Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a muqaddam who demanded that his name be included in the kaddish as had been done for his predecessors (man taqaddamahu min al-muqaddamīn). "Some of the congregation opposed him, for their own reasons" (M. […] Friedman has suggested that these were also opponents of Avraham Maimonides, see "A Bitter Protest about Elimination of Piyyutim from the Service — A Request to Appeal to the Sultan [Hebrew]," Peʿamim 1999).

العلامات

• legal query
• muqaddam

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He inquires about business matters: if the money has been sent, if all of it was spent on flax, whether flax is cheap or expensive, whether the addressee has any requests from the neighborhood. Mentions ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Zayyāt, who says no one brought him anything.

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العلامات

• illness
• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Exhorting him to "do his work" (iqḍi shughlak) and also refers to "this man" (the same unfortunate man from recto?). Urges haste in responding to his letter (jawāb al-kitāb surʿa surʿa). Needs further examination.

العلامات

• tarsim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an official from the dīwān al-mawārīth (cf. ENA 4194.3 (PGPID 5411)) who opened a man's warehouse and confiscated all of the contents (فتح مخزنه واخذ جميع ما فيه); legalistic phrases referring to somebody in sound health (صحة الجسـ]ـم والبدن لا علة ولا سقم ولا حال يلزم فيه ال . . ).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is an address: to [...] al-Dawla Moshe ha-Zaqen ha-Sar the tax farmer (ḍāmin), in Damīra. […] The addressee is asked to help reconcile the bearer, al-Shaykh al-Makīn, with his wife "and listen to his complaint (shakwā), [because] he is a good boy and his father is a good man. . . and you know his intellect and his piety."

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العلامات

• damin
• marital dispute

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"I have reached a point in my distress that no one else has ever reached... what I really need is monitor lizard oil (dahn al-waral) to anoint myself... pay whatever it takes... and make sure to get it when the sun is in Aries, because otherwise it will not help me... after that time, the oil solidifies and cannot be used." The sole reference to monitor lizard oil in al-Rāzī's Al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb is for obtaining an erection.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• impotence
• mail-order medicine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It reports that Hillel has lost all his money in Fustat. Also mentions R. Natan and Yaʿaqov Tarjumān.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1 (1–2) + Fol. 4 (7–8): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning [...] al-Amshāṭī. Also mentions, "I have asked the bearer

العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

who concerns themselves with 'the affairs of the Jews' (ashghāl al-yahūd): עודכם פי . . . גמיע ותסלם . . . אבו אלחסן נין . . . […] [אנהי מ]חבהא וממלוכהא דלך [ו]שלום. Verso: There is also unidentified Arabic script, accounts of some kind; this is the earlier use.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

The Ottoman Empire (Devlet-i ʿAliye), "England," and "France" are all mentioned as state entities in the second line. […] (MCD with information provided kindly by Özgen Felek) Latin-script transliteration (Özgen Felek ed.): "Lord Kowan Ceneral’e (General) gidecek mektubun suretidur Devlet-i aliyyenün müttefiki olan İngiltere devleti tarafından Franca’da [...] masaliha-i amme[nin] tasdiknamelerin mübadelesi ..… tarihinden itiba[ren] …..

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العلامات

• england

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

19 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1253 Hijrī (16 March 1838 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In the right column, ʿĀʾisha bt. Muḥammad of Ṭūkh al-Maliq(?) (the town between Qalyūb and Banhā?) […] In the left column, there is an entry mentioning Ibrāhīm Shaʿban and ʿAlīal-Jazzār and a pair of golden bracelets as collateral.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• jewelry

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: two alchemical recipes, the first on the use of a water derived from a preparation of tutty (an oxide of zinc), which is left overnight to congeal into a stone; the second deals with a preparation with tartar (potassium tartarate) white sal ammoniac (in transliteration from Arabic here), copper, sulfur, salpeter (nitre, mineral of potassium nitrate), sea salt, and white copper, mentioning the use of a waterproof glass container and another vessel isolated with the clay of the sages (Ar. Ṭīn al-ḥikma, Lat. argilla philosophorum, lutum sapientiae). Verso: instructions for the production of an amulet for a barren woman, with magical characteres and two small Stars of David, and instructions for the production of an amulet for avoiding dangers on the road. All this is written in a late Ashkenazi hand. (Information mainly from CUDL.)

العلامات

• alchemy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender says that the holiday was no holiday at all due to the addressee's absence. He reports that there is no longer any need (wajh, spelled וש) for the addressee to stay away (fī bilād al-ghurba), because the diwan has received in full (istawfā) whatever was owed to it (the capitation tax?), and "al-Ḥazzāzī has taken for us its writ/document (or even receipt?

العلامات

• arabic address
• diwan
• hujja
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address on verso in Arabic script (to Fustat, al-Sūq al-Kabīr, to be given to Abū l-Ḥasan al-[Yahūdī?]).

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. […] Ṭoviyya claimed that he sent the amount via the agent Abū al-Faraj to be sold in Tunisia. It is unclear whether the 65 dinars is a partnership account or a debt owed Netanel by Ṭoviyya.

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العلامات

• court record
• debt
• draft

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid (8 May 1241 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in the same hand as verso. The cheesemonger (al-jabbān) Abū l-Fakhr b. Saʿadya gives his mature virgin daughter, Karam, 2/3 of a house as well as 130 black dirhams. […] Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, receives 1 dinar in addition to the 2 dinars of her delayed marriage gift. He also releases her from the requirement for an oath.

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العلامات

• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 4 Nisan 1341 Seleucid (March 1029 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sahlān, records the dissolution of a partnership between Ibn al-Kashshāsh Isḥaq b. Elijah and Samḥūn b. Tamīm. Isḥaq is to pay six dinars at the end of roughly seven months, at the end of the month of Tishri of the next year, and Samḥūn thereby absolved Isḥaq of any further obligation. Isḥaq also agreed that if he were to travel to the West without Samḥūn, that he would pay the six dinars prior to his departure.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• autograph
• avraham b. sahlan
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He travelled with a Nasi to Egypt. In Alexandria, he bought something nice for 15 dinars for his wife. […] The join with T-S AS 145.278 was identified by Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• army
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• mosul cantor
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter by a young Spanish merchant writing from Fez to his father Yefet b. ʿUlla ha-Levi in Almeria, Spain, revealing that he preferred not to use his father's house in Fez but to stay with friends instead in order to be able to declare his merchandise as destined for a local merchant. […] After he was forced to pay the governor (qā'id) and customs inspector (mutawalli al-ʿushūr) and sundry others, "I was sick for three days out of anger and sorrow. Had I possessed here the same courage as I usually have in Almeria, I would have escaped with less than this.

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العلامات

• almeria
• customs
• fez
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

9 Kislev 1477 Seleucid (15 November 1165 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria for two years (rent: 9 dinars).

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العلامات

• damin
• tax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Friday, 1 Kislev 1515 Seleucid (7 November 1203 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Barakāt the supplier (al-mūrid). He owes 238 dinars to the banker Abū l-Karam b. Abū l-Naṣr Ibn al-Dayyān. This sum should be paid out of his sugar stored with Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Riḍa Ibn al-Lebdī. What remains from the value of the sugar will belong to the dying man's son.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A woman with the strange name of Qirā al-Lawn (קרא אללון), the widow of the late Marwān, appoints Shelomo b. […] Shemuel what was due to her from the estate of her paternal uncle. She had already received 38 dinars. On verso the name Sittnā bt. […] The scribe uses ה and א interchangeably at the ends of words, so the first part of her name may be Qurra (solace), as in the set phrase "qurrat al-ʿayn"; the "lawn" (color) part remains mysterious.

العلامات

• power of attorney

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning many people including Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, Abū ʿImrān b. Avraham al-Kohen, Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥalabī (and India trader), Yaḥyā ‘the son of the dyer’ and Abū l-Barakāt b.

العلامات

• ib7
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

4757 Anno Mundi (17 September 996–5 September 997 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo, known as Salmān al-Tabīb, receives a loan from his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Salāma al-Ṭabīb (Goitein: Salāma ha-Levi b. Salman [!]), for which he mortgages his inheritance from their father, a quarter of the courtyard in the Roman fortress of Fusṭāṭ, in the alley of the Jerusalmites' synagogue. The loan of seven 'good dinars' is for two years, starting Av (1)308 Sel.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

This person claimed in Muslim courts that Daniel's brother was his slave, but "God forbid that a Jew should be a slave of a Gentile, all the more so of a Jew like him" (r34–38). Various Jewish dignitaries are mentioned, including Elḥanan Rosh ha-Seder. Yoshiyyahu is asked to intervene. This fragment also contains a state document in Arabic and a Hebrew piyyuṭ in a different hand than the letter (larger and cruder).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• petition
• slaves

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Tammuz 5509 Anno Mundi (17 June 1749 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The communal rabbi Nissim Shelomo Algazi (b.1670-d.1761 CE) has also signed below the document acknowledging its validity.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• ben na'im

1 نسخ

Document date

Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1351 Seleucid (28 May 1040 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1351 Seleucid = 28 May 1040 CE. In which Ḥasan b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Judayy confirms that he has received, on behalf of his sister Karīma, that which had been deposited with Ḥusn, mother of Hannah, Sarah and Isaac, the children of Burayh al-Šīrajī (i.e.

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1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria (No-Amon), led by the judge Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, to the Jerusalemite congregation in Fustāt, led by Efrayim b. […] Verso contains the address, written in rhymed prose and closing with an 'alāma, ברית שלום. (Information from CUDL.) See Bodl.

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العلامات

• captives
• pirates
• ransom

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1390-10-23 Seleucid (26 June 1079 CE)

Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms of the dissolution require Abraham to pay Obadiah 10 dinars. Following the dissolution, each partner is allowed to work on his own in the same industry, both individually and with other partners. Presumably each of the partners committed all his efforts and production to the partnership, to the exclusion of other business transactions, prior to the dissolution.

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3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

The second part contains the final part of an accounting of revenue for six months; the sum paid to the parnas as a collection fee is also mentioned. The account is said to have been made in the presence of the head of the yeshiva, Nataniel b. […] (Information from CUDL and Gil, Documents, pp. 300 #67) The Abū l-Ḥasan al-Naḥḥāl mentioned here is likely the same one whose son and grandson feature in Bodl.

العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1138–1190 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Bifolio containing calendrical jottings in Hebrew script for the years 1454–1501 Seleucid = 1142–90 CE. There is also the beginning of a birth record in Judaeo-Arabic "Thursday halfway through Kislev" but this is incomplete. On the facing page there are Arabic jottings including a reference to "al-ʿĀdiliyya" and a numeral. One of the four pages contains two complete birth records in Arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

On his right cheek there are two moles’. Also mentions the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Ḥasan the Samaritan, and Abū l-Ḥasan the financier (quṣṭāl).

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bearer is named Abu l-[Faraj?] al-Sayrafi. Goitein deduces that the bearer was sick even before his time in prison from the language in lines 14-18: "You knew him in his prosperous and happy state and how he was at that time and what he suffered. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards. See also card #27109.) EMS. ASE.

العلامات

• appeal
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• petition
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: speaking to someone in secret; Maʿālī al-Qābiḍ repaying somebody; 2 dinars; Abū l-Qāsim Ibn al-[Fa?][…] Probable join (based on the same draft layout, hand, and references to the parties Abū l-Qāsim and Maʿālī) found by Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Natan himself in other documents. Also refers to "my son al-Rayyis Abū l-Bahāʾ." In the next line mentions "the great pain of my knee which I fell on," likely as a justification for not appearing in person.

العلامات

• condolence

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham (Maimonides)," which Cohen takes as proof that this is a donor list rather than an alms list. Goitein speculates that this might be "a collection arranged by women to which also a few gentlemen contributed."

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العلامات

• alms
• avraham maimonides
• poverty

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged in order to make a substrate for the Hebrew literary text on verso. […] Apparently a fruit seller (al-fakkāh) named [...] Ibn ʿAtīq entered Samyūn's house at night when Samyūn was away and began insulting Samyūn and others (انه اتا في الليل الى دار سميون العبد متولي السيارة وهو على حاله وسميون غائب فشتمه وشتم غيره). The following lines mention something Samyūn said; the involvement of another official (al-ʿāmil); and someone taking an oath (وقسمه باليمين).

العلامات

• dimme
• professions

1 نسخ

Document date

Pesaḥ 1529 Seleucid (12 April 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give 10 dirhams to Yeshuʿa for teaching Ibn al-Ziftāwī through the end of Pesaḥ 1529 Seleucid (=1218 CE). 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)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة