Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew for the introduction, Judaeo-Arabic for the body, and Arabic for the address on verso: from Yūsuf b. Khalaf to mawlāy al-ḥazzān(?) al-jalīl. The upper margin of recto was reused for a Hebrew scribal exercise.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that conditions are terrible in his location; reports on the price of wheat and bread; prays for deliverance from God; mentions his intention to enter Alexandria; begins to provide an update on the condition of Abū Ghālib.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A mention of Ba'al ha-Mahanot, which can be translated as Amīr al-juyūsh, Badr al-Jamālī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū l-Waḥsh, and Abū Naṣr.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Hayyim b. Immanuel to Mevorakh b. Saadya in Fustat, dealing with a purchase of books for Mevorakh from the estate of Berekhya and dismissing the allegation that the recipient was stealing partners from existing partnerships.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes to travel home as soon as the Khalij canal of Fustat has enough water.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Looks like the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (active ca. 1300). Verso: poetry in honor of ha-Sar Nissim, in a different hand an ink than recto.

العلامات

• nasir

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Document date

20 Shaʿbān 405 Hijrī (13 February 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions something in agreement with the opinion of al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd. Then again refers to "the signature/handwriting (khaṭṭ) of the amīr."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣadoq (active mid-12th century in Alexandria).

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العلامات

• alexandria
• capitation tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The trigger term might be افرد but needs further examination. The ʿalāma at upper left seems to read wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi ʿalā iḥsānih

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

463 Hijrī (9 October 1070–28 September 1071 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Groom: Zayd b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn. 1.5 (dinars) are mentioned. May be dated.

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العلامات

• muslim marriage contract

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Mainly materials for ceilings and roofs, palm branches, ropes, reeds, etc. Treesare also listed and the supply of doors. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 189 #20.)

العلامات

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

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Page from a children’s Hebrew textbook consisting of the consonants alef to tet with the various different Tiberian vowels.

العلامات

• education

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge (c/o the shop of the sons of al-ʿŪdī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the month of Ramaḍān and the Muslim holiday (presumably ʿīd al-fiṭr). It is difficult to gather much more from this fragment without a join.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of rents of communal apartments occupied (with one or possibly two exceptions) by women, including Dār al-Maqāniʿiyya and Dar Ibn al-Kallām. Dating: ca. 1181 CE.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic with introductory rhymed praises in Hebrew. Addressed to al-shaykh al-Talmid. Little of the substance is preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's note card.

العلامات

• 11th c
• ketubba
• marriage

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List of daily collections in which almostall the benefactors give one or two dirhams.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• poverty
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions payments to various agents (wukalāʾ) including Būlāq and Jiblīl (? גיבליל) and "al-Gharbī" and Bashṭa (בשטה or בשכוה?). Verso is headed "al-Gharbī" and one entry refers to "the dry" and the next to אלאלין (some category of grain?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They have been in Bilbays only a brief time, since 17 Iyyar, seeking a living there because of difficult economic conditions in Alexandria. But this project has not worked out, and so they are planning to return to Alexandria. […] He mentions his weak vision earlier in the letter, too, when explaining the "delay of my raḥl (merchandise? travel?)." Also of interest in the letter is what Abū l-Faraj conveys about his hospitality for Eliyyahu's son, the physician Abū Zikrī, who returned from Jerusalem the previous year. […] When the writer and his son, along with Asad and Abū l-Munā, started preparing to travel (to Fustat?)

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العلامات

• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Document date

29th Sivan 1456 Seleucid (22 June 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Deals with the sale of a house in the al-Mamṣūṣa quarter in Fustat for 123 dinars. Dated: 29 Sivan 1456 Seleucid = 22 June 1145 CE. […] Verso: ʿAzīza bt. Abū Naṣr al-Marsā[nī] receives from ("al-Peʾer") Abū Saʿīd b.

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العلامات

• ledger
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly addressed to 'the dear brother al-Kohen Hadar ha-Soḥerim." Dating: Early 13th century. […] He advises the addressee to look after the boy and not to beat him (lā tasṭū ʿalayhi bi-ʿunf) and to tell him to look after his sister and mother (at least if "your mother" refers to the boy rather than the addressee). He complains about al-Raḍiyy. Regards to Samḥūn and his siblings and father; to Eliyyahu and his son; to Abū l-Faraj and Bū Mubārak and their wives.

العلامات

• education
• secret

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Document date

Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (13 April 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū l-Riḍā al-Levi, which was designated for the benefit of the orphan daughter of ʿImrān by order of "the great Rav Moshe," that is, Maimonides, who had recently been appointed head of the Jews. Also mentions the dead man's female slave named Musk.

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العلامات

• estate
• head of the jews
• maimonides
• orphans
• slaves

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written in Arabic script. […] He asks for small quantities of silk. Umm ʿAjam also asks for news and tells the addressee to return as soon as he has finished his work.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• personal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Shemarya ha-Dayyan al-Barqī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat).

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

21 Av 1394 Seleucid (8 August 1083 CE)

Wadʿa and Abū Zikrī, and also with a man who was married and divorced before consummation in Tyre and remarried in al-Mahalla.

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العلامات

• adoption
• court notebook
• oaths
• register
• remarriage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av – Elul 1527 Seleucid (18 July 1216–14 September 1216 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges a debt of 6.5 dinars to Maḥāsin b. […] Verso, doc. 2: The three children of Maʿānī al-Ḥarīrī and an in-law of theirs sells something belonging to them in the town of Sammanūd to Abū l-Thanāʾ b. […] Verso, doc. 3: Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣāʾigh and a sum of 10 qirats and Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ.

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العلامات

• glyph

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to 'our son Sulaymān' in 'al-Maḥrūsa' (Cairo), Ḥārat al-Yahud. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. The last line of the first section seems to be a verse of poetry, probably referring to separation rather than to an actual dispute: "And when God's decree persists between me and you (pl.), I will die a stranger, wa-l-salāmu ʿalaykumū." The next section begins by addressing itself to 'our beloved daughter Sarah' and continues with wishes for her good health and informing her of the writers' good health and their yearning to see her.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1146–1159 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is crucial to note that 22 Tammuz also fell on a Thursday in variety of other years during Shemuel b. […] Therefore, this document's association with the exact year 14[60] requires further explication/research. Hiba the weaver (al-Ḥāyik) known as Ibn Nuʿmān accepts the obligation to appear in court on Monday 26 Tamuz together with the agent of the qodesh Sālim/Shelomo b.

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Inferred date

1100–1100 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mukhtar b. Yaʿaqov to Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid b. Naja describing Ḥasan b. Bundār's assistance. Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid, the "Trustee", was a close confidant of Mevōrākh b. Saadya, the court physician and Rayyis al-Yahūd of the Fatimid Empire at the time. The letter primarily concerns goods — cloves and aromatic wood — traded between the sender and the addressee.

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العلامات

• arabic to examine
• ib2
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send them money to buy grain). […] The sender has sent two sleeping carpets (waṭāwayn), one for the girl (al-ṣabiyya) and the other for Misk ("Musk"), the girl's female slave (jāriya). The handwriting of this letter looks very similar or identical with that of T-S NS J3, and some of the same names appear in each letter, including Abū l-Surūr, Abū ʿAlī, and Sitt Ikhtiṣār. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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العلامات

• family
• personal

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Inferred date

1128–1128 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿOvadya and asked the addressee to hand over the money which Avraham al-Qalʿī (apparently also of Seville) owed to Ḥalfon.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ishaq of Ceuta, Morocco, who had fled Almohad persecution in his native country about 35 years earlier. […] He asks the addressee, also of Maghribi origins, for charity. Ca. 1181.

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العلامات

• appeal
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

585 Hijrī (19 February 1189–7 February 1190 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a merchant returning, it seems from overseas, and embarking on another prolonged journey, lists 27 assets totaling 460 dinars regarding which action had to be taken. He also mentions debts due him from both Jews and Muslims, among them Maḥāsin b. Sulaymān, the tax-farmer of Saniya (v38) and Ṣadaqa b. al-Raḥbī, the tax-farmer of Sandafā (who owes 24 dinars, v44–45).

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العلامات

• merchant

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