Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salmān b. Dawud al-Barqi, probably from Tripoli, Libya, to Nahray b.

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2

العلامات

• merchant
• nahray b. nissim

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Groom: Tamīm b. Netanel. Bride: Sitt al-Khafar bt. Elʿazar. 42 + 83 + 55 + 30 = 210 dinars.

العلامات

• register
• trousseau

1 مناقشة

The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment as no earlier than 1425 CE, when this form of coinage was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay. On recto there are supplication prayers (tahanunim) of Shemuel b.

العلامات

• ashrafi
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning 4,000 of something, 8 of something else, Abū ʿImrān, and two people with intriguing names: Abū l-Ḥasan Ṣadaqa Ibn al-Qārūs (“Son of the Lever”) and Abū Zekharya Ben Yiju (this fragment is not cited in India Book III, or anywhere else).

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib3

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

14 Muḥarram 946 Hijrī (1 June 1539 CE)

Many entries mention names, such as: Yeshūʿa ʿAbd-al-Wāḥid and Avraham Ben-Ṣahal. MCD.

العلامات

• 16th c
• pressing
• tahina

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Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ.

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2

العلامات

• al-tahirti
• house

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Probably written in Corfu, probably addressed to al-Shaykh Yūnus. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century.

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1

العلامات

• corfu
• spices
• venetians

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions partial names including Rosh ha-Nedivim; Peraḥya Ibn al-ʿAmʿaṭ; someone's father; Yehuda ha-Ḥazzan ha-Meʿuttad "his brother."

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1[.] Kislev 48[..] Anno Mundi (30 November 1039–24 November 1138 CE)

Fragmentary document from Damascus in which [...] b. al-Tarir gives a house adjacent to his own to Yefet ha-Levi b.

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1

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to his bad state and requests charity or help of some kind.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified sender, in Rashīd, to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī ("the gallnut dealer"), probably in Fustat.

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1

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Mentions Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī that is in the Maghreb and his brother Yosef is in Susa (in the Maghreb as well).

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3

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2

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning a reconciliation, presumably between husband (Maḥfūẓ al-Qudsī) and wife. Signed by the judge Avraham b.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Addressed to Aharon (identified by Scheiber as Aharon b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-ʿAmmānī) and conveying blessings to his father and his son.

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1

العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from the Yeshiva directed to 'all the communities of Israel in Palestine and in its fortresses, its town and villages...which have remained in Palestine and to those in the land of Egypt calling themselves Palestinians', i.e. to the Jewish communities of Palestine and Egypt, dating from the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century.

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2

العلامات

• circular
• jewish community
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b.

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1

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1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Dating: ca. 1160 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Avraham ha-Kohen the parnas, a virgin.

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1

1 مناقشة

Document date

1021–1036 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE.

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1

العلامات

• arabic script
• damin
• dimme
• lost archive
• report
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused on verso for medical or alchemical (one uses lead) recipes in Arabic script.

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3

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1

العلامات

• jewish community

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

It appears to be a Jewish prayer: "yā Allāh" (l. 6), "I thirst for your mercy like the ground thirsts for water" (l. 17), "for the sake of the covenant with our fathers Ibrāhīm Isḥāq and Yaʿqūb..."

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1

العلامات

• arabic script

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Document date

Tuesday, 9 Iyyar 1339 Seleucid (7 May 1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A religious slaughterer, Khalaf b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥallāl, who was careless in the exercise of his duties is flogged and forced to make a public confession.

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7

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1

العلامات

• butchers
• decree
• flogging
• kashrut

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. Reused on recto by Efrayim b. Shemarya to copy parts of Saʿadya Gaʾon's tafsīr (translation and commentary) on Genesis 1:3 - 1:15

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1

العلامات

• arabic script
• chancery

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

There does not seem to be much substance to the letter beyond assuring the addressee that the sender is promptly fulfilling his errands. Greetings to ʿAllān. Reused for accounts (in the hand of ʿArūs?)

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

15 Ramaḍān 5[..] Hijrī (10 May 1107–28 May 1203 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involving Abū l-Ḥasan(?) b. Yūsuf b. Faraj al-Yahūdī. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are 10 unrelated fragments sharing this shelfmark. All are literary: see FGP for identifications. The most documentary fragment is fol. 4, which is a leaf from a book in Judaeo-Arabic that tells you the Psalms to recite in various scenarios (if your ship is about to sink at sea... if you are going before the king...).

العلامات

• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The next line reads "I have sold all my property before I learn . . ." Verso contains unidentified Hebrew text in a different hand.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Brief letter in Arabic script, from Abū l-Ḥasan and referring to something in the handwriting of Abū l-Ḥasan al-[...]. The addressee is instructed to send the dinars that are in [...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a transaction, quoting a certain Avraham and mentioning Abū ʿAlī and the tax farming (or tax farmers) (ḍamān or ḍummān) of Qalyūb.

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1

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1

العلامات

• damin

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

for the bearer ("no one is to oppose him... representing us... honor him and respect him... he is deserving of all good deeds..."). (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions something which Rabbi Yosef brought with him; 100 dinars; 22 dinars for Isḥāq; a purse or something distressing (אלצרה); the elder Abū l-Aʿlā Is[ḥaq?]; 6 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions collaterals (ruhūnāt) left with somebody; Abū ʿAlī; the addressee's wife; payments in installments.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: The last two lines of a formal Arabic document, containing only the pious phrases fa-l-ḥamdu lillāhi waḥdahū wa-ṣalawātuhū ʿalā sayyidinā muḥammad..., followed by a ḥasbala.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (original use): fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. The text reads as "ʿalā l-ʾaṣl". (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The phrase המצב הגדול מושב הדרת הנגידות. Probably Mahalla al-Kubrā is intended. it seems from this address that the Nagid use to sit there, but it is out of context and might be only a pen trial.

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1

العلامات

• al-mahalla

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (lower left corner). Probably a will (al-waṣiyya). The year is just barely missing– in terms of finding a join, it would be the first portion of the next/final line.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions cloves, salt, and a qāḍī (al-Muwaffaq). (Information in part from CUDL)

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2

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd, [...] al-ʿAdanī "his partner in the wakāla," and trade in Yemen.

Related People

1

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1

العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS 98.14 (PGPID 39010)) to Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (aka Peraḥya b. Yosef). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Hebrew and Arabic script.

العلامات

• arabic address

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

The paleography, ink, and pre-lined paper all point to the nineteenth century as a likely dating estimate.

العلامات

• 19th c
• italian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the request of the 'slaves' (al-mamālīk), monthly payments, and at one point a sum of 1000 dinars.

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Document date

996–1021 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Decree of the caliph al-Ḥākim to the Qaraite community in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere, granting them administrative independence from the Rabbanites, on the basis of the differences between the two communities regarding law and ritually kosher food.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a Kohen from Damascus and al-Dayyān Yosef ha-Kohen. He (the writer? the Damascene?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl [...]. In Arabic script. (The addressee is confusingly called 'my father' in the body of the letter and 'my son' in the address.)

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1

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Informal note from Manṣūr b. [...] the Jew to Jamāl al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the currency kāmilī dirhams.

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Likely fiscal accounts, in very small writing. E.g. "min māl. . . al-aʿmāl..." and "wuṣūl... dīnārayn..." Underneath there may be a date (560 AH?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

From [...] b. Hārūn to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Hibatallāh. (The sender's full name is probably preserved.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 957 Hijrī (November 1550 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involves a certain Mūsā and his mother, possibly Marḥaba bt. Dāʾud al-Yahūdī. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

A dīwān is possibly mentioned in an entry along the lower edge of the recto and __gān Bāsha, perhaps an Ottoman administrative title.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر