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The figures for entries are alphanumerical and on the recto a unit of volume for grain is mentioned "irdab/ארדב" (l.6v).

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العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn קדורה came and told Shela that he had mistakenly given the money to Abū Sahl (probably Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. The addressee is asked to wait for Abū Sahl and obtain the money.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1520–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He offers his excuses in this letter: that he was in a great rush when he wrote his earlier letter, and that the addressee will receive all his money. He names amounts in Venetian gold coins (dhahab banādiqa) and Ibrāhīmīs.

العلامات

• ibrahimis
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• capitation
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be').

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العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• arabic address
• dimme

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

5556 Anno Mundi (14 September 1795–2 October 1796 CE)

In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest / ארגז" is mentioned.The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the paper's extensive length is still apparent and suggests that this was possibly a part of a broader communal charity register.

العلامات

• 18th c
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 17 Iyyar 5316 Anno Mundi (27 April 1556 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

May be a copy or a version of a document originally produced in a Muslim court: mentions "the Mālikī court of al-Ṣāliḥiyya" in line 2– which was one of the ~15 qadi courts that operated in Cairo during the early modern period.

العلامات

• late heb
• maliki
• qadi courts

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28 Elul 1822 Seleucid (21 September 1511 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The prozbol is a legal mechanism that technically changed the status of individual private loans into the public administration, allowing the poor to receive interest-free loans before the Sabbatical year while protecting the investments of the lenders.

العلامات

• late
• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1442 Seleucid (6 September 1130–23 September 1131 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves a woman named Sitt al-Milāḥ whose husband committed "obscenities" (fawāḥish) against her.

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العلامات

• divorce
• marital dispute

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

(Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 339.) Alternate description: A fragment of a ketubba stitched to another vellum fragment (thread still remains) and reused as a rotulus for liturgy on dew.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• liturgy
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1484 Seleucid (21 October 1172–18 November 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī b. Mevorakh and Avraham al-Najīb, a community official. Avraham accused Abū Zikrī of an unspecified sin (פעל עבירה).

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

(II) Addendum (faṣl) probably to an unrelated legal record concerning a deceased father who stipulated that his daughter and all she possesses resides with the father's brother who has been appointed her trustee.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

[14]36 Seleucid (11 September 1124–30 August 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. Additionally, T-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81 (PGPID 7858) and T-S NS 292.10 (PGPID 8651) are related and potentially an indirect join.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• ib7

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

You know the vow I swore regarding the lamb (? al-khurayyif), and let this not be something that distresses you, for your magnanimity is greater than this, and it distresses me that it weighed upon your soul."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She then married a man with sons from a previous marriage to whom he allegedly owed money. He passed away before his wife, resulting in a long and complicated legal process.

العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

last decade of Iyyar 1528 Seleucid (30 April 1217–8 May 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document is about the origins (and implicitly, eligibility for marriage) of Akramiyya, who grew up in the house of the physician al-Asʿad. Goitein understood that she was purchased as a slave when she was still an infant and that she was later freed, however these facts are not stated explicitly.

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العلامات

• jariya
• marriage
• slave

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He warns him that he cannot preserve his reputation (jāh) as one of the 'elders of the nation' (shuyūkh al-milla) when his grandchildren marry like paupers.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

sells nine parts out of eighteen of a house in the Qaṣr Edom (Qaṣr al-Rūm), which he had inherited from his wife Salma bt.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He expresses his yearning and describes his depressed state in great detail, seeking to refute her assumption that he is remaining away because life is good for him. He alludes to his "many illnesses and sundry pains" but doesn't go into them to spare her.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: alam
• illness: furqa
• illness: heartsickness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

middle third of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid (3 May 1156–12 May 1156 CE)

On a Saturday, a dying man, Salim al-Halabi, a dyer was visited by friends, among them a creditor, who reminded him of a sum of 16 dinars and 4 qirats still owed to him.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter mentions Elijah’s compatriot, Abū ʿAlī, who had visited Fusṭāṭ and brought back letters from Elijah's brother, and letters for a community leader, Elijah b.

العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the other side, there are verses of poetry from Arabic sources, some attributed to Ibn al-Rūmī. At the bottom of the page there is a verse that is attributed to Bahlūl on some websites: "My soul hangs from your camel's saddlebag; if you intend to kill me, urge her on" (روحي معلقة في كور ناقتكم أذا عزمتم على قتلي فحثوها).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A person named Abū l-Faraj al-Levi features in the story. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic; unclear whether it is related to recto.

العلامات

• amir
• construction

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Ṣadoq (aka Efrayim b. Ṣedaqa al-Muʿallim), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 980, according to Gil.

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العلامات

• babylonian geonim
• communal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Elul 1460 Seleucid (7 August 1149–4 September 1149 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Yefet and the late Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣabbāgh. There will be a payment in installments due during over the following year (1461 Seleucid).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabo-Hebrew

Joins: Geoffrey Khan and Alan Elbaum. The first two pieces read roughly as follows: יתב]רך חסידי(?)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: List of mainly materia medica along with amounts. Seems to be the same hand as recto.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath there is a header: "that which was sent from al-Maghribī." Various names, commodities (mainly garments), and quantities are then listed.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1361–62 Seleucid (1049–1051 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qaraite calendar listing the dates of the new moon by observation, along with correspondences between the Qaraite, Rabbanite, and Islamic calendars.

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العلامات

• al-tustari
• calendar
• karaite

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

18 Marheshvan 1539 Seleucid (5 November 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Fol. 15.5 has a title page; “List of the Poor of Fustat.”

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العلامات

• 12th c
• communal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Ibn Ghyyāth, in al-Andalus, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1138/39 CE.

العلامات

• ib4
• india book

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the names Abū ʿAlī Yefet and Abū l-Ḥasan. T-S AS 153.73 (PGPID 16645) and T-S NS 190.107 (PGPID 23844) may join.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso the sender seems to complain about a lack of news: he heard something about a marriage, a (newborn?) boy, Sitt al-Kull, and Daniel, but was not informed. He ends the letter, "Do not blame me, for my vision is weak."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions news of a letter from Ḥisn al-Dawla b. ʿĀrij(?) to his son and his companions which recognized gratitude for a service provided and promised a disbursement of funds from the treasury (وانه موعود باطلاق من الخزانة).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the Jews" (though כלפוה might be kallafa "tasked" rather than khālafa "opposed," in which case he is being tasked by the people to forward their legal queries to sayyidnā al-rayyis). He asks Eliyya to forward the legal queries and/or responsa from where they have been deposited with "a certain perfumer."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, if a year goes by without the annual payment of 5 dinars, the entire sum must be repaid all at once. AA/ASE. Joins: Oded Zinger. NB: Further context is needed for which minute fragment among the many in T-S NS 324.m relates to this particular document (perhaps the fragment in the fourth column/fourth row in image 1r).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Then he asks the addressee to obtain for him a copy of Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn ("The Oculists' Handbook") in the best handwriting possible.

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العلامات

• medical books
• oculists
• petition
• physicians

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In addition, the writer mentions that he expects to receive letters from the Maghreb. Mentions the death of al-Muʿizz b. Badīs, the ruler of Ifrīqiyya. Menashshe has heard that Akhlābū has traveled to Fustat, and he conveys his worry and prayers because of what he has heard about the epidemic (amrāḍ) currently in Fustat.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

the ḍāmin; Abū l-Maʿālī al-Qaysarānī; Aḥmad b. Ghūrī(?). See Goitein's attached notes for a transcription.

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العلامات

• damin
• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين