Documents

Inferred date

1789–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This dating is feasible as well because on the verso there is a letter cluster that may be alphanumerical indicating the year [5]558AM or roughly 1797-1798CE (l.14v). […] Some names may be authors of printed books and/or bound manuscripts, among them: Moshe Altaras (l.6-7v) and Reʾuven b. David Bavli (l.21v).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• book trade
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Of the 50 dirhams which were collected, the following sums were earmarked, 'in the hand of the Rav and in the presence of the judges': 10 dirhams for Tamīm, 3.5 dirhams for laundering the [...] of the brocade curtain (al-sitr al-dībāj), 3.5 dirhams for laundering the two white covers (?

العلامات

• brocade
• holes
• silk
• textiles

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 Seleucid (28 September 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Barhūn promises to feed Yosef for the entire period, subtracting the cost of maintenance from his wages. He also promises that Yosef will learn the craft. Yosef must have been quite young since it is his father rather than he who makes the contract, but the parties clearly thought that Yosef’s acceptance and understanding of the terms of the contract to have been important, because the contract's conditions were read to him and he agreed with them.

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العلامات

• apprenticeship
• children
• contract
• partnership
• weaving
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The two folios under this shelfmark also contain half a page of a Hebrew poem and a full page of a macaronic Hebrew/Arabic poem consisting of verses rhyming on "حو/חו."

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• macaronic

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fifteen days were pIenty of time for a letter going to Cairo and coming back with Abū Naṣr's instructions to the qadi. The writer mentions also that he did not feel well that day (wa-anā wajiʿ).

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العلامات

• al-tustari
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: waja'
• ramla
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday, 4 Av 1473 Seleucid (17 July 1162 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo and (Abū) Manṣūr El’azar b. Yishaq al-Dimashqī. Shemu’el b. Shelomo attests to the existence of a partnership agreement, which stipulated that profits were to be split 1/3 to 2/3, the bulk going to El’azar. […] The funds are invested with local workers in various towns in the Nile Delta (Sammanūd and al-Maḥalla) as well as in longer-distance investments (such as in Tyre).

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العلامات

• court record
• partnership

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

"The anonymous poet, who laments that he could not offer a real “gift” (teshura), calls his composition a type of sacrifice pleasing unto God: 'May the Lord of praises prepare healing balm and all types of remedies . . . and strengthen the respected, beneficent leader, the choice of His people, a turban upon all of the communities.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• panegyric

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The position of a year in the jubilee cycle, Sabbatical cycle and the 19-year cycle are also noted. For each year, the calendar specifies whether it is plain or intercalated and the length of the variable months Ḥeshvan and Kislev, and gives the day of the week of beginnings of months, festivals and fasts and the day and time of the tequfot.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Is it possible that she will marry after all this time, and no news were heard from him, since he is in India (fī bilād alHind)?"

العلامات

• aguna
• conditional divorce
• conversion
• fatwa
• ib7
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1200–1250 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With the exception of two scholarly persons, a banker, entitled haver, who gives nine, and a goldsmith, styled rabbi)--the only one in the list besides the collector--who contributes five together with his partner, all the others content themselves with gifts of one-half, one, or at most one and one-half. […] This is an example of one of several lists of contributors that do not show a wide scale of social or economic differentiation, with craftsmen by no means always in the lower categories. The letter resh stands for rubaʿ (1/4) and the letter tav for thumn (1/8) (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 490-491, App.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to contribute from 1/6 to 3/4 dinar, as partial payment of the capitation tax, the community making up the balance. These are all male, foreigners, laborers, craftsmen mostly of lower standing, community officials, persons called ghulām or ṣabiyy, that is, slave, freedman, or employee, and five others designated as ḍamīn, persons for whom security was given. Alternatively, the sums following the names may indicate the amounts to be paid by the community.

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العلامات

• charity
• jewish community

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only three lines are preserved of the body of the letter. The writer alludes to a woman (or to the ḥaḍra=addressee?) who was staying with him in S[...].

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العلامات

• 13th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1493 Seleucid (12 September 1181–30 August 1182 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Saʿd al-Miṣrī takes over the service of the Iraqi synagogue, receives from Maḥfūẓ what was listed before and many additional items.

العلامات

• book trade
• synagogue

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly alphanumerical calculations. One of the entries on the recto mentions Avraham ʿAṭiyya.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He reports that he has opened a shop in Suwayqat [...] near the shop of Ibn [...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

At the top there is an endorsement with instructions for the reported payment to be registered in the Dīwān al-Nafaqāt (يثبت في ديوان النفقات بعد موافقته ان شا الله).

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Some of the entries on the verso begin with names: Masʿūd B...un, Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, and Shemuʾel .....iel(?). Requires further examination for content.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the currency ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Pinholes in the margin (like the other folios in ENA 3922), and traces of glue and/or leather.

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

E.g., sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil, soap, lemon, onion, chickpea, leek, mastic, sugar, sulfur, [...], cumin. On verso alphabetic writing practice in both Hebrew and Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He asks that the addressee send him 'the note' (al-ruqʿa) in return.

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العلامات

• coin
• emotion
• informal note
• longing

1 نسخ

Document date

1 Tammuz 5499 Anno Mundi (7 July 1739 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the third alphanumeral is clearly צ rather than ל in התצט. Mentions several people, including Yaʿaqov b.

العلامات

• 18th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Two entries on the verso provide the dates 11 Sivan and 16 Sivan, followed by the alphanumerals ת׳׳ג possibly denoting [5]403 AM (1643 CE).

العلامات

• arabic script
• list
• prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The accounting style is terse and structured mostly by alphanumerical figures. Based on the paleography, the dating is likely 15th- or 16th-century.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Simwāl, one under "lahu" 'he is owed' and second under "ʿalaihi" 'he owes'. 'ʾAjr' in the upper right hints that it could be related to rent.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1800–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a couple practice signatures of David Ben-Naʿīm, whose dated documents are from the first half of the nineteenth century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid (27 June 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew signed by Moshe Abū Shaʿra, alternate reading: Moshe Bekhar (בכר). Below the main document and signatures someone signed in the first-person as a guarantor to the above legal arrangements: איך אני עאבן קבלן פרעי...

العلامات

• abu sha'ra

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late account of sorts, using western Arabic numerals: "What was collected from the mother: first, ashrafiyya coins: 3; second. . . . " The mention of ashrafi coinage makes it possible to estimate the dating of this fragment as 1425 CE or later– the year in which it was first minted by Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay.

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1600–1800 CE

Accounts that note "פצה / silver" and "bunduqi / ducats" as a monetary labels on the recto and that uses Hebrew alphanumerical characters throughout. On JRL SERIES C 45, the word "ווצול" is used (which denotes payment).

العلامات

• 17th or 18th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles. The main blocks of Arabic script consist of lists, at least one of which might be a table of contents of a book.

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العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: pen exercises, including alphabets. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1459 Seleucid (28 August 1147–15 September 1148 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves [Abū l-]Karam(?) known as Ibn al-Shavuy and [...] b. ʿAdiyya ha-Zaqen and a debt of 3.5 dinars.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Sitt al-Dār has appointed her husband Ṣedaqa as her agent.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to Eliyyahu the Judge which he had loaned for [...], and 12 dirhams for the lighting, and 3 dirhams for "jarīd" (=lulavs?).

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Nagid support an inferred date range estimate of 1213-1237 CE (he bore the title Rayyis al-Yahūd from 1205–37 CE).

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• nagid

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Yūsuf to Manṣūr b. Yefet Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. Recto and verso are in different hands; the layout of recto resembles the title page of a literary work.

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العلامات

• informal note

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehezqel ha-Levi, urging him to come to court because of alimony claims from his wife, threatening him with a heavy fine should he not oblige.

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العلامات

• alimony
• women's property

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Letter from Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in the Delta area.

Related People

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Mansur al-Kohen, known as Ibn Qasāsa, receives from Avraham b.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة