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Document date

1094–1095 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[Mevorakh] ha-Kohen, the head of the Jewish community in al-Maḥalla, to the Nagid/Raʾīs al-Yahūd Mevorakh b. […] Abū Saʿīd Khalaf and Abū l-Faḍl Yakhīn, the ghulām of the Nagid, are also mentioned.

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العلامات

• communal
• damin

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan reports that the robe (thawb) has arrived with Zayn Ibn al-Parnas, and he requests to be sent the mulāʾa if it is finished, and if Efrayim hasn't yet purchased the biqyār, not to worry, because Natan no longer needs it. He also conveys condolences on the death of the addressee's mother and reports that he has praised the addressee in the presence of the Rosh Yeshiva (Maṣliaḥ?) […] Greetings to Bū l-Bayān, the addressee's four sons Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Surūr al-Ḥemdat and his children, Abū l-Ṭayyib, and Abū Sahl.

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Inferred date

1650–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the entries where prices are mentioned also reference types of coinage. On the upper right of the verso, line 2, the word "בונדוק / bunduk" appears which is in all likelihood a quantity of gold Venetian ducats. […] The word Istanbulī is also used in various accounts but its exact numismatic meaning is unclear. Based on the structure of this bifolium and the small tears along the inner spine, it may originate from a broader private ledger.

العلامات

• early modern
• list
• prices

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter of appeal for assistance. Damaged and faded. Opens with several lines of Hebrew blessings for the addressee. […] Mentioning names such as Fāṭima, Faḍāʾil, Rafīʿa bt. Ghurba, and another woman.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include Abū Zikrī, Ibn Barīd, Tamām, Abū l-Faḍl Masʿūd, Abū l-ʿAlā b. Dā'ud, Abū l-Faraj b. al-Ṭawīl, Maḥfuẓ al-Sayyid, Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn Maḥbūb, Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb, Abū Ṭāhir, al-Tinnīsī, Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Tinnīsī, Abū ʿUmar b. Abū l-Khayr al-Sharābī, Ibn Salmān al-Dallāl, Ibn Mukhtār al-Ṣayrafī and his brother-in-law, Ibn Ṭībān and his son, Baqāʾ b. Shuwayʿ (see T-S 12.263 (PGPID 7185)), Saʿdān al-Ṣayrafī in Cairo, Abū Saʿd al-Ṣabbāgh, Ibn al-Kirmānī, Ṣedaqa al-Mutarjim, Yakhīn ha-Ḥazzan, Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt, Abū Bishr, and Ibn Mūsā al-Ṣāyigh.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 15 Av 1344 Seleucid (14 July 1033 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite betrothal deed, in Arabic script, in which Abū l-Ḥasan Dawūd b. al-Faraj ʿImrān al-Levi ha-Kohen (i.e. David b. ʿAmram) is betrothed to […] bt. Abū l-Faḍl. The bride’s father is her agent, and one of the witnesses to his appointment was Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-Jabāwi. The betrothal took place on Wednesday 15 Av 1344 ‘of the era of Alexander’ (14 July 1033 CE). The date is partially written in Judaeo-Arabic in the midst of the Arabic-script document, and the scribe notes that this month is "Av for most of the Qaraites, Elul for some of the Qaraites ... and Shaʿbān for the Muslims."

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• calendar

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Document date

2 Iyyar 1529 Seleucid (29 April 1218 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 2 Iyyar 1529 Seleucid, which is 1218 CE. The cantor al-Makīn is to give the bearer, Faḍlal-Rashīd, a sum of money for the sake of 'jibāyat al-jawālī' (fundraising in order to pay capitation tax(es)). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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العلامات

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the ghulām of al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. Quite faded. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 10J17.20 and JRL Gaster heb. ms 1860/5), Abū l-Faḍl b. Yaʿaqov, Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Muqaddasī/al-Maqdisī (cf.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

May 1069–May 1069 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yַūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī in Alexandria to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe in Fustat. Gil dates the letter to May 1069. Parts are very faded. The letter contains details about goods Faraḥ b. […] Menashshe, as well as two references (verso, lines 5 and 7) to Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāʾigh, known as Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ, a powerful shipowner who was the last Muslim ruler of Palermo, 1069–72.

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العلامات

• ibn al-ba'ba'

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Document date

1498 Seleucid (1186–1187 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(1) Taqwīm (dowry list) for the marriage between Hiba b. Faḍā'ilal-Ḥazzān and Riḍā bt. Tamīm al-Parnas. The dowry total is 66 dinars plus one-half of a house. […] (2) Taqwīm (dowry list) for the marriage between Maʿālī b. Naṭīrā and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Makārim al-Parnas. The dowry total is 23 dinars. […] (3) Taqwīm (dowry list) for the marriage between Abū Manṣūr b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Dhahabī and Sitt al-Karam bt. Abū l-Barakāt.

العلامات

• dowry
• taqwim

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating; probably 12th century. Names include: al-Rayyis; Thiqat al-Mulk; Abū l-Munā al-Ṭabīb; Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Baṣrī and his children; Abū Saʿīd; Abū l-Ḥasan Daniʾel and his brother; Abū l-Makārim b. […] ʿUmayr; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ghulayb Kohen; Abū ʿAlī his partner; Abū l-Aʿlā Mesos; Abū ʿAlī b. Abū Saʿīd; Abū Saʿd b. Ṭībān; Abū l-Aʿlā b. Tamām Ṭabīb; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Karnīb(?); Abū Surūr b.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Damascus, to Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. […] The money has to be returned in Fustat to Abū l-Faḍl by way of loan from Abū Naṣr Salmōn b. ʿEli b. Salmōn. Moshe also asks Yūsuf to write a letter to the qāḍī, probably the qāḍī of Tyre, Abū Muḥammad b.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• suftaja

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Document date

1418 Seleucid (1 September 1106–18 September 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On both recto and verso there are pen trials and writing exercises in Arabic script in a chancery hand -- the phrases are typical of state documents (e.g. imtathala al-marsūm bi-l-tawqīʿ); also mentions the name ʿAlī b. […] Ibrāhīm. On verso there is also some accounting in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning goods related to the India trade. See also T-S 10J21.11 (PGPID 2956), another legal document relating to the same case.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faḍl Maṣliaḥ b. Yosef, in Fustat. […] The writer had been informed that the boat from Cairo to Alexandria, on which the addressee was aboard, had been turned back by the qāḍī. The addressee is expected to return to Alexandria soon. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 611 and Goitein's attached notes.)

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consultation
• illness: marad
• illness: physicians

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He adds a postscript in Judaeo-Arabic, asking Mevorakh to forward a letter to Abū ʿImrān b. Yaḥyā al-Raqqī, who it seems will then give Mevorakh a gift from the writer's son Abū l-Ḥasan. […] The main block of text has to do with a purchase from Abū l-ʿAlā. The remaining text names many women, including the wife of Ibn Ghallāb; Sitt ʿAlam; Umm Faḍā'il; the daughter of Umm Dāwud; Umm ʿAzīza; and the sister of Tāj al-Maʿānī.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1439 Seleucid (8 October 1127–6 November 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Goitien initially read 1459 Seleucid, which would be 1147 CE; the text is too faded to be confident, but it seems the scribe tried writing the year twice, and the ל is clearly visible in the first attempt.) A young wife, whose father-in-law was also her uncle and who had a brother living in the same town, asks her mother to visit her urgently. The sender also complains that the addressee had asked him to return a bible codex lent to him.

العلامات

• personal
• women's letters

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Document date

10 Tammuz 1537 Seleucid (7 July 1226 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a court record dated 623 (1226) written on a very small piece of paper (4 x 2.5 in) regarding the testimony of Abū Saʿīd al-Levi b. Abū l-Maʿānī that Abū l-Faḍl b. Mukhtār al-Iskandarī had died while in Kalah (on the west coast of present-day Malaysia, although the precise location is debated). […] Goitein didn't supply a reading for the place-name after Kalah ("in the lands of ..."); Marina Rustow reads "Java" (al-Jāwa), a broad Arabic term for Southeast Asia, a reading confirmed by Michael Laffan.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• eastern indian ocean
• ib7
• india book
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dāʾūd, Abū Munajjā, Abū l-Faḍl, al-ʿAjamī, Naʿīm, and Sitt Nadd. Among the interesting lines are "I am not a man of travel. I am here in Sammanūd, and to me it is like Aleppo and Baghdad." And several lines of what might be poetry bemoaning the pains of lovesickness and separation, alluding to how "I have become as yellow as a toothpick" (cf.

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العلامات

• sammanud

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Document date

Shevaṭ 1536 Seleucid (11 January 1225–9 February 1225 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

(II) The second document is faded. Abū l-Faraj b. Manṣūr is serving as a guarantor of Yosef al-Kohen's daughter.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av 5544 Anno Mundi (19 July 1784–17 August 1784 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Perhaps a letter or brief legal document? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver [medin]) received from Eliyyahu Nābī(?) for the rent of a tabqa property in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqālibah for the month of Av in 1784 CE (5544 AM).

العلامات

• 18th c
• rent

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ends with greetings to several persons (including Abū l-Surūr, Abū Saʿīd and his children, and Abū l-FaḍlʿAlī b. Bunyām.). The sender complains about the duty of fundraising for the orphans.

العلامات

• personal

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Inferred date

1131–1149 CE

Primary language

Arabic

This document also mentions Karīm al-Dawla ʿAytham, "one of the great amirs of al-Ḥāfiẓ." The verso document also concerns the purchase of the property on the recto, and mentions the Amīr Athīr al-Mulk Sharaf al-Dawla wa-Fārisuhā, Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿImrān ‘the Jewish moneychanger’, Sitt al-Jamāl bt. Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿImrān, Abū l-Faḍāʾil Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāḍī, and Maḥmūd, and was witnessed by ʿAbd al-Salām.

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Upper right: a literary text in square hand involving inheritance. Upper left: faded text, perhaps a part of a piyyut. Lower right: a list of names and sums - probably dispribution of bread for charity. Lower left: faded text , hard to read.

العلامات

• 12th c
• bread
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This wood is in the house (dār) which is the share of her sister, the wife of Abū l-Faḍāʾil, which she inherited from her father. The house, it's division between the two sisters, and the wood involved, are also mentioned in PGPID 8962.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Sent from somewhere in al-Shām to Cairo. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. […] to leave ʿAkkā (Acre); someone who went to Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ, who was with al-Rayyis Abū l-Riḍā who had just arrived from Jerusalem; that person told them to tell the sender to receive everything from him.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan b. Nahray to Abū l-Faḍl b. Yosef b. David (or rather: Qarawī?). In Judaeo-Arabic. […] (There are numerous letters preserved from the sender's father Natan b. Nahray in Alexandria to his famous cousin Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After a lengthy rhymed and eloquent introduction, he reports that he has accomplished what was asked regarding the copy of the book, and he also asks the Nagid to go to the physician Abū l-ʿIzz and exhort him concerning it: וסוא דלך אן פעל מא רסם בה אלמגלס אלסאמי מן . . . […] ופי . . . There are some faded sections.

العلامات

• mosul nasis
• nagid

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from the Jewish community of Alexandria to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). […] Iskandar the jahbadh, ʿUmar b. [...], and Yaḥyā ("may he not live!") b. Abū l-Faḍl known as Ibn Ukht Badīʿ(?). They are issuing receipts without having them registered in the supervising dīwān (wa-lam yuthbithā fī l-dīwān), which enables them to extort a second payment—one for their own pockets, and one for the dīwān.

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Document date

first decade of Nisan 1433 Seleucid (19 March 1132–28 March 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: legal deed in which Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. […] ha-Kohen 'Sixth in the Academy' gives a house in New Cairo to Ḥalfon b. […] Shabbat ha-Kohen, and Faḍāʾil b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. Although from the 12th century (from the names of the signatories), this is apparently not the famous scribe Ḥalfon b.

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Document date

Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid (1131–1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which ʿAmāʾim receives control over her dowry (nidūnya) (except for three precious items (aʿlāq), namely, the lamp and cushion and pail) and frees her husband of all obligations except the me'uḥar. He promises not to beat her and to treat her well, but no fine is fixed for contravention. There is also someone named Faḍā'il b. Abū Saʿīd b. Yakhin ha-Ḥazzan somehow involved (representing her? "al-muʿarrif lanā bihā"). Witnesses: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; Meshullam b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However an earlier dating should be considered - it mentions Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod, and someone of the same kunya and yeshiva title was active in the mid-12th century. Also mentions Muʿallā b. Raḥmūn; Bū l-Faḍāʾilal-Kohen; Bū Manṣur al-Ṣāʾigh.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Maḥfūẓ (active ca. 1183–1223) and the latter as Avraham Maimonides. However, the letter also mentions Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Qamḥa who is known from a document from 1156 CE (PGPID 31842). […] The sender may have been a physician and/or a person of some importance. He alludes in vague terms to various dealing with the Rayyis ("you may speak to the Rayyis in my name"). He also admonishes, "Your mother should not fast (as an expression of mourning for the dead), for this will impair her health."

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العلامات

• fasting
• wheat
• wine

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Inferred date

1121–1125 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She reports that later the same day, Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Neʾeman was fired from his post by the vizier al-Maʾmūn (1121–25) and was commanded to leave Cairo and take up residence in Fustat. Abū l-Faḍl cannot show his face now, and the rest cannot be explained in a letter (r11–14). […] (Information in part from Goitein's index cards; also Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 90, 404, 412; II, pp. 183, 345, 558; V, pp. 243, 574.)

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العلامات

• al-ma'mun
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: household
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Document date

Middle third of Shevaṭ 1434 Seleucid (9 January 1123–18 January 1123 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

But this dating is not certain, because it is very faded. In which Yefet b. ʿEli praises and acknowledges the help of Moshe ha-Sar b. […] Mevorakh, if the dating is correct). The document is very faded, but it appears that the matter has to do with the Palestinian synagogue as well as 'the congregation of the Cairenes.'

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