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אין רשומות קשורות
Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in …
תעתוק אחד
Legal query with responsum. Concerning tefillin. Late. Striking signatures.
Fragment of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya, around 1030 CE. Writes about the recent events in Mount of Olives (communal dispute of Hoshaʿna Rabba …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Fragment of a legal document, 6 lines, not very legible script. Indication of a default in loan repayment on the first due date (ākhiruhā yatluhu …
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Fol. 7: Text in Hebrew listing the names of various Nasis, e.g., Ḥizqiyya ha-Nasi and Shelomo ha-Nasi b. David ha-Nasi Rosh ha-Gola. Containing phrases typical …
Fiscal document, accounts, in a combination of Arabic and Coptic numerals. The names mentioned are Coptic Christian like Buṭrus b. Zakariyya. Needs examination.
דיון אחד
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe the bottom of a letter. Verso: Probably a prescription. In Arabic script.
Table with entries in Arabic script. Business accounts organized by date and day of the week. Mentions names such as Barakāt, Ibrāhīm, and Hārūn. Needs …
State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …
الناصرية
خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش
بن احمد
بسم الله ا…
Khuyalāʾ ibn Ḥasan and Abū al-Jaysh
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave kisses the ground before th…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). On parchment. Fragment (long vertical strip from the left side). An elaborate deed …
Letter of censure to the community of Malij and its leader the cantor Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen.
Letter from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), probably in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. …
Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.
Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Official account. "That which was expended for the allowance (ʿamāla) of Mukhtār al-Dawla." Entries include "clay" and "brick." Needs further examination. On verso: "al-mamlūk Yūsuf …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic. Refers to a female teacher (li-l-muʿallima) and a man's mother (wa-wālidatuhū)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed, with many names of people and goods. Mentions: the ṣināʿa; Hārūn al-Kohen who agrees on a payment plan; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, whose …
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, Alexandria, to Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Taharti. Dating: ca. 1050. The writer deals with managing the goods of the brothers Yūsuf …
1כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ונעמתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדיה(!) לי בקין מן תמוז
כתמה אללה ע…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Petition to Shelomo ha-Nasi from a man whose name is missing, reporting that a pesiqa (pledge drive) in his favor had brought a substantial sum, …
Either part of a genealogical list or a letter.
Legal document. Court proceeding. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Shevaṭ 1471 = January/February 1160 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Bride: Malika/Milka (מלכה). Groom: ʿAllūn b. Ṣeda[qa]. The dowry includes a house …
Legal fragment. Damaged and faded. Concerning the wife of Saʿāda b. Shelomo al-Mawṣilī and mentioning the names of two women, Sittūna and Mudallala. On verso …
Document of sale of a house (intaqala...), dated 28 Muḥarram 587 AH, which is 25 February 1191 CE. (Though note that Khan at one time …
Letter probably to a dignitary called Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm/Avraham. With a long Hebrew introduction, the body in Judaeo-Arabic, and the address in Arabic script. (The …
Letter in which the writer remarks that he was pleased to learn that the recipient, who had not written in a while, was well and …
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5321 AM …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script.
Decree fragment in Arabic script. There are no full words to work with because of damage that was sustained after the paper was reused for …
Memorial list. Names include: ʿAmram. . . ʿOvadya. . . Yaʾir ha-Shofeṭ. . . Yosef, Elʿazar, Avraham; ʿAmram; Netanʾel ha-Baḥur; [...] b. Menashshe; Efrayim ha-Rofeʾ; …
A letter to Moshe b. Yosef in Luzk from Mordechai b. Shemuel b. Yeshu'a in Helitz
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Ibrāhīm b. Siwār b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz acknowledges that he owes wheat. Needs examination.
Formal letter or report in Arabic script. Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter …
Dowry list. Bride: Jamīla bt. Meʾir. Groom: Netanʾel b. Moshe. The early marriage gift is 10 dinars. Dated: 1169 CE(?).
Draft of an official letter or correspondence, in Arabic script. The sender writes to the addressee "al-Amīr al-Raʾīs" that he will remain steadfast in his …
Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …
וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה
גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמת…
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th- of 19th-century based on the paleography. The section on the right bears the heading: "Record of the purchase of etrogim." …
Legal document: will, fragmentary, of the Qaraite mother of two girls, before delivering another child. Concerns in particular her valuable jewelry. Goitein surmised that the …
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Deed of gift in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: last third of Adar 1428 Sel. = February/March 1117 CE. The upper part is …
… (there is no need) for a complete mention of its boundaries in this
deed . . . . (This is a definitive gift, open and public, like a de…
Letter fragment from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi probably to one of his brothers. Recto is too faded to read. Part of the address is preserved …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yaʿqūb, a Jewish grocer, probably for his capitation tax in Fustat.