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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Given the scribe's practice of dropping aleph for certain words (לשן תור=לשאן תור), the word ברות on the verso could mean "gunpowder" following the Turkish "باروت".

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Dates to the period of al-Ḥākim based on the reuse on verso. This makes it not only one of the earliest known Fatimid petitions, but the earliest attestation of a taqbīl clause on a Fatimid petition, calling into question Khan's and Rustow's theory that the taqbīl clause dates to the period of al-Āmir and later (starting 1101 CE).

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العلامات

• petition
• taqbil

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a ḍamān, a ruqʿa, a letter sent with the son of the Qāḍī of Qalyūb (probably), excuses bad manners by appealing to the constraints of time, reports that al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān is in excellent health, reports that someone has had a child that would make someone want children even if they had never wanted children before, and mentions ṣāḥib al-khammār (perhaps the friend of the vintner).

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العلامات

• evil eye
• to edit

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to Ṣadaqa was guaranteed by Ḥesed ha-Zaqen al-Ṣayrafī (possibly Abu Naṣr al-Tustari?), and refuses to have a decision ratified in the Muslim courts.

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العلامات

• dimme
• muslim courts

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣedaqa to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Saʿadya, in Alexandria. Fragmentary (upper part of recto and address on verso).

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Inferred date

1808–1900 CE

The former helps date this fragment as no earlier than 1808 CE when Sultan Mahmud II ascended to the Ottoman throne. This dating can also be confirmed through research on the names of those mentioned in various headings: Yaʿacōv ʿAkūbas (recto) and Shemuʾel Najjār (the scribe seems to have misspelled the latter name).

العلامات

• 19th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1247 Hijrī (12 June 1831–30 May 1832 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The first line states that the receipt is an account of the "ṣarrāf khazīnat dīwān al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya." For another receipt issued by the same administrative qism, see: JRL Gaster ar. 48 (PGPID 32828).

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"For I have no one to sit with me, and I am alone and my chest is tight. . . and I am all the day by myself."

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Document date

5305 Anno Mundi (18 September 1544–6 September 1545 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Conceivably the same people as in T-S 13J7.30, a 16th-century letter in Ladino from Avraham Mayo, also involving a Raḥamim and the raisin trade. (Information in part from CUDL.)

العلامات

• raisins

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from an unidentified sender who uses the ʿalāma/motto "yeshaʿ rav" to a certain Yisraʾel. In Hebrew. […] Dāʾūd, in Fustat, Qaysāriyyat al-ʿAṭṭārīn"; so the addressee could be Yisraʾel b.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's owing 20 dirhams to al-ʿAmīd; business in various garments including a turban; Muwaffaq the Qaraite; a shipment that came with a detailed account written down on its 'qirtās'; R.

العلامات

• bribe
• eunuch
• interesting shape

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

It politely addresses a friend, Yaʿaqov al-Tilimsānī, (from Tlamcen, Algeria), asking him to come for Shavuʿot.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A board of arbitration, consisting of four prominent citizens, decided that the brother of the bride, Tarib (Avraham, known as Abu Tarib) had to pay the groom nine of the fifteen dinars paid as a first installment of the marriage gift. Tarib also renounces any future claims of himself, his mother and sister might raise against the groom and his brother.

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Primary language

Hebrew

'Azariah the cantor, concerning someone from Damascus whose name is only partially preserved as ‘known as the son of the hod-carrier' (אלטיאן, though possibly to be read אלעיאן). Although not much of the document is preserved, it was probably all in Hebrew, suggesting a date early in the 11th century.

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العلامات

• testimony

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a former official and representative of the Nagid (na’ib) of the Alexandrian community to the Nagid, requesting that he intervene on the writer’s behalf so that he may obtain the pesiqa money and fees that the community leaders still owe him.

العلامات

• alexandria

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

العلامات

• numismatic dating

1 مناقشة

Statement of payments to a tenant of the Qodesh, ca. 1160. A certain al-Nadiv, otherwise known as the perfume maker, tenant of a compound partly owned by the qodesh known as al-Burj, receives several sums from the funds of the qodesh.

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العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Edited, translated, and analyzed at length in Oded Zinger's dissertation, chapter 5 and document #10; see also Zinger's article "Narrating Masculine Failure.")

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العلامات

• 12th c
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• (+ 5 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL). There is also a note from the letter writer in the lower left corner mentioning Ḥayyīm Shababo[?].

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العلامات

• 16th c or later
• business
• damietta
• dimyat
• rashid

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet ha-Kohen ("Glory of the Community"), and the recipient, his wife, Zayn known as Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Sar (her father is titled Saniyy al-Dawla).

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Document date

Wednesday, 13 Ṭevet 1374 Seleucid (18 December 1062 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Reused for literary text (also in ʿEli's hand?) on verso.

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Document date

Tevet 1361 Seleucid (December 1049 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef (represented by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham al-Qābisī) and Salmān b. ʿAlī / Shelomo b. ʿEli.

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العلامات

• divorce
• get

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviyya he-Ḥaver (the muqaddam of Bilbays, ca. 1170s–1220) to a notable named Yehosef, titled 'the diadem' (al-nezer) and 'trusted servant of the realm' (amīn al-mulk).

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1545 Seleucid (21 June 1234 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Egypt, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibn Ibrahim al-ʿArīf, Abū l-ʿAlā b. Ḥassūn, Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Khayr.

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العلامات

• convert
• debt
• excommunication
• fugitive
• polygyny
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi, a wholesale silk-dealer, to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Asking for urgent help with "ghathth al-bayt" (a problem of his wife? or actual house?). On verso he adds that he only wrote this letter while 'sick in the brain' (muta'allim al-dimāgh). Information in part from Goitein's notes.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: brain

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1028–1036 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: 1028–36 CE, based on the mention of the judge ʿAbd al-Ḥākim b. Saʿīd (b. Mālik) b. Saʿīd. Groom: ʿAlī b.

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العلامات

• muslim marriage contract

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Witnessed by Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (also a known cantor in this period, the father of Moshe and Yedutun).

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• abu sahl levi
• ketubba
• marriage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

State correspondence, probably from a lower state official to a higher subordinate because a rescript (tawqīʿ) is mentioned in the last line, but it could also be a fiscal document based on the layout. Mentions 306 aqfiza, plural of the unit qafīza is used for measuring cereal (See Goitein, Med.

العلامات

• tawqi'

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Might be late (ca. 14th–16th century). Might also be an account written in a narrative form. Phrases: מה שנשאר....

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Others of your age are already married. All that I ask of you is to look after your siblings...."

العلامات

• education
• wasiyya

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Document date

Tuesday, 9 Tammuz 5422 Anno Mundi (26 June 1662 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Bill of authorization is given to Yaʿaqov al-Khallāf in connection with the ketubba of Raḥma the widow of Raḥamīm Arūkh. Signed twice by Yaʿaqov al-Khallāf and once Yahuda Levi(?) ha-Ḥazan. The middle signature appears to have been aborted by Yaʿaqov before he completed it.

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العلامات

• widow

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the text on verso has the layout of an account, but the rest reads like a letter. Mentions the winds" (al-aryāḥ), the stores of the workers (dakākin al-ʿammālīn), a register, shipping sums of money (fa-ḥamalū hādhihi l-amwāl), and the sea or the Nile (kull shayʾ fī l-baḥr).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions Ibn al-Dajājī(?). Orders אבר (needles? lead?); gum (ṣamgh); two or three manns of ground sandalwood; plantain (lisān al-ḥamal, lit.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Middle of Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 Hijrī (May 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: 13 × 8 cm. […] Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Amount: one-half plus one-quarter dīnār (Khan read two, one-half, one-quarter and one-sixth).

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (13 June 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Beginning of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. […] Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 12.5 × 8.4 cm. The verso is blank.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

449/450 Hijrī (10 March 1057–27 February 1058 CE)

Some of the lines are erased with a line through and a signature, probably after checking them. Also contains signs in Arabic that seem like “I informed him”.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة