Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There may be a remnant of an Arabic document on the verso but the text in is almost completely lost to damage. Requires further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

The months Ramaḍān, Dhū l-Ḥijja, and Rabīʿ al-Ākhar are mentioned. On verso there is piyyuṭ.

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names of contributors and amounts of their contributions in figures, mentioning approximately 50 proper names, headed by the Nagid and including Manṣūr Ibn al-Lebdī. See Med Soc II, App C, 41. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Recto (secondary use): Genealogies of two families, it seems of the husband and the father of a woman called the daugher of Nafīs al-Sharābī (cf. Mann, Jews, II, 320). 7 generations in the first column, eight in the second.

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1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Two pages are in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning aṣḥāb al-dār and a qāḍī. One page is a list in Judaeo-Arabic of the clothing belonging to someone, mentioning a woman, her brother, and her sister, perhaps for legal purposes.

العلامات

• material culture

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq; Yefet b. Shelomo Ibn al-Sukkarī; Moshe.

العلامات

• partnership

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions the Muslim name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Ḥassūn b. ʿUthmān. On recto there is the opening of the ʿamida prayer, translated word-for-word into Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a sum of money (al-mablagh). Needs further examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ or prayer.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A page from a volume of the Mishneh Torah, with a note of sale (intaqala bi-ḥukm al-ibtiyāʿ. . .). The buyer is Binyamin b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen (the rubbed out part of his name is legible in the mirror image imprint on T-S NS 211.17).

العلامات

• ownership

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the "market fees" and specifically mentions that these pertain to the "(Dīwān) al-Ishrāf."

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Document date

568 Hijrī (23 August 1172–11 August 1173 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note about an expenditure of 550 dirhams for tearing down (naqḍ) the walls of something.

العلامات

• hikr

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Document date

503–04 Hijrī (31 July 1109–8 July 1111 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and 504 AH = 1109/10 CE and 1110/11 CE.

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العلامات

• hikr

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions several names, including ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, and figures in the hundreds and thousands (unclear what unit).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre to Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj of Jerusalem. Dating: mid-11th century.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham . .. a dinar. . . since he said qadish in the synagogue. . . and he demands to be. . . " Pasted to another sheet of paper and reused for the opening page of an epistle on ophthalmology by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī and other jottings.

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Mentions someone named David Ibn al-Khayr as well as the goods אפלמור (lime or linden?)

العلامات

• late heb

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter/petition in Arabic script from Isḥāq al-Qāriʾ. In Arabic script. Reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a caravan; meeting with Ibn al-Ghardīs (there was a judge by this name in Fez in the late 11th century) and Ibn Wāsīlan(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "that which I sent in partnership with (פי כלטה) my master the elder Abū ʿAlī."

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the judge.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1170–1190 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century.

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5

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2

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Customers include ʿAbdallāh, al-Mujāhid, Muhannā, and the Muʿallaqa (presumably the church).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Sibāʿ, unknown location, to the cantor Abū Naṣr known as Al-Damghar(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting as T-S AS 152.67.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Court record, probably a bill of release between a woman named Turfa and a man named Sayyid al-Kull. Signed by [...] b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen and Natan b.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Parts of three lines from the left side; second line reads "in shā allāh taʿālā." Wide line-spacing. Between lines 2 and 3 there is mirror-writing, presumably the imprint from another text or from the right side of this one.

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the bottom.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

28 Ramaḍān 1243 Hijrī (13 April 1828 CE)

Receipt issued at a wakala in Būlāq for a transaction connected to rice and a shipping vessel from Dimyāt whose captain is named Muḥammad al-ʿAdāwī. Dated: 28 Ramaḍān 1243 AH which is 1828 CE.

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2

العلامات

• 19th c
• arabic
• bulaq
• dimyat
• rice

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

العلامات

• arabic script
• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef (the nephew of Avraham Ibn Yijū), to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the address and the upper right corner of recto are preserved.

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Primary language

Hebrew

A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that this is a Karaite ketubah: e.g החתן הבחור החשוב, ואליו תשוקתו and more.

العلامات

• karaite ketubba
• ketubba
• marriage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

وحب الله بالعافية); Ghālib and his father; a complaint about a lack of letters; Ṣahrajt; and Abū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Rāsī(??) b. Yiṣḥaq, Sūq al-Ṣarf, the 24 portions of a house, "to my husband Suqayr."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involving Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf ('al-Neʾeman'), [...] b. Moshe ha-Zaqen, and ʿAmram b. [...].

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2

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to a judge (mawlāy al-shofeṭ). In the greetings section mentions Abu l-Karam Rosh ha-Qahal; Ṣedaqa b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dealing with flax, clove, frankincense, aloe vera, cassia fistula. Mentions interesting Greek and possibly Italian names like גורגי דג'ראדי (D'Giradi?)

العلامات

• late heb

1 نسخ

The accounting style is very terse, mostly relying on Hebrew alphanumerals. The recto contains an extensive halakhic text in Ladino according to FGP.

العلامات

• cmp

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This appears to be a rental contract for a portion of a store betwen Binyamin Romano and Faraj Allāh b. Shelomo. There are no witness signatures.

العلامات

• muayyadi

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Primary language

Arabic

Opens with greetings to the mother. Mentions Naṣr al-Dīn. The address on verso is written in a different hand: to be delivered to Abū l-Riḍā.

العلامات

• bialphabetic

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Inferred date

1775–1825 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Location: Cairo is just barely visible along the lower tear of the document: מ]צרים].

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1

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• investment
• late heb

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

A few partial gravesite entries are visible alongside an illustration of three trees. This fragment may be related to BL Or. 10578P.20 (PGPID 40638).

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1

العلامات

• cemetery
• gravesites

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Each entry mentions an Anno Mundi month, there may be an alphanumerical year listed somewhere. Requires further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

The list is itemized each beginning with "ʿalā" indicating the dues of each person listed.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. M[...] appears at the top of recto. Mentions prior correspondence several times.

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Document date

15 Tammuz 5520 Anno Mundi (29 June 1760 CE)

Signed by Yiṣḥaq Shelomo al__[?] and Ḥayyīm Camtonino[?]. MCD.

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1

العلامات

• 18th c
• engagement

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