Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addendum to a letter. The sender had already written the original letter when Abū l-Faḍl b. […] Mentions the number 20 and a judge (al-shofeṭ); pounds of silk; the bearer of this letter; someone who along with his companions frequently comes to 'al-thaghr' (Alexandria?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter possibly sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Arabic script. Fragment (right side of recto). […] The address is written on verso but is almost too faded to read. Mentions: the wife of Saʿāda; al-Mahdiyya; that the sender had been promised safe passage in a certain ship; that the addressee was supposed to come down to Alexandria, "but if you are living with your wife[…] "; Jerusalem; Abū l-Faraj; urging the addressee to come down to Alexandria: "all of us to Jerusalem"; further urgings not to delay.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto mentions: what Abū l-Faḍl is owed by Sitt Abū l-Surūr (two raṭls of lāsīn); silk; Ibn Saʿd; Ibn al-Dabbāgh al-Simsār; al-Shammāʿ; brazilwood; Ruzayn(?) al-Qammāḥ. Verso is headed "details of what is in the bundle of [...]

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العلامات

• account
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shekhanya (بن داود بن شخنيا) to Abū l-Faḍl Hibatallāh/Netanʾel b. Ḥayyim(?). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. […] Mentions Abū l-Khayr and the house of the addressee's female cousin (bint khāl). Also contains the phrases "I have not eaten" and "I ate," but the context is unclear. On verso there is also the draft of the opening of a Hebrew legal document.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions items including sesame oil, hazelnut, sugar, bread, cheese, rice, sumac, ʿaqīd of almond (though this is written out לוז עקיד rather than עקיד לוז), rose, cucumber, apple, an ublūja of sugar, pomegranate seeds. Mentions people such as Ṣibyān; Ibn al-Ramlī; the beadle of the synagogue (khādim al-kanīs); the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-ʿAysh; the house of Abū l-Faḍl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Mentions: the coats (al-shuqaq); his paternal uncles Ta[hir] and 'Imran; a man named Ibn al-Musinn ("son of the stinkard," see Goitein's note card on T-S NS J32); Ibn Nu'man Fada'il; Mahasin b. Hibat [Allah]; and that he sent a copy of the Neviim with the bearer of this letter.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh b. Shemuel attests that the estate, consisting of cloths, textiles and other things, of the late husband of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Elʿazar has been deposited with the widow Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Seʿadya al-Muʿallim. Signed by: Aharon b.

العلامات

• inheritance
• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include Bū l-Faraj; Bū l-Ḥasan; Bū l-Ṭāhir; Yosef al-Shomer; Maḥāsin al-Shammash; Bū l-Faḍlal-[...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Abū l-Faraj Netanel, who dies; the sister of Shela ha-Kohen; Hiba Ibn al-Shāmī; Sitt al-Nasab, Sitt al-Fakhr, Faḍāʾil, Abū l-Faraj known as Nisṭās b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Almost complete but faded and damaged business letter. […] Mentions buying something from Ibn al-Dībājī, in the funduq near Ṭā[hi?]r al-Sammāṭ (the necklace maker), who lives with Riḍā b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to suing people; witnesses; a power of attorney; Ḥasān; someone who is intelligent and either pious or indebted (עאקל ומעה דין); Faḍl b. Ḥassūn; and "the elders of the city" (shuyūkh al-balad).

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1

العلامات

• cmp
• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified sender, probably somewhere in the Rīf, to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning people such as the tax farmer Abū Sulaymān and Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Fakhr.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. […] There are endorsements (or drafts of formulaic phrases?) in faded ink between the lines; these have not been edited here.

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العلامات

• dimme
• double petition
• lost archive
• multihanded
• physicians
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names including Mufarrij, Yaḥyā, Abū Muʿammar, Ghālib, Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Faraj, Ibn al-ʿAnānī, Dāʾūd, Maʿālī, Abū l-Khayr Salāma, and Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham Maimonides (autograph) addressed to three people, including al-Mevin and Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• hospitality

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a mercantile letter of the 11th century. Very faded and difficult to read. Begins with, "وقد كتب الاخي كتاب ايده الله". Mentions buying and selling, and perhaps an Andalūsī ship, "marākib al-Andalus". Needs examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya, R. Eliyya, Bū l-Faḍl, Ibn al-ʿŪd[ī], Farajallāh, and many more.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter likely from Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen Sarārifī(?), in al-Maḥalla, to [...] b. […] Due to the fragmentary nature it is hard to follow the story, but the topics include the following: the sender's arrival in al-Maḥalla; staying in the funduq, sad and weeping; nobody giving him any money; Damascus; and perhaps the sender's dependence on the addressee's charity. He sends regards to Abū l-Maʿānī Ibn al-Amshāṭī and to Faḍāʾilal-Talmid.

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Seems to concern a communal controversy over ritual immersion ("...min amr al-ṭevila"). Mentions Rabbenu Yeḥiel (perhaps Yeḥiel the Frenchman, who was embroiled in ritual immersion politics in Jerusalem in the early 13th century; see the article of Roni Shweka, "And every day they make quarrels"). Also mentions a martyr who was killed in ʿAkko. Recto: unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, likely also a letter. Faded and damaged.

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2

العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 21 Sivan 1391 Seleucid (11 June 1080 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Moshe b. David. Wife: Fāḍila bt. Mevorakh. Dated: Thursday, 21 Sivan 1391 Seleucid = 11 June 1080 CE. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below(?).

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العلامات

• get

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (upper right piece) either to or from al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Manṣūr.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. Dated, but only the number 4 or 40 is readily legible. […] ʿOvadya; Yosef Seruji; Shelomo al-Maghribī.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has enclosed another letter with this one, which should be given to a woman named Naẓar, whether in al-Maḥalla or elsewhere. Greetings to Abū l-Faḍl.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Discusses how a certain person has always acted with beneficence; mentions "fear" at least twice; mentions sayyidnā; payments; asks the addressee for assistance with a version of a raʾy clause (ראיהא אלעאלי פי צלאח חאל אצחאבנא).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Very faded. Mainly foods: ṭaḥīna, leek (karrāth/kurrāth), carrot (jazar), onion (baṣal), pepper (filfil), taro flower (zahr qulqās), almond (lawz), and lotus blossom (nabiq).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender(s) are addressing a local community somewhere (al-jamāʿa al-muqaddasa); the name might be given (מניה אביר? […] but this is not the usual spelling, and too faded to be sure). They received the community's letter and were pained to learn of the doings of the wicked ʿarīf (אלרשע אלעריף), and they also received the two letters addressed to 'the elders of the nation' (shuyūkh al-umma), called 'al-ḥaḍra al-dīwāniyya' and 'al-ḥaḍra al-shaykhiyya al-wakīliyya.'

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The list includes the supervisors of the quarters (aṣḥāb al-arbāʿ) of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ and al-Muṣāṣa neighborhoods (see Med Soc II, 369–70 on their presence in communal accounts). It also lists Abū l-Najm [...] Yeḥiel; al-Shaykh Efrayim al-Melammed; Abū l-Faraj with the curious title "the former collector of the bread of the Kushim (? גאבי כבז אלכושיים קדימא)"; Ibn al-Fuḍayl; Faḍā'il the blind (al-sūmā); and Sayyid al-Ahl.

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العلامات

• kushim
• sahib al-rub'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. There are also a few lines of Arabic script, possibly the address of the letter on recto. The word or name al-Makārim appears. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: list of names, most of which have the title al-Talmid, and quantities of currency, such as Abū l-Faraj: half dirham, Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Ḥatan al-Levi: half dirham, Abū l-Faḍl: half dirham, Abū l-Fakhr al-Ṣayrafī: half dinar. […] Recto: jottings, with repeated occurrences of the names ha-Talmid al-Rashīd al-ʿŪdī, Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram and Yeshuʿa b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Ketubba, very damaged. Names and date are faded. At top is the reshut formula of one of Maimonides' descendants. The hand seems to be identical with that of ENA 2575.7–8, a beautiful letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the port city of al-Tur, which rose to prominence after the decline of al-Quṣayr. Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa (who might also be the scribe, see also T-S AS 154.1 (PGPID 18693)) and ʿOvadya b.

العلامات

• ketubba

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The sender has been protecting the interests of the addressee (والمملوك حامل هم المولا من جهة...) with regard to Abū l-Faḍl Fakhr al-Dīn, who may have arrived in Fustat from the Fayyūm. […] The margin mentions the arrival of ʿIzz al-Dīn b. al-Zandī(?), and the addressee is urged to come with him. Verso is almost entirely greetings. Abū l-Ḥasan sends regards.

العلامات

• dimme
• hashir
• tax
• urgent

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to 'our master the amīr' (sayyidnā al-amīr). Not much of the content remains. Mentions 20 dinars. […] On verso there is the beginning of another letter, but this is probably too faded to read.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt in Arabic script. For al-ḥākhām Yaʿaqov Castro (يعقوب كاشترو), so this document probably dates to the 16th century (the precise date probably appears toward the bottom): Shaʿbān 905(?) AH, but this should be checked. There is a faded one-line filing note on verso in Judaeo-Arabic.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; probably a contributors list. Mentions [Abū l]-Faḍl; [Abū l-]Karam Ibn al-Mūrid; Futūḥ; and Ibn Nufayʿ.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

mithqāls; Bū l-Faraj; a ship; the sender has enclosed a second letter for his brother Bū ʿAlī; goes on to mention Bū l-Ḥasan and Bū l-Faḍl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th century. Damaged and faded. Mentions ships; the government; the sender's distress about something; the departure of Ibrāhīm; Palermo (Siqilliyya) and al-Mahdiyya (7 lines from the bottom).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) […] Location: Fustat. Date: too faded to read.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

end of Tammuz 1421 Seleucid (21 June 1110–19 July 1110 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Meshullam ha-Levi and Maʿālī b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Hawārī concerning a debt of 15 dinars for which one of them had stood surety for Ḥusayn al-Ḥammāmī in a document drawn up in the Muslim court (wathīqa bi-l-muslimīn).

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAbdallāh, freedman of the elder Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Anbārī. Bride: Dhakhīra (or Dhukhayra) bt.

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2

العلامات

• freedman
• marriage
• muslim marriage contract

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender was away from home successfully seeking an appointment in another town and expresses genuine love for his little girl he calls Sitt al-Bayt. Also mentions Abū l-Faraj and Faḍāʾil. […] To be delivered to the house of Hiba across from the house of Abū l-Riḍā al-Parnas. (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 229.)

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1

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

2[.] Ṭevet 4874 Anno Mundi (31 December 1113–9 January 1114 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can read "[... ]ty days to the month of Tevet=ין יומי בירח טבת[..]"). […] Avraham known as Sirāj al-Ḥanukka ("the Ḥannuka lamp"). Also mentioned is Mevorakh b. […] Yishaq ha-Qosem ("the magician") al-Maʿarrī.

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• damascus

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Zayn b. Q[...]; Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān; Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Qamḥa; Abū l-Munā Ibn Qashqūsh (appears also in T-S Misc.20.225 (PGPID 23303)).

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Some phrases read as: "yanṭawī ʿalā ʿamal l-muzriʿ ilā insilākh Shaʿbān wa jamaʿa mā baqiya fīhi", "mawlāya l-faḍlʿalā baʿḍ dhālika ʿalā mā jarat al-rasm".

العلامات

• bi-column
• dimme
• state wheat

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Abū l-Majd al-melammed; al-melammed R. Avraham al-Maḥallī; the syrup maker (al-sharābī) Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿImrān; al-Shaykh al-Najīb; Abū l-Barakāt al-Simsār; Abū l-Faḍāʾilal-Ḥazzan; Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAṭṭār(?); al-Muhadhdhab; Abū Saʿīḍ al-Levi; and Abū Saʿd al-Ḥazzan.

العلامات

• account
• book trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably regarding business matters. Faded. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṭabīb; a sum of dirhams; someone whose grandfather's name is Yosef and whose own name "you know"; and "I have paid the sum to your wife (lit.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Faded. Headed "expenditures that went out [for?] my late father and teacher (אבא מארי זל)." Many (or all?) of the items are related to funeral expenditures, e.g., silk, digging, wailing woman, candle, porters, oil, food, cantor, poor people,

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer gives instructions to obtain various sums of money from various people: 3 3/4 dirham from [...] al-Sharābī, 10 dirhams from Abū l-Faraj b. Nabīqa, 4 dirhams from Sulaymān b. […] On verso he sends regards to his mother, his paternal uncle, the addressee's wife Sitt Kāfūr, and the addressee's brother Abū l-Faḍl. There are also some mysterious jottings around the margins.

العلامات

• informal note

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid (8 July 1260 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seller: the Bilbaysī Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen. Buyer: Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ (both son and father are called "al-Rayyis").

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• slave

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