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Tag: 19th c
246 records found
Legal document dated 1819 CE (Shevat 5579) in which Yosef Yuʿbaṣ makes a declaration about 400 gurush that had been invested with him.
Legal document from Fustat/Cairo, dated 28 December 1812 (25 Tevet 5573) in which David Dayyan b. Avraham declares that he owes 12000 silver medins (מ״כ) to Yehudah Konān (?). The document was not witnessed and was reused for scribal practice: a second scribe has copied out the opening of the document three different times on the same page. The remaining pages have been used for sums, accounts, and writing practice.
Document dated 21 December 1817 (12 Tevet 5578) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his niece Raḥel, who is the daughter of his brother Shemuel and the wife of Yāqūtī Yuʿbaṣ. Mordekhai will bring Dr. (al-Ḥakīm) Kaspa (?) to treat Raḥel's children who are blind from birth. The doctor is to receive 150 qirsh in advance (la-qūddām) and another 150 if he is successful. The last few lines are trickier to understand and may say that the second payment of 150 will come out of Raḥel's ketubba.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y Frances & Company, Fustat/Cairo. Longer than usual
Legal document from Fustat/Cairo, dated January 1821 (5581). It seems to be a partnership agreement between various traders active in the early 19th century, including Yaʿaqov ʿAdda, Yosef Shtiwi, Shimʿon Frances, Moshe Yagi (?), Avraham Ḥafīs (?), Moshe Ḥanan, and Moshe Mizraḥī. Signed by many of these same people along with Saʿd Pinto.
Partnership agreement probably dated 1820/1 CE ([55]81)—but conceivably a century earlier if the half-missing digit is a ת rather than a ק—between Shelomo b. ידע (?) and Shelomo ha-Levi [here there is an unfortunately placed modern sticker] and Moshe ha-Kohen known as Manṣūrī.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between Eliyyahu b. Ẓahal and Yaʿaqov ha-Levi עכובס and Mordekhay Kapanton, who were partners in money-lending (sarraflik) and other forms of trade. A certain Khwaja Mikhā'īl is involved. Eliyyahu and Yaʿaqov sign, but not Mordekhay. AIU VII.D.99 and Yevr. II A 1292 are exact replicas of each other. ASE.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic (1807 CE) from Karo y Frances & Company to Avraham ha-Levi.
Legal declaration from Fustat/Cairo, dated 1802 CE. Several people are named in the opening lines.
Legal document dated 1802 CE (Sivan 5562) involving a partnership between Hayyim ha-Levi, Merkado Karo, Avraham ha-Levi, and Pinhas b. Yom Tov Aripol (? אריפול).
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana in Alexandria; and Merkado Karo and Avraham ha-Levi and Hayyim Nuṣayri (?) and Shimʿon Frances and Khalifa Pinto and Yaʿaqov Bibas and Meʾir ben Naʿim. This appears to be a draft of JRL SERIES L 18. MCD. ASE.
A ledger containing copies of about ten business letters in Judaeo-Arabic from 1815–16 CE (5575–76). On verso, most are to Yosef Shammāʿ (or Shamānī?) & Company.
Late pair of letters in Judaeo-Arabic dated 30 November 1808 (11 Kislev 5569). The first is from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y Frances & Company, Fustat/Cairo, sent with the bearer Aḥmad [...]. There is then a brief note in the margin signed by Eligo (? אליגו) (el hijo?) Frances, perhaps the response to be sent back to Moshe.
Letter in Ladino from Av[raham?] Til[?] in Alexandria to Efrayim 'Ada in Cairo dated 11 March 1814 (19 Adar 5574). Within the letter David Dayan (l.3r) and Yosef Mir (l.7r) are mentioned. The latter name can also be found as the author of another Ladino letter: AIU IX.B.20. Later in the letter the sender might be referring to Yosef Mir again, when saying "lo ke ara al nuestro famozo Yosef" or "what will be done unto our famous Yosef" (l.10r). Generally there is discussion of payments possibly related to cloth "panyo" (l.6-7) where the types of coinage in use are silver "gurushim" (l.8r) and lower denomination "paras" (l.9r) There are also some sums (possibly accounts for goods weighed in ratl units) and names on the verso, among them Abu Bakhar al-Kabir and Abu Salama. MCD.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe ben Naʿim, Fustat/Cairo, to his brother David ben Naʿim, Alexandria, dated 1820 CE (20 Rahamim [= Elul?] 5580). Mentions Yosef Levi Menashshe several times.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1817 CE from Yosef ha-Levi, Fustat/Cairo, to Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ and Mordekhai Ḥako (?), Damietta (Kapotakia).
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1822 CE (the 36th day of Matmonim = the counting of the Omer, 5582) from Moshe ben Naʿim to "my brother Moshe Ẓvi." There are greetings in the penultimate line to Moshe Ṭawīl and Moshe Maṣliaḥ. There are sums/accounts on verso.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (17 Heshvan 5568).
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances dated 1807 CE. Verso contains an Arabic note along with doodles and sums.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances dated 1807 CE. Information from Wagner, Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah, 24.
