Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the question whether the government would take one half or three-eights remained open. Dated ca. 1100. Mentions that the judge is sick. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 397, 607)

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: waja'

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is credited with various sums which he has paid in the meantime and which are to be deducted from the sum owed by him. Mention is also made of his father, who also took part in the operations. […] (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 267 #53)

العلامات

• account

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

2[.] Sivan 139[.] Seleucid (1068–1079 CE)

Marriage contract (ketubba). On parchment. Long vertical fragment, 21 in. in height; looks like a backbone. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli. …

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviyya/Ṭayyib as her attorney to claim anything due to her late husband Natan/Hiba b. Ḥakam b. Yosef b. Shumaym ha-Levi, and authorizes the expenditure of money, up to 17 dinars, for the transport of her husband's body to Jerusalem.

العلامات

• death
• funeral
• jerusalem

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to his father-in-law, Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. […] The sender has been in Alexandria for the last month and intends to spend the winter there, even though the addressee had urged him not to. […] He says that he misses the addressee and feels such estrangement (ghurba) that sometimes when he eats and he thinks about the addressee and the lack of letters from him, the taste of the food is spoiled or he gets nauseated (atanaghghaṣ li-dhālik).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to the sons of Mevasser, Fustat, perhaps 1025.

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script, with some interesting details, e.g., mentioning a ḥaver and possibly food items such as mulūkhiyya and zirbāj (a type of stew) (seven lines from the bottom).

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Continuous reference to the sender's brother. Mentions Abū Sahl (Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, the father of Halfon b. Menashshe. Dating: second half of the 11th century. […] Almost certainly the same sender (but probably not the same letter) as T-S 12.215, which is also the second leaf of a long letter and also mentions Abū Sahl Menashshe. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mainly love poetry. One of them has a blazon of the beloved along with references to …

العلامات

• judaeo-arabic poetry
• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Late. Among many other entries: soap: 1/4... fennel: 1/2 raṭl... cumin: 1 qadaḥ.

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: trial of the pen in large Arabic letters.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing many goods and their values. Many but not all are fabrics and garments (mandīl, miʾzar, miqnaʿa, ghalāla, maṭraḥ).

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faded/damaged. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sums of money, the paternal uncle of a wife, Abū l-Bahā' (or Abū l-Baqā'), and a teacher.

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Legal deed in large square thick letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Tax receipt. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Blessings in large, thick, square letters, with the name "David b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record(s). Recto mentions [Yi?]sraʾel known as Ibn Efrayim, traveling on business, a paternal uncle, and coming in to Fustat (or Egypt). […] Verso has a name (the scribe?) at the bottom: Menaḥem b. [...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions terrible economic depression in the Levant and asks the addressee to send his letters to Tyre.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query about a business dispute followed by the responsum, signed by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen the Rav (on whom see T-S 12.397 + T-S …

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Inferred date

1020–1050 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The Jews of Tiberias have the receipts (baraʾāt) to prove this. But now someone mentioned in the missing upper portion of the petition, presumably a tax-collector or other local official, has shown "greed toward us" and "strengthened his hand in oppressing us and demanding of us extreme humiliation (or rather: seeking our harm [adhāʾ]) in overcharging jizya payments."

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العلامات

• caliph
• dimme
• petition
• state
• tax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) in which a mother obliges herself to release her son from any lawsuit filed by herself or her daughter from a previous marriage.

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العلامات

• draft
• efrayim b. shemarya
• quittance

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Large and well-preserved. Dating: 11th century. Merits further examination.

العلامات

• bialphabetic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of 39 recipients of 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/2 dirhams during the 1020s, a period of famine, and belonging together with Mediterranean Society, II, App. B 1-3, pp. 438-440. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 240 and 438, note 111)

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• poverty
• recipients

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of official correspondence. Only a few words preserved (...bi-idhn Allāh...). Reused for Hebrew text.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Conveying a first-person narration regarding a journey: فلما ان طال المكث . . . انا ومن معي وهجرت خرجت اما …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions names such as Hibatallāh; Hiba Ṣabbāgh; Dāʾud; ṬĀhir and his brother; Abū l-Faḍl; Yaʿqūb; Ṭayyib.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Note in Arabic-script which starts with a taqbīl clause and mentions the arrival of goods from Qūṣ and a donation of (oil?)

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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the ransoming of female Jewish captives enslaved by the Franks at ʿAkkā (Acre), also mentioning Haifa. An Egyptian Jewish emissary had failed to redeem them, so he turned to the Ayyubid prince al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam at Damascus (r. 1218–27).

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العلامات

• acre
• alexandria
• captives
• crusades
• dimme
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The sender complains about the lack of letters (ll. 7–8). The addressee also appears in MS 9160, fol. 1, MS 9160, fol. 8, and Moss.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The body of the letter mentions pullets (farārīj) and a certain Yiṣḥaq. And maybe the army (אלעסכיר).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Complete, but very faded late letter in Hebrew from Jerusalem to ha-Ḥakham ha-Shalem ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓūyan Raysh Metivta Qedishta [...] […] There are several letters in Ladino from a 17th-century Shemuel Sidi (see tag); unclear if this is the same person.

العلامات

• readable with imaging
• shemuel sidi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from a certain Bū l-Fatḥ "al-Malikī al-Kāmilī" to a distinguished physician. No details are preserved beyond the grand titles of the addressee. The sender …

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a divorcee named Miryam bt. Avraham. Little else remains. Dating: ca. 13th century, based on handwriting and the dating of …

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العلامات

• divorce

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the use of Kāmilī (dirhams).

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العلامات

• account
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Multi-fragment shelfmark. The verso of the left fragment contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that are organized according to the months of the Islamic calendar. The accounting …

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the horrific tortures inflicted on the writer and his colleagues in the citadel at the hands of four jailers and …

العلامات

• amir
• jandar
• sahib al-diwan
• to edit
• torture

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28 Elul 1594 Seleucid (21 September 1283 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau evaluation in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: not long before 28 Elul 1594 Seleucid = 21 September 1283 CE, which is set as the …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 12th or 13th century. Mentions people such as al-Shaykh al-Makīn, Maḥāsin, and Amīn al-Dawla. Inquires about the price of saffron in Fustat/Egypt; also mentions galingale and dried ginger, which are in demand

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• colophon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر