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Document date

Heshvan 4800 Anno Mundi (22 October 1039–20 November 1039 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Power of attorney written and signed by Avraham b. Shelomo Gaʾon. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. ʿAmram. Location: Ramla.

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العلامات

• power of attorney

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is in some distress and perplexity and repeatedly mentions someone "who is a youth and his wife is a small girl." He also mentions arrangements for the orphans in general, and sums of money in Ashrafīs.

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العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿīsh b al-Kadīḥī(?) to Sālim b Yūsuf al-Jiyār(?). In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew.

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• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of the phrase שער הישיבה יכון לעד is also preserved, typically used in reference to the court of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.

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Document date

1028–1054 CE

Dating: ca. 1028–54 CE, based on the years of the scribe (the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe—see also ENA 2747.6 and ENA NS 75.20). Groom: Daniel.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very fragmentary. Refers to "going up" (al-ṭulūʿ); a gentile who must write to someone about something (wa-yaḥtāj al-goy yaktub ilayhi bi-dhālik fa-innī nantafiʿ bi-dhālik).

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Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are a wide variety of late 18th- and early 19th-century documents connected to Yosef Yuʿbaṣ and his family members in Cairo (the surname is also transliterated as Yaʿabeṣ in the PGP). AA. MCD.

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The customers named are al-Rayyis Abū l-Bahā, Abū l-Manṣūr al-ʿAṭṭār, and Abū l-ʿIzz.

العلامات

• arabic script
• book trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1207-08 Hijrī (19 August 1792–28 July 1794 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List in Judaeo-Arabic of payments dated in the years 1207-1208 AH which is 1792–1794CE. Although the document itself is dated with the Hijri calendar the payments listed within it are designated according to months within the Jewish calendar. The transaction is between two individuals listed in the heading and note along the bottom, as Shelomo Siman[?] and Yaʿaqov Zabriel[?].

العلامات

• 19th c
• payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Some of the preserved text reads as "al-duʿā al-khāliṣ". Needs examination. Unidentified text on verso, of later reuse.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Fragment of a letter from Mardūk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. March 8, 1048.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer excuses himself for not coming to Qalyūb, for he thought the addressee would not be there, but now a certain Abū Saʿd has informed him that the addressee had returned. Also mentions business matters relating to a shop, and the names Barakāt and Ibrāhīm.

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العلامات

• arabic script

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Touching on various issues such as copying of books and composition of religious poetry, renting out of a house, and alimony. Mentions the sender's paternal aunt’s son Ismāʿīl. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28th Elul 1409 Seleucid (28 August 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two contrary depositions in court concerning a sum of 47 dinars, a female slave, and an apartment. Mentions Abū al-Munajja Thiqat al-Mulk Sulaymān b. Sahl and dated 28 Elul 1098.

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Document date

1564 Seleucid (1252–1253 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

This document was not completed. See also ENA 2559.15 (PGPID 11080) for another unsigned geṭ between the same couple from the preceding year.

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العلامات

• divorce
• get

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibrāhīm, the scribe, emphasizes the great reward and place in heaven the recipient will obtain if he helps the woman. He also adds various business matters of his own, including, apparently, something to do with the 'milking' of musk.

العلامات

• appeal
• inqita'
• musk
• petition
• pregnancy
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter written by a man on behalf of his wife to her brother, inviting him to come out to the countryside for a full month to find relief from his stress and also to bring his boys with him, who would be better off in the countryside than in bible school.

العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1135–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the available space, Ibn Yiju also wrote drafts of two halakhic queries (PGPID 4718).

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العلامات

• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book
• trade

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation from Yehuda to Avraham ha-Zaqen about a righteous silk weaver named Tahor al-Talmid from the pupils of Avraham Maimonides (min jumlat aṣḥāb sayyidinā), who has "left the world from his heart" and sought the service of the Creator. The letter discusses Tahor's altruistic intention to marry an orphan girl.

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• capitation tax
• jizya
• lor
• orphan girl
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Avraham ha-Levi (these two also signed T-S 20.23 in 1049 CE). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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1 مناقشة

Document date

4805 Anno Mundi (1044–1045 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The releasing parties: Mevasser b. Shela al-'Amtani and his wife Ghāliya bt. Ashlimon al-Dalātī.

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العلامات

• quittance

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several financial issues between Yisrael and Nahray. Also mentions copying books and the writer asks for a shipment of cinnamon.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Letter from an unknown merchant from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. April 20, 1064. The writer informs Nahray about the loading of their goods on ships.

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Amram from a junior colleague, as court scribe, specifying the fees received for writing documents (marriage contracts, divorce documents, a power of attorney) during Eli's absence; also mentioning a power of attorney made out on behalf of an agunah to a welfare official who was going to Spain, where her husband was located.

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العلامات

• communal
• power of attorney

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Saʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203), though the alefs seem different).

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL.) See also Moss. VII,143.1 (PGPID 27024), which appears to be in the same handwriting.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• natan ha-kohen ha-haver
• tiberias
• tiberias lepers

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

7 Tevet 1541 Seleucid (December 1229–January 1230 CE)

Legal document dealing with a debt of Hiba/Natan the dyer b.'Ulla to al-Sheikh Abu 'Ali Yefet b. David for two qintar of indigo he bought from him for 1000 dirhams and which he agrees to repay by the month of Nisan of the same year.

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العلامات

• indigo

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from a Karaite in Alexandria to the Karaite Nasi David b. Hasdai, concerning support for the Nasi from the Karaite communities in the Maghreb.

العلامات

• 12th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: public figure
• illness: recovered
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 200 dinars, a wālī and the territory of al-Muʿaẓẓam (ʿĪsā?), who is in conflict with his brother (al-Kāmil?).

العلامات

• mastara

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau list and wedding outfit for a poor woman, perhaps an orphan. The man is also very poor. The list is to be understood thus: ll. 1–10: what should be expended. ll. 11–13: what actually came in.

1 مناقشة

Document date

Shevat 5312 Anno Mundi (28 December 1551–26 January 1552 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The main heading on the recto states that the accounts are in the name of a certain Moshe Ibn Abī Darham is also mentioned. Two of the entries are labeled: "before traveling to צ'מייט", which may be an erratic spelling of the port city Dimyāṭ.

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العلامات

• account
• late

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر