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Document date

Ramaḍān 421 Hijrī (2 September 1030–1 October 1030 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for Hebrew text (lower margin and verso), maybe including part of a book list (mujallad...). There is also ink transfer from another unrelated fragment on verso.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen “Beit Din” b. Avraham from al-Raqqah to Ya’aqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1030. The writer thanks the addressee for taking care of his son, Amram, while he visited Aleppo. Eliyyahu mentions his satisfaction from his status as a judge in three communities in his town (probably the Iraqis, Shamis, and Qaraites), from his acceptance by several heads of Yeshivas in Iraq and the Exilarch (Rosh ha-Gola), and from his good relationships with the Qaraite community and the town governor. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #73) VMR Summarized by Frenkel as follows: The letter is effusive in self-praise and relates the writer’s actions and feats as the leader of the al-Raqqa community. He recounts how he “revived the Torah of Moses” and how he “returned many who went astray to the straight path,” and described how he sought to educate both Rabbanites and Karaites, “who, under our authority, have joined the Rabbanites.”

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العلامات

• communal
• state

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man to his 'brother' Abū l-Khayr and to his brother Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] But all turned out well." The writer goes on to explain why he himself left his family: because no one in Fustat could properly treat his illness. He went to Ibn al-Dihqān (when still in Fustat?), who did not know whether his back was ʿāṭib or not.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: back
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf doesn’t request payment for his services, because the stationary merchant, unlike the traveling merchant, traded for partners outside his home port not in exchange for compensation, but on the basis of reciprocity. Almostall the proceeds were invested immediately in new transactions that had to be done in India. […] He gives prices in the coin of Aden, the Malikī dinar, corresponding to 24 qīrāṭs, while textiles are traded in units of kawragha (pl. kawārigh), which is a bundle of twenty thawb (pl. athwāb; the word means not only cloak, but the unit of fabric of the size needed to make one). Also relates to the transactions discussed in a letter from Halfon to Maḍmūn b. […] This cluster of documents also makes it possible to estimate how long Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Astrological almanac with prognostications regarding the month of Abīb in the Coptic calendar, when the Nile begins to rise. […] Agricultural fortunes will be mixed: there will be abundant fish, figs, grapes, and flax, but scarce olives, blighted legumes, and death of animals in Alexandria and the Maghrib. But "God knows best what is hidden." […] The continuation is missing. Marina Rustow & Alan Elbaum

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العلامات

• medical
• prognostication

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

30 Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (21 October 1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviyya b. Yefet ha-Levi and ʿAllūn b. Faraj testify that on the eve of Passover 1350 Seleucid (April 1039 CE), they were present in the house of Sulaymān b. […] Lieberman understands this document very differently, interpreting the term mufāwaḍa as meaning "partnership" rather than "argument" and speculating that Sulaymān may have been the senior partner in an unspecified business partnership with Ṭoviyya, ʿAllūn, and Khalaf. He suggests that Ṭoviyya and ʿAllūn demanded a payout from the partnership, to be distributed by Sulaymān, who refused, claiming that Ṭoviyya and ‘Allūn have received their final settlements, and that Khalaf is free from his obligations to them. […] In yet another handwriting, the document validates the signatures of Tuviyya and ‘Allūn in the permanent court in Fusṭāṭ some months after their initial testimony was recorded in the home of Sulaymān in Cairo.

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya
• partnership
• yefet b. david

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

5416 Anno Mundi (2 October 1655–18 September 1656 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The term המרבע is used throughout to describe the property, perhaps denoting a "square" family residential compound. The property also had an upper-story apartment. At the original time of writing in 1643 CE, Mordekhay רקאק was renting one property, and Shemuʾel Ibn Yaḥyā rented another from the Castro family's real estate holdings (for which the street itself was possibly named, l. 3). […] Yiṣḥaq stipulates that the properties cannot be pledged as marital wealth in any ketubba or as collateral for debts. The document also mentions Yiṣḥaq's sister Esther, widow of Yosef Saʿadya, noting that Yosef (Castro) was also the maternal nephew (בן בתו) of Yosef Saʿadya– which means that Yiṣḥaq and Yosef Saʿadya married each other's sister. […] This potential surname פטסו may be an alternate spelling of the one attested (פתסו) in AIU VII.D.55 (PGPID 30551).

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العلامات

• 17th c
• castro

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account of Abu al-Maʿālī(?), specifying weight and prices of goods. […] Someone with the title "al-Segulat" (אלסגלאת) appears in the header. There is one line in Arabic script at the bottom, probably part of the same reckoning.

العلامات

• account
• trade

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Abū [...] is named, as are Qaṣr al-Rūm and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Crude orthography (e.g. רשאלמל = raʾs al-māl, לא = lahū, אלרזולי = al-Ghuzūlī).

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 Hijrī (27 April 1210–26 May 1210 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the date Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 AH = April/May 1210 CE. Also mentions a period of two years and very large sums of money (over 800 dinars).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The verso is probably a petition, mentioning a state official by the name Ḥusām al-Dīn Asad al-Dawla wa-...... The recto seems like an annotation, and the main line reads: "imtathal l-marsūm wa-quriʾat hādihi l-[.....]"

العلامات

• arabic

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Ibrāhīm b. Ḥassūn al-Mahdawī along with apologies for not writing him his own letter.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer explains that the family has no money for the coming holiday and no wood or oil; they have never been among the takers but always among the givers; there is someone in the house who is seriously ill (wajaʿ/wajiʿ ʿalā khuṭṭa).

العلامات

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: khutta

1 نسخ

Document date

Rabīʿ I 435 Hijrī (8 October 1043–6 November 1043 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 435 AH, which is 1043 CE. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic midrashic text on the 10 commandments.

العلامات

• diwan
• jahbadh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Listing numbers of "asbāb" and "abdān" and giving an explanation of some sort. The verso mentions "al-ḥālat al-wusṭā", and some fractions in Arabic numerals.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Their summoning to the court. . . " It seems she has also been deprived of access to her athāth (=qumāsh=dowry?)

العلامات

• aguna
• athath
• marital dispute

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Muḥarram 1224 Hijrī (16 February 1809–17 March 1809 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer is Bū ʿAlī and owner Ishaq.

العلامات

• 19th c
• dimme
• rent
• seal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports a dialogue and mentions "what he did with the daftar" and "other than that which al-ḥaver al-meʿulle told me." (Information in part from CUDL.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in a crude hand (previously misidentified as that of ʿArūs) mentioning money and quantities of various commodities received from a druggist, such as tamarind, saffron, rosewater, rose preserve, and myrobalan (halīlaj). Also names such as Abū Isḥāq and Ibn Nuṣayr. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without delay, so that he can travel. Also mentions the judge Rabbenu Ḥananel (b. Shemuel?).

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is from Minyat [...]. Verso also contains a list of the community of Fusṭāṭ’s weekly expenses, in Judaeo-Arabic.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Some sequences can be read: l. 1 al-maʿānī allatī and l. 2 b. Isrāʾīl; at the end of the document, traces of signatures of the witnesses.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1034 CE. See also CUL Or.1080 J85 (PGPID 8880). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter is written by Tamim b. Tobias from Aleppo around 1036-1037. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• 11th c
• aleppo
• petition
• private

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

17 Heshvan 5585 Anno Mundi (8 November 1824 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim in Alexandria concerning business matters, dated 17 Heshvan 185 (5585 of the Era of Creation = 1824 CE).

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ben na'im
• business

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Eli Kohen Fasi, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. June 27, 1057.

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العلامات

• coin
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Tahor, in Alexandria, to R. Ḥananel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim (according to Gil) or by Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī (according to Ben-Sasson) to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī in Fustat, containing prices of goods and information about the movements of ships.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة