Documents

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The story conveyed in the letter is difficult to follow, involving a disagreement, writing a letter but not sending it, someone arriving to the synagogue, someone leaving for Alexandria, and sad news that made the writer and Yosef cry and scream.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's note card.) Mentions "either in Aleppo or in Hama" (אמא פי חלב ואמא פי חמא רבתא) near the bottom of verso and how "I would have to cross the sea (to come to you)"; the context is not fully clear, but likely the sender is somewhere in Syria.

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العلامات

• aleppo
• cantor
• hama
• tax
• wusul

1 مناقشة

Document date

13th Elul 1409 Seleucid (13 August 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Shelomo b. Yefet al-Qudsī owes 102 dinars to Mevorakh b. Elʿazar. […] Meanwhile Mevorakh will sell 70 garments (thawb) for Shlomo in Damietta. If he cannot provide all of the garments, he will pay 1 1/3 dinars for every garment.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender asks him to help the bearer, Ibrāhīm b. Abū Dāwūd al-Ashqar al-Bilbaysī, who betrothed (amlaka) a woman in Bilbays years ago.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• communal
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1204–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The term of the partnership is also specified, though not preserved. The date has not been preserved, but the incomplete titles on lines 23-24 suggest that it falls during the headship of Avraham Maimuni (active between 1204-1237).

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العلامات

• 13th c
• partnership
• textiles
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks for more of a certain collyrium (ashyāf al-natwā), possibly because it is selling well. […] DK 316, a letter from the physician Ibrāhīm to the physician Yaʿqūb, in which Ibrāhīm divulges the recipe for the collyrium for "al-natwā" that he obtained from Abū l-Bahā. There is no clear evidence that the two letters are directly connected, but both are referring to the same medicine.

العلامات

• arabic poetry
• natwa
• physicians

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

This text confirms that Palestinian calendar rules were preserved for well over a century after the controversy of 921/2. It also provides us, for the first time ever, with explicit evidence of a different version of the Four Gates, based on the month of Nisan.

العلامات

• calendar controversy
• manual

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Another term, possibly an abbreviation, that appears in some entries is "صو" which could also be read as "حو". On the recto there is evidence that this fragment was glued to the remnant of an unknown printed work from which the number "5" is clear as having been left by a mechanical type-script.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• list
• printed

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Khalaf b. Muḥammad(?) al-Ṭarābulsī (the Tripolitan), unknown location, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market (sūq al-ʿaṭṭārīn). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The purpose of the letter is to advocate for herself in her marital dispute that has already come before the addressee in court. "They brought [...] to my master and said, 'Here are some of my possessions that she has destroyed,' but my master knows that when we came before you in court, he did not mention that I destroyed this shawl, and all of this is 'Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually, he sows discord' (Proverbs 6:14)."

العلامات

• marital dispute
• women's letters

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

He tells Moshe what he will send him to Egypt with two men, one of whom is Yehuda Masʿūd. He also reports on what he has spent in Jerusalem to repay the debts of Rachel.

العلامات

• zussman

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the recto there are also a variety of other individuals mentioned, such as: Maḥmūd Eksek[?]

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العلامات

• 17th or 18th c
• clothing
• ottoman turkish

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Among the six entries, the mention of "gasto" is helpful and may suggest that the list is related to expenses. There is also mention of "mercado" which is likely a literal "market" in this case, rather than a male first name.

العلامات

• 17th or 18th c
• communal
• ladino

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Document date

1239 Hijrī (7 September 1823–25 August 1824 CE)

This first series of sales is in dirāhim and related to four individuals: Sayyid Aḥmed al-Sāde[?], Manṣūr al-Jihāmi, Nasla[?] Yūsuf, and Aḥmed Sa'ūdi.

العلامات

• 19th c
• ledger

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Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

A translation of these lines is "My benevolent, generous, gracious, powerful, almighty, Sultan, His Excellency. Divine guidance and assistance is always close to you, and in this context of prayers [for your] health and strength, showing that our affection is manifest."

العلامات

• dimme

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of al-Maḥalla, and the 4 undersigned elders of Fustat (ʿUlla b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Lawrence Fine, Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship, 33. Moshe also mentions "the other person who left for Ancona."

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العلامات

• 16th c
• isaac luria
• krispin

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Document date

Sivan 1391 Seleucid (22 May 1080–20 June 1080 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Copy of a court record from Alexandria (אלכסנדריא שלמצרים) from a court appointed by Mevorakh [b.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Evidently Eliyyahu brought these to Avraham Maimonides (Sayyidnā al-Rayyis), who wrote his response at the bottom of the query but who did not sign the masṭūr or the pisqei din. […] Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd support an inferred date range estimate of 1205–1237 CE.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• legal query
• responsum

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains many details about the last phase of arranging the linen for business: the lack in paint to paint the strings and flax growers that did not deliver the goods although they already received the payment. The writer asks Nahray to contact the special Diwan who was in charge of the linen, through Yehuda b.

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العلامات

• flax
• suftaja
• wheat

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Tishrei 1326 Seleucid (28 August 1014–26 September 1014 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerned with a case of slander. Location: Aleppo. Dated: Tishrei 1326 of the Seleucid Era (= 1014 CE).

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العلامات

• slave
• testimony

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid (March 1170 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the installments of payments of the delayed wedding gift from Surūr b. Ghālib al-Dajājī to his divorcee Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. Shemarya.

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Israel writes that if he decides to come to the Maghreb he will have to decide to stay there. Also mentions Israel’s brother in-law or son in-law, which took from Yisrael a Mishna book and 1,000 dirhams and traveled to Israel.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are pen trials or magical amulet, in a crude hand, followed by the Hebrew alphabet. Verso has been pricked all around the edge.

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العلامات

• pinholes

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1604 Seleucid (13 October 1292–11 November 1292 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Ḥeshvan 1604 Seleucid = October/November 1292 CE), under the authority of David I Maimonides, also with a blessing for his son Avraham. Goitein notes that the document distinguishes between the titles מרינו and מורינו, a distinction which later became lost (including in modern Hebrew).

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العلامات

• avraham ii maimonides
• david i maimonides
• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

1129 CE

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 259) Recto: Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b.

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العلامات

• family
• real estate

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Document date

First decade of Ṭevet 1445 Seleucid (1133 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: First third of Ṭevet 1445 Seleucid, which is 29 November–8 December 1133 CE. Isḥāq b. Makhlūf al-Nafūsī acknowledges that he received money and goods (pearls and coral) from Barakāt b. Mūsā al-Ḥalabī. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi; Avraham b.

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العلامات

• ib4
• ib6
• india book

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Document date

Av 1413 Seleucid (18 July 1102–16 August 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh sells to Turfa, the daughter of the late Ṭayyib al-ʿIblānī, half of a house in the Ḥarrānī street in Qaṣ[r al-Shamʿ] (l. 8) for 51 dinars.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• daughter
• family
• mother

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Sharāḥīl in Kawlān (مسجد مالك بن شراحيل). [Khan, ALAD: "a document recording the granting of a loan ʿāriyya of property, in which the offeree of the loan acknowledges and accepts the terms of the document, 'aqarra bi-dhalika kullihi wa-qabila minhu'."] […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card, and Khan, ALAD).

العلامات

• dimme

2 مناقشتان

Document date

Jumādā I–Jumādā II 393 Hijrī (8 March 1003–5 May 1003 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Note that the scribe uses a variant of the aleph-lamed ligature (ﭏ) to represent 1/2 dirham.

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العلامات

• account
• partnership
• textiles

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to 'the dear boy Naṣr al-Dawla' and mentions another person with an official-sounding title, Wafiyy al-Dawla.

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العلامات

• dimme
• poetry
• to examine

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to Abū ʿImrān (presumably the same paternal uncle mentioned on recto). Possibly also from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, but more specimens of his Arabic handwriting need to be collected.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several distinct entries, each terminated by a circle with a dot in it (هـ for انتهى). One has to do with allotting funds from monthly rent payments for bread; another has to do with Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥātim and a woman; on verso there is a reference to a property probably adjacent to the Palestinian synagogue along with the tower or dovecote (burj) to its east.

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