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Alphabets for children

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Alphabets for children

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Qayrawan. Around 1045.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning alimonies (15 dirhams and 3 waybas per month) which the wife of Faraḥ was being paid during the period she was nursing a boy. […] The brother of Faraḥ, Sālim, left and went to the army camp (al-ʿaskar). The sender asks Eliyyahu to bring up this matter with 'sayydinā' (probably Avraham Maimonides).

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1

العلامات

• alimony
• army

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned include the shammash Thābit, the Ḥaver, someone's father-in-law (ḥammūhu) Abū l-Ḥusayn; and Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣayrafī—this last is the person with whom Nissim sent his previous letter along with the medicinal electuary (maʿjūn).

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العلامات

• book trade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: medicine

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1135–1164 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Information from Goitein’s note cards and Med Soc II, 44. See also card #27137.

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العلامات

• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: limb
• illness: treatment

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

A few names are mentioned such as Moshe b. Ḥayyīm and Yiṣḥaq al-Sh__[?]. In the first entry the payment may be related to a quantity of leather (גלדי). […] The shelfmarks ENA 2898.7-14 may all be from the same booklet. MCD.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• leather
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

, to Moshe Abudarham, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's identification of the addressee.

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2

العلامات

• moshe b. abudarham
• perahim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

7 Elul 4839 Anno Mundi (8 August 1079 CE)

In the hand of the ḥaver ʿAmram b. Ṣedaqa (see also T-S AS 150.230, T-S 16.136, T-S AS 156.394, and T-S AS 150.230).

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1030–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the caliph al-Ẓāhir (matn only) defending his position against Yūsuf al-Sijilmasi, the Iraqi leader in Palestine.

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العلامات

• copy
• dimme
• investiture
• lost archive
• petition
• (+ 1 المزيد)

4 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Unidentified language and script

Written in Judaeo-Arabic and a cipher (lines 7-12; noticed by OZ; probably this is also in Judaeo-Arabic). The portion of the letter not in cipher mostly consists of regards, and a complaint that the addressee had sent no letter ever since Abū Manṣūr had left her, and he is angry at her.

العلامات

• bilingual
• cipher
• to examine

1 نسخ

Document date

937 Hijrī (25 August 1530–14 August 1531 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The bottom of the verso has a note in Hebrew mentioning that Moshe ibn Sunbul went "from there (Abū Qīr?) to go to Alexandria" (~15 miles distance if Abū Qīr was implied).

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2

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a legal document in which Rabbenu Yeshaʿyahu sells a portion of a property adjacent to the house of Ibn Qashqūsh. Also involves Abū l-Maʿālī and the same sum of 400 dinars; someone's mother and wife; a woman's rights from her ketubba; and a library of books (dafātir, maṣāḥif, tafāsīr, mishnayot, talmud, perush, books of jurisprudence (kutub fiqh), and Arabic books).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems from a man to his brother Shemuel (or less likely his father, if the letter is read as a ב). Alexandria is mentioned in the first line. The addressee is to tell something confidential to Sari (?)

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1

العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Business letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ṭulayṭulī to Abū al-Najm Hilāl b. Yosef ha-Qara.

العلامات

• aodeh
• dimme
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: hammam
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Primary language

Arabic

The writer thanks the addressee for his benefactions and reports on a specific group of people who were consumed by greed and hence lost their decency. Mentions bāb al-Ṭāhir al-Nabawī, probably the Caliph himself, and reports that no traveler passed through the gates of southern Upper Egypt.

العلامات

• dimme
• taqbil

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just casual reuse of the state document. The second hand also seems like a chancery hand but is different from the first hand.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This letter concerns a transaction in wheat (possibly one irdabb) and involving among others a haver ('member of the yeshiva'). If al-shaykh Yeshu'a (lines 3-4) is the same person as al-melammed ('the teacher', line 1), he may be identified as one of two persons attested in Geniza documents by the name Yeshu'a ha-melammed b.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An unnamed elder (titled 'the most illustrious, solid') directs the beadle Abu al-Tahir to furnish Harun the copyist with a good copy of a Torah scroll so that the latter can copy from it. Harun is to bring the book to the beadle each Friday, to be read on the Sabbath. A beadle named Abu al-Tahir b. Mahfuz was active between 1183 and 1223 (Med.

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The accounts relate to income (וארד) from a variety of sources, such as the "ṭaʾifat al-qaṣabaya[?]" (טאייפת אלקצבאייה) which may be an erratic spelling meant to refer to a butcher's guild in Cairo. The following names appear in the accounts: (recto) Muḥammad Ṭara[?], al-Ḥajj Ismaʿīl, (verso) Muḥammad Ḥarārī, and Nissīm Ḥāmī, among others.

العلامات

• 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the recto there is also a list of books in the Bible and the corresponding totals of their respective chapters (i.e.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He wants to know which ships have arrived, the news of the merchants and the merchandise, and sends greetings to Abū Bakr and al-F[...] b. Ilyās (?). Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles.

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العلامات

• arabic script

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is a list of medical simples, including saffron, sugar, aloe, camphor, honey, and alum (this description might belong with a different fragment; it does not seem to match the handful of mysterious words in Hebrew script that actually appear on verso).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Fustat. Around 1055.

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2

العلامات

• byzantine coins
• coins
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1040–1040 CE

Some of the names mentioned in the document are: Khalaf b. Musa al-Barqi and Sahlan b. Yehoshua al-Tarabulusi. This document was written in Iyyar 1351/ February-March 1040 (Ben-Sasson).

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2 نسخين

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath there are some additional jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (al-raʾīs al-[...]). (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In a post-scripted note, the petitioner also requests some food should the addressee have a Jewish celebration.

العلامات

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1443 Seleucid (24 October 1131–21 November 1131 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ff. 1r–2r: Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Kull bt. ʿEli from Fusṭāṭ and Moshe b. Yisrael from al-Maḥalla, in which the bride agrees to follow her husband to his domicile.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His excuse is that he had an intense pain, like colic, and he could hardly sit down, let alone stand or ride. The illness persisted for most of the day, and when it relented and Natan asked after Ḥalfon, he was told that he had already departed.

العلامات

• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• illness: gastrointestinal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender urgently asks the addressee to send for the merchants Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-Suṭūḥ from Tripoli (Libya) and his traveling companion Yaʿaqov b. Zikrī al-Nafūsī who are soon to depart for Yemen. One of them has a bill of divorce with him that must be delivered before he travels.

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2

العلامات

• courts
• divorce
• ib7
• india book
• yemen

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several names appear at the bottom of the document, but these appear to be the scribe's notes rather than actual signatures: Sulaymān b. Saʿīd; Avraham b. ʿAlī; Munā bt. Ismāʿīl; the maternal uncle Avraham b. […] ; the paternal uncle Mūsā b. ʿUqayb al-Mastī(?).

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العلامات

• will

1 نسخ