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Kashrut certificate for a cheese shipment imported by Maymūn b. Nissim of Syracuse, Sicily. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Sivan 5001 AM = June …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Short letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva ("the head of the (Palestinian) Academy") to an unknown recipient (called only Rabbenu). In Judaeo-Arabic. Acknowledging the …
דיון אחד
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on kosher and unkosher meat, including instructions for how to cook meat.
אין רשומות קשורות
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the factors that make animal meat unkosher.
8 pages from a halakhic work on shehitah
Bifolium from a halakhic work on shehitah
Deed of appointment for a kosher slaughterer Shemuel [surname lost]. Location: Cairo. Dated: [5]288 AM, which is 1527/28 CE. The term of the appointment is …
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the kashrut of cheese it seems purchased by Abū Naṣr b. Hārūn. The distinguished addressee is asked to help, presumably …
A religious slaughterer who was careless in the exercise of his duties is flogged and forced to make a public confession. Dated 9 Iyyar 1339/ …
The Nagid R. Yehoshuaʿ warns against disqualified kosher butchers. Middle of the 14th century.
List of names and monetary figures in silver kuruş "גרשו" of which the dating is likely 18th/19th-century (post-1703). In the verso list's heading, the word …
Alphabetized list of contributors and their payments toward the communal kosher meat tax (gabela) in the month of Elul (Raḥamīm). The dating is likely 19th-century …
Testimony signed by Aharon ha-Kohen b. Amram and two others regarding the kashruth (ritual lawfulness) of some cheese made by the Karaites (of Samaritiqa), ca …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Kashrut certification document in Hebrew. Dated 25 Tammuz 5524 AM (1765 CE). Location: issued in Carpentras, France (קארפינטראץ). The signatures of two kosher butchers appear …
Certificate of kashrut. Location: Alexandria. Dated: First decade of Tammuz 502[.] AM, which is 1260–69 CE. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Karam b. Bū l-Barakāt purchases …
Verso: lists of names organized alphabetically with corresponding payments toward the communal kashrut tax (gabela) for the months of Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, 5582 AM. Recto: …
Announcement of the Jewish community in establishing a religious institution for the training of faith leaders, kosher slaughterers, and mohelim beginning with the sending forth …
Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. A legal …