Documents

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

Primary language

Arabic

Letter to Abū l-Faḍl. In Arabic script. The sender's name may appear at upper left.

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

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 language

Arabic

The substance may begin after وبعد in l.5. It is quite faded and damaged; unclear how much is still preserved.

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

Arabic

الجهة لاجلها . . .فان منكسر عليه . . . On verso there is a faded ṣalwala.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very damaged and faded page, probably from a court record, regarding betrothal.

العلامات

• betrothal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1444 Seleucid (12 September 1132–1 September 1133 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe's scribal hand by Weiss seems tentative given how faded and brief the text is.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A letter in stylishly rhyming Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abu Sahl and his three sons, Abu l-Mansur, Barakat, and the boy Abu l-Fadl. The writer is likely named Abu Zikri (see line 12 of verso), which, along with the handwriting and elevated register, suggests that this is the well-known son of Eliyyahu the Judge. […] Everyone in the house is also helping his wife, who is in the state that God knows (often a figure of speech for illness). His daughter is starting to recognize everyone in the house, including visitors, and also serves her mother. Recto 22 – Verso 30: Following these pleasant updates, the remainder of the letter is a blistering tirade against Barakat who affects intelligence but whose brain produces only "mucus, delirium, and madness [al-mukhāṭ wa-l-hadhayān wa-l-khubāṭ].”

العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Identification of the sender and addressee based on handwriting, names, and typical content. […] (uṭalliq al-nās, maybe a way of saying she'll demand a divorce). […] Greetings to various people including al-Shaykh al-Yesod. ASE

العلامات

• maintenance
• marital dispute

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

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment in Hebrew. Very faded. Slightly wide line spacing. May be dealing with communal affairs.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Cryptic document. Very faded. Names Rabbenu Rosh ha-Seder . . . Moshe ha-Kohen . . . b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the upcoming holiday of Shavuʿot; the Gaon; Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿUmayr. Very little else is preserved. ASE

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

29 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1002 Hijrī (15 September 1594 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

It may have been drawn up in North Africa and later transported to Cairo, or it may have been acquired in North Africa.... The couple are ʿAlī ibn Ḥadwā (‘the north wind’, or Boreas) and al-Zahrāʾ (‘the most radiant’) bint Aḥmad. They are certainly Muslim, though ʿAlī and Zahrāʾ are also attested as Jewish names in the ‘classical’ Genizah. ʿAlī is a cognate of the Hebrew Eli, the most common male name in the medieval Genizah.

العلامات

• 16th c or later
• early modern enslaved people
• muslim marriage contract
• slavery

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding a certain Abū l-Bayān al-L[evi?] (=Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi?). Apparently Abū l-Bayān recently arrived in the sender's town (al-baladiyya). […] But he seems to have acted in a bad way, spurning the sender's favor and causing pain to everyone (...faḍlīʿalayhi li-anna ḥasala lana minhu alam...). (This sentence might also mean the opposite, if it actually reads "uns" instead of "alam.")

العلامات

• recommendation

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

(3) the fact that the document mentions twice (l. 2 and 3) that the ruin stands at bāb ʿAbdallāh, بجوار باب القلالين (and not بجوار باب الفلالين as read by Khan), that is "by the neighborhood of the gate of the potters" (Kazimirski has "cruche en terre" for qillāl). In the Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-mamālik (2: 676), al-Bakrī mentions a bāb al-qallālīn in Qayrawān as well as the bāb ʿAbdallāh, which is one of the earliest Eastern gates of Qayrawān not far from the Great Mosque, near the bāb al-qallālīn. All in all, this document is for now the earliest extant Arabic legal document from Qayrawān (as of Dec 2024). […] In addition to the address, there is also a faded note in Arabic script on the verso ((؟)...الحق (؟) لذلك في دار بو) (Information from Goitein's index cards and from Khan; emendations: AP)

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1448 Seleucid (29 August 1136–17 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE. Very faded. Concerning the divorce arrangements of Elʿazar b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Beginning lines only, mostly honorifics, very faded. Wide line-spacing, grand layout of the type that became more common starting in the 1060s.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Husband: Name not preserved. Wife: Fakhr bt. Faḍāʾil the Maghrebī. Date not preserved. Witnessed by Menashshe b.

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1 مناقشة

Document date

Iyyar 1338 Seleucid (10 April 1027–8 May 1027 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. Very faded. Dated: Iyyar 1338 of the Seleucid Era (= April/May 1027 CE).

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions brazilwood and 10 dinars; Ibn Bʿ[...]; and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah. Damaged and faded, but traces of the immersion clause enable us to date it to 1176 onwards-probably 13th century.

العلامات

• ketubba

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Large but extremely faded letter that refers to "our master Hayya Gaon" (recto, line 2).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there is the basmala, the first few words of the letter (kitābī. . . ), and some right margin and top margin text. Very faded and damaged. Reused for Hebrew pen trials.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Unidentified (Latin script)

The list continues on the verso but is extremely faded. Compare paleography with ENA NS 56.12 (PGPID 39642) and ENA 3766.3-6 (PGPID 34326).

العلامات

• unknown language

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Another letter, in Judaeo-Arabic and in a different hand and extremely faded.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso is another note in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning ha-Zaqen ha-Yaqar, but too faded to read much else.

العلامات

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: falij
• illness: paralysis

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

Fragment from the bottom of a legal document on parchment. Faded and damaged. Probably a ketubba, dating to the 13th century or later, based on the menstrual purity clause . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged and faded. Dating: Likely late 12th or 13th century, based on layout and handwriting.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

A much faded legal deed written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, p, 217).

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya
• fgp stub
• qayrawan

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4775 Anno Mundi (28 August 1014–16 September 1015 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated: 4775 AM, which is 1014/15 CE. Faded and fragmentary (upper left corner only). Might be a bill of release.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 12th century based on the paleography. Very faded and damaged. Document of release after someone sued someone else (אדעא עליה בהא פי בית דין).

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Adar II 1404 Seleucid (2 March 1093–30 March 1093 CE)

On verso there are references to various payments and sums of money, but it is faded and the context is missing.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Wide space between lines. Very faded, and it is difficult to read more than a few words.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر