Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Referring to sums of dinars; somebody who bought goods, sold them all at a loss in Alexandria, and now does not plan to return to Fustat. […] Greetings to Sulaymān, Abū l-Faḍl, Sitt Intijāb, Sitt Jawhar, and Abū l-Makārim.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1066–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [...] b. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Dhahabī asks to hand over the document to Karīma known as al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla, described in l. 5 as the divorcee of Arye b.

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العلامات

• wuhsha

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of gift or bill of release concerning the death of Ibn al-Najīb. Names mentioned: [...] b. Manṣūr al-Sharābī (ZL), Maḥfūẓa bt. b. Abū l-Faḍl (Yosef) known as Zayn al-Tujjār (ZL), Menahem, Yaʿaqov b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13[.]4 Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word is very faded.) […] Avraham is connected to the mint (Dār al-Ḍarb), as that is listed as one of the places where the money could potentially be stolen.

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العلامات

• mint
• partnership

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Probably a contributions list. E.g., Bū l-Manṣūr al-Sadīd, Bū l-Ḥasan b. ʿImrān(?), al-ʿAmīd, al-Rashīd, Bū l-Fakhr al-ʿAṭṭār (=Seʿadya Ibn al-Amshāṭī?), Bū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Ḥalabī, Ibn al-Ṣūrī, Faḍāʾil, Bū l-Munā al-Ṣayrafī, Bū l-Maʿālī al-Simsār. These are all typical names of the second half of the 12th century, which would support the identification of the Yiṣḥaq on recto with Yiṣḥaq b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The term barqalū (mid-sized bale) also appears frequently. Verso: address of a letter, written both in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Faded and difficult to read; but the sender might be [...] b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

List of names and corresponding alphanumerical quantities. Medieval-era. The fragment bearing the more legible text may be fused to a separate fragment of paper with very faded text in Hebrew script. […] Partial names on the recto include: Manṣūr, ...] ben al-Nāk[..., and Bū l-Fūl. Requires further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 25 Ḥeshvan 5569 Anno Mundi (15 November 1808 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as ʿUmar Serada(?), Ḥasan Abū l-Faḍl, Aḥmad Shaltūt, Yisrael ha-Levi, Saʿd Pinto, Avraham ha-Levi Skandari, and Avraham Maymūn. Also mentions 4 French ships.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• avraham ha-levi
• karo y frances
• late ja

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Memorandum (tadhkira) from Nissim b. Benaya, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Karam Marwān, probably in Fustat. […] He offers to send the payments to the addressee or to his brother Abū l-Faḍl. Greetings to ʿArūs (b. Yosef). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 145 and from Goitein's index card.)

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter to 'al-rayyis al-ajall' in Arabic script. The sender has sent 1/8 dinar with the bearer of the note, which should kindly be parceled out to the teacher (apparently the Abū l-Faḍl mentioned further down) in payments of 1/2 dirham a day, because of the sender is absent.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting looks like that of Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); the Muslim traders; various commodities (including אלקפאן?) […] There is a lot more, but the text is faded and fragmentary. (Information in part from CUDL)

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العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto with the address on verso: Letter from a man whose name is too faded to read, near al-Mahdiyya, to his 'brother' ʿArūs b. […] I am worn down: even the prosperous are worn down in al-Mahdiyya, how much the more an old man without property or someone to take pity on me (? […] The qinṭār of flax has arrived with Ibn al-Futūrī, may God reward all of you and preserve your son for you."

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Document date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya after he became known as] Sar ha-Sarim. Involves Yehuda b. Faḍlān; [...] b. Moshe known as Ibn ʿUṣfūra; and several members of the Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya family, including Meshullam [b. […] Needs further examination. See also T-S 13J37.9 + T-S AS 146.157 + T-S 10J5.13 (PGPID 3022) and T-S 20.30 (PGPID 16149). All need further examination. Join: Oded Zinger.

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1 مناقشة

Document date

Middle decade of Elul 1432 Seleucid (27 August 1121–7 September 1121 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1432 Seleucid, which is 1121 CE. Abū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi Ibn al-Baṣrī was engaged in a partnership with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel ha-Sar, and after Netanel's death the partnership was dissolved, and Netanel' daughters (Sitt al-Khāṣṣa, Sitt al-Kamāl, and Sitt al-Karam) issued a release to Shela. Also signed by Yaḥyā b. Shemuel. (Information from CUDL.)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

410 Kharājī (9 May 1019–26 April 1020 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with blessings upon the reigning caliph (al-Ẓāhir). May relate to an inheritance; discusses agricultural matters. Mentions units of land expressed in faddān as well as sugarcane fields (qaṣab). The document has been reused for a piyyūt related to the Tefīllat Geshem, the "Prayer for Rain" recited on Shemini ʿAṣeret.

العلامات

• dimme
• fatimid
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Chastising the addressee for something (it is not entirely clear what). "That which you did, an enemy wouldn't even do it to himself. Yā subḥān Allāh... family... they come and eat... people... you feared for yourself that you couldn't appear..."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli releases any debt owed to her by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-Bishr Shelomo al-Bazzāz or by his brother Abū l-Faḍl. The case involves an inheritance somehow.

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1 مناقشة

Fragment (upper left corner). Very faded. Probably a ketubba (בשעה מעולה...) or replacement ketubba (based on the phrase used to introduce the bride, אמר לנא דסת אלחסן...). The wife/bride is Sitt al-Ḥusn. Many more details could be extracted with effort (or with multispectral imaging).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu'l-Bayan, one of the prominent parnasim of this period, leases an apartment, which is in a tabaqa, i.e. an upper floor, to a certain Abu'l-Fadl. The apartment is in Dar al-Zajjaj, one of the compounds owned by the qodesh. […] In fact, this must be understood as Makarim and Ibn Sahlan, since they are listed separately in accounts of rent, where they pay five dirhams a month each, the same sum of rent that Abu'l-Fadl, the new tenant, will have to pay. Abu'l-Bayan, the representative of the qodesh, cannot be one of the parties in the concluding formula which says "from each of the two," since he represents the court.

العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Ibrāhīm; ʿAlī b. Salmūn; Ḥasan b. Faḍl; ʿAlwān b. Hamza; Muḥsin b. Ḥasan; Mufarraj(?) b. Futūḥ; Naṣr al-Dīn b. Ḥamāma(?); ʿAlī b. Aḥmad; ʿAlī b. ʿAṭṭiyya; Qāsim b. Khalīfa; Salāma(?) b. Futūḥ. There is also a list in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

While he was doing business in silk in Alexandria, his partners had sold a donkey and a mule and swindled him, however, he chose not to bring the case to court. […] Mentions Abu l-Ḥasan, Abu l-Fadl, Zikri, Zikri’s nephew, and Ḥasan the messenger.

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العلامات

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• nar

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The paper is well-preserved, but almostall of the text is extremely faded; might be legible with multispectral imaging.

العلامات

• readable with imaging

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer conveys longing for the addressee (reports about people who are so overcome by weeping that they cannot be recognized) and reports that his wife and Ismāʿīl and Bū Surūr and Mufaḍḍal are all well. Regards from his father and brother and 'the students' (al-talāmidha). Regards to a certain ḥakīm (this seems more likely than ḥarīm/harem) and to Abū l-Faḍl and his wife. (Information in part from CUDL.)

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions [...] ha-Parnas b. Mevasser. Very faded, uncited in the literature. Verso: Probably a related text in Arabic script, may be also in his hand.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tishrei 7th 1421 Seleucid (3 September 1109 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Ḥasan b. Hiba. Wife: Fāḍila bt. Ḥusayn. Also signed by Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen (this might be a different person than the Berakhot b. […] On verso there is confirmation of receipt. On verso there are also accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals listing items such as lemon syrup (murammal laymūn sāʾil) and mastic.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Hibatallāh b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1180 CE or generally 1168–1204, based on the years Maimonides was active in Egypt. The sender complains concerning a part of the revenue of the house of Ibn Pinḥas in Fustat, which had been allocated to him some time before. The petition is written in a very flowery and flattering style, in which besides biblical phrases there are also some more original figures of speech.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• legal query
• maimonides
• responsum

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Ḥeshvan 1450 Seleucid (8 October 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s). Very faded/damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] A court record for a release given by Sitt al-Nasab bt. Yūsuf. Probably involving her husband and support he provided while away. There is another document on the other side of the fragment, also involving Sitt al-Nasab and mentioning her husband ʿAmram b.

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1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to Abū Ṭāhir Barakāt b. ʿAlīal-Baghdādī. The layout is somewhat unusual. It opens with blessings and longing and mentions the passing of time (not a person named Mar al-Zamān). Mentions a woman who has died (raḍiya Allāh ʿanhā). Mentions Abū l-Faḍl R. Maṣliaḥ. The last words in the upper margin are 'they have taken the money/property.'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Eliyyahu (he signs Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān) to al-shaykh al-rashīd Abū l-Faḍl. In Arabic script, with the last line in Hebrew. […] He very politely asks the addressee to fulfill his promise and provide 'the list of the wheat' (qāʾimat al-qamḥ). Recto (secondary use): Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals organized by the parshiyot.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Begging letter to a cantor together with the refusal in reply, mentioning Abū l-Faḍāʾil. (Information from CUDL.) (This is not quite clear; it appears that everything here was written by the same scribe, albeit with different pens.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Hebrew text, very badly worn and faded. There are many biblical allusions and references to Egypt.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: note in Hebrew from a certain Evyatar, who says he followed the order to come to a certain place, and he came this morning but he could not wait around all day. Verso: End of a Judaeo-Arabic note or letter, mentioning the elder Abū l-Faḍāʾil.

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso mentions the hope that something will sell; the dīwān; a funduq; Abū Zikrī; and travel to al-Shām (written in the margin, very faded).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender may be Zekharya (the name appears at the bottom of recto). The words are very faded. The tone is urgent. Mentions "the government" (al-sulṭān), Qalyūb, documents (?

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting that a woman (ṣāḥibat al-bayt) borrowed a dinar from the sender. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto describes a house, its features, and its location: al-qāʿa al-muʿallaqa... khazānatayn... al-ṣaṭḥ al-ʿālī... mā bayna salālim hādhihi l-qāʿa... al-khashab al-kharṭ al-dāʾir... al-ḥāra al-maʿrūfa.... […] A house (perhaps one of the boundaries) was previously known by the name of Abū l-Surūr, subsequently by the name of Abū l-Faḍl Sahl, and probably ultimately by the name of [...] Ismāʿīl al-Isrā'īlī.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

21 July 1042–19 August 1042 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps the date is Seleucid (1+2+50+300= [1]353 Sel.?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Shaykh al-Fakhr Mūsā b. Hārūn al-Shāmī takes an oath that he will not leave(?) […] Witnesses: מכטרה (?) ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Ibn Fayrūz, Farajallāh b. Yosef b. Fāḍil. There is also a potentially third witness signature in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

It describes the houses and apartments in a particular street darb al-Sadu[...], mentioning the house of the company of Abū l-Faḍāʾil, Ibn al-Qallād, Ḥus[ayn] b. Nathan, Umm Shām, the apartment of ʿAlīal-Labbān, apartments of Christians, the apartment of the silk trader (al-qazzāz), upper storey and lower storey of Bahrām and Sulaymān, the ‘big market’ and several shops (dukkān). On both sides of the leaf there is also unidentified Arabic script. F. 1v: in a different hand, list of ‘the business of our master’; with receipts from the Christian tax collector, expenditures and prices.

العلامات

• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter may describe the violent disciplining of a girl, and the writer says it is all the addressee's fault. There is some sort of dispute involving the house that is located in darb silsilat al-ṣulṭāniyya, its original door, Ibn al-Raṣṣāṣ, and 600 dirhams. The continuation on verso is rather faded but includes the line, "I am oppressed." In a diffferent hand and ink, there is a note mentioning baskets containing materia medica (or materials for a drug shop, ḥawā'ij ʿiṭr).

العلامات

• violence

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mubārak b. Hiba al-Waṣīṭī to Abū Saʿd and Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-Baqāʾ al-ʿAjamī. […] The sender may be identical with Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen al-Waṣiṭī from T-S 13J30.2 (dated 1146 CE). The portion of the letter preserved here mostly contains polite epistolary formulae.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Giving various instructions about what to buy. The sender reports receiving the addressee's letter with news of the death of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. But the sender did not know how he died until he heard it from the Muslims. […] On verso mentions Tamīm; 'my brothers'; someone's business partner possibly named Bū l-Surūr (בלסרור) ha-Kohen. May also refer to a piece of ambergris (אלקטעה אלענבר).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Headed "expenses" (al-maṣrūf). Items include land surveyors (al-muhandisīn), food for the first day, for the second day, an animal driver and young men (mukārī wa-ghilmān), vinegar (khall), possibly wine (yayin), a judge (al-qāḍī), witnesses (shuhūd), rubbish (turāb) disposal for the first four days, someone called Najīb, stone, and a Jewish person. On verso the name Mūsā b. Faḍl (or Fuḍūl?) appears. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid (28 April 1096 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Faded legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. […] Parties: Meshullam b. Shelomo Ibn Sunaynāt al-Muqaddasī (appears also in T-S AS 156.138 + T-S 10J8.4 + T-S 6J3.12 (PGPID 3069)) who serves as a representative of a young women regarding a legal document written in Muslim court. Also mentions Berakhot and Yehuda ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq (יהודה הרב המובהק) who might be Yehuda b.

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العلامات

• hillel b. 'eli

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

19 Muḥarram 808 Hijrī (17 July 1405 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The document on the right begins with a petition-like formula "asʾal marāḥim al-ḥaḍra", probably a letter of appeal. Has a date towards the end which mentions the year [.]88, but part of it is faded out.

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

742 Hijrī (17 June 1341–5 June 1342 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef b. [...], a woman, Nāṣir b. [...]. The Arabic script on verso may be pen trials (the word al-shaykh appears several times).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]." The paper is almost entirely preserved, but the text is nearly too faded to read.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List and accounts mentioning the names of Muslim months, personal names such as Abū l-Surūr al-Levi, Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl Sar ha-Leviyim, various sums of money, commodities and Hebrew numerals.

العلامات

• account
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر