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Letter from Dawud son of the haver to a certain dayyan. It seems some dramatic event has taken place off-scene (maybe in Palestine?) and here …
דיון אחד
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אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Mūsā, in Ṣandafā, to his brother, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Written in a lovely …
כתאבי אטאל אללה[בקאך ואדאם עזך
וסלאמתך מן סנדפא ען חאל סלאמה ועא[פיה
אגתמע עלי אחסן חאל במנה ופצלה וס[
אעלמך יאכי אני וצלת צאלם אלי …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ Ibn al-ʿAmmānī to Yeḥiʾel ha-Rav (b. Elyaqim?). In Hebrew. The year is given but is hard to …
Petition from the early Ayyubid period from Yehuda ha-Kohen to Eliyyahu requesting a meeting with the head of a government office regarding taxes for the …
Lower part of a letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. He describes his great distress (poverty, dependents, …
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
Fatimid tax receipt dated 528H (1133–34). Five different hands: at top, 2 requests for registration, 2 confirmations of registration; lower part is receipt itself. (MR)
Letter from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf (Yehosef), in Malīj. The addressee is the tax farmer of the local market and the judge …
Letter from Hārūn to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. The sender reminds Moshe that it is his custom …
Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a group of people who share an underground(?) storage room of wheat in …
Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …
Letter from Shelomo b. Aharon to Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Opens with a cryptic mention of the writer's departure for the sake of paying the …
Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …
Letter from a mother, probably near or in Qayrawān, to her merchant son, in Fustat. Dating: ca. early 11th century. Includes some information about the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …
Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks how the capitation tax (al-jāliya) promises to be this coming year. The sender seems to …
Communal accounts, probably from the early 13th century. Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), …
Verso (as conserved; original inscription): fragment of what appears to be an account. Under the heading nāḥiya, it mentions the fourteenth day of an unnamed …
State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …
Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs. Dated Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 …
Legal document: dissolution of a partnership, concerning a tax farm in al-Maṭariyya. Dated: with multiple entries in Marheshvan 1601 Seleucid (1289 CE).
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …
תעתוק אחד
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …
Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …
Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham b. Shelomo b. Yehuda perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Complains about a Coptic kātib (הסופר הערל, lit. "the uncircumcised scribe") …
Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …
2 תעתוקים
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …
כ]אן פי אלכתאב אלמ[דכור
]כרג לעאמל אלמוארית בכמסה ועשר[ין דינארא ברסם
אבו אלמפצ̇ל ואכדת אלעלאמה עליהם וסל[מת] אלבר[אה אלי אבו]
אלמפצ̇ל וקבצ…
[...] in the af[orementioned] document [...]
it came out to 25 [dīnārs] to the administrator of estates [for]
Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. I obtained the …
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …
Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.
Recto: Letter fragment, probably in the hand of the judge Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, addressed to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the arrival …
Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …
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