Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

May be addressed to somebody whose name begins with Zakiyy (...al-mawlawī al-saʿīdī al-shaykh Zakiyy...). The addressee is asked to write a letter to the sender's father with his news. Mentions Alexandria. Reports that Abū l-Ḥasan is in Damascus. Mentions Moshe al-Ḥabashī (the same as in T-S Ar.54.24? That letter looks earlier, though).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 8 Rajab 657 Hijrī (1 July 1259 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The deceased is Saʿdiyya bt. Yūsuf al-Yahūdi. Her father, Yūsuf, is the heir. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Rajab 657 AH, which is 1 July 1259 CE. Witnesses: Hibatallāh b. Faḍāʾil; Bū Saʿd b. Yūsuf b. Sālim. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

العلامات

• death
• inheritance
• report of death

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī coin– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Conveys interesting details about misfortunes and financial transactions, faded but mostly legible.

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks for tidings of the Nagid Abū l-Ḥ[asan?]. Abū l-Faḍl told the writer that he had sent some dinars and some wax to the writer with a certain judge. The wax is to be given to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Iskandarānī.

1 نسخ

Document date

4977 Anno Mundi (15 September 1216–3 September 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged and faded. Recto: Possibly a legal document or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. […] It refers to "the breaking of the seal of the chest/storehouse of books" (bi-fakk khatm khizānat al-kutub). The context is missing.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a report or petition with a tarjama in the right column part of which reads as al-Mamlūk Muḥammad. The document begins with the standard taqbīl formula and the inhāʾ clause with a ḥasbala at the bottom. Apart from the first two lines the entire document has faded and is difficult to read. Dating: late. Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Peraḥya to an unidentified addressee or addressees (the address is too faded to read). Possibly addressed to a group of pietists. […] Only the upper part of recto is preserved, and all the content here is formulaic. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL.)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: papers (awrāq), riqāʿ, the judge Menaḥem and the son of the judge (Ibn al-Dayyan); dodder (aftīmūn); Ibn Abū l-Zakkār; business transactions; R. Elʿazar; something related to gallnuts (מנאב אלעפץ); pine resin (ʿilk ṣanawbar); and Bū l-Faḍl b. Miṣbāḥ.

العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal document (unfinished draft) concerning a financial agreement between Ibrahim b. Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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العلامات

• 13th c

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts with Hebrew numerals (with the < symbol standing for 1/2). Names include Abū l-Faḍl, Maḥāsin; Mufaḍḍal, Makārim al-Khāmī and his partner; Bū Saʿd b.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender's name is probably too faded to read. Opens with many eloquent expressions of praise and longing. […] On verso there is an alphabetical exercise. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Order of payment in Arabic script in which Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) asks Bū l-Faḍl to give the bearer a quarter-pound of bees' honey (ʿasal naḥl).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th century. Damaged and faded; difficult to extract any information. Mentions sending something with the couriers (fuyūj). […] Mentions Tripoli (Libya), al-Mahdiyya, Abū ʿImrān Mūsā, Nizārī dinars,

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He tells Eliyyahu the Judge to go together with Abū l-Faḍlal-jābī (the collector) and the messenger of the amir to the house of the glassmaker (or 'the house of glass (manufacture?)')

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• eliyyahu b. zekharia

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sent from Jerusalem (min al-quds, l. 2). Extremely faded. Dating: Probably 11th century.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). On recto Abū l-Faḍl is mentioned but there is too little text to contextualize. […] The widow of the Cretan (al-Iqrīṭishī) and Umm מנידו (a Greek name?) are each given 2 (dirhams?).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Entries mention: Bū Naṣr a dyer (ṣabbāgh); a transfer (ḥawwāla) from Bū l-ʿIzz; Bū l-Faḍl b. Mardūkh; Bū l-Faraj an assayer (naqqād); Ibn Nājī al-Sharābī; Maʿānī b. al-Dayyan; Ibn Abū ʿImrān Levi Sharābī; Bū Saʿd Kohen; Bū l-Munā. On verso it says "al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Samawʾal (סמוול)." The last person mentioned is known from several other documents from the early 13th century.

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العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: ca. 11th–12th century. Abū Aṭibbāʾ b. Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Aṭibbāʾ the Jew buys 1/4 of a shop from [Sitt al-]Kuttāb bt. […]; 1/2 of the property belongs to her. Also mentioned are Ṣāʿid b. Shukr and his wife ʿAzīza bt. Ḥāmid, who may also be buying or already own part of the same shop.

العلامات

• sale

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The testator is a woman [...] bt. Avraham ha-Levi al-Jubaylī, the widow of Abū l-Faḍlal-Dimashqī.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regards to various people including Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shofeṭ and Hiba. There is a postscript on verso. Mentions Ibn Yeḥezqel; Abū l-Faḍl b. al-[...]; green walnut; two pillows and two dabīqī somethings; and ʿEzra b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. Dating: 1127–38 CE, in light of the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon mentioned, which is dated only from the summer of 1127 onward. The case involves Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Shemuel and [Saʿadya] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, known as Salāma b. [...] and the rental value of a property.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document or documents. Very faded. Dated: 4[..]4 AM, which only narrows it down to 1234 CE at the latest (likely 11th or 12th century). Location: likely Alexandria but theoretically could be any coastal city that uses the AM reckoning (דעל כיף ימא רבה מותבה).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

154[.] Seleucid (2 September 1228–10 September 1238 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Mentions "Abū l-Surūr al-madhkūr." Needs examination. Verso: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. […] Seleucid = 1228–38 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. It is too faded to read much of the substance. Seems to involve Ṭahor b. Elʿazar making a declaration about al-Rayyis Abū l-[...] Meʾir ha-Rofeʾ b. [...] ha-Sar.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various expenses, for example for bread and communal officials, as well as names for alms distribution. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. Names include: the cantor Yiftaḥ; the house of Daniʾel; Bū l-Faḍl; the cleaner (al-munaqqī) Yosef; the beadles; two Byzantine women; a Tripolitan; a judge (the dayyan); Mufaḍḍal; the judge Menashshe; Ibn Saʿdān b.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Abū l-Faḍāʾil the cantor begs for money from Sitt Futūn, who also helped fund the construction of the synagogue (!)

العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• sitt futun
• tax
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of gift, or possibly a power of attorney appointing Abu l-Faḍl to collect the money and/or goods mentioned. […] (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, 225; also Goitein index cards.)

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العلامات

• gift

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of release, probably. Faded and rubbed. Shelomo b. [...] and Abū l-Faraj Yehuda make a declaration in favor of ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi (known also from ENA 4011.73, dated 1100 CE, and several other documents).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu. Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl gives to his wife Sitt al-Sāda a small house adjoining his own large house situated at the Khalīj.

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Document date

14 Jumādā II 559 Hijrī (9 May 1164 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAṭiyya and Bint Muṭṭalib in front of the qāḍī ʿImād al-Dawla Abū l-Faḍāʾilal-Ḥasan b. al-Khiyār b. ʿAlī, judge in Cairo. Written by Ghanāʾim b. Muḥammad the muezzin. […] The scribe is the qāḍī ʿImād al-Dawla (according to Tillier and Vanthieghem).

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العلامات

• muslim marriage contract

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of verso are narrated as secondhand reports ("he said... he said... he said..."). […] The Mongols entered the narrator's city on Simḥat Torah and plundered it, taking captive al-Nasi al-Fakhr, his wife Sitt al-Ruʾasāʾ, his brothers, his sister, and his 2-year-old son. […] Fustat?). Everything that al-Nasi al-Fakhr had, clothing or otherwise, has been lost.

العلامات

• children
• mongols
• mosul nasis
• muqaddam
• poverty
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. Very faded. Mentions Abū Yaʿaqov and maybe Abū l-Faḍl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

middle third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid (21 April 1103–30 April 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet, permits to use 50 dinars out of the 74 dinars left to them, for urgent repairs of a house in in the alley of מכיל, Old Cairo, left to them also. The money is held by the syrup maker Abū l-Faḍl Shela b.

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العلامات

• construction
• orphans

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā, Ṣalaḥ and Isḥāq the sons of Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal and to his sons Hillel and Benyamin. […] The addressee had asked for news of Abū l-Faḍl Ḥisday b. Ḥalābū. The senders report that they have received no good news from al-Andalus for some time, only news of wars. They have sent a bale for the addressee on behalf of Abū ʿImrān Mūsā Ibn al-Majjānī. (Information in part from Gil.)

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shabbā, al-Andalus, to Spain Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, probably 1138–39. […] He adds two stanzas about the fading of the sun and its light, and with them, the nullification of the joy of life, which he likens to perfume and myrrh. Also sends greetings to Yiṣḥaq b. ʿOvadya and Abū ʿAmr b.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment: difficult to read, faded, long, in Judaeo-Arabic. The recipient is addressed as מעלתך. […] The writer mentions "al-Rayyis." On verso he says, "As for what Sayyidnā said regarding [.....] they wait for me, I will nevertheless [? […] Toward the bottom he mentions al-sharīʿa and someone getting lashes [yuḍrab malqot].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Middle third of Shevaṭ 1441 Seleucid (23 January 1130–1 February 1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement between Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Bārūtī of Qalyūb and the daughter of his late brother Abū l-Faḍl who was also his business partner.

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Document date

1507 Seleucid (7 September 1195–25 August 1196 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A sum of 22 dinars is mentioned; a period of two years; and the dower (mahr) of "his daughter" Sitt al-ʿIzz. The document is very faded, but more should be legible with effort. Verso seems to be a continuation of recto, and also mentions a mu'akhkhar (delayed marriage payment) perhaps of 50 dinars.

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العلامات

• moshe b. levi ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī to his father Abū l-ʿIzz b. Faḍāʾil. In Judaeo-Arabic, in rhymed prose. The portion preserved here consists mostly of very eloquent expressions of heartsickness and longing.

العلامات

• heartsickness
• ophthalmia

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Fragment of an extremely faded legal document on verso. The only legible portions include a signature and a partial date of Adar II 5[...] […] The signature reads [Yom?] Ṭov b. Yeshūʿa Ben-Alu.ī(?). It is currently unclear whether the final part of the signature is part of the surname or an honorific.

العلامات

• cmp
• early modern

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions Saturday and "Mawlāya al-Shaykh". Damaged and faded to glean any content.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Netanʾel; Faḍāʾil ha-Talmid; al-Maṣmūdī; [...] bt. Abū ʿUmar; [...] b.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recipe of some kind, very faded. Legible phrases include "al-zūfā wa-l-sunbul"—the hyssop and the spikenard (?

العلامات

• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: 15th–17th century. Addresses Aharon and Mordekhay, one or both of whom may be the sender's maternal uncle (khālī). […] Regards to various people, mostly called al-muʿallim (אלמעלים), including Raḥamim, Shelomo, and Ibrāhīm.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. It is exceedingly faded. The largest block of still-preserved text, at the bottom of recto, includes the phrases "I assailed them (saṭawtu ʿalayhim) [and said to them], 'You seek evil things!'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic with sums of money (all listed as "nuṣf" except for one listed as 1 dinar), probably a contributors list. Names: Abū l-Ṭāhir; Thiqat al-Mulk; Abū l-Aʿlā; [...] b. Tammām; Abū Isḥāq b. […] Isḥāq; Abū l-Barakāt b. al-[...]; al-Shaykh al-[...] b. al-Peʾer; Abū l-Faḍlal-Parnas.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Concludes with the attestations of two judges: al-Qāḍī al-ʿAfīf Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥasan b. Jaʿfar b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUmar and al-Qāḍī al-Asʿad Najīb b. Manṣūr b. Yaḥyā. Underneath there are two lines of faded Judaeo-Arabic, certifying that this was copied verbatim by Netanʾel b. Halfon (likely the same as in T-S NS 309.12 (PGPID 1456) although there is no אל ligature in his signature here).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (lower right piece). Very faded. Mentions a shop and Abū l-Faḍl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Record of the donation of one quarter of a compound by Sitt al-Naẓar bt. Ḥalfon to the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1161 CE. She also donates one-sixth of the same compound to Faḍāʾil b. […] After her death it will go to him, to his son, and to his mother Sitt al-Dār. After that, this part also will pass into the possession of the qodesh.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter (end only) referring to difficult events that happened to Sayyidnā and the people of Fustat and Cairo, apparently delivered with an item of clothing that al-Shams/Shammās R. Yishaq had worked hard to mend. […] Verso: Note in a different hand addressed to the writer's 'brother', who is instructed to send the bolt of cloth (yeriʿa) without writing (alladhī bi-lā kitāba) or whose writing had faded (alladhī balā kitābuh) that was on the bench (ṣuffa). The writer informs the recipient that sayyidnā al-rayyis came to the synagogue and raised money until noon and then returned to Fustat.

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