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Document date

Kislev/Tevet 5460 Anno Mundi (23 November 1699–20 January 1700 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The scribal hand and many of the surnames are uncommon for Cairo, pointing to the likelihood that this fragment is from a Jewish community elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire (the Ottoman silver medin is mentioned throughout the entries). It is also possible that this court register fragment is from a beit din and/or a congregation in Cairo whose documents have not survived in large quantities from the turn of the eighteenth century CE. […] ; (6) Engagement of Avraham Talmīd and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Benyamin Franṣiya. The verso includes the following document entries: (7) An incomplete entry stating that a certain Yiṣḥaq Ashenazi receives a sum of money from Leah bt. ____(?)

العلامات

• cmp
• coral
• court notebook
• late court records
• legal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The faqīh and chief justice (qāḍī l-quḍāt) and "all the Muslims" got angry about this. The sender goes on to complain about Abū Saʿīd's subsequent behavior toward him.

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العلامات

• communal

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Document date

1361 Seleucid (1049–1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The purpose of the letter is to announce an upcoming visit "for the renewing of the covenant" (tajdīd al-ʿahd) with the community of Fustat. The response should be sent to Tinnīs.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a woman and some codices and perhaps paper (if כאגץ is an alternate spelling of كاغذ). This side was later reused for Hebrew poetry.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Four lines preserved, the fourth an interlinear note or registration mark in a different hand. Mentions "al-majlis" (المجلس) twice. Some of the text reads as follows: كتب الله سلامته فيـ..ـيه بقدومه...

العلامات

• dimme
• internal memorandum
• registration mark

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

Today, Yisrael Nunes received a shipment of garments, and he will send what was ordered as soon as the items are unloaded from the ship, along with the tobacco. On verso there is the remnant of a seal (red wax?)

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العلامات

• krispin
• ladino
• mondolfo

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein’s index card) The fragment was folded at the bottom and repeatedly folded up such that verso has a mirror image of all the text on recto in addition to ~7 lines now missing from the top of recto.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto with address on verso (original use): Letter from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAyyāsh to his 'brother' (ʿArūs b. Yosef?)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

שורבלייא), the wife of Avraham al-Ḥadīb. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, plausibly 16th century, which is Avraham David's assessment.

العلامات

• ladino words
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Friday, 24 Ḥeshvan 4765 Anno Mundi (10 November 1004 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hiba owes Yisraʾel the considerable sum of 236 dinars. (Or has he already paid?) Signed by Shelomo b. Mevorakh; Shelomo b.

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Document date

1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–19 September 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein's index card notes that the Turfa in T-S 16.52, who was already divorced from a marriage in 1124 CE, has nothing to do with the woman in this document.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Trapani, Sicily (Gil prefers to read אטראבנש in line 2 over Goitein's and Ben-Sasson's אטראבלש), to Nahray b.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• nar
• trade

4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Apart from the conventional material, we learn that the recommendee has been working since Purim as a slaughterer, "one or two heads a day," in order to conceal his face from having to ask or having to ashame himself before the congregation (wa-lā yanfaḍiḥ ʿind al-qahal). It seems that he now wants to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the upper right corner of the recto the account heading reads "Diwan ʿĀlī_[?]" = perhaps the "Governor's Court" in Cairo.

العلامات

• 16th c or later
• early modern
• ottoman state

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He defends himself at some length and appears to mention Ibn al-Ṭaffāl, conceivably identical with the rival of Moshe b.

العلامات

• ibn al-taffal

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Primary language

Arabic

administrator or a tax farmer describing his job. He mentions al-Mastay, the town in Nile delta, and reports an affair during the tenure of the addressee (ayyām ʿahdihi/ʿamalihi l-nājiya/nāḥīyya) and that it is a lousy place to be a tax collector as it is difficult to even extract a dirham from anyone, "wa-mā bihā ṣāniʿ yurjā minhu l-dirham."

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العلامات

• damin
• dimme
• tax collector

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties is the divorcee of Abū l-Bayān al-Kātib. Like other such documents, it specifies which party will have to pay potential government taxes (in this case the buyer).

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العلامات

• slaves
• tax
• tax evasion

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

22 Rabīʿ I 548 Hijrī (17 June 1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Only the last four lines are preserved, as well as the witness statements. Although the slave isn't mentioned by name in what survives of the document, it may have been Bama.

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العلامات

• dimme
• ib-addenda
• ib3

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A man named Wahish appears in three other documents related to the revenues of a qodesh in the 1040s (see Gil, ibid., 194, 201-2, 206-7). All quantities are in dirhams.

العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1600–1800 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The figures are expressed alphanumerically and the clearest heading on the recto states "ועלם אלדי אנצרפ פי אל שהר / notice of that which was expended this month".

العلامات

• 17th or 18th c
• beadle
• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The communal nature of this fragment is made clear on the verso where one of the headings states: "notice of the accounts of the qahil [congregation]" (עלם חסאב אלקהל). Although there are many shelfmarks similar to this nearby in JRL Series C which date to the late-18th or early-19th centuries, the format of the lists here is somewhat distinct, especially given the verso's calculations that keep track of funds connected specifically to one Yisrael Pinto.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

The combination of these surnames, along with the paleography, helps to date this fragment as late 18th- or early 19th-century.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Further research is necessary to identify additional villages in the account subheadings, many or all of which are likely within 5-10 miles north/west of Qalyūb based on the previously identified locations.

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العلامات

• 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Iyyar 1541 Seleucid (15 April 1230–13 May 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe to [...] b. Abū Saʿd al-Kohen, to be paid back over five weeks, thirteen dirhams per week, and then the rest.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shabbetay (of Minyat Ziftā, active ca. 1091–1135). It concerned Ḥasan al-Qudsī and another man, the legal opponents of Abu l-[...].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe's brother Abū l-Ḥasan (Yedutun ha-Levi) received a robe of honor (ukhliʿa ʿalayhi).

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu, whose name appears on verso along with Yeḥezqel and Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim. Concerning a dying woman who summons two witnesses and has them perform a qinyan that she intends a female relative to receive 10 dinars from her estate after her death.

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Document date

Sunday, 1 Sivan 1572 Seleucid (1 May 1261 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by the elder Muḥriz b. Ṭahor, an almoner and public figure. (Information from CUDL and S.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal agreement between Perahya b. Arah and Sitt al-Ahl whose trustworthiness is mentioned in the document.

العلامات

• betrothal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb in which he acknowledges receipt of letters from the addressee and Abū l-Maʿālī and asks for charity, citing Genesis 28:20: “I ask no more than bread to eat and clothing to wear for me and my dependents.”

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Primary language

Hebrew

ʿEli b. Ṭavnay, and by Ṭuv Aluf and the sons of Aharon ha-Baghdadi. Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script resembling those in T-S 12.851 (PGPID 38160).

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العلامات

• 10th c
• babylonian geonim
• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Muʾammal, Ramla, to Abū Naṣr the cockeyed (al-aḥwal), Fustat. Dating: September 1052 (Gil).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• homosexuality

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is one word in Arabic script (al-mablagh?) accompanied by accounts in Greek/Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• linen
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1430-09-16 Seleucid (28 May 1119 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Yefet b. Ḥalfon. Wife: Sitt al-Rūm bt. Saʿīd. The witnesses are Yefet b. Ṣedaqa and Ḥalfon b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man to his sister Umm Bū l-ʿAlāʾ. Sent care of Eliyyahu the Judge. In the hand of a scribe.

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العلامات

• address as seal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mysterious mark
• personal
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning Mubāraka bt. Shemuel al-Qābisī who had sold her female slave for 20.5 dinars and had given the money to her brother Faraḥ as capital for a business trip, but was then sued by her husband Yeshuʿa b.

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العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar 1368 Seleucid (8 February 1057–8 March 1057 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The factory belongs to ʿEli/ʿAllūn b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ṭoviyya/Ṭībān b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen.

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العلامات

• glass
• labor
• wages

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Tevet 5508 Anno Mundi (3 December 1747 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham Mosseri receives money from the communal rabbi Nissim Shelomo Algazi, as previously agreed. Isaac Sonina pledges to repay the funds if Avraham Mosseri does not do so upon the completion of the investment partnership.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• fustat
• kabbala
• kabbalists
• late synagogues
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Document date

Tishrei 5304 Anno Mundi (30 August 1543–28 September 1543 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The first contract, written during the Feast of Tabernacles 5304 (= 1544 CE) in Egypt, mentions the sum of 59.5 עתמאני (i.e. "Ottoman" as an alternate label for silver akçe). In the second contract, Shalom agrees to pay Abraham the same amount using gold peraḥim (ducat equivalents) from the coinage of Sultan Sulaymān.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman named Hayfāʾ bt. Sulaymān Ibn al-ʿArīq to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat. The addressee was the leader of the Jerusalemite congregation of Fustat during the third quarter of the eleventh century.

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العلامات

• aguna
• communal
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a debt of Abū l-Surūr (Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ) Ibn al-Qābisī to Shelomo b. Yosef Av Beit Din (b. Shelomo ha-Kohen Ga'on).

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العلامات

• account

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He recommends the writer eat almonds, raisins, and date honey. The letter may date to the latter part of Maimonides’ life, but may well date to an earlier period.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• maimonides autograph

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Groom: Mevorakh b. Shemuel. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Part of the dowry list is preserved. The bride’s representative is ʿEli b.

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