Documents

Document date

Tuesday, 9 Shaʿbān 514 Hijrī (3 November 1120 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel ha-Levi and traveled constantly between Alexandria, Fustat, and Qalyūb. Recto, right page: the Arabic-script entry involves a basket of arsenic (quffa zarnīkh) weighing 107 raṭls. […] Verso, right page: Judaeo-Arabic entry, also for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf, dated: Wednesday, 10 Kislev (i.e., the day after the 9 Shaʿbān Arabic entry from recto). […] Inside the purse there is another purse with 15 dinars whose weight is 14.5. Altogether there are 88 dinars (this seems off by 1).

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to his son Farah, Fustat. Dating: November 1056. The writer describes the terrible famine in Egypt, which even leads to cases of eating people. The writer also describes the epidemic in the area. Despite all that, business continues. […] As for Qayrawān, no one remains there [alive? or who has not fled?]—may God preserve you in health.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• famine
• idbara binding
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Document date

last third of Shevaṭ 1471 Seleucid (31 January 1160–9 February 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Sefaradi) invested 65 dinars with the merchant (al-tājir) Abū l-Ḥasan Toviyya b. Abū Saʿd Shemuel ha-Levi the merchant, who is also known as Ibn Ṭībān, as a commenda, with profits to be split evenly between the two. […] Avraham ha-Sar Nānū collects an additional 10 dinars, which he had also advanced Ḥiyya. The document does not specify any initial partnership stipulations in terms of losses, but the court seems to have ruled that Abū l-Ḥasan was liable for one-third of the losses of 26 dinars (eight and two-thirds dinars). Having already repaid 40 dinars, he still owes seven and two-thirds dinars.

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4

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1

العلامات

• business
• commenda
• lawsuit
• wheat

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Our Yehuda is mentioned en passant in a revealing passage: "This year there arrived in Egypt (diyār miṣr) from a town in Europe (diyār al-[r]ūm) called Narbonne—the town famous for its scholars (ʿulamāʾ) and righteous men (fuḍalāʾ)—a man whose superior in knowledge, piety, and reverence has not arrived from those parts (min tilka al-diyār) since the great rav (al-rav al-kabīr), our master Yehuda Rosh ha-Seder, may his memory be blessed." […] The letter implies, therefore, that he had arrived from a Christian country, possibly Italy (usually termed "the land of al-rūm" in the Geniza), and had, therefore, obtained at least part of his learning within a non- Islamic environment. Quite likely, he had also spent time in an Arabic-speaking Jewish community (Qayrawān?)

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1

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Needs examination. There is also some Hebrew literary text.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note(s) from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Hibatallāh, concerning fatwās.

العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

30 Muḥarram 1240 Hijrī (24 September 1824 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The receipt was issued by the state silk monopoly administration in Alexandria.

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1

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1

العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• ben na'im
• late arabic script
• receipt
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Presumably a list of debts or payments. Mentions dār al-hadīda and dār al-ṣ[arf?] and nails.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On recto there is a piyyut also written by him

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1

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Document date

9 Heshvan 4797 Anno Mundi (31 October 1036 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed, drawn up in a Jerusalem court in the hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda, who also signs. Dated 9 Heshvan 4797 AM (October 1036 CE).

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2

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1

العلامات

• jerusalem
• shelomo b. yehuda

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to "the noble order" (al-amr al-ajall) and possibly the year 45[.] AH (=1058–67 CE).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions arṭāl Miṣr, the quantity of half raṭl, and the occurrence of the transaction/event in the presence of a judge (bī-ḥuḍūr al-Qāḍī al-ʿazīz).

العلامات

• dimme

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Oath to be made by [...] al-Parnas b. Yaʿaqov regarding 12 dinars owed to him by Avraham al-Malījī b.

1 مناقشة

Ḥalfon ha-levi. On the same page is also a literary halakhic discussion of whether a woman is legally trustworthy (ne'emenet) or not.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Addressed to al-Kohen al-Peqid(?). Giving instructions concerning a visit(?)

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1

العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• unedited judge eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly a letter, as catalogued on FGP. But these may also be praises for Moses, if the first two words are Mt.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The readable words are "al-layālī", "al-tawqīʿāt", "mutawassiṭ" and "mutawassiṭ radī."

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Beginning of a date "dhū l-qaʿda" and a sum of 1/4(?) dīnār. Could also be receipt of tax. Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ibn ʿAqnīn's (d.1220) Inkishāf al-Asrār wa-Ẓuhūr al-Anwār (commentary on the Song of Songs).

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1

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions the addressee's wife on recto and Alexandria in the address on verso. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions specifically the tiles of the mosque. Also "the properties of the government in [...].".

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poem and dirge also written by Yosef. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• responsum

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Two rhymed letters between the brothers Shemuʾel and Shelomo, on the subject of wine. See also Goitein's index card, and cf. T-S 8J15.15 (same brothers).

العلامات

• brothers
• wine

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This may be a poem in honor of Rabbi Avraham. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. (Information in part from CUDL.)

العلامات

• literary with documentary value
• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Sabbāk (the smelter). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.

1 مناقشة

Minute fragment of a legal document or formulary in a Spanish hand (...כטופסי דשטרי אלא כחומר...). This fragment also contains a separate text in a different hand at 90 degrees.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions [...] Kohen; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; ʿAbd al-Karīm. The word ʿAbd is written as an ʿayin with a dot over it.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Asking for help on behalf of a woman named [...]da bt. Yaʿaqov al-Aluf, who may have been abandoned by her husband.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Small fragment from the top of a legal document, mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and al-Maḡribī. On parchment. Verso: alphabet, jottings.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as ʿAlwān; Abū l-Surūr; ʿAbd al-Kāfī. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment of three dirhams for the price of paper (unless this is referring to wariq dirhams) from 'the collectors' to 'al-shaykh al-nezer'. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• cheque
• order of payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to transactions and mentioning Ibn al-Bayrūtī and ‘in the hand of Abū ʿAlī ha-Levi’.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a rabbinic text concerning clean animals and dietary prohibitions. Recto also contains part of an Arabic document, possibly the beginning of a letter.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu's hand, contains mostly blessings. He is also rebuking the addressee (ואנני לאים . . . ).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There is the end of one poem (an elegy) and the beginning of another one "for someone who died by drowning."

العلامات

• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

On recto, the right column is headed "al-mustakhraj" (evidently referring to (tax farming?) revenue) and the left column "al-maṣrūf" (expenditures). Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is called, flatteringly, 'al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya.' Unclear how much of the substance is preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

E.g., Abū ʿAbdallāh; pepper; Al-Andalusī; saffron; al-Fāsī.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Layout is more like a letter, but does seem to mention "[...] al-karīma" and then "al-mamālīk" (recto, l. 5).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the house of ʿAzīz al-Dawla and the house of al-Ṣāḥib. Reused on verso for a medical recipe.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with a basmala and then immediately 'amma baʿd' suggesting that it is a copy or draft. On verso there are also a couple lines of Judaeo-Arabic mentioning numbers.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The text begins with the name "al-Shaykh Bū l-ʿAlāʾ. . ."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning goods including copper and אלקשר and people including Abū l-Fatḥ b. Marzūq and the amīr ʿAlamal-Dawla.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر