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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A vast sum of 2,033 dinars is cashed in Qayrawān for consignments of indigo, sugar, and silver (vessels or disused coins). Also mentions al-Mahdiyya. (Information from Goitein's index card and Med Soc I, 216n31.)

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العلامات

• indigo
• parchment
• silver
• sugar

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are remnants of an address, mentioning Yehuda, David, and Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter from an unknown sender to his brother Abū l-Durr (אבו אלדר), in Fusṭāṭ, in murabbaʿat al-ʿaṭṭārīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning commodities such as musk, beads (akhrāz), al-qalʿī (an alchemical term), sugar cane (?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to a woman (e.g., lā tadhkurīh lī wa-lā tasʾalīnī [ʿanhu]...). Mentions prayer; "al-Shāmiyyīn" (probably referring to the synagogue); the fast; a book called Alfāẓal-Mishna; sending something prior to the fast; the town of Sammanūd and a large boat.

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العلامات

• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 947 – Shawwāl 947 Hijrī (9 March 1540–26 February 1541 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains very neatly written, detailed entries specifying expenses of various kinds including for "the treasury" (bayt al-māl) and "the weight of Alexandria iron." Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• ottoman shipping

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ ha-Sar b. [...] ha-Ḥasid is named. Also Abū Najāḥ al-Naṣrānī (the Christian; might be identical with the famous Abū Najāḥ Ibn Qannāʾ).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions either "dyeing" (al-ṣibāgh) or "the villages" (al-ḍiyāʿ), likely the latter, "fī bāb rasm al-ḍiyāʿ" and a sum of 506 dinars that the sender collected from the peasants (muzāriʿūn).

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العلامات

• estate
• peasants

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Document date

329 Hijrī (6 October 940–25 September 941 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions both Sayyidnā al-Ikhshīd (=Muḥammad b. Ṭughj) and Abū l-Misk (=Kāfūr) by name. […] Same Hebrew scribe as T-S NS 235.185 (PGPID 36481), which also has the remains of a similar state document.

العلامات

• ikhshidid
• paper

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Document date

Tevet 1468 Seleucid (16 December 1156–13 January 1157 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Salāma one one-eighth of a house in the Surayya quarter of Fustat, which had been known as the residence of Yūsuf the father of Abū al-Khayr al-Saqqā' (the water carrier) for 5 dinars. […] Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Also signed by Seʿadya b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Isḥāq to someone whose name includes Shemaʿya, sent to the house of Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. […] Mentions Damietta; Sitt al-ʿAshīr; al-Ḥarīrī; the sender's brother-in-law; a lawsuit; the authority of Sayyidnā Sar ha-Sarim (probably Mevorakh b. Saʿadya); and a request that all the Jews in Damietta "go to the government."

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العلامات

• arabic address
• government
• ib-addenda
• ib6

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1200–1300 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso a memorial list of "The sons of al-Mushanqiṣ (בני אלמשנקץ)", who are known from other 13th-century lists - PGPID 4617, PGPID 4520, and PGPID 8339, all from the first decades of the century. A property "known by Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ" is known from an Arabic legal deed from 1209 (PGPID 40229). […] Shelomo b. Sa'adya "known as Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ" is the groom in PGPID 2240 from 1292CE.

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العلامات

• memorial

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 6 Nisan 1409 Seleucid (11 March 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾal-Halabi and in the body of the document, Aharon b. […] Part of a notary's notebook, see also CUL Add.3422 a-b (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 601)

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العلامات

• 11th c
• court

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

20 Sivan 5579 Anno Mundi (13 June 1819 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Meʾir Ben-Naʿim to his son David Ben-Naʿim, in Alexandria. Dated: 20 Sivan 5400 + 179 = 5579 AM = June 1819 CE. […] Mishmish and Ibn Bibas— who may have been traveling from Rosetta to Cairo on the Nile (al-baḥr). Meʾir reports that David's brother Moshe is going to "al-Qalʿa" (the Citadel) to classify coinage.

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العلامات

• ben na'im

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Document date

5341 Anno Mundi (10 September 1580–28 August 1581 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The same note mentions a man named ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Qabbānī. Another jotting reads "we now begin to copy the Zohar." There are also several copies of introductions of letters; copies of piyyutim and maqāmāt (ne'um Heiman ha-Ezraḥi. . . ); and copies of legal documents.

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Document date

Adar 1451 Seleucid (1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Namir(?). Bishr b. Hārūn al-Ruqūqī stood security for him. It seems that the debtor ran away and hid. The brother of Abū l-Munā, Abū ʿAlī b. Yehuda is also mentioned. The remaining three pages: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Conveying mainly flowery greetings and expressions of pain due to separation and excuses for not writing earlier—it seems mainly because of the writer's recently born children. There are also writing exercises in Arabic script. Verso: Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, pertaining to Maimonides's correspondence with the Sages of Provence, including R. […] The subsequent text block may be related; it is written in poetic Hebrew. This page also contains a third text block in Arabic script: يسال موسى عن ال . . . . . .

العلامات

• france

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by Maṣliaḥ b. Shemuel (also signed Bodl. MS heb. b 3/11, an 11th century ketubba) and Shelomo b. Seʿadya (also signed T-S 8J4.2b, from 1026 CE). This document might have been written by the same scribe, Yefet b.

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العلامات

• legal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is to inform Surūr al-Iskandarānī al-Kohen and his son that the two mandīls that the cantor sent from Alexandria have received an offer of 40 dirhams.

العلامات

• yehoshua maimonides

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the sender, see ENA NS 45.30 (PGPID 12147) and the documents linked there; the addressee is also known from several other India Book documents as well as ENA NS I.90 (PGPID 11336). […] Names mentioned: Abū Zikrī Ibn al-Ḥijāziyya, Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. ʿAṭiyya, and Avraham (al-Qalʿī?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nissim b. Benāyā, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. […] He would have preferred to exchange the money in Alexandria for a bill of exchange from Fustat but this was not possible.

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العلامات

• account
• arus b. yosef
• cash
• order of payment
• suftaja

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ladino

The heading on the verso states: "Lo ke fue pagado a Ḥajjī Alīal-Gālād debasho (=debajo) de su kuento". Many of the monetary figures are listed in abū ṭāqas, Austrian thalers, which became a common form of payment in Cairo during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The paleography also matches this dating estimate. MCD.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 26 Ḥeshvan 5342 Anno Mundi (23 October 1581 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

In which Budayrī acknowledges that he owes ʿAlāʾal-Dīn al-Ḥimṣī a debt of 12 gold Venetian ducats (peraḥim), which he will repay within 2 months. […] Meir Somekh ha-Kohen alongside another elaborate signature. Verso contains confirmation of receipt (of only 6 ducats?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the textile trade, mentioning the Syrian cities of Lādhiqiyya (Latakia), Anṭākiyya (Antioch), Maʾarrat al-Nuʿmān, and Aleppo. It specifically mentions letters written to 'the elders of Latakia' and 'the elders of Antioch.' On verso there is an informal note in a different hand, asking to be brought quires containing liturgical poetry (raḥamin) and "the siddur of the Head of the Yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība) belonging to Abū Naṣr." NB: Goitein's index card refers to 6J5.5a ("Ashtor, Braslavi 480"), which is apparently a Mamluk-era fragment of a charity drive record written in Arabic script.

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Document date

Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid (22 December 1131–19 January 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli Ibn Qashqūsh. Fiancée: [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo, a virgin. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Marriage payments: 1 + 10 = 11. This means that Sitt al-Jamīʿ was extremely poor. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Also signed by Ḥiyya b. Meshullam. The postscript states that he divorced her and she received the geṭ (before the consummation of the wedding?).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• marriage

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim instructing him to exchange the 50 dinars sent to him by the writer, which are “out of use here in Alexandria, but are excellent and first class in Fustat. […] The commission for Nahray, per an agreement his brother-in-law made with writer, will be “one dinar for a hundred [changed],” and the writer further instructs him to execute the order immediately. Alexandria, ca. 1060-1080 C.E. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:238, 378, 459) EMS

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions numerous people including Abū Naṣr, Abū Surūr b. al-Amʿaṭ, Abū l-Makārim Ibn Nufayʿ (whose son also arrived safely in Qūṣ), Abū l-Munajjā, and Abū ʿAlī.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين

Primary language

Hebrew

Yeshuʿa, writing on behalf of the community of Alexandria. Only the elegant rhymed prose opening of the letter has survived. […] Yosef; perhaps he is writing on behalf of his father. See also ENA NS 17.7 (PGPID 11722), a similar document with a similar identification of the sender(s).

العلامات

• communal
• jewish community

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة