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1251رسالةT-S 8J36.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 45: Letter of Perahya b. Yosef Yiju to his father in Mazara Sicily, probably June 1154.
recto
1. עלקת אליך הדה אלסטרין ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה [...] לילה אלאתנין מן
2. גמעה ויקח קרח בתנא פי אלמרכב ונזלת יום אלב[...] פי חואיג פאלתקא
3. ביי אנסאן גא…
Again {lit., ‘Take notice’}, if the power of attorney is not legally confirmed, you will get nothing, unless you come in person. For, he says expressly in [his letter (?)]
“...and send a document, in which your sister approves of the matter.”
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العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
4716
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1252رسالةT-S 13J7.27
Inferred date
1147–1148 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III,7: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, ca. 1147 or 1148. The letter discusses business matters and mentions the …
1. בשמ רחמ
2. כי ייו יהיה בכסליך ושמר רגלך מלכד. יוי
3. שמרך יוי צלך על יד ימיניך. יוי ישמרך
4. מכל רע ישמר את נפשך. ישמר צאתך
5. ובאך מעתה ועד עולם. יומם השמש לא
6. …
...Had I gotten a letter for you, my lord,
I, your servant, would have forwarded it to you. You, my lord, (certainly) have
heard the news from Egypt from the merchants who arrived,
God willing, at your place.
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2
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1
العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
5528
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1253وثيقة رسميّةT-S Ar.40.3
Primary language
Arabic
Petition (draft) from […] Mukhliṣ, in Minyat Ghamr, to an Ayyubid dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner complains about the young son of a neighbor …
Recto
1. المملوك [ ]
2. [ ] المخلص من اهل منية غمر
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. وينهى الى مجلس المولا شمس الدين سيف المجاهدين
5. عمدة الملوك وا…
Every time the slave complains
about the affair to his father he adorns the appearance of the slave's story
before the people and his son is allowed to go out
and brazenly set upon the slave
Right margin
1. with impudence.
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1
العلامات
- petition
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2018
PGPID
16259
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1254رسالةCUL Or.1080 J21
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Ṭoviya b. Moshe, in Jerusalem, to his daughter, in Fustat, April 1040 or 1041. "The following description of the writer's well-being is altogether …
Recto:
1. כתאבי אליך יא בנתי מן אלקדס אלמחרוס לתלת בקי מן שהר רגאב (!) ממא אעלמיך יא
2. בנתי מא פי קלבי מן אמריך אן פי קלבי אלנאר בסבביך ואללה ביניך ובין …
Otherwise, I am completely satisfied with my health and my affairs; my clothes do not hold me for happiness and good luck. Had I sought only worldly gain, then I could regard myself today as a great success, for I have become the administrator of the estates of the Sultan here in Palestine, for an ample salary and fine income.
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1
العلامات
- byzantines
- conversions
- jerusalem
- marital dispute
- nar
- (+ 1 المزيد)
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1987
PGPID
2266
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1255ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 16.87
Document date
Sunday, 21 Adar 1408 Seleucid (8 March 1097 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: Sunday, 21 Adar 1408 Seleucid (March 1097 CE). Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. This document …
Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בחד בשבה דהוא עשרין וחד יומי בירח אדר דשנת אלפא
2. וארבע מאה ותמני שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסט…
Upon his arrival, that which exalted God facilitated in terms of profit, after replenishment of the capital of
[the Elder A]bū al-Baqā and of our father, was to be split between the two of them evenly; likewise, if—God forbid—the opposite occurred. Our father traveled with the merchandise on [his] journey
[…] for him, he sold and bought, and he sent (it) here, to Fusṭāṭ, t[o the] agency [house] of our lord the glorious Qāḍī Abū al-Ṭāhir b.
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1
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1
العلامات
- inheritance
- partnership
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
4094
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1256ثيقة شرعيّةCUL Add.3421 + Bodl. MS heb. d 66/64
Document date
4th Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (8 April 1098 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book I, 4–5: Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in …
CUL Add.3421 1 verso (IB I,4)
1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא ארבעה יומי בירח אייר דשנת
2. אלפא וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה
3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא…
He answered:
“I remember only the amount of the forty pieces mentioned before.” Then
Jekuthiel inquired about the two (matching) half-mantles, which were among the textiles, and the price obtained for them.
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العلامات
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2022
PGPID
35790
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1257ثيقة شرعيّةENA 4020.26
Document date
middle decade of Iyyar 1452 Seleucid (20 April 1141–29 April 1141 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. The testimony describes how partnerships are established. Dated: middle decade of Iyyar 1452 …
1. נקול אנן שה[די] דחתמות ידנא לתחתא אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה
2. אלשהאדה אלקאטעה במא גראת בה אלעאדה במצר בין אל
3. תגאר פי אלשרכה ודלך אדא דכלוא מנהם גמאעה…
The custom is that (B) should pay
something only as a favor that he grants, not as an obligation incumbent upon him (because it’s not an official partnership).
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1
العلامات
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
6858
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1258رسالةL-G Misc. 34
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of appeal for charity. A needy man from Qayrawan had applied for assistance from his relative, the esteemed Ifrīqiyyan merchant and scholar, Nahray b. …
Recto
1. אהבת צדק ותשנא רשע על כן מ[
2. שמן ששון מחבריך ותגזר אמר ויקם לך [
3. נגה אור
4. שיכי וריסי ומולאי אדאם <אללה> עזך א[נא] רגל מן אהל אלקירואן
5. מן אלמערופ…
Now, during the entire eight months the man gave me only [f]ifteen dirhems.
When I told the Maghrebis about this they were troubled and were not
stingy with me.
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2
العلامات
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
4041
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1259رسالةT-S 8J16.7
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter addressed to Abu Sahl b. Moshe, the cantor, in which the writer requests aid in a mixture of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. In a post-scripted …
1. תו שלום וג'
2. שלום רב לאהבי תורותך
3. שלום שלום לירחוק (!) ולקרב
4. סבב הדה אלרקעה ולכבר מן מר' ור'
5. אלשיך אבו // סהל // החבר השר ה/א/דיר החכם
6. והניבון (!) ומ…
By the religion of God's unity, I have benefited only
from a nightly loaf, half of which I eat at night
[an]d half for lunch.
العلامات
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
في PGP منذ
1990
PGPID
1975
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1260رسالةT-S 12.355
Inferred date
1130–1150 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book II, 43. Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Abu Nasr al-Halabi. Aden, ca. 1130-50.
recto
1. בשם רחמ'
2. תדכ[ר]ה מבארכה ביד אלשיך אבו נצר בן מוסי אלחלב[י]
3. כתב אללה סלאמתה. לעבדה יוסף בן אברהם
4. אצחבת מולאי צרה פלפל אלוזן בהאר וארב…
By my instructions, my lord, buy for me (your servant) only exquisite clothing,
the most exquisite you can buy! Also purchase a washing basin
[. . .].
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2
العلامات
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
5414
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1261رسالةT-S 13J24.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 37: Letter of request, addressed apparently to Madmun b. Yefet, by a person in inland Yemen, for help against Ibn Yiju, involving …
recto
1. מעה [...]
2. אלסדיד אט[א]ל [אללה בקאה ... ]
3. אנעם אלנאכדה אלאגל במא קד
4. דכלת פיה אנת ואלתנא ואלשכר
5. מא הו אלא לך פקד יא מולאי
6. אעתנית בשי פאתמה לאן
the most illustrious nākhuda was kind enough (to assist) in what
you had already begun. Praise and thanks
are only to you. My lord, you
have already concerned yourself with the matter. Please complete it, for
kindness is yours in the past and recently.
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العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
5531
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1262وثيقة رسميّةCUL Add.3336
Primary language
Arabic
Bottom part of a decree of a Fatimid Amīr titled Surūr al-Malikī to a provincial governor or fiscal official, dated 2 Jumāda II, no year. …
Verso
1. ذخر الملك كوكب الدولة وسديدها ابو منصور بختيار الجيوشي ادام الله تا[يـ]ـيد[ـه]
2. مكاتبتك بإزالة الاعتراض عن قنده الذي في المعصرة
3. بجوجر وان…
Report to us about what produce is owed to them (the muqṭāʿīn/landholders) so that we can decide
together with him (the amīr) concerning the offsetting (i.e., tax deduction) of their produce/income from it.
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العلامات
- decree
- dimme
- handbook
- internal memorandum
- kharaj
- (+ 3 المزيد)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
8820
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1263نصوص أدبيّةENA 3960.5
Primary language
Arabic
Ink recipes of various colours. In Arabic script. One uses red anemones (shaqā'iq al-nuʿmān, Anemone coronaria). This work may be derivative of عمدة الكتّاب وعدة …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. صفة عمل المداد الاحمر
3. يوخذ زنجفيـ[ـل وصمـ]ـغꙨ
4. صفة عمل المداد الا[صفر]
5. يوخذ زرنيخ احمر وصمغꙨ
6. صفة عمل المداد الاخضر
7. يوخذ …
Recipe for making ink from the anemone flower (poppy)
Take from the shaqqāʾiq al-nuʿmān—the variety called barsan, whose petals are red.
Take only its petals, boil them until their color is extracted, then remove from the fire
and strain thoroughly.
العلامات
- ink
- recipes
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
11294
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1264رسالةMIAC 23973.25
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān, the pilgrim, to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. The purpose of the letter is to update Uruwī on various …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. وصلتني كتب حضرة مولاي الاكشيل وزير الملك ثبت الله
3. سعادته وحرس من غير الزمان مكانته وكبت حسدته
4. وعداته ووقفت عليها واحطت …
...The reason I have delayed sending my letters
to him (i.e., you) is only that I travelled to say farewell
to the commander Treasure of the Dynasty (Kanz al-Dawla), may
God establish his good omen and his glory,
so that he may carry out all his tasks
successfully.
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2
العلامات
- qasr ibrim
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
No Image
في PGP منذ
2024
PGPID
40164
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1265رسالةMoss. V,355
Inferred date
1127–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the wife of Khalaf b. Harūn to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–39 CE), seeking help against her cruel husband, written in the hand of …
1. אלממלוכה אבנה אברהם אלחזן נע
2. זוגה כלף בן הרון אלמערוף בתאג אל
3. מעאלי
4. בשמ רחמ
5. אש[רי] משכיל [א]ל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי
6. אל[לה...]..לת..ה יסתגיב הדרת אד…
You know the matter of my father, (may he) R(est in) P(eace), and that my mother
remained after him a widow with not an hour’s maintenance. She has no money to herself and only with difficulties
and by renting out (her labor) does she provide for others.
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3
العلامات
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2018
PGPID
885
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1266ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 13J2.5
Document date
Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1 February 1095 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: legal document. Date: Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1095 CE). Location: Fustat. Bill of release settling financial matters arising from a partnership. Shelomo b. …
Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתה בשטרא דנן בשבה דהוא עשרין
2. ותלתה יומין בירח שבט דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושית שנין למנינא דרגיליננא בי…
David—and from my heirs after my death from any debt or matter and from overreaching and grievance (claims,) from human law and from Heavenly law,
and from oaths and decrees and rider oaths and pronouncements—general and specific—and from the determination of any court, whether in
Jewish law
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1
العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1990
PGPID
7959
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1267رسالةT-S 13J20.20
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter addressed to the writer's father, Shelomo (Abu al-Rabi Sulayman), and his father-in-law, Yeshua ha-Kohen, in Qalyub. The writer invites both the addressees and his …
1. בש רח
2. ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה שלום ג
3. ברכות רבות וישועות קרובות וחמלה וחנינה ומילוי
4. כל משאל ומזל גבוה וכללי הברכות הערוכות תהיה
5. ל[כ]גק מר ור שלמה הכהן הזק…
...Also (the writer is now addressing his mother-in-law), have regard for AbuʾI-Khayr and let her (her daughter) be fulfilled through you (your presence). May you not need to be commanded. Unlimited greetings
especially to you and greetings to Umm Ibrahim and to Abuʾl-Faraj and to
Verso, main text
1. Umm ʿImrān, may I not be deprived of her favor,
2. and to all those who are in Qalyūb.
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
3313
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1268رسالةT-S K25.279
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of …
recto
1. [. . .]
2. ופי אלסוכה ג . . . . . . . וקע אלכלף ונצבו
3. אלמנגליקאת עלי אלבלד יום שמחת תורה
4. אכדו אלבלד ונהבוה ואכדוהם שבויים
5. לה ולאכותה ולאכתה ולז…
We were receiving maintenance but it has been cut off. If we receive anything, it is only (11-15) a trivial amount, for everyone has turned away from us, and they do not show us any great love.
العلامات
- children
- mongols
- mosul nasis
- muqaddam
- poverty
- (+ 2 المزيد)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
No Image
في PGP منذ
2022
PGPID
35289
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1269رسالةT-S Misc.28.11 + T-S NS J120
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Alexandria by a man to his friend, reporting that he had settled the dispute between Shabbat (the recipient's son-in-law) and his wife (the …
T-S NS J120 recto
1. אללה יחרסהם עליה (vacat) וכאן מן איאם גרא בין שבת ז'ב"ן
2. אלצביח כלאם ואשרף עלי אלטלאק מא זלת אלטף בה
3. ובאכותה אתיואהם אללה מא קצרו ו…
I have delayed my letters to
my lord the elder all this time only due to (my) preference to alleviate the burden (of your having to answer back).
Even though (our) correspondence was irregular, whenever someone comes down (the Nile) from Fusṭāṭ,
I ask about your news, and he informs me about your health and the health of your sons,
T-S Misc.28.11 verso, address, right column
1. (To) my lord the excellent elder, Abū al-Ḥasan Surūr
2. b.
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في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
4288
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1270رسالةUnknown (excavation images 1966A_P06_15A-16 and 1966A_P06_16A-17)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from the Muslim landowner and official in Nubia Lāmiʿ b. Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh, the ikhshīl in Ibrīm. Dating: …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. اعلم الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال الله بقاه
3. وادام حراسته ونعمته انه يعلم ما وصل كتابه الى به في
4. حال المسافرين م…
...The Ikshīl
knows what is required with regard to the restraint of his (the Ikshīl’s) companions and the imposition upon them of obligations
and the prevention of those who oppose him (Saʿāda) with harm and damage
or a clerk who hinders him (Saʿāda) with regard to
Verso
1. pricing or anything else. I have been motivated (to write) this only by my obligation for the sake of the Master
2. of the Horses and my intention, as witnessed by God, to draw the hearts of all the people
3. to him, so that this is not hidden from him.
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1
العلامات
- qasr ibrim
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
No Image
في PGP منذ
2024
PGPID
40152
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1271رسالةUnknown (excavation images 1974_P04_08A-09 and 1974_P04_09A-10)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān(?) to ʿUbayd Allāh ʿAlī, probably the secretary (kātib) of the eparch Uruwī in Qaṣr Ibrīm. The sender asks the …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. العبد يسل حضرة مولاى الشيخ الاجل الكاتب ادام الله عزه
3. قبول يدى مولاى الاجل صاحب الخيل روى بن مولاى الاجل [يسو]
4. عبده وعب…
The slave asks my honourable master, the sublime elder, the secretary, may God cause his strength to endure,
to kiss the hands of my sublime master, the Master of the Horses, (U)ruwī, the son of my sublime master [Īsū],
(the slave writing the letter being) his (the eparch’s) slave and the slave of his father before him, and informs him (the secretary) that the letter of your honour has reached his slave (the writer)
and he has read it. The only thing preventing the slave (the writer) from sending your honour a letter (earlier)
is that the slave (the writer) no longer had the means to send it safely.
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1
العلامات
- qasr ibrim
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
No Image
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2025
PGPID
40699
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1272رسالةT-S 13J22.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the teacher Dāʾūd Ibn al-Ḥaver of Qalyub to the judge Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1225 CE. Complaining about his meager …
Recto
1. פרי צדיק אץ חיים
2. ינהי אלממלוך אלי מגלס אלולד
3. אלעזיז אלפרע אלנביל אלעאלם
4. אלעאמל מ'רור' ברכות התלמיד
5. החכם המלמד יהי שמו לעולם
6. ואעלמ…
The elder
"the sound" fulfilled his debt,
both his son Thana'' and also S'e'mu'l and Mus'awwir promised fifty
dirhems but, - as God is my witness, I received
only one dirhem from S'e'mu'l. What shall I do?
To whom shall I speak? "By day the heat consumed me
and my sleep fled from my eyes."
العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1990
PGPID
1058
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1273ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 18J2.5
Inferred date
1066–1108 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Incomplete legal document in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (active ca. 1066–1108 CE). The cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon al-Zayyāt claims that his sister Bārra …
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה
2. כאן מ גאלב החזן המכונה אבו מנצור בר מ חלפון אלזיאת נע תשאגר
3. מע אכתה לאכיה ואמה בארה בת מ חלפון …
The aforementioned elder spoke to them [at length] and reproached Bārra, saying:
“Only the upper floor is confirmed to you by the Hebrew deed, and
the Muslim [deed] does not confirm to you anything."
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4
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
3528
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1274رسالةT-S Misc.25.62
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Abū l-Khayr b. ʿAwāḍ, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an Ifrīqiyyan merchant, describes his problems with …
recto
1. בשמך רחמנא
2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
3. ונעמתה וממא אעלמה אן מן וקת אן מצ'ית מן ענדנא מא גרא עלי
4. קליל מן…
...They want to
register me as they would you [i.e. as a local]. But you know that my father was only a newcomer. Whatever they take
from me, they credit to another group [in the register] and exempt them from the offence [of tax delinquency].
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2
العلامات
- capitation tax
- jaliya
- jizya
- nahray b. nissim
- tax
- (+ 1 المزيد)
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
في PGP منذ
1988
PGPID
1375
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1275ثيقة شرعيّةBodl. MS heb. a 3/5
Document date
Wednesday, 21 Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid (11 January 1151 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1151. Location: Minyat Ashna (near Fustat). Following appeals by his deceased brother Binyam's widow to the court, Kathīr b. Avraham …
Recto
1. מעשה זה שהיה לפנינו אנו העדים החתומים למטה כן
2. הוה חצר אלינא מר כתיר בר אברהם נע ומעה כתאב
3. סידנא שמואל הנגיד הגדול נגיד עם ייי צבאות שר
4. ה…
...Ibrahīm (who had come) summoning him to the Glory of the Negidut in the matter
of the orphans of the aforementioned Binyām. Indeed, they only have what he provided for their needs,
namely, the shops which their father bequeathed them in the town of Malīj, near
Fusṭāṭ Egypt.
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2
العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
2511
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1276رسالةBodl. MS heb. d 66/81
Document date
1 Ḥeshvan [no year] Anno Mundi
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, Alexandria to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, Fustat. The letter deals with the shipping of goods and money transfers. The writer describes …
Recto
1. בסם אללה אלעטים כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה
2. ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה יום אלגמעה ראש חדש מרחשון אקדמה אלל…
Another bag hasn’t arrived [yet], as for fur I have taken it in my possession and will transport it with
whoever embarks first from our colleagues, God willing! Hence, do not occupy yourself with it. Upon unloading the packages,
likewise, I will send them with whoever leaves for Fusṭāṭ [first], God willing!
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4
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4
العلامات
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1989
PGPID
2554
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1277رسالةENA 3616.19 + CUL Or.1081 J3
Inferred date
1134–1134 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book II, 25 and II, 26: Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 …
IB II,25 (ENA 3616.19) recto
1. שלום עד אין קץ וברכה עד אין
2. מספר ליקר אדוני מר ור אברהם
3. בר כגק מר ור יגו נעג אהבך מצמון
4. בר חסן נעג וצל כתאב מולאי
5. וקראת…
I am writing this letter of mine in a state
that only God, the Exalted, knows. Please accept, my lord,
wishes for the most consummate well-being for yourself; your son Surūr
and Bama are especially greeted.
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2
العلامات
- ib2
- india book
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
5413
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1278رسالةT-S 12.235
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III,9: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham in Aden to Avraham b. Yiju. Goitein thought that the letter was sent to Zabīd, a coastal …
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. וצל כתאב חצרה [אלשיך אלאגל] מִולאי וקראתה ופהמתה
3. וסרני עלם סלאמת[ה] וצלאח חאלתה וחמדת [אללה עלי דלך]
4. כתירא וסאלתה אלמזיד לה מן כל כיר …
...Let’s wait for what will arrive from it. This will be only after the sailing of the ships.
Whatever will be realized, is profit, for it is better [. . .]
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1
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1
العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
5520
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1279ثيقة شرعيّةAIU VII.D.57
Document date
Shevat/Av 5443 Anno Mundi (1683 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
The date range of each pinqas fragment's entries also directly coincide with one another Shevat 5443 AM/Av 5443 AM (Join: Matthew Dudley).
Recto
:(Documents 1-3) Right side of bifolio
1. מין תביעה וטענה ולא שום מין צד זכות כלל לא על שניהם יחד ולא על שום אח[ד] מהם לבדו לא
2. מצד השותפות שהיה ב…
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2020
PGPID
30553
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1280رسالةCUL Or.1080 J180
Document date
Ṭevet 1452 Seleucid (13 December 1140–10 January 1141 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB V, 5. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fustat, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān b. al-Shāmī, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṭevet 1452 …
Recto:
1. ב
2. תקדמת כתבי אלי מולאי אלשיך
3. אלאגל אטאל אללה פי אלכיר בקאהא ואדאם
4. תאיידהא וסעאדתהא וסלאמתהא ונעמתהא
5. ורפעתהא ותמכינהא וסנאהא וכבת באלדל
6. אלמהין…
As for the rest, when
whatever there was that was unloaded
from the boat of the Dībājī,
some of the items came to ʿAydhāb
and some remained in Suwākin.
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2
العلامات
- ib5
- india book
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
8909
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1281رسالةDK 236 (alt: 27, XXXI - XXXIX)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a judge, probably in Fustat or Cairo, to a cantor and scholar, in or near al-Maṭariyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 13th or …
Recto
1. בייי בטחתי
2. הדרת התלמיד המצויין החזן הבקי בכל ענין
3. אשר ברביד החן נרבד החבר הנכבד
4. הוד הנדיב[ים . . . . . . ]. . ל [. . . . . .]
5. ישועה בימי[ו] יצ…
...When I brought him before me, he acknowledged all
of thisbrazenly. The master should know that our lord
the head of the yeshiva of the holy Torah, may the memory of the righteous be blessed,
issued a ban and a major excommunication against anyone
who outbids his colleague in his livelihood or dwelling,
and this was renewed and confirmed by our lord the Nagid, may his name endure
forever.
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1
العلامات
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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PGPID
6573
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1282رسالةL-G Misc. 9
Inferred date
1127–1139 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book II, 44. Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī. Aden, 1130s. See also Moss. IV,84.2 (PGPID 36651). In the margin: من عدن …
II, 44 recto
בש רח
ת[דכר]ה אסחק נפו[סי ...]
1. כמס מאיה וע[שר ...]
2. מןّ ואיצא עדה עדל [...]
3. יכרג מא ילזמהא מן [... מן אלמון]
4. מן באב עידאב אלי [... מצר]
5. …
....: piece of clothing},
and two [fū]ṭas] [. . . su]bāʿī made either of silk
with silk or of silk with cotton, provided only that there be no adulteration.
And a ‘raw’ (not fulled) dabīqī kerchief, decorated with fine stripes
of silk, two stripes on each side, in such a way that
the kerchief should have four fine stripes.
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العلامات
- cotton
- ib2
- india book
- informal note
- memorandum
- (+ 1 المزيد)
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
No Image
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
5465
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1283رسالةT-S 8J25.14
Inferred date
1040–1050 CE
Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1046 (Gil). Information about a shipment that is still is Rashīd and …
recto
1. כתאבי יאסיידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
2. וסעאדתה מן אלאסכנדריה אלנצף מן כסלו ערפך אללה ברכתה תם
3. [אעל]מך אן כתבת לך עי…
...Let me know its unit price
for the dyed variety. I rely only upon God and you for its sale. If my lord
[the elder] Abū Sulaymān b. Duwayda has arrived, please greet him on my behalf.
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2
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3
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
5969
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1284رسالةT-S 10J14.16
Inferred date
29 June 1155–29 June 1155 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 47: Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr …
III, 47 recto:
1. אלי אכי אל עזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאה וצאנה ווקאה ומן
2. חסן אל תופיק לא אכלאה וכאן לה ולי ונאצר וחאפט
3. פי גמיע אמורה וכפאה במא יהמה וצד ענה…
...I swear by these lines that what caused me
to delay (or: withhold) my letters to you was only my compassion for you and because of what you said
about sending my letters with Sheikh Abū Naṣr.
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1
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1
العلامات
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
5516
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1285رسالةT-S 13J9.4
Document date
Marḥeshvan 4818 Anno Mundi (October 1056 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Shimʿon b. Shaʾul b. Yisraʾel ha-Ṭulayṭulī, in Jerusalem, to his sister Ballūṭa in Toledo. Dated at the last line: the month of Marḥeshvan …
1. בשם רם ונשא
2. כתאבי אליך יאכתי וחביבה קלבי אטאל אללה בקאך ואוזעני שכרך ואגמע ביני ובינך
3. פי הדא אלקדס אלמקדס ברחמתה וקד תקדמת לי אליך כתב עדה ולא אעלם …
They intended to separate
the two of them and as soon as
I found out about it
I lodged a complaint
and, amongst us, this created
a controversy
Verso
1. I then updated our lord, the president of the court, about the poor captive woman and he sent a message to the Karaites that said
2. that he could only divorce her according to the doctrine by which he had entered into marriage with her and that his marriage certificate had been issued by the rabbis.
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العلامات
- byzantium
- captives
- disability
- disability: vision
- epidemic
- (+ 10 المزيد)
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1987
PGPID
1236
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1286ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 20.160
Document date
1 Kislev 1359 Seleucid (22 November 1047 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Kislev 1359 Seleucid, which is 22 November 1047 CE. An undertaking by Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli b. Khalaf Ibn Zaffān …
I will not leave Fustat, Egypt,
to travel abroad, as long as Fā'iza is with me, unless she agrees and assents.
I, Toviya b. Eli b. Khalaf, undertake all these stipulations, accepting
completely and strictly.
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1
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
7548
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1287ثيقة شرعيّةBodl. MS heb. b 12/6 + Bodl. MS heb. b 12/29
Document date
11 Av 1270 Seleucid (19 July 959 CE)
Legal document. Date: 11 Av 1270 Seleucid (959 CE). Location: Fustat. A father gives two houses and two stores to his first-born. (Information from Goitein’s …
1. זכרון עדות [שהיתה] בפנינו בשלישי בשבת ב/אחד עשר יום לחדש אב ש[נת] אלף
2. ומאתים וש[בעים] שנה למיניין שאנו רגילין למנות בו בפיסטאט מצרים שעל ניל[וס] …
I empower you herewith to write down and to sign this deed of gift in the market, openly and in public, so that it should not be a concealed gift, but make it manifest before the eyes of all.
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1
العلامات
- 10th c
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
6355
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1288ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 13J2.24
Document date
Adar 1450 Seleucid (1139 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document connected with the tax-farmer of Atfīḥ. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1450 Seleucid, which is approximately February …
Recto
1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בתי דינים הממונים מבית דין הגדול בבית דינו של שרנו ומנ[היג
2. דורנו כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנו אדוננו שלמה השר הנעלה הגדול …
...He received the indemnification (darak) from him regarding this, as (this document) is unlike promises or formularies, but rather (bears) the weight and force
of all legal documents of those attentive in the court, so that the force of this document will be exemption.
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1
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2
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1990
PGPID
1008
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1289رسالةT-S Ar.53.67
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Continuation of a long business letter sent from Alexandria to Cairo. Dating: Ca. 1235 CE, based on the date of T-S Ar.54.66 which is by …
1. לא יביע ולא ישתרי ואלממלוך
2. יכלפך פיה לכונך שביה מן שבט
3. ישכר ואלבצאיע מטלובה אלניל
4. כב دينارا לובאן מן סבעה למא חולה
5. קרפה יב בקם ס ומא ינחל אלאנסאן
6. סר…
I mention this to you, so that in case anything happens, our lord may give witness against me in favor of its real proprietor. By God, my only intention was to fulfill my duty. These are little matters, to reveal which would be embarrassing to me.
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5
العلامات
- trade
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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2004
PGPID
3912
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1290ثيقة شرعيّةBodl. MS heb. d 66/49-50
Document date
1347 Seleucid (6 September 1035–22 September 1036 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Formulary for a marriage contract, Qaraite/interdenominational. Dated: 1036 CE, at the time of Ṣemaḥ Nasi. One sheet is possibly missing in between, and with it …
Bodl. MS heb. d 66/49 49 Verso
1. הד'ה נסכ'ה כתבה מצר
2. לבני מקרא
3. בשם אל עולם הצליחו האלהים ביי'
4. יצדקו: שדי ישקיף משמי מרומו ויקנא
5. לקדשת שמו ויבנה היכלו …
...He will bring Şemaḥ, may his name increase, and promptly gather together
the dispersed ones of His people, Amen. Let us begin in the
appropriate and lucky moment, in the lifetime of our Lord Şemaḥ, the nāsī,
the descendent of the Man of Rest, and in the lifetime of the groom and the bride, the light
and joy, and in the lifetime of the Karaites, the blossoming vine.
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2
العلامات
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1990
PGPID
577
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1291رسالةCUL Or.1080 J263 + T-S NS J285
Inferred date
1145–1145 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB II, 28 and II, 29: Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. Join: …
IB II,28 (CUL Or.1080 J263) verso
עבדה
1. בשמ' רחמ' מצמון בן אלחסן בן …
You wrote about your decision to
come to Aden, and that the only thing that prevented you was your fear that people would say that
something had made you act in haste.
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العلامات
- epidemic
- epidemic: waba'
- ib2
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- (+ 1 المزيد)
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
في PGP منذ
2004
PGPID
5483
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1292رسالةT-S 12.435
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter by a young Spanish merchant writing from Fez to his father Yefet b. ʿUlla ha-Levi in Almeria, Spain, revealing that he preferred not …
1. בשמ רחמ
2. אערף חצרה סידי ומולאי ועדתי ומעתמ[די . . . . . .
3. אטאל אללה בקאה וא[דאם עזה ונעמאה . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. וסנאה וכבת חסדתה [ . . . . . . . .…
I went out of my mind, but God, the exalted, had willed that only this one was spoiled. This happened because we had much rain on the way, but God, the exalted, granted rescue.
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3
العلامات
- almeria
- customs
- fez
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- (+ 5 المزيد)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
2017
PGPID
3164
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1293رسالةT-S 12.383
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Janūn to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and his son Yosef. Concerns shipments of wax and honey, as well as textiles. …
Recto
1. בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
2. כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך וכבה(!) עדוך וגעלני
3. מן כל סו פדאך ודונך ען סלאמה וע…
...When they (the ships) arrived
on Friday at noon, he took the letter, but If only he had let them alone, curse him (al-malʿūn), to work in their usual fashion (ʿalā rasmihim). But instead, he
wanted to conduct his dealings as if he were working together with me until he loaded his goods — may God curse him today and every day!
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3
العلامات
- farjun
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
في PGP منذ
1989
PGPID
1662
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1294رسالةT-S Misc.28.187
Inferred date
1180–1180 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book (IB) II, 65. Letter from an unknown sender in Aden to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Hibat Allah (?) in Lawāmanda (?), possibly an island …
Recto:
1. חרס אללה עז חצרה אלשיך אלאגל אלסייד
2. אלמולא אלמאלך אלמנעם אלמתפצל חראסה
3. דאימה אלאתצאל בעידה אלאנפצאל מחרו'
4. ס'ה ען אלזואל מקרונה באלעז ואלאקבאל…
...This is to inform you, that
were I to stubbornly pursue the suit, it would lead to bloodshed.
God protect me!
[[C] News from Yemen, Egypt and the Maghreb and closing remarks (line 48-verso, line 8).]
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5471
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1295رسالةBodl. MS heb. d 66/66–67
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book I, 13: Draft of a letter from Yosef Lebdi, the India trader, to Ḥasan b. Bundar, 'the representative of merchants' in Aden, dealing …
66 verso
1. בשמך רחמ'
2. כאן קד תקדם כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך
3. אלגליל אבי עלי מר' ור' יפת הזקן היקר הנכבד
4. שר הקהלות ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה
5. וכ…
May I ask your excellency to examine—with the enlightenment of God, the Exalted—the case of the 50
bahārs of pepper and to divide the proceeds from what has remained of them between me
and him (Abū Yaʿqūb) in accordance with our shares in them, namely, 35 (were bought) for me
and 15 for him.
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2004
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5343
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1296ثيقة شرعيّةCUL Add.3416
Document date
5th Kislev 1409 Seleucid (12 November 1097 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book I, 16: Two court records regarding Moshe b. Labrat b. Moshe b. Sugmar and Yosef b. David al-Tarabulusi, from the court in Fustat. …
recto
1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא חמשה יומי בירח כסלו דשנת אלפא
2. וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט
3. מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי…
He took from him 10 (al-Mahdiyya) dinars, but informed him that the tools
Verso
1. had been taken when Raqqat al-Mahdiyya was ransacked, and only a hammer remained, which he delivered
2. to him. Said the Court to him: “If this report turns out to be false, will you still withhold from
3. the judge what belongs to him?
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عرض تفاصيل المستند
1297رسالةENA 4020.30
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his brother in law, with a long narrative about the difficulties he encountered procuring …
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. רקעתי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם חראסתה ונעמאה
3. וכבת באלדל חסדתה ואעדאה מן תופיקה אלחסן לא אכלאה וכאן לה
4. וליא וחאפטא פ…
But then Abū ʿImrān said to him, “I will only accept a clearance for the two (batches of) produce together.”
So he wrote me a clearance for everything, after all this upheaval.
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2407
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1298ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 16.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Record of release. This document describes the termination of a partnership and a release from Efrayim b. Ḥalfon Ibn Zaffān, upon the apparent …
Recto
1. .. ארבעין [........................................................]
2. דידיע באבן זפאן אד כאן [................] ואלאן אשהדו עלי ואקנו [........…
Ḥalfōn—in my lifetime and from my heirs after
my death, from every debt and matter from clear claims and possible claims, and from any matter which could be called “financial”, and from (the claim of) overreaching
and grievance (claims), within the earthly jurisdiction and the Heavenly jurisdiction, and from oaths and decrees and from rider oaths and pronouncements,
both general and specific, and from the determination of any court, whether in Jewish law or gentile law.
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2004
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3413
عرض تفاصيل المستند
1299ثيقة شرعيّةT-S 18J1.9
Document date
last third of Shevaṭ 1471 Seleucid (31 January 1160–9 February 1160 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Court proceeding. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Shevaṭ 1471 = January/February 1160 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
Recto
1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין החתומים למטה ודלך אן למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאכיר מחד]ש[ שבט
2. דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין וחד שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים …
Recto
1. Proceedings (of what) took place before us—we, the undersigned court—Thus: in the last ten-day period of the mon[th] of Shevaṭ,
2. of the year one thousand four hundred and seventy-one (of the Era) of Documents, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt, situated on the Nile River, jurisdiction
3. of his glorious Excellency, Diadem of Beauty, his honor, greatness and holiness, our teacher and master, Inimitable of our Generation, who enlightens our way, our prince, prince
4. of God among us, our lord Nathaniel ha-Levi, “Israel’s chariots and horsemen”, may his name endure forever, the Elder Abū al-Rabī‘ Suleymān ha-
5. Kohen al-‘Aṭṭār (his) h(onor,) g(reatness, and) h(oliness) our teacher and our master Solomon ha-Kohen, the honored courtier, Segan among the Kohanim and their strength, (may his) R(ock) p(reserve him) b.
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عرض تفاصيل المستند
1300رسالةT-S 18J5.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book, III,11: Letter (large but fragmentary) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Ibn Yiju, India. Dating: 1140 [1139]. Written in the hand of Shemuel …
Recto
1. אִנִתִהִ[י] עבדה אלי מא שרחה מולאי מן תעזיתה בחי
2. אלואלד ימֹרחֹ ומא יושך יאשיך אבו אסחאק פי מחבתך
3. ועבדה יערף אן אלדי טרא ענדה פי דלך מתל אלדי ט…
...Thus, please do not buy me, your servant, standard, <
or>> refurbished iron, but only smooth, long (bars) or pepper and 'eggs,'
betel nuts and cardamom. Please hire for these wares some space (in a ship), even if it is expensive,
either from a shipowner or a captain or if you happen to find [merchants, who are],
trustworthy, even if the rental is expensive.