Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

There are three lines of rhymed Hebrew text at the top, followed by a large space and 5–6 lines of a letter (mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew), followed by 2 lines in Arabic script in a different hand, perhaps a continuation of the letter or the response.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic script, listing itself as a "defter" register in line 1. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. The opening line reads: daftar mubārak yataḍammanu fīhi al-ʿimāra(?)

العلامات

• late arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. The upper section of the recto is badly damaged, but the two upper lines of text may have been provided by the student's instructor for them to repeat (a common format in this genre).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Nisan 5578 Anno Mundi (7 April 1818–6 May 1818 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The same is true for the second fragment. witnessed by ʿEzra ʿIkārī[?]. Based on the layout, paper, and scribal hand. these two fragments may be joins with one another.

العلامات

• 19th c

1 نسخ

This form of communal recordkeeping has a wide array of joins from the late 18th and early 19th centuries such as JRL SERIES C 161.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Two of the items listed may be knives (סכינה), one specifically for butchers: "סכינה כצפי.ה", a spelling that resonates closely with Ladino and Modern Turkish renderings of the word "kasap".

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yosef ha-Shofeṭ ha-Kohen (whose signature is surrounded by an elaborate motto), and Avraham b. David b. Labrāṭ. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index cards)

العلامات

• power of attorney

1 نسخ

Document date

5305 Anno Mundi (18 September 1544–6 September 1545 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Conceivably the same people as in T-S 13J7.30, a 16th-century letter in Ladino from Avraham Mayo, also involving a Raḥamim and the raisin trade.

العلامات

• raisins

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1142–1149 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Little of the content is preserved beyond opening and closing formulae and greetings to Khalaf the in-law of the cantor. Gil dated the letter to ca. 1010, but we now know that the sender was active in the Delta (Shubrā Damsīs and Minyat Ashnā) ca. 1142–49 CE.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter consists entirely of expressions of deference, blessings for the holiday, and greetings to various people, including 'the noble lady' (al-sitt al-jalīla), 'the mother,' and Bū Zikrī (probably Shelomo's brother).

العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from the community of Sfax, largely consisting of prayers and praises for the recipient.

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العلامات

• maghrib
• sfax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein writes, "the dirge is particularly inept." Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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2

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Recto: part of a large, effaced ketubba for Ghāliya bt. Avraham ha-Levi and an unnamed groom, dated 28th [month] in Fusṭāṭ (year and month not preserved).

1 مناقشة

Document date

20 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid (26 June 1065 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

They subsequently divorced and remarried two years later: see BL OR 8663.1 [PGPID 32166]. On verso and continuing at the bottom of the recto is a poem or draft letter (to a Nagid?)

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العلامات

• fgp stub
• ketubba

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

the word is tulaṭṭakh/laṭkh); Judaeo-Arabic poetry; a riddle or two; and an extended grammatical discussion of case endings after 'kāna and her sisters' and related topics.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recipient's brother-in-law is to pay something to Ḥayyim b. H[...]. The writer urges the recipient to help him, because he is sick (ḍaʿīf): צהרך איידה אללה ידפעה לחיים בן ה[...]

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document/testimony of Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his brother Abū l-Barakāt the sons of the late 'leader' (rayyis) Abū l-Ghayth Yeshuʿa. The case involves a house (dār) and Ibn Abū Ṣāliḥ.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), appointing Avraham b. [...]

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العلامات

• morocco

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The manuscript was copied on an extremely large piece of paper and thus may have been a scribal draft.

العلامات

• cmp
• medicine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The request seems to be that the addressee help the sender's brother-in-law in "going out" from somewhere, as the sulṭān had previously bestowed the beneficence of uniting the two of them.

العلامات

• sultan

1 نسخ

Document date

Shevaṭ 5306 Anno Mundi (4 January 1546–2 February 1546 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham Mujamjim; Moshe Ashasho(?). There is a later addendum written and signed by the same Elʿazar b.

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العلامات

• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal query about a man who admit he recieved a loan but claimed he already returned it with few people one of them named Halfon. The lander claimed he only recieved small part from the loan, and Halfon claimed he doesn't remember recieving any money from borrower.

العلامات

• responsa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Minute Bible fragment with a few words visible from II Kings 4:12–13 on the recto and possibly II Kings 4: 1 on the verso. The latter verses are more damaged and illegible. MCD.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Based on the paleography and the latter's surname the fragment's dating can be estimated to the 18th or 19th centuries.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

(Information from Oded Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law (PhD diss), 65–66).

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العلامات

• marital dispute

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Wednesday, 12 Shevat 5321 Anno Mundi (29 January 1561 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yaʿaqov Toledano acknowledges that he owes his mother, Doña Masʿūda (the same as in ENA NS 49.20?), 40 large gold ducats, and he will repay them within 30 days whenever she asks.

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العلامات

• perahim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Note the spelling of ראש in a phrase derived from Lamentations 3:19, ולענה ורוש. Recto: short, incomplete, Judaeo-Arabic note in a different hand (more cursive, with many ligatures), possibly a reply to the letter on recto.

1 نسخ

Document date

Middle decade of Sivan 1552 Seleucid (22 May 1241–31 May 1241 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

For edition and translation, see Zinger, "Women, Gender, and Law," pp. 352–54.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• bill of sale
• real estate

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment written in a largish hand with widely-spaced lines. It is addressed to an individual (ואנשי ביתך).

1 نسخ

Document date

1399-04-16 Seleucid (31 December 1088 CE)

A second bill was drawn up later and can be found at T-S 10J2.11. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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1 مناقشة

Document date

Av 1552 Seleucid (10 July 1241–8 August 1241 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

In which he dedicates one-third of an orchard and a house located in the village of Hammuriyya near Damascus and stipulates the income of the estate is to be used to purchase food for students of the law. Two trustees are appointed, Yequti’el and Petahya.

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العلامات

• deathbed will

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Asking for urgent help with "ghathth al-bayt" (a problem of his wife?

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: brain

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1328 Seleucid (6 September 1016–23 September 1017 CE)

Yaʿaqov a sum of thirty 'pieces of gold' (dinars). The latter is represented by Moshe b. Avraham b. Khalifa.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة