Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Fragment of a fiscal document headed "māl al-kharājī."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 16th c or later

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Alludes to a dispute "between you and them."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script referring to "mawlāya al-Rāb" (=the Rav).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Greek/Coptic Numerals

Table of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a very disorderly scribal hand. Medieval-era.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Difficult to read. Some sections headed "al-maṣrūf."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Likely a promissory note stating that "I owe" a sum of money to "[...] al-Yahūdī."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a late document in Arabic script mentioning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Greek/Coptic Numerals

List of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, perhaps calculations or a writing exercise.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

It seems "throbbing of the joints" (ḍarabān al-mafāṣil).

العلامات

• arabic script
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Short lists of names along with numbers (Coptic numerals?) arranged according to parshiyot.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter on vellum to Ali Abi Sulayman (? this description and transcription belong to a different fragment).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Poem in Judaeo-Arabic dramatizing the events of the book of Esther. Join: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt? For [...] al-Yahūdī. Sum: 1/6 dinar. Needs examination.

العلامات

• receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter to Abū ʿAlī. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Only the beginning is preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Small receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz al-[...]. In Arabic script. Unclear what for.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Monograph; rules concerning marriage. All written by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder

العلامات

• yosef rosh ha-seder

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Prayer in Hebrew, attributed to Saʿadya al-Nadiv b. Saʿadya ha-Levi.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of commodities and prices headed ' [Bara]kat b. Sayyid al-Ahl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various precious goods (aʿlāq) and amounts of money. No names.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday 5 Elul 4750 Anno Mundi (28 August 990 CE)

The bride, Ḥasana bt. Yosef al-Ṣarfī, was an heiress. This may account for the fact that she was not provided with a trousseau by her father but received a payment from her future husband, Aharon b. […] The settlement is signed by 36 persons, possibly all guests present, only two of whom were witnesses.

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العلامات

• libya
• marriage
• tripoli
• trousseau
• witness

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 1350 Seleucid (24 August 1039–21 September 1039 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Banīna bt. Avraham in Alexandria, who had been deserted by her husband Yosef, appointed her brother Shelomo as her attorney.

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2

العلامات

• court record
• marriage
• power of attorney

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

A small portion of the money is designated to the Ereṣ Yisraʾel yeshiva but most of the money is designated to the Babylonian Yeshivas. Also mentions a military travel by the governor of Qayrawān, and the Nagid Avraham b.

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Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan Hibat Allāh if he does not manage to pay him six dinars by Sivan 1461 Seleucid, which is April-May 1150 CE. […] It is not immediately clear whether all the text pertains to the same case. ASE

العلامات

• ledger
• orphan
• ruin

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 12 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid (14 June 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A few further claims between the two were also dealt with.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Tuesday, 6 Iyyar 4836 Anno Mundi (12 April 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record about a debt. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 6 Iyyar 4836 AM = 12 April 1076 CE.

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العلامات

• ibn awkal
• islamic court
• register

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee had sent a letter reporting that he had gone to Alexandria and to Tinnīs. His family members are upset at him.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: gastrointestinal
• illness: women's

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr, perhaps in Alexandria, to his 'brother' Abū Saʿd, probably in Fustat.

العلامات

• garments
• textiles

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Same writer and addressee as T-S 13J13.3 (PGPID 946), which is dated Elul 1457 Seleucid (1116 CE). The content is also very similar, except that in T-S 13J13.3, the addressee is supposed to hand over 5 dinars to the writer's relative Abū l-Ḥasan Rajā.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo signed T-S 13J3.6 in 1145 CE (but this shelfmark does not appear to be correct). Munajjā b. Shelomo also signed T-S 8J7.6 together with Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, right side: Mentions Bū Zikrī ʿAllūn(?); Abū Yūsuf; Barhūn and bales of lac and pepper; Makhlūf; al-Gharīb; cinnamon.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1453 Seleucid (4 September 1141–21 September 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The lower part of the letter, together with almostall of the substance, is missing. Mevorakh asks the addressee to obtain or send some gold.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan, with greetings to his brother the physician al-Najīb Abū l-Barakāt. Nearly complete. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The sender reports that he or she has arrived safely and sends warm greetings to al-Kohen Mufaḍḍal; Abū Sahl and his son Abū l-Barakāt; another Abū l-Barakāt and another Mufaḍḍal; Yosef; Abū ʿUmar; [...] b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Heshvan 5597 Anno Mundi (12 October 1836–9 November 1836 CE)

The fragment may have been folded and sent from Cairo to one Binyamin de Curiel in Alexandria. The hands on the recto and verso, however, are seemingly distinct and therefore the address on the verso may be a remnant of an earlier letter that was reused for the recto's list.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• de curiel

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5576 Anno Mundi (5 October 1815–22 September 1816 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The monetary symbol for silver kurush appears throughout, but it is not clear that this is the only form of coinage in use given the mention of "פצה / silver" which often appears as a distinct denomination in other shelfmarks from the JRL C Series and elsewhere. The recto also features a geomancy casting with a question regarding the residence of Yaʿaqov Būnān and whether he will move from being with "his daughter to a different house."

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal
• geomancy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The meaning of the entries in the second section of the recto is clearer because specific names are listed, such as: Ḥasan Sūqī, ʿAlī Agha, and Kamal al-Dīn. The verso has detailed heading explaining that the entries represent income from the Egyptian city of Manfalut on the Nile.

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العلامات

• 16th c or later
• manfalut

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

When I was the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla and slaughtered and circumcised, whenever. . ." Verso: The address of the letter on recto, to Sayyidnā al-Nasi ha-Gadol Yarum Hodo. And, in a different ink and different hand, a formulary of a Hebrew letter of appeal ("I am so-and-so the lowly and despised.").

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• appeal
• circumcision
• circumcision(letter)
• formulary
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭa'if to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Yefet mentions the person (Yūsuf al-Qallā'?) "who was your doctor in Fusṭāṭ." Yefet sends greetings to Sitt Naʿīm, who it seems is none other than Ḥalfon's wife (see Wagner, E. (2007).

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العلامات

• fotm
• materia medica
• yefet b. menashshe

1 نسخ

Document date

23 Ḥeshvan 5310 Anno Mundi (14 November 1549 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Italian, Yiddish

IV,93, and HUC 1034). See also T-S Ar.30.232 + T-S NS 83.19, an account register by Yiṣḥaq b.

العلامات

• late heb
• perahim
• yiddish

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on his way to , and he is based in Ramla. […] It is probably 10 in Du al-Hijja that was celebrated in October, 1066-1068.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• business
• nahray b. nissim
• trade
• tyre

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