Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Trousseau list (taqwīm) for Sitt al-Waqār bt. Bū l-Riḍā b. Tamīm. Gives details of the items with numbers next to them.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the term ṣāfī several times (in this case does not seem to be a person's name but a commercial term); sarcocolla (ʿanzarūt); the ṣāhib al-funduq; marāwiḥ (fans?); khazāsh silk ; a turban; Nuṣayr; Ibn Sughmār; Ibn Tībān; Khulayf; several "pieces" (qiṭʿa) of a certain good; ʿIwāḍ; lac; Abū Zikrī; and khazāsh and ḥarīr again.

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العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (Qayrawan) to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. ʿAwkal (Fustat).

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العلامات

• debt
• qayrawan
• ya'aqov b. 'awkal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

The document concerns Abū Ṭāhir al-ʿAsqalānī, riding animals (dawābb), and Buqṭur (=Victor)?

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العلامات

• aslihat
• dimme
• transportation
• weapons

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid (10 November 1091 CE)

Seller: Meshullam b. Hiba known as Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya (cf. T-S 20.30 and the cluster of related documents).

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العلامات

• slave

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is sent to the 'house of my master al-Hemdat b. Pinhas' in Cairo. Connected to T-S 8J22.19.

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العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He states that he is in good health and mentions the woman known as 'al-kabīra.' Verso: Letter fragment (upper part only) in Arabic script.

العلامات

• arabic script
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names on recto include Sulaymān; Yefet; Manṣūr al-Raqqāq; [...] b. Fuhayd; his partner Hiba b.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 2 Ḥeshvan 5324 Anno Mundi (19 October 1563 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

, the widow of Avraham b. Ẓahal, leases her ʿaliya apartment that is on top of the synagogue (בית הכנסת המדרש) to Avraham Baronito for a period of 5 months.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• late synagogues

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender expresses his longing for the addressee, who was his support ("al-ʿudda wa-l-ʿumda") when they were together. Mentions goods such as lac and honey.

العلامات

• business
• tadhkira

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

15 Tevet 5385 Anno Mundi (25 December 1624 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel as a naqqād in Ṣarf al-Manṣūra under a certain amir until the end of Elul, for a total salary of 2000 muayyadis.

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العلامات

• 17th c
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: draft of a legal document with the testimony of Abū l-Khayr [Shelomo b. ...] al-Ṣūrī. Mentions Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Sasson, Yehuda b. [...], someone's wife, and [... b.]

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4962/4964 Anno Mundi (1201–1204 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The calendar mentions intercalation, the length of the variable months, the type of the year, moladot of all months and days of the week of beginnings of months.

العلامات

• calendar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions: two knives, two notebooks; Ṭāhir; Ibn al-Sabʿ; Hiba; Ibn Yaʿaqov; the holidays.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

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Document date

Tammuz 1[4]50 Seleucid (1 June 1139–29 June 1139 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Ḥalfon ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. [...]. Dated: Tammuz 1[4]50 of the Seleucid era (= June 1139 CE).

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العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, headed, "This is all of what Sulaymān left before he traveled." There is is some overlap with the goods on recto, e.g. the rose conserve.

العلامات

• arabic script
• food
• hashish

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Complains (in the upper margin) about Ibrāhīm the ḍāmin al-jawālī (capitation tax farmer) who is again 'afflicting the people with affliction.'

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter from Yeshuʿa to al-Muhadhdhab. Possibly the response. Quotes a verse of poetry (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥāq ʿAmmānī (i.e. from the Ibn al-ʿAmmānī family), who calls himself "the small" (קטן) to Elʿazar ha-Levi ha-Sar.

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العلامات

• mosul nasis

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to a younger relative. Around 1050.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• corpse
• family

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David, Busir, to Abu l-Faraj Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAllān, Fustat. Around 1052 (Gil). The writer wants to ship flax from Busir to Fustat, but there aren't enough boats.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• suftaja
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning business matters such as the sale of gum mastic, and mentioning people including Tamīm Ibn al-Zayyāt, Munajjā b. Abī l-[...], Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb, and the fact that Shemuel is arriving in Fusṭāṭ.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Settlement agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan and Manṣūr, his brother-in-law.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar 4786 Anno Mundi (22 January 1026–20 February 1026 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: al-Ramla. Dated: Adar 4786 AM = January/February 1026 CE.

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العلامات

• divorce
• get
• ramla

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1473-02-05 Seleucid (27 October 1161 CE)

The divorce is between Abū al-Faḵr Kahana b. Saʿadya b. Sahlān. The witnesses are Mevorakh b.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He emphasizes that he prays for him at all times, including when he goes up to the Mount of Olives and when he is at 'the gates of mercy.'

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العلامات

• qaraite
• tripoli (libya)
• yosef b. ya'aqov

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informing that three pieces of copper, a lamp, and one other item belonging to the sister of Abu 'Ali Husayn b. Yosef have been delivered in the presence of witnesses, and sends wishes for the holidays.

العلامات

• 11th c
• mevorakh b. saadya

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter sent to al-Mahalla concerning various business matters and dealing with the sale of sugar, chewing gum (mastaka) and rice.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• al-mahalla
• business
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Yiṣḥaq from Tripoli (Libya) to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against the ship, which the writer was traveling, before the ship entered the port of Tripoli.

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Document date

Tuesday, 25 Av 4973 Anno Mundi (13 August 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj) and wife (Maʿālī bt. Manṣūr) from al-Maḥalla appear before the court of Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Av 4973 AM (=1524 Seleucid), which is August 1213 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides.

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• bara'a
• divorce

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Aramaic

The bride's father gave her an appartment in Acre where the couple will live, under the condition that he (the father) can stay in the appartment with them whenever he wants, alone with other family members, for a visit or for good.

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العلامات

• acre
• ketubba
• marriage
• tyre

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday, 24 Tammuz 1358 Seleucid (21 July 1047 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faraj b. Sulaymān known as Ibn al-Muqashshir was asked about the oath that he said (or: it was said) that Avraham b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to the effect that the local leader had incited the boys of the congregation (sibyan al-yahud) against him, a charge that the leader strongly denied.

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العلامات

• 15th c
• complaints
• teacher

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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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• orphans
• silk
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

The sender instructs the addressee to give the bearer, Durmī al-Qarmaṭī (probably the same man from the legal document on recto), 10 irdabbs of wheat and not to delay its delivery under any circumstances.

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العلامات

• dimme

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Might mention someone called al-Tūnisī in l. 4. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The individual sections begin with the word "wa-yunhī" and end with "anhā al-mamlūk dhālika" (e.g. left page of recto, line 8).

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العلامات

• report

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Her husband refuses, and her previous owner (or alleged owner) claims she was not enslaved, and that she became Jewish out of her own free will (תהודת מן דאתה).

العلامات

• responsum
• shemuel b. saadya

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Barakāt buys for his wife (name not preserved) one-half out of twenty-four shares of a house, from her brother Abū l-Faraj b. Yūsuf, in Khiṭṭat al-Rāya in the district known as Maḥbas Banāna.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1140s CE, per Goitein. Bū Naṣr al-Mūrid here is likely identical with the one mentioned in BL OR 5549.5 (PGPID 34013).

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shevaṭ." Mentions: aṣḥāb Dār al-Qarāʾin(?); flax. Expenses are organized according to the day of the week.

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written by Yeshua b. Ismail al-Makhmuri (Gil). (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 111; Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, p. 69, and Ben-Sasson, Yehudei Sitzilya, p. 337)

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العلامات

• account
• sicily
• skins

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The join is not direct and is discussing a different topic, but the two fragments seem to come from the same manuscript. Join: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involving a man and his wife Sitt al-A[...]; her giving up her right to something (אנהא נזלת ענה); and periods of time.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1 Shawwāl 504 Hijrī (12 April 1111 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal order requesting the registration of an expenditure (?) in the Fatimid dīwān al-majlis (privy council). Written in five (?) different hands, reflecting a complex procedure.

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العلامات

• fiscal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

8 Tammuz 5613 Anno Mundi (14 July 1853 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Both documents concern the same case, involving a harsha'a and Se. Yosef b. Yaqar aka al-Khwāja Yūsuf b. Yaqār. ASE. MCD.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر