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Hebrew

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

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• 11th c
• yoshiyyahu gaon

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Document date

Muḥarram 481 Hijrī (27 March 1088–25 April 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

One entry in the right column of T-S 12.109v refers to the ḥikr (ground rent) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. Dated: Muḥarram 481 AH = March/April 1088 CE. […] The versos of these fragments all seem to be from the same source; the rectos are from two different legal documents.

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• hikr

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1444 Seleucid (1132–1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The marriage payments plus dowry add up to 22 dinars. Also signed by Natan ha-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq b. [...], and [...] ha-Kohen b.

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• ketubba
• legal
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions funds which arrived from Qayrawān (l. 18). Also mentions the arrival of Yiṣḥaq b. Shalmon who sang the praises of the addressees.

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• babylonian geonim
• communal

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions that lbn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ) was transporting a pouch full of dirhams.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• ibn al-ba'ba'

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Document date

Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 Anno Mundi (8 January 1090 CE)

Shemarya ha-Kohen of Alexandria. In the margin there are a few words in Arabic script from the draft of a letter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon declares that a codex of the Torah along with other copper vessels and a pair of woolen curtains, which were deposited in the Qaysāriyya with a man known as "the in-law of the man with the large teeth (Abū l-Asnān)" belonged to her daughter Sitt al-Ahl bt.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (a.k.a. ʿIwāḍ) b. Ḥananel, Fustat.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: remnants
• illness: skin
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Adar 52[..] Anno Mundi (5 February 1440–18 February 1539 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

AM (= 15th century CE) in Alexandria (No Amon), during the reign of Yehosef ha-Nagid, whose years of service should help narrow the possible range of dates within 52[00]-52[99].

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

Sivan 1521 Seleucid (25 May 1210–23 June 1210 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated Sivan 1521 (sel., mid-June 1210). Dates of payments also dated according to the Muslim calendar, starting on Muḥaram 607 A.H.

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• 13th c
• hazzan
• loan
• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

23 Kislev 1564 Seleucid (26 November 1252 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Efrayim, who engaged in dyeing silk with turquoise blue. Also mentions the Nagid David; Fustat, 1564 Sel. (1253/1252 C.E.).

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• david maimonides
• silk

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid (31 January 1110 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The hand is probably that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also sends his regards. The letter opens with a strong rebuke for failing to write and goes on to mention the arrival of merchandise/gifts, and greetings to and from various people.

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• ib6
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, II,19; also Gil)

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• communal
• mosul nasis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a detailed summary in Goitein, Med Soc V, p. 222 note 17. See also Esther-Miriam Wagner, “Goitein and girlish prose: T-S 13J 24.22," Fragment of the Month, Cambridge University Library, March 2012, for revisions/refutations of many of Goitein's beliefs about this letter.

العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among other matters, Yisrael reports that he is in bad shape: he was sick with congestion (nazla), a cough (suʿāl), and eye pain (wajaʿ al-ʿaynayn), although now he is feeling somewhat better.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cough
• illness: eye
• illness: nazla
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Waqqāf(?), Abū l-Dhahab, Abū Saʿīd, Ibn Ḥasan, Khulayf b. [...], Yaʿaqov, Sitt al-Kull, and Daniel the teacher.

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Document date

Tishrei 4851 Anno Mundi (29 August 1090–27 September 1090 CE)

Verso: Copy of a will by Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. September 1090. In the handwriting of Shlomo ha-Kohen b. […] These people are Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila and Shemuel b. Yehuda. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #327) VMR

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 622-623, #339). […] Preserved is the name of Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn, who was granted a power of attorney." VMR

العلامات

• sahlan b. avraham

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Natan b. Pinḥas he-Ḥaver (who also signed T-S 10J27.3, dated 1107–09 CE), Ḥalfon b.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The local Jewish community also limited traveling businessmen to a stay of no more than one month (ḥerem ha-yishuv).

العلامات

• 11th c
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

middle third of Elul 1448 Seleucid (29 August 1137–7 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Milāḥ sells her Nubian female slave ʿAlam to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā for 23 dinars.

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Then it mentions installing a staircase made of palm trees and fixing it with mortar made of gypsum. Also mentions various kinds of nails in connection with the installation of the qa'a doors, and details extensive paving work.

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• 13th c
• account
• communal
• coptic numerals
• qodesh
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

20 Rabīʿ II 404 Hijrī (29 October 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Rabīʿ II 404 (17 October 1013). […] Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 13 × 8.5 cm. The verso (as conserved), written before the recto, contains the statement of an official before a dīwān in the Fayyūm.

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

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query addressed to Great Rav Elʿazar of Alexandria (ha-Gaon, ha-Nasi). Concerning two men who had an argument over chess.

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العلامات

• chess
• legal query

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document (warranty). in which al-Shaykh al-ʿAmīd declares that he guarantees something for his brother Avraham and his son Yosef and other people.

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Document date

Adar 1432 Seleucid (22 January 1121–20 February 1121 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Munajjā from the price of the cinnamon. There are also payments that must be made to a widow. The payments iwll begin in Adar 1432 Seleucid = January/February 1121 CE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso mentions Abū Saʿd b. [...] and Abū M{an}ṣūr b. al-Shaykh al-Najīb ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto refers to Abū l-Rabīʿ al-Levi "my friend, the ascetic (al-zāhid)"; Rabbenu Yosef b.

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العلامات

• dammuh

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] al-ʿAkkawī b. Yeshuʿa Ibn Bunān — likely the same as in T-S NS 190.106 (PGPID 23843) — who makes an acknowledgment concerning the will of his deceased cousin (ibn ʿamm) Avraham Ibn Bunān and the inheritance rights of Avraham's orphan daughter. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index cards.) Joins: Alan Elbaum and Oded Zinger.

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• inheritance
• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Damaged fragment in poetic Hebrew, probably from top of a letter to a notable who is also a kohen. Very large. AA/ASE Excerpts: תשיתמו לשרים . . .

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He was one of the notables of al-Maḥalla but fell into poverty. He owes money (200 dinars?) […] Greetings to the addressee's son, Abū ʿAlī ha-Talmid. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• charity
• recommendation

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Primary language

Ladino

Account-related transactions listed in Ladino with many names, including Yosef and Ya'aqov; with Hebrew alphanumerical numerals. (Information from CUDL) There are three columns, from right to left that list: the detail of the transaction, the quantity of the monetary sum, and the coinage type– which appears throughout as the silver medin abbreviated as "מאי". […] Yosef" which gives the sense of outgoing payments/expenses. MCD. Join: Alan Elbaum

العلامات

• account
• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is writing to recommend the bearer for assistance, probably financial. He also asks the addressee to inform Menaḥem, who had asked that he write, that he is in some distress because a horse struck him on Sunday (אן יום אלאחד צאבני פרס).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to people with silly names such as al-shaykh Qumayqim and al-shaykh Sumaysim. Some related fragments found via the FGP join finder: T-S AS 161.49 C265228 T-S NS 190.51 C373187 T-S NS 190.52 C373189 T-S Ar.30.4 C180851 T-S NS 228.21 C383384 T-S AS 161.169 C264960

العلامات

• saj'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Underneath the phrase "Makārim b. Sayyid al-Kull appeared (before the court). The same Makārim has practiced his witness signature multiple times on verso; he seems to write Sayyid al-Kull with a shin rather than a samekh.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1625–1626 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

This dating seems feasible based on the paleography but the scribe may have intended these digits as gematria instead (30+7+6+400+400+100= 933 AH). The latter option also seems feasible as a Hijrī year in the sixteenth century (1526/27 CE).

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Document date

[5]324 Anno Mundi (18 September 1563–6 September 1564 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

At least two lines appear to contain Ladino as well (the line ending "672" on fol. 1v and the line ending "3248" on fol. 2v). There is also the stylized signature of Yehuda b. Hillel(?)

العلامات

• captives
• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for copious jottings in Arabic script and Hebrew script, including elaborate designs with micrography, including a wheel with spokes (the text in the wheel is also found in T-S H5.95 according to Maagarim: במוסף בהוסיפי תחן תמור נתח גם כי בער אנכי ולא כמפותח....

العلامات

• micrography
• yedutun ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Opens: "Marḥaban bi-qudūm al-fāris al-muḥaqqaq..." The entirety consists of very elevated praises and blessings.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر