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Document date

Tishrei 5304 Anno Mundi (30 August 1543–28 September 1543 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

In the second contract, Shalom agrees to pay Abraham the same amount using gold peraḥim (ducat equivalents) from the coinage of Sultan Sulaymān. An exchange rate is given: every peraḥ is worth 59.5 ʿuthmānīs.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The last two items on the verso are in Aramaic, for killing spirits and for a woman whose sons has died." Information from Penn catalog.

العلامات

• magic
• prescription
• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1500–1560 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: 16th century (Avraham Castro died in 1560). The writer had a position overseeing trade or taxation in Alexandria.

العلامات

• 16th c
• castro
• late heb

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record of an adoption in which a man 'sells' his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a prominent lady for five dinars and promises that he will not interfere with the girl's upbringing.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

2 Muḥarram 1138 Hijrī (10 September 1725 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The transaction takes place in ghurūsh/guruş, a silver coin minted by the Ottoman Empire as early as 1690 CE but did not reach wide circulation until 1703 CE, and one piastre/guruş hypothetically equaled 40 para/medin.

العلامات

• real estate

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28 Nisan 5492 Anno Mundi (23 April 1732 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The dated passage on the verso might not be directly associated with the recto yet is in the same hand and offers useful information on the coinage involved: "mayedes / מאיידיס" or Ottoman silver medin.

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العلامات

• ladino
• list
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

The corresponding eastern Arabic numerical figures are likely expressing monetary sums in silver coinage (which is referenced at the top of each column as "פצה").

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham al-Lādiqī and that she was married to אבן אלמנחמה, who divorced her and died. Information from Goitein's note card.

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العلامات

• divorce

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Begging letter, probably, in elegant script informing the addressee that his brother Abū l-Baqā al-Tājir used to give charity to the writer and help his family with the capitation tax, but he has now died without a will. The remainder of the letter is missing the ends of the lines; it involves the late Abū l-Baqā's daughters and niece.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal between two possible cousins (both named Levi), a groom whose father had died and a bride called Baghdad with a wedding gift of 25 dinars and the promise of the groom to be responsible for the payment of the expenses of the wedding which was to take place seven months later.

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العلامات

• betrothal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

4738 Anno Mundi (17 September 977–4 September 978 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Kabir about the receipt of a shipment belonging to a person who had died, Qayrawan, 978. Avraham b. Kabīr asks for approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Qimoy b. al-Ḥasan.

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2

العلامات

• 10th c
• qayrawan
• testimony

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David to summon a Maghribi named Abu Dawud Khayyat, whose grown-up son had died and whose wife is critically ill with dysentery and fears that she will not see her husband again.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: dysentery
• illness: furqa
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1025–1032 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032 CE), Fustat, probably December 1028.

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العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: after the death of Evyatar Gaʾon, who died before 1112 CE. There is a long introduction.

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1066–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to Yemen (maybe he died there); and another person [...] b. [...]n ha-Levi.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the margin: "As for the 70 dinars that my brother mentioned, it is the last of the sale that we made (or: from the last sale that we made). . . and my husband collected it and went out and died." See PGPID 2959

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• legal query

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān thawr Shāmī), white sugar, rose water, ambergris (ʿanbar) and basil (rayḥān). The diet is specified in the margin. Ends, "beneficial God willing" (nāfiʿ Inshallah).

العلامات

• dimme
• ib-addenda
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Conveying the heartsickness (fasting, weeping) of everyone at home and telling the addressee that attaining the world (al-dunyā) will not be worth this if a certain woman in the house (his mother?) dies in his absence. On verso there is unrelated Hebrew poetry.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On recto there are medical recipes recommended as diuretics and diaphoretics, and advice on diet. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "all that my son left" (when he died?) (line 4) and Upper Egypt and Yemen and another geographical location that begins with אלאס.

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1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• ib6
• india book unedited

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

8 Tammuz (4900) Anno Mundi (25 June 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender gives the names of the Jewish traders who died and who survived, including (among those who died) Ibn al-Shumūs (whose drowning is also mentioned in doc. 76).

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3

العلامات

• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين

Document date

Friday, 6 Ṭevet 5211 Anno Mundi (11 December 1450 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The currency used is the gold ashrafī (first referred to with the generic name "peraḥim" and then glossed within the document as "the coin of the king of Egypt, called ashrafī"). Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15 ashrafīs.

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1 مناقشة

Document date

Iyyar 5547 Anno Mundi (19 April 1787–17 May 1787 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

A wide array of numerical figures are expressed in silver medin coinage, which appears here though the abbreviation " מאיי ".

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العلامات

• 18th c
• izmir
• krispin
• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1732–1732 CE

Primary language

Ladino

This fragment's join mentions the usage of silver medin coinage which may carry over to the figures listed here.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• ladino
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

In Ladino. Mentions the Ottoman coin para. The writer reports that the addressee's son Eliezer is in Tripoli, which he knows because he received a letter from Eliezer the same day the caravan from Egypt arrived.

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2

العلامات

• ladino
• para
• safed

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid (29 November 1238 CE)

Goitein's index card suggests that the Nagid at this time is already David I, but it is not clear if he deduced that from the phrases in the document or if he already knew that Avraham died before this date. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains that the bustān is ruined: the livestock have died of hunger and the produce has dried up, and al-rayyis Abū Isḥāq has taken possession of the bustān.

العلامات

• agriculture

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya testify that a certain Shabbetay and his brother both died in Antalya (this is inserted above the line, באנטאליה).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Court record. Mentions a woman who died and a dispute over an inheritance involving Abū Isḥāq Yoshiyya (the same as in T-S 12.37 (PGPID 3143)?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Isaacs (1994) suggests that it presents a ‘diet for invalids’ but does not explain why. Also includes firewood and fuel, and in Judaeo-Arabic upside down, myrtle.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender bemoans his or her wretched fate: "My son died in a foreign land... my son-in-law was slaughtered... do not ask, my brother, about our debts... if I could have written this with my tears, I would have done so."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yisra'el mentions the fact that many people died and much property was lost in the Maghrib. The letter also discusses prices, the addressee's going to the Fayyūm, and the problem of the quarter-dinars brought by refugees from the west.

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2

العلامات

• suftaja

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that the old woman who was in the house of Bū Isḥāq died and that she was buried on Wednesday the 15th of Av.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Barhūn informs that a shipment of goods is on its way, mentions that a few relatives are in Sūsa, and shares his willingness to send his father's bones to Jerusalem (his father died in 1049). (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, pp. 302-303, #383).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• corpse
• family

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة