Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic - from the end of the 12th or first half of 13th century. Mentions "Sayyidnā may he live forever," which may be a reference to Avraham Maimonides.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At bottom right there is an entry documenting that Sitt al-Dalāl //Amat al-Qādir// died on Monday night the 14th of Sivan, corresponding to Dhū l-Qaʿda.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

This fragment is directly related to the neighboring shelmark ENA 3518.1– the two fragments may be joins from a financial ledger.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A sum of ~184 dinars is cited at the end; it seems that Maymūn is responsible for ~30 dinars of that.

العلامات

• list
• pepper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rajab 527 Hijrī (8 May 1133–6 June 1133 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

There was also a Jewish presence there including shops, a Jewish endowment, and a kosher slaughterhouse. YU/MY.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It would normally be written on verso, except that in this case verso was probably already occupied. Almost entirely concerned with trade in silk. Mentions Alexandria.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a household of women who are "naked and are without a man to enter. . . their hunger is greater than their satiety. . . ."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

427–29 Hijrī (1035–1038 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 427 AH, which is 1035/36 CE. (A previous PGP entry said 1427 Seleucid = 1115/16 CE.) On verso there are further (related) accounts mainly in Arabic script but with some Judaeo-Arabic at the bottom.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Contains the trustee stipulation for a woman, and the end of the stipulation regarding the wife's earnings.

العلامات

• testimony

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/announcement addressed to the entire Jewish community of Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• emet
• excommunication

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Only a few words remain from the end of the document, and then 11 signatures. Location: Jubayl (probably Byblos in Lebanon, but there is also a Jubayl in Yemen).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

The dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the mention of the Ottoman kurush. Some of the entries mention transactions with specific people, such as "money transfer with Ḥabīb Levi" and "ḥūjjat Ḥasan ʿUrsī" (possibly costs related to a transaction before a qadi court).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The wording of the document is nearly identical to T-S NS 320.57 + ENA 2386.4, another document in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The fabrics were apparently originally part of the woman’s bridal bedding outfit. The letter ends by asking whether Abū l-Maḥāsin has arrived.

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Written on behalf of Hiba Ibn Zaʿfarān (the word before "saffron" isn't entirely clear, it could also be that he used have a trade related to saffron), a newly indigent inhabitant of Fusṭāṭ.

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2

العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• jaliya

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

It might be possible to calculate an exact date for this document based on when Rosh Ḥodesh Iyyar fell on Shabbat in years ending in __3 during the period when Ḥalfon b. Menashshe was active.

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العلامات

• get

1 نسخ

Document date

Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid (5 October 1495 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Looks like the same hand as ENA NS I.95b (PGPID 11545). Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic, in an unskilled hand. The sender is en route to Damascus. He reports on his journey so far, with stops in Fustat and Bilbays.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Both the upper and the lower text blocks seem to be issuing instructions and include the wish that God will make the end good (wa-l-Ḥaqq taʿālā yajʿal al-ʿāqiba le-shalom).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein comments, "One hardly knows where phraseology ends and facts come in. E.g., complains about his bad salty ???."

العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Yefet ha-Zaqen known as Ḥasān. This is the second entry on the page; the first seems to be an eschatological text.

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العلامات

• court notebook

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

By Mevorakh's honorifics we can date this letter to after 1094 when he regained his office, and probably closer to the end of his tenure (See the table of Mevorakh's titles in Mark Cohen's Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt, pp. 264-265 (Information from Goitein's index cards)

العلامات

• communal
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which David ha-Kohen gives to his daughter Sitt al-Dār, wife of Sason ha-Levi, 2 1/3 qirats (i.e., 1/9) of a mushāʿ (undivided) house. The gift will be entered in her ketubba. The house's borders are defined.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The hand is reminiscent of fiscal documents but these may be private accounts, based on the unsystematic layout and the headers "owed by him" (ʿalayhi).Recto mentionsn "on Wednesday the 26th" followed by "20 dinars," then perhaps "in the hand of Jaʿfar al-[...]. Entries on verso mention 40 raṭls of something followed by term muqāṭaʿa; underneath possibly 400-something units of wood (ʿūd) again followed by muqāṭaʿa.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

In the margin he adds a request (in Judaeo-Arabic) for a riding animal with a saddle, so that he can enter (Fustat?) on it.

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2

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tishrei 1343 Seleucid (1031 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Large letters, wide space between the lines; ends with the motto "yeshuʿa" (the same as that of Daniel b.

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

The recipient had ordered a Torah scroll and books, but the writer was reluctant to send them at the end of the seafaring season since they might suffer water damage.

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2

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

A list of items beginning with the basmala and ending with an inshāllah. The name al-shaykh Dāʾud appears at upper left (in a different hand).

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Written by a Muslim, as he begins and ends with prayers for Muḥammad. He refers to himself as "the slave" (al-mamlūk), in the tarjama.

1 نسخ

Document date

Av 1450 Seleucid (30 June 1139–29 July 1139 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥasan, a poor man from Baghdad in need of charity. Endorsed on verso by the judge Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim from Aleppo (see Med Soc II, App.

العلامات

• circular
• recommendation

1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legible phrases: "on the day I enter the city"; "the bearer of this [letter]"; "speak well of them [takun lahum melitz yosher] to his excellency the Gaon may he live forever"; "tell me the news of the son of his maternal aunt"; "give my regards to my sister"; "I only wrote these lines while..."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are two lines from the end of a letter, it seems asking for instructions.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

6 Av 5453 Anno Mundi (8 August 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #20) The lower lines of an entry regarding payment between Yiṣḥaq and Levi, perhaps the same pair as document #25 (PGPID 40964): Yiṣḥaq Yonah and Levi b.

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Document date

25th Adar II 1410 Seleucid (21 March 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. (1099 CE).

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The header קרקעות appears several times, probably related to real estate holdings and/or transactions. Throughout the entries there are references to: T-S NS 224.234 (recto) emerald, "the waqf", honey, chicken, almonds; T-S NS 224.235 (recto) "the houses of the Alexandrians"; T-S NS 224.235 (verso) silk, pepper, figs, cinnamon.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Both recto and verso have a similar set of entries.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر