Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of her brother, Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa al-Bazzāz. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "their mother (sitthumā)" and Saʿd al-Mulk. AA. ASE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes David in it.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. "Our master al-Rayyis Abū l-Makārim" orders the addressee to give a quarter wayba (of wheat?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks the addressee (al-Muʿallim) to go to Abū l-Ḥasan, because the writer needs him to do something for him.

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العلامات

• informal note

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably addressed to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Refers to someone coming to Cairo and possibly mentions a stable (אלאסטבל).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: accounts, mentioning a variety of materia medica, such as rose, Levantine coriander, Celebes sandalwood (ṣandal maqāṣīrī), mastic gum, musk, bamboo chalk, aniseed, chebulic myrobalan, Indian myrobalan, aloeswood, and wild spikenard (asārūn). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The cantor Abu al-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin) asks a father when he wants to celebrate his son's circumcision.

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العلامات

• cantor
• circumcision

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two lines further down, mentions a term for a doctor or wound specialist (al-jarāʾiḥī) and the number 70. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• jamakiyya
• physicians

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Document date

1099–1187 CE

Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..]

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a third person. The letter is torn off here, and the bottom part is missing.

العلامات

• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no buyers for lac in al-Mahalla and so he sold it in Damietta. Reused on verso for a poem in Judaeo-Arabic about mortality.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• lac

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Husband: ʿAmmār al-Khāṭirī. Witnesses: Yefet Kohen b. ʿEli; Mevorakh b.

العلامات

• qaraite divorce
• qaraites

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Formulary for a deathbed release (or at least a release in the setting of old age and frailty) granted by a woman to a male in-law. All the names are left as place fillers. Location: Fustat.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

In the last line refers to 'kitāb mawlāy al-sayyid,' probably a prior letter from the addressee.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1451 Seleucid (August 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sitt al-Baha bt. Eliyya, the bride of Abu l-Ḥasan, receives on the day of her qiddushin from Abu Kathir b.

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العلامات

• betrothal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rudimentary handwriting. Mentions Barhūn and al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī. From the Maghreb? (Information from Goitein's note card.)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Iyyar 5159 Anno Mundi (7 April 1399–5 May 1399 CE)

Simha, daughter of Moshe b. Job, wife of Yosef al-Bali, sells a Pentateuch with gilded ornaments to Yiṣḥaq b.

العلامات

• bill of sale

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1537 Seleucid (4 September 1225–23 September 1226 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Medical prescription (nuskha lil-khayālāt) containing twelve ingredients, along with a record of four donations received in a pesiqa dated 1225/26 CE (1537 Seleucid).

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العلامات

• maimonides
• prescription

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's brother Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• mansur kohen

1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar II 1524 Seleucid (23 February 1213–23 March 1213 CE)

Calligraphic copy of release in which a grandson confirms having received from his grandmother, named Sitt al-Rida bat Saadya, the estate of his father. Dated Adar II 1524/ March 1213.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• inheritance

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.)

العلامات

• glyph

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The fragment is possibly a draft or part of a booklet for personal use. Verso: Hebrew alphabetical exercises. (Information from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Contains financial report with Abu al-Khayr, who is Musa b. Barhun ha-Tāhartī, the writer’s uncle.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of some kind of syrup.

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL and Goitein’s index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Likely the opening of a communal letter addressed to all the communities of Egypt: . . . ישראל שבארץ מצרים ובכפריה . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef, of the Ben Yiju family who was the muqaddam of al-Mahal. Written by Mevorakh b. Natan in a poetic Hebrew.

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العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom of a letter concerning a legal case between Saʿadya and his brother-in-law ʿAlī concerning 30 dinars and an oath (שבועה התורה אלדי הי מודה במקצת....).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the letter is preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Seems to involve receipt of a governmental decree empowering the sender and his allies to fine and punish those who rebelled against their authority.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A partial date is visible along the upper right corner of the recto, 1 S[ivan], but the year may have been lost to damage.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the ship (markab) of al-Jazzār; mentions 9 people and a rent/hire price of 90 dinars; then 13.5 dinars in the next line.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a petition from a group of people ("al-mustaghīthīn"). The court validates a document and gives it to Hillel ha-Kohen, one of the petitioners, for it to be brought to the Gaʾon (whose name is missing).

العلامات

• petitioning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter from Yaʿaqov b. Joseph b. Ismaʿīl al-Aṭrābulsī, in Ashkelon (ca. 1060 CE), concerning trade and sums of money owed by Abū Yaḥyā Nahray b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Brief letter of recommendation for charity on behalf of Abū Saʿīd al-Ḍarīr (the blind), probably the bearer of the note.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rabiʿ I 977 Hijrī (14 August 1569–12 September 1569 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in a late hand, mentioning numerals, measures and month names. Dated along the upper edge of the verso: Rabiʿ I 977 AH (זעץ) which is 1569 CE.

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العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

26 Iyyar 5454 Anno Mundi (21 May 1694 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The first is from Livorno, addressed to Shabbetay Palas (aka Alpalas) and Yosef Levi. Dated: 41st of the Omer (Iyyar 26), 5454 AM, which is 1694 CE.

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العلامات

• alpalas
• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

953 Hijrī (4 March 1546–20 February 1547 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly refers to a placename in the same heading, Minyat al-Shaykh, but this location requires further research.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Elḥanan; [...] b. Natan Ibn al-Ṣīrī; and ʿEli b. Hillel ha-Ḥazzan ha-Gadol.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Or possibly a letter on behalf of a woman ([al]-mamlūka). Probably her husband (l. 7) has left and failed to provide support for the her and her child.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Beginning of a petition/letter of appeal for charity from Yūsuf al-Ṣaʿīdī to a qāḍī. Dating: Likely 13th century or later based on hand and layout.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan al-Sabīʿī (aka Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi). The sender's name may include Yosef.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The lessee is named Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Sāmirī (the Samaritan). In the upper margin, there is the draft of the beginning of a Jewish legal deed (hand of Hillel b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ramaḍān 777 Hijrī (24 January 1376–22 February 1376 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Rashīd b. [...]. Dated: end of Ramaḍān 777 AH = February 1376 CE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر