Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Documentary; probably from a letter addressed to one of the academies, including praises and blessings for such prominent personages as ראש היש׳, אב בית דין, but the actual names are almost completely effaced. (Info from FGP)

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

525 Hijrī (4 December 1130–22 November 1131 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment from the beginning of a letter to a mother in Minyat al-Qāʾid. In Arabic script. Only the opening formula is preserved.

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Order of payment issued by “your friend Abū l-Faraj" to the elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, instructing him to hand over 122 dirhams to the unnamed bearer.

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the partners is 'known as Ibn Ḥasan al-[...].'

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He refers obliquely and mockingly to Qaraite authors such as Daniʾel al-Qūmisī, Salmon b. Yeroḥam and Yefet b. ʿEli: "They see themselves as ‘lilies’ (shoshanim) and everyone else as ‘thorns’; they consider themselves ‘wise ones’ (maskilim), but they disagree as to who among them is wise.” […] Ezra 7:27], may he live forever, and into the mind of our lord the vizier, may God save him, to speak on our behalf and to seek what is good for us, may His name be elevated for all eternity.” Presumably this refers to T-S 13J7.29 (PGPID 1243), a decree of al-Ẓāhir to the governor of Palestine, Anūshtakīn al-Duzbarī, ordering him not to show partiality in his treatment of “the two parties,” a decree issued in response to a petition from the gaʾon's party. […] He sends the elders Abū l-Barakāt Netanʾel ha- Kohen and Abū ʿAlī Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn on a fact-finding mission, and the effigy story turns out to be slander; Abū ʿAlī Muḥsin b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

As for the condition of Abū l-Manṣūr al-Qūṣī. . . ." ASE

العلامات

• fasl
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: treatment
• medicine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A payment of 100 wariq dirhams (for a period of one year's rent) is received from Abu Ishaq al-Adani. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 361 #92)

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• 12th c
• bara'a
• quittance
• record of payment
• rent

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rhymed maxims in Judaeo-Arabic, organized alphabetically. Cf. T-S Ar.13.13, discussed in the November 2019 Fragment of the Month by Mohamed A.

العلامات

• maxims
• popular literature

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment mentioning someone's arrival from Jerusalem, "kitāb al-jamāʿa," and someone who departed when some people were sick.

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Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

Sermon for Palm Sunday (headed Turjām ʿĪd al-Saʿānīn). In Garshuni (Arabic language in Syriac script).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod should give the bearer 3 ounces of lemon-rose syrup and an ounce of chewy candy (ʿaqīd).

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a distinct list of names and numbers at 90 degrees, including names such as al-Dimashqī, Ibn Rajā, Yūsuf, and Abū Shamʿa.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower fragment: Letter from a woman, Umm Nissim, to her relative Abū Saʿd b. X al-Barqī, who is the paternal nephew (ibn ʿamm) of her husband (she signs "marʾat ʿammihi").

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1369 Seleucid (1057–1058 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

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

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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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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.

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العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

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

العلامات

• dowry
• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 1253 Hijrī (26 February 1838–26 March 1838 CE)

Dated in multiple locations on the verso in the year 1253 AH, with the clearest reference to a specific month being [Dhū] al-Ḥijja (which is 1838 CE).

العلامات

• 19th c

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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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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with the regular honorifics and mentions longing towards the august presence "shawq ilā l-haḍra al-sāmiyya". Reused for Hebrew script.

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there are brief accounting notes in Arabic mentioning a mill (al-ṭāḥūn), Wednesday, Jumādā I, a year, and the middle of Shaʿbān of the same year.

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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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العلامات

• mosul nasis

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