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Document date

Ṭevet 1388 Seleucid (30 November 1076–28 December 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: November 1076. Manṣūr b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) will partner with Yefet b. Avraham and Shelomo b.

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العلامات

• gold
• goldsmithing
• mint
• partnership

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Document date

5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 506 Hijrī (23 April 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning items that were sent with Abū Surūr and others with Makhlūf al-Nafūsī (for Sibāʿ) and others with ʿAṭāʾ b. Hilāl.

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العلامات

• account
• makhluf b. musa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Middle decade of Iyyar 1484 Seleucid (26 April 1173–5 May 1173 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya has taken in the orphaned boy Hiba of his late brother Abū Saʿd al-Miṣrī, and he asks the court to grant money for him to support the boy.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• estate
• orphan

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks to be paid his weekly salary in addition to what is still owed him from last week. He has already (unsuccessfully) applied to Abū l-Bishr Azhar and to Abū Yaʿqūb with the same request.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: poverty
• illness: women's

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Much of verso (the first page) consists of blessings and complaints about the evils of fate which is "bitterer than colocynth" (ʿalqam). He fell off his riding animal. He arrived in Malīj before the holiday and it seems he was able to collect some money there as payment for a circumcision.

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Inferred date

1785–1825 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The two witness signatures are from Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm (scribe) and David Algazi (second witness). The combined value of bridal payments and the dowry is seventy-____[?]

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In fact this poem is essentially identical with one that was was originally composed for Avraham b. Sahl al-Tustari and his brother. This document was first published by Mann in Hebrew Union College Annual vol. 3 (1926), 257–308, at 287.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28 Ramadan 631 Hijrī (27 June 1234 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The table describes the influences of planets when they appear in conflation with zodiac alignments. Abbreviations require deciphering. (Information from Johannes Thomann)

العلامات

• astronomical
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1097–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerns the financial settling between Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Avraham (Yefet is titled Tifʾeret ha-Qahal) and Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b.

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العلامات

• register

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Document date

Ṭevet 1559 Seleucid (29 November 1247–27 December 1247 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is a similar note in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script, along with a draft of a beginning of a Jewish legal deed dated Ṭevet 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE.

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Inferred date

1500–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Below the heading the unit of volume "ardab" or "irdab" appears and the first entry is entitled "אלמביע" indicating a sale of the accompanying items (whose quantity, weight, or prices are indicated in alphanumerical figures). For more information on this unit of volume, see Goitein's brief explanation (Goitein, Mediterranean Society I, 361) though it is crucial to note that this unit persisted beyond the medieval period and in Ottoman-era sources is often transliterated as "ardab" yet it indicates a significantly higher volume of liters per ardab (White, Climate of Rebellion, xv).

العلامات

• late ja
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1500–1800 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The mention of specific members of the Cairene Jewish community will make it possible to offer a clearer dating estimate with future research: (JRL A 399, f. 4v) Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, Mordekhay Meyuḥas; (JRL A 399, f. 2v) David Castro; (JRL A 399, f. 2v) Yiṣḥaq Reʾuven.

العلامات

• early modern

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Chabás, '"ransmission of computational methods within the Alfonsine corpus: the case of the tables of Nicholaus de Heybech," Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008), pp. 345-55, esp. pp. 354-5 (described). 34 lines.

العلامات

• geomancy
• illness

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic related to the household items and finances of Yiṣḥaq al-Yebdani[?] (recto) and Moshe Abzardil (verso).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

the town, and this Manṣūr was the governor (ʿāmil) of Qayrawān in the year 1016 when al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs came to power. Gil identified the addressee as Yosef b.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• communal
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions paying someone 10 dinars; [Abū] l-Ḥasan and Qalyūb; the sender being weary of something (קד קלת נהצתי מן מא); a man from Damascus (al-Dimashqī); "kissing the eyes" of somebody; and "my cousin" (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Waḥsh.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Musallam and Ṣedaqa b. Manṣūr al-Malījī, are mentioned, but it is not clear which of them is the father.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Additional legal/official notes, including (2) an order to Damīra to forward "rasm al-siyyum," i.e., the money collected at a siyyum, and (3) a legal record certifying that Naẓar bt.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yedutun refers to several matters known from their other correspondence: he says that ibn al-Taffal continues to slander Moshe to Abu Zikri (the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi), but Abu Zikri does not believe him (cf.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consultation
• illness: du'f
• illness: mental
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1213–1213 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (or draft of letter) from a certain Ḥ[alfon] (?) to Shemaryāhū b. David (i.e. the Hebrew name of Maḍmūn b.

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العلامات

• disability
• disability: vision
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

"In the course of this, a severe illness came over me (wa-ḥadatha li-ʿabdihā fī ghuḍūn hādha maraḍ ṣaʿb), so I was forced to leave the [elders] and return to my family (wife), fearing that it would get worse (khawf an yashtadd [bihi?] al-amr)." The writer is mentioning this as a justification for failing to continue to be there in person (wa-kān ʿadhr ʿabdihā fī dhālika wāḍiḥ).

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fear
• illness: marad

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid (27 August 1157 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Abū l-Yumn. Bride: [Sitt al-]Banāt bt. Ḥalfon. The father of both bride and groom are deceased.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Financial settlement between Shela b. Yoel Ibn al-Sofer and his divorced wife and the mother of his child, Ḥusn bt.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He did not hear anything and so he completed both operations (וקד מרשת אלמלאה ודקתהא) and sent it with Abū l-Munā Ibn al-Dihqān. He now asks for confirmation of receipt.

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العلامات

• clothing
• trade

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Document date

Sivan 1491 Seleucid (27 May 1180–25 June 1180 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The banker Munajjā b. Shelomo al-Levi loans 58 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Khayr, to be repaid in monthly installments of 10 dirhams.

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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

Primary language

Arabic

The last two lines contain the names of two apparently deceased people: Isḥāq [...] and Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Surrī the teacher ("raḍiya l-lāhu ʿanhumā").

العلامات

• inheritance
• legal query

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid (10 August 1204 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid = 10 August 1204 CE. In which Sitt al-Niʿam bt. Saʿadya the widow of Mufaḍḍal aka Moshe b.

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العلامات

• dowry
• register
• widow

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Document date

24 Tishrei (1)364 Seleucid (21 September 1052 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In return, the divorcée acknowledges having received from her husband all that is due to her and agrees not to give him a bad name, nor sue him before a Muslim court or state authority.

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العلامات

• alimony
• divorce
• muslim courts
• register

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Prenuptial contract containing a stipulation allowing the bride to opt out of a patrilocal household even without proof that she had been mistreated: “Whenever she hates living with his father and mother, he must lodge her wherever she chooses.”

العلامات

• prenuptial

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli then conveys his preoccupation and relief on account of his sister Sitt al-Fakhr, who was sick but recovered. He then mentions some notebooks (karārīs) and a segment of the Torah (juz' Torah), which Ḥalfon probably copied for him.

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العلامات

• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The transcribed portion of the letter describes how he came to Acre but did not take any donations from the community, for he learned that they already collected donations for Elhanan b. Shemarya, the rabbinic leader of Egyptian Jewry in early 11th century.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• elhanan b. shemarya
• hazzan
• yefet b. david

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Primary language

Arabic

(3) Lower piece of T-S 16.103: Unidentified document, maybe state related, and maybe mentioning amīr al-muʾminīn in l. 2. Needs further examination Recto (secondary use): Numbered poems for various individuals, including Yehuda, Avram, Avraham, Shelomo, Mevasser and Shemarya ha-Kohen.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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 language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to various people in the addressee's location, and greetings from Sitt al-Ḥusn. The address is written in an unusual location, in the margin of verso: يصل هذا الكتاب الى سمنود الى ("may this letter reach Sammanūd, for [...].").

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العلامات

• epidemic
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Friday night, 30 Av 1413 Seleucid (15 August 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen ha-Ḥazzan b. Ḥalfon al-Munajjim on Friday night, 30 Av 1413 Seleucid = 15 August 1102 CE.

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

Document date

Heshvan 5422 Anno Mundi (24 October 1661–22 November 1661 CE)

Primary languages

Ladino, Western Arabic Numerals

The secondary scribal hand on the verso is likely that of the person whom this document was issued to given that they signed in a mixture of Hebrew and Ladino "אני קונפראדו גירא(נ)שיה" ("I purchased guarantee"; alternatively this is the writer's name, or he is referring to himself as "Konfrado," i.e., brother).

العلامات

• 17th c
• ladino
• unknown language

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Partly overlapping with the phrase מסכת סוכה — it's unclear which text was written first — there appear the first two verses of Genesis in a large square scribal hand and the word עמנואל underneath in the same hand. Identified by Alan Elbaum in Dec. 2025. Based on Mordechai Akiva Friedman and Amir Ashur's assessment, this is unlikely to be the signature of Maimonides himself.

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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)

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