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Primary languages

Hebrew numerals, Judaeo-Arabic, Western Arabic Numerals

Mentioning many ships; the name of each shipowner is written over the elongated bet at the end of the word markab, e.g., Aḥmad Ṭanānī(?); Fawwāz b. Aḥmad. Belongs with ENA NS 13.17 (PGPID 9907).

العلامات

• ottoman shipping

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For other potential references to R. Meʾir Gāviṣon, see: ENA 3669.3 (PGPID 34284) and ENA NS 54.7 (PGPID 11587). For another possible reference to Avraham Yerushalmi, see: ENA 3669.1 (PGPID 34283).

العلامات

• abulafia
• castro
• late ja
• late prosopography
• leon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid (27 June 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: ca. 1213 CE, mentions 7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid in one of the entries on the verso. This account is written on the verso and also on the remaining space of the recto of a document concerning the sale of an enslaved woman to a certain Elazar ha-Kohen.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1693 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Undated but neighboring entries are from 1693 CE. (Document #15) Partnership case related to the previous entry, clarifying the name of one partner as Moshe ha-Kohen (with Pineḥas also mentioned as well as Moshe Zarḥiya and Yosef Ḥazan). […] As part of the legal case, the merchants have entered accounts from their commercial operation into the court register, balancing a variety of annotated revenue sources and expenses.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index card.) NB: Goitein refers to ENA 4011.24 as ENA 4011.23.

1 مناقشة

Document date

Sunday, 12 Ḥeshvan 1461 Seleucid (16 October 1149 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Sayyid al-Ahl testifies that he heard Abū l-Faraj ask Abū Isḥāq b. al-Shofeṭ for some wheat from the storehouse (makhzan) and the dispute over this that ensued.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• qodesh

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a debt of 3 dinars by way of collateral for a "turkiyya" (an enslaved woman?). Also mentions the remnant of what is owed due to "an accounting error" (ghalaṭ fī ḥisāb).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband to sell any enslaved woman she dislikes, and that the man will not take a second wife ([wa-lā] yatazawwaj ʿalayhā] or concubine (wa-lā yatasarrā).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• polygyny
• prenuptial
• slave

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Engagement contract between Ḥusayn b. Faraj and his prospective father-in-law Fuḍayl b. […] (Information from Goitein’s index card.) A conditional engagement agreement of a young couple. Goitein estimates that this document was written around 1000AD (Soc. […] One should not assume from this that the bride was a minor, because such elements are often missing in engagement agreements (see, for example, TS 8 J 17.9d).

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The hand may be known. Each entry is boxed. Each page seems to have mostly transactions relating to a single person. […] There are several fingerprints. Most entries are boxed and/or crossed out. Many entries are introduced with the phrase "al-bāqī ʿinda X baʿda qaṭʿ al-ḥisāb." […] Dating: 11th or 12th century. Many entries boxed and/or crossed out. The sums are fairly high (e.g. 44 dinars in one line).

العلامات

• account
• fingerprints

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Primary language

Arabic

Probably a fiscal register. The end of three lines are preserved on each side and there are entries in a different hand with Greek/Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• arabic reused

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Engagement deed. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. […] Her legal status at the time of the engagement is listed as ha-batūla ha-bogeret.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• engagement

1 نسخ

Document date

5564 Anno Mundi (17 September 1803–5 September 1804 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From a ledger of donations arranged by the parshiyot of the year 1803/1804 (5564); most of the ledger ended up in Paris, but this fragment ended up in Manchester.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• donations ledger ca.1800
• late donations
• late prosopography

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Notebook of advice composed in reply to questions about a wide variety of matters, e.g. seeking office, choosing a profession, taking a wife, going on travels, dealing with friends and enemies, etc. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE).

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العلامات

• divination

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

This led the Jews of the entire Near East to celebrate Passover and the other festivals on different dates over the course of two years. Four folios of this text are extant, ENA 2555.1, T-S 10K3 (one side only), T-S NS 175.57 (one side only), and ENA 2556.1. […] The evident involvement of several scribes in the production of this single manuscript suggests a commercial enterprise in which a team of scribes was employed to produce books, and where the books being copied were passed around the team at the convenience of the scribes’ individual work schedules.

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العلامات

• calendar
• controversy

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1034–1040 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record of the activities of the qodesh at the end of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century, up to 1034 CE. […] The first word in line 1 of ENA 2738.1 is the last one in line 19 of T-S 20.96. […] Shekhanya (according to Gil). ENA 2738.1 may actually be in the hand of Efrayim b.

العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Frenkel previously identified the addressee of ENA 2740.3 as Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, but that was before the original address was discovered in ENA 2805.2.) […] Shela, the judge of Alexandria, reports on how he handled an inheritance dispute in Alexandria that ended up in a qāḍī court. He mentions the wills of people who have passed away and how he takes care of the widows. He specifically mentions a youth named Manṣūr who made a will while suffering the remnants of an illness (line 15). At the end of the letter, Shela passes on the greetings and prayers of his sons Nissim, Mevasser, and Yiṣḥaq.

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العلامات

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A communal enactment (taqqana) passed by the Jewish community of al-Maḥalla, in which they pledge their loyalty to their judge Peraḥya [b. […] He served as the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla. The enactment is authorised by Yehoshuaʿ b. Iyov, Moshe b. […] The community passed this enactment in response to a power struggle that was taking place between Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā (later known as Mar Zūṭa), the head of the Jews, and local communities.

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• communal
• communal strife
• decree
• ib-addenda
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1411 Seleucid (1100 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Complete but unsigned. Location: Fustat.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This shelfmark's full ENA 1984 series are folios from a broader booklet of medicinal recipes and perhaps inventories of ingredients. There are also signs of geomancy castings in a few places throughout ENA 1984.1-7.

العلامات

• early modern
• geomancy
• list
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Despite the similarity of situation, there is no connection between ENA 2700.32 and ENA 2700.33. Information from Goitein's note card.

العلامات

• arabic script
• divorce
• dowry

1 مناقشة

Document date

7 Kislev 1412 Seleucid (10 November 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Bill of sale of for a Nubian enslaved woman named Mulḥ/Milḥ. In the hand of Hillel b.

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العلامات

• slave

1 مناقشة

Describes the situation in Alexandria that is not safe, and the influence on the ships movement, including the news about several ships that the “enemy” caught, the ship al-Tarajima is one of them.

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Document date

1390 Seleucid (1078–1079 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. The entries on recto are very faded. The one that begins at the bottom of recto contains a statement by Yosef b. […] Dated: 1390 Seleucid, which is 1078/79 CE. The second entry on verso concerns various deposits or pledges. […] Also mentions a mill (ṭāḥūna) and maybe someone named Shāhīn. The bottom entry on verso is a detailed list of the items pertaining to the Dār al-Ṣarf that were sold in the presence of the court (Yefet b.

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العلامات

• polygyny

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The context is almost entirely lost. A couple other partial names may appear (Ibn Farḥān in l. 3?). Unusually, the document's date is specified as a shemiṭa year (בחודש אלול בשנת השבוע שהיא שנת . . . . . . ). Cf. ENA 4007.5 (PGPID 750) for a similar example. […] Abī Ṭālib; a daftar of something; the next entry is difficult to read but may refer to a Hebrew translation of a book (يعبر سفر الهـ؟؟؟); al-Jāmiʿ; and a few more damaged names.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of around sixty "houses" (bayt) and of eight male individuals, each followed by Coptic numerals. Includes an entry for "the house of the rayyis, the house of our lord R. […] Cohen, however, takes "house" to mean not "wife" but "household," and when a married woman appears on the list, she is mentioned using the term imraʾa (col. 3, line 17). Likewise, in the entry "the bayt of ʿAziza," a woman's name, bayt can only mean "househo1d" (col. 3, line 12). Entries are crossed out when people paid their pledges.

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العلامات

• alms
• avraham maimonides
• poverty

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (11 September 1143–10 October 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 CE). Entries include the estate inventory of Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Sharābī (including a huge library containing 200 bound codices), payment of a debt, an instruction to charge the community fund with 75 dirhams, and the sale of a house. […] Gil edited one of the entries; this is the transcription below. Record of a payment to an Amir, ca. 1143.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• natan b. shemuel
• qodesh
• wheat

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1028–1054 CE

Dating: ca. 1028–54 CE, based on the years of the scribe (the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe—see also ENA 2747.6 and ENA NS 75.20). Groom: Daniel. Bride: [...] bt.

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Document date

5597 Anno Mundi (12 September 1836–29 September 1837 CE)

List of payments in the name of S[eñor] Yeshuʿa related to ownership or a lease for a house that is dated in the years [55]97AM–[5]600AM which encompasses 1836-1840CE.

العلامات

• 19th c
• real estate

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The sender seems to say that he provided an extended liturgy, including a 'silluq' by Rabbenu Ghiyyat, but his enemies only increased their objection to him. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's attached notes.)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Shevat 5312 Anno Mundi (28 December 1551–26 January 1552 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Shevat 5312 AM (1552 CE). The main heading on the recto states that the accounts are in the name of a certain Moshe Ibn Abī Darham is also mentioned. Two of the entries are labeled: "before traveling to צ'מייט", which may be an erratic spelling of the port city Dimyāṭ.

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العلامات

• account
• late

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر