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Document date

Monday, 1 Av 1543 Seleucid (19 July 1232 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Baqāʾ, known as the indigo merchant (tājir al-nīl), declares that he will diligently try to provide for himself(?).

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Document date

8 Kislev 5583 Anno Mundi (22 November 1822 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The grand sum of the ketubba is 32000 medins (מך). All signatures are lost to damage, but it's likely that the scribe signed on behalf of the groom based on the fragment of text visible in the middle of the signatures section.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ketubba

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One was converted into a stable for horses, and one was taken by a wicked man named Ibn al-Sandabīsī. Information from Goitein's note card.

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العلامات

• orphan girl
• ruins
• women's letters

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports on various financial matters, reports that everyone in his location is in good health, and conveys his preoccupation on behalf of his father, his grandfather, and his paternal aunt. He heard that all of them were "mutakassil," an obscure word referring to some type of illness—Goitein suggests fatigue.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: household
• illness: mutakassil

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Abū l-Ḥusayn Moshe b. Shelomo al-ʿAṭṭār (the perfume vendor or pharmacist) grants his wife her delayed marriage gift of 50 dinars and an additional gift of ten dinars, and stipulates conditions in case she remarries.

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العلامات

• deathbed will
• draft
• halfon b. menashshe

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Inferred date

1150–1150 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, then in Aden, 1150. The reference to Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar "of Ceylon" (מן סילאן) is somewhat confusing, as this man is known from other documents and there is no indication that he is a person from Ceylon.

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العلامات

• ib3
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

946 Hijrī (19 May 1539–7 May 1540 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entries on the recto are better preserved, mentioning names and groups such as: Abū al-Nasr (Naṣr), Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Wafāʾ and "the dyers" (sabāghiyyīn/ṣabāghiyyīn).

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العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to the two brothers Avraham and Yiṣḥaq/Isḥāq Ibn al-Ḥakīm ("the physician"). Identification of the sender based on his distinctive handwriting.

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العلامات

• flax

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He refers to having given something to the 'purifier' (al-muṣaffī).

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Primary language

Hebrew

As for another sum of 175 peraḥim, this will be paid in full by כדוש alone. The Nagid could possiblly be Natan (Yehonatan) Sholal (1484–1502) or his relative Yiṣḥaq Sholal (1502–1517).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The term may indicate a "receipt" or simply a "sum" of money which is likely expressed here in alphanumerical figures. The heading states that this "חסבה/حسبة" is connected to one "Yūsuf ibn Salam[?]

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

523 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

Ḥamūl, and the other includes "al-Baghdādī") followed by "ʾaʿadda ʿindī bi-dhālika wa-kataba...."

العلامات

• barley
• cmp
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1189 Hijrī (4 March 1775–20 February 1776 CE)

The receipt was issued to a certain "Salāmūn al-Yahūdī". Pinholes at the margin ~5–6mm apart suggest that this fragment may once have once been sewn together with ENA 3924.5 (but not by the original owners given the different dates).

العلامات

• 18th c
• hikr
• ottoman
• pinholes
• waqf

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rajab 635 Hijrī (17 February 1238–18 March 1238 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt for Bū l-Makārim b. Bū Ishaq al-Mutaṭabbib, possibly for the purchase of a house in Fustat.

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العلامات

• ayyubid taxation
• landscape
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1357–59 Seleucid (1045–1048 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Join with ENA NS 85.1317 identified by Alan Elbaum.

العلامات

• al-tustari
• calendar
• karaite

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender recommends the bearer, the cantor Yisraʾel who arrived this year from al-Mahdiyya, for charity. Requires further examination.

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العلامات

• recommendation

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Document date

Ḥeshvan–Kislev 1339 Seleucid (1027–1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Incidentally, it mentions someone named Ḥayyim Ibn al-Jāsūs.

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya
• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1452 Seleucid (8 June 1141–6 July 1141 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The seller's brother Abū Isḥāq is mentioned. Join: Alan Elbaum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century.

العلامات

• ib7
• india book
• materia medica
• spices

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Yosef Hamon of Istanbul to Yehuda al-Ashqar in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century.

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العلامات

• hamon

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The sender then gives an account of his travels: "we ended up in al-Buḥayra and we stayed. . . I set out to the salty sea, and I stayed on the sands(?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

End of a late letter in Hebrew from Avraham R[...?] (alt. reading: Meʾīr Sarāgo[sī?]). The sender describes how he successfully made a match for the daughter of [...] with Shemuel Brodoy (?)

العلامات

• late heb
• matchmaker

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Addressed to Yeshūʿa[?] al-Mātī[?] from Eliyahu Medina[?], both names are not entirely clear.

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العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• safed

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1350 Seleucid (2 September 1038–21 September 1039 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

In which Sibāʿ b. Menashshe renounces all claims to anything belonging to Binyamin b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

A court document which details that Sitt al-Dar, wife of Sedaqa ha-Levi, promised to comply with the stipulation of her late brother, Sedaqa, to provide for their mother until her death and arrange a proper funeral for her upon her death.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The list starts with almost four lines of honorifics applied to Zakai, followed by 13 lines of Exilarchs and their biblical antecedents.

العلامات

• exilarchs
• genealogy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef \'the interpreter\' (al-turgeman), and Naḥman. Verso is blank. Dating: first half of the 12th century.

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Document date

5414 Anno Mundi (22 September 1653–11 September 1654 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: labeled twice along the upper margin of the recto "Y[ear] 5414" and "Account [of the year] 5414 AM" (1653/1654 CE).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

921 Hijrī (15 February 1515–4 February 1516 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The 14th did fall on a Wednesday in Jumādā II and Dhu al-Qaʿda of 921 but neither option seems more likely given how the scribe crossed out the month (perhaps indicating it was a mistake).

العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

At the top of the list's columns, the year is barely legible in the heading but is possibly ה]תקנב] which is 1791/1792CE. Although the year is unclear, the usage of silver kuruş indicated by the "ق" at the top of the numerical columns assists in the dating of the document as no earlier than 1703CE (when the coinage began to appear in wide circulation: Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

العلامات

• 18th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1833–1833 CE

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

23 Tishrei 5586 Anno Mundi (5 October 1825 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and pen trials of the Arabic alphabet that can be dated on the recto to the night of Simchat Torah of [5]586 AM which is October 5, 1825 CE.

العلامات

• 19th c
• arabic script
• communal
• simhat torah

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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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

Document date

26 Tevet 5273 Anno Mundi (4 January 1513 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The issue centers on an oath that the Nagid took when he was running the mint (dār al-ḍarb) to the effect that Avraham Talmid would not do business with anone in the world for as long as Sholal remained at the mint.

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العلامات

• late heb
• mint
• numismatics
• sholal

1 نسخ

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

The court came and took possession the silver vessels he had gifted to his wife, along with his other possessions. She objects that these items now belong to her.

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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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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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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

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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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