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Tag: 11th c
353 records found
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1037. A very damaged record, mentioning the supply of different materials, such as oakum, straw, reeds, bricks, lime, twigs, clay, nails, water. Also, payments to sawyers, masons, carpenters, plasterers, and helpers. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp.161 #9)
Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.
Letter from Marduk b. Musa in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat asking him to find a Jewish maidservant for the writer, ca. 1045-1096
Letter fragment from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to a community, approximately 1020.
Letter from Salama b. Musa ha-Sfaqusi from Alexandria probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1068. Mentions several people including Avraham b. Farah and Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen. The writer returned from Sicily to Alexandria and deals with business matters and buying goods. Also mentions the situation in Sicily. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 4, pp. 477-483, #753) VMR
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: 31 March 1059 CE, according to Gil. Deals with various business matters. He thanks Nahray for burning his last letter. He asks for news of 'al-kabīra' Sitt Murruwa, who had been sick.
Letter draft from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda. Fragment: the upper part only. Dating: probably 1028 CE (Gil's estimate). The letter praises the army's victory. Written on the front and back of a chancery decree fragment (see PGPID 35179).
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to a group of people in Alexandria, approximately 1025.
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060 in the month of Ab.
Letter fragment (missing the upper right corner), mercantile, from someone to "my maternal uncle [...] Avraham b. Salih b. [...]," probably 11th century. The writer is upset about something and enemies are gloating. Other merchants traveling to Syracuse and Barqah are mentioned. There are a few words in Arabic at the very end. ASE.
Letter from Toviyya b. Moshe, Jerusalem, to Perahya b. Muʾammal, Fustat, probably 1048.
Letter fragment from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, approximately 1050.
Letter from Ḥayyim He-Ḥaver b. Shelomo, Jerusalem, to Yitzhak b. Ya'akov He-Ḥaver, Fustat, mentioning enormous sums deposited with various people, around the middle of the 11th century.
Letter containing personal, business and communal news from Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1045-1096.
Letter from an unknown person to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060 (Gil). The fragment contains several details about shipments of goods and money as well as a complaint about Abū Zikrī that he acted in an indecent manner toward the writer when they were business partners. It seems like the writer is from Sicily. Mentions that lbn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ) was transporting a pouch full of dirhams. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #817)
Expenditures of the Jewish court in Fustat, early 11th century.
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition, 1034.
Legal document fragment, probably late 11th century, since witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanel who also signed T-S 13J5.2 ca.1085. Other witnesses: Shemuel b. Mevorakh; Avraham [...]; and Maṣliaḥ [...]. Verso contains a few jottings in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. ASE.
Executorship deed fragment in the hand of Eliyyahu Gaon, July 1066.
Acknowledgement made in front of the rabbinical court of Denia, Spain, by Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Yiṣḥaq states that a certain Ḥasan b. Ḥasan had received nothing from a consignment of cinnamon carried by Qasim's slave, Mufarrij, a business agent from al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya. Dated Tuesday 10 January, 1083. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
