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Document date

20 Ramaḍān 632 Hijrī (8 June 1235 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

According to the verso, the property was bought by the judge ʿImād al-Dīn from al-Ḥājj b. Yūsuf who acted as an agent on behalf of al-Sitt Ḥabībat Ḥanūn. […] The document on the recto was probably drafted at the court of the chief judge in Cairo, Sharaf al-Dīn b. ʿAyn al-Dawla (d. 639/1242). (YU, AP)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

579 Hijrī (26 April 1183–13 April 1184 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of two documents of sale, on recto and verso. The document on the verso is regarding the sale of a house.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Folios from the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) on parchment. The folios are from the epistle on magic and talismans (Risāla …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, probably a summary of case proceedings. The document is entitled, maḥḍaratayn. The case involves at least one government official, a mutawallī of a …

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment containing prescriptions (recipes). One of them is apparently for combating sleeplessness or anxiety (qalaq). The person or persons jotting down the recipes have not …

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment in Kufic script, including (left side of verso) part of Sūra al-Tawba.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, in Arabic Maghribī script. Most likely copied in Ifrīqiyya.

العلامات

• maghribi script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ramaḍān 545 Hijrī (22 December 1150–20 January 1151 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgment for the pawning of an enslaved woman by Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (or Wuhayb), ḍāmin for dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm, for a period of six months to the qāḍī Fakhr al-Dawla Abū l-Qāsim Saʿīd ibn al-qāḍī Bū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿAmr.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, in Arabic script. Requires identification.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shaʿbān 481 Hijrī (20 October 1088–17 November 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A rental agreement regarding a property in Fusṭāṭ between Bū l-Faraj al-Ḥanīzī (?) and Bū Naṣr b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī. The document is quite damaged.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, in Arabic script. Book of tales.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.

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2 Shaʿbān 626 Hijrī (26 June 1229 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Lease document for a house in Fusṭāṭ, owned by Abī Saʿīd b. Makārim b. Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of the endowment of Rabbanite Jews in Fusṭāṭ. The leasee is Makārim b. Abī al-Faraj b. Ṭāhir al-Yahūdī the perfumer.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

12 Muḥarram '99 Hijrī

Primary language

Arabic

Note in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Dated 12 Muḥarram '99 (possibly 1099 or 1199 AH). The top line appears to read الى حضرة المكرم انبارك …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Petition from ʿUmar b. ʿAbdallāh al-Miṣrī, in Asyūṭ (l. 7), to a notable with a long string of titles (ll. 4–6).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Arabic poetry, poet unknown. Two poetries.

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Document date

16 Rabīʿ I 969 Hijrī (24 November 1561 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The heading bears the ʿalāma and signature of the presiding qadi, Yaḥya b. Yūnus al-Qirāfī al-Mālikī, whose name is repeated in ll. 5-6. […] The brothers ʿAbdallāh and Yaḥyā, sons of al-raʾīs Muṣtafa b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallah, acknowledge a debt to Isḥaq b. Israʾel b. Yaḥya al-Yahūdī al-Rabbān known as Ashkenāzī (l. 11).

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. […] Mentions someone called Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma. Abū l-Ḥasan is to meet with Yūsuf al-Ṭawwāf in Cairo, who owes something (two dinars?)

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العلامات

• daman
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document, or official letter, in Arabic script. Refers to an amīr and his operations, and mentions something in relation to the bedouins (ʿurbān). The …

2 نسخين

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, in Arabic script. Fragment from an Islamic legal manual. The preserved portion talks about marital relationships, more precisely, rulings on intimacy with a …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

24 Sivan 1313 Seleucid (7 June 1002 CE)

Dated: 24 Sivan 1313 Seleucid = 7 June 1002 CE. Groom: ʿAmram b. Maymūn. Bride: Zahra bt. Elishamaʿ. This fragment was reused in 1054/55 CE as a model for the ketubba for the groom Yoshiyya b. Neḥemya Rosh Pirqa (b. Avraham b. Sahlān) and the bride Karīma bt.

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Thursday 5 Elul 4750 Anno Mundi (28 August 990 CE)

This may account for the fact that she was not provided with a trousseau by her father but received a payment from her future husband, Aharon b. Yeshuʿa, to buy herself an outfit. The settlement is signed by 36 persons, possibly all guests present, only two of whom were witnesses.

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العلامات

• libya
• marriage
• tripoli
• trousseau
• witness

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

7 Tishrei 4750 Anno Mundi (9 September 989 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Sahl and Ḥusayn, the sons of the late Yehuda, complain about Neṭira b. Toviyya ha-Kohen, also from Nisibis, with whom their late father had left 1,320 silver pieces. The sons now claim the estate of their father from Neṭira, who had “confessed before God and the elders,” whereupon each son received his share of the estate: 330 silver pieces each. Neṭira b. Toviyya ha-Kohen of Nisibis is mentioned as appointed as a guardian in another Hebrew legal deed from Tinnis from the same year (PGPID 7428).

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Document date

19 Tevet 47[..] Anno Mundi (2 January 940–19 December 1038 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Moshe declares that neither she, nor her husband Shelomo, have any property whatsoever. The court warns her that she, and her daughters Suwayda and Sutayt, who were both present as well, are the only heirs of her husband.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid (14 October 1029 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Marriage contract in the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat (a previous PGP description said Jerusalem). Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid = 14 October 1029 CE. Groom: Yefet b. Shelomo. Bride: Berakha bt. Shemarya. Marriage payments: 5 + 10.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sivan 1438 Seleucid (13 May 1127–11 June 1127 CE)

Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Sivan 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Groom: Tiqva b. Peraḥya ha-Levi. Details of the dowry (nidūnya) total 174 as far as visible.

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Document date

middle third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid (21 April 1103–30 April 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid = April 1103 CE. Unsigned but complete document on parchment, in which a court, as warden of the two minor orphans of Shemuel b. Yefet, permits to use 50 dinars out of the 74 dinars left to them, for urgent repairs of a house in in the alley of מכיל, Old Cairo, left to them also. The money is held by the syrup maker Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. Elʿazar. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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العلامات

• construction
• orphans

1 مناقشة

Document date

Nisan 1456 Seleucid (27 March 1145–25 April 1145 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has received 20 dinars from Abū l-Faraj and releases him from further claims.

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Wednesday, 15 Kislev 1500 Seleucid (7 December 1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Kislev 1500 Seleucid, which is December 1188 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Signed by: Shelomob. Nissim and Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (may be identical with Abū Sahl Levi the cantor, father of Yedutun and Moshe b. Levi; may also be the same Levi b. Avraham who appears in T-S NS J273 in connection to a silk workshop).

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العلامات

• inheritance
• silk
• will

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Witnesses include Yosef b. Shelomo, Yosef b. Nissim, and Yosef b. Shemarya.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Gigantic and calligraphically written account by Abū l-Bishr regarding the sale of merchandise in Ifrīqiyya from the beginning of the 11th century, probably for Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. On parchment and written in a book-hand.

العلامات

• commodities
• ibn awkal
• indigo
• trade

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Ketubba. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver ("at his best"), active ca. 1128–1164 CE.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The other half of the vineyard belongs to Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq. The vineyard abuts the public domain on three sides and the property of the Muslim Aḥmad b.

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العلامات

• spain
• tagus

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (with address on verso): Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose and calligraphic script (which deteriorates over the course of the letter) to Mevorakh b. David ha-Bavli ("the leader of the Babylonian congregation," line 15) from Yehuda Sofer b. […] The writer sends regards to Avraham ha-Rofe b. ʿEli. He adds a postscript in Judaeo-Arabic, asking Mevorakh to forward a letter to Abū ʿImrān b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

End of a legal document written and signed by Elḥanan b. Shemarya. Verso is blank.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of thanks from Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Fustat. Dating: ca. 1120s or, more broadly, ca. 1100-1138 CE based on the years when Ḥalfon was active.

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• thanks

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated September 1040 (Gil), sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yahya b. Musa al-Majjani to Zechariah b. Tammam in Fustat. The letter deals with a financial dispute between the writer and Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham Ibn Allan. The Qayrawan Nagid Yaʿaqov. b. Amram and Rabbi Hananel b. Hushiel are mentioned in this matter. The letter also mentions mail that was sent and the state of Mediterranean maritime and land transport.

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2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Qayrawan. […] He bought goods from Abū Naṣr, who is Hesed b. Yashar ha-Tustari. Mentions details about several people and trades, mainly of pearls and beads.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated ca. 1050, sent by Sedaqa b. Zakariyya from Alexandria to his partner Barhun b.

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العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq in Sfax to Yehuda b. Moshe Ibn Sughmar in Fustat. […] It is all in the hands of 'Abd al-Rahman b. All b. Habib Sfaqsi." (Goitein, LMJT, pg. 139-140).

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العلامات

• coin
• flax
• ibn sughmar
• nasir al-dawla
• trade

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel to his father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• berakhot b. shemuel
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: akhlaq
• illness: alam
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• communal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة