Documents

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).

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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

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

Primary language

Arabic

It seems that the sender is not happy in his current position (...ḥattā annahu ashghala nafsahu fī khidma lam yaʿlam mā hiya qabla yakhdum fīhā fa-lammā kashafahā wajadahā lā shayʾ...) and he is requesting intercession to change positions. He also mentions that this job requires "jayyid al-khaṭṭ" (good handwriting), the ability to listen to people and petitions (ruqʿa), and something related to endorsing "tawqīʿ".

العلامات

• dimme
• khidma
• petition
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1149–1153 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on a reused fragment of a letter in Arabic script (the only part preserved is the basmala and the opening "ṣalawāt Allāh wa-bara[kātuh]"). Describing the endeavors of Abū Saʿd "the seventh" to become head of the Jews by bribing the vizier ('mutawallī bāb al-sulṭān') Ibn al-Salār.

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العلامات

• nagid

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

She asks for a rescript (tawqīʿ) for the petition and mentions something already having already gone out of the treasury (bayt al-māl; prior charitable payments which she did not receive?).

العلامات

• appeal
• charity
• matbakh
• petition
• treasury
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Related to T-S 10J5.23 (PGPID 7853). There are also some Geʾonic responsa copied by Ḥalfon. Seems to be an indirect join with Moss. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Joins: Alan Elbaum. AA/ASE.

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العلامات

• responsum

1 مناقشة

Document date

Sivan 53[..] Anno Mundi (1540–1639 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Besides the timing of the signature, post-1540, the reading of the location is also uncertain because the final letter closely resembles vav (but could be a cursive ה). The alternative reading, ממלטו, however seems less likely as a potential surname.

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1 نسخ

Document date

4943 Anno Mundi (31 August 1182–18 September 1183 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Her associates include many Muslim and at least one Christian woman, who evidently work for a Jew: Sitt ʿIzz; Fakhriyya; Qaḍīb; the wife of al-Asʿad; ʿĀʾisha; Umm Jashm; Zaynab; Khātūn; Mīra; the Christian woman (al-Naṣrāniyya); Nasab; al-ʿAsāliyya(?)

العلامات

• 4800
• account
• christians
• dating tricks
• muslims

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment with four different text blocks in Arabic, apparently drafts of documents in a chancery hand. Both sides are also reused for Hebrew biblical text written in very large script. 1) The most substantial note is at the top of verso and consists of three lines, beginning with a basmala and ending with an inshallāh and a ḥasbala. The content has yet to be deciphered. 2) Underneath, there are a couple lines from the beginning of a letter of excuse "the reason I could not fulfill your errand/service is that...." 3) A few words in Arabic at the very bottom of the page. 4) On recto there are prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5 Ṣafar 445 Hijrī (27 May 1053 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the term ḥawṭa or ḥūṭa (=confiscation?) in the first line; al-Ḥājj Sulaymān; a transaction involving "half of the entire khaṣārī/hādārī ship and half of its equipment, i.e., a sail and [[…] ʿAbbād; a woman's nursing infant (waladhā/wuldhā al-ṭifl al-murḍiʿ); and another child named ʿImrān.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are 9 small fragments in his hand under this shelfmark. They might all come from the same document, but they could also be from a few different documents.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; Ṣāʿid the in-law of "the young man" (al-ṣabiyy); Abū Manṣūr; and Avraham b. Muḥsin (interestingly ENA 3738.2 (PGPID 39655) also features both an Urjuwānī and an Ibn Muḥsin).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Writing exercises with the beginning of the Hebrew alphabet in the top margin. Solomon b. Mevasser b. Sahl ha-ʿAnī is also known from T-S 24.7 (dated 1003–4 CE), which is a Qaraite ketubba for his marriage to his cousin.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Much of the letter has to do with Avraham asserting his authority, including issuing a stern warning to a man named Ziyād ("this is a donkey's name") in Shubrā Damsīs who is to cease and decist from slaughtering birds, otherwise he will be prosecuted. Avraham also tells the addressee to sell the goods (? tarika) of R. Matitya and send the earnings with Ṣabāh or whomever else from the merchants. Avraham has already received the value of Matitya's goods that had been left behind in Damīra.

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العلامات

• slaughter

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to somebody who rejects benefaction (munākarat al-naʿīm) and who is addicted to drink and childish games (muʿāqarat al-sharāb... wa-liʿāb al-shabāb).

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli referring to how the qāḍī ʿĪsā [..]l al-Mulk Ṣāḥib al-Tartīb known as Ibn Hārūn kisses the hands of the new Nagid, for the late Gaʾon (Maṣliaḥ?) was good to him and therefore he was good to the Jews. On "Ṣāḥib al-Tartīb" (The Master of Disposition) as a title for a qāḍī, see CUL Or.1080 J39 + BL OR 5566B.5 and Goitein, Med Soc II, p. 607 note 4 On recto there are remnants of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line in Arabic script at the bottom.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Recto contains random jottings of phrases from letters and legal documents mainly in Judaeo-Arabic with the name Allāh in Arabic script. Throughout, the letter sīn is represented by ש. The legalistic phrases mention Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī and Makārim b. Sayyid al-Kull (a "witness").

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

517 Hijrī (1 March 1123–18 February 1124 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 517 H. (This might also be a kharājī date.) The document has a basmala; a block of text ["... from the area known as Jerash(?)"] that ends with the date; a block that may specify a sum of money (min al-ʿayn...), and then an itemized list in which three entries are preserved, each starting with "receipt: 1) in the name of tax farmers (ḍumanā)..."

العلامات

• daman

1 نسخ

Document date

15 Kislev 1525 Seleucid (29 November 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(maybe Sheʾerit, which would match the kunya Abū l-Baqāʾ known from other documents) releases his paternal uncle [Abū l-Bahāʾ b.] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dalāt[ī al-Naḥḥāl] from all claims. Unfinished and no signatures.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• avraham maimonides

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer has been sick ever since he last saw the addressee, and his illness has already cost him nearly 3 dinars for syrups and other things. He then reports on the books he has sent. He has sent Alfāẓal-Miqraʾ, "and its purchase is on the one with the Rayyis, 1/2 dinar and a ḥabba."

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العلامات

• book trade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: syrup

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. In the handwriting of ʿAllūsh the shammash. […] My brother, help me with some portion of this debt engulfing me—do not abandon me and do not forsake me." Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, incidentally, was prone to illness: see also T-S 16.163 and T-S Misc.25.124 (as noted by Krakowski), and T-S 12.389 and BL OR 5542.20.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• fasting
• food
• heartsickness
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

13[..] Seleucid (988–1088 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Written and signed by [...] b. Efrayim. Also signed by [...] b. Shahrīr(?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Portuguese

There is further text underneath also Latin script. Verso: Accounts in Hebrew script.

العلامات

• 16th c
• latin script
• portuguese

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Late list of wealthy contributors, about 30 per week (Information from Goitein index cards.) Verso: There are also several lines of Arabic script. Dating: probably no earlier than ca. 14th century.

العلامات

• arabic script
• charity
• communal
• donors
• late prosopography
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the port city of al-Tur, which rose to prominence after the decline of al-Quṣayr.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib7
• shipwreck

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, requesting donation for the ransom of prisoners of the Byzantines, 11th century.

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العلامات

• byzantines
• communal

1 نسخ

Document date

Middle third of Sivan 4895 Anno Mundi (1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Sivan 4895 AM, which is 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 5315 Anno Mundi (26 October 1554–24 November 1554 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very extensive and neatly written; merits detailed examination. Mentions Alexandria. Mentions (on recto, left side, toward the bottom) the date of Kislev 5315 = October/November 1554 CE.

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العلامات

• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The names are typical of the late 12th and 13th centuries. Abū Saʿd al-[...]... Abū l-Riḍā, two raṭls... Ibn al-Dayyān one and a half raṭls...

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions several names: Mūsa al-Karakī (كرك in modern-day Jordan), someone with the military title "nāẓir al-jaysh".

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Seems to be a private letter but is written in formal/deferential terms ("... jamaʿa al-shaml bi-khidmatih...") and most of the text preserved consists of blessings. Reports that the children (al-ṣighār) are well.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment: Abū l-ʿIzz al-ʿAṭṭār is to pay the bearer 1/2 raṭl of white sugar. This is made more interesting by proximity to ENA 3971.6 (PGPID 10772), although it's unknown if they are connected.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Probably 1414 or 1417 Seleucid = 1112/13 or 1115/16 CE.Needs conservation. There are also two other minuscule fragments sharing this shelfmark.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر