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Document date

455 Hijrī (4 January 1063–24 December 1063 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

(Information from Khan, ALAD, Doc. 112.)

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العلامات

• caravan
• transportation

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Commodities include: lac; boxthorn; myrobalan; galangal; pepper; gum; cardamom; spices (ṣaqaṭ/صقط); aloeswood; and cotton. There is a transcription in Goitein's attached notes, which should be digitized.

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العلامات

• aydhab
• ib7
• india book

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Document date

Wednesday, 1 Adar 1539 Seleucid (9 February 1228 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a deed from Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi to the dyer Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Saʿd. Dated: Wednesdsay, 1 Adar 1539 Seleucid = 9 February 1228 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Acknowledgment of debt of seventy dinars Abū l-Thanāʾ al-Sukkarī (the sugar seller) b. Abū l-Barakāt the perfumer by Abū Isḥāq b.

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العلامات

• acknowledgment
• iqrar

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

[1]339 Seleucid (4 September 1027–22 September 1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Yosef b. Hārū[n] and "al-Līwānī." The preserved witness signatures are: Yosef b.

العلامات

• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Nissim, Fustat, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, probably in Qayrawān. Dating: around 1045.

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العلامات

• cloth
• iron
• letters
• nile
• spices
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Seems like a letter of appeal for charity and alludes to the door/gate of the synagogue. Written in a chancery-esque hand.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions arriving in Yāfā (Jaffa). The name ʿAllūsh appears on verso. Dating: Likely 11th century.

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العلامات

• jaffa

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the requisite love for the addressee (shurūṭ al-mawadda). May mention the flood of the Nile (ىفيض الما).

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He encourages her to send their two sons to school in the morning and in the evening, and sends along with the letter payment for their teacher.

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The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and al-ʿAzīzī coins. The price of Farajiyya's dowry is listed as 81.5 dinars.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a letter of appeal for charity, as it mentions unemployment (al-ʿuṭla) followed by blessings for the honor (jāh) of the addressee.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Yosef, Bū l-ʿIzz, Dāʾūd the brother of Najm, Bū ʿImrān, al-Baghdādī. Mentions goods such as coral, silk, mastic, oil, barley, tamarind, rose preserve.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shawwal 1012 Hijrī (3 March 1604–31 March 1604 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated on the verso in the upper left corner Shawwal 1012 AH (March 1604 CE). The alphanumerical designation relies on the "1,000" multiplier unit– which here resembles a Latin-script "V" but moreso an ע in other documents (the exact origins of this symbol are unknown).

العلامات

• 17th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions (l. 6) the mound known as Kawm Dīnār in the vicinity of Birkat Ramīs ("the pool of Ramīs"), which was situated in the Ḥamrāʾ district in the north of Fustat. See Khan, ALAD, 175–76. (Information from Baker/Polliack catalogue.)

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Document date

539 Hijrī (4 July 1144–23 June 1145 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The lessee is the trader (tājir) Dāʾūd b. Ḥasan al-Yahūdī (though his name is written دواد instead of the usual داود).

العلامات

• lease

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves a woman named Sitt al-Dār and the physician Mishaʾel ha-Levi (possibly the same Mishaʾel ha-Levi who appears in ENA 4011.45).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

; the name ʿOvadya; and sums of "large medins" (מאידי גדולים) in the thousands (same phrase appears in T-S AS 146.146 (PGPID 21486)). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Entries include the shop (dukkān), Abū l-Khayr, Ibn al-Khayyāṭ, and Abū l-Ḥusayn. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• broker

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Official letter/order from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with motto/ʿalāma at the top. Similarly concerns the releasing a vow between Yiṣḥaq and Ṣedaqa b.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A signature is partly legible at 90 degrees on the verso: Elīshaʿ b. Natan Ben-Ṣaḥ[al?]. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Must be from a Shīʿī source, as it mentions ʿAlī in heaven during the ascension. ASE/YU

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rabīʿ I 964 Hijrī (2 January 1557–31 January 1557 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a highly-trained scribal hand on recto. Dated Rabīʿ al-Awwal [9]64 AH (January 1557 CE). The heading states that the accounts are in the name of a certain Ḥayyīm Ḥefeṣ in connection with a market ([?]

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Abū l-Faraj Hibatallāh and Abū Saʿd known as Ibn al-S[...]. T-S AS 220.80 (PGPID 22931) and T-S AS 220.110 (PGPID 22921) are likely related and/or an indirect join.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

(Information from Goitein's note cards) A child’s writing exercises, consisting of the Hebrew alphabet followed by each letter repeated with the various Tiberian vowels.

العلامات

• education

1 مناقشة

The bridegroom, styled "the elder, the scholar Abu al-Baha" (written in larger letters, different from the rest), pledged (Ar. asma) 1/2 dirham, and so did the others.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions correspondence with the Gaʾon, Shelomo, Mevorakh, and Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṭabīb (the physician). ASE

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Sitt Ṭāwūs and Mubāraka; Yūsufīs (the Almohad gold currency); and several garments, especially sūsiyya (this is probably what the abbreviation samekh means) of various colors.

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العلامات

• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recording what Abū l-Manṣūr al-Ḥaver purchased. The goods include eggplant, meat, turnip, leek, carrot, and garlic.

العلامات

• food

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; Ibrāhīm; Abū l-Munā; a house near the synagogue; eventualities including the price of a shroud; someone called 'al-muʿtamid'; a purchase; possibly granting a power of attorney to somebody for purposes of buying and selling.

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العلامات

• burial

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Muḥarram 545 Hijrī (30 April 1150–29 May 1150 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Official-looking receipt for a dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh) for the rent of his shop. Dated: Muḥarram 545 AH = April/May 1150 CE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Eastern Arabic Numerals, Greek/Coptic Numerals

T-S Ar.52.171 (PGPID 21248)) along with the corresponding Coptic numerals written over them.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has sent some money (ashrafīs) with Shihāb al-Dīn.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The beginning and ending are missing, along with a strip from the right side. Regards to Abū l-Ḥasan.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. The husband of Sitt al-Bahāʾ takes her to court to revisit the conditions under which he may take a second wife, because his livelihood forces him to stay in Cairo sometimes.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• marriage
• polygyny

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Legible items: 17 receive 10 (dirham=dirhams), total 85; 17 receive 10 (dirh), total 170; 9 receive 15 (dirh), total 135; 4 receive 20 (dirh), total 80; 1 receive 25 (dirh), total 25, 1 receive 30 (dirh), total 30; a total of 49 receive a total of 525 dirh. The basic unit allotted to one person clearly was 5 dirhams, as evident from such items as 'the man from Malij and his mother-10,' 'the daughter of Nissim and his mother-10,' 'the two women from Ramla-10' (see T-S K15.97; T-S J1.34). […] Had the sheet been preserved to the length of the contemporary T-S 24.76 (also only a fragment) and the sums distributed on the lost part of approximately the same size, the communal expenditure on this charity (presumably doles for a holiday) would have approximated 1,500 dirhams.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• poverty
• recipients

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Sivan 5568 Anno Mundi (27 May 1808 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The word for the vessel is "קאיק" from Ottoman Turkish "قايق" or "kayık"– translating as "boat" or a "small sailing vessel." This term also appears as a loanword in English "caïque" with the same meaning.

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العلامات

• cesana
• karo y frances

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1172–1204 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the mention of Maimonides in the margin who was active in Egypt during this date range.

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Document date

147[5] Seleucid (31 August 1163–18 September 1164 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To add to the confusion, the current ENA 4011.22 is an unrelated legal document also in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Previously thought to be a letter from Yehuda ha-Levi. See also: E.N. Adler, uncatalogued, no. 40, ed. Goitein, "Autographs of Yehuda Hallevi", Tarbiz 25 (1956), pp. 407 SH [10-23-87] (P) Letter from Yehuda Ha-Levi to Halfon b.

العلامات

• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book
• paper

2 نسخين ترجمات 3

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Natan Av ha-Yeshiva (who also signs). The wife, Zayn, sells the 1/4 house, receives 30 dinars, and releases (her husband; not expressly said, but since it was included in the ketubba, must be him).

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العلامات

• ketubba

2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1168–1201 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I sat... our Rabbi... the head of the physicians (muqaddam al-ṭibb)... a physician and said to me... Cairo, and sometimes with Abū l-Riḍā, and I stay with him two nights a week and learn from him... your excellence, for 30 dinars' brokerage... entered to Qarāqūsh (likely Bahāʾ al-Dīn Qarāqūsh, active in Egypt 1169–1201) and told him the situation, and he fired him.

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العلامات

• education
• medicine
• physicians

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Brill: Leiden, 2013. See also Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 17 and Goitein notes linked below, and the Penn Catalog.)

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العلامات

• calendar controversy

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 5495 Anno Mundi (21 June 1735–2 July 1735 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Jacob collected money for Ḥevron from the Jewish community in Yemen and his activities there are also mentioned in: T-S 12.546 (PGPID 20008). Verso: three legal drafts.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• yemen

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Muslm governor said that a synagogue may not be built under the reign of al-Mawla al-Afḍal. Verso has been reused for drafts of Arabic medical writings.

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العلامات

• arabic literary
• avraham b. saadya
• bilbays
• communal strife
• interconfessional conflict
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1250–1517 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The verb is modified by the adverbial insertions bi-mālihi li-nafsihi ("with his money, for himself"), e.g. ishtarā PN bi-mālihi li-nafsihi min PN kadhā wa-kadhā (T-S Ar.53.73, various documents from the eighth century AH, al-Qāhira; T-S Ar.53.19, no date, Minyat Zifta Jawād); bi-mālihi li-nafsihi dūna ghayrihi ("with his money, for himself, not anyone else"), e.g. T-S Ar.38.116 (925 AH, Bilbays, al-Sharqiyya); or simply by li-nafsihi, e.g.: ishtarā PN li-nafsihi min PN (T-S Ar.34.332, 655 AH).

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