Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in an unusual hand; Goitein calls it "papyri script," probably referring to the early documents edited by Blau and Hopkins in "Judaeo-Arabic Papyri" (1987). There are also some interesting spellings, e.g., ואמגיר for ואמא גיר. […] Most of verso consists of a price list, mentioning goods such as soap, almond, mastic, saffron, tragacanth (kathīrāʾ), henna, sumac, pistachio, sesame, usnea/lichen (shayba), labdanum, and kohl.

1 مناقشة

Document date

Tishrei 1424 Seleucid (23 September 1112–22 October 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein records that this fragment is from a copy of the document from which T-S Misc.28.263, also in this documentary corpus, emerged. Both fragments refer to the renewal of a trading partnership worth 3,750 dinars for which profits are divided equally, and the partners are granted an allowance for their maintenance.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Goes on to mention Mevorakh; a letter to Abū Saʿd; coming to Cairo; al-Dustarī(?) al-Sharābī; a shop; someone sitting or staying somewhere after returning from the palace of al-Zarqa (?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel to the cantor and teacher ʿAbd al-Bāqī Sheʾerit, informing him that he had sent him 20 dirhams for his children with the wife of Zayn al-Tujjār, ten of which had been donated by Sitt Ṭāwūs. […] This could be the letter from ʿAbd al-Bāqī to which Yeḥezqel is responding. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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العلامات

• cantor

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The case involves Abū l-Ḥasan Mevorakh and the heirs of Abū l-Faraj al-J[ubaylī?] and potentially a woman named Jamāl. […] Menashshe is preserved; the document was also signed originally by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Avraham b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking him to intervene in the strife of the Jewish glassmakers of al-Fayyūm (וכנת קד דכרת לה פי כתאבי אלמתקדם חאל אצחאבנא אלזגאגין אלדין באלפיום ומא אנסאק אלי קלבי מן המהם אולא ואכר וסאלתה ואנא אלאן אגדד סואלה אן יתוסט בינהם). Before this also mentions the wheat (qumūḥ) of the Fayyūm. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: 1050–55 CE, based on the likely identifications of Ḥaydara and Khaṭīr al-Mulk. "The extortion of payments of the capitation tax in advance is thus far known from Geniza records only for Palestine and for the second quarter of the eleventh century, a period of anarchy and misrule. […] Another ruler (shaliṭ) came to power this year, named Ḥaydara Dhakhīrat al-Dawla (appears also in T-S K25.249 in 1031 CE). […] The requests were accepted and the decree was issued by Khatīr al-Mulk (=the son of al-Yāzūrī, or possibly al-Yāzūrī himself; see Yaacov Lev, Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt, p. 145)\.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• damascus

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Title page of al-Ḥāwī by David b. Seʿadya al-Ger ("the convert").

العلامات

• convert

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary work in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda of Rabbenu Nissim. This page discusses Naḥum of Gamzu and Rabbenu ha-Qodesh when he was afflicted by illness (and toothache?).

العلامات

• al-faraj ba'd al-shidda

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Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055.

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العلامات

• commodities
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

There are additional legal notes on verso, mentioning various sums of dinars and also Ḥusna or Ḥasana bt. Menaḥem the wife of Menashshe.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line.

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

457 Hijrī (13 December 1064–2 December 1065 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Witness is Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad. The recto was reused for Hebrew alphabetical practice with Tiberian voweling.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Contains instructions for applying flower oil and water lily (nīlawfar) oil over the head, forehead, and a few drops in the nose. It is also advised to eat it after a meal. On the lower portion of verso there are pen exercises.

العلامات

• dimme
• medical
• water lily

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The name of the one of the parties is al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Karīm and the amount mentioned is 30,000 dirhams.

العلامات

• contract
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

, and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) b. Muḥsin(?) al-Anṭākī... the reins(?)

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العلامات

• report

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rabīʿ I 1259 Hijrī (1 April 1843–30 April 1843 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of the tenant is Yeshūʿa and involves a property in Ḥārat al-Yahūd.

العلامات

• dimme
• late arabic script
• rent
• seal

1 نسخ

Document date

8 Shevat 5572 Anno Mundi (22 January 1812 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo.

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العلامات

• cesana
• karo y frances

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a teacher (ha-melammed); a girl (al-ṣabiyya); a request for assistance; the father of the girl; and the betrothal (ʿaqd al-qiddushin) and the writing of the ketubba after Yom Kippur.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Sayyidnā al-Nasi; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Najm Munajjā; Abū l-Faraj al-Munaqqī Dating: likely 12th or 13th century.

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Document date

17 Jumāda II 1247 Hijrī (23 November 1831 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State document in Arabic script, issued by the "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s.

العلامات

• 19th c
• late arabic
• seal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with a basmala and new section "fī jumlat al-kalām ʿalā l-aʿḍā", mentions the four elements and the four humors.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

It seems addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllānal-Ḥibr (the ḥaver), whose name appears both at upper left and in the first line of the text, telling him what items have been sent with the bearer.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر