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Judaeo-Arabic

This section opens with an expression of emotional distress (fa-yabqā qalbī marjūf). The wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī has been harmed (? inḍarrat) because of the delay of the silk. The addressee should send it with the frying pan (al-ṭājin). Muʿammar spoke with the sender about something (a beverage?) […] The addressee should send the knife (? al-sikkīna) and the tefillin, as the sender has injured his left arm "because of the throwing of the jug" (??).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Sulaymān b. Samhūn b. al-Sahl, in Tilimsān, to Abū Sahl Menashshe b. David Ibn Labrāṭ, in Fustat. […] The sender has not heard from anyone in Egypt for "several years" because "the caravans have been cut off" (li-inqitāʿ al-qawāfil). He requests that the addressee send back news with the same pilgrims (ḥujjāj) who are bearing this letter for him. […] Otherwise "the news of the West" is good, all is safe and the roads are secure. He concludes by asking for news of the Yeshivot, and who is the current Head of the Yeshiva, as he wishes to write to him.

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العلامات

• personal
• yeshiva

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The agreement is a tawqīm ("estimate") of the trousseaux for the bride, Sitt al-Suʿada ("Mistress over the Happy Ones"). The groom approved of the evaluation of the tawqīm of the dowry and took on the responsibility of keeping the items safe. […] This was because the official Rabbinate marriage contract, which also listed these details, would be in formulaic Aramaic.

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• autograph

2 مناقشتان

Document date

Middle of Tammuz 1445 Seleucid (July 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramli was appointed to supervise the building operations, and Obadiah advanced the sums that were necessary. […] Shelomo ha-Kohen ha-Meʿulle, who is also a signatory of the agreement. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 254 #47 and CUDL)

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• halfon b. menashshe
• heqdesh
• qodesh

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

He married either a Christian woman or a Jewish woman who converted to Christianity (along with him? והלכ[ה] אחרי אלי נכר). Then he tried to persuade her to return to Judaism. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card, Goitein, Med Soc IV, 236, note 82, and de Lange, Byzantium in the Cairo Genizah, 40.) This document has also been edited by Ze'ev Falk in Sinai 85 (1979), 147–48.

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• adultery
• bribe
• byzantium
• christians
• conversion
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Primary language

Ladino

"And now, for our sins, there is no way at all to buy anything, and above all because there is nothing in this land by which to earn a single aspro, so that I can bear it no longer… And God, blessed be He, knows that I would have wanted to leave with this caravan, together with Algranati's wife and the other honorable women who are setting out now; and because I had no word that you had sent for me, I have not dared to stir… [For the sake of] God, blessed be He, that you see to sending…" ASE Merits further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Yusuf and son(s) to a postal agency in Old Cairo, called three times "al-Ḥusayn b. Ṭāhir," and twice "Najā b. al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī and Tamim b.

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• dimme
• fiscal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that the sender waited for al-Thiqa in Gaza but he never came. So he left without him and walked with Zayyāta(?) […] They reached אלכשבי on Friday but they weren't in time to catch up with al-ʿAbbāsa (a caravan? another town?). So he traveled onward alone until he reached Bilbays before Shabbat and spent Shabbat with Ibn Bishāra.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fiancée: Sitt al-Dalāl. Conditions: 1. Should separation occur, the document freeing Sitt al-Dalal ("Lady Bold") will be produced by her husband without delay. 2. […] He will not separate her from her parents, as long as the latter are alive and cannot force her to live anywhere else. 9.

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• betrothal

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

979–1025 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Cohen and Somekh suggest that the account corroborates Ibn Khallikān's anecdote about Ibn Killis's majlis and may even describe the same incident. They also argue that the author's decision to confront the vizier with verses from the Torah implies that he regarded Ibn Killis as still, in some sense, answerable to his origins. The blessing "may God sustain his high station" after the vizier's name indicates that Ibn Killis was alive and in office when the treatise was composed, suggesting a dating for the text of 979–91 CE. […] Cohen and Sasson Somekh, “Interreligious Majalis in Early Fatimid Egypt,” in Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, et al., eds., The Majlis: Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999), 128–36.

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Document date

22 Av 5595 Anno Mundi (17 August 1835 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

or perhaps bubonic plague given that there was a major outbreak in Alexandria/Egypt in 1834-1836). All the gentiles were trying to flee in boats to Jedda. […] The writer then had a second bout of fever ("my whole body burnt, and my tongue cleaved to my palate, and I went to the doctor, who treated/cured me a second time"). By this point all his money had run out. Shortly thereafter he developed an eye disease. […] Relatively early on he made his way to Fustat/Cairo, where he had little success raising money or gaining allies. The capitation tax collector (baʿal ha-kharāj) apprehended him for failing to pay for 'the third year' (he had only paid for the years '50 and '51) and he spent three days in prison, where he fell ill again for the fourth time.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• kharaj
• late illness
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The original deed was given by Avraham b. Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbi to Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Ḥazzan al-Dimashqi (lines 1-11). […] This original deed was also validated in Fustāt by the court of the Great Nasi David b. […] The title of the Nasi as 'head of all diasporas' hints at a date between late 1091 and the summer of 1094.

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العلامات

• hillel b. eli

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Document date

Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid (7 February 1094 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet he-Ḥaver (known also from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/38, ENA NS 18.1, T-S 24.1, T-S 12.1, T-S 16.192, and possibly T-S 16.212), also witnessed by Aharon b. […] in a different hand, concluding with an ʿalāma, ישועה. Below, there is a scathing, 40-line responsum about the defects of this legal document written by the Palestinian authority ʿAmram b.

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العلامات

• divorce

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faraj and his prospective father-in-law Fuḍayl b. ʿAllūn, for the hand of Fuḍayl's elder daughter Mufaddāt. […] The groom’s worries about the trousseau of his wife are also found in the condition that allowed him to check the items of the trousseau, to see that it meets his standards. In the case that it does not pleases him, he may take back the sums of money he already spent on the wedding expenses, or other expenses, and cancel the marriage.

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Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman gold coin zeri maḥbūb which was first minted in Cairo in 1736 CE(?) (although the earliest coins from Cairo in Uslu's numismatic catalogue date to 1143 AH/ 1730 CE). It should also be noted, that 1703 CE (1115 AH) marked the first year these coins were minted in Istanbul, therefore yielding a plausible chronological threshold over three decades earlier (Kaan Uslu et. al., Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Madeni Paraları, 69, 114-115). […] The language and script of the letters and their overall appearance suggest that both were composed by the same author at around the same time, and possibly to the same recipient, namely al-Ḥājj Muḥammad.... T-S NS 306.84 clearly indicates a link between the firewood deliveries and Cairo’s Janissary regiment.

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• janissary
• numismatic dating

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Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet

العلامات

• arabic script
• ottoman
• pen trial

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Book list. Published in Allony, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 322

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Book list. Published by Allony, The Jewsih Library, p. 141-142

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Book list. Published by Allony, The Jewish Library, p. 190-195

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Primary language

Arabic

Medical instructions in Arabic script for weakness of the vision (ḍuʿf al-baṣr).

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Several unrelated small fragments stuck together; all look literary.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of what Hārūn al-Jābī has collected. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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• jabi
• list
• qodesh

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Account with names (including Jaʿfar b. someone) and Greek/Coptic alphanumerals.

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Primary language

Arabic

Repeatedly mentions amīr al-mu'minīn.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Needs examination. Mentions X al-Dallāl.

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Primary language

Arabic

Medical treatise in Arabic script. Agaric (al-ghāriqūn). . . Turbid (turpeth). . .

العلامات

• arabic literary
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions witnesses and al-Neʾeman.

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Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet in at least two different scribal hands

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions "the community" (al-jamāʿa).

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Primary language

Arabic

"yusāfir minhum" and then "al-mamlūk". Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. Almost no details preserved.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Some sort of ʿalāma at the top. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. 3 bifolia. Alchemy? Amulets? Paper-making?

العلامات

• recipe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of the Aqrābādhīn of Ibn al-Tilmīdh.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "kharaja... mablagh... al-mustakhdamīn..."

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

A couple words in Arabic script along with a Coptic numeral. On recto there is piyyut.

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Colophon mentioning the name Yefet b. ʿAllān. (Information from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef. Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Ḥarīrī.

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العلامات

• account

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning Qasr al-Sham'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly a letter. Mentions [...] al-Baṣrī. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unidentified calculations in Judaeo-Arabic. "The astrologers (al-munajjimīn) and others believe..."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Andalus and 'Rabbenu.'

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Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment, maybe left incomplete. From [...] al-muʿallim to Isḥāq.

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