Documents

Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index card and from India Book.) On the sender, see ENA NS 45.30 (PGPID 12147) and the related documents linked there.

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• india book

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Someone, perhaps the same person, believed that the entire congregation fell under this ban and required a release (hatara) from him.

العلامات

• excommunication
• shehita

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tammuz 1366 Seleucid (July 1055 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably an indirect join with ENA 2727.13a.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• estate

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is hesitant to accept a post he was granted in Alexandria because it would entail parting from his son. The letter mentions one of the most famous jurists of Alexandria, the faqīh Ibn ʿAwf, whom Frenkel identifies with the Mālikī jurist Abū Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl b.

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العلامات

• faqih

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender met with Abū l-Makārim, who defended himself by saying that he owes 100 dirhams in Fustat for the price of wheat and will be arrested if he enters ('as his wife knows'). Abū l-Makārim also owes some money (durayhimāt) to people in the army camp (al-ʿaskar).

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العلامات

• wheat

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But now, "the situation is such that I pray to God that I not encounter you, and if I see you coming, I take a different path to avoid you."

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العلامات

• business
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Av 1453 Seleucid (25 July 1142–23 August 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer sends greetings in the name of his two sons. He encloses a letter from Rabbenu Zakkay for Efrayim, as well as another letter from R.

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العلامات

• address as seal
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Iyyar 1497 Seleucid (1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning two teachers, saying that both of them would continue to receive "ṣibbur" (pledges for public charity), but that one of them was permitted to act as a teacher and as a slaughterer, while the other was only entitled to receive fees for writing marriage and divorce contracts and other legal documents, and for performing circumcisions.

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العلامات

• circumcision
• jewish community
• mevorakh b. natan
• sar shalom ha-levi

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is competition for labor, with workers demanding advance payment for scutching flax and pounding madder, and he claims (in a friendly but urgent way) that his cash-flow problems are threatening the entire operation. He claims the workers are demanding premium wages and advance payment.

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العلامات

• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• madder
• yosef b. awkal

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Aramaic

The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S 16.375 (Friedman, JMP, doc. 46), T-S AS 146.83 (Friedman, JMP, doc. 60), and ENA NS 3.22 (Friedman, JMP, doc. 64). Bride: Sutūt bt.

العلامات

• 11th c
• ketubba
• marriage
• tyre

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last decade of Ṭevet 4898 Anno Mundi (January 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document is written almost entirely as a first-person declaration by Ibn al-Najera.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But see also the various documents signed by Moshe's son Sar Shalom, who clearly regarded his father as having held the title Gaʾon (e.g., ENA 4020.4, T-S 13J31.3, T-S 10J20.21, and T-S 10J24.7 + T-S 10J29.4), and see M.

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العلامات

• legal query

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In addition to their mu‘āmalāt or joint enterprises, Efrayim and Moses also seem to have had an interest in a partnership with a Muslim, described as a khulṭa.

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

47[..] Anno Mundi (17 September 939–21 September 1039 CE)

Names of witnesses are not preserved. Verso: liturgy entitled ‘[...]קבל אל הפט’. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• numismatic dating

1 مناقشة

Document date

Marḥeshvan 4907 Anno Mundi (October 1146 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The payments were generally made several months after the end of the year. Records of ten such parments are preserved, from a period extending from 1131 through 1146 (Marḥeshvan 4907AM).

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العلامات

• 12th c
• ashqelon
• heqdesh
• lease
• qodesh
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

4th Elul 1420-29 Seleucid (1109–1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The documents specifies that her entire family was present and "signed" for her. Signed by Meshullam b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He was then dragged around Qamra, a Jewish quarter of Alexandria, while the wali's messengers announced his crimes against religion to the public.The second the matter of two brothers who pressured, through threats and blackmail, the previous fiance of one of them not to engage to someone else. The letter reflects the organization of authority and management in the city.

العلامات

• communal
• wali

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Before this, the mother-in-law had sworn that her son had no ailment, but now that he has turned out to be sick, the wife is scared that her entire dowry will be lost (spent on medical expenses?).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: marital
• marital dispute

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 4, pp. 667-669, #824, and CUDL). VMR. ENA 4010.31 and T-S 20.162 are from the same case.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• draft
• partnership
• testimony

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Kislev 1428 Seleucid (18 November 1116–29 November 1116 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal")

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The next two lines are undeciphered (the words لطخ/stain and بقر/cow appear). It ends, like a medical prescription, with "Beneficial if God wills" and "Diet: boiled spinach."

العلامات

• prescription
• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It's not clear if verso is a separate entry or part of the main document; mentions Daniʾel; Bū l-Faḍl; a Mallorcan (Māyurqī), Umm Hilāl, and another name.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

He is unemployed there and unable to even enter the market of the druggists due to debts owed to Ibn Ṣ[...] and others.

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2

العلامات

• appeal
• arabic script
• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

After being pressed and boiled, the juice will yield 5¾ qinṭārs of sugar (around 250 kg), whose total value is 13,750 dinars, an enormous quantity of money. 5 dinars for each qinṭār (28.75 dinars in total) must be paid to the miller who pressed the sugar cane (0.2% of the profit).

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العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal
• lost archive
• sugar

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The year may be given at the end of the third line here. 3) On recto, two different text blocks headed "ḥujja," then "bism X."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

3 Shawwāl 405 Hijrī (27 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The verso contains trials of the pen and drafts of various documents, including a petition (see separate entry).

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax receipt

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Besides the accounting of an anonymous tenant of which only the end is preserved here, there are three larger paragraphs, of which the first deals with a room of a man from Aleppo (al-Halabi), the other with the apartment of another anonymous tenant, and the third with the apartment of Sitt Qawdaf.

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

First third of Tammuz 5453 Anno Mundi (5 July 1693–14 July 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Moshe ha-Levi the widow of Shemuʾel al-Eytī, and the scribe of the document itself Nissim De Aragon. The entry also mentions a hujja in connection with the property that was issued on 18 Shawwāl 1088 AH (1677 CE).

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1 نسخ

Document date

Final third of Tammuz 5453 Anno Mundi (24 July 1693–2 August 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Galante (1621-1689 CE) but the surname's orthography is not entirely clear. This inheritance case was recorded in Cairo in Tammuz 5448 AM (July 1688 CE) making the association plausible with the Mage''n.

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Document date

614 Hijrī (10 April 1217–29 March 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is the remaining balance due for the capitation tax of the poor for the Muslim year 614 (ended March 29, 1218) for Shams al-Din. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab.

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العلامات

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

for the Muslim year 614 (ended March 29, 1218) to the diwan of the Sultan.

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العلامات

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

29 Adar 5582 Anno Mundi (22 March 1822 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Apprenticeship agreement between David Dayyan (the instructor) and an apprentice whose name is badly damaged but his surname can be inferred as Karo because his father is mentioned in line 14–where he commits to paying a fine in the event that his son breaks the terms of the apprenticeship and reneges on paying the fine himself. Dated at the end of Adar 5582 AM which is 1822 CE. Location: Cairo.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• apprenticeship
• feathers

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dealing entirely with communal politics. The sender is asking a favor and repeatedly refers to the "nawba" (public lesson?

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العلامات

• arabic address

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo Gaʾon, since he arrived in Egypt ca. 1127, but this possibility should be entertained). It seems the Nagid gave his response to the sender, who has been in charge of this case since its beginning.

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

There follows a block of text describing the maṭbakh which used to be known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī), mentioning Dīwān al-Aḥbās in Fustat (the government bureau in charge of waqf properties), and ending with the line, "its fame makes its description unnecessary."

العلامات

• al-lebdi
• diwan al-ahbas

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

30 Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (21 October 1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (October 1039 CE). […] ‘Allūn's attestation that Sulaymān and Khalaf had “a joint enterprise (mu‘āmala) and not a qinyan”, complicating the understanding of partnership models in this period; the difference between a mufāwaḍa and a mu‘āmala (or between either of these and a qinyan) is unclear.

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya
• partnership
• yefet b. david

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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)).

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العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1039–1039 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Jacob Mann published T-S 18J4.16, and Mark Cohen discovered the join with ENA 3765.10 and the significance of this pair of letters. […] ʿAzarya, grandson of the Exilarch Shelomo, and his efforts to reform the conduct of the Egyptian Jewish communities in respect of owning female slaves and enjoying secular music. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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العلامات

• conflict
• daniel b. 'azarya
• gaonic conflict
• music
• nagid
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان