Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) concerning the execution of a will. Headed, "all of the inherited gold …

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العلامات

• account

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Document date

27 Kislev 1471 Seleucid (9 December 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Tuesday night, 27 Kislev 1471 = 9 December 1159 CE. The blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī …

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العلامات

• disability
• disability: vision
• register

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions goods including lac, bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr), ginger (zanjabīl), cinnamon, something "Indian," muḥammara, and pepper.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Part of a document of sale of a house. The description of the property, line 5, refers to "a roof without surmounting structures." (Information from …

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العلامات

• sewn documents

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a medical recipe or prescription in Arabic (yuʾkhadh. . . )

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of friendship (and appeal for financial support) sent by Yiṣḥaq Villareal. Dating: 16th century. The addressee is asked to speak with the sender's brother …

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Primary language

Hebrew

Opening of a letter in Hebrew. Only the opening blessings are preserved. Written around the time of Yom Kippur based on the blessings.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Leter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Names of writer and addressee are missing. Mentions numerous people: Simḥa, Yūsuf, Ibn al-Sharābī, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. …

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Document date

Sunday, 21 Iyyar 1531 Seleucid (26 April 1220 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a legal document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Sunday, 21 Iyyar 1531 Seleucid = 26 April 1220 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Probably …

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Book list. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

العلامات

• booklist
• list

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Pen trials or a perhaps a note in Arabic with an unusually cut reed pen that had two contact points at various places throughout the …

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic aphoristic poetry.

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Inferred date

1055–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of condolence from the Nasi Daniel b. ʿAzarya on the death of Efrayim b. Shemarya, addressed to his son-in-law Abū Naṣr Ghālib, in Cairo. …

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العلامات

• condolence

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Long piece from a deed of sale of an enslaved woman. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi sells an enslaved person named Jaḥūn(?) to Abū l-Riḍā. In …

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the Square of the [Perfumers?], to al-Ḥazzan Abū Yaʿqūb. Mainly notable for including the rare word "al-hirjās" …

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving several people: a widow; Abū l-[...]; someone's relative …

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• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions someone who 'went up to Fustat.' Greetings to various people including 'al-rayyis al-jalīl al-kabīr.' …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Greek

None

العلامات

• judaeo-greek

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) …

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several folios from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of "Man Ghāba ʿAnhū l-Muṭrib" (The Book on the One Whom the Entertainer Abandons) by al-Thaʿālibī. One page includes …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late? A butcher selling ducks (baṭṭa)?. There's also mention of something or someone ʿAdenī in two of the lower subheadings, recorded …

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. Possibly dated in the first line of the recto, left side: ס׳ סגץ (s[anat] 963 AH), but the preceding …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, maybe. Difficult to read. Penultimate line contains a ḥamdala.

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Work that explains financial accounting, with examples including interest and loss. (Information in part from CUDL.) Reminiscent of T-S NS 69.41 (PGPID 26152).

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fol. 2v is the closing formula of a state document with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphically written. Refers to someone's mother; the daughters of Ibn al-ʿArīsḥī; the sender and another man falling sick; and trebuchet stones …

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Shelomo. See JRL SERIES AF 255 (PGPID 32596).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Minute fragment with text in Hebrew script on the recto and verso, some Tiberian vowels are visible (verso).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Draft of a letter from Ishaq Sholal (d. 1524) to the yeshiva in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Published by Avraham David in Cathedra 68, pp. 43–48. …

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العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• late heb
• late jerusalem

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Fragment of a marriage contract of Sittuna with some items of dowry. Dated ca. 1000. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 413, and from Goitein's …

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in a town in the Rīf, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Shelomo's bad handwriting. He greets …

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• paper
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, with names such as Yeḥezqel, Yosef and Abū l-Riḍā, and sums of money; Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified, faded document in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part …

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts, probably

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov. In Hebrew. Concerning communal controversy and bans of excommunication.

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• shemuel b. ya'aqov

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Bifolio from Sefer Yeṣira. At the bottom of the left page of recto, there are two notes in Ladino. The first is an ownership note …

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Marriage contract written by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1181) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's …

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Maimonides, Mishne Tora, Hilkhot Sheḥiṭa 6:6-8 with Judaeo-Arabic note. Verso: jottings in Arabic, including the name of a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) al-Ḥasan Hibatallāh b. Mufaḍḍal …

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