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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye doctor (kaḥḥāl), who has received a certification from Muslim witnesses on his trustworthiness for practising in a Muslim family, can actually practise there.

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العلامات

• beardless
• dimme
• fatwa

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Friday, 25 Iyyar 1439 Seleucid (27 April 1128 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Natan b. Shela. Wife: Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Mevasser known as Bishāra the freedman. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Ghālib. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Furaykh ('Little Chick,' twice), Frjlh (also twice, an abbreviation of Faraj Allah, 'God had helped').

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, Alexandria, to Binyamin b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal.

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Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there are four different text blocks, all in very cursive Hebrew. The main one also has poetic phrases that might be about the sufferings of fate, perhaps a letter of recommendation?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, all in the same hand, probably all from the same letter. Mentions the sons of al-Baradānī; R. Natan he-Ḥaver someone's brother-in-law; and the punishment of people who feast with apostates (מאכל ומשתה פי בית אלמין . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of a foreign scholar who was afraid of being forced to marry, although he did not wish to do so, because of his mother and daughter, and who refused to become judge and teacher in Alexandria because he was in charge of a house with tenants in Fustat, belonging to a friend.

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العلامات

• to examine

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Contains translations of of various Talmudic terms, all by R. Sherira and his son R. Hiyya Gaon. Also published in Otzar ha-Geonim, Gittin, p. 195, no. 454.

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العلامات

• gaon
• responsa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment in dirhams. The addressee (al-shaykh) is to pay the bearer 53 wariq dirhams and 50(?) […] Verso contains Arabic jottings including the basmala several times, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the names ʿAlī b. Furayj and ʿUmar al-Maghribī. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• cheque
• order of payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one of whom acknowledges receipt of something. Also mentions Abū [...] Elʿāzar ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

May have been sent from Qayrawān, as the writer mentions Funduq al-Maṭmūrī, also known from T-S 13J25.1. Information in part from CUDL.

العلامات

• business

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. Dating: ca. 1062.

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Farah b. Yosef in Alexandria to Yehuda b. Menashshe in Fustat concerning the delivery of goods, namely items of silver, olive oil, cheese, almonds and saffron sent from Ifrīqiya to Sicily.

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العلامات

• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Muḥarram 564 Hijrī (5 October 1168–3 November 1168 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Order to a lower official, specifying what is to be disbursed from the blessed grain storehouses (taʿrīf: mimmā yaḥtāj lak iṭlāquh min al-ahrāʾ al-mubār[aka... al-maʿmūra] bi-dāʾim ḥirāsatih...).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Listing names such as Abū Nāṣir; Zuhayr; Yūsuf; Ibn Ḥusayn; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm; Ḥusayn; Abū ʿUthmān, Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, with Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script, evidently from a muqṭaʿ to a patron ('al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliyya..."). Recto consists mostly of formulaic blessings.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

He reports that he has obeyed the addressee's order (imtathala al-mamlūk al-marsūm) and investigated the matter of Ibrāhīm b. [...]. Then mentions "for the treatment of the eye (li-mudāwāt al-ʿayn).

العلامات

• illness
• illness: eye
• illness: physician
• physicians

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Mentions dealings with Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kātib.

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العلامات

• aodeh

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Document date

902 Hijrī (9 September 1496–29 August 1497 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

One witness statement preserved (Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid). The date is only partially preserved on recto, but the Judaeo-Arabic filing note on verso specifies the year 902 AH = 1496/97 CE. There are also addenda on verso, probably of payments (ṣaḥḥa...).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Values given mainly in ashrafīs, also in bunduqīs.

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from ʿAyash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Aruond 1045.

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العلامات

• trade

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Fragment of a list of recipients of alms, similar to Bodl. MS heb. c28.24, in the hand, it seems, of the judge Yeshu'a ha-Kohen b. Yosef of Alexandria (dated documents 1028 through after 1062).

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1039–1039 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda. This letter also mentions the arrival in Fusṭāṭ of the Nasi Daniel b. […] As an afterthought, the sender alludes to terrible wrongs being inflicted by Natan b. […] The writer also mentions the arrival in Fusṭāṭ of the Nasi Daniel b.

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العلامات

• conflict
• daniel b. 'azarya
• gaonic conflict
• music
• nagid
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Av 1434 Seleucid (25 July 1123–23 August 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It was also agreed that the two undertook to be prompt in reversing the deal; i.e., the woman should pay the sum due a week or less before the deadline (l. 10). […] (Information from Gershon Weiss.) See also Goitein's index card. Description from T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553 (old PGPID 7264): Legal document. […] Yefet/Ḥasan ha-Kohen, and his wife is Sitthum aka Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. ʿOvadya. In the present document, Elʿazar's son Hillel is also mentioned.

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1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Arabic

(The earlier use looks official, and one side refers to al-mamlūk Sayf al-[...] al-Afḍalī.) The addressee is asked to fulfill the promise he made yesterday, possibly that he would purchase honey and ṭaḥīna.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning many names: Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh; Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen; Avraham ha-Zaqen. Also mentions Fustat. Probably related: ENA NS 63.12 (PGPID 12209) and T-S AS 152.70 (PGPID 17785).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They are requested to convey the dinar they had pledged for the first installment of the capitation tax to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-ʿIzz al-Levi. It will be used to pay the capitation tax of a cantor.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Arabic

Contains a narrative involving ʿAmr b. Umayya al-Ḍamrī (one of the companions of Muḥammad). It involves espionage (al-dukhūl ilā diyār al-qawm li-yasriqa akhbār) as well as a scrawny rider and 2 camels (nāqatān) that looked like a pair of ostriches (naʿāmatān).

العلامات

• arabic script
• islamic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Ya’aqov b. Salman al-Hariri, from Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] The writer describes what he has been through while he delivered linen to Alexandria, and the ship was delayed in Rashid. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #664) VMR

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Alchemical recipes describing methods of preparation of metals (copper, sulphur), how to burn them, wash them, dry them and grind them. […] (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] Deals with selling goods and their prices, especially pepper and silk. Also mentions the condition of Yisrael b.Natan, Nahray’s cousin.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Damira by Abu al-'Ali ha-Kohen to Tiqva b. Yeshua, asking him to inform the Nagid about trouble that had occurred in Damira caused by someone named b. al-Wasiti.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It refers to the community of Alexandria (‘No Amon’). The handwriting is that of Ḥalfon b. […] (Information from CUDL and Friedman, Dictionary, p. 202.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib4

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and preventing them from fulfilling their religious duties (al-iqāma bi-mūjibāt sharīʿatihim) and from their gatherings. Includes a marāḥim formula (wa-hum yasʾalū min al-marāḥim al-ʿamīma).

العلامات

• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions names such as the wife of Ibn al-Malīḥ(?) (in connection to a gold needle); Abū Isḥāq; Abū ʿAbdallāh; al-Faqīh Abū ʿAbdallāh; a simsār; Naṣr al-Ḥājj.

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Document date

1102 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Power of attorney. al-Sāliḥ b. Yūsuf, a Sicilian Jew, gives power of attorney to another Jew in a qadi court. Dating: ca. 1102 CE, as the same Ṣāliḥ also appears in T-S NS J95a. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

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العلامات

• power of attorney

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Headers include terms such as "al-aṣl" "al-iḍāfa" and maybe "al-ṭārima." On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew.

العلامات

• ikhshidid

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, probably for charitable purposes, with entries such as "widows"; "the niece of Ṭāhir the beadle"; "the wife of Abū Isḥāq the cantor"; "the children of Sulaymān ha-Kohen"; Abū Saʿīd; and Abū l-ʿIzz al-Jabbān. Also, notably, "the miller who used to be a Qaraite" (אלטחאן אלדי כאן קרא).

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Petition/letter of appeal for charity, in Arabic script, addressed to the qāḍī ʿImād al-Mulk. The writer mentions his distress (al-shidda wa-l-ḍīqa wa-l-khawf). Later (three lines from the bottom) he clarifies that he is scared of the collectors of the capitation tax (aṣḥāb al-jawālī).

العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Appointment of a judge, listing all of his prerogatives. The handwriting is very familiar; late 12th or early 13th century? […] Below there are jottings, mainly Coptic numerals it seems. This shelfmark also includes three folios of Talmud in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder.

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العلامات

• appointment
• coptic alphanumeral
• judge

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The hand is that of Yedutun ha-Levi, and these fragments also contain poems of his alongside the accounts.

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العلامات

• yedutun ha-levi

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The portion preserved mainly consists of greetings for Abū l-Faraj; al-Kohen Yaʿqūb and his brother and father; al-Raṣuy; al-Thiqa; R.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

In the main text block refers to Mīkhāʾīl b. Lā[..] al-[... the ghulām of 'the amīr [...] the glory of the caliphate and the pride of the religion (majd al-khilāfa fakhr al-dīn)' قسطر(?).

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Document date

23 Nisan 1539 Seleucid (7 April 1228 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The renter is Abū Naṣr al-Levi b. Abū l-Maʿānī al-Levi (ZL), and the property owner is Abū Saʿd b. al-Rayyis Mufaḍḍal (ZL).

العلامات

• lease

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Sections preserved here include guarantees in money (bāb al-kafāla bi-l-māl), in powers of attorney (bāb al-kafāla fī l-wakāla), and in slaves (al-kafāla fī l-ʿabīd wa-l-ṣibyān).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر