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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He then asks, "Whenever al-Shaykh al-Ṭāhir al-Nā'ib visits you, make sure to detain him and send word to me so that I can come and ask him about something that some people told me that he can take care of."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

2 نسخين

Document date

421 Hijrī (9 January 1030–28 December 1030 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Refers once to a tawqīʿ and later to "al-tawqīʿ al-muʿaẓẓam al-muʾarrakh bi-[...]" (the mighty decree/rescript that is dated [...]).

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Document date

1 Ḥeshvan 5326 Anno Mundi (26 September 1565 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Recto: legal document mainly in Hebrew, detailing the financial arrangements between the woman Sitt al-Bayt b. Aharon al-Tājir (the merchant), her husband Yūsuf/Yosef al-Najjār (the carpenter), and her brother Yehuda and mother Najma.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Friday, 9 Nisan 5025 Anno Mundi (27 March 1265 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hanāʾ, the wife of Khuḍayr al-Qalyūbī, promises to pay 10 nuqra dirhams to Sadīda bt. Abū Naṣr al-Ṣabbāgh for 6 pearls of amber (kharaz ʿanbar), otherwise she will be liable to excommunication (taḥt al-nidduy).

العلامات

• qalyub

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Umm Sālim, probably in Fustat, to her sister Umm Salāma, in the house of al-Ḥemdat b. Pinḥas, in New Cairo (based on ENA NS 2.11). […] She is worried about her son Sālim who has traveled to Byzantium. Mentions Muʿammar Ibn al-Jāzfīnī (or al-Ghāzfīnī). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. ʿE[li] the cantor Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to the dignitary Moshe b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen. The sender wishes to get a position in Alexandria, Fustat, or Cairo. He mentions his pain for the death of "the lily" (אלשושנה) of Abū Isḥāq (a daughter?)

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Document date

Heshvan 5570 Anno Mundi (11 October 1809–8 November 1809 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Partnership agreement from Cairo, for partners in the "ṣarraflık trade" who were working for a state bureau (דיואן אלמירי) under Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Dated Heshvan 5570 (= 1809 CE), between Yaʿaqov ha-Levi (known as ʿAkubas) and Moshe Ṣevi (known as Ḥbāk). Line 6 also mentions ʿAkubas' business dealings with a certain Kheḍūr Shuweka (Choueka).

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العلامات

• 19th c
• feathers
• livorno
• sarraflik

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (Barakāt al-Muʿallim) to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd ('the father'—evidently an elder relative).

العلامات

• gift
• wine

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman to her mother ʿAzza al-ʿIblāniyya (from Iʿbillīn, a village in western Galilee), in Fustat. She is asked by her daughter to save her from her husband, life with whom was hell (l. 10), and who wants to take her, against her will, to his native town of Aleppo. The daughter asks her mother to come herself or send a proxy.

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العلامات

• aleppo
• marital strife
• women's letters

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If he intends to travel he should swear that he would settle his affairs with Mufaddal b. al-Maqdisi in Bilbays immediately. Also mentions a company traveling to Jerusalem.

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العلامات

• hat
• turban

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

7 Elul 4825 Anno Mundi (11 August 1065 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yisraʾel ‘the lame’ authorizes Avraham b. David al-Kafarmandī, to bring his wife al-Ḥasana b. Sahlān (known as Ibn al-Zajjāj ‘the glazier’), from Fusṭāṭ to Ramla.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• eliyyahu b. shelomo
• guardianship

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Vague and somewhat long-winded. Refers to: "al-nawba al-mubāraka"; sending various things; preoccupation on account of others; something which arrived, which the sender was worried would be damaged on the road, and which he is keeping with him until he can find someone to send it with. […] It closes with greetings to Sayyid al-Kull and his son, and to Abū Saʿd. (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. ʿAdāya. See also Goitein's note cards (attached and #27116).

العلامات

• disability
• disability: poverty
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid and Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen (also signed ENA 3475.5 (PGPID 11347)). There is a diagram in the right margin. […] Verso: Arabic and Hebrew jottings (mentioning the son of Sayyid al-Kull?) and a drawing. (Information mainly from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is hard to get wheat, and the writer tries to provide wheat to his family, and asks Nahray for his help. Also mentions lacquer and silk. The writer is worried about his family and asks that his son, Abū l-Ḥusayn will keep studying with the teacher (al-muʿallim).

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef Ibn Alqāsh, in Alexandria, to Yehuda ibn Sighmar, in Fustat.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Question submitted to "sayyidnā," it seems the Head of the Karaite community, about a case that had come before the governor/chief of police (wālī) of Alexandria. One of the writer's opponents was Ibn al-Laḥḥām, who had been under a ban of excommunication for 25 years for having a child with a woman lacking kashrut (according to Karaite law).

العلامات

• excommunication
• qaraites
• wali

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Spain and dating to the 12th century (based on layout, handwriting, style, and names—an Ibn al-Khāzin and an Abū Ayyūb appear in the correspondence of Ḥalfon b. […] Contains an eloquent opening and mentions the synagogue, difficult circumstances, Ibn al-Shāmī, and Abū Ayyūb. In the address on verso the addressee appears to be called "ha-Rav ha-Gadol."

1 مناقشة

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1411 Seleucid (19 October 1099–16 November 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ismaʿīl (known as Nabāta al-Maghribī). He wills out of his total assets of 111 1/4 dinars, after the burial expenses, one dinar to Ismāʿīl the son of his brother and all the rest to his sister Umm al-Yumn and to her two children Ibrāhīm and Mawlāt.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including Ibn Ḥashīsh; Ibn al-Dāya; Abū l-Munajjā; Abū l-Ḥasan Natan al-Sheviʿi; al-Peʾer; Abū Manṣūr; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Surūr.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlā Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dating: 29 December 1057 CE (Gil) or ca. 1066 CE (Goitein). News has come from Egypt concerning a severe epidemic (wabā'), and the writer is worried and asks for news of the addressee as well as of the merchandise that he had sent to be sold in Egypt. The writer also encloses a letter for Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Dā'ūd b.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• suftaja

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1069 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1069 (Gil).The writer writes how two ships had sunk together with their merchants and goods. He also describes doing business both with Jewish and Muslim merchants from Sicily and mentions Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ and the ʿushr tax imposed in Sicily on imported goods.

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العلامات

• 'ushr
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• ships
• tax

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to the Head of the Jews of Egypt (Moshe b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Ketubba. Location: Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1143 CE. Bride: Zayn al-Dār bt.

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1 مناقشة

Document date

12 Ḥeshvan 1467 Seleucid (10 October 1155 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Avraham. Signed by Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen, Nadiv b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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العلامات

• ketubba

2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by the Palestinian cantor, Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī/Ghāzfīnī, praising his host Hillel, the elder son of prince Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, and asking Hillel to come to his rescue after he had traveled to Alexandria, where he hoped to make money with his vocal art, but incurred debts and pawned some of his indispensable belongings.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 4834 Anno Mundi (29 June 1074–27 July 1074 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This PGP record is for the copy of the earlier legal document embedded within T-S 28.6r (PGPID 3573), ll. 8–57. Location: Zuwaylat al-Mahdiyya. Dated: Tammuz 4834 = June/July 1074 CE. Power of attorney in which Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba al-Miṣrī appoints Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Moshe al-Qarawī as her agent to collect her property from her mother and sister.

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العلامات

• power of attorney

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee's mother and sister were involved in an affair of 220 copper dirhams belonging to the widow of Abū l-Surūr who had 'screamed' against her 'oppressor.' The qāḍī had already dealt with the matter which was a "desecration of the name of God in public" (חילול השם בפרהסיא). Also mentions 'sayyidnā,' R. Efrayim, and Rabbenu Ḥananʾel.

العلامات

• muslim courts
• screaming

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramlī, announcing to him that five boats had arrived from Suwaydiyya, the port of Antioch, carrying gallnuts, jujube, raisins, walnuts, sumac and tragacanth gum, and specifying the prices of these goods.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Detailing sums collected from various people (Maḥfūḍ, Bū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, Hilāl, Makkī(?)). Also detailing what is owed by Bū l-Faraj and others.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each other for their collective goal of serving their master "khidmat mālik al-riqq", probably a reference to the Fatimid caliph. For the use of the phrase "khidmat mālik al-riqq", see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples; and see T-S Ar. 42.162 (PGPID 21115).

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4856 Anno Mundi (3 September 1095–19 September 1096 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Might mention business in al-Mahdiyya (per an earlier description but it's immediately clear where this is written). The document on verso specifies the location as Alexandria and is dated 4856 AM = 1095/96 CE. (It looks like בתתנו is written but the only way to make sense of this is as דתתנו.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Perhaps this is a petition or appeal for help (...min kiswatin wa-ʿāda ilā l-bāb al-ʿazīz... ṣuḥbata Bū l-Faraj...). In the copious space remaining, there are writing exercises (including an effort to copy the original lines). On verso there are writing exercises in Hebrew script. There is also some additional Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

561 Hijrī (1165 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. 'What remains to him' of dyed silk (al-ḥarīr al-muṣabbagh) and wariq dirhams.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Concerns Muḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad known as al-Ṭaḥḥān ("the Miller") and al-Muʿallim Muḥammad b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The main crux of the matter seems to be preserved on the verso towards the end of the letter and is about the capitation tax: "shughlī maʿ l-dīwān wa shughl qalbī fī hādihi l-jawālī" (my preoccupation with the government bureau and my anxiety surrounding this capitation tax). The letter is almost fully preserved, and there might also be a date.

العلامات

• capitation tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. Aslama b. ʿAbi Zayd (a dealer in dates) buys part of a shop from Aḥmad b. Ibrahim b. Muḥammad al-Muzanī. The shop’s boundaries extend to the property of the heirs of Shuʿayb (dealer in dates) and the heirs of Ilyās b. […] The store is located in the Dār al-Tammārin. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

last third of Rabīʿ I 512 Hijrī (12 July 1118–21 July 1118 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Sale of a one-fourth of a new portion of a small house (duwayra) in Fustat by Ḥassan b. Shabbat the Jew to ʿAlī b. […]. Verso: Legal document concerning the same individual. Khan reads the seller's name as Ḥusayn ibn Shabāb and the buyer's name as ʿ Alī b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, known as Ibn al-Ṣīnī (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso: "...set sail for al-Aflayah (אלאפלאיה). . . I was waiting, and news arrived. . ." […] Pedro Teixeira wrote in the 17th century, en route from Baghdad to Aleppo, ""We halted in a plain that the Arabs call Aflayah, the name of a town from which the whole district is so called."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)), and also cut into a similar shape as his other fragments.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib6

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning 20 dinars and people including Ibn Bundār (likely one of the prominent merchants of Aden known from the India Book documents), Abū Saʿīd (the speaker), Abū l-Ḥusyan Ibn al-Sharā[bī], Aḥmad al-Wazzān who lives (al-muqīm) in a place whose name is missing, and a partnership in a bale of a commodity.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. […] He refers in vague terms to some good news or advice and urges Peraḥya to act on it. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef known as Ibn Bānūqa (who also features in CUL Or.1081 J30 and several other documents from this period) and Nissim b. […] ʿAmram; Tammām. Join: Alan Elbaum. AA/ASE

العلامات

• partnership
• qayrawan

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Bū Sahl (Menashshe) Ibn (al-)Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the Ghuzz; 'the crosses' (al-ṣulbān) - perhaps a reference to the Crusaders; possibly the rise of a military hero; possibly an allusion to Ṣārim al-Dawla (تصرم دولة . . .); Damascus, Jerusalem, Yāfā(?)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

623 Hijrī (2 January 1226–21 December 1226 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Each page is headed "the wheat sold in the name of Abū Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Sukkarī." Dated: ca. 623 AH = 1226 CE. […] One entry refers to "the captain of the ship" (raʾīs al-markab).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) […] The name "his slave Khalaf b. ʿAlī" appears at the upper left. A disbursement to the ghilmān of mawlānā is mentioned.

العلامات

• matbakh
• sugar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Ḥasan; another is [Sham]s al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥannā(?); another is a phrase from a letter (فلا يوحش من جلال المولى ادام الله توفيقه); at the bottom there is the text of a capitation tax (jizya) receipt for Abū l-Faraj b. Bū l-Ḥasan for his tax in Alexandria for the year 600-something AH. Needs further examination.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Masʿūd, leader of the archers in Alexandria of long experience (since the day of al-Kāmil) is asking that two boys he trained be employed in his unit.

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العلامات

• archer
• ghulam

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