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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He complains that she is always disputing the payments and dragging him to court, and he is a sick man and is suffering due to this.

العلامات

• alimony
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• marital dispute
• petition
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Netanʾel, a very small section of a gaonic responsum in Hebrew and Aramaic containing a discussion of Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin on witnesses in court. Although not much is preserved of the text, the fragment demonstrates that Ḥalfon copied gaonic responsa for his own needs.

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العلامات

• ib4
• india book

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a date 8 Ramaḍān on the recto but the year's alphanumerical meaning is unclear: אג[?], despite its appearance the second letter must not be gimmel.

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العلامات

• 16th or 17th c

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Primary language

Arabic

Long vertical strip of parchment. At the top of verso: allāh khayr muʿīn. There follow various versions of orders of payment.

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Document date

906–951 Hijrī (28 July 1500–14 March 1545 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first two digits are both single alphanumerals (rather than tens-place) so it is unclear if the scribe intended for them to be added (906 AH) or that each one represents a digit within the Hijrī year itself (951 or 915 AH).

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Document date

Jumāḍā II 545 Hijrī (25 September 1150–23 October 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The list includes talmudic tractates, works by Isaac al-Fāsī, Hayy Gaʾon, Saʿadya Gaʾon, midrashim, responsa by Rabbi Joseph ha-Levi, and geonic responsa.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first entry is a payment made to Naṣr the mawlā of Ibn al-Zubayr. Goitein writes, "Ancient accounts of a Tunisian merchant, specifying goods sent on camelback to Tripoli, Libya, and others sent by ship from Tripoli via Tunis to Palermo, Sicily." 4 pages on parchment, large childlike letters, erratic spelling, influenced by the local dialect.

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These seem to be the names of the collectors of the weekly alms. Only one man, Yaʿaqov, the money assayer, served twice.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of alms for the poor: בשם רחום וחנון אלצדקה מן אלעגל ללעניים.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the 29th week space was assigned to salaries, superscribed al-rusūm, but the space was left blank. The letter samekh evidently stands for Arabic sittun (60).

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العلامات

• account
• payment

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Efrayim 'the scribe' (1058-1066). 7 persons in charge of collecting the pledges, one al-qammah (not a common Jewish profession). The total of 36 dirhams transferred from another leaf certainly was spent on bread for the poor.

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• charity
• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Section 15 of Shem Tov ibn Shaprut's Even Boḥan (a refutation of the polemical arguments of the convert Alfonso of Valladolid), containing citations of the Aramaic Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, "Pilate" recension) on fol. 133r; used as an indirect textual witness to the Aramaic text in Bohak's edition.

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Document date

Middle third of Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (19 March 1693–28 March 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #9) Property rental agreement for a residence in "Bayn al-Aswāq(?)," probably the name for a specific street or part of Cairo (lit.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sale of a wife's outfit (probably after her death without child, or only bearing a son; the husband sold but had to answer claims; e.g., if they had no child at all, 1/2 of the outfit had to be returned to the wife's family).

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The city Nāblus is mentioned (the "dear boy" Naṣr Allāh traveled there). Other names mentioned include the son of Abū Qays; Mūsā; Farjūn; the son of Abū Sharīf.

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العلامات

• ashrafi
• late ja
• muslim courts
• nablus

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

first third of Shevaṭ 1471 Seleucid (11 January 1160–20 January 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: First third of Shevaṭ 1471 Seleucid = mid-January 1160 CE. To wit: Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, a ritual slaughterer and cantor, was brought before the court and instructed to behave properly, to be nice to people, not to argue with those who tease him in the presence of gentiles, and to follow the usual laws of slaughtering.

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العلامات

• butchers
• decree
• netanel ha-levi

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

during this holiday should be allowed to do so (נטוול עלי אלגמאעה ברוכים יהיו ואלמסאול [מן] אחסאן אלגמאעה ופצלהם אן לא סביל אחדא יהא[. . . .]

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Right column: Petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting of some shops that Muslim granted to his wife Khulla bt.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is distressed: "If the girl is alive, I wish you to send me the letters, and if she has died, may God. . . .

العلامات

• dreams
• enemies
• tashawwush

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

"Then I received the letter from his companion, and in it there were the copies of the decree that was written for him (=me)... concerning the deposit... and that it was with ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. [...], and when I saw the explanation of this, my joy was great...."

العلامات

• petition
• to edit

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This assumption is based on the reconstruction of the opening lines, which are very damaged, and the name of Hasdai is not mentioned at all in the letter. The historical event fits better with the 1030's-40's.

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العلامات

• palermo
• sicily

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The lefthand page of verso has a list of entries paired with numbers, mentioning al-Sadīd twice.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

The addressee previously tried to help him, but his rivals (especially Abū l-Alāʾ Binyamin(?) and Abū l-Majd) continued to prevent him from exercising his trade.

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• petition

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter mentions Abū Yaʿqūb, who seems to be sick; Abū Isḥāq; instructions to sell something; and something which sayyidī/sīdī al-kohen says. Not much more is preserved.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting something about Furayj al-Bayyāʿ; couriers; shops; some people demanding 10 pounds of something; 2 dirhams and a chicken; shopkeepers closing their shops (going on strike?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They concern the sale of a house or part of a house belonging to a woman named Mudallala in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat). Fol. 2v (right side of recto) is distinct and may be the draft of a a few phrases from a petition to a higher authority.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• qasr al-sham'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

العلامات

• copy
• saadya

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Mentions al-shaykh Bū Zikrī in l. 2. Seems to mainly be giving instructions about business transactions.

العلامات

• bialphabetic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 27 Kislev 1411 Seleucid (13 December 1099 CE)

Menashshe ha-Kohen known as Ṣāḥib Ibn al-Sukkarī. Dated: 27 Kislev 1411 Seleucid = 13 December 1099 CE.

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العلامات

• will

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is the bride's second marriage and the groom is responsible to provide them with cloths. An apartment in Qasr al-Sham' is mentioned. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) who signed together with Ishaq b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• isaac b. samuel ha-sefaradi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tishrei 1520 Seleucid (13 September 1208–12 October 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-ʿIzz acknowledges receipt of 1/6 of the rent of a house in the Masjid al-Qubba quarter from Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Yefet ha-Kohen (known as paqid ha-soḥarim).

العلامات

• 13th c
• badhanj

1 مناقشة

Document date

Middle third of Shevaṭ 1447 Seleucid (January 1136 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef) ha-Kohen releases Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon (b. Netanel) ha-Levi from all claims. (Information from India Book 4, Hebrew description below.)

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العلامات

• ib4
• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record: debt quittance. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Mukhtār releases someone in her own name, that of her husband Makhlūf Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva and of her son Abū l-Fakhr b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

It is an extended invocation of the 'reshut' (authority) of God and of all the sages, at their head the Nagid David Maimonides (likely David I b.

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العلامات

• david i maimonides

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Overleaf, the desired data are provided: the mother of the late Yosef, possibly named Sitt al-Bayt bt. Abū l-Thanāʾ, forfeits her right to the rent of a property which Yosef had willed her, releasing Yosef's orphans from the obligation of paying it to her).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

("The Ḥibbur" typically refers to the Mishneh Torah in this period; see T-S K6.170, ed. Allony, The Jewish Library, #99. Information from Amir Ashur.)

العلامات

• book trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 5353 Anno Mundi (29 August 1593–26 September 1593 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sixteenth- and post-sixteenth-century references to this sacred site are crucial because it is likely that the Synagogue of Moses at Dammūh was destroyed in 1498 CE at the direction of the Mamlūk Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir (For this incident, see: Paul B.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• dammuh
• late prosopography
• late synagogues
• map
• (+ 3 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 5520 Anno Mundi (21 November 1759–20 December 1759 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

PGPID 7396; PGPID 30597) .The lowest signature at the bottom of the deed is that of R. Nissim al-Gāzī and the stamped seal bears his full name. Rabbi Nissim Shelomo al-Gāzī (1670-1761 CE) was a communal leader among the Rabbanite congregations of Cairo during the mid-eighteenth century.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• guardianship
• late heb
• real estate

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The query is whether the oath can be released because (a) he was tipsy (mā kāna illā ʿalā sabīl al-mujūn), and (b) he has no livelihood other than this.

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Document date

first third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid (11 April 1103–20 April 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī (אלמלטי) and her paternal uncle ʿEli, each of whom had been willed one-half of Efrayim's estate agree to be satisfied with the assets held by each side and to release each other from any further claims.

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Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about the value of the delayed dower measured according to 'the weight of the Bedouins' (? ṣanjat al-ʿarab). The main document is signed by [..]LM b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر