Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

So the account seems to have been submitted to a certain Abū Saʿīd (the well-known Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī?). There follows a long list of materia medica and associated commodities, accompanied by quantities. […] Merits further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum. Moss. X,109 (PGPID 27207) is a similar document by the same scribe.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hilāl b. Avraham, in Alexandria(?), to his brother Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Fustat(?).

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

13 Tishrei 1531 Seleucid (24 September 1219 CE)

Communal records, perhaps defective, consisting in payments to specified persons (all in promissory notes, ruq'a), to three officials, for bread, and for the transport of palm branches (for Sukkot). […] Normally one would expect yearly or half-yearly, but in that period (1219), when the community was always short of funds, weekly revenue, even though small, was welcome (Mediterranean Society, II, p. 430)].

العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• communal
• salary

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

8 Tishrei 1554 Seleucid (4 September 1242 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several entries: (1) Valuation (taqwīm) of a dowry. Bride: Sitt al-Majd bt. ʿOvadya. Groom: Saʿadya b. Mevorakh. […] (2) Marriage of a divorcee or widow. Bride: Sitt al-Waqār bt. Yosef. Groom: ʿAfīf b. Elʿazar. Marriage payments: 2 + 20.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk mawlānā amīr al-muʾminīn...).

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yaḥyā al-Sofer(?) addressed to the Nagid David I (b. Avraham Maimonides, served ca. 1237–1300 with some breaks).

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العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan and the daughter of David al-Kohen of Qalyūb (not edited below).

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العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

It is difficult to make out more than "...idhā... al-wuḥūsh taftaris..." Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an Ayyubid ʿalāma).

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العلامات

• arabic script
• ayyubid
• decree
• dimme
• state

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanel ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• trousseau

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly for arousing love (tahyīj al-ḥubb?). One of them is to be placed inside the shoe of the man.

العلامات

• arabic literary
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Avraham b. Faraj/Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbī who is known from several other documents from the late 11th century.

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العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are the remnants of 6 lines. Mentions Abū Isḥāq al-Kohen, and offers to carry out tasks on behalf of the addressee.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a draft, as the fragment was already torn before this text was written. The text of the letter draft is surrounded by copious jottings in Hebrew and Arabic.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

He set out with merchandise, but presumably lost everything along the way.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

On recto there is an Islamic literary text (qāla l-nabiyyu ṣallā llāhu ʿalahi....).

العلامات

• arabic script
• islamic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recipe or instructions in Arabic script. Likely alchemical. Mentions lead (three lines from the bottom) and "it becomes elixir" (iksīr) in the next line.

العلامات

• alchemy
• arabic script
• lead
• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One record states that Ghāliya al-Ḍarīra (the blind) bt. B[...] releases someone.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Content difficult to understand without a join. Mentions Mūsā al-Maghribī.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes the curious information that "all the goods are in the hands of the Franks." Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Muwaffaq and Ḥasan the ghulām, goods such as honey, and expenses including "the government duty in Giza" (wa-ḥaqq al-sulṭān bi-l-Jīza).)

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العلامات

• ghulam
• giza
• honey
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

List (fragment) of recipients of charity, including ghulam Hosha'na and "the widow of the shaykh Abu al-X" and two "ma`rifas," meaning people "known" by a local resident, who vouched for their deservedness.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a previous response from al-Rayyis. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After a long protocol, the writer reports that he met with "Rabbana Ḥesed Mesos ha-Yeshiva" (Ḥesed al-Tustari?) to inform him of the addressee's benefactions.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a certain ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Mentions a half raṭl of tamarind. Some entries are crossed out.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Makīn and al-Shaykh Najīb. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as a qāḍī, the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Qābisī, and [Yaʿqū]b b. Ismāʿīl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Some words read as "bi injāz l-kabīr al-m[" and "yakūn hādhā kulluhu". Document is too fragmentary to glean any context.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 10 Elul 1395 Seleucid (1084 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Husband: Elʿazar b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq.

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العلامات

• divorce

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: A debt of 27 dinars; Yosef al-Dimashqī on the one hand; Abū l-Makārim and Abū l-Bishr on the other.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

[Described on the paper wrapper as : "Procuration officielle de Fatma a Sefi Togan ibn Abdalla el Allani" ; [next line] "Fatima Togan"].

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham and Yosef b. David b. [al-Lebdī?]. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards) EMS

العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short letter on vellum from Palermo by a Baghdadi, mentioning a trip to Sicily and referring to merchandise sent to Damascus by one Harun b. al-Saruji. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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1

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to al-Shulal b. Avraham and to a physician informing them that some people had died.

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العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• physician

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham to the sender's brother mentioning a bill and conveying greetings to the recipient from all his family members who are with the sender. 15th-16th century.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Poorly preserved letter containing biblical verses and a request by Abu Mansur for assistance from Saniyy al-Dawla, the supporter of every troubled person.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

It is an acknowledgment of having received the money due and a release from all claims. (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibrahim in Tyre, to whom he had already written three letters. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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2

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة