Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Likely an order or receipt. Names al-Shaykh Bū l-Qāsim b. al-[...]

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of an Arabic document. May say in part "al-shaykh... al-ajall"

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified document or text in Arabic. There are also two lines of calendrical calculations in Hebrew script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic and some sort of shorthand. On verso there are also a few lines in Hebrew script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the cost of traveling from Fustat/Cairo to Alexandria.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Yehuda and Tripoli (טרבלס) and Alexandria (סכדריה).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reconciliation between al-Muʿallim Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in T-S NS 297.76?) […] Mentions the 'waraqa' that is 'against him' in the Muslim courts. The name Shemuel al-Amshāṭī appears in the margin. Signed: ʿOvadya b.

العلامات

• marital dispute
• muslim courts

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

15 Adar 5454 Anno Mundi (12 March 1694 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

There are interlinear corrections as well as citations in the right margin for the biblical verses alluded to. See also Bodl. MS heb. e 105/55 (PGPID 19483).

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العلامات

• london
• mondolfo
• siena

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bearer of the letter is Khalūf al-Nafūsī, who had mentioned to the writer that he had קציבאת in Fustat. The addressee is asked to help him find a buyer. Khalūf is also bringing the 'khirqa' for the girl.

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Letter from Ya’aqov b. Yosef al-Tunisi, Fustat, to Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti, Ramla. The writer sends goods to Ramla, to the merchant’s officer Ahmad b. al-Harani. Mentions details about merchandise that arrive in Fustat.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• state
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 25 Adar I 1453 Seleucid (22 February 1142 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Husband: Surūr b. Sibāʿ. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿaqov. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (who also wrote the document) and Yeḥezqel b.

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العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1428 Seleucid (9 September 1116–29 August 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of agreement between three individuals, in which the agent is allowed to do business in the Egyptian Rīf (countryside), in Damietta, in Tinnīs, and in Alexandria—but nowhere else.

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Primary language

Arabic

The text on verso refers to al-ḥabs, majlis al-wālī, an annual payment of 1 dinar (line 11), al-aḥbās (line 21).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From "your brother-in-law" to Yūsuf Ibn Ṭayyib (or Abū Ṭayyib) al-M[...] who lives in Raḥba(?). . . Bāb al-Yahūd(?). […] The mention of the placename Raḥba in l. 2 of the verso could refer to the village in northern Lebanon or the medieval fortress town al-Raḥba on the Euphrates, in modern-day Syria.

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العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as [...] al-Ḥaver al-Jalīl; Abū l-Qawām; and 'my master Daniel.' The sender seems in distress about something and alludes to unrest or wars (in Hebrew): "...many, many Abyssinians (kushim)... to us, to the sword of the Ishamelites...

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists almost entirely of flattery and blessings. On verso there are words of condolence for Mevorakh's late brother (Cohen suggests that this is Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Seʿadya and that the phrase "fakhr ahl al-ʿilla" means "pride of the medical profession"; see Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, p. 134). Join: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

There may be a request for the addressee to help that man. Regards to Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī, Mukhtār al-Zinjārī, and 'your friend' ʿImrān al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ the physician (al-mutaṭabbib) including two Torah codices (muṣḥafayn tawrāt), two codices of another kind, five pieces of copper (qiṭaʿ nuḥās), and a large candelabra (manāra kabīra).

العلامات

• book trade
• codices
• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with a basmala and the phrase 'mamlūk al-ḥadra al-sāmīya' (the slave of the lofty presence). The addressee is a high official as he is referred to as the protege (ṣanīʿa) of the caliph (ʾAmīr al-Muʾminīn). Text in the margins reads partly as "بالبركة انجاز هذا ال… قالله يعين على … في خير وعافية".

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The opening greetings of this letter contain the phrase "bayn al-saḥr wa-l-naḥr," an idiomatic expression for the chest and presumably also for the heart.

العلامات

• arabic address

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla. Dating: the date is missing, but probably written under the authority of David Maimonides (l. 3), in which case this would date to after 1238 CE.

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العلامات

• david maimonides
• trousseau

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Ḥayyūn from the money/property of....". Also Mentions Ḥasan b. ʿAlī and dirhams. Needs further examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1011–1015 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. […] Wahb corpus with a third set of registration marks (see also ENA 3942.3, PGPID 10434). Date not preserved, but presumably dates to 401–5 (1011–15) like the rest of the corpus.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• dimme
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender seems to be complaining that the addressee did not inform him about the price of saffron; he heard that it is going for "10 per mann." There is none in "al-thaghr" (probably Alexandria). Excerpts: באן לם תערפני איש . . .

العلامات

• saffron

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document settling a dispute between Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the well known parnas in Fustat (dated documents 1084–1117), regarding shops of the former. […] ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE); also signed by Shelomo b. Yosef Av. Fols. 1v–2: account of expenditures

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Document date

25 Sivan 1444 Seleucid (31 May 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Groom: Ghālib b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Berakhot. Marriage payments: 20 + 40 = 60 dinars. Followed by jottings of Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly the sum of the value of the dowry. Also followed by a medical recipe/prescription in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very good at kattan work, including the scutching and hatcheling of flax. Also mentions the silk market and prices. (S. D.

العلامات

• flax
• kattan
• nisaburi
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

[13]19 Seleucid (1107–1108 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a decorated ketubba. Location: Aleppo. Bride: [...] bt. Menaḥem. Groom: unnamed. […] Verso contains letters of the Hebrew alphabet. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202.

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العلامات

• calendar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions items such as mastic, costus, wax, the goods of Ibn Ṭībān, pure tartar, kohl, storax, flax. Also mentions al-ʿAfṣī. At the end mentions further business transactions including the rent of a boat and dealings in pepper and copper.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

A few words from the same poems are also written out in Arabic on the page on the right, along with other jottings and crossed-out lines in Arabic.

العلامات

• arabic poetry

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It may even be signed אלממלוך ר אברהם but is very messy, so it is hard to say. A request from Fakhr al-Dawla Abū (Ibn?) al-Fakhr to help Abū Naṣr al-Kātib with the price of Nāṣiriyya silver and of gold.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

, including the line "we do not consent to your being a messenger, from your first actions the end was already clear." Also quotes Proverbs 26:11 ("As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly").

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) to Sayyidnā al-Nagid (likely Avraham Maimonides). The sender is in unspecified distress of some kind.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to (or mentioning) someone associated with the Yeshiva (al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-mathībiyya). The sender mentions his difficulty with handwriting (אנני קציר אלכט).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān of?] mosques (al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid)...." There follows a detailed description of a property and its location. The only other Sitt al-Munā in PGP or Goitein's index cards is the widow of Nahray b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj al-sāmiya," a quantity in Egyptian qinṭārs, and a shipment by Shams al-Dawla(?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

, Ḥamad b. Ḥaydar(?), ʿAlī b. Mūsā, ʿUmar b. [...], ʿAlīal-[...]

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many names listed, including: Ismāʿīl; Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAsqalānī; Sayf b. ʿAlī; Ẓāfir; Sumʿān; Avraham; Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Qāsim b. Khiḍr; Abū l-[...] b. Yosef.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of 57 names, in some cases indicating their profession (many are physicians, also common are pharmacists, silk merchants, and silk weavers and dyers), beginning with ‘Abū Naṣr ibn Dāwūd and his father’. Among the names listed (line 7) there is Dāʾūd ibn al-Rayyīs, possibly the son of the Nagid Abraham Maimonides and grandson of Maimonides.

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