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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ismāʿīl asks the addressee to forward to his parents a letter that he has enclosed, perhaps with Toledan traders or Muslim pilgrims returning to Madrid from the ḥajj.

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العلامات

• badajoz
• madrid
• toledo

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1395 Seleucid (16 September 1083–2 September 1084 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein points out that in addition to the partnership funds trusted to Yaḥyā, ‘Ūlla entrusted a consignment of scammony (a medicinal plant) which was “on commission”, suggesting that “business in general was largely conducted on the basis of mutual trust and friendship”.

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العلامات

• commenda
• medicine
• partnership
• trade

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Inferred date

1042–1042 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions in passing near the end the illness of the son of Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen he-Meʿulle.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

He asks for a letter to be sent to Abū ʿAlī al-Sadīd the overseer of official embroidery (mutawallī al-ṭirāz) The letter ends with kissing the hands of 'my lords, the brothers,' and someone else's hand: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . . . . . .

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• tiraz

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

A Fatimid state official by the title ʿAmīd al-Dawla appears in at least seven documents (see: T-S AS 145.353, BL OR 5561A.2, ENA NS 48.20, CUL Or.1080 J156, T-S 10J21.10, and T-S 10J23.2).

العلامات

• dimme
• iqta'
• petition

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Primary language

Hebrew

Description from PGPID 41702: Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb3 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 1.1–6.10 (breaks off at end of fol. 8v); join with Cambridge, T-S K 17.1 (PGPID 41701).

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Primary language

Arabic

ʿAzarya) and to strengthen his position, "so that the slaves' situation will flourish and the estrangement and causes of conflict will disappear from among them," etc. Ends with ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Needs examination.

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العلامات

• daniel b. azarya
• dimme
• petition
• qaraites

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Mostly same names and sums as that list. The entries for the eighth week are in Arabic script.

العلامات

• account
• charity
• communal

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Inferred date

1158–1158 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: 11th or 12th century. Nearly entirely preserved, except for the upper left corner of recto.

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العلامات

• dimme
• morocco

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Document date

Thursday, 26 Elul 1338 Seleucid (1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 26 Elul 1338 Seleucid, which is 1027 CE. ENA NS 7.24 contains a record concerning the same case from several months later (Kislev 1339 Seleucid).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• illness: chronic
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He woke up on Sunday and departed for—the letter ends here. Excerpts: וסוי דלך אנני אתנית אלתקה פי גזה פמא וצל פרבת(?)

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Four pages of drafts of communal accounts, all crossed out [vertical and diagonal strokes], which was usually done after a clean copy was made. Page one is almost entirely identical with the T-S NS J251. The other pages are highly interesting for they contain many instructions by the Nagid Abraham Maimonides showing administrative practices in times of severe hardship.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• avraham maimonides
• communal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 26 Elul 1386 Seleucid (September 1075 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, "his house had been plundered (nuhiba) during the pillage which affected Malīj and the whole region" when the entire population was affected by the plunder (nahb).

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العلامات

• army
• plunder
• unrest

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

My son, Abraham, the firstborn, took the estate, and has not provided me with anything since she died, not even a loaf of bread. I have now entrusted my spirit to God, the exalted, and to you.

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العلامات

• appeal
• communal
• disability
• disability: vision
• disability: women's
• (+ 6 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter was dictated to Abū l-Faraj, who gives his name toward the end of the letter (v9-10); Gil suggests that he is their son.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• arabic address
• distant husband
• famine
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The writer is Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (presumably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, cf. ENA 3927.1 and CUL Or. 1080 J155 for other specimens of his Arabic-script handwriting).

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العلامات

• arabic script

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Inferred date

1101–1101 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Remarkable is the piece of information regarding the entire amount of merchandise that has arrived in ʿAydhāb after the roads were reopened and merchants began receiving "governmental prescripts" (sijillāt al-sulṭān): 9,000/13,000 bales of goods.

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العلامات

• hinge
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib1
• india book
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The main punchline at the end is that the jurisprudents spend all their time sermonizing and issuing fatwas about how wine is forbidden — and as soon as a party starts they say 'forget about the fatwas, pass the wine!'

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العلامات

• popular literature
• wine

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Primary language

Arabic

The currency towards the end "al-nuḥās al-aḥmar al-mutaʿāmil bihā alʾān bi-l-dīyār al-Miṣrīyya" hints toward a plausible dating of this document.

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العلامات

• dimme
• numismatic dating
• pinholes

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Document date

Tammuz 1436 Seleucid (4 June 1125–2 July 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bishr, who appears also in ENA 4011.55) brings Hiba to court. The result of the court’s action was mediation (“tawassaṭū”), and Hiba agreed to pay Mūsā a single dinar, to which the latter would add the balance of three dinars.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• debt
• draft
• natan b. shelomo
• partnership

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Document date

Ṣafar 481 Hijrī (26 April 1088–24 May 1088 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faraḥ and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ checked the ledger of the wakīl and found in it only the entry for the customs of Fustat; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and Ṣāʿid can both testify to this.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• customs
• daftar
• qadi
• wakil al-tujjar

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ירסם באן יקדמה עליכם למא קד ערפת מן אבוותה ונסבה ואן כאן צבי פי אלסן פהו כביר פי אלעלם . . . .אנה קד עקל . . . . On verso there is the end of the letter and the address. There are also two different Arabic-script text blocks, one of which is a medical prescription, and another block in Hebrew resembling another address, mentioning Yehuda.

العلامات

• damsis

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are a few lines of calendrical notes on verso as well as the end of the letter. Excerpts: . . . אללה תעאלי יגעלה שגל כי[ר] . . .

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Document date

Elul 5376 Anno Mundi (14 August 1616–11 September 1616 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This date appears accurate, as the 23rd of Elul fell on a Monday; the first entry appears to be off by one weekday. There are no signatures.

العلامات

• prozbul

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Finally, Shelomo ha-Melammed added a personal message to Yosef at the end of the letter: He asks him to send greetings to Shelomo's cousin (the son of Shelomo's mother's brother) Abu al-Faraj and his two sons Ma'ani abd Abu Majd.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• nar
• tax
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Sherira bar Ḥananya Gaʾon and Hayye bar Sherira to Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal enclosing letters for Yaʿaqov b. Nissim in Qayrawān.

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Document date

Av 1462 Seleucid (16 July 1151–14 August 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than the exact date of the entry's recording thereafter. The parnas Abū Saʿīd b.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• estate of the jerusalemites
• hawala
• qodesh
• suftaja

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Inferred date

1152–1152 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibn Yijū had left Aden suddenly with Sitt al-Dār, and he broke off her engagement with Khalaf b. Bundār's son in Aden. His sudden departure must have caused distrust and fallout.

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العلامات

• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book

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Inferred date

1214–1215 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel, whose father was acquainted with Yosef's deceased brother and their father, and asks him for a robe with which he can enter the synagogue. Yosef and Futūḥ's father was possibly Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ʿIwāḍ, an India trader known from one of Maimonides, Responsa, 1:99–102, no. 62.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• ib2
• india book

2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting is that of Moshe b. Levi (compare ENA NS 68.11). Lines 8-15 are the substance of the petition (وينهي انه قد اشتهى...), which requires further examination.

العلامات

• arabic script
• druggist
• materia medica
• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Hebrew

T-S 10J32.1 is almost completely preserved in a single piece, and contains uniquely the entire text of the folio, although its bottom margin is torn off and lost; its measurements are thus informative, even if the folio’s full dimensions (its bottom margin, and its total height) remain unknown.

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العلامات

• calendar
• controversy

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Document date

1042–1046 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1045 CE (Gil), and at any rate 1042–46 CE (Goitein), as there are no allusions to the conflict with Natan b. Avraham (which ended in 1042 CE) and Daniel b. ʿAzarya has not yet returned to live in Palestine (1045/46 CE).

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العلامات

• daniel b. azarya
• efrayim b. shemarya
• eli b. avraham
• jerusalem
• ramla

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Each of the partners is to receive a copy of the agreement, which is enacted in accordance with both their wills, as well as a specific appraisal (which is not preserved).

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العلامات

• autograph
• food
• halfon b. menashshe
• olive oil
• partnership

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Document date

middle decade of Ṭevet 145[5] Seleucid (20 December 1143–29 December 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(This corresponds to Jumādā II 538 AH, several months prior to the end of the initial lease described in the document.)

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Document date

Friday, 9 Tishrei 1328 Seleucid (14 September 1016 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

It may be no coincidence that this release from partnership obligations is written just before the festival which marks divine release from transgressions in the year which has just ended. Goitein characterizes this as an "industrial" partnership centered around a workshop, because ‘Ammār is identified as a dyer.

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العلامات

• autograph
• dyer
• elhanan b. shemarya
• malij
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿid told him they would split everything 50/50. The entirety of verso deals with how the writer was initially cheated out of his share of the inheritance—it seems by Saʿīd who was in cahoots with their brother-in-law Yaḥyā b. al-Munajjim—and the aftermath.

العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• sicily
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She says, "The muqaddam excommunicated him and killed him before the entire congregation." Defending himself, Yiṣḥaq writes, "You know the ḥamas of the Rīf.

العلامات

• hamas
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• illness: etiology
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Hebrew

He must have gone mad, because he has traveled to a distant land," and you know what the verse says, "The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth" (Proverbs 17:24). So please beseech R.

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العلامات

• late heb
• tax
• turkey

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Document date

Kislev 1430 Seleucid (17 November 1118–16 December 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But Abū l-Ḥasan found himself broken-hearted on separation from his female relatives, so the couple now agreed to live under the same roof as his family again, but (1) to give Sitt al-Nasab a separate apartment in the house, (2) that Abū l-Ḥasan’s mother and sisters would not be allowed to enter it, (3) that they are forbidden from requesting as much as a matchstick from Sitt al-Nasab.

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العلامات

• family drama
• patrilocal residence
• register

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Document date

14 Kislev 1318 Seleucid (7 November 1006 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The upper part of the document is missing, but the reconstruction, as proposed by Assaf, would be approximately as follows: "This is what happened before us, the undersigned witnesses, on the date of ... We entered the house of ... and found her sick in her bed, etc."

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العلامات

• 11th c
• deathbed will

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The nāʾib has acknowledged that he received Ṣāliḥ in his town, in the majlis of the deputy of the Ṣāḥib al-Ḥarb of al-Sharqiyya province. The report ends after a few more faded lines, with a version of a raʾy clause; evidently the Nagid Shemuel is expected to intervene and achieve some kind of justice for the heirs.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Ṭayyib; Nāṣir b. Bū Saʿd. See also ENA NS 11.11 (PGPID 12712). Several of the same individuals (Bū l-Faraj b.

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