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Primary language

Arabic

One portion opens with "يشهد الشهود" pointing to the likelihood that this is the lower section of legal document. The more faded text could be witness signatures. Further examination required.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I found with your son Fāḍil (may God gladden him) one and a quarter dirhams, and I took them from him, and it is in your [...] do not [...] and do not tell him."

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments of a very faded family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century or later.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: unidentified; very faded. (Information from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Bilbays and Muslims. There is one line of faded Arabic script on verso, likely the address.

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العلامات

• bilbays
• eliyyahu b. zekharia

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nearly the whole page is preserved, but the text is extremely faded. Refers to previous correspondence and to a tragic event.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The rest of the text is very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1410 Seleucid (1098–1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso another torn and faded legal fragment signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Dating: 11th or 12th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

A highly formulaic letter in Hebrew, filled with blessings for the distinguished addressee. Faded. The name of the addressee B[...] may appear ~5 lines from the bottom of recto: מרנא ורבנא ב . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. Fragment (lower part only). Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century.

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū Zikrī and [Abū l-]Faḍl b. Abū l-Najm. Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He orders walnuts, sugar, and Sinnārī cheese (this last to be sent with Salāma). Ibn al-Nuʿmān is to be paid 42 dirhams. Ibn al-Dajānī will receive some as well. […] Abū Khalaf is mentioned in the margin. Verso is more faded and difficult to understand. He writes that Farruj's name is Furrayj b.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: treatment
• jaliya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Document date

last third of Tammuz 1469 Seleucid (18 June 1158–27 June 1158 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(The year in l. 2 is too faded to read but is deduced from the letters around the signature of Mevorakh b. […] Natan ha-Gevir (appears also in PER H 91 (PGPID 7033) and T-S AS 204.324 (PGPID 33849)); Yosef b. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, V, p. 543.). Join: Alan Elbaum. OZ/ASE

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العلامات

• wheat
• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

last third of Tishrei – first third of Elul 1452 Seleucid (4 October 1140–15 August 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are 3 betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) documents (all edited in Ashur's dissertation) and a 4th document concerning a debt (unedited). […] Yaʿaqov, vows not to force the bride to leave Minyat Zifta. It is also possible that this condition was related to the engagement agreement on the other side of the page, as the first name of the groom is the same in both. […] Document #3: The fiancé is named Yefet. The document is too faded to discern many of the details. Mentions "laʿb" (playing musical instruments?

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. A woman named ʿAzīza makes a declaration.

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العلامات

• filing note

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Heshvan 5349 Anno Mundi (22 October 1588–19 November 1588 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further examination. Two of the entries are dated Heshvan 5349 and 5351 respectively, so the document was first recorded in October 1588 CE at the earliest.

العلامات

• 16th c
• late synagogues
• musta'ribim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The fragment preserves the opening of a letter to an individual, which is prefaced with eleven short lines of biblical quotations (arranged as a pair of quotes on each line). There are traces of faded Hebrew text on verso. (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides? About communal affairs, specifically a site of pilgrimage (ziyāra) that has fallen into disrepair (kharāb), in part because people have been building houses to live there.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The recto showa signs of possible reuse with a lower base text in more faded ink, possibly in Arabic script or Coptic numerals.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The verso contains a much faded letter in a different hand. In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• petition
• private

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yaḥyā. On verso there is a faded medical recipe in Arabic script. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment, mercantile, including the lower half of recto and the main text (but no address) on verso. Quite faded, but should be mostly legible. Mentioned in Med Soc IV, 384, n. 133: "Two pairs of mats ordered: T-S 12.4014, bottom."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Another copy of the same contract found in T-S NS J161 + T-S 12.5 (PGPID 1676). Verso is faded and illegible. (Information from CUDL and Moshe Yagur.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely 11th century. Faded but nearly fully preserved. Needs examination for content.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: a wālī; business dealings and losses; small sums of money between 3–10 dirhams; rhubarb; Ibn al-ʿŪdī; Abū l-Munajjā; Sitt Ḍiyāʾ and her fasting and how the sender suffers on account of her character/behavior (akhlāq); Abū l-Faḍl; advice to close a shop; a young man who makes poor decisions; and greetings/congratulations to Abū l-Munā and Khalaf on the birth of a child (probably a girl) to Sitt Ghuṣn.

العلامات

• akhlaq
• business
• childbirth
• crying
• fasting

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "your father" and "your paternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl." The overall tone of the letter is reflected in this passage: "When you were (or: will be) in the city, I did (or: will do) for you everything you wanted (or: want). […] The sender may be Abū l-Hajjāj b. Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭabīb (see ENA NS I.2 and T-S 10J13.10), and the addressee may be Abū l-Najm, the son of Manṣūr b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal gifts her slave Nujūm the Byzantine (אלאדומיה), whom she had received against a debt on her late husband Mawhūb b. Manṣūr Ibn Qurayṭa al-Kohen to her husband's relative Yosef b. Bishr Ibn Qurayṭa. […] The husband had originally received Nujūm from his sister Fāḍila bt. Manṣūr; for no clear reason, her name appears at the bottom of the document in a different hand (likely identical with the second hand on verso).

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العلامات

• slaves

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1481 Seleucid (16 June 1170–14 July 1170 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan he-Ḥaver and the parnas Abū l-Faḍl testified that al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī received 140 dirhams from Karīm al-Ṭabbākh out of the rent of Dār Mahra, of which 2/3 belongs to the qodesh (אלתי אלתלתי מנהא ללמקאדסה). Also mentions testimony of Abū Sahl b. al-Ahuv (a.k.a. […] This might suggest that al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī is none other than Sar Shalom ha-Levi, though the timeline doesn't quite fit, as he rose to the position of Head of the Jews in 1170 and is believed to have lost it to Maimonides only in 1171.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Address and an unrelated literary work in Judaeo-Arabic, badly faded. (Information from CUDL)

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العلامات

• 11th c
• legal query

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Very faded Arabic document on verso, with wide line spacing, typical of state documents, but not typical of Arabic documents on parchment.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses are David b. Yosef, Abū l-Faḍl, and Abū l-ʿIzz. The substance of the case is missing, but it involves a sum of money.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (left side). Very faded. Mentions the bearer (מוצ]ל הדה אלכדמה) Muẓaffar b.

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العلامات

• baghdad

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر