Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are some unusual phrases, such as "al-ʿāqiba li-barakāt" instead of the standard "al-ʿaqiba lil-khayr" (meaning "may it all turn out well"). […] Greetings to various people, including Sitt al-Ahl; the sender's sister; and the sister(?) of Bū l-Ḥasan and her children.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

In which Aharon and Ḥayyim the sons of Yisraʾel b. Yosef al-ʿAwjīlī, along with their mother [...] bt. Shelomo al-Zawbaʿa, release Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. ʿAllān from claims (the same Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov is mentioned in T-S Misc.25.130 after his death).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"O my lord, Abū l-Makārim b. Sitt Ziyāda b. al-Shaykh al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā sued me (akhṣamanī) regarding my maternal aunt." […] Sitt Ziyāda is known from at least one other document, where he is also identified by the name of his mother rather than father.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

423 Hijrī (19 December 1031–6 December 1032 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. […] The first witness is [...] b. Ḥasan al-Summāqī and his signature appears to be datd 423 AH. The second is ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. [...] b. Masʿūd. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text or piyyuṭ on recto.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū al-Riḍa, in Qūṣ, to Abū Zikrī, in Fustat, c/o the sugar factory (maṭbakh) of Abū al-Maʿānī. […] The issue involves the wife (bayt) of Ibn Qasāsa and Abū Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār, who calls himself Shaykh al-Yahūd. The sender complains several times about his illness and poverty (and therefore his inability to resolve the issue). He tells the addressee not to send letters to the shop of Abū Saʿd, because Abū Saʿd always reads them before passing them on to the addressee.

العلامات

• family drama
• forum shopping
• ghulam
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Statement in Judaeo-Arabic that a list of two, apparently newly acquired books should be "recorded on a memorandum (tunqal ilā tadhkira)" and brought to Fustat. (1) From someone known as the tile layer (al-Muballiṭ): Kitāb al-Istikmāl fī l-Handasa (by Ibn Hūd al-Muʾtaman, king of Saragossa between 1081 and 1085; see Ahmed Djebbar's EI3 article on him and on this treatise); (2) from Abū Saʿd: a book on 'mufradāt' and their properties (on medical simples? […] The text underneath and in the margin appears to be unrelated, except insofar as the marginal text is about geometry—would be worth comparing to Kitāb al-Istikmāl to see if it matches. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Written on the back of the opening page of a literary work on the special properties of stones attributed to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. ʿImrān al-Mutaṭabbib. There is an odd aphorism or verse of poetry in the upper margin of recto: . . . .

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العلامات

• book trade
• mathematics
• tadhkira

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions an agreement with Abū Isḥāq; liberating some money or goods from "that which they have taken this time," especially two volumes from the owner (or author?) of Dār al-Gharb(?). But the sender has been unsuccessful. Mentions a book called Taṭrīz al-Khiṭāb wa-Sharḥ al-Ṭalab, and refers to a copy in the sender's own hand that occupies five volumes (wa-dhālika awwalan al-nusakh al-mansūkha khams ajzāʾ); the material is parchment, and the value is 15 dinars.

العلامات

• al-tustari
• book trade
• katib
• oath
• qaraite

1 نسخ

Document date

14 May 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He stayed in ʿAydhāb for a time before traveling further south (he wrote this letter after boarding the ship in ʿAydhāb). In the interim he already sent one letter to Ḥalfon and received one letter in response. The present letter asks Ḥalfon to help the bearer, a fellow man of Sijilmāsa, with some mercantile matters. Yiṣḥaq also reports on (and curses) two Jews who reported him to the government in ʿAydhāb, claiming that he cheated on customs dues for some coral. One of the accusers later drowned. On verso there are also several lines of piyyuṭ. (Information from India Book 4)

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العلامات

• coral
• customs
• ib4
• ib6
• india book
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

(It is not immediately clear if all this is for the same marriage vs. distinct marriages.) […] Yefet ha-Levi and the bride Sitt al-[...]. A note at 90 degrees reads, "The wedding of the son of the Rayyis, Monday 10 Nisan 145[6?]." […] Verso of fol. 2 contains the beginning of a draft of a ketubba drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel. b. Ḥananya. There are also some large, ornate red letters and a few words in Arabic script.

العلامات

• trousseau
• wedding

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Levi ha-Levi to a distinguished physician also named Moshe (but probably not Maimonides because Moshe b. […] Levi became embarrassed by all the trouble Dr. Moshe went to on his behalf, so he ran away. He also complains that he could not find any water with which to wash his hands.

العلامات

• book trade
• maimonides
• moshe b. levi

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar II–Nisan 1339 Seleucid (1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record #3 (fol. 2r): Maḥfūẓ b. Yiṣḥaq al-ʿAzāzī (i.e., from ʿAzāz, north of Aleppo) sues Yosef b. […] "Long story short: they compromised at 1/2 dinar." 1/4 is to be paid now and 1/4 at the time of 'travel' (i.e., when they are next together). #5 (also on fol. 2v): Mubāraka bt. Ḥātim ha-Kohen sues Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qirqas who left her to travel three and a half years ago. That was prior to al-Afḍal's siege of Alexandria in 1094. The daughter was then ill two years while the mother used her dowry (רחלהא) for nursing her in her illness and for the burial when she died. It has recently become known that Yosef was killed in Nastaro (an island between Damietta and Alexandria), and his cousin claimed his estate—which was non-existent.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• communal
• funeral
• illness
• (+ 8 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Shevaṭ 1450 Seleucid (4 January 1139–2 February 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains an interesting use of the syntagm al-sūq al-kabīr and sūq al-kabīr, the second time without the definite article on the noun, a construction on which there is a large linguistic literature; see most recently Naʿama Pat-El, "Digging up archaic features: Neo-Arabic and comparative Semitics inthe quest for Proto Arabic," in A. Al-Jallad (ed.), Arabic in Semitic: Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University," 441–75 (444–49), and Phillip Stokes, "gahwat al-murra: the N + DEF-ADJ syntagm and the *at > ah shift in Arabic 1," BSOAS 83 (2020): 75–93.

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• real estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last third of Sivan 1461 Seleucid (18 June 1150–26 June 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning various names, some multiple times, including: Ṣedaqa; Hiba al-Maḥallī; Abū l-Riḍā Ibn al-Tinnīsī; Ṣāfī; al-Ashmūnī, al-ʿAsqalānī, and Sulaym Ibn al-Raḥbī.

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العلامات

• power of attorney

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo's arm (dhirāʿ) has started to heal from an injury. Eliyyahu should also bring with him Shelomo's tax receipts (al-wuṣūlāt alladhī lī) because the tax officials arrested him but let him go when he said he was registered as a Shāmī (Levantine). […] Greetings from Abū l-Thanāʾ and from "al-ṣaghīra" (possibly Shelomo's wife) and from the community.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• paper
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Regards to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-ʿAṭṭār Iskandarānī. Abū l-Maḥāsin's barā'a has been sent to the shop of Abū l-Riḍā, Simḥa's brother in law, where Abū l-Maḥāsin can pick it up. Addressed (in Arabic script) to the shop of Abū l-Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār, who is to pass it on to Abū l-Majd. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

العلامات

• arabic address
• capitation tax
• tax

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Much of recto consists of pious exhortations and learned quotations, and these are also interspersed throughout verso. But there are also some additional details and accusations on verso: "How can you abandon. . . an old, sick man, worn out by communal duties, and a boy and a girl and [...] in my face. . . how have you lost your manliness? […] You have baffled us for 5 months. . . and we have burdened others. . . and you have saddled me with debts. . . the reason for all of this is. . . from your mind. . . . this is what leads to Gehennom, for the beginning of division is [...] and holding onto the ropes of falsehood and raving, namely mockery and recklessness. . . .

العلامات

• bad son
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• exhortation

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr al-Fakhr al-Mutaṭabbib (the physician). In Arabic script. Addressed to Abū al-Faraj, with elaborate honorifics. The sender reports on the execution of the addressee's instructions and refers to the dispatch of correspondence through his servant, including letters to Alexandria and to the official in charge (mutawallī) of Fusṭāṭ.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She was happy to hear of the successful childbirth (khalāṣ) of Umm Abū l-Ḥasan (likely the addressee's wife) and sends blessings. She alludes to suffering at the hands of Ibn Ḥātim. There follow more allusions to arguments and rumors of arguments. She refers to the talk of a wife (zawja) or wedding (zīja) and blames the servant (ghulām) of the elder Yaʿaqov, who writes to him (probably Ibn Ḥātim) claiming that the addressee insults him and calls him 'al-fāʿil al-ṣāniʿ' (cf. ENA 4010.7 + ENA NS 19.14 (PGPID 6784) and T-S AS 169.292 + T-S AS 169.291 + T-S AS 169.294 + T-S NS 220.29 (PGPID 36211)). […] Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• childbirth
• crying
• diwan al-kharaj
• earthquake
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Memorial lists for al-ʿAṣṣār and the judge (al-Dayyān) Shelomo. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The neighboring shelfmark ENA 3807.8 may also be legal.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abu al-Ḥasan Ali b. Ishaq, dealing with business affairs.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. Late. There is also the beginning of a legal deed (zikhron ʿedut) concerning a rental.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions arriving in Alexandria and meeting with somebody, and possibly a boat.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script mentioning al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. On verso, maybe poetry in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "AllāhAllāh. . . [My heart] was in the fire until [your letter] arrived. . . ."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, to Yehuda Per[...]. In Ladino with Hebrew introductory formulae.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Bilāl al-[...] instructs Abū ʿAlī to pay the bearer 113(?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Maybe from ʿAbdallāh b. al-Ḥasan to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning Alexandria, ca. 15th-16th century. Mentions. R. Khalīfa.

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العلامات

• 15th or 16th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Drafts of dozens of documents including letters/petitions to amīrs, mostly in Arabic script. There is also a recipe or prescription.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

العلامات

• nasir
• popular literature

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably literary, but letter is also possible. Phrases such as אלי אללה פתתם תובתה . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of the beginning of alegal document. Involves a woman named [...]ini bt. [...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, citing a biblical verse and mentioning 'al-shaykh al-jalīl.'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر