Documents

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to do something for the bearer, a judge (? looks like al-dayyān). 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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Document date

Shawwāl 512 Hijrī (15 January 1119–12 February 1119 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yehuda b. Yisra'el b. Efrayim al-Isrā'īlī al-Tājir known as Ibn Abī Kathīr apparently owes 100 dinars to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Isrā'īlī (l. 3). His collateral is a little house (duwayra) located in Fustat; there follows a description of the property.

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Primary language

Arabic

Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly the Byzantines as well, either leading to its loss or simply a military setback. […] This document was identified and catalogued on PGP by Alan Elbaum in 2022. Pending publication by Paul Cobb and Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• crusades
• military
• spy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription and compare T-S AS 157.482 (PGPID 38905). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Document date

Ṭevet 1444 Seleucid (11 December 1132–8 January 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Summar (ikhtiṣār) of a legal transaction, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 18 Shevaṭ 1444 Seleucid = 26 January 1133 CE. […] received a loan of 2 dinars from Mudallala bt. Abū l-Layth Ibn al-Ḍabʿa(?) and agrees to repay it within a specified time frame.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To be delivered to the shop of Abū Naṣr al-Sharābī (same as in T-S AS 183.111 (PGPID 37875)?) […] The handwriting is familiar but does not seem to be the handwriting of Abū Zikrī Kohen (who also had a son named Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān). The letter is quite damaged.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It may have to do with a group of people who are being persecuted by a tax collector (...al-jābī yudawwir ʿalayhim dawra...). The remainder consists of expressions of deference (two versions of a raʾy clause, blessings for the addressee, and apologies for being long-winded). […] The last line includes the phrase "until Rosh ha-Shana (raʾs al-sana)."

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Document date

10 Elul 1403 Seleucid (1006 CE)

Legal document: Qaraite ketubba from Ramla, part only. Yaʿaqov b. David al-Shulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). […] The bride’s agent is Menaḥem b. Iyyov al-Ḥalabī, and his appointment was witnessed by David b.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite
• ramla

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Opens with Hebrew praises and wishes for a speedy recovery, then switches into Arabic (in Arabic script) for the body of the letter, which opens with a quotation from the Qaraite sage Yūsuf al-Baṣīr (fl. early 11th century). The continuation of the letter is lost. The Yefet in question may well be Ḥasan/Yefet b. Abī Saʿd Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, on whom see further T-S 16.50, given the Qaraite content, the grand titles of the addressee, and the fact that he's called ḥemdat ha-nesiʾut (his father-in-law was the Qaraite nasi Ḥizqiyahu). This presumably dates from some time between his marriage ca. 1040–47 and his conversion to Islam ca. 1064. (Alan Elbaum and Marina Rustow)

العلامات

• al-tustari
• bialphabetic
• qaraites

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, in Alexandria, to Barhūn and Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya.

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Document date

14–28 Ramaḍān 433 Hijrī (7 May 1042–21 May 1042 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Numerous foods are listed, e.g., eggplant, green almond, onion, mulūkhiyya, starch, cucumber (faqqūs), eggs, apple, herbs (baql), meat, 10 pounds of offal (buṭūn), "oiled pegs" (? awtād madhūna), and something called צֿעפי or קטוע אלצֿעפי. There are also some additional notes, including a boxed note on Friday the 15th which mentions going to the bathhouse; that the faqīh will spend something; and that "he said, until I write you a ruqʿa after the sabbath."

العلامات

• bathhouse
• food

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Document date

Nisan 4979 Anno Mundi (19 March 1219–17 April 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Involves a certain Seʿadya and Sitt al-Tujjār bt. Peraḥya b. Zuwayn. It might be the sale of an eighth of a house. Interestingly, the word "taqlīb" is used in the section where the recipient accepts all the blemishes in the new acquisition. This word often appears in the context of inspecting slaves, but maybe it simply means physical inspection in general. […] Aharon the physician (Ibn al-ʿAmmānī).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports that his wife, son, and wife's sister had died, while his mother and her brother (the writer's uncle) are still alive but need help paying the capitation tax and buying clothing (גאליה וכסוה). […] Mentions people such as Abū l-Riḍā; the rayyis Abū l-Suʿūd Shemuʾel ha-Kohen; the sender's wife and her illness before she died; Sitt Rabāb; a daughter named Sitt al-Nasab whose father is the son of the judge Abū l-Makārim; and Sitt Ṣayd bt. al-Naẓar(?).

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• illness letter 969-1517
• jaliya
• personal

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Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he is sending a pouch of dinars with the bearer of the letter and asks his father to exchange them for a different currency.

العلامات

• alexandria
• dinar

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sivan 1496 Seleucid (3 May 1185–1 June 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bride: Nasab bt. Abū l-Khayr al-Zayyāt. Groom: Munajjā Abū Saʿd al-Labbān. 10 + 25.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• register
• trousseau

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in the same hand and possibly from the same book are also found in T-S J1.54, BL OR 5554A.53-54r, Moss.

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العلامات

• account
• al-tahirti
• flax
• trade

2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: "I, Sh[...] ha-Melammed witness against Shelomo Ibn al-ʿArīshī for 5 gold coins." Underneath, a writing exercise. On verso: "Shelomo may God preserve him," then an Arabic basmala, then further writing exercises involving a verse of poetry in Judaeo-Arabic and the alphabet in Hebrew.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAzaryahu ha-Kohen. There are also two notes in Arabic script, both of which mention "the two women."

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The practitioner is to light a wick with pure violet oil inside of a human skull. A black raven is also involved, and three pegs are to be driven into the skull-lamp.

العلامات

• arabic & hebrew
• arabic script
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

A few words from the two fragmentary lines read - "bimā tashraḥ min ḥālihim", "Jamāl al-Dawla". ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is discussion of payment of wages; sums named are a rubāʿī and 1.5 dinars. Also mentions Divre ha-Yamim and Psalms and Iyov and Daniʾel.

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There is a line or two in Arabic script on verso in a fiscal hand, probably part of a tax receipt (cf. also ENA 3971.13–24, 31, 33, 34).

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العلامات

• arabic script
• ib5
• india book
• tax
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34. For Sayf al-Dawla. Sum: 42 + 1/2 + 1/8.

العلامات

• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34. For Sayf al-Dawla. Sum: 29 1/4 (dirhams).

العلامات

• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

4 pages from the medical text of the infamous medieval Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Zakarīyyā al-Rāzī (d. 925 or 935 CE) entitled al-Ḥāwī fī-l-Ṭibb.

العلامات

• al-razi
• dimme
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Unidentified (Hebrew script)

The scribal hand is akin, but not identical to the commercial accounts of ENA NS 1066.1-10 (PGPID 9938), which contain a linguistic mixture of Hebrew, Italian, and Yiddish. See also: https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/7-florin-15th-16th-centuries-ce.

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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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العلامات

• 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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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