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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū ʿImrān in which the writer, a perfumer and judge in Minyat Zifta, describes repairs to the local synagogue along with news of other matters. The writer also notes payment of capitation tax at the rate of 2 dinars.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevasser b. Naḥum, a judge of Alexandria, to Abū al-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim in Fustat, dealing with family and public matters.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• dispute

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of the names of the masters of wind, rain, and fire who have dominion in the four seasons of the year, presumably useful for magic or astrology. It says you must also know how to invoke the master of the sky, of hidden things, of treasures, and of seeds, and of Mars, and of the other stars. […] In the margin in a different hand is written 'Abd 'Alī b. Gharb Sittī wa-ahl bint Sitt [. ASE.

العلامات

• astrology
• magic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the items listed include: ḥallūmī cheese, almonds, sulfur, Alexandrian wax, carob, dining plates, soap, silk, pepper, cinnamon, olive oil, among many others.

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Primary language

Arabic

Twice mentions the Berbers (البربر) who are in the area of Abshīsh (ابشيش) in the Delta, the Berber town Marmājanna in Ifrīqiya, and possibly Nuqayṭa (mentioned in the document is Minyat Abī Nuqayṭa. Also mentions "the villages/estates of the tax officials" (ḍiyāʿ al-ʿāmilīn).

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Document date

13 Ṣafar 554 Hijrī (6 March 1159 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: injunction issued by the vizier of al-Fāʾiz (Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ruzzīk) ordering Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Kāmil b. ʿAbd al-Karīm to execute all of his orders. Verso: end of a legal document dated 13 Ṣafar 554 AH (= March 1159).

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Document date

Nisan 1472 Seleucid (30 March 1161–28 April 1161 CE)

Avraham to deliver to his ward, the orphan son of of Abū ʿAlīal-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith), known as Ibn al-Ṭazīz, for a period of four months starting with Nisan 1472 of the Seleucid Era (= 1161 CE).

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking the addressee to pay a sum of money to (or act on behalf of) the physician (al-shaykh al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, with whom the sender has written a letter (khidma) to "Sayyidnā al-Rayyis."

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu.Refers to Rabbenu Simḥa he-Ḥakham; Cairo; [...] b. Abū Sahl; that Sitt al-ʿAlam bestowed benefaction on someone; "the rulers over these [[…] "; "and he will not catch up with Sitt al-R[...]; "in the lands, and his confusion... only with calming him down..."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Waliyy al-Dawla. The addressee is to give the masṭara (ruling board) to the bearer to bring back to Shelomo, so that he can use it to rule the quires and send them to the addressee. He apologizes for the delay and says that he is also willing to buy the quires off the addressee if that is his preference.

العلامات

• book trade
• mastara

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda (whose first wife was al-Wuḥsha), which also mentions Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf.

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العلامات

• to edit

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Document date

Jumādā I 5[0]7-5[6]7 Hijrī (14 October 1113–12 November 1171 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

With a raʾy clause (...al-raʾy al-sāmī fīhi lā zāla ʿāliyan...). Dated Jumādā I 5[.]7 H, corresponding to 1113–1171 CE, which is unusual for petitions.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Poetic letter in Hebrew that is also a letter of appeal for charity in advance of a journey. […] Concludes with a request for provisions and funds: אני יוצא במועד זה לדרכי ואדרוש ממך צידת מזונים ופרנסה הכי ארחי רחוקה וסרעפי לסברונך שעונים. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists many names, including Abū Bishr; Abū Isḥāq; ʿArūs; Khalaf; Abū l-ṭāhir; Ibn al-ḥijāziyya; Salāma; Abū l-Munā; al-Dimyāṭī; and Musallam/Muslim Ibn al-Qābila ('son of the midwife').

العلامات

• qabila

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Document date

Monday 3rd of Nissan 1410 Seleucid (28 March 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. (1099 CE). Recto: Righthand side: Nissim commits to pay alimonies for his son, for the period from the signing of this document, Monday Nissan 3rd 1410 Sel. (28.3.1099 CE), to the feast of Shavu'ot.

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Document date

1477 Seleucid (1165–1166 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya, for 9.5 dirhams, from the collection of the compound of the Jerusalemites, to Abū Manṣūr b. Avraham al-Dimashqī. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 309 #71.) See also Goitein, Med Soc II, App. A, 136. NB: Goitein cites this document as T-S NS 320.32.

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العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• shemuel b. saadya
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1120 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sums of rent from the compound of al-Masasa, apparently "the compound of the Jerusalemites," are explicitly mentioned, and also from "the compound of the orphan girl," mentioned in T-S NS J292 verso.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• orphan
• qodesh
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1374 Seleucid (1062–1063 CE)

The early marriage gift (muqdam) is 5 [dinars], and the grand total (line 11) of the dower is 55 [dinars], though that would leave little for the me'uḥar; jewelry and copper are also mentioned. Witnesses include: ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen; Yiṣḥaq b. […] On verso there is a Hebrew poem praising God and creation (and perhaps also a powerful person). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late and unusual letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the writer's brother Faraj Allāh. The writer opens with greetings to a large number of family members and friends. He has sent 5 chickens, a pair of pigeons, blue and white yarn, white buttons, and colored silk. Faraj Allāh is instructed to sell these only to Jews in the ḥārah, not to any goyim. The people greeted at the beginning (after the brother Faraj Allāh) include: the writer's sister; the boy Manṣūr and the boy Yūsuf; the writer's maternal aunt; the teacher Shemuel; the boy Faraj Allāh; the (female) teacher Qamr; the (female) teacher Sawād; Umm Sulaymān and her daughter ʿAzīzah; the son and wife of his maternal uncle; the neighbors; Manṣūr Dayyān and his mother and wife and children.

العلامات

• buttons
• chickens
• late ja
• pigeons
• yarn

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria, the writer is a person from Ramla (who lived for twenty years in Baghdad). […] He asks Mevorakh to help his daughter who is in Fustat while he is in Alexandria. Mentions several details about the Jews in Iraq as well as the head of the Eretz Yisraeli Yeshiva, Evyatar ha-Kohen b.

العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Avraham al-Qushāshī to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He says that he used to work and earn a living like everyone else [but now he is unable to and needs charity]. […] The sender informs the addressee that he went in to visit (aftaqid) Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and "the noble council" (al-majlis al-karīm) was just saying their goodbyes and leaving, so he remained alone with Maṣliaḥ ("Sayyidnā").

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Title page of the book: Kitāb fīhi tasmiyat al-ʿurūq li Jālīnūs [sic] wa ʿadaduhā wahiya thālāthumiʾa wa sittūn ʿirqan wa al-mawāḍi‘ allatī yufṣadu minhā. The name towards the bottom reads as Muḥammad Ibrāhim abū ʿUmar ibn Zaydūn al-Qabsh[..].

العلامات

• anatomy
• dimme
• galen
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

464 Hijrī (29 September 1071–16 September 1072 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

After the basmala, the trigger phrase is "tadhkira bism" (memorandum/receipt in the name of—unusual wording but also found in ENA 3967.25). Registration mark at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li-raḥmatih (praise be to God and gratitude for His mercy). At upper right: al-shukr lil-lāh taʿālā (gratitude to God, may He be exalted).

العلامات

• dimme
• fatimid
• fiscal
• tax receipt

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Document date

20 Shevaṭ 1354 Seleucid (3 February 1043 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by Shelomo b. Zakhar. The document itself involves Yona b. […] On verso there are a few lines of Judaeo-Arabic accounts (also in the hand of Yefet b. David). Expenses for 1 week (Friday thorugh Thursday): chickens 3, olive oil 1 1/8.

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Document date

Tuesday, 5 Adar 4828 Anno Mundi (12 February 1068 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abī l-Ḥayy hands over to Shela b. Yefet known as Ibn al-Sukkarī 37 dinars from a sale of saffron and undertakes to fight off anyone who has any additional claim in this sale. […] (Information mainly from Gil and from Goitein's index card.) Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī appears also in BL OR 5554A.49 (PGPID 19213) and T-S 20.83 (PGPID 7522).

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel provides a recommendation for a teacher named Ḥayyim who is in need. He also asks the addressee to send him a donation of 50 grossos (? גורושוש) 'for Jerusalem,' for he has a debt of this amount. He also asks to be sent the money from "the sale of the knives, for it is not hidden from you that the period has arrived of dispersing (funds) more than fifths."

العلامات

• grosso
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One curious element: the letter mentions al-Jazā'ir four lines from the bottom (and al-Andalus three lines from the bottom). See Goitein's note on T-S J1.29, a dowry list from 1140 CE: "Al-Jazā'ir became the name of the town of Algiers, called so after the islets near its coast.

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العلامات

• ibn awkal
• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shevat 5624 Anno Mundi (9 January 1864–7 February 1864 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew, with one signature in both Hebrew and Latin script. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 5624 AM in the month of Shevat which is 1864 CE. […] Natan ʿAmram published widely and served both as an emissary to Livorno and communal rabbi in Alexandria. MCD.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar b. ha-Shofeṭ (who also signed T-S NS J269, dated December 29, 1066). […] Mevorakh, and Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Ḥazzan (who also signed T-S 16.47 + T-S NS 300.21 (PGPID 9226)).

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العلامات

• ketubba
• slave

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender plans to leave for al-Maḥalla after the holiday to retrieve some money from a dyer. […] He has been able to find a boat to travel in, on account of some bad thing happening with the fleet (al-usṭūl)—could the navy be commandeering (masakū) Nile boats? […] Regards to various people, including Sitt al-Niʿam; Sitt Suʿūd; Sitt ʿAbīd; Sitt Masʿūd; and Sitt al-Khayr.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer inquires if Ibn al-Rifʿa (conceivably the famous jurist) is home, and if so, he should take the tawqīʿ (signed decision) and bring it to a certain official named al-Sayfī. Then, people should gather together and call for help (yughawwithū) at al-Sayfī's gate. The remainder is rather obscure and mentions the governor (wālī) of Fustat, who may have refused to talk to anybody until he had personally met with al-Sayfī.

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العلامات

• tawqi'
• wali

1 نسخ

Document date

Monday, 23 Ṭevet 4864 Anno Mundi (24 December 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen had sent with Yāsīn Ibn al-Khabbāza a bale of flax and empowered Abū ʿAlī b. Fahd (al-wakil), known as Ibn Khulayf, to sell it. Abu Bishr Shelomo b. Furqan al-Kohen was present and reported the price garnered for it.

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العلامات

• flax
• sale
• testimony

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

Maḥfūẓ (whose name appears at the top), declares that her husband ʿAbbās b. Khalaf known as Ibn al-Zaʿtar abandoned her when he travelled abroad eight years ago to the land of Israel. […] Salmān and the phrase from the document "8 years" also appear at the top. Cf. the alms list T-S 18J2.4 (PGPID 4575) in which "the wife of ʿAbbās" receives a distribution.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat al-Qa'id) and T-S 13J21.14 and Stras. 4110/90 (see tag). […] Khatir has not yet arrived from Alexandria, as he was detained by the wedding of a relative. Join: Alan Elbaum. ASE.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: fasl
• ibn habib's patient
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 8 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

last third of Kislev 1649 Seleucid (15 November 1337–23 November 1337 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: last third of Kislev 1649 Seleucid = November 1337 CE. Al-Asʿad b. Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣayrafī known as Ibn Nuʿmān receives a loan of 1580 (the half 790) dirhams from al-Muwaffaq b. […] Verso: beginning of a legal document concerning the deathbed will of al-Muwaffaq, in the same handwriting as recto but dated many years later: the first third of Ṭevet 1658 Seleucid = 1346 CE (not 1638 Seleucid = 1326 CE as read below).

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العلامات

• loan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham (perhaps a Qaraite), to Abū Saʿd (i.e. Abū Saʿd b. Sahl al-Tustarī, also known as Avraham b. Yashar), expressing thanks to the recipient for food received, and sending good wishes to his son, Yefet. With allusions to Exodus 35:22, Psalms 34:11, Ecclesiastes 7:8, Esther 10:3 and Psalms 121:8, and with quotes from Psalms 119:165, Jeremiah 33:6, Isaiah 33:16, Psalms 128:6, 125:4, Jonah 4:6, Psalms 31:20 and Proverbs 8:21.

العلامات

• al-tustari

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to his relative the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, in Fustat. […] Shemuel to the post of muqaddam (community leader), despite the enactment forbidding the appointment of Jews of French or Byzantine origin for this post, which in fact turned out only to forbid those who were not fluent in Arabic and required interpreters and hence did not apply to R. Shemuel. Also mentions various people including Sitt Jawhar, the wife of Simḥa ha-Kohen of Bilbays.

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العلامات

• nar

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1170–1176 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of 30 dirhams per month and various clothing and household goods for Khalaf and Sitt al-Ahl, the orphans of Yeshuʿa, and claims others. […] Ṭoviyyahu ha-Meʿulle the entries on verso (which are also at least partially in his hand). (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yusuf b. Abi 'Uqba in Alexandria to Abu Sa'id Yusuf b. Musa b. Barhun in the countryside village of Munimun. […] Daʾūd b. Suġmār, Abū l-Aʿlā, Nissim b. Abū l-Ḥasan, Abraham b. Joseph the dyer, Abū ʿAllūsh, and Khallūf b.

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العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. […] He reports that a man known as [...] al-Farsī (or al-Qurashī?) told him that his cousins (awlād ʿammī) are well, living in a place called تبليه ?

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the names Shaʾul Ibn al-Najera and his son Yosef b. Shaʾul, and agreement that someone will travel with some merchandise to Tilimsān and sell it there; the profits will apparently be divided 50/50. […] Netanʾel and Yosef b. Shaʾul/Shuʿayb Ibn al-Najera found in India Book 26ח = T-S 12.830 + T-S 8J5.13 (PGPID 9068), from January 1138 CE. On verso, in a different hand, there is also jotted text relating to a partnership agreement.

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib4

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