Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has purchased two "qaṣabiyyas" of gold and will send them. He has also purchased a mould of Sicilian cheese for the addressees.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are also phrases from an earlier document in Arabic script: ما تسافر الى . . .

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Document date

1493 Seleucid (12 September 1181–30 August 1182 CE)

Practically nothing is preserved except the date: 1493 Seleucid = 1181/82 CE. (It might also be 1496 Seleucid = 1184/85 CE.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

There is an elaborate signature or endorsement at the top. Also.a seal imprint. Only the first line of the document itself is preserved.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Note in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, related to the financial instrument of ḥawāla (begins with the verb aḥāla, subject Sayyidunā, object ʿalāal-Shaykh [...]). Needs examination.

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Document date

5[..] Hijrī (2 September 1106–9 September 1203 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Begins, "[...] fī bayt al-māl...." Dated: 5[..] AH. Mentions Shams al-Mulk at the end of the second large line.

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Primary language

Arabic

Note/receipt/account of some kind: "Abū Manṣūr collected 16 dirhams and I collected 20 dirhams," apparently the price of wheat (al-qamḥ al-mabīʿ?).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet by a student with the surname Mosseri (מוצרי in heading). 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography. The instructor provided the alphabet in model handwriting for the student to repeat.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• learning

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The fragment almost at upper right (three boxes above the yellow label) looks like part of a letter "min ʿind al-Muwaffaq," ca. 12th or 13th century.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso contains mirror image text from another (or the same) fragment, also from a Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef. Mentions Yosef; ʿAllūn; al-Naṣrānī; plaster; wood; days of the week; linseed oil; sesame oil; the sabbath.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 3v: Brief jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Nāṣirī silver. There is also an ownership note for Moshe b. Hillel the descendant of [...].

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions revenue from sugarcane (qand), the capital (raʾsmāl) of Abū l-Surūr, and al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition or report addressed to a vizier (...al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī...). Fragment from the top (the beginnings of 7 lines are preserved).

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.

Related People

1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower right corner. Involves [...] al-Dīn, someone's wife Sitt al-Nās, the conditions in her ketubba, a quarter (of a house?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A very rough translation is as follows: "Your letter arrived with Ibn al-Jalajuli. Najm al-Din read it with me in Giza and wrote a response in his own hand. […] I can't even buy or sell things until your matter is settled and the speaking (?) of Najm al-din. As for what you said about going to to al-Shams b. al-Muzawwiq - he did not leave me in Giza after he read your letter except that he was good (of health?). […] Further people mentioned include Hajj Muhammad, Najm al-Din, the old woman, the Hakim, Hikam (?), and al-Shaykh Hilal.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• 13th c
• apostate
• giza
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer is located in Fustat/Cairo (פה מצרים) and also mentions places including Bulaq and Alexandria. […] The writer describes "almost going mad" and his "great fear" over this. […] Months later, Shemuʾel al-ʿAjam arrived in Alexandria requesting his opium.

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1

Related Places

3

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 11th century. Consisting almost entirely of instructions for commodities the sender wants the addressee to buy for him, with a list of those commodities. […] Ghulayb (known from other documents); Barhūn again; Fustat/Egypt; al-Nūtī(?). At the bottom and again in the margin mentions Abū Brāhīm or Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh (perhaps ʿAyyāsh b. […] At 180 degrees on verso there is also what may be a brief Arabic address with the name Yaḥyā b.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dating: Early 13th century, likely 1219–29 CE (Shweka's assessment). See also T-S 8J33.4, a previous letter on the same matter. […] Relations between the various communities were very tense, as testified by Yehuda Alharizi, who visited Jerusalem in 1214. From letters of R. […] Previous description: Four-page letter in Hebrew perhaps from Alexandria, concerning a dispute between prominent members of the Jewish community and the consequent expulsion of one of them from the synagogue.

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1

العلامات

• communal
• conflict
• excommunication
• french rabbis
• heqdesh
• (+ 3 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

24 Ḥeshvan (4)864 Anno Mundi (28 October 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On Happy Eyes, Goitein writes that this man had settled in Alexandria, Egypt, where he possessed a valuable house. He also possessed a house in Barqa, eastern Libya. Cf. […] It is probably the equivalent of the Arabic phrase امانة موداة, which commonly appears in the same contexts. Cf. also אמאנה מוצלה in T-S 13J17.1 (PGPID 979).

Related People

1

Related Places

8

العلامات

• aydhab
• badi'
• dahlak
• ib6
• india book
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Document date

Ṭevet 1488 Seleucid (5 December 1176–2 January 1177 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One beadle of Dammūh is listed at the beginning of the list (p a, l. 5), another at the end (c, l. 6). Almostall the males receive a muqaddar, all but one of the females (p. b, l. 2) a jūkhāniyya. […] After the first item, "the judges," is left a blank space. Al-Najīb (the parnas) follows with the number 20 after it and l. 12, Abū ʿAlī the parnas, with 12. […] (Information from Goitein, Med Soc II, Appendix B, #71 (p.459).) The recipients also include one female slave and three women who are freed slaves (per Goitein's index card).

Related People

3

Related Places

1

العلامات

• clothing
• freedwoman
• slaves

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter was written by one of Moshe's siblings-in-law in Fustat, to be sent to their sister (Moshe's wife). "I also inform you, O my sister, that your brother Barakāt arrived safely in Fustat... staying here, and we have spent 10 dinars on him. […] I heard that you sent a letter to Alexandria, but it was lost and never arrived.... Abū l-Khayr sends his greetings, and your brother Barakāt, and your maternal uncle Musallam, and your maternal uncle Abū l-Faraj... I greet you and your husband Mūsā and your sons Abū Isḥāq and his brother and your daughter Sitt al-Kull and your father-in-law and your maternal aunt."

Related Places

1

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1034–1040 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several major repairs of the extant buildings and also repairs and improvements in the synagogue are listed. […] The concluding part stresses the custom of giving full publicity to the accounts of the qodesh; also, the duty of any dissatisfied person to file his claims before the court, otherwise risking excommunication. […] The first word in line 1 of ENA 2738.1 is the last one in line 19 of T-S 20.96. All three fragments are in the hand of hazzan Yefet b.

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Arabic

ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of palm branches from Qalyūb and their transport on the Nile. […] The letter is written in beautiful, clear Arabic characters, in many cases even equipped with diacritical marks. ... The verso contains also the beginning of the draft of a petition in Arabic language and Hebrew characters of the dyers in Qalyub. […] On the same page there is also a calligraphic trial of the pen: "Said the Khazari."

Related Places

2

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• aodeh

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sha'ban 429 Hijrī (9 May 1038–6 June 1038 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Zāʿī, ʿUmar b. Ghawkal/Jawkal, Ibn al-Jazūla, Ibn al-Qaddār, ʿAbdūn al-Nashāʾ, and Abū Isḥaq. […] According to Gil, Ibn ʿAwkal directed this account to an associate in Alexandria, which is why PGP used to classify it as a letter, but it is structure like an account, hence we now classify it as a table. […] This financial instrument allowed merchants to move value across distances without physically transporting money.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

العلامات

• flax
• hawala
• trade
• yosef b. awkal

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Middle decade of Iyyār 1461 Seleucid (May 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The deceased's sister, who was supposed to inherit what had remained, was left with nothing, since her converted nephews, and the various figures involved in the compromise settlement with them, took all that was left. The case relates to the different and contradicting opinions in both Jewish and Islamic legal traditions regarding inheritance of non-Muslims by their Muslim relatives." […] This was on Sunday, in the middle ten days (al-ʿashar al-awsaṭ) of the month of Iyyar 1461 (mid-Muḥarram 545/mid-May 1150), in the presence of Barakāt al-Kohen, Khūlayf b. al-Ḥazzan, and Furayj b. […] In addition— two dirhams to the messenger [. . .] in the presence of Khūlayf b. al-Ḥazza[n . . .] and for the document to the second qāḍī—five coins.

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1

العلامات

• conversion
• inheritance

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Arabic

Bifolium from an Arabic work, mostly consisting of prayers and verses from the Quran and names of God, but also including a line of probably-magical symbols, headed with a six-pointed star.

العلامات

• arabic literary
• magic
• quran

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is writing from Alexandria on the 5th of Sivan. Mentions a battle or fight (qitāl) and the death of some people.

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Primary language

Arabic

Two orders of payment in Arabic script, and perhaps a remnant of a third. The first one: yadfaʿ al-shaykh al-ajall li-muwaṣṣilihā dīnārayn wa-nuṣr wa-thumn.

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1

العلامات

• arabic
• script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Bayān, Thābit, and Abū Saʿd (though the first two of these could also be common nouns). Interesting linguistic detail: five is spelt כמשה.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Daniel the great prince and 'great distress.' See also ENA 2735.14

العلامات

• trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. See also: ENA 2804.1 (PGPID 676).

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2

العلامات

• dirge
• piyyut
• seliha

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Da'ud b. Ammar (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1065.

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4

Related Places

6

العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Addressed to שמואל רודסי (of Rhodes) and יהודה דמדינק and דוד מונטלוה (Montaloa?) "and all the notables of [....]." The name of the location - along with the entirety of the letter - is lost.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

A few Hebrew characters also appear in the otherwise Arabic script commercial account.

العلامات

• dimme
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

One side begins, "That which is with (or owed by) Sayf al-Dawla b. Tāj al-ʿArab..." There follow various sums of money.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the faqīh Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maghribī al-Anṣārī; mentions a funduq. Seems to be discussing a legal issue.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

Fragment of a ketubba of the groom Yefet b. Avraham from Alexandria signed by Avraham b. Yaʿaqov. Dated ca. 1100.

العلامات

• dowry
• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment, wide margin on the left, two sides of commercial accounts. (Might also be official/fiscal, mentioning kharāj). Several entries headed by an elongated "min jiha."

العلامات

• dimme
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to Raḥamīm Qaznī (קזני), also mentions ʿAzīza, Avraham, and Binyamin.

العلامات

• late ja

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Primary language

Arabic

Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also on recto) and a literary text in Hebrew (verso).

Related Places

2

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2

العلامات

• decree

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Listing several names and goods: Abū l-[...] b. Abū ʿAbd Allāhal-Maqārīṣī(?); quantities of wheat in irdabbs; Abū l-Karam.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and Muʿizziyya (Cairo).

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mulqa
• illness: prostrated

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-ʿAlāʾ and Ibn al-Ḥāshir ("son of the tax collector").

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Wine and/or love poem in Judaeo_Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (וגא נאצר כתבת אביאת פי דרגי ופי אלחאני).

العلامات

• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر