Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Wide line spacing. May mention ʿAbd ALlāh; the rest of the subject matter is unclear; mentions something that should not become known (انه لا يظهر ذلك لاحد لىلا يصل الحديث).

العلامات

• bialphabetic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a rejection (inkār) from the "al-majlis", in Fusṭāṭ, probably referring to a state official or a bureau, because of employing (bi-sabab istikhdām) someone that the bureau/person refused of.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Wafāʾ Tamīm al-Kohen. Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century, based on the dating of recto.

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العلامات

• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She should be placed 'under the care' of Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi. Everything that has been brought to Fustat should be returned.

العلامات

• nagid
• orphans
• petition

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Khayr; Mufaḍḍal; Mūsā; Abū l-Majd al-ʿArīf; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makārim; Sitt Ghazāl; Sulaymān; Abū l-Khayr; "mawlāy."

1 مناقشة

Document date

6 Heshvan 1440 Seleucid (2 October 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Ibn Qashqūsh declares to have no claims whatsoever against Abū l-Baqāʾ Elʿazar b. Evyatar al-Ahwāzī after the settlement of the inheritance of his wife.

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العلامات

• alemdar
• amir
• damascus
• halfon b. menashshe
• nagid david
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It starts by describing a stroll on the Sabbath following Pentecost to 'the observatory' (al-raṣad) to get some fresh air (natanashshaq).

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which ʿEli urges Efrayim to stop ignoring his letters and to give him an update about his earlier request concerning Abū l-Faraj al-Mawṣilī.

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العلامات

• 11th c

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Document date

Tuesday, 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid (1 April 1147 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yehuda ha-Zaqen. Bride: al-Sitt bt. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen; she is the divorcee of the groom.

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العلامات

• ketubba

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a letter apparently written in Edessa (al-Ruhā). In Judaeo-Arabic. In a different hand from the letter on recto (one of the Mosul Nasis?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The remedies preserved here are topicals, e.g., for skin lesions and ulcers, cosmetics for the face, and compresses including one for heavy menstrual bleeding and vaginal bleeding during pregnancy: (take) peeled lentils, pomegranate peel, saffron, gallnut, seed of al-Amīr Bārīs (= barbārīs = barberry); these should be ground up and made into a paste with vinegar and applied to the belly/uterus (baṭn) and to the pubic region (ʿāna).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

About a consignment of silk that was about to reach Fustat, owned in partnership by the sender and Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Nahray is requested to sell the silk as quickly as possible and to keep the sale secret.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• nahray b. nissim
• secret
• silk
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The family may have paid their taxes (wa-niḥnā kāmilīn min al-maqṣ). ASE

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two of the accounts mention "Brahīmī" coinage alongside bunduqī (gold ducats) and fiḍḍa (possibly medin).

العلامات

• cmp
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But Levi doesn't have the needle any more and claims that Shimʿon already redeemed it and forgot about it. (Information from Amir Ashur via FGP.)

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العلامات

• responsa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Ḥasan.

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العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• pinholes

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Primary language

Arabic

One distinctive feature of these horoscopes/prognostications is the phrase "wallāhu aʿlam" (God knows better) after each prediction.

العلامات

• arabic literary
• prognostication

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

May he be as a tree planted along water, sending forth its shoots by a stream; it does not sense the coming of heat, its leaves are ever fresh; it has no care in a year of drought, it does not cease to yield fruit” (Jer 17:8).

العلامات

• panegyric

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals with intermittent usage of Western Arabic numerals.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David ha-Kohen and that he is only owed 5 more dinars, which will be paid over a period of 4 months (Nisan through Tammuz, the year is lost), 1.25 dinars each month. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The purpose of this letter is to ask for help obtaining a ṭallit or its price, and sending it back with Abū l-Ḥasan Barakāt. The sender has already written to the Nagid regarding the same matter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the writer, see India Book II, 6 (DK 230.3 (alt: XIX) (PGPID 5422)), India Book II, 9 (Moss.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited
• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. Possibly dated in the first line of the recto, left side: ס׳ סגץ (s[anat] 963 AH), but the preceding word is too damaged to know for sure if this is a Hijrī year or perhaps a non-calendrical part of the entry.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Abū Saʿd b. Yisra'el ha-Zaqen (al-Tustari?), copied by his student. Bottom of the fragment seems like an answer to a question or addressed to a student or disciple discussing the philosophy of knowledge, some are bestowed with it whilst some are bereft of it.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

The names of those listed include: Ḥananīya Ṭawīl, Avraham Levi, Nissīm Raṣon, Eliyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Azulay, Saʿd Pinto, Nissīm Meyuḥas, Mordekhay Qapinton, Eliyahu Ṣahal, Yaʿaqov Shalom, Raḥamīm Zardil/Zaradel, Avraham al-Ḥajj, Moshe Mūjnājī, Gedaliya Mūjnājī, Moshe Ṣevi.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• fgp stub
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso, JRL SeriesA 668-1, the addressee conveys greetings to a number of acquaintances, including an Abu Sulayman Dawwud and an Abu Ishaq b. al-Tuzi; the latter may be the same person who appears in a legal document dated in the middle of the 12th century, see T-S8J5, f. 15

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sanhedra Rabba, bless his saintly memory, his son assumed the judgeship... and opened for himself an academy (midrash) for teaching the Law (ʿulūm al-sharīʿa) in place of his father, and the judges who rose in the lifetime of the gr[eat?]

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Legal record of the same case on the recto, which offers us an alternative vantage point against which we may evaluate the narrative imposed on this woman’s actions in the communal leader’s letter.

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العلامات

• marital dispute

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