Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some names are listed: Manṣūr Saʿadī, Aḥmad Bu-Beys[?], Budeyr al-Ashrek[?]. This document is from a larger set of accounts and is thus related to the neighrboring shelfmark ENA 2898.26.

العلامات

• early modern

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Document date

5481 Anno Mundi (3 October 1720–21 September 1721 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Letterbook of Alpalas y Costa, preserving mainly (or entirely?)

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العلامات

• alpalas
• bonfil
• ladino
• to examine

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Primary language

Arabic

In which two people testify (wa-ashhadā ʿalā anfusahimā fī ṣiḥḥa . . . ). Mentions the "aṣḥāb arbāʿ" (pl. of ṣāḥib rabʿ/rubʿ) of a certain area.

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Primary language

Arabic

The penultimate line reads, "The whole body should be anointed with the oil of violet (banafsaj) and almond (lawz)." Hebrew literary text on verso.

العلامات

• arabic script
• prescription

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Document date

1369 Seleucid (1057–1058 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Mentions a woman: [...]āl bt. Shelomo b. ʿEzra, and mentions [...]q b.

1 مناقشة

Document date

Rajab–[Dhū] al-Qaʿda 969 Hijrī (7 March 1562–5 April 1562 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: the opening lines in Judaeo-Arabic list a date range of Rajab–[Dhū] al-Qaʿda 969 AH (סטץ), which is 1562 CE. Requires further examination.

العلامات

• late arabic script

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This small piece that survives includes a recommendation for the bearer (". . .the need, urgently urgently urgently. . .") and a request to go to Surūr the husband of Bint al-Shav[uy?]. On verso there are the customary closing salutations.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh (a.k.a. ʿEli b. Ḥayyim) ha-Kohen ha-Neʾeman.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th century. Ibn Abī l-Surūr; Mūsā al-Isfāqusī; Mūsā; Yeshuʿa; "my cousin" (ibn ʿammī); the city of Rashīd; Mūsā b.

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment of accounts in a disorderly scribal hand, comprising a section along the inner spine of a bifolium. The paleography makes it difficult to provide a concrete dating estimate.

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the accounts on verso mention the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Mentions appointing an agent (tawkīl).

العلامات

• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the cantor Abū l-Majd, al-Shaykh Abū Naṣr, [Saʿ?]īd and his sons, Abū l-Baqā', Abū l-Fakhr.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There follows a list of numerous items, mostly garments, along with their numbers.

العلامات

• dowry
• late ja

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Document date

1 Tishrei 1363 Seleucid (9 September 1051 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gives the date of Rosh Hashana 1363 Seleucid = 4812 AM = 44[.] AH. All these refer to 1051 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first word(s) of about 15 lines are preserved along with the right margin, containing an offer to fulfill any errands for the addressee.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The parties are Abū l-Faraj b. [...] al-ʿAṭṭār and Ṣedaqa b. Berakhot. AA

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1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl 1100–1138 CE). Involving [...] al-Ṣayrafī and ʿEli ha-Kohen and an agreement not to move somebody out of an upper storey apartment (ṭabaqa).

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1

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerical figures. At least one currency is listed as "בנדוק / bunduq", which is the Venetian gold ducat, and based on the paleography this fragment may date to the 16th-17th centuries or later.

العلامات

• ottoman shipping

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Document date

1226 Hijrī (26 January 1811–15 January 1812 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Late Arabic Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions al-Muʿallim Ibrahīm b. Amīn and Khwājā Yūsūf. Name of the notary at the bottom of the document and on the seal maybe readable.

العلامات

• dimme

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Document date

Monday, 7 Jumādā I 1243 Hijrī (26 November 1827 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

May involve Mūsā Naʿīm al-Ṣarrāf (=Moshe ben Naʿim). Needs examination.

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Document date

Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 Anno Mundi (4 September 1449 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated: Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 AM, which is 4 September 1449 CE. Almost nothing else is preserved.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the entries involves Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd al-Nīlī (the indigo merchant) and somebody's death.

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2

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions merchandise and Ibn al-Sadīd.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition from the group/community/tribe of Banū al-Thimāl(?). Only the opening blessings for the caliph are preserved.

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العلامات

• petition

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Address in Arabic script, to al-Nasi Shelomo in Cairo (most likely Shelomo b.

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1

العلامات

• mosul nasis

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding to a period of 2 years.

العلامات

• silk
• trade

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Recipe in Arabic script. 1.5 oz of pear (ijjāṣ); tamarind; 5 dirhams each of borage (lisān thawr), violet (zahr banafsaj), and senna (sanā); and 1 mithqāl of almond oil (duhn lawz).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Poems, evidently pages from a collection, beginning with the final section of Avraham ibn Ezra's 'Aha yarad,' the lament over the communities of Spain and North Africa destroyed by the Almohads. This section deals with the communities in North Africa.

العلامات

• poem

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisraʾel b. Natan, somewhere in al-Shām, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1060 CE.

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2

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5

العلامات

• suftaja

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan (1150–81). Wife: Sitt al-Jamīʿ. Husband: Yeshaʿya ha-Levi. On verso there are pen trials.

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1

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshu'a, first half 11th century. (Data from Allony, the Jewish Library, p. 279 where it is erroneously referred to as T-S 10K131).

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العلامات

• fgp stub

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Location: Tyre. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yaʿaqov. There is a header decorated with fleurs-de-lis.

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1

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is very damaged and difficult to read. Verso mentions Ḥasūn; al-Yahūdī; items that are green and black; Ḥusayn; silk; lac; grapes; wood.

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Primary language

Arabic

Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) and […] bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yaḥyā. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Ladino

Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

العلامات

• ladino literary
• medical

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In a Sefaradi hand, laid out almost like a literary text. Not very much is preserved.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Yeshuʿa and [Sitt al-A]hl bt. Ṣadoq, likely the same husband and wife as in PER H 89 (PGPID 909).

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the runner (raqqās) of the capitation tax, for/from Makhlūf" and then "Manṣūr the collector of the capitation taxes' (jābī al-jawālī). (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• account

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