16354 records found
Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Kohen ha-Parnas, [...] bat Ḥalfon, widow of [...], [...] b. Ḥalfon and Abraham b. Moses. (Information from CUDL)
A fragment of a dowry list. Location: al-Maḥalla. Bride: Milāḥ (מלאח). On verso a colophon: a collection of Biblical verses for 9th Av, by Zakkāy b. Moshe who was a dayyan in al-Maḥalla 1127–50 CE. For a list of books in his library see Allony, The Jewish Library, no. 27 (TS NS 298.9). AA
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the elder Sulaymān and Abū l-Bahā. It is dated but the date is lost. (Information from CUDL)
Bill of rent between Moshe Hakohen and Shemuel. A store owned by a gentile is involved. Signed by Menhaem b. Avraham. The year 53[...] = 1539-1638. AA
Recto: legal document concerning debt. Verso: document, mentioning Abū Jacob. (Information from CUDL)
Court record fragment of the sale of a European slave by a mother to her son. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 331, and Goitein's index cards)
Court record fragment of the transfer of part of a house as a gift from a mother to her daughter. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 331, and from Goitein's index cards)
Letter to Efrayim (b. Shemarya?) al-Ḥaver, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. Distinctive scribal hand. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bottom part of a legal document. signed by Avraham b. Mevasser, known from document from mid 11th century, and the other signature are only partially preserved. AA
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); the Muslim traders; various commodities (including אלקפאן?) and information about shipments; how Zakkār still hasn't greeted the sender; Rabbenu [...]. There is a lot more, but the text is faded and fragmentary. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from a memorial list. Only few names preserved: Sa'adya and his sons Elazar and Shilo, Yefet Halevi and his son Meir, Solomon, She'erit and Shemarya. AA
Fragment from the top of a ketubah. The groom is Nethan'el.
Ketubba with trousseau list, mentioning quantities of money, clothes and chests. (Information from CUDL)
Damaged fragment from a ketubah of Avraham and Sutayt (?). AA
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Yehuda to Mevorakh, with a long Hebrew introduction full of biblical citations (such a Psalms 133:1 and 128:4) and allusions to biblical verses. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document recounting long passages of oral speech, mentioning a certain Maḥfūẓ. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment from Avraham, son of the Gaon. In a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script.
Notes for a marriage contract between Abu al-Karim Shabbetay b. Avraham and the divorcee Mudallala bat Yehuda ha-Levi involving a dowry of 102 dinars plus a house. Drafted in Cairo ca. 1140. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 387 and 403)
Legal document (Information from CUDL)
Letter, introduced by a citation from Psalms 72:7. (Information from CUDL)