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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that there is also testimony that that document is not a maʿase bet din.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb al-Miṣrī, in Minyatayn (the "two Minyas," Ghamr and Zifta, located across from each other on one of the Delta tributaries), to Abū l-ʿAlā' Yūsuf b.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks a female family member in the house to cut short her visit and come back as soon as possible because the writer is allalone at home, and money is short, and "it is the season" (of diseases?

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العلامات

• season

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), also validated by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel and ʿUlla b.

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Inferred date

1220–1220 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's attached summary and transcription.)

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Document date

Final third of Iyyar 1416 Seleucid (6 May 1105–15 May 1105 CE)

Yūsuf (aka Sitt Hidhq), releases her husband Abū al-Surūr (aka Sasson) b. Natan from all obligations and resulting from her marriage contract, and releases both him and his son from the repayment of loans given to them in return for what, is not said.

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The removal of debris of ruined buildings also figures here, old pillars and an old pipe being demolished and old ceilings uncovered.

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• yefet b. david b. shekhanya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to an unidentified community (al-jamāʿa). Mentions the intention to build or rebuild "al-qodesh" but 100 dirhams are still wanting.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu. On verso there are also entries about the sale or exchange of books, perhaps in the hand of Shelomo b.

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العلامات

• book trade
• ib7
• india book

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Document date

21 [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 967–9 Muḥarram 968 Hijrī (13 August 1560–30 September 1560 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the work is for a wind catcher (bādhanj). Also mentions ashes and quṣrumīl/kosromel/קוצרומיל/قصرميل = a kind of mortar made from sand and broken tiles and ashes.

العلامات

• construction

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise and the ṣināʿa (probably the customs house in Fustat, but can also mean arsenal). Mentions Ightinām li l-ujra towards the end, probably referring to the tax or the transport cost.

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العلامات

• petition
• sina'a
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

937–938 Hijrī (25 August 1530–2 August 1532 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in multiple entries as 937–938 AH, which is approximately 1530–1532 CE. Alexandria and, possibly, the nearby coastal town of Abū Qīr are mentioned– but this may be a person's name based on the format of other entries.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

(Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #299) VMR Gil's transcription and translation have בהבשיס, but is an error for Bahabsīm, an attested location next to Ṭansā in the Nile Valley outside the Fayyūm. Also mentions the equally obscure, nearby village of Idrīja.

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العلامات

• flax
• nahray b. nissim

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Primary language

Arabic

There may be an address on recto, but it is hard to see underneath the scribbles. Verso also includes rhymed Hebrew praises for a certain notable named Shelomo (reminiscent of T-S AS 117.42, but the hand is different).

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Evyatar (A man with the same name appears also in TS 18 J 1.20, from 1126, so it is unlikely that he is identical with the man signed here).

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Invokes the trope of a bad person "taking people's property" (akhdh amwālihim) and refers to the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-muṭahhara). Contains the raʿy clause.

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العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Document date

Elul 1505 Seleucid (19 August 1194–16 September 1194 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic, ordering somebody to appear before the court. Mentions al-Fayyūm. Dated: Elul 1505 Seleucid = 1194 CE. […] At the bottom of verso there are marginalia in Arabic script, difficult to read, but one phrase appears to be repeated twice, and the last word is al-saʿīd. (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many of them have to do with partnerships. There is also a section with a letter draft stating that 'the slave fulfilled the order of the master' by making the symbolic purchase from Hiba and Ibrāhīm that they are satisfied with the terms of the partnership.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to people such as Abū Saʿīd, possibly Ghālib ibn al-Rayyis, Abū l-Surūr, and al-ʿAkkāwī. Mentions several ships.

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Muḥarram 514 Hijrī (2 April 1120–1 May 1120 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions 'government crops' (al-ghallāt al-sulṭāniyya) and the year 512 but the document itself appears to be dated Muḥarram 514 AH = April/May 1120 CE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

or simply corner?) and ask for al-Ḥājj Mukhtār al-K[...] (لي والله لاجتهد . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1189 Hijrī (4 March 1775–20 February 1776 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Brief note about 4 raṭl of a unknown good in the name Lūlī al-Ḥāmī (first name is likely a nickname or a variant of Luʾluʾ). […] The scribal hand, paper, and surname all fit this dating. Location: Cairo (מצריים). Based on the layout of this document it seems likely that it was an individual receipt rather than a fragment from a broader array of accounts.

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العلامات

• 18th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek, Hebrew, Latin

Scrap of parchment covered with various jottings, mainly in Hebrew including the phrase "I, Shelaḥya." There are also three copies of a Latin abecedary (the third only goes up to F) and three versions of the Greek phrase "I, Joseph" (spelled interestingly εΓο ιωσοφ rather than εγω ιωσηφ، perhaps influenced by the Arabic pronunciation Yūsuf).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1201 Hijrī (24 October 1786–12 October 1787 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For the Kohen Bona family of Cairo, see also: record #11 in BL OR 6356.1–16 (PGPID 40888).

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Accounts in the same hand and possibly from the same book are also found in CUL Or.1080 J291, BL OR 5554A.53-54r, Moss.

العلامات

• account
• flax

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso, left: beginning of a genealogical list for "the house of the learned judge": Saʿadya and his six sons, beginning with Shemuʾel the judge (al-dayyan al-maskil... ha-dayyan ha-ḥakaham ha-niflaʾ...).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: deed in which a man and his sons gift a house to an adult woman, ʿAʾisha (known as al-Wuḥsha), the daughter of the owner. Mentions Abū l-Qāsim ʿUbaydallāh, Abū Manṣūr Jaʿfar, and Abū […] Hibatallāh. […] Verso: list of books in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a Massekhet Berakhot by Isaac al-Fāsī. (Information from CUDL)

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Alphabetical writing exercises on a large piece of paper that was folded into four sections. […] At the top of each section the writing instructor provided the Hebrew alphabet in model handwriting for the student to repeat.

العلامات

• learning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Ya’aqov b. […] Several things in this letter are mentioned in the letter from Yeshua b. Isma’Il al-Tāhartī (see T-S 12.389). (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #359) VMR

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Document date

Shevat-Iyyar 1410 Seleucid (27 December 1098–23 May 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. (1099 CE).

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Document date

1112–1126 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains at length about his poor state in this "exile" and his poverty. Also mentions Shela b. Moshe ha-Levi. On verso there are formulae of rhymed opening lines of letters addressed to notables (e.g.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (ca. 1100–38 CE) to 'my master the diadem (al-Nezer).' He needs to write a validation for a legal document and therefore needs to know the proper honorifics (וכיף יכון אלכיבוד) for Yosef b. […] T-S NS 190.105 (PGPID 23842). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the lower right corner of an agreement between a husband, Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, and wife, Sitt al-Ḍiyāʾ.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Also signed by Natan [b. Shelomo] ha-Kohen. Written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (several words from his titles are preserved), dating the document to 1127–38 CE.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record involving Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.98 (PGPID 24425)) and Yosef b. Abū l-Bishr known as Ibn al-[...]. The actual context is not clear, due to the bad preservation of the text.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 20.37 and BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8). This document alludes to controversies and confusion in Aden; the details of the story are almost entirely missing.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim and Abū l-Maʿānī who plan to travel. Also mentions people who "fled" and Maghribī(s).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, vehemently accuses ("mustaghītha mutaẓallima mustaʿdiya ʿalā") Seʿadya b. Binyamin Khaybarī of retaining 4 dinars that are due to her. Her husband acted as her agent. All this is written out twice. On verso there is a Talmudic excerpt in the same hand.

العلامات

• khaybari

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SulIīmān, in order to avoid taxes in Sicily. See also T-S 20.152 (PGPID 1783) and T-S NS J161 + T-S 12.5 (PGPID 1676).

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العلامات

• partnership
• responsum
• sicily

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Spanish

On verso there are doodles and pen trials in Hebrew ("ערוך מקור") and in Spanish ("hun homen a poder en mançebos" = "a man has power over boys"). There is also the name Rodrigues Perez. (Information in part from Avi Kallenbach, Amir Ashur, Ramon Sarobe, and Daniel Duran Duelt.)

العلامات

• drawing
• latin script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yehezkel in Fustat on behalf of the Yeshiva. Also mentions things about an "aguna" (עגונה - a woman who is "chained" to her marriage because her husband refuses to grant her a divorce or who is missing).

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Document date

3 Nisan 1388 Seleucid (30 March 1077 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 3 Nissan 1388 Seleucid (March 30, 1077 CE). Declaration by ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh the Parnas, acting as attorney for the heirs of Avraham Ibn al-ʿĀbid, who had operated a grainstore (fāmī) in partnership with [not preserved] and who had obviously suddenly died, since there is a reference to his illness and to the fact that six dinars were found in his mandīl.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from David al-Qalʿī, perhaps in Minyat Zifta or nearby, to Yosef al-Faranji (it seems his uncle), perhaps in Fustat/Cairo.

العلامات

• 16th c
• late heb
• minyat zifta

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