Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahalla by a man who is sought by the controller of revenue, asking a friend to obtain for him a letter from Shams al-Din (the director of revenue in the capital), saying that he is registered as absent.

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العلامات

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• petition

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Saʿīd b. Yūnus, in אלמנימון (al-Munaymūn, probably the settlement now know as Maymūn), to Nahray b. […] Various local Muslims are mentioned who have business relations with Nahray, including the government (al-sulṭān).

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العلامات

• paper

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Marriage agreement between a Rabbanite husband and a Qaraite wife, with a 30 dinar fine to the poor if one transgresses the religious practices of the other. The groom is called al-Rayyis Abu Ali Yefet ha-Kohen, and the bride is called [Sitt?]

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• marriage
• qaraite
• stipulations

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: giving or paying something to Yaʿaqov; the testimonies (al-shahādāt... shahādāt kathīr mukhtalifa...); an urging not to forget to add the validation (qiyyum), presumably on the same testimonies; the price of mandrake root (luʿāb); and Khalaf al-[...].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The language is very legalistic and it could also be a legal document. It seems to be describing the terms of a reconciliation agreement.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

For an example of the appearance of a name and location, on the recto's left section "Skenderiye/Alexandria" is mentioned, as is the name "Yūsuf" in the same entry (l. 18r).

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العلامات

• arabic script
• coptic numerals
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• minyat zifta
• personal
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān b. Ḥassun, in Fustat. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts in ʿAllān's hand.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• ib6
• india book

4 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Citing BT ketubbot 87a, and probably BT Baba Batra 23a and Arakhin 22a. Also mentioning a legal deed that has to be fulfilled and a testimony.

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العلامات

• responsum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Ca. 15th century (no earlier thah 1415 CE), as it mentions the currency niṣṣ/nuṣṣ/half (i.e., the muʾayyadī). Also mentions the currency jadīd in the sense of 'not even a penny.'

العلامات

• numismatic dating
• to edit
• wine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something will happen in time for the 'mawsim'; the current prices for aloe; a request to be informed the prices of mastic; greetings to [Abū l-]Rabīʿ, to whom the sender had sent a letter of condolence on the death of his cousin (ibn ʿamm).

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• karim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Headed "response" (al-jawāb). Reporting that 12 nuqra dirhams were sent with with R. Ḥisday and 35 with the bearer of this letter along with 85 'white' dirhams and a number of pounds of flax.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

At least two names are mentioned in ll. 1-2: Isḥaq Kr..l and al-Ḥajj Sulaymān al-Makkawī. MCD.

العلامات

• dimme
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter of appeal from Yefet addressed to al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. In Arabic script, with the sender's name in Hebrew script.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter sent to ha-Talmid ha-Baḥur Nissim Agostaro (אגושתארו) in Alexandria from his father Shelomo Agostaro, including a warning that he should not come to Cairo before the epidemic has finished, because every day one or two people die.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• late

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 1045 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Also on verso, Arabic jottings, part of which are written transversely across the page.

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding fundraising for captives, asking the addressee to take charge of it, and also "to collect something from the women." There is some sort of registration mark at the top of the page, which resembles those used by the offices of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355) and David II Maimonides (d. 1410).

العلامات

• 14th c
• captives
• nagid
• yehoshua maimonides

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 53; V, 312, and Goitein's index cards.) See also Goitein notes linked below(?).

العلامات

• homiletics

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, in Alexandria, to Abu Yūsuf Yaʿqūb, probably in Fustat.

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3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

416 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the date 416 Kharājī, a land (ḍiyāʿ), cattle (mawāshī), and the absence of a shepherd. Also mentions that this document was written at the knowledge of the party concerned and two copies of the same were drawn.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Petition to ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar to Jawhar al-Ṣafawī, asking him for money. [Described on a separate small piece of paper: "Important"; [next line] "A letter from a mamluk (slave) named ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar asking his master Gohar Al Safawī to send him a sum of money"; [next line] "The word Urgent is written around the inscription in thick characters."].

العلامات

• arabic
• petition

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender received Frankish kohl (kuḥl ifrānjī) from the addressee but does not know its price. There are also standard expressions of yearning for the address (מא נעדם מן אללה סוי אלנצר אלי טלעתהם אלרשידה).

1 نسخ

Document date

Sivan 4856 Anno Mundi (25 May 1096–23 June 1096 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: probably Alexandria. Dated: Sivan 4856 AM = May/June 1096 CE.

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1 مناقشة

Beautiful fragment of a legal document from Alexandria in the hand of the court clerk Mawhub. A father gives an entire house to his son Yaʿaqov, who was borne to him by his wife Rafi'a.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1028 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shari undertakes to pay after his return from Alexandria, no later than after 40 days. Dated Iyyar, 1028, and witnessed by seven signatories, headed by Yosef ha-Kohen, the judge.

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• 11th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only the opening and the address are preserved, along with a note in the upper margin requesting a speedy response (jawāb), together with the fatwas (al-fatāwā, i.e. responsa) of Bū l-Maʿālī.

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العلامات

• legal query
• responsum

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mukhtār the Banker is also mentioned. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:245, 574) EMS

العلامات

• business
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: women's
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

650 Hijrī (14 March 1252–2 March 1253 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef "the poor foreigner" (al-miskīn al-gharīb) to the Nagid David Maimonides.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informing the addressee about the arrival of the sender's uncle at Fustat from Alexandria, to whom the recipient should deliver cash on the writer's account.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Seʿadya ha-Levi (c.1181–1209). Also witnessed by Yefet b. Shemuel the teacher. On verso there is a confirmation of receipt, with the same two witnesses.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard the news, I have fasted in the daytime and prostrated in bed") and urges the addressee to keep him informed.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• bedbound
• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 13J13.6 (subsequent plea, two months later, from the same woman), also T-S Ar.18(1).107.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• communal
• domicile
• petition
• women's letters

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef ha-Levi. The fragment also contains copious Arabic accounts (see separate record).

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العلامات

• record of evidence

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last decade of Kislev 5004 Anno Mundi (December 1243 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 5004 AM, which is December 1243 CE.

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العلامات

• cheese
• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Requesting help obtaining a tawqīʿ (decree/rescript for a petition) from the Sultan on behalf of Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Wafāʾ. Also mentions having sent a fatwā (legal query) to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides).

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العلامات

• 13th c
• judge eliyyahu
• sultan

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among many other matters, he mentions donations to pilgrimage sites in Iraq: "for our lord Ezekiel, our Lord Ezra, and Rabbi Meir." Also mentions the synagogues of Fustat and Cairo in the penultimate line of recto.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index cards; also Mediterranean Society, III, p. 275)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter, fragment, from Abū Naṣr b. Ibrāhīm, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Ending only.

العلامات

• abu nasr b. ibrahim
• halfon b. netanel
• trade
• wheat

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ṭevet 144[.] Seleucid (25 November 1128–14 January 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement between Sitt al-Milāḥ and her husband Ibn al-Baṣrī at the time of his absence.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة