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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions תלאליס קלאעיה on verso. Mentions Alexandria and Rashīd.

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Alphabetical exercises from a children’s Hebrew textbook with the alphabet presented abag-bagad style, e.g., יכל then כלם then למן.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ibn Karam; Ibn al-Saqqāʾ; Ibn Dāwūd; Ibn al-Ḥujja; Mudallala; flax.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the neighbor of Ibn Juḥā and Dār al-Ṭarf(?) al-Maghribī.

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Document date

Shevaṭ 1466 Seleucid (6 January 1155–4 February 1155 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf known as Ibn אלשיגרי, conveys to her husband Bū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ḥasan known as al-Ṭabarānī full proprietorship of half a house given to her by her father and renounces her rights in a house belonging to her husband, serving as a collateral for her marriage gift. The husband had previously been the tax-farmer for dyeing and silk (alladhī kāna ḍāmin al-ṣabgh wa-l-ḥarīr) in Qalyūb.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

the daughter of Barakāt al-Qalyūbī ratifies a settlement (ṣulḥ) with the wife of her recently deceased father. […] At the end of the entry, it states that her husband Hillel b. [...] al-Malījī was also present and in agreement. Cf.

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Document date

May 1130 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 18 (ח3). Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Lukhṭūsh, in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Fustat. […] The letter contains the only nearly explicit evidence thus known that Ḥalfon traveled to al-Andalus before 1130, but Friedman cautions that the reading of the date isn't entirely certain, and it may have been written in 1140. Ibn al-Lukhṭūsh asks Ḥalfon to write to him about his experiences in detail from the time he left al-Andalus until his arrival in Egypt.

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• halfon ha-levi b. netan`el
• ib4
• india book
• rosh yeshiva
• yehuda ha-levi

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. […] Avraham, who ‘arrived from the West, claiming the position of the head of our Academy, and who has been head of this Academy for 16 years’, the amir Munjiz al-Dawla, and the ‘slave of our master, Daʾūd b.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

M[...] of Ḥamā who lived in either Alexandria or Ashqelon ('al-thaghr') for 30 years, but probably the former, because he is introduced as having come 'here' recently (חצר אלי הנא). Badr recently went blind due to ophthalmia. Starting in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 523 AH (=February/March 1129 CE), his monthly stipend was cut in half from 2.5 dinars to 1.25 dinars.

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العلامات

• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda, who calls himself al-Mutaṭabbib on verso), and at 180 degrees and upside down there is a blessing (for the caliph?), ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhu wa-nawāmī zakawātihi wa-afḍal al-salām. Cf. the same language in T-S 20.32r (petition draft from Hibatallāh b. Abū Manṣūr to al-Ḥākim), cited in Rustow, Lost Archive, p. 468 note 15.

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Primary language

Arabic

Saʿīd, in Mirbāṭ (in present-day Oman), to Abū l-Surur Faraḥ b. ʿAbbās al-ʿAsqalānī. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th century. […] He emphasizes how much he yearns for news of the people in Egypt/Fustat "and news of the journey" (akhbār al-ṭarīq). Bū l-Faraj Ibn Qasāsā arrived and conveyed "news of the traders (al-nās), who has died and who is alive, and we praised God and thanked Him."

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• ib-addenda
• india book (arabic)
• india book unedited

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

anything the addressee desires. Verso: Also a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Urges a quick response, which should be sent to the goldsmiths' market (sūq al-ṣāgha). The sender swears by God "apart from whom there is no God" (billāhi alladhī lā ilāha illā huwa). Greetings to Abū l-Maʿālī(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee may appear also in T-S Ar.29.101 (PGPID 20228). The sender could be the same Yiṣḥaq b. […] The sender checked the accounting in the "tawqīʿ" (typically a term for a government decree/rescript but this appears to be a different usage) and confirms that the addressee still has a credit of 3 fīlīs and 2 fanams corresponding to 3 Malikī dinars. Also mentions 40 Egyptian mithqāls and the purchase of a specific commodity.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

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Inferred date

1707–1850 CE

Some of the entries incude notes indicating people "באסם / in the name of" and on occasion locational notes, such as on the recto "דאלך ענד פלונבו" or "this is at Palonbo's" (l. 8r, 17r in left side of bifolium) or "׳ענד ס׳ לוריא" which is also "at S[eñor] Luria's" (l.16r on right side of bifolium). On the bottom of the recto there is also mention of one "עוסמאן אפנדי" or "Osman Efendi" five lines up from the bottom and Nissim Romano (l. 32r).

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• 18th or 19th c
• effendi
• list
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: The name of the writer in the tarjama reads as Muḥammad al-Sayfī and apart from the opening formula, not much of the content is preserved. Despite the layout consistent with a petition, the second and third lines contain legalistic formulae regarding a debt owed to the Jewish man Bū ʿAlī and his brother Makārim (غير مكره ولا مجبران عليه وعنده وفي خالص ماله دينارا . . . […] Verso: The second letter is addressed to a certain al-Qāḍī al-Ajall. Phrases: خضر مولاي القاضي الاجل اطال الله [بقاه وادام عزه] ومن حسن توفيقه لا اخلاه جمع الله بيننا على اسر [حال] انه ولي ذلك والقادر عليه ان شا الله والذي تريد علمه . . . . . .

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Zechariah, excusing himself for traveling from Bilbays directly to Alexandria, without making the detour to Fustat to pay his respects to him on the approaching holidays. […] Mentions having left some goods with Bū l-Majd the teacher the son of the sister of Abū l-Baqāʾ Ibn al-Naḥḥāl in Bilbays (likely the same Abū l-Baqāʾ Ibn al-Naḥḥāl whose son and brother feature in T-S 16.89 (PGPID 7389) and the associated documents).

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العلامات

• eliyyahu b. zekharia

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Document date

Sunday, 29 Elul 1318 Seleucid (14 September 1007 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Other dates earlier in Elul are also mentioned in the body of the document.) Dealing with a protracted litigation between Efrayim b. […] (Information from CUDL). See also Goitein notes and index card linked below. Given that it was drawn up in 1007, this document is chronologically significant for how it helps us mark the date range when Efrayim b.

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The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or Abu-l-Hakan), requesting him to give the bearer wine. […] The subject of the responsum on the recto seems to be wine and wine selling, which makes this a interesting case of paper reuse: the main subject of both the older and the newer documents is wine. It is also possible that the shaykh, mentioned in the verso of the document, is the same Abu al-Ḥasan as in fragments Moss.

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• responsa
• wine

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Inferred date

1160–1169 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a reference to the sea (ʿalā l-baḥr) at the bottom. Also mentions Bū l-Fakhr b. Avraham (l. 3), who may be Saʿadya Ibn al-Amshāṭī, and Avraham b. Eliyya. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

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• ib-addenda
• ib3
• india book unedited

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Document date

Tuesday, 24 Sivan 1471 Seleucid (31 May 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal deed. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Sivan 1471 Seleucid (31 May 1160 CE), under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Tujjār bt. Yiṣḥaq. Groom: Netanʾel b. Efrayim ha-Levi ("Ḥemdat ha-Leviim"). Marriage payments: 30 + 60 = 90, i.e., the marriage gift was 90 dinars, 30 accepted at the time of betrothal by the bride's father. Also one golden ring and two silver rings given at the betrothal.

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• betrothal

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Primary language

Hebrew

The letter reports that the tribes of Gad and Reuben are living in security and prosperity, successful in all their wars and living in perfect piety. Also, the Jews of India are reported to be more powerful than all their neighbors.

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• incunabula
• india
• lost tribes
• messianism
• printed

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Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bearer is a worthy man and has with him a sick girl whom he "wishes to treat," and the bearer himself is also chronically ill and weak of sight. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:513; Norman Golb, “Topography of the Jews of Medieval Egypt,” JNES 33 (1974), 141. See also Goitein's index card) EMS. ASE.a

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

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a letter (written by Ṣedaqa Nes), to the head of the exile, Natan ha-Kohen Sholal (d. 1502) in Cairo (the penultimate Nagid), concerning a fraudulent cheese seller who was fined by Yosef ha-Nagid, a predecessor of Natan, for selling non-kosher cheese as if it was kosher. Also mentions Samuel and his brother Isaac, the Persians, and Moshe Abū Shaʿra. (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index cards.) Earlier description for CUL Or.1080 J174: Confidential letter sent from Jerusalem by Yiṣḥaq to his brother in Cairo.

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• 15th c
• cheese
• nagid

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Inferred date

1138–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq might be from the Ibn al-Fakhr family. Mentions his sorrow over Ḥalfon's illness, which he read about in Ḥalfon's previous letter, and wishes him a full recovery. Apologizes for not being able to write in an eloquent style like Ḥalfon’s, quoting 1 Samuel 17:10, a motif that repeats in several of the letters from al-Andalus. The writer asks for assistance and sends blessings Ibn Migash, his son Meʾir, his brother's son Meʾir, Yaʿqūb and the rest of the 'brothers'. The writer's brother also sends greetings to Ḥalfon; it is possible that he is the author of ח43.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of two letters (see also PGPID 4248) in which he urgently requests cash due to the challenges of the flax harvest and processing operations. […] He claims the workers are demanding premium wages and advance payment. He is also having difficulty finding a boat to ship his flax and madder bales via Busir.

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

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria, ten days after his previous letter (PGPID 9105). […] Abū Naṣr (Shemuʾel, the son of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, the late brother of Yeḥezqel and Ḥalfon, returned from a visit to Ḥalfon in Alexandria but did not bring letters and corals from his uncle that he should have delivered to Abū Yiṣḥaq or letters intended for Yeḥezqel.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham b. Sasson of Alexandria to his relative Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ of Fustat, a maker of Sūsiyāt textiles. […] Then my cousin (ibn ʿammatī) arrived and informed me that you had become ill, and that you had begun to recover, and I and those with me rejoiced and thanked God for that." Saadya also Ṣedaqa if he wants to secure passage on the Byzantine ship that had just arrived.

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• byzantine merchants
• byzantines
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer found a certain item with him (second word of line 7) that evidently had to be sent to the addressee, but it was the eve of Passover, and Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Ṣabbāgh had traveled, so the writer had to send it with the bearer of the present letter, Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen known as Ibn Qasāsa. There are also a few lines of Arabic script at the bottom, oriented 180 degrees to the main text.

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• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered

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Document date

Nisan 1460 Seleucid (12 March 1149–10 April 1149 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan ha-Kohen known as Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Shemuel b. Yehuda known as Ibn Asad, ʿAmram b. […] Menashshe, Peraḥya b. Avraham al-Iskandarānī, Shela b. Simḥa, and Yosef. Dating: mentions Nisan 1460 of the Seleucid Era (= March/April 1149 CE). […] Avraham and Mevorah b. Natan ha-Kohen, who also signs, together with Peraḥya ha-Kohen b. [...]. 2565 barrels of wine (called "ṭamāwiya laṭaf") and various sums in cash are involved as well as the term 'qaṭṭāra.'

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• partnership
• wine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an Alexandrian judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1180. […] The writer's opponent, the president of the congregation, threatened to discontinue the payment of his salary and instead have twenty persons deliver to him their weekly contributions to the quppa. The writer also reports on a legal case (upper margin of verso) involving a man who forced his wife to live in the same house with him and his mother, while he was sick.

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

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Document date

Tuesday, 25 Adar I 4807 Anno Mundi (24 February 1047 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Manṣūr, to go to Ṣōʿan, Egypt (i.e., Fusṭāṭ), to obtain her share of the inheritance that her late uncle Yosef b. Asad al-Tabaranī had deposited with Ḥesed b. Yashar (aka Abū Naṣr b. Sahl al-Tustarī). Witnessed by Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq, Yeshuʿa b. […] Avraham Beḥir ha-Yeshiva), also signed by Avraham b. Iyov, Moshe b. Yefet, and Shelomo b.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Take roasted onion, tamarind fruit (ṣubbāra), seed of the Roman nettle (ḥabb al-qurrayṣ), possibly dirt (? wasakh al-ḥajar), yeast (khamīra), cucumber (khiyār), and boiled chard. All this should be ground up and boiled in chard water and coriander water until it comes together (ḥattā yanʿamil). It should then be applied to a kerchief (khirqa) and applied to the spot (yulṣaq ʿalā l-mawḍiʿ). The next two lines are undeciphered (the words لطخ/stain and بقر/cow appear).

العلامات

• prescription
• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر