Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are few Shauls in Goitein's name cards, all of them from 11th- to early 12th-century North Africa.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is surrounded by large Arabic script; above there is a phrase typical of letters, "yā mawlāy al-shaykh." On verso there is a different spell in Judaeo-Arabic (באב תהיג).

العلامات

• love
• magic

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Document date

444 Hijrī (3 May 1052–22 April 1053 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender refers to the addressee as 'my brother' and alludes to how well he has treated him. Mentions a letter from Abū Saʿīd.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is an unidentified text in Arabic script, which at first glance looks like a state document, though mentions "yawm al-dīn," which sounds more like a Jewish phrase.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

In the first line names Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭaḥḥān. Specific items include lemon, pepper, saffron, mastic, cinnamon, sesame oil, olive oil, a burniyya vessel (spelled برنيية), chicken, linseed oil, cups (?

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Primary language

Arabic

In another source (e.g. https://al-maktaba.org/book/3610/17): الْمُجَاهِدُ مَنْ جَاهَدَ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ.

العلامات

• hadith
• islamic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from a woman to a group of men, presumably communal leaders: [...] wa-sādatī wa-l-ʿazīzīn ʿalayya wa-ʿindī. She says "I am perplexed (wa-anā ḥāʾira) and do not know [...]."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• petition
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

A letter, almost complete, from Shelomo b. Shem Tov, who served as a proxy of the Jerusalemite community in Egypt.

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العلامات

• late heb

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Primary language

Arabic

Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 lines. Mentions "mawlāya al-qāḍī". The Judaeo-Arabic text on top of the state document is a mixture of love poetry and humorous anecdote.

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العلامات

• dimme
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• popular literature

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Headed with a paragraph naming ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl and mentioning the dīwān. Likely state/tax related.

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Primary language

Arabic

One column is probably a petition and the other the rescript (identical format to T-S NS 96.66, which was edited by Khan). Mentions Saʿd al-Mulk in l. 3 of the right column. This fragment may have been turned into a book binding, based on the mottled splotches and brushstrokes on it.

العلامات

• petition
• to edit

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Document date

Sivan 4813 Anno Mundi (21 May 1053–19 June 1053 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū l-Khayr b. Tammām and Yosef al-Ḥazzan. Most of the books seem to be religious in nature.

العلامات

• booklist

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

18 Ḥeshvan 5565 Anno Mundi (23 October 1804 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Hayyim Avraham ha-Levi (although this looks like a single name, it may actually be 2 or 3 people).

العلامات

• avraham ha-levi
• cesana

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Document date

Elul 5341 Anno Mundi (31 July 1581–28 August 1581 CE)

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with refrains which are different from each other but which all end with "yo." The remaining two and a half pages are filled with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the year 1581 (Elul 5341) and 1582 CE (Elul 5342).

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العلامات

• 16th c
• ladino literary
• ladino poetry
• late ja
• ledger

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, "5 for Furayj who is in Malīj and 5 for Saʿīd who is in [...], and the children all release each other, and everything in the house belongs to Dāʾūd."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The first part is in Arabic script: "What remains (owed) to al-Shaykh Abu l-Faraj...." The sum is 25 wariq dirhams.

العلامات

• glyph

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. From Ibn al-Miṭrān ('son of the bishop'). Seems to be recommending the bearer (muwaṣṣilhā, l. 5) for charity or some other kind of support (isʿāf... muʿāḍada...).

العلامات

• christians
• recommendation

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, and a request of the addressee, perhaps involving the sender's wife (or just his house).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The name Abū Naṣr Ghazāl(?) al-Kohen may appear toward the bottom. Much of the text remains, but the content is opaque.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic script. It seems imposing alimony of 1/2 dirham per day on ʿEzra b. Menaḥem, the ex-husband of Jawhara bt.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Isḥāq al-Talmid, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic script.

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1

العلامات

• arabic address

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday 1st Kislev 5545 Anno Mundi (1783 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

He should treat her well and not harm her or her relatives. She is allowed to visit her relatives after getting permission from him.

العلامات

• karaite ketubba

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Document date

10 Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (8 March 1683 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The little boy's (קטן) father is still alive but he is listed as an orphan, implying that his mother (Gentil's daughter) was already deceased.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

The document BL OR 12369.10 bears two witness signatures, one very stylized Yiṣḥaq Shelomo[?] al-____[?] and the other more legible: David ha-Levi Caraso. […] Due to the damage at the opening of line 13, one of the key operative words in this document is illegible– making it difficult to ascertain what specific legal action the first group of individuals is taking with reference to the second group (although "transferring" (מוסרים) is clearly visible just before the damaged word).

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العلامات

• 18th c
• late jerusalem

1 نسخ

Document date

10 Sivan 4999 Anno Mundi (15 May 1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter reports on a man who came from Alexandria and said that he had litigation against his wife and that he sued his wife using responsa of rabbi Yosef (?)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tammuz 1453 Seleucid (26 June 1142–24 July 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yosef Ibn al-Dhahabī, his daughter, and her husband Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Avraham b. […] Price: 34 dinars. 2 dinars will be paid in Tishrei 1454 Seleucid = 1142 CE, and the remaining 32 dinars in monthly installments of 1 dinar. The guarantor is al-Labbān b. ʿAbdallāh. Jinān has a 2-year-old daughter named Wafāʾ, who will remain with the seller (separated from her mother).

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العلامات

• ledger
• slaves

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as David ha-Dayyan, Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn Nufayʿ, and Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Maqdisī. "In an eloquent letter a traveler details all he had sent: 6 irdabbs of wheat (making 36 waybas per year, or 3 per month, as so often reported up to now), 4 "gold dinars," and several smaller remittances in silver, totaling 51 dirhams; here one or two lines are lost, no doubt containing the remaining 30 or so dirhams which could make a grand total of 6 dinars, again half a dinar per month.

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