appeal for charity, in Arabic script, addressed to the qāḍī ʿImād al-Mulk. The writer mentions his distress (al-shidda wa-l-ḍīqa wa-l-khawf). Later (three lines …
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm and for the appointed treasurers. Dated: end of Jumādā I …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …
العادلى المظفري [ ]ـي .[سلطان]
جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...
المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى
رافته واحسانه…
... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]
of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.
The slav…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give 11 dirhams to …
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 15 dirhams to R. Yiftaḥ as 6 weeks …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, R. Yiftaḥ, the 12.5 dirhams due …
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) …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Yiftaḥ, 7.5 dirhams to cover a …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). The cantor (Abū l-Majd?) is to give Ṭāhir the beadle (al-khādim) 2.5 dirhams. …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides? In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Shaykh al-Makīn is to give the beadle some sum. Very faded. T-S K25.240 consists of …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give 1 dirham to the messenger who went …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid …
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give to the messenger of the ḥaver …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to pay …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Al-Ḥazzan al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to …
Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer (also named Abū l-Majd?) two dirhams for baking matza (khabīz …
Letter/report/petition addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerns Ḥāzim the tax rallier (ḥashshār) who was placed under house arrest (tarsīm) and relieved of his …
Letter from Malīj containing a detailed description of a legal case involving a fabric manufactured while evading the tax due on it and sold to …
Legal document. Dated: 1156. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in the Fayyūm, …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …
Letter from Avraham Neḥmad to Moshe b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy. Writer and addressee are Qaraites. Written in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter begins with a recommendation …
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …
Letter from Moshe b. ʿOvadya, in Aleppo, to a Nagid, in Cairo, who receives 20 lines of eloquent Hebrew praises but does not appear to …
Copy of a letter from Menaḥem b. Eliyyahu, in an unspecified location near Salonica and Constantinople. In Hebrew, with occasional phrases in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably composed …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. The writer is a tax farmer (or perhaps the agent/wakīl of one) in a rural area with …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Abū Ṭāhir containing interesting technical details of the capitation tax administration. The writer heard from Manṣūr al-Dimashqī "may God …
[בש ר]חמ
אלדי אעלם חצרה מולאי אל[שיך אלא]גל אטאל
אללה בקאהא ואדאם ת[אי]ידהא ועלאהא וכבת אעדאהא
[ אבו א]ל מנצור אלדמשק[י] נטריה רחמנא …
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer, Dā'ūd of Banhā, who is chronically in arrears …
Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that his …
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) dealing with the capitation tax and with the kashrut of meat, first half of the …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Our [lord], may God prolong your life and the life of your children. Your slave is
in great distress due to the false accusations about m…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …