Documents

The same list format appears on the verso, although a key word in the heading is "מקבוץ" which indicates incoming payments "received" or "obtained".

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Most of the food types are listed generically as eggs, lemon, beans, almonds, etc. but on the bottom of the recto it is clear that quantities of beef are being calculated in raṭl units given the mention of "לחם בקרי".

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• beef

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

26 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1056 Hijrī (2 February 1647 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Financial settlement between a husband and his wife? All the parties are Jewish. Dated: 26 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1056 AH, which is 2 February 1647 CE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Bride: Sharafiyya bt. Makīn b. Abū l-Najm al-Parnas. Groom: Unclear, but the names Abū Naṣr Moshe ha-Sar and Yeshuʿa ha-Sar are mentioned.

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2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The fragment includes dietary advice to avoid unripe dates, jujube, green almonds, carob, green broad beans, carrots and vinegar; whereas raisins, pistachios, figs and nuts should be eaten for dessert.

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العلامات

• autograph
• maimonides

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone called al-Makīn. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Stating that he has sent with the bearer 1 3/4 dirhams, along with small quantities of other items, and he requests to borrow a notebook and copy it, and he tells him twice to come see him this very night.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi
• yedutun ha-levi

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He asks him to let him tag along (yatbaʿ athārahū) when he sets out to buy grapes from the vineyards (ghīṭān).

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender heard that his brother Yosef died in India, and he asks the addressee to enquire with a certain Ibn al-Dajājī as to exactly how it happened. Apart from simply wanting to know, he is on the hook for paying his brother's capitation tax—maybe he will be exempted if he can prove his brother's death.

العلامات

• account
• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the address on verso, al-Rayyis Rabbenu Avraham is mentioned. "Magnificent script and Hebrew style of 29 lines, then in (Judaeo-)Arabic 8 lines."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: public figure
• illness: recovered

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The wife agrees not to force her husband to eat meat other than that slaughtered according to Rabbanite tradition, and to allow him to keep Rabbanite festivals. It is signed by the cantor ʿEli b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

7th Av 1410 Seleucid (28 July 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1v: Legal record concerning the claims of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī, who says there are five dinars remaining from the twenty-four dinars paid for a purchase of amber (or ambergris?

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar, the daughter of her sister, from all obligations with regard to her estate, whether she should die immediately or live a long time.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

End of Sivan 152[.] Seleucid (1209–1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Yumn (ZL) and [...] al-Ṣabbāgh b. Abū l-Surūr. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterannean Society, 3:327, 500.)

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• testimony

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 53a (ח53). Letter from al-Andalus, sender and recipient not preserved.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

He underwent bloodletting on Friday and received visitors in the home of his host Ḥusayn b. ʿAllān instead of going to synagogue on Shabbat. On verso there is an unrelated liturgical text (added at a later date).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bloodletting

1 نسخ

Ibn Awkal is in charge of the shipments as well as Shemuel b. Barhun al-Tāhartī. Shemuel traveled from Qayrawan to Fustat through Gabes.

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1 نسخ

(Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 30 and Allony, Frenkel, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, p. 312.)

العلامات

• 12th c
• copy
• saadya

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Document date

1457-06-12 Seleucid (26 February 1146 CE)

The divorce is between Yoshiyya b. Dawūd and Sitt al-Yumn bt. Saʿadya. The witnesses are Zakkāy b.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Bū l-Bishr and Abū ʿAlī and Baarakāt. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in monthly installments of 2/3 dinar, but only 3.5 dinars had been paid over the last 25 months.

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العلامات

• register

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1105–1105 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take back their judge who had left.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• communal
• rescript

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Power of attorney to Perahya ha-Kohen to travel to India and sue Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. al-Raqqī for the recovery of goods--primarily textiles--entrusted to said Nissim.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• power of attorney

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter noting that the Rayyis, or ‘head’, is referred to by his nickname “The Tail” in letters going to “all countries East and West.” A note on the right margin mentions Wuhsha’s will and its provision that 25 dinars should be paid to the cave, meaning the Jerusalem synagogue.

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العلامات

• wuhsha

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

28 Sivan 142[.] Seleucid (29 May 1109–20 June 1118 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

(Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. AA

العلامات

• dowry list
• ketubba

2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Inventory (thabt al-ḥawāʾij). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The other signatures are not preserved. The parties Abu al-Muna, and Tamim ha-Parnas. This Tamim is known from other document relating to the pious foundations: TS 8J11.7d (from 1182, published Gil, Pious foundations, no. 82) and TS 8J11.7a-b (Gil, ibid. no. 88).

العلامات

• fgp stub
• mevorakh b. natan

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4 Adar II 4845 Anno Mundi (3 March 1085 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He attests having gotten his money back from those in charge of the compound known as Dar al-maqadisa in Fustat, dedicated to the poor of Jerusalem.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• charity
• communal
• hawala
• rabbanite

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer further notes that “By chance I befriended a man from Damascus who introduced me to the family of Sayf al-Islam. I entered their house and treated them, whereupon they fixed for me a payment of one dinar every month.”

العلامات

• physician

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Nissim, the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla, and centered on issues relating to a marriage ceremony and the public evaluation of a dowry.

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• dowry
• illness
• illness: excuse
• marriage
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a mention of Yehuda ha-Nasi in the penultimate line of recto, apparently the name of the sender (al-khādim Yehuda ha-Nasi). (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by a son to his father in a silk shop in Minyat al-Qa'id. He inquires about the eye disease of the addressee and advises him to not remain in the premises occupied by the family.

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العلامات

• ibn habib's patient
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Palestine). VMR. Although Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya is writing in Judaeo-Arabic, he writes the sliding blessings and some numbers in Arabic script, similarly to his fellow Iraqi Shemuʾel b.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• suftaja
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver to a public role, or at least a letter concerning his learnedness and humility and his suitability for a public role, alluding to a rivalry with another person. The handwriting is apparently that of Yeshuʿa himself, though it refers to him in the third person.

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العلامات

• communal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 1525 Seleucid (8 August 1214–5 September 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo the physician (ha-Rofeʾ) known as Ibn al-Ṭaffāl. Marriage payments 10 + 25. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• clothing

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves the banker Abū Isḥāq Ibn Sunaynāt, Abū l-ʿAlā, and Abū Manṣūr. The portion in Judaeo-Arabic deals in part with the purchase of a riding animal.

العلامات

• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Aharon. The asterisked names all appear in documents from the first half of the 11th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The scribe often spells Allah in Arabic script. The formulae on T-S Ar.29.69 address "the ʿifrīt. . . the jinn and the shayāṭīn. . . ."

العلامات

• jinn

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first step is to soak it in citron vinegar for a week; a subsequent step is to insert it into a fish's belly and cook the fish; a further step is to feed it to a chicken and observe the chicken until it defecates the pearl; finally you bake it in an oven. If after all this the pearl is still clear without any turbidness, you will know that it is of the highest quality (aḥsan mā yakūn).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

25 Rabīʿ II 630 Hijrī (8 February 1233 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Abū l-Thanāʾ b. Abū Saʿīd al-Naṣrānī. The payment documented is for 22 wariq dirhams (much too low to be the price of the enslaved woman, so most likely the tax).

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العلامات

• glyph
• receipt
• slaves
• tax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter headed by the ʿalāma (motto) of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) and written in the typical hand of his clerk (compare Moss.

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العلامات

• yehoshua maimonides

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

In the right margin is the Arabic alphabet. On verso there is a calendrical work in Hebrew (hand resembling Avraham Ibn Yiju?).

العلامات

• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 152[.] Seleucid (1208–1217 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Naming various houses (Dār Sitt [...], Dār al-Zayt...). Fragments of at least five signatures are preserved: [...] b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Official letter/order from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with motto/ʿalāma at the top. Similarly concerns the releasing a vow between Yiṣḥaq and Ṣedaqa b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة