Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal document. Mentions a qāḍī, "al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra," and various sums of money. […] At the top there is what looks like the remnant of an earlier state document, written in large letters, which includes the word "al-Rūmiyya" (the Byzantine?). On verso there are a few words in Hebrew script, significance unclear.

العلامات

• sugar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: part of a text on dentistry and oral hygiene, discussing dental caries, dentifrice powder (sanūnāt) prepared from gigantic swallowwort and burnt snails. Perhaps Ibn al-Jazzār, Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir (‘Provisions for the traveller and nourishment for the sedentary’).

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Document date

643 Hijrī (29 May 1245–18 May 1246 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Sugar accounting for the Dīwān al-Sulṭān (of al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb) mentioning the refinery of Ṣafad (or al-Ṣafadī?)

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العلامات

• sugar

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

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Primary language

Arabic

Full of fancy words and phrases like "al-kamāl al-mutaʾalliqa al-anwār." Someone cut it into horizontal strips and jumbled it and glued the strips on top of each other, some at 180 degrees to their original orientation.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The original document is quite damaged; there is a list of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. There is also a line in Arabic script including the word al-mamlūk and the name Manṣūr b.

العلامات

• arabic script

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

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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

1 نسخ

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

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. […] There are registration mottos (ʿalāʾīm) on both recto and verso. Needs further examination.

العلامات

• fisc
• tax

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Primary language

Arabic

The sections, divided by horizontal lines, are headed masāḥat al-[...]; thānī masāḥa; thālith masāḥa; rābīʿ masāḥa; khāmis masāḥa; sādis masāḥa. […] The word qāʿida (base) also appears several times. The page was subsequently folded down the middle.

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Document date

Av 1452 Seleucid (7 July 1141–5 August 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves 16 dinars; possibly silk which was purchased; and partners in a shop. Mentions [...]l Ibn al-Shirwānī (בן אלשרואני). Signed by [...] ha-Levi ha-Melammed. There is also a remnant of a separate legal document at 90 degrees.

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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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1 مناقشة

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

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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

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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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• ben na'im

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nahray, the paternal cousin of Nahray b. Nissim, in Alexandria, to Nahray's son, Abū Saʿd Nissim b. Nahray, in Fustat, after 1096. The letter relates many commercial matters and mentions Avraham al-Derʿi as Natan's commercial competitor in coral trade. Nahray is mentioned as dead in his son's name and from the fact that Nissim is already grown up and involved in trade, one can conclude that the letter was written in the late nineties of the 11th century.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• clothing
• lapis lazuli
• pearls
• silk
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

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.

1 مناقشة

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

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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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• legal

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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

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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

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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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1 نسخ

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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• 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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• 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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• 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

Primary language

Arabic

The writer desired to obtain something from him only to find that he had already left for Mecca after knowing that the writer was already on his way from Fusṭāṭ. As soon as he returns, the sender will obtain something from him and deliver it to "al-majlis al-sāmī" (حرس الله عز سلطانه). There are marginal notes or probably official endorsements in a different hand which translates as "accepted. the [command] has been fulfilled and the record of the same has been filed in the aforementioned dīwān".

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Respectful note to Eliyyahu the Raṣuy of both Yeshivot, informing him of the writer's safe arrival, and how the first thing he did was to report to the house of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya. Along with Mevorakh's usual impressive titulature, he is styled "sar ha-sarim" and "deputy of the king of Egypt" (I.e. the vizier al-Afḍal). "Quite likely, at the time of Mevorakh's restoration, al-Afḍal honored him with the high-sounding Arabic title, ra'īs al-ru'asā', held by the Coptic patriarch, and the Jews, taking cognizance of their leaders exalted status in the government, translated it into its Hebrew equivalent, sar ha-sarim."

العلامات

• mevorakh b. saadya
• self-government

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain ʿAbd al-Latīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk-era, ca. 13th–15th century. […] The sender reports on his Nile trip to Sammanūd and then to Jūjar for Purim as well as his business transactions along the way. He intends to return for Passover. He is traveling with a "Frank" (אפרנגי), the boy/servant of al-muʿallim Yosef. Greetings to various family members including Sutayta and her son Mūsā, al-Sitt Saʿādāt, the neighbor Rabbi Yosef and his wife , Shemuel and his son Mūsā, and some others.

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العلامات

• boat
• communal
• frank
• jujar
• sammanud

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday 1st Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (26 April 1126 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The verso of the ketubba of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yefet, from 1125 (PGPID 7560). Contains two legal records that were added later, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] (A) On the left side, Mubāraka, the mother of Sitt al-Ahl, gives her daughter two ornaments worth 6 3/4 dinars as a gift.

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Document date

414 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān of [al-Abwāb?] for the year 1023/24 CE (414 kharājiyya). […] In addition to this list, and upside down, is a literary paragraph discussing ʿilm and citing verses by al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī (taʿallama l-ʿilma fa-laysa l-mar'u yūladu ʿāliman. . .")

العلامات

• damin
• diwan al-abwab
• tax

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter/petition to Najīb(?) al-Dawla. In Arabic script. The sender reports that he came to the addressee's house but was not able to do something. […] Surrounded by accounts in Arabic script mentioning names such as ʿAllūn, Mūsā b. [...], al-muʿallim Yahūdhā (Yehuda), al-Andalusī, Yūsuf b.

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العلامات

• dimme
• petition

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names mentioned: Abū Surūr; Ḥamza; Muḥsin al-Farrān; Avraham al-Rudayjī(?); ʿAlī b. Abi Ṭālib; Ismāʿīl Ibn Qumqum; Abū l-Yumn; Yaḥyā b. […] ; Māhir; Ibn Aṣqaṭ; Ibn ʿAbdallāh; Abū l-Qāsim al-Buṣīrī; Zikrī b. Mahlūk(?); Abū Jaʿfar; Saʿīd.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر