Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmāni to Me'ir b. Yakhin, mentioning the latter's brothers Hilāl and Saʿīd. […] Referring to family news, a nice circumcision that took place in the house of Ibn al-Rashīdī; mentions the term ṣahrīj (vat/basin).

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• circumcision

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the arrival of Abū l-Surūr with the news that (probably the Nagid) had obtained or issued a favorable rescript (tawqīʿ) for a petition. Also mentions the capitation tax and Ibn Barukh.

العلامات

• tawqi'

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Primary language

Hebrew

Same hand as the unusual Palestinian ketubba T-S 8.129; the Khalaf ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned here may be identical with the [...] ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned there. This fragment also mentions [...] b. Mawhūb, Ḥasan, the phrase שלא מוכרחים, and the term לעסק.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in which the sender writes that he is concerned after meeting in Qus a business relation to whom he was able to sell three dinars worth of white linen while the buyer also paid him thirty-two dinars minus one fourth.

العلامات

• to examine
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

The name Daniʾel is mostly effaced and it may also be possible to read this as David. Reused on verso for Hebrew poetry.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Farah from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 25, 1056.

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• suftaja

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The writer regrets that he does not have lacquer with his because there is a demand for it in Tetai. Also writes about collecting debts and a shipment of “lasin”.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, she did not seek for material gain. She also mentions having gone to Atfīḥ. (Information from and translation in Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 309-310)

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العلامات

• communal
• petition

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

In the margins of recto and on verso, there is also a will concerning gold for a man's daughter.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• shelomo b. yehuda
• yeshiva

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī in Susa to Abu Zakariyya Hayyim b. `Ammar, who writes about a disaster at sea that overcame the boats, in which was traveling Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī. The writer fears for his fate. Dated ca. 1052.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by ʿAṭā' b. Zikri from Alexandria to Mevorakh b. Israel Januni in Fustat, containing a legal question to Nahray b.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter opens with a full-fledged congratulation, referring also to the Feast of Tabernacles (following close after the Day of Atonement), and discussing business matters.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath there is the name Meir b. Yakhin and also Meir b. ʿAmram. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two copies of a draft of blessings for the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the beginning of a petition: [[אלאמיר אלמופק]] אמיר אלמומנין במא וכלה ייי אליה מן שיאשת אלאמה ועדקהא(?) […] פי מא כאנת מצלחתהא פיה עאמה פידאעי . . . Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Discussion of the four primary causes of damage: ha-shor, ha-bor, ha-mav'eh and ha-hev'er presented in the form of questions and answers. Verso also contains a square of numbers expressed in Hebrew letters.

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Includes details about different types of payment for transporting goods from Fustat to Alexandria and loading them onto the ships. Several ships are known from Ibn Awkal’s accounts.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• ship
• trade

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender is a man from Alexandria who was forced to flee from that city because he was unable to pay the capitation tax for his little boy.

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العلامات

• appeal
• bialphabetic
• capitation tax
• communal
• tax

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter addressed to "the noble amir" (al-amīr al-ajall). In Arabic script. The letter is on recto, with two lines continuing onto verso.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding the welfare of orphans and mentioning Cairo. Also signed by Ṭāhir b. David, and ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Blessings arranged according to the alef-bet (headed "מכתובה עלי אלף בית") followed by epistolary formulae.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Debt contract in which Masʿūd acknowledges a debt of 23 ducats (peraḥim zahav dīwānī). Also mentions 'his brother Menaḥem' and the creditor Aharon.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). Mentions Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sukkarī. Signed on verso by [Yo]sef ha-Levi b. [...] and [...] b. Shemuʾel (all this might be a single signature). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender conveys good wishes for the holidays; mentions the terms waraqa and biṭāqa; and mentions al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy Abū l-[...] b. Daniel. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a list of witnesses' names on verso: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dayyān, Abū Saʿd b. Azḥar, and […] Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender mentions that he was sick with a fever and cold and nobody (or nobody [except ...]) visited/asked after him (mā iftaqadanī [...]). Mentions 'my master al-Ḥemdat' and 'my master, the rayyis, our rabbi Avraham (Maimonides?).' Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender says that the community promised to honor him with the job of making the doors for the synagogue; now he writes to confirm this. There is also a portion of a letter on verso, unclear if this is the continuation or a separate letter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions ʿUmayr; pepper; Abū Isḥāq; Avraham; al-Segulat; Abū Naṣr; Abū ʿAlī; ʿūd; nutmeg; two qanīnas of syrup; a burniyya; zanānīr; shoes (?

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

, Salāma, Rahhis, Khayyāṭ, and sesame oil (sīraj) and shaʿlūla(?). Also refers to receipts (וסולאת).

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Document date

14 Kislev 5651 Anno Mundi (26 November 1890 CE)

Primary languages

German, Ladino

On verso is a remnant of a printed postal form in German, likely spelling: "Veltpost-Ver[ein]," an international postal service system founded in Bern in 1874, also known as the Universal Postal Union. MCD

العلامات

• 19th c
• german
• ladino
• postal service

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

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Primary language

Arabic

State or legal document in Arabic script. 6 lines are preserved, with moderately wide space in between. Mentions "wa-khaṭṭ al-shaykh Abū l-Faraj" and "[...] al-madhkūr." On verso there is Hebrew text in a rudimentary hand (possibly the same reuser as T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)).

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Nissim probably to Moshe b. Yahya al-Majani. Around 1065. Detailed the coins that were in a coin packet. Verso: Details about several dinar amounts, as well as the name b. al-Majani. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #301) VMR

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العلامات

• account
• coin
• dinar
• lading
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There are also a few words in Arabic on the related fragment T-S NS 224.52, which comprises a join to the legal document on the recto (PGPID 8640).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Stanzas of Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the voice of a woman, at least in part a complaint about domestic duties: spinning (al-mighzal al-mayshūm), perhaps a crying baby and sleepless nights, and possibly living with her mother-in-law and a stepdaughter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe (ZL) clarified." There is also an (ownership?) note naming Shemuʾel b. Yefet.

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The writer expresses his wishes that the addressee will recover from his illness. Also writes about receiving payment for shipments of asphalt and nuts.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably early or mid-12th century, since Abū l-Naṣr Ibn Zubbaybāt appears also in T-S NS 323.19, a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions places such as Tyre and Alexandria. Mentions goods such as copper/brass, crimson, silk, and kohl(?).

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Document date

10th Sivan 1410 Seleucid (2 June 1099 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Natan appears before the court and asks them to summon Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Sahlān al-Arjawānī. The court summons Abū ʿAlī, who acknowledges that his business partner Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Arjawānī had given him a vessel (fuqqāʿa) containing mercury (zaybaq) intended for Abū l-Surūr Sason b. Natan. Abū ʿAlī states that if Sason pays him the 12 dirhams which he paid for the mercury, he will give it to him.

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Primary language

Hebrew

He expresses his longing and exhorts her to look after their son and to get along with Umm Thanāʾ, whose ḥumash he still needs to complete. […] MS heb. f 56/49 (PGPID 6538) (1186 CE), and she appears also in T-S K15.3 (PGPID 1332) (ca. 1200 CE) and BL OR 5549.6 (PGPID 479) (ca. 1201 CE). […] Levi ha-Levi (suggestion of Oded Zinger), which fits with the dating. It is also possible that the puzzling phrase after the sender's name (יש לו עצה(?))

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العلامات

• crying
• emotion
• fasting

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