Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This term for a currency is known from Yemen from at least the 16th century onward: see R. B. Serjeant, The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast (London, 1963), pp. 145f.

العلامات

• harf

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

First third of Adar Seleucid (1204–1237 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Partnership agreement in cloth trade between Pinhas b. Elazar ha-Kohen and Moshe ha-Levi. Both partners seem to be active.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• partnership
• textiles
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The remainder of the text repeatedly refers to the assembling of the overseers. Also mentions Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm (l. 6) and governmental funds (māl al-dīwān, l. 11).

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العلامات

• diwan
• fiscal
• report

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Origin: Cairo (פה מצרים) in line 6. Mentions Shemuʾel b. ____[?] in the first legible line, but this is likely not the letter recipient/addressee.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

First decade of Jumādā II 440 Hijrī (November 1048 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: first decade of Jumādā II 440 AH (November 1048 CE). Involves Azhar b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī, known as Ibn Abī al-Darrāʿ, the agent of al-sayyida al-sharīfa al-malika al-jalīla.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 17 Sivan 1386 Seleucid (4 June 1075 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe al-Andalusī), the daughter of the daughter of Abū Durra, out of a debt owed to him by Abū Isḥāq b. Ab. Likewise a silver box with pearls (obviously belonging to that young woman / ṣabiyya) should be deposited in court.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a matter of a deposit involving Khulayf b. Hārūn. He asks for news of Abū l-Ḥasan (and collection of the gold owed by him).

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib6

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

21 Av 1394 Seleucid (8 August 1083 CE)

(iii) Legal document dealing with a business partnership between Yefet b. Wadʿa and Abū Zikrī, and also with a man who was married and divorced before consummation in Tyre and remarried in al-Mahalla.

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العلامات

• adoption
• court notebook
• oaths
• register
• remarriage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer requests that the addressee give the five dirhams nuqra that al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm had deposited with him to to the bearer of the letter.

العلامات

• pesiqa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes two questions about the illness of David b. Esther: Is it earthly or from God? And what medicines will help him?

العلامات

• geomancy
• illness

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rajab 1163 Hijrī (6 June 1750–5 July 1750 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 CE. Aṣlān b. Yūsuf al-Yaḥūdī known as al-Dūka(?) rents a 'sitting hall' (al-qāʿa al-muʿallaqa) which is on the road of the seven halls (Darb al-Sabʿ Qāʿāt).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Court record of a testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning a dispute among the heirs of a murdered woman named Sitt al-Husn.

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العلامات

• inheritance
• murder

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment.

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العلامات

• engagement
• halfon b. menashshe

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Romance

Query from Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, “the son of the brother of Umm Nadiv,” asking whether a woman who was deserted by her husband with whom she had lived for ten years, but had not received a bill of repudiation from him, may marry another man.

العلامات

• arabic script
• greek
• legal query
• responsum
• romance

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter probably addressed to Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (“ha-Nagid ha-Gadol”). In Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. He informs him that he reached a peaceful settlement with "the man you know," and that Moshe's brother Abu l-Ḥasan (Yedutun) is doing well.

العلامات

• abu sahl levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition from a woman, in Bilbays, to Abū ʿImrān b. Muwaffaq, in Fustat, the square of the moneychangers.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, II, 460, App. B 75)

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• census
• tax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1537-07-10 Seleucid (10 March 1226 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The divorce is between Avraham b. Yosef and Naṣr bt. Yeshuʿa (or Naẓar bt. Yeshuʿa).

العلامات

• 13th c
• divorce
• get

1 مناقشة

Document date

first third of Ṭevet 1555 Seleucid (15 December 1243–24 December 1243 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record of an agreement between the Heqdesh and the banker Abū l-Thanāʾ b. Abū Saʿd the cantor. On leaf 2 are drafts of documents.

العلامات

• heqdesh

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abu al-Nasr b. al-Melammed mentioning the impending divorce of his nephew and niece.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script.

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العلامات

• account
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday 21 Ṭevet [ ... ] Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ASE suggests it appears to be the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā.

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العلامات

• aydhab
• ghulam
• ib7
• india book
• interconfessional conflict
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer of the letter asks the recipient to ask the Nagid, Mevorakh b. Saadya, to intervene. Join: Oded Zinger. NB: The letter does not seem to be dated; 1080 CE was Goitein's estimate.

العلامات

• petition
• private

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar 1427 Seleucid (16 February 1116–15 March 1116 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hiba), a widow with three sons, releases her new husband Sason b. Yefet from from all obligations other than paying the delayed marriage gift and dowry and letting her live in his house for five years after his death as promised, and declares that her three sons would have no claims whatsoever against him and that her husband would not sue her sons.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• testimony
• widow

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Middle Tammuz 1555 Seleucid (June 1244 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in which Aharon b. Abū al-Riḍāʾ and his wife, Labwa (“Lioness”) bt.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• dowry
• ketubba
• silversmithing

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef, a provincial muqaddam, to Avraham b. Natan ("Yesod ha-Yeshiva"). Dating: ca. 1100 CE.

العلامات

• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is an abbreviation, used also on letter CUL Or.1080 J265, ll. 6, 16. of the unique title 'The most cherished and esteemed of the People of Fustat,' borne by the notable Avraham b. Mevasser (dated docs. 1028-1-45), see Mann, Jews, II. pp. 98-100).

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer had been sent to Minyat Zifta to deliver an instruction to the judge Shabbetay b. Avraham (active 1135–78), it seems to summon him to Fustat.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: marad
• epidemic: mawta
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some persons, like Yiṣḥaq b. Nisan, are also in T-S K15.62. The name al-Ḥinnāwī ("dealer in henna") appears also in T-S K15.34.

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Document date

550 Kharājī (1156–1157 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property of the office of the noble lady of al-Āmir in the "Muḥawwil chamber" (al-majlis al-muḥawwil was a chamber in the qaṣr al-baḥr, which in turn was a component of al-qaṣr al-kabīr, the great palace complex of the Fatimid caliphs).

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العلامات

• account
• damin
• dimme
• farming
• fiscal
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(2) Note in Arabic script in a Spanish hand referring to the completion of something on a certain Friday and "let it be hung in the house of the Raʾīs Abū l-Saʿd" (probably Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, cf. T-S 8.81 and T-S Ar.7.11)

العلامات

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

529 Hijrī (22 October 1134–10 October 1135 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of 3.5 dinars and the region of the Upper Ṣaʿīd (al-Ṣaʿīd al-Aʿlā, southernmost Egypt).

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العلامات

• damin
• upper egypt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen to the cantor Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Barakāt has sent the volume which he found of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda.

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العلامات

• minyat zifta
• moshe b. levi

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Document date

Kislev 1528 Seleucid (13 November 1216–12 December 1216 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Bū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin) to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Bū l-Maḥāsin, in al-Maḥalla.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: al-mawt al-'amm
• epidemic: amrad
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It begins as a letter of recommendation on behalf of the bearer, Furayj b. Abū l-Faḍl, who has been on the run for 5 years due to the capitation tax (hārib min al-jāliya).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tevet 1451 Seleucid (December 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Four pages (bifolio) in the handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE (dated entries from Tevet 1451 to Marheshvan 1452 Sel.).

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Some specific names, such as Yiṣḥaq b. al-Sharaf (i.e. Sharaf al-Dawla, 'The Honor of the Government') also found in T-S K15.62.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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List of about 105 prospective contributors, headed by the judge Yehiel b. Eliakim (dated docs. 1213-1233). At least 15 names recur in Bodl. c28.47, ed.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Placard of a Spanish pilgrim to Jerusalem "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither [Psalms 137:5]. [I am] Avraham b. Yehuda—m[ay he rest in] E[den], the Spaniard, from the town of Jayyān [today Jaén] called al-Ṣarrāf [the Banker].

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A 48-92; pp. 449-450, App. B 39b [dated 1210-1225]; Cohen, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, pp. 218-220)

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العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة