Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Includes "ليس المقام بدار الذل من شيمي ولا معاشرة الأنذال من هممي," which can also be found in T-S Ar.30.134 and BL OR 5565G.40 + T-S NS 224.170.

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Primary language

Arabic

The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on recto for a Judaeo-Arabic text about neṭilat yadayim.

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

Business letter fragment, sent from Alexandria to Fustat, based on FGP, but more lively Cairo given the dating.

العلامات

• fgp stub
• late alexandria

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Primary language

Hebrew

He cites something said by Rabbi Nissim and there is also mention of Eliyyahu (ZL).

العلامات

• philosophy
• theology

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps [Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen] ha-Parnas b.

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2

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragmentary: this is a long vertical strip from the right side. Mentions Hārūn al-Kohen; Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Madhbūḥ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to moving from a man's house to somewhere else. Also to 'the rent of the middle.' (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Saʿīd probably in Alexandria, to his brother the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meʾir b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: list of names, including Ibn Ḥusayn al-Sharābī, Abū l-Khayr, Abū Naṣr, Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Kathīr and Ibn al-Kohen; Hebrew numerals.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

E.g., Menaḥem, [Yo]sef, Eliyya, ʿaskarī (a soldier?), al-Fakhr, Khalaf, Kāfūr (means camphor, but can be a name), al-Muhadhdhab Sulay[mān].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and trickery (תחבולה).

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Primary language

Arabic

Unclear how much of the substance/request is preserved. Mentions "al-amr al-muwwaffaq"

العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal [b. al-Dayyān?], instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 1000 Kāmilī dirhams.

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Document date

1101–1130 CE

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there are drafts of documents including the name of the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh written several times (r. 1101–30).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions the weight of something (al-wazn) and the name Aḥmad al-Fākihānī (he appears on both T-S AS 184.120 and T-S AS 184.105).

العلامات

• myriad

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Primary language

Ladino

Commodities include garments, textiles, and items of gold. Also contains instructions for an agent ("if you do not find X, then...").

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. There are also a few lines of Arabic and abbreviated Hebrew/Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the names include: Yiṣḥaq Solal (= Sholal?), Yiṣḥaq Mūsā, ʿAlīal-Qammāḥ, Yaḥya Ibn Zaytūn.

العلامات

• sholal

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

In the Arabic script section, there is a basmala and then perhaps the name al-shaykh Abū Zikrī (adāma Allāh ʿizzahū). The blank spaces have been filled with piyyutim (yoṣerot).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the upper margin there are also a few crudely written words which might be in Arabic script or in Hebrew script.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment from the bottom of a petition in Arabic script, containing a portion of a raʾy clause and blessings for the addressee (ṣalawāt allāhʿalā mawlānā....). Response to the petition towards the end.

العلامات

• dimme
• endorsement
• petition

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

account in Arabic script. There are also several later lines of poetry or aphorisms (ان يركب البغلات قوم وهم في النسب الصادق اجدادها . . .

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from a mother from Alexandria, to her son in Fustat. Second half of 11th century.

Related Places

2

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Letter from Barukh b. Zikrī al-Makhmuri, in Ifrīqiyya, to his relative Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmuri, in Fustat. The writer asks for help as his place was "sieged by the Byzantines."

1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid (8 January 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Khayr claims to have given to the female broker Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Abū ʿUmar two books belonging to his father, one of the Torah and one of Ketuvim, in order to offer them for sale. […] Six years later, he learned the Torah alone was worth 20 dinars. Abū l-Maḥāsin is questioned about this. The story continues at length on verso (mentioning at one point the two witnesses Abū l-Bayān Ibn al-Ahuv and Saʿīd al-Mawṣilī). This portion still needs examination.

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1

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Ignoring the order of the verses, most of them resemble the verses of Duʿā al-Jawshan (for Saturday) attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib or other verses of supplication attributed to him and quoted in the book Biḥār al-Anwār by Majlesi (d. 1698). The variant in Biḥār al-Anwār is as follows: يا من لا يشغله سمع عن سمع يا من لا يمنعه فعل عن فعل يا من لا يلهيه قول عن قول يا من لا يغلطه سؤال عن سؤال يا من لا يحجبه شئ عن شئ يا من لا يبرمه إلحاح الملحين يا من هو غاية مراد المريدين يا من هو منتهى همم العارفين، يا من هو منتهى طلب الطالبين، يا من لا يخفى عليه ذرة في العالمين.

العلامات

• arabic literary
• muslim prayer
• red ink
• shi'i

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa al-Ramli, the grandfather of the bride, passed away (Med. […] (Translated to English in Goitein, 3:154. Med. Soc.). Alternate description: betrothal deed between R. Efrayim ha-Talmid b. Meshullam and Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa ha-Levi al-Ramlī for his daughter Sitt al-Fakhr. The advanced gift is 15 dinars, the delayed gift 50 dinars (though 60 is written above the line).

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العلامات

• betrothal
• contract
• prenuptial

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed leasing a parcel of land belonging to the qodesh to Avraham ha-Levi (B. Yahya) al-Najib (al-Watiq). The parcel (saha) is in Dammuh, near the synagogue. […] The lessee is granted the right to build on the land and also to cultivate it and operate the saqiya on it.

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2

Related Places

1

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1

العلامات

• 12th c
• dammuh
• draft
• lease
• qodesh

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Out of the 11 dinars, 1.33 dinar will be paid in eleven monthly installments, whereas 9.67 dinars will be paid in the month of Tishri (when the harvest is over). The tenant will also have to carry 1000 palm branches to the Nile (apparently also in the month of Tishri, intended for the feast of Sukkot).

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1

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1

العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• lease
• qodesh
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Bahlūl, apparently in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, August 1062. Includes the news of the death of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, and of the destruction of the Maghrib, presumably by the Banī Hilāl (who had sacked Qayrawān three years earlier). […] Soc. 1:410 n. 2 as T-S 16.276. (Gil) Also contains mention of Ṭalḥī paper, named after Talḥa b.

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3

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3

العلامات

• paper

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. All three letters appear to be in the same handwriting, and all the liturgical fragments are likewise in the handwriting of the same scribe (different than the scribe of the letters). […] The addressee's letter arrived, along with the 5 shipments it mentioned, 4 for "Sayyidnā Av (Bet Din)" and 1 for the sender.

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2

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After this year the couple intended to move to Bilbays and there the wife will also determine the location of the domicile. More on this matter see Ashur’s dissertation Chapter Four pp. 130-131. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 403. Also from Amir Ashur's dissertation.)

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2

العلامات

• 13th c
• contract
• premarital

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She reports that the addressee's letter arrived with Abū l-Faraḥ. Also mentions Ḥayyim and Abū Sulaymān. Refers to selling books. […] ships with the cryptic phrase קדאקד or קראקר רום. Also ships of Ibn Bādī(?) with oil and a ship from the west, as well as the ship that had been 'in the mountain.'

العلامات

• cheese
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• oil
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Now that Fakhr has returned to Cairo, he has heard that family members already returned the silver, but Fakhr refused to return the siddur. […] He then recounts the story of how Sulaymān and Fakhr stayed in the khān in Bilbays with six other pilgrims (al-Shaykh Muwaffaq the cantor, Saʿīd b. al-Kātib, Nāṣir b. Ṭayyib, Yehoshua b. al-Ghāriq, Mūsā b. Mardūk, and Ibn Abū Saʿd al-Khādim), and how they were stranded there over Shabbat when the caravan left.

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1

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2

العلامات

• 14th c
• bilbays
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• (+ 6 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAfīf reports that Shemuel's letter arrived and was read aloud to the congregation of Gaza, which prayed for him (r19–22). […] ʿAfīf wishes to return to Cairo, but does not have money for hiring a donkey. ʿAfīf b. Ezra (also known as Yosef the Egyptian), along with his traveling companion R. Pereẓ, also appears in F 1908.44XX, lines 70–94. Information from Goitein (note card and Med Soc V).

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3

العلامات

• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• disability
• disability: hearing
• disability: speaking
• (+ 14 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Nisan 1411 Seleucid (13 March 1100–11 April 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. Yosef b. Yosef al-Labbān (the milkman), receives from 'the money of the poor' one dinar as a loan to be paid back in weekly installments of two dirhams. […] Shemuel (the Spaniard). This record is also signed by Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn and Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo ha-Levi.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Document in Arabic script, some sort of an agricultural account or survey. Mentions al-maydān al-baḥrī, potholes for sowing, pomegranate and, olives. "fī l-maydān al-baḥrī... (first line); sitta ʿashara ḥafra fī kull ḥafra...gharth (or maybe yughras)..

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1

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1

العلامات

• agriculture
• dimme
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. […] The letter contains instructions about the business in Fustat while Nahray is absent. Also mentions business with several Muslims. In addition, mentions silk that awaits in Sicily.

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4

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4

العلامات

• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only the last three lines are preserved, then two lines in Hebrew, 'may I be the ransom of the brother (al-akh al-shaqīq) from all evil.' Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with rudimentary handwriting and spellings.

العلامات

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: emotion
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

F1: List of names: [...] b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen; Tāj al-Dawla; Elʿazar ha-Kohen. Written in both Hebrew and Arabic script. F2: Letter fragment in Arabic script: "... wa-anā usayyir lakum kitāb al-majlis..." F3: Letter fragment in Arabic script, wide space between the lines: "...adāma Allāh ʿizzahum wa-mundhu sārū..."

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