Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Large, calligraphic alms list. Dating: first half of the twelfth century. According to Goitein, written for the purpose of allocating communal assistance. Cohen: "What kind of assistance was meant cannot be determined (cash?)[…] Later in the list we come upon an unusual entry, the "concealed" glassmaker, zajjaj mastur, nestled among a (poorly paid) parchment maker, a mason (another low-paid wage-eamer), and an immigrant woman (a widow, apparently) from Acre who was living in the home of one of the prominent merchants of Fustat, al-Lebdī. This glassmaker, a representative of the "working poor" and ashamed to appear on an alms list, had himself listed (or was listed by the charity overseers) both anonymously and as mastur, indicating that he normally did not seek charity.

العلامات

• illness: eye
• poverty
• shame

1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

1526 Seleucid (6 September 1214–26 August 1215 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business correspondent was charged with collecting a yearly pledge for Yiftaḥ, wherefore this detail of communal finance appears in the private account of these two merchants.

العلامات

• account
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The same man appears in T-S 8J6.9 (1231 CE); his brother Yosef b. Shemuel was also a well-known scribe and judge; and their father Shemuel was a judge in Maimonides' court.

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العلامات

• colophon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

But the roster contains errors, such as parts of the sequence that are repeated. There are also jottings, including a biblical quotation. (Marina Rustow, with information on the calendar roster from Sacha Stern)

العلامات

• calendar
• chancery
• dimme
• fiscal
• mamluk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

Mentions places such as Alexandria and Crete. Addressed to Yaʿaqov Kapiloti (?

العلامات

• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone who "dispersed" a group of people; Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥalabī and Ibn [...]; a prayer for God's vengeance; the phrase "maʿāshir Yisraʾel" typical of a speech addressing a community; Rosh ha-Shana; the "dispersed, fleeing, oppressed" people again; and how the writers "have had to resort to appealing for help"; and "blood and money." The original document was significantly larger and all of the context is lost. Reused on recto for a commentary on Genesis.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

of the warehouse and accompaniment(?) to Syria (al-Shām) and visiting/solicitation of Yiṣḥāq al-ʿAjamī."

العلامات

• scribes

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1732–1732 CE

Primary language

Ladino

Some of the verso's listed entries begin with the Judeo-Arabic word "wuṣūl / ווצול" which may be listed with a Ladino plural ending as "wuṣūles de" and may indicate incoming payments (l. 5-6v). The verso also lists names, such as: Abd Raḥman and Khalīl Effendi.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• effendi
• ladino
• list
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

in ṭāba qalbuhu maʿa l-mashāyikh) and may encourage him to come together with Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen or with al-Dayyān Rabbenu [...]. On verso there are a couple words in Arabic script (incl. qīrāṭ) and Greek/Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a young man named Sibāʿ, in Alexandria, to his mother, in Fustat, but addressed to his brother Abū l-Najm.

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Another term, possibly an abbreviation, that appears in some entries is "صو" which could also be read as "حو". MCD.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid (December 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid, which is December 1181, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū l-Munajjā al-Kohen, surnamed al-Zariz, collector for the charitable foundations in New Cairo, turns in 100 dirhams that were used for the distribution of clothing, and an additional 50 that were spent on another approved charity.

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

5 August 1084 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Busir, to Abu al-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b.

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العلامات

• flax
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1477 Seleucid (2 June 1166–30 June 1166 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi; also signed by Netanʾel b. Moshe. Concerning a lawsuit regarding a house.

العلامات

• shemuel b. saadya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to Binyamin the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-isrāʾīlī). The writer sends the recipient good wishes on Hanukka, congratulates him on his wife's deliverance (meaning that she did not die nor was she harmed in childbirth) and wishes him that God may give him a male descendant.

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العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of names and locations are mentioned, such as: Sūq al-Darra(?) (אלדרה) and Ben-ʿAwūn al-Bramūnī. The repeated word אסקאלה (isqāla) likely references the loading docks of a port (iskele in Turkish, from scala in Italian).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another town for treatment, 12 dirhams, plus 2 dirhams for the bearer, all paid in advance by the writer, who asks the recipient not to deliver the cloth to the proprietor before he had settled the bill.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

On the facing page there is another list (also a trousseau list?) in a different hand. Several of the items are written in Ladino.

العلامات

• engagement
• ladino
• numismatic dating
• shiddukhin

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The other manuscripts are also not selling well.

العلامات

• book trade
• glyph

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Avraham Castro; Ibrāhīm al-Kalaḥ; Mūsā Ḥaqqān. Mentions taxes incumbent on "all who arrive from Hind and Sind and the lands of the Arabs," more than the tithe (ʿushr).

العلامات

• avraham castro

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Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

An official (vazifedâr) is mentioned in l. 4 and an urban district in l. 7 (mahallede), missing the exact location along the paper tear. The verso contains a curious geometric border design with alternating pink squares.

العلامات

• cmp
• ottoman turkish

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

There are three interspersed lines of Arabic script between the two lines of the decree which also seem to be in a chancery hand, probably from later reuse.

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العلامات

• arabic reused
• decree
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning the divorce of a woman Sitt al-Dār, who refused to receive her bill of divorce. The procedure was supervised by “sayyidnā al-nagid" R. Ḥananʾel (b. Shemuʾel). This document is discussed in Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, p. 114.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 9 Nisan 1352 Seleucid (15 March 1041 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faraḥ gives to his sister Munā and Sittūna (though in the second part of the second draft he gives to Sittūna only) a house in the al-Mashshāṭ street of the al-Jaʿfariyya quarter in Ṣahrajt in Lower Egypt, worth 10 dinars.

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العلامات

• draft

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 4 Av 5386 Anno Mundi (27 July 1626 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

, documenting that she is taking "the vow of widowhood" to collect her ketubba payment. The document also involves the legal guardian of the widow's children, Yahuda Temīm.

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العلامات

• 17th c
• widow

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the purchase of a censer with a handle (yad al-midkhana) by "al-kohen" and mentions "my master Abū Isḥāq."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1703–1900 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Given that the Ottoman kuruş is mentioned, which was not in wide circulation until after 1703, it is possible to estimate this document's dating as eighteenth- or nineteenth-century (the paleography also matches this designation). MCD.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• gatenio
• rent

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Begins with a mention of two wicked men who have been spreading slander, one named Yosef b. Abū l-Faraj. Also mentions Yehuda. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter mentions Mūsā (or Nissi?) b. Qūqū al-Bahnasī (or rather al-Nafūsī). Not much more is preserved.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to the well-known merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b.

العلامات

• ib5
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a postscript added by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī, who wants the addressee to ask Abū Zikrī Yehuda al-Sijilmāsī Kohen (the well-known representative of the merchants in Fustat) if the 'khuṣrawān' has reached him with the Raʾīs.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The letter concludes with blessings for the addressee(s). There are also three words in Arabic on verso; the first two appear to be ʿuṣāra barbārīs = barberry juice.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviyya, in Jubayl (likely Byblos in present-day Lebanon, but there is also a Jubayl in Yemen). In Judaeo-Arabic, with some odd spellings.

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1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Ṭevet 1457 Seleucid (18 December 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣedaqa confirms that a house which he had given to his sister Umm al-[...] (who it seems had meanwhile died) and which was occupied by her son Abū ʿAlī, is given to the latter and his children.

1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday, 27 Sivan 1497 Seleucid (16 June 1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tuesday, 27 Sivan 1497 Seleucid = 16 June 1186 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan al-Muhadhdhab, Abū l-Majd al-Ṣabbāgh, a Muslim, and Abū l-Fakhr.

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation and court of law. Also signed by four others: Aharon b. David ha-Levi; Shemarya b.

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Inferred date

1127–1139 CE

Shelomo ha-Kohen (1127–39); also signed by Moshe b. Sadoq Av Beit Din (president of the high court) and Yehuda b.

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Release granted by the wife of Abū l-Makārim al-Kātib to Abū l-Ḥasan, whom she releases from all obligations after having received from him three deeds of a house in the Mamsusa quarter inherited by her father.

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Her ex-husband responds that she has assets and can indeed support herself. The text also mentions Avraham (known as Abū Kathīr) b. Shelomo b. [...].

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العلامات

• 11th c
• divorce

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He writes that he received a letter delivered by a third person and also mentions his mother, ending the letter with greetings to the family members of a woman.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة