Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Leftmost column, fifth from the top. There are also several dozen other minute literary fragments.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Bifolio. Mentions Alexandria in the upper left corner of the recto. Verso is blank.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shevaṭ 4872 Anno Mundi (1 January 1112–30 January 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Efrayim, acting as agent (wakīl). Also mentions dealings in the villages Būra and Ibwān, near Damietta (called Kaftor); Abū l-Surūr and his father; government officials including the wālī and 'the protectors of the districts' (ḥumāt al-nawāḥī); Ibrāhīm and Abū l-Faraj; Avraham b. Ḥalfon; Ṭayyib b. ʿAlī; Abū Saʿd b. Yaḥyā; Abū l-Faraj b. Efrayim. There are eight signatures, all written in rudimentary handwriting: Elʿazar b.

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Document date

1100–1138 CE

This undated fragment concerns a partnership in money-changing; the active partner was Abū al-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe, brother of Ḥalfōn b. […] The name of Peraḥya’s partner is also not preserved, though it may have been Ḥasan Eli b. […] But the title "Mordecai of his time" (see line 1) is applied to Moshe b. Mevorakh alone; thus, although his name is not preserved, this document may refer to Mevorakh b.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• halfon b. menashshe
• mevorakh b. saadya
• moshe b. mevorakh
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

25 Av 1538 Seleucid (9 August 1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Last will of Abū al-Barakāt b. Abū al-Riḍā Yosef al-Lebdi. This deathbed declaration was made in the presence of his sons and of the partner in his sugar factory. […] When his eldest son reminds him that according to Jewish law the firstborn was entitled to a double share (Deuteronomy 21:17), the dying man replies: "I do not prefer one child over another." Also, he and his business partner mutually declare that they trust each other completely; Abū l-Barakāt’s account books would speak for him after his death.

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العلامات

• deathbed will
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• material culture

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, with the address on recto: Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān, in Alexandria, to his sister, in Qayrawān. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. […] He is now torn between whether he should bring his flax merchandise to al-Mahdiyya or al-Lādhiqiyya, or whether he should return to Fustat to take a job with Abū l-Faraj b. 'Allān. He refers to his wife as "the mistress of my heart," and to his daughter as Sutayt (little mistress).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: foreigner
• illness: marad

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1500–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Overall, the fragment likely dates to the early modern centuries (16th-19th) although it is unclear how much time passed between its various points of reusage. […] The text on the verso appears to be that of a different hand (see esp. variation in aleph) and the tone shifts significantly from an epistolary one to a poetic descriptions with phrases such as "אן ייקול אל ן אדם לקלבו" or "that the son of Adam says to his heart" (l. 1v). It should be noted that "[be]n adam" can also be translated more generally as any human individual depending on the context.

العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning an audience with a state official, potentially even the caliph, based on the involvement of the Ṣāḥib al-Sitr ("a curtain behind which the Fāṭimid caliph was concealed at the opening of the audience session (majlis) and which was then removed by a special servant (ṣāḥib/mutawallī al-sitr) in order to unveil the enthroned ruler" (H. […] Mentions the writing of a petition (ruqʿa), then officials including [...] al-Riyāsa Ḥaydara, then "they were standing before us and arranged for us on Monday another session (majlis) in the antechamber (dihlīz), and they were the ones who advised the governor (wālī), so I gave a petition to the master of the veil (ṣāḥib al-sitr)...." […] Fuess, "Between dihlīz and dār al-ʿadl: Forms of outdoor and indoor royal representation at the Mamluk court in Egypt," in Court Cultures in the Muslim World, 2011).

العلامات

• caliph
• petitioning

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, there are repetitive instructions about not allowing a certain man (Avraham's brother?) to go anywhere without taking Avraham's mother with him. At the end of the letter, Moshe reports that he has obtained the ophthalmic medications (ashyāf) from the physician Abū l-Faraj as requested, and has forwarded them along with a letter from the same Abū l-Faraj. Several towns of the Delta are mentioned in the letter: Bilbays, Minyat Ghamr, and—if this a place name—al-Ṣāliḥiyya. Avraham responded on the same piece of paper, writing nothing more than that he read the letter and thanked God for the health of his father and mother and the children. There are also some Arabic jottings on verso. ASE.

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العلامات

• ashyaf
• bilbays
• distant son
• mail-order medicine
• minyat ghamr
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

middle third of Tammuz 1529 Seleucid (6 July 1218–15 July 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Emerging from the court of Avraham Maimonides, this document concerns the disintegration and settlement of a partnership in an apothecary which had been managed by Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār and Abū l-Khayr b. Abū l-Riḍā al-Naqqād ha-Levi. There are a number of provisions concerning the assets of the concern: first, Munajjā is entitled to one dinar from Abū al-Khayr for fourteen months, a debt recorded in a separate document; second, the balance of all the shop’s merchandise is to be retained by Munajjā; third, the first 800 dirhams of the shop’s debts will be repaid by Munajjā (any excess will be repaid by the two partners jointly); fourth, both partners will share in collecting accounts receivable, with the funds divided equally between them; and, fifth, six copper basins will go to Munajjā (which previously belonged to Abū l-Khayr, as he is held responsible for anything missing from them).

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العلامات

• druggist
• partnership
• pharmacy

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein writes, "[T]he shubbān yisraʾel, the youth, were enticed by a guest preacher, who expounded the Holy Scriptures in the way of mystical allegory, 'which should not be listened to, let alone be believed.'" He is accused of engaging in "inquiries concerning permanence (baqāʾ)" (al-mabāḥith al-baqāʾiyya), which seems to be an allusion to Jewish Sufism (sometimes called pietism).

العلامات

• pietism

1 نسخ 3 مناقشات

Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The dating is discussed in Stern's article and should be considered definite; it is also corroborated by the caliph's name. The Arabic text is written in five different hands, reflecting administrative procedure. […] Whether T-S 24.21 and ENA NS 10.31 also join is less clear: they were reused by the same scribe for the same text, but may not have been part of the same state document. […] On verso is Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni's Kitāb Aḥkām al-Shurūṭ, parallel to the text in SP RNL Evr-Arab.

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العلامات

• communal
• dimme
• endorsement
• fiscal
• lost archive
• (+ 4 المزيد)

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 3 مناقشات

Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). Dating: around 1055 (also Gil). The letter contains details about damage to goods (flax and indigo) that were sent from Egypt to Sicily. […] No doubt the arguments would continue in Fustat and Alexandria, where most of the owners made their homes."

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العلامات

• bribe
• flax
• indigo
• lead
• leather
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣīr al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Large and well-preserved. Probably mainly love poetry.

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العلامات

• judaeo-arabic poetry
• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

May be a state document. Refers to "al-niẓām al-ḥamīd." Ends with a ḥamdala and a ḥasbala.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.

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العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Avraham b. Farrāḥ of Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination for content.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment containing some Arabic script in the margin, which is difficult to read. There is also a Hebrew literary text involving marriage payments.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions NʿM al-Muʾadhdhin (the muezzin); Muḥammad al-Bannāʾ; and the term tazrīb.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Perhaps a fiscal account: the word al-mablagh appears on recto, and al-ʿāmil on verso.

العلامات

• arabic script
• fiscal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Magical recipes/spells in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script: (min nār al-[...] bi-l-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm . . . ).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., Maṣliaḥ?). Also mentions a legal transaction (qinyan).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Writing exercises in Arabic script, in which the main sentence copied is about al-Muʿallim Samʿūn b. al-Muʿallim Anṭūn.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts or possibly a recipe in Arabic script. There are also a few words in very large letters, possibly from an earlier state document.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Moshe, Tyre, to Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1025.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a letter sent to Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, concerning the arrival of ships, ca. 1045-1096.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• movement of ships
• nahray b. nissim
• natan b. nahray
• ships
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

The only phrase preserved is al-mamlūk muqaddam al-juyūsh (commander in chief).

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العلامات

• decree
• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Piyyut, (probably a qina) Hebrew poetry. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. (Information in part from CUDL)

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العلامات

• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

June 1047–9 August 1048 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhūn b. Isḥāq al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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