Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains sundry reports about the Palestinian and Iraqi synagogues and dealings with the notables of Fustat. Among these, Abū ʿAlī, the caretaker of the Palestinian synagogue, has taken ill, so he has neglected his duties, and the synagogue has fallen into disrepair.

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العلامات

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• shelomo b. yehuda
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov tells Yosef that he has purchased two qirābs of olive oil and delivered them to Ibn al-Tuffāḥī in Jaffa (Gil, Palestine, 1:237).

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Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b.

العلامات

• qayrawan
• recommendation

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter addressed to Isḥāq b. ʿAllūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script on verso.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the names mentioned are: Ḥanna, Aṣlān, and al-Qāvūqj[u]? (אל קאאוקג). The latter term may be an Arabophone spelling of the Turkish word kavukçu = "maker or seller of quilted turbans" (Redhouse Dictionary, p. 622).

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• late ja
• turban
• turkish words

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 5480 Anno Mundi (13 November 1719–12 December 1719 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The transaction involves many parties: Yahūda Provensal, Yiṣḥaq Foa, Moshe Salāma, Yiṣḥaq Menaḥem, Shemuʾel Arditi, Moshe Arditi, and al-Emīr Muḥammad Yerek Katkhūda of the Mustaḥfiẓān janissary corps.

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2

العلامات

• 18th c
• customs
• fgp stub
• late heb

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Recto appears to be a magical text with magical names ('hādhihi al-asmāʾ...').

العلامات

• birth record

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā, in Damīra, to Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an absent husband, reprimands his wifeʼs family for accusing him publicly of neglecting her (from Oded Zinger's PhD, p. 261).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ṭevet 5359 Anno Mundi (29 December 1598–26 January 1599 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions a שילבש (= Çelebi?) and an amīr and maybe al-Buḥayra.

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2

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Verso: Mentions a shipment of Persian cloth, cotton, a deal with Ibn al-Tarabulsi and rosewater. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #358) VMR

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العلامات

• account
• al-tahirti
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe? The two sides (al-ḍiddayn) are Hiba b. Khalaf and the teacher Abū Kathīr.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid (17 December 1126–14 January 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Maʿālī Shelomo al-Dhahabī. The witnesses to the declaration are ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Araḥ Ibn Kokhav (or Kawkab), and the judge is ʿEli b.

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العلامات

• deathbed will
• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, probably somewhere in the Maghrib, to Avraham b.

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العلامات

• lemon

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Appeal to the public by a young woman to help her against her neglectful husband, her cousin Yosef b. Kulayb al-Kohen, the brother-in-law of Ibn Ṭarsūn the cantor. […] Translation: "In Your name, oh All Merciful. Oh Community of Israel, I appeal to God and to you. […] Then, three years ago, my mother died. I sold all my dowry and maintained myself by this, but now nothing has remained with me except turning to God and to you, oh Israel.

العلامات

• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b.

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3

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo sends his regards to his sister Sitt al-Riyāsa and her siblings and her mother.

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العلامات

• damin
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: excuse

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1476 Seleucid (19 September 1164–8 September 1165 CE)

Saʿadya ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. Containing many items of dowry with realistic values.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He wants to be on his way and to join Avraham al-Ger (the proselyte) on his journey to Ceuta, intending to make appeals (there).

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1

العلامات

• petition
• private

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Document date

Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (22 April 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq against Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Witnessed by Netanʾel b. Yefet, Nissim b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿ[adya known as Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣal]. This is the same couple whose divorce proceedings are detailed in CUL Or.1080 J141.

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1

العلامات

• trousseau

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts on verso, with the heading titled "ḥisāb al-awrāq min ....[?]"– perhaps referring to paper production based on the number of times "awrāq" is repeated throughout the various accounts.

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• paper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1540 Seleucid (1228–1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Riḍā [...] and the purchase of a shop with all its equipment and scales for a sum of 46[.].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Aharon to sue Yefet b. [...] for all that her husband had left with him. Mentions "the city of חנס that is called אי כפתור," i.e., Damietta.

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1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are clear sewing marks along the inner margins of the recto and verso. Some of the terms listed include: לנא/לנו, מנא/ממנו, מעכם/עמכם, בעיד/רחוק.

العلامات

• bilingual
• cmp
• dictionary

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly the fragment was better preserved at the time, or he deduced that 60 was the more likely alternative based on her socioeconomic status). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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1

العلامات

• dowry
• slaves

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

A variety of individuals are referenced along the right border of the page: Amato (אמאטו), Meyuḥas (מיוחס), and "the Judge" (אלחכים) in Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

There are neatly spaced holes along the margin (like the other fragments in this folder), so this document was once bound together with other documents in a (presumably modern) folder.

العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Khayr with the parnas Abū ʿAlī against the promise to bury her in specified clothing.

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العلامات

• burial
• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. All that is preserved here is formulaic blessings and the standard complaint about lack of responses to prior letters.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions dirhams, gold, "sending something little by little," and a sum of dinars. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Handwriting, too, suggests this is a late list (16th century?), and unlike the alms lists, donor lists, and accounts from the classical period.Similar lists occur in ENA NS 77.54, ENA NS 77.51, and ENA NS 77.388.

العلامات

• account
• charity
• communal
• coptic alphanumeral
• judaeo-persian

1 نسخ

Document date

6 Adar II 1546 Seleucid (26 February 1235 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Someone (name not preserved) releases Abū l-Fakhr b. Sayyid al-Ahl from any claim regarding a partnership (muʿāmala) they had involving wine and other products.

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4

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1248 Hijrī (31 May 1832–20 May 1833 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Signed and stamped by Maḥmūd Kāshif "Nāẓir Qism al-(....)".Needs examination for typology.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

David and on the verso the scribe alternated between the names Yosef b. Rafaʾel ʿUziʾel and Rafaʾel b.

العلامات

• calligraphy
• early modern

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

7 Tammuz 5409 Anno Mundi (17 June 1649 CE)

Bill of divorce. Probably a draft: although it is signed, there are interlinear corrections for the date and for the husband's name, and there is no statement attesting that it was delivered.

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1

العلامات

• damascus
• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Halakhic discussion of a man who deposited something with somebody, who then died. Possibly from Kitāb al-Wadīʿa of Saʿadya Gaʾon. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to Eliyyahu the Judge which he had loaned for [...], and 12 dirhams for the lighting, and 3 dirhams for "jarīd" (=lulavs?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In particular he mentions his longing for his children and wishes to know in detail what happened to 'the master' (al-sayyid). Greetings to Abū Saʿd and his brother and Abū l-ʿIzz.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender blames something on a youth/servant (al-ghulām).

1 مناقشة

Document date

First third of Ṭevet 1593 Seleucid (14 December 1281–23 December 1281 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Nothing is preserved from the body of the document except for the name of one of the parties: Abū Naṣr al-Levi. On verso there are two poems in Hebrew, one attributed to Shelomo the younger (הקטן) and one to Yehuda ha-Levi.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The writer sends greetings from his cousin Zakkai and from ‘all the sages of the two Yešivot’. There is a quote from Psalms 59:17, marked with supralinear dots.

العلامات

• 11th c
• formulary

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Primary language

Hebrew

The text is almost completely vocalised and rhymes in -akh. It seems to be more of a poem than a letter; it breaks off mid-sentence, but there is no continuation on verso.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر