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Document date

1095 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter emphasizes the close connection between the Yemeni Jewish communities and Mevorakh, revealing that Yemeni Jewry during this period was connected to Egypt and the Palestinian Rabbanite yeshiva, and not only to the Babylonian Yeshivot as had been believed (see on this Ashur and Outhwaite, “An Eleventh-Century Pledge of Allegiance to Egypt from the Jewish Community of Yemen” CmY 22 (Juil. 2016) 34).

العلامات

• communal
• ib7
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: two alchemical recipes. The first recipe (ll. 1-8) is aimed at producing ‘the work’ (אלצנעה), a word commonly used for indicating the production of gold, silver or the elixir that would turn base metals into precious ones.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

before the great king, "may his king be higher than Agag" (Numbers 24:7), and he spoke with us...." Likely all related: T-S Misc.34.67 + T-S AS 155.224 (PGPID 33582), T-S AS 145.231 + T-S AS 145.240 (PGPID 16288), T-S Misc.34.59 (PGPID 41572).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, the sender might ask to have a doctor (ḥakīm) sent, "because I don't have any strength at all, if I set I'm unable to stand, and if I stand I'm unable to sit."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: 40 days
• illness: injury

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The cantors of Fustat are instructed to read it aloud in the synagogue on Monday, Thursday, and Monday, as well as Saturday morning.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• damin
• dyeing
• public letter
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Thus the letter was presumably written some time after the Ottoman conquests of 1517 CE, if such a policy was already in effect. The continuation of the letter deals with business matters, and then a complaint about Yaʿaqov b.

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• 16th c
• gambling
• surgun

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The partnership must pay to the mother of the two sisters, a widow (ll. 10 and 2) all that (her husband?) had left her (and what probably was invested in the partnership).

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العلامات

• inheritance

2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1146–1146 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiju, India, mainly about shipwrecked goods. Dating: almost certainly 1146. This is the draft, in Khalaf's hand, on the basis of which a copy was made: T-S 18J4.18 (IB III, 12 ; PGPID 5534).

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العلامات

• ib3
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

12 Muḥarram '99 Hijrī

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is advised to hold on to this note until the matter is completed (or brought to court? waqt al-iqtiḍā): من بعد السلام على حضرتكم ثم اعرف جنابكم انه عند حلول الايجار سلموا الى حضرة الست فاطم مبلغ خمسة ٥ . . . . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sahlān (mentioned here as the 'Aluf he-Ḥaver) and his son Neḥemya from the Babylonian congregation are mentioned.

العلامات

• betrothal
• engagement

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

last decade of Shevaṭ 1459 Seleucid (14 January 1148–23 January 1148 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the present settlement, Bū l-Ḥasan forgoes all his claims against his wife and promises not to beat or curse her, under penalty to divorce her and to pay in cash the sums due to her under her marriage contract, in case he relapses.

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العلامات

• court record
• marriage
• wife-beating

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is a draft, written in the Nagid’s own hand; he left blank spaces for the copyist to fill in the quotations from the Bible and the Talmud alluded to in the text. (Information from Goitein, “Abraham Maimonides on Pietists," Journal of Jewish Social Studies 16 (1965), 109–114 and Russ-Fishbane, Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt, 73–74) EMS

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender inspected the ruqʿa of Abū l-Surūr in which he said he was "coming down" and that the account of Ibn al-Ghazzāl had gone missing and requested that the sender draw it up again.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter seems to be a response to Yehuda's request that the writer take good care of a certain Abū Isḥāq (al-qawām bihi). Avraham reports, "Our companions (aṣḥābunā) did not fall short with him even before your letter arrived.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: location
• illness: nursing

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5th Kislev 1409 Seleucid (12 November 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sugmar and Yosef b. David al-Tarabulusi, from the court in Fustat. November 12, 1097 and March 8, 1098.

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العلامات

• court record
• ib1
• india book

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three testimonies regarding collateral deposited by Yosef al-Lebdi the India trader. Lebdi owed Ḥasan b. Bundar, the representative of the merchants in Aden, 40 dinars for an indigo deal.

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العلامات

• collateral
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• lebdi

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1750–1800 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The second (elegant) signature along the lower portion of the document is that of Moshe Ben-Rūbī.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• illumination
• ketubba

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The passage describes a gaonic schism at Pumbedita in the 820s that was resolved peacefully when Yosef bar Ḥiyya relinquished the office and contented himself with the position of av bet din, allowing Avraham bar Sherira to reign unchallenged.

العلامات

• gaonate
• reuse
• schism
• sherira

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Baqāʾ; greetings to the addressee's son Abū l-Barakāt (so possibly the addressee is Eliyyahu the Judge); a complaint about the wife of Abū Saʿd who wants to "excommunicate, and I told her, 'excommunicate and do whatever you want to do'"; a request to obtain from the silk merchant the son of Sitt Ziyāda (this is likely Makārim b. Sitt Ziyāda al-Qazzāz mentioned in other documents) a sum of money; and again a complaint about the ships' delay in Rosetta (Rashīd).

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العلامات

• rashid
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the rent of various people in different dwellings; the patrolmen (al-rajjāla) on [...] Shabbat; the ground rent (ḥikr) payment which is somehow connected to Nārūz (the Coptic New Year); a raqqāṣ possibly named ʿIwāḍ.

العلامات

• hikr

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter seems to assume that, say, on the third day of the interval between the two holidays most of the pledges had already come in. Another interesting point is the Nagid's admonition to think of the poor on the Siyyum (Heb.), the festive conclusion of the yearly reading of the Pentateuch, which takes place at the end of the autumn holidays.

العلامات

• jewish community

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are numerous claims. (1) The Rayyis used to provide wheat and loans of money to the wife of Ṣāʿid, and she now owes 30 dinars that she has not repaid. (2) The two sisters jointly owned (or rented?) a house near Bāb al-Yahūd worth 250 dinars. There is some issue with the rent, such that the wife of Ṣāʿid owes 14 dinars. (3–5) These entries deal with items such as salted meat, clothing, jewelry, and household goods, and the wife of Ṣāʿid owes ~10 dinars for each item.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions goods such as: almonds and white gum arabic. Mentions people such as: Abū l-Makārim.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with calculations that draw on both the Hebrew alphanumerical and Arabic numerical systems. The paleography suggests that these accounts date to the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries at the earliest.

العلامات

• ottoman shipping

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She repeats several times not to separate the Sudanese female slave from the little girl and to give nothing but the younger female slave to the elder daughter Sitt al-Sirr. "Cursed be he who acts against my dying wish."

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العلامات

• dreams
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: marad
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His payment orders were transferred to al-ḥakīm (Goitein suggests this is Yequtiʾel b.

العلامات

• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Where the text resumes on verso, he may be writing about commodities including 2 pearls (durratayn, although Goitein later crossed out this reading) that sold for 12 Malikī dinars (the gold dinar of Yemen minted from 1086 and used till the mid-12th century).

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The lists on the recto portray account calculations that are organized by days of the week in connection to specific individuals, namely: Avraham Ḥazaq, Yehuda al-Giorbi[?], Avraham Bashiri, Eliyyahu Ḥabak[?]

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tishrei 5474 Anno Mundi (21 September 1713–20 October 1713 CE)

On images 44-45 it is clear these folios were recycled from legal document drafts bearing the signature of Shelomo Alyiqīm, who may be the same person that signed AIU VII.D.24 in 1842/43 CE (PGPID 30523) and BL OR 5561A.7 in 1842 CE (PGPID 19229).

العلامات

• ledger

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I am an ill woman on the brink of insanity (lit., I am an insane woman, anā ṣabiyya majnūna), on top of the hunger of my family and the little girl who are all with me, and the horrid news I heard about my son.’

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mental
• refugees
• trauma
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Shevaṭ 1432 Seleucid (23 December 1120–21 January 1121 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If the man dies on his travels, the agent must give something to the man's wife and mother of his children, Sitt al-Kull bt. Avraham known as Ibn ʿUṣfūra. Two of the lines in the margin appear to be related.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

King Joseph has crossed the Sambatyon river and amassed a mighty army of all the tribes of Israel. The tribes have drawn lots to determine who will march on whom.

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العلامات

• ancona
• david reuveni
• messianism

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1170–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The latter rebukes the muqaddam, or head of the Jewish community of al-Maḥalla, Netanʾel, for neglecting essentials in favor of trifles, citing as an example the cases of two women, one of whom sent a proxy to the Gaʾon’s court over a matter of 1 and 11/24 dinars, and the other of whom vexed her son-in-law by intrusion into his house, unfounded accusations, and suits before Muslim courts.

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العلامات

• communal
• islamic court
• legal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerns the late Abū Saʿd, who willed half of 50 bales (of flax) to his partner and brother Eliyya and the other half to the two children (Miryam and Abū l-Ḥasan) of his sister Sitt al-Ahl. Gershon Weiss (who did not know about the join with T-S 12.571) explains that Abū l-Ḥasan Eliyyahu, the nephew and likely partner of Abū Saʿd, testified that the latter's will instructed that his inheritance of bales of flax would go to Eliyyahu's mother and sister.

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1 نسخ 3 مناقشات

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The contributions are partly in dinars (one-fourth - two, the latter sum appearing four times), partly in dirhams. Practically all the names recur in contemporary lists of donors to charity, but because of the dilapidated state of the manuscript no general conclusions are possible.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Blessings for notables, perhaps to be read aloud in the synagogue. In Hebrew. For the Nagid Mevorakh b.

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, p. 724.) Although the text has an India Book number (III, 40c), Goitein and Friedman didn't edit it since it doesn't concern the Indian Ocean trade.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• india book

2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They are sparing no efforts and giving her all the medicines that are prescribed her. "As for other matters": Natan asks Ṭoviyya to assist a man from a good family from ʿAkkā who had lived in the Egyptian countryside but was 'deported' to Fustat.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: medicine
• illness: rich description
• illness: treatment
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar 1427 Seleucid (16 February 1116–15 March 1116 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hiba), a widow with three sons, releases her new husband Sason b. Yefet from from all obligations other than paying the delayed marriage gift and dowry and letting her live in his house for five years after his death as promised, and declares that her three sons would have no claims whatsoever against him and that her husband would not sue her sons.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• testimony
• widow

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة