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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"The proof that the pupil (thaqb al-ʿinabiyya) is filled with spirit (rūḥ): when a person dies, the e[y]es sink. This is the answer." The hand looks familiar, probably ca.1200.

العلامات

• medical
• ophthalmology

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

, mentioning someone who died in Balad al-Rūm and licorice (sūs). The handwriting is distinctive, probably known (resembles T-S 10J14.7).

العلامات

• arabic address
• byzantium
• unedited 11th c

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Inferred date

1415–1600 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The mention of this specific coinage type makes it possible to estimate the dating as post-1415 CE, likely fifteenth or sixteenth-century based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• ketubba
• numismatic dating

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this year under Sultan Ahmed III).

العلامات

• engagement
• ladino
• numismatic dating
• shiddukhin

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The 11th and 12th Hijrī centuries can be inferred because the Ottoman qurush was not minted until 1690 CE (a silver coin mentioned in many entries). The heading furthest down on the verso mentions an individual by the name of Selim Ağa in connection with the commodity saffron.

العلامات

• 19th c
• ottoman
• state

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Primary language

Arabic

Death notice. Abu l-Bayān [...] died on Wednesday night (laylat al-khamīs) on 3 Rajab 507 AH and was buried on Thursday (wa-dafannāhu yawm al-khamīs).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda, probably to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032). Dating: approximately 1026 (per Gil) but it is worth noting that Shelomo b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Masʿūd and Abū Saʿīd the khādim, both of whom may have died. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• divorce

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Document date

Wednesday, 23 Iyyar 1368 Seleucid (30 April 1057 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEzra. Abū Kathīr had died while some assets of his were still with two brothers of Abū Manṣūr, Daniel and Eli, and the brothers had also meanwhile died, leaving Abū Manṣūr as their heir.

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العلامات

• account
• estate
• inheritance
• proxy
• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1425–1700 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use is the gold ashrafi. In terms of dating, mention of ashrafi is helpful because it was not minted until 1425CE and factoring in the script of this fragment it may have been recorded in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 60).

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• list
• numismatic dating

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Document date

Kislev 1791 Seleucid (16 September 1479–4 September 1480 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The hand is very close to that of the clerk who wrote many of the letters of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355); perhaps a coincidence, or perhaps he had a long life. [RR and MCD]

العلامات

• 14th c
• betrothal

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿElī ha-Kohen, which Gil *assumes* is NLI 577.3.2, which Gil in turn *estimates* as dating to 1067 (though with slightly more justification based on the confluence of the Jewish date 13 Ḥeshvan and the Islamic ʿīd in ca. 1066–68).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Prescription in Judaeo-Arabic for Abū Yaḥyā, including instructions for both medicine and diet. The name of the recipient at the beginning and the phrase "effective if God wills" at the end are written in Arabic script.

العلامات

• arabic script
• prescription

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov of Hebron to Shela the cantor, urgently inquiring about the fate of the body of his brother David, who had died on the road. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 557-558)

العلامات

• hebron
• lost corpse

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

List in Hebrew of payments received following the common formula "עו[ד] לקחתי ומשה" (also received by Moshe and me) with each line mentioning a quantity of coinage in peraḥīm, medin, and perhaps other types.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• numismatic dating

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Inferred date

1500–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The surname Ibn Shanjī commonly appears in fragments from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a timespan that coincides with the likely paleographical dating of this fragment.

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العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• list

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase may also be a reference to monetary payment "in cash" with gold coinage (coll. hajar=cash). In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

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Inferred date

1788–1825 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The monetary sums are expressed in silver "פצה" coinage. Many partners in trade are listed such as: Avraham Yaʿabeṣ, Ḥajj Ḥasan Miʾmar[?]

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• fgp stub
• polisa
• silk

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Although the year is unclear, the usage of silver kuruş indicated by the "ق" at the top of the numerical columns assists in the dating of the document as no earlier than 1703CE (when the coinage began to appear in wide circulation: Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

العلامات

• 18th c

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Document date

Adar I 5593 Anno Mundi (20 February 1833–20 March 1833 CE)

The monetary figures are in eastern Arabic numerals that span two columns, one indicated by "ق" for silver kuruş and then another silver coinage listed generically as "פצה". The same list format appears on the verso, although a key word in the heading is "מקבוץ" which indicates incoming payments "received" or "obtained".

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal

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Document date

Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 Anno Mundi (8 January 1090 CE)

Yosef a silk merchant of Damietta, to claim 67 dinars of Fustat coinage and standard weight from Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen of Alexandria.

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Primary language

Ladino

(Information from CUDL) There are three columns, from right to left that list: the detail of the transaction, the quantity of the monetary sum, and the coinage type– which appears throughout as the silver medin abbreviated as "מאי".

العلامات

• account
• ladino

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Document date

26 Tammuz 1405 Seleucid (13 July 1094 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record concerning the posthumous settlement of the affairs of a merchant who had sold partnership goods from Tripoli, Lebanon, in the various 'houses of the wukala' in Fustat, and had died leaving behind him two sons, Tammuz 1405/July 1094.

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العلامات

• posthumous settlement
• register

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Document date

8 Tevet 5492 Anno Mundi (6 January 1732 CE)

The latter surname also appears in l. 2r as part of another entry where funduqli coinage is in use. The same accounting format continues onto this fragment's verso.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• ladino
• list
• to examine

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Document date

5576 Anno Mundi (5 October 1815–22 September 1816 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The monetary symbol for silver kurush appears throughout, but it is not clear that this is the only form of coinage in use given the mention of "פצה / silver" which often appears as a distinct denomination in other shelfmarks from the JRL C Series and elsewhere.

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Accounts in Arabic with a complex array of monetary calculations with the symbol "ق" on occasion indicating silver kuruş (which may have been minted as early as 1690 but did not reach wider circulation until 1703). The coinage label along with the paleography help estimate the dating of the fragment as 18th/19th-century.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• arabic script
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To make matters worse, ʿIwāḍ al-Bazzāz (the clothier) died owing the sender 60 dirhams. The lower part of the letter is missing.

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Like many of the other list fragments in JRL SERIES C the left may possibly represent the coinage kuruş and the right "פצה" could indicate the smaller silver medin (the kuruş was minted as early as 1690 but did not reach wider circulation until 1703 CE).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• list
• numismatic dating

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Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r).

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• list
• mastic

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Inferred date

1600–1800 CE

Din (lower right corner of recto), and probably others. The coinage types in use include the silver real and the Ottoman medin, here abbreviated as "מאי" for example in the lower left corner of the recto.

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العلامات

• 17th or 18th c
• list
• london

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Document date

Tishrei 5304 Anno Mundi (30 August 1543–28 September 1543 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

In the second contract, Shalom agrees to pay Abraham the same amount using gold peraḥim (ducat equivalents) from the coinage of Sultan Sulaymān. An exchange rate is given: every peraḥ is worth 59.5 ʿuthmānīs.

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