Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Hillel b. Abū [...], the mint (dār al-ḍarb), Damascus, Alexandria, reaching the city/fortress (thaghr) of the sulṭān Sayf [...]; Abū l-Munā Ibn al-Dumyāṭī.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning the late [Abū] Manṣūr, someones late father Thanāʾ, Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Minyat Zifta; blessings that God rescue someone from their enemies; the sender spending Shabbat in Malīj; and the news that the government (dīwān) in the addressee's location opposed or got in the way of 'some of our friends' (baʿḍ aṣḥābnā).

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العلامات

• malij
• minyat zifta

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Document date

Tammuz 1464 Seleucid (25 June 1153–23 July 1153 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the top of a legal document. Dated: Tammuz 1464 Seleucid = June/July 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Mentions Abū Manṣūr known as al-Shaykh al-Najīb. On verso there is unidentified Arabic writing.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two records of a legal transaction involving Sitt al-Sāda bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ, mentioning al-shaykh al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, and Yosef.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. […] There are prayers that God shelter everyone. Mentions that "we have thrown ourselves upon...."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a legal document, mentioning Ibn Abū l-[...]ān and Bāb(?)

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2

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Formulary for a legal document for somebody dropping a medical malpractice suit against a person hired to treat the eyes of his son but who in fact ruined them (אתלף עינאה).

العلامات

• blindness
• contracting for a cure
• illness
• illness: eye
• illness: treatment
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a partnership agreement.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

P21: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa there (i.e., a post), instead of teaching privately, but was not successful. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:107, 553) EMS

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العلامات

• algeria
• education
• teacher

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

List of donors of wheat to charity. See also ENA NS 77.107.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Document date

middle decade of Ṭevet 145[5] Seleucid (20 December 1143–29 December 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 145[5] Seleucid = December 1143 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] (This corresponds to Jumādā II 538 AH, several months prior to the end of the initial lease described in the document.) Abū Manṣūr Yakhin b. […] Shemarya ha-Kohen; and Natan b. Meshullam ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Avraham, in Ifrīqiyya, to his uncle, Moshe b. […] He started to improve, but is now deteriorating from 'the constriction of his akhlāq' (meaning uncertain, but see tag) and from the pain. The writer does not seem to expect him to live long ("may God unite the two of you before he leaves this world"). (Information in part from Med Soc II, 283, 588, and from Goitein's index cards.)

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: akhlaq
• illness: du'f
• illness: dying
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Araḥ b. Natan, also known as Musāfir b. […] Avraham was an associate of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. In the letter, Araḥ reports of serious riots in Alexandria and a drunken brawl that ended only with the intervention of the chief of police (wālī), although he also accuses the other faction of having alerted the wālī, in addition to the drunken brawl having drawn his attention. […] It is likely that he is attributing his illness to the events described in the letter (wa-qad lazimanī minhu mulzim), though Frenkel understands this sentence to mean simply that there is some matter that is incumbent on him.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• amir
• brawl
• decree
• drunkenness
• (+ 10 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1214–1215 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB), II, 74. Letter from Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. […] The basis for the identification is that the deceased Futūḥ may be identified with the deceased man Petaḥya mentioned in a quittance pertaining to his assets (PGPID 5480). That quittance mentions that Petaḥya's son is Abu ʾl-Ḥasan, possibly named after his grandfather.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• ib2
• india book

2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان

Document date

1126–1129 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1126–29 CE, based on the mention of the state official Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ (who served within this timespan). […] (Information from Goitein's index cards; Mediterranean Society, II, p. 281; and Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 284–85.)

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العلامات

• copt
• copts
• fisc
• mazalim
• officials
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Two fragments (separate documents) regarding the same matter. […] Her arguments were as follows: her husband left her for a short time and did not intend to spend the winter away from home; however, by that time he had already been absent more than six months. […] This latter request was immediately met; but a decision on the former request was delayed, with the hope that the husband would soon return.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein [editors]. Jersualem : Meḳitse nirdamin, 1937, p 202-204, item no. 118; The folio has been folded lengthwise into two halves, after the primary inscriptions. […] Yerushalayim : Bi-defus ha-Aḥim Solomon, 1909, part 3, p. 6a; Followed by Judah ha-Levi's יפה נוף (in H. Brody's: Diṿan / Yehudah ha-Leṿi (Judah, ha-Levi) ; Heinrich Brody [ed.] Berlin : Ḥevrat Meḳits nirdamim, 1910-, v. 2, p. 167 and also in Harkavy's edition: Yehudah ha-Leṿi / Albert Harakvy [ed.].

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• responsum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a Yehuda. Beginning only. The writer acknowledges receiving a letter from the majlis of 'our lord and crown of the heads' the 'Nagid' and Nasi Shelomo (b.

العلامات

• mosul nasis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Notes recording debts in Judaeo-Arabic, involving wine and a couple women (Umm ʿAbūr(?) and Umm Bashir). (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)

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العلامات

• informal note

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. […] Reused for extensive accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, including a list of foods and materia medica.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

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Inferred date

1799–1808 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document from Cairo, from the first third of Heshvan 556[.] AM (1799-1808 CE). Me'ir Ṣevi and his partner Raḥamim Ḥamīs acknowledge an investment of 250 reales from Reyna/Rīna bt.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• investment
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On vellum. Dating: First half of the 11th century, as it mentions the ship of Ibn Daysūr (cf.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic on the recto, medieval-era. Only the basmala and a couple other words are preserved. The recto was also used for alphabetical practice, there may be two different hands representing an instructor's model handwriting and the alphabetical letters rendered by a student. The verso retains an unidentified literary text in Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• learning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List, badly damaged with some text legible. Medieval era. Below the line partition the entry is dated Sunday (יום א) and below that a name may be present: עבד אל?.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew

Verso (original use): Small fragment of a letter or official document in Arabic: "min sāʾir al-amākin... yakhruj min ṭawāḥī[n?]...." […] The name Abū l-Faraj is mentioned.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av 1433 Seleucid (7 July 1122–5 August 1122 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1433 Seleucid = July/August 1122 CE. […] Shemaʿya (or rather Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?), who signed together with Ḥalfon b. Yosef.

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