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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abraham, the widow of his late brother Joseph, who was obliged to marry him as Joseph died without offspring, from all financial obligations resulting from her former marriage.

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Document date

6 Nisan 1396 Seleucid (3 April 1085 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham al-Lādiqī and that she was married to אבן אלמנחמה, who divorced her and died. Information from Goitein's note card.

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العلامات

• divorce

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

An intriguing entry at the bottom of verso: "Yeshuʿa the young man who died with his father when the house collapsed on them."

العلامات

• yedutun ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer describes the difficult situation, probably in North Africa, and writes about a merchant who had been lost on the road and almost died before he was found and brought to a ship. He also describes the movement of ships and merchandise in Alexandria and mentions taxes.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• movement of ships
• tax
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions a previous emissary Khalaf the Aleppan (כלף הצובי) who has since died. There is another copy of this letter: DK 123 + T-S 10J12.22 (PGPID 620).

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• tiberias
• tiberias lepers

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The fragment includes dietary advice to avoid unripe dates, jujube, green almonds, carob, green broad beans, carrots and vinegar; whereas raisins, pistachios, figs and nuts should be eaten for dessert.

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العلامات

• autograph
• maimonides

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender heard that his brother Yosef died in India, and he asks the addressee to enquire with a certain Ibn al-Dajjājī as to exactly how it happened.

العلامات

• account
• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faraḥ thanks the addressee for his expressions of condolence upon the death of Yosef, who had died while traveling. In the empty space on verso accounts are written in a different hand, some with Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• condolence
• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Despite his long sojourn in the place where his children were born and died, he could not bear the hot climate. He expresses his wish to return to his hometown, Messina, where his learned father lived.

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العلامات

• wakham

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One of the questions deals with a father who died after having fulfilled his paternal obligations toward his daughter and firstborn, but before he was able to provide similarly for his 3 younger children.

العلامات

• responsum

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Responsum regarding polygyny. Only the relevant passages in this responsum are brought in this work.

العلامات

• polygyny
• responsum

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Inferred date

1707–1850 CE

Accounts in Judeo-Arabic with a variety of coinage types including dirham, kuruş (aka guruş) and zingirli– of which the latter two suggest a dating of some time in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• effendi
• list
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1130–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen settling the estate of Jewish traders who had died in shipwreck. Also discusses business with Bilāl b.

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العلامات

• ib2
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He also requests a detailed update on the news of the country, as if he were present, "and who died." (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

She also mentions that her mother died. Needs further examination. ASE

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العلامات

• aguna
• damascus
• distant husband
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Khayr Khiyār the banker receives a testimony concerning a certain Isḥāq who died 3–4 days after he had made a declaration in his favor.

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العلامات

• inheritance
• natan b. shemuel

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Halfon reports that Sitt al-Gharb was very sick for 13 days and died on Wednesday, the 17th of [...] and was buried on Thursday.

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العلامات

• condolence
• grief
• halfon b. menashshe
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The lower part of the letter refers to a woman who died in the seventh month of her pregnancy. There is a gap of at least a line or two between the two fragments that comprise this document.

العلامات

• appeal
• death
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: pregnancy
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

1 Tammuz 5249 Anno Mundi (31 May 1489 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document with testimony concerning orphans and Isaac Horoshban (הורושבן), who died. Mentions various people including Isaac Shanji (שאנגו).

العلامات

• 16th c
• orphans

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (8 June 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Kohen should receive a divorce deed from his brother in case he dies and she has to marry him in a levirate marriage.

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Document date

Adar 1422 Seleucid (11 February 1111–11 March 1111 CE)

Dated: Adar 1422 Seleucid, which is February–March 1111 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (who died in December of the same year). Groom: Salāma the freedman.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In this letter he describes the diet of a group of people "during this calamity," mentioning specifically salted turnip (lift māliḥ) and lupine (turmus).

العلامات

• diet
• food
• regimen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Three, much damaged columns, seemingly in the hand of the scribe of App. C 1, 2, containing about sixty names of male persons, recipients of …

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• charity
• communal
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Glossary of phrases in parallel Judaeo-Arabic and a Judaeo-Turkic language. The latter is not based in Ottoman Turkish, but possibly Old Uzbek and/or Chagatai. Given …

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Document date

Monday, 6 Sivan 5252 Anno Mundi (1 June 1492 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

One of the matters is the inheritance of Maṣliaḥ b. Binyamin כדידה who died in Damascus. Testimony is presented by Aharon b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The chronology is perplexing, unless the caliph died a few days before the letter was written—maybe this is why Goitein's index card says "Dreams."

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Primary language

Hebrew

The letter was carried by his son Avraham (לידו מיד חמוד), and he is seeking help for the community of Jerusalem, many of whom have died in a plague (נאספו בדבר אשר נפל בעיר). (Information from CUDL)

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• shelomo b. yehuda

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Document date

First decade of Iyyar 1526 Seleucid (April 1215 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū ʿImrān, the daughter of a paternal cousin who died in Alexandria. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen; Meir b.

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العلامات

• power of attorney

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

As part of a litany of complaints, he mentions that he has been sick many times and nearly died (v25–26). His sicknesses also feature in T-S 12.654 and T-S NS 321.93.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mosul nasis

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a woman who has died (raḍiya Allāh ʿanhā). Mentions Abū l-Faḍl R.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among other things, the husband undertakes to leave an enslaved woman to his first wife when he dies. On verso there is a distinct document, also in the hand of Hillel b.

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العلامات

• hillel b. eli
• marriage
• polygyny
• slaves

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Nevertheless, the judge of the city persisted in demanding the capitation tax 5 months ahead of time, 250 gold coins from the community. On verso there are communal accounts in Arabic script—see separate record.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• damascus

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years …

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• 11th c
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

28 Ṭevet 1448 Seleucid (24 December 1136 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

There is an additional note on verso in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a woman whose husband died and who married Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm the poor spindle-maker (al-ʿAni al-Maghazilī).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: No earlier than 1221 CE, as that is the year Anatoli died. He sends greetings to the widow of Rabbi Anatoli of Marseilles (living in Alexandria) and to her daughter Esther and granddaughter, sending wishes to the latter to bear male children.

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العلامات

• french rabbis
• personal

2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان