Documents

Inferred date

1101–1101 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein/Friedman suggest that the sender's intent is to take the corals east to Aden or al-Hind, where they sold for higher prices. The sender urgently requests the recipient's help and also asks him to form a partnership with a merchant from Córdoba who had spent the winter in al-Mahdiyya. […] 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. Among these merchants was Labdī with a shipment of 80 bales of lac packed in Nahrawara (Gujarat), 50 bales of pepper and other merchandise.

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العلامات

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

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Greetings to the addressee, his father-in-law the son of the late Gaʾon, and Shemuel ha-Kohen, who should be informed that his son Eliʿezer departed from the sender and traveled first to Alexandria and then to "the villages," where he is living in peace and tranquility. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. There are several additional fragments in the hand of the same scribe (identified by Oded Zinger): JRL Series B 3311 (PGPID 5213), Moss. […] The JRL document is addressed to the sister's husband (also confusingly named Shemuel) and refers to some of the same content as the present letter: "I remind you to keep the contract. . . of my partner Shemuel . . . ."

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Primary language

Ladino

The list is titled "ב׳׳ה בצט נוטת די אלייות דיל ק׳׳ק נגב..סנת" which yields: "... note of āliyyot (sic) of the Q[ahal] Q[adosh]..." The erratic spelling of āliyyot (with א rather than ע and with יי) is then repeated at the opening of most of the individual entries in the singular form אליית, aliyyat. […] Other entries relate to "aliyyot" for the holiday "Sūqōt (sic)" (סוקות) and in a few instances the scribe notes that contributions were made "by me" (por mi) or a certain "David." One entry on the left side of the document mentions "the āliyya of the Q[ahal] Q[adosh] Porṭegezes (sic)," probably a reference to the Portuguese Congregation of early modern Cairo.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It mentions Abū l-Ḥusayn Ibn al-Andalusī, ʿAllūnal-Ṣahrajtī, and Abū Khalaf, the friend/partner (ṣāḥib) of Abū Saʿd. Also mentions the judge Yosef b. Azhar. Bareket says the letter is about business matters and that it attests to Efrayim b.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee's nephew Isḥāq is without help in the shop except for Avraham al-Zūrzūr. It seems that the addressee has shipped some bales of flax, but they have not yet arrived. Greetings to various people including the addressee's sister and wife. Greetings also from her husband, the addressee's father. (Information in part from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #239.) […] The second fragment under this shelfmark may be unrelated, though the appearance of the parchment is similar and it likely also dates to the 11th century. It is the bottom of a legal deed with a number of signatures: Shelomo b. [...]; [Abū?]

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العلامات

• tax
• women's letters

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to his brother, Abu Zikri in Alexandria. Reporting that the 'old man' (likely their father Eliyyahu) arrived safely. […] Their sister and R. Simḥa are also well.Their cousin Yosef the son of their paternal uncle Abū l-Faraj sends his greetings. […] Greetings to their paternal uncle Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Tawwazī and to Rabbenu Yosef and his son and to Abū l-Maʿānī b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yūsuf claims that Da’ūd and Ṣedaqa, sons of Ṣemaḥ b. Da’ūd al-Raqqī, have withheld profits from a partnership in a store. The brothers were also involved in long distance trading on behalf of the partnership. Yaʿqūb himself seems to have contributed the sum total of the partnership capital, amounting to four thousand dinars, which yielded a one time payment of ten dinars to Yaʿqūb and a single dinar each week, of which Yaʿqūb would receive half and the brothers the other half. Yaʿqūb also received 30 dinars each month to satisfy a debt on the store.

العلامات

• court record
• jah
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar, in Aden, addressed to Sitt Ghazāl and Umm Munajjā, in Fustat. […] This letter describes the same series of events from the same point of view, including being plundered by the Ghuzz ("we went out naked and hungry. . . and I had no resort. . . and I saw no alternative to traveling"), Khalaf b. Maḍmūn sending 30 dinars with Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and urging the sender to come to Yemen after hearing of his misfortune, and the matter of Abū ʿImrān converting to Islam and divorcing his wife ("al-ṣaghīra," "the little one"). […] Near the end of this letter, the sender reports that “as for the news of Makārim your son, I heard that he entered al-Jāwa, may God reunite you...." It concludes with a ṣalwala — blessings upon the prophet Muḥammad — indicating that it was written by a Muslim scribe on behalf of the sender, whose family is known to be Jewish from other documents.

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العلامات

• conversion
• divorce
• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee stated that he has paid another 3 nuqra (pure silver) dirhams to the owner (Allony et al read this as "13" nuqra dirhams). Yefet calculates that altogether these payments amount to 50 black dirhams less 1 and 1/8 dirham (= 48.875 dirhams). […] (Information in part from Allony et al, The Jewish Library, pp. 218–19.)

العلامات

• book trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(The join—ENA 2386.4—clarifies that Sitt al-Ahl is actually the daughter of Yosef ha-Kohen.) […] This document is discussed in Med Soc III, 192–93, 467 n.152, and also in the cluster of documents edited by Gershon Weiss, Ḥalfon, #200–02. Join: Alan Elbaum. The wording of the document is nearly identical to T-S 6J1.20, another document in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• alimony
• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal declaration, missing its beginning, involving several Bibles (maṣāḥif), someone's brother Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥazzan, Abū l-Makārim al-Tājir al-Levi, and a certain Nadiv.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq, the widow of Furayj, and Ḥusn bt. Ibrāhīm Ibn Fūla(?) al-Ṣayrafī acknowledge in court that they have received two dinars from the debt transfer (ḥawāla) of Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. […] Moshe ha-Levi. The latter also wrote the document and conveys the thanks of the two ladies (who were relatives) and his own greetings.

العلامات

• hawala
• loan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 1552 Seleucid (9 August 1241–6 September 1241 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Shemuel ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Rashīda bt. Yeshuʿa ha-Talmid, an orphan and a virgin. The document also states that he 'betrothed' her, indicating that there was no formal betrothal which preceded this document.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Isḥaq b. ʿImrān, probably in al-Maḥalla, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yahya, in Fustat. […] The letter concerns Efrayim, a poor man from al-Maḥalla, whose wife did not wish to live in the Rīf and traveled to Fustat on her own without his permission.

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العلامات

• marital conflict
• patrilocal residence

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ismail in Busir, December 1055 (Gil), or to his nephew Ibn al-Surur Farah b. Ismail b. Farah before 1058 (Ben Sasson). The letter discusses commercial matters (i.e., exchanging checks and coins) and the departure of ships containing goods to Sicily. Also mentions Nahray b. Nissim. (Information in part from Gil and Ben Sasson) For the nizārī dinar, see https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/1-nizari-dinar-and-ahiri-dirham-11th-century-ce.

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العلامات

• coin
• ship
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The Iberian surname Colodrillo is possible but the letter yod does not appear on the document (though it could be missing from the tear in l. 3). The alternate reading Colodro, another Iberian surname, also seems plausible.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. […] The clearest evidence of sewing marks from the booklet's binding are visible along the right border of ENA 3264.3r. MCD.

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العلامات

• arabic reused
• learning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender trusts that the addressee obeyed his order to shake out the cloaks (aksiyā), for now he is supposed to hand them over to the bearer of the letter, Mūsā b. Yūsuf along with some other items. He is to record the transaction in an account (thabat). He should also look after Mūsā, who is the victim of some misfortune (mujāḥ miskīn).

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Includes the well-known story of Ibn al-Sammāk who visited Hārūn al-Rashīd, who was drinking water. Ibn al-Sammāk stopped him from drinking and asked what he would give to be able to drink if he were forbidden from doing so.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1154–1161 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: The report was torn and reused for an order of a half-ounce of saffron (worth 1 dinar?) from ʿArīf al-ʿAṭṭār (or possibly: "the ʿarīf/head of the ʿaṭṭārīn"). Signed: al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ = Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk (the Fatimid vizier, 1154–61).

العلامات

• order
• report
• saffron

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28 Nisan 5492 Anno Mundi (23 April 1732 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The last two lines of the verso also mention an unknown commodity related to cloth that can be transliterated as "crisales de panyo" or alternatively "carisales de panyo."

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العلامات

• ladino
• list
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars for repaying the debt and the dīwān and all the merchants, and the country is closed (maghlūqa), and the exchange is 42.5 [this is tentative], and no one has a dinar any more, and the collection (istikhrāj) of all the remaining capitation taxes, and the poor are in perplexity, I have informed the master [this]." […] Mentions the fatwā (jawāb al-faqīh) for the writer's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Maʿānī.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• diwan
• exchange rate
• fatwa
• jaliya
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Second half of the 11th century. In which Abū ʿAlī Yefet Tif'eret ha-Qahal b. Avraham confirms that Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b. Moshe (the Peqid ha-Soḥarim) has paid all the money that he owed to Abū ʿAlī's brother, Ya'ir the Judge.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Barhūn b. Iṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, in Fustat. […] The writer mentions his plans to write to Abū Naṣr Ḥesed b. Yashar al-Tustarī, demonstrating that the latter was killed in 1050 rather than 1049.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• al-tustari
• flax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

3 Kislev 5581 Anno Mundi (9 November 1820 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Berakha Goren, probably in Cairo, to David Ben-Naʿim, probably in Alexandria. Dated 9 November 1820 (3 Kislev 5581). Goren recounts having received a letter from David and sends news regarding the affairs of the ṣarrāfs (ṣayarīf), accountants/moneychangers, as well as the ṣayarīf al-kūbār, perhaps a leadership role or signifier of clout in the profession.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ben na'im
• late ja

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly gems (jawāhir); how the addressee shouldn't blame the sender for blaming him; something arriving from Almeria; lac selling there for 20 [...]; a leader or captain (qāʾid); the ship of Ibn Ghattūsh returning to Alexandria.

العلامات

• hinge
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• suftaja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Accounts mainly in Ladino, written in the same hand but not necessarily from the same notebook (the pages are not all the same size, and the grids on different fragments are in purple ink vs. red/brown ink). Lists of names in Ladino which follow a common formula repeating the phrase "la mujer de X." There are also Greek influenced names such as "la mujer de Nicoli ẓu Demitri".

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• bialobos
• ladino
• mosseri
• ya'aqov bibas

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It may be possible to provide a clearer dating estimate based on future analysis of the names mentioned: Mūrad Agha al-Nazīr, Shaykh Aḥmad al-Raqabawī, Raḥman Arnavūt, Badawiī Ḥamd, Ḥuseyn Abū-Raʾīs, Guirguis Barbārī, Ḥajj Aḥ[mad] al-Shāmī, Muḥammad Darwīsh, among many others.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: note to Abū l-Maḥāsin, asking for guidance in a personal problem (probably in relation to the query on verso), which also involves the fact that ‘she brought 33 and a half’. […] Elijah to Abraham Maimonides, with the title Nagid (post-1213 CE), concerning a man who lives with his wife in a house together with another man and suspects his wife and the housemate of having an affair, and therefore wants to move out, but the wife is refusing to go along with his plans. (Information from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Abū ʿAlī and his brother; Manṣūr Nufayʿ; Manṣūr Nuʿmān; Majd Dayyan; Ḥusayn and Yaʿqūb of Marrakesh (Marrākushī), Yosef b. […] ʿIwaḍ; Ṣedaqa b. Bū Naṣr; Manṣūr Ibn al-Naqqād; Sulamān Ibn al-Parnas and his brother's son; Manṣūr and Bū ʿlī the sons of Saʿdān; Fuḍayl b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently the addressee sent him a sheep (kharūf) with Abū Ṣāliḥ in lieu of a response, which also pained him, because of the trouble the addressee had to go to. Mentions Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dust[arī = Tustarī?]. A notable called here Sayyidnā recently had a baby girl, and the sender expresses his hope that a boy will be born to him.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dated: ca. 1063 CE. […] He interjects, "By God, watch out for the smallpox (iyyāka al-juddarī)!" The son and granddaughter have erupted in "jarab" and "ḥabba" (skin conditions).

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: smallpox
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• (+ 5 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū Isḥāq b. Abū Bishr al-Bazzāz (the cloth trader; the father Abū Bishr is mentioned in T-S Misc.8.63) and Abū Sahl Mukhtār (this name appears also in T-S 10J28.11, T-S 12.296, T-S AS 157.183, and T-S NS 320.11).

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī seemingly from Ascalon apparently to his father in Fustat. […] He hopes to find some in Jerusalem. He also reports on his trip from Tinnis in Egypt to Ascalon in Palestine which took seven days because the boat had to moor on the way because of the danger it might be blown Westwards again.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday 15 Iyyar 1440 Seleucid (6 May 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

About the valuable goods (aʿlāq) from a ketubba which were with a wife who stayed with her sister (l. 15). […] The role of Peraḥya is not clear (l. 18). Signed also b. Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1503 Seleucid (21 September 1191–9 September 1192 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: 1503 Seleucid, which is 1191/92 CE. […] The house is in the neighborhood of the Jews (bi-khuṭṭ ḥārat al-yahūd), but one of its neighbors is Christian.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) with a 1/4 dinar and gives all he has to his daughter Dalāl. This is presumably because Sitt al-Nās did not look after him in his time of need (line 2: I perished from nakedness and hunger and [illness, probably]).

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العلامات

• illness

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sivan 5495 Anno Mundi (22 May 1735–20 June 1735 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The six partners are (1) Yaʿaqov Bonsenyor (whose signature is preserved at the bottom), (2) Yeshuʿa al-Ḥāmī, (3) Avraham [...], (4) David Mizraḥī known as Nawwār (?), and (5) the youth Avraham Rozanes known as Ghazzāwī, and (6) Avraham's father, Shemuel al-Ghazzāwī. (There are a few missing words so it is not certain that Shemuel al-Ghazzāwī is the 6th partner.)

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العلامات

• 18th c
• business
• etrogs
• hebron
• late heb
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe heard that Nahray had sent money, clothing, and myrobalan with Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Baradānī, but these have not yet arrived. Moshe recently recovered from an illness (iltiyāth) and is still weak. Avraham ha-Ḥaver has also been sick. Information in part from Gil. ASE

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: iltiyath
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yishay in Fustat by his assistant in Bilbays, describing his journey from Syria to Egypt and saying that the people of Bilbays have not paid him yet for the pesiqa mentioned in a previous letter. Also reports about the plunder of the bazaars of the wool makers and clothiers, about a tribute levied for the wali (musadara) of 500 silver dirhams. (nuqra) and 200 others shohad li'l-na'ib (a bribe to the local appointed leader), and the capture of a large caravan near al-Arish and of the people of Gaza, so that no travel to Syria was possible.

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العلامات

• bribe
• mosul nasis

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tishrei 1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–1 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Long letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm, in al-Juwwa (near Aden, Yemen), to the judge and parnas Natan b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below.

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book

2 نسخين

Document date

1315 Seleucid (30 August 1003–17 September 1004 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Groom: Shelomo b. Mevasser b. Sahl al-ʿAni. Bride: Sara bt. Yeshaʿya b. Sahl al-ʿAni. (Groom and bride are first cousins, abnā' ʿamm). The groom had already paid 100 ʿAzīzī dinars and promised another 50 at the wedding.

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العلامات

• qaraite

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة