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The writer describes his conflict with an Iraqi named Ibn al-Wāsiṭī. The writer asks that Sahlan b. Avraham, the leader of the Iraqi community in Fustat, intervene.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sahlān. Describes a flood: "All the people living above and below it were scared.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• flood
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Buyer: the perfumer Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī, well known from the India Book documents.

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• slave

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sunday, 27 Nisan 1415 Seleucid (24 April 1104 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inquiring about a traveler, whether his ship had embarked, and whether the favorable wind (ṭārūs al-rīḥ) persisted. Mentions Abū Yosef Yaʿaqov and Abū l-Najm.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. Moshe known as al-Shay[kh?], Moshe b. Shelomo (known as Ibn Ḥassān), and the late Abū Naṣr "who used to sit in the shop we had together, and I spoke with him and asked him several times about the son of [...]."

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What remains indicates that the divorce is between Natan ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Khawāt bt. [. . .]. The date that is left is for the 28 of a month between 1449 and 1460 in the Seleucid calendar (1138-1149 in Julian).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating to the mid-11th century CE, in which the brothers Joseph and Nahum, sons of Yannay b. Nahum al-Baradānī the cantor, enlist the Sicilian judge Maṣlīaḥ b.

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Nicholas de Lange, et. al., 208) EMS

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العلامات

• byzantines
• communal
• complaints

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya to Moshe b. Avraham (Barhun) al-Taharti in Fustat, who is about to sail from Qayrawan to Jerusalem.

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Azarya is on his way back to Jerusalem. Possibly alludes to the drought and epidemic in Fustat ("I am very preoccupied about your situation," verso, line 2), and mentions several people in difficult straits.

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العلامات

• daniel b. azarya
• eli b. ezekiel
• eli b. hayyim
• epidemic
• jerusalem
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Address in Arabic along with a draft of a document in a different hand.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• personal
• yefet b. david

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Yaakov, probably from Tripoli (Libya) to Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. A complaint about a person Ibn Masis.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sadaqa to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, dealing with money matters and the selling of merchandise, and mentioning goods and their prices.

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العلامات

• suftaja
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

10 Shevat (48)43 Anno Mundi (10 January 1083 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥasan had received nothing from a consignment of cinnabar (zanjafūr) carried by Qasim's slave, Mufarraj, a business agent from al-Mahdiyya. Dated Tuesday 10 January, 1083. Another deed on the same issue - PGPID 3345.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• denia
• slave

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

AA Description from PGPID 20032: Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yosef. Bridegroom's name is not preserved.

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العلامات

• fgp stub
• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Passover 1537 Seleucid (April 1226 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon b. Elazar known as ben al-Meshorer received from Nadiv b. Shelomo fifty dirhems in "Egyptian cash," to pay back in four half-monthly installments.

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العلامات

• minyat ghamr
• passover

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 1 Adar II 5323 Anno Mundi (24 February 1563 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The final signature is Moshe ... al-G___(?). (Information from CUDL)

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العلامات

• rashid

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Byzantium (bilād al-Rūm) and that 'the road to the West has opened.'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Alludes to concerns about illegal substitution of flax: "I think there is no doubt that they substituted for the bale which you bought in the Qālūṣ (the flax market in Fustat) another bale which they packed instead.”

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananyahu the Judge buys from Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet ha-Levi one quarter of a flour mill (ṭāḥūn) in the Mamṣūṣa quarter of Fustat, in the portico of Ibn Khīra, for his unmarried daughter, Sitt al-Khafar. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 327, and from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• 13th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Sunbāṭ and Nāṣir al-Dīn. Verso (image available only on FGP) includes Hebrew literary text and several lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning dyes or garments (qirmiz, abyaḍ).

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

11th Tammuz 4767 Anno Mundi (1007 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The marriage gift is 250 dinars, of which 100 dinars has already been advanced. (Information from CUDL)

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Document date

1087–1090 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yahya in Fustat, Egypt, regarding communal friction over the muqaddam (local community head) of Ascalon appointed by the Ra'is al-Yahud (Head of the Jews of the Fatimid empire) David b.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing with a lawsuit of al-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel against his paternal cousin [Musa]llam b.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to numerous family members: ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, Shuqra, the physician Ṣafiyy(?); Qamr; the sender's sister ʿAzīza and her husband Sulaymān, and others.

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العلامات

• numismatic dating

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shimʿon and garments and the dīwān; Berakhot and Ḥevron; the broker (simsāra); flax; cloves; spikenard (sunbul); dragon's blood (qāṭir); kohl, walnut, firewood, rhubarb, aloeswood, coral, marshmallow, silk; sums labeled "the merchandise of Damascus"; muḥallab/maḥlab; pistachio; a Christian; Isḥāq; Yeshuʿa; Salāma; and Nāblus.

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العلامات

• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Bordered on one side by the property of Ibn Baqāʾ al-Isrāʾīlī. Contains some interesting architectural details.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is asked to meet with the qāḍī Ṣafiyy al-Dīn and inform him that the sender yearns to serve him.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: a letter urging someone to adopt the noblest and manliest of disciplines (adāb) that promotes peace, order, and justice for all: being a government secretary (kātib). To this end, he should avidly study biographies (siyar).

العلامات

• katib

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer discusses his house and children and something he is unable to do. It almost sounds like he is being overwhelmed by people who are imposing on his hospitality.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gil identifies the writer as Ismail b. Ishaq al-Andalusi and dates the letter to 1050. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 237, 477; V, 205, 565, and Gil)

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Mentions Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf; [...] al-ʿŪdī b. Mevorakh; and a debt of 50 dinars. Verso: Mentions Mūsā b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1483 Seleucid (2 September 1171–20 September 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Iyov acknowledges having sold a house or a portion of one located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ to Abū l-Bayān Moshe b. Elʿazar. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• real estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar II [4853] Anno Mundi (2 March 1093–30 March 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef al-[...], Abū Yiṣḥaq, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Maḥbūb, and some other names.

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العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter was written on the sender's behalf by the scribe Yūsuf. Mentions al-Quḍāʿī ('the healer of stomach trouble') and Sayyidhum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The upper heading on the recto mentions a year but its meaning is not completely clear. The final word is alf (1000) and the one preceding that may be a misspelling of 2 (th..nayn?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ramaḍān 425 Hijrī (20 July 1034–18 August 1034 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Bottom of a rental contract (mentions several times al-mustaʾjir). In Arabic script. One of the parties is Abū l-Ḥasan.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Beginning with taqbīl, formal addresses/blessings, and a report ("anhā al-mamlūk..."). Dating: Probably Ayyubid or early Mamluk era.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

545/547 Hijrī (1150–1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The accounts deal with various different things, one of which is a storehouse of firewood (shūnat al-ḥaṭab). Merits further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Below, another entry is headed "yawm al-khamīs" and various goods with quantities of raṭls are listed underneath, including costus.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1200–1218 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• petition
• tax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In addition to general admonitions, the epistle states specifically that anyone selected by lot to serve as a collector of alms and refuses to act as such, or anyone objecting to participate in the weekly collections for the poor was liable to be punished with the 'heavy ban'.

العلامات

• communal
• nagid

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Hoshaʿna in Egypt during the rule of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021 CE). The title is followed by a Judaeo-Arabic poem, rhyming in -nī, written in red ink and vocalised with Arabic vowel signs.

العلامات

• megillat misrayim

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: an account from Qalyūb mentioning cooked food for 2.5 dirhams and alcoholic drinks (or more likely sugar, סכר rather than שכר) for 1 dirham.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av 1489 Seleucid (17 July 1189–15 August 1189 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the donors is the son of Bū l-Riḍā Ibn al-Lebdī (the father, Abū l-Riḍā, appears in Yevr.

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العلامات

• ib1
• india book

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1199 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An accounting of repairs in the tabaqa of the compound called shirkat al-Dayyan R. Menashshe. The accounting, as prederved, covers a period of four days, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, and refers mainly to the preparation of mortar, and carpentry work.

العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee and his wife and his son Barakāt are all asked to be good to the sender (perhaps by visiting?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dowry items listed are worth 188 dinars (but note that all jewelry items are missing and only the end of the clothing list is preserved).

العلامات

• slave

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

968–1006 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Responsum sent by Rav Sherira Gaon, head of the Pumbedita Jewish Academy in Baghdad, to Masīla (in modern Algeria). Dating (text): late 10th–early 11th century, based on the years of activity of Rav Sherira Gaon; this copy probably later.

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العلامات

• algeria
• marriage
• minor marriage

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Ladino

(Information in part from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.)

العلامات

• charity
• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر