Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter (end only) referring to difficult events that happened to Sayyidnā and the people of Fustat and Cairo, apparently delivered with an item of clothing that al-Shams/Shammās R.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

has written out 20 lines of a Sanskrit-English glossary (e.g., sattva = nature, existence).

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib5
• india book unedited
• trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mahbub has traveled from Fustat via Alexandria by ship, but he suffers a loss worth 13 dinars en route and arrives in Alexandria with only a few things.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• karaite

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last ten days of Shevaṭ 1418 Seleucid (January 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing with whether the proprietor of the ruin is entitled to dispose of his rubbish there. The fragment contains 4 consecutive testimonies by different people: [...] b.

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العلامات

• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate entry). Seems to be a report/petition from somebody keen to join the service of the addressee/government (wa-jarradtu raʾy fī l-khidma), and proclaiming the 'word of righteousness' from on high ([...]

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العلامات

• dimme

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Inferred date

1131–1131 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1131 CE. Ḥalfon was probably en route back to Fustat from Yemen. Khalaf asks him to distribute gifts to the dignitaries and to deliver some letters.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. The entirety has to do with financial transactions and orders for materia medica.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Opens with a brief taqbīl ("kissing the earth") and inhāʾ ("the slave reports...") and ends with a ḥamdala. YU. ASE.

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

[NB volume number in shelfmark is roman numeral I, not Arabic numeral 1]. Alternate shelfmark: ENA 76.1 He writes that while in Damascus, he plans to copy the Order Qodashim from the Iraqi Talmud, and also mentions a notebook (daftar) belonging to the head of the yeshiva, possibly a collection of responsa.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomo b.

العلامات

• legal query

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

To the left of this list there is an entry noting the receipt of 2 raṭls of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib) from Khelīfa Dayyan and Musa Racah[?].

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• communal
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1063–1071 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only Palermo, Mazara del Vallo and Castrogiovanni (modern-day Enna) remained in Muslim hands. Dating is roughly 1063–71, as the Normans were first in Sicily in 1061 (but the first major battle was the Battle of Cerami in 1063) and Palermo and Mazara surrendered in early 1072.

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العلامات

• norman conquest
• sicily

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

The document appears to be a draft, or a template for a prenuptial agreement, since it is missing important details, like the name of the bride. Similarly, the ending 'and peace' was common in letters and not in legal documents, and may suggest that the template was sent to one of the sides after they requested to preview it.

العلامات

• contract
• prenuptial

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Description from PGPID 9488: End of a legal document signed by Mevorakh b. Sar Shalom and Seʿadya b. [...]

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Document date

Adar 1463 Seleucid (8 February 1152–7 March 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Potentially from the office of the Nagid (Shemuel b. Ḥananya). Ends with the phrase "what we have written is sufficient" (ופי מא סטרנאה כפאיה), cf.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda b. Simḥa, who also sent ENA 3793.6. This is possible, but the word "Yosef" is not preserved on this fragment, and the hands do not seem to be identical.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

(I) Addendum (faṣl) to a ketubba concerning a gift made by the doctor Abū l-Surūr Sason to his daughter at the time of her engagement (qiddushin), namely half of a quarter of a large house that was in his and his brother's possession (or potentially a quarter of the house, i.e., half of a half).

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer assumes that the donations to the Babylonian yeshivot ended up at the Pumbedita. The writer chooses Yosef b.

العلامات

• 11th c
• babylonian geonim
• communal
• qayrawan
• shemuel b. hofni

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to the sender's brother, saying that the sender is trying to put an end to a dispute between the Muslim indigo merchants with the aid of a respected Muslim man and a law expert.

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العلامات

• qaraites
• war

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalfa (potentially the same as in ENA NS 18.35 (PGPID 2441), Umm al-Khayr, and ʿAzrūn.

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

last decade of Iyyar 1528 Seleucid (30 April 1217–8 May 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is a second version of ENA 2559.13 (PGPID 6594), and the erasures from the earlier version are not found in this version.

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العلامات

• jariya
• marriage
• slave

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Friday, 24 Adar 1[6]50 Seleucid (5 March 1339 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bottom of recto and verso: unrelated jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, and three lines of a child’s handwriting exercise. See ENA NS 55.18 for a similar geṭ with similar reuse (same scribes?).

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العلامات

• 14th c
• divorce
• get

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Later, the empty spaces on both recto and verso were reused for Judaeo-Arabic legal documents (see separate record). The last line of ENA NS I.23 reads: "[...] ʿan salaf wa-ḥāḍir ʿan ghāʾib min al-tamassuk."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

As witness: Shemuel b. Naḥum. The end is not preserved. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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1 مناقشة

In No. 1, T-S 20.100 begins at end of verso line 22. No. 2 begins with T-S 20.100 and continues on T-S 10G5.8 on line 53.

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العلامات

• communal

3 نسخ

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Peraḥya. The bride is entitled to keep her earnings, although the bridegroom has to provide her clothing.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

In the margin there are scattered additional notes, including "to Elʿazar" (in Hebrew characters), two upside down entries referring to al-tawqiʿ al-karīm. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Account ledger filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic entries. Several pages. Merits examination. Includes on one page an Arabic poem transcribed into Hebrew characters (the same poem appears in T-S Ar.51.77v): He who doesn't wear the garb of piety is naked even when he's clothed.

العلامات

• arabic poetry

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The term qashsha is also mentioned twice. The letter ends in formal style on verso, with taqbīl, greetings to various people, ḥamdala, ṣālwala, and ḥasbala.

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Primary language

Arabic

There is also a request toward the end for the addressee to donate funds to cover 100 jizyas for the poor among the Jews.

العلامات

• ayyubid
• jizya
• petition
• saladin

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qashīshāt (an Ibn Qashīshāt is also mentioned in ENA 2738.23) and other unusual names: Wahīb b. Safīq (?)

العلامات

• materia medica
• trade
• tutty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Notice that most of the numbers are added above the name or in the space after it and in a different ink color, which means either that someone took the list and then rated those individuals, or their contributions were entered when they were made (M. Cohen). Some names have no numbers at all.

العلامات

• account
• charity
• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sunday, 28 Muḥarram 547 Hijrī (5 May 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter consisting entirely of instructions to a notary for drawing up a legal document.

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It seems like there is some issue with the maintenance payments, and the sender is trying to get them restored. At the end of the letter, the addressee is asked to represent the sender in kissing the ground before the Nagid David (I) Maimonides (r. 1237–1300 CE).

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العلامات

• responsum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1460 Seleucid (7 August 1149–4 September 1149 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe (the judge and muqaddam of Sunbāṭ in this period, known from documents such as T-S 24.25, T-S K3.32 and ENA 4020.60a, and T-S 13J16.6). (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), the beadle (khādim) of Dammūh, trash collection (ramy turāb), Wafāʾ al-[...], Farajallāh, capitation taxes (al-jawālī) for the foreigner from Damascus (lil-gharīb al-Dimashqī); Ibn Sharwīl or Sarwīl; under the header 'mezonot' (food distribution), names include Hilāl.

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العلامات

• account
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to 'al-Segula' and a court case; having enclosed additional letters; refers to the addressee as חמדת לבינו (the beloved of our hearts) and asks him to forward those letters; and reports that Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Tustarī (= Ḥesed b.

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العلامات

• amir

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender left the addressee(s) in Rashīd and the following day entered somewhere and found [...]. On the other side, reused for a catena of biblical verses with the catchword Efrayim (Hosea 5:3; 12:1; 10:11; 11:9; 13:12; 4:17; 7:11; Jeremiah 31:8; 7:15; Isaiah 11:13).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

NB דואמיס are trestles, per Goitein and Blau, on which to rest the coffin or bier both at the cemetery and en route. For additional burial accounts, see Bodl.

العلامات

• account
• burial
• coin
• private

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of 67 contributors to charity, headed by 'our lord, may his glory be enhanced,' namely, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (d. 1237), giving 3 1/2 (dinars or dirhams).

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العلامات

• 13th c
• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Public prayer (mi sheberakh) for a representative of the merchants ("neʾeman ha-soḥarim") named Moshe ha-Kohen in gratitude for his works of charity on behalf of the poor, scholars, synagogues, and yeshivas. The prayer is entirely in Hebrew and mostly formulaic until the final line where a custom wish in Judaeo-Arabic was added after "may God grant all his wishes": that Moshe be reunited with Abū Naṣr his sister's son (mentioned also in T-S Ar.42.213 (PGPID 21145)).

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the ת 400 numeral is legible without enhanced imaging. Rashīd (Rosetta) is mentioned in line 9, Istanbul in l. 21, and possibly Venice somewhere, but these references may only be describing goods.

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العلامات

• de curiel
• istanbul
• krispin
• late ja
• sunduq

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر