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Document date

Monday, 1 Kislev 1632 Seleucid (3 November 1320 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 1 Kislev 1632 Seleucid (=[...] 720 AH), which is November 1320 CE. Damaged & faded. Perhaps a settlement of a dispute. Mentions "the meat" and "any more than 10 dirhams nuqra."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: List of contributors of wheat. Dating: Early 13th century, per Cohen. Goitein speculated that the wheat was contributed in connection with mourning rites (as …

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1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

5300 Anno Mundi (13 September 1539–1 September 1540 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Communal letter in Hebrew. Faded and torn. From the content it is a letter with legal sermonizing and instructions, though it ends with phrases typical of legal documents and two signatures partially preserved: Moshe b. [...] and [...] b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moderately wide space between the lines. Quite faded. Reports on something that occurred after exiting the synagogue with the congregation.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Regards to: Abū l-Faraj and his son; Abū ʿImrān; Hilāl and his son Abū l-Faḍā'il; the addressee's mother and brother; and Abū l-Yusr.

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2 نسخين

Primary language

Arabic

Contains a registration mark in faded (iron gall?) ink, unless this is the concluding phrase of the Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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العلامات

• dimme
• lost archive
• registration mark
• report
• taqbil

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Lower part of a petition in Arabic script: "...to your slave my son Faḍāʾil, and please bestow favor on me with this great favor, and the reward and recompense will be from God the exalted.

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2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably early 13th century. Extremely faded. Mentions 'my master the rayyis' and possibly the sale of a property; Shemuel; and [...] b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1182–1197 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee's other titles include "sulṭān juyūsh al-muwaḥḥidīn... bahāʾ al-milla, naṣr al-umma, dhū l-faḍāʾil wa-l-manāqib, [...] amīr al-muʾminīn, abū l-fawāris, Ṭughtakīn al-Nāṣirī...." The petition refers to trading houses of 'the west' (or possibly 'of the Arabs') (matājir al-gharb or al-ʿarab); something "to the lands of Yemen" (ilā diyār al-Yaman); a request for justice for a group of people (al-inṣāf ʿalayhim); the arrival in Aden (madīnat ʿAdan) of al-Shaykh Abū ʿImrān b. Abū Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn (or Ghulayb?) the traveling trader (al-tājir al-mutaraddid) together with his Jewish colleagues who come out from Egypt and who come in from India (wa-jamāʿat al-yahūd aṣḥābuh al-ṣādirūn min Miṣr wa-l-wāridīn min al-Hind).

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العلامات

• aden
• ayyubid
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• india book (arabic)
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from a woman to her son Abū l-Faḍā'ilal-Yahūdī al-Bawāridī ('the maker of cooling or cold vegetables') in al-Qamra, Alexandria. […] The qumāsh which they brought with them from Alexandria has now been pawned for 40 dirhams. Karīm has not paid a penny of his capitation tax. […] Then: I regret leaving Alexandria. Regards to you and your family. Send us news of Umm Maʿānī quickly.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: women's
• nar
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

End of Ṭevet 1393 Seleucid (January 1082 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses state that they were present in the Babylonian synagogue along with Yehuda b. Ḥayyim and that some of them spoke with Yosef b. […] The witnesses state that Yehuda spoke with a certain Abū l-Faḍl b. Sukkar(?) but did not assault him. They state that Yehuda also rebuked Abū l-Khayr for the ban of excommunication that he declared, but did not lay hands on him.

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العلامات

• arrest
• excommunication
• police

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, Fustat, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa al-Maḡribī, Jerusalem. Dating: ca. 1067 CE, Gil's estimate based on another letter that it mentions, written by Yosef b. […] Mentions the taking of a ship by al-Rūm (the Byzantines) and trouble with a (tax?) […] According to CUDL, there's a list on recto, but it's faded and difficult to read. MR

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1149–1151 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Yeshuʿa's earliest letter, he offers to rent a home for Ibn Yijū in Dhū Jibla; the current account details Ibn Yijū's expenses in various places between Aden and Dhū Jibla including the rent for houses (e.g., in al-Juwwa and al-Janad). Yeshuʿa's earliest letter also conveys greetings from a certain Fayrūz, who is mentioned here in l. 5. […] Places mentioned: Aden, "the gate of Aden," al-Mafālīs, al-Juwwa, Maḥqama (? this location is unidentified), Maṣābiḥ, al-Janad, Dhū YʿRQ (or TWRQ? this location is also unidentified), Dhū Jibla, and Maḥraṣ (= watch-post?)

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib3
• slaves

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel). And for the Ibn Faḍlān family: Efrayim b. ʿAzaryahu b. Efrayim b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Tūnis, Abū Saʿ[īd], Abū l-Faḍl, someone's arrival in Fustat/Egypt, someone's love for Abū l-Riḍā; and Mubārak.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• letter

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Complete, but very faded late letter in Hebrew from Jerusalem to ha-Ḥakham ha-Shalem ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓūyan Raysh Metivta Qedishta [...]

العلامات

• readable with imaging
• shemuel sidi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(This Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Amshātī is not known from the published India Book documents but may be the same as the one who appears in T-S NS 305.82 (PGPID 35209).) […] in India (בלאד אלהנד) . . . without success (גיר מצלחה), may God have mercy on us all." Apparently "they" (Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Khayr?) […] One of the Judaeo-Arabic jottings includes the name Abū l-Faḍl. The largest Arabic text block on verso is a "consignment letter" (Kaplony refers to the Quṣayr al-Qadīm documents of this type as Geleitschreiben) specifying the goods which are to be conveyed to (yusallam ilā) al-mawlā al-shaykh al-ajall al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that Yedutun was attempting to prove that it was cracked and that he therefore that he had a right to return it to the seller (ṣāḥib al-dast, l. 4) based on the legal principle of al-radd bi-l-ʿayb. […] Therefore they went to the qāḍī, who ordered that the cauldron should be shown to the experts (arbāb al-khibra). The experts said that it should be tested with steam from the bathhouse tank. […] The next few lines are too faded to understand. Yedutun says "if it were not for the capitation tax, we would take/keep it due to its quality."

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العلامات

• business
• oil
• perfume

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the beginning is preserved. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Yehuda. (Information in part from Goitein and Friedman, India Book III, p. 56 n. 122.)

العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Then goes into the case of the youth Abū l-Ḥasan b. Fāḍil(?), 35 dinars, and the sale of 1/3 of something.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. Involves Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr b. ʿImrān. There is a dead man, a will, and details of court procedure (examining prior documents, comparing them, and checking the witnesses—one of whom is Avraham b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tammuz 1411 Seleucid (10 June 1100–8 July 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo three dinars for a sold commodity (the term "jins" suggests something involving a slave, but the surrounding text is too faded). He will pay by the end of Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE.

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العلامات

• debt

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew. Large but extremely faded. Appealing for assistance on behalf of prisoners (פדיון שבויים) and the poor.

العلامات

• byzantium
• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Fragments of ~5 lines are preserved, with wide space between the lines.

1 نسخ

Document date

Tishrei 1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–1 October 1133 CE)

Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to be used also for his capitation tax and from which she will pay rent and other household expenses, while he stipulates expressly not to lay claim on any earnings made by her through work and spinning.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• tax
• women's work

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

30 Jumādā I 403 Hijrī (17 December 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Amount: one dīnār exactly (Khan reads 3 and a half and a sixteenth). […] Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of 3 and a half and a sixteenth (dirhams?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• majlis al-harb
• tax

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The other letter is T-S 10J9.13, addressed to Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Sabra, whom Goitein identified as her maternal uncle and as Mevorakh b. […] The least she did was that she said to me: 'Go away and become like your notorious mother.'" Umm Sitt al-Nās then probably alludes to her mother (the sister of both the addressee and the mother-in-law) when she writes, "You remember well how everyone reacted to your sister Baqā'." […] She begs him for a letter and for news of their younger brother, who also has not written to her. For more, see T-S 10J9.13 and Goitein's translation and discussion of the other letter in Med Soc III:175f.

العلامات

• ibn sabra
• women's letters

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

They complain about being persecuted by other people, their general suffering, and they ask for help and pray for the addressee's well-being. Quite faded. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

141[.]–142[.] Seleucid (30 August 1098–18 September 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham; Mevorakh; Abū l-Faḍl. Mentions a moneychanging shop and a sum of 6 dirhams/month.

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العلامات

• hillel b. eli

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document/testimony of Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his brother Abū l-Barakāt the sons of the late 'leader' (rayyis) Abū l-Ghayth Yeshuʿa.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan is to meet with Yūsuf al-Ṭawwāf in Cairo, who owes something (two dinars?) […] He should obtain a letter from him which should be forwarded to the sender in Wanā. Mentions a certain Faḍāʾil, and possibly the term ṣināʿa or al-ṣināʿatayn. Concludes with greetings to various people including Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān, Sitt al-Yumn, and others. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• daman
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Second third of Elul, 1482 Seleucid (August 1171 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The mutual release of the metal caster (al-sabbāk) Faḍāʾil/Shela b. Mūsā and the metal caster Abū l-Barakāt/Berakhot b. Abū Naṣr Yefet al-Mūrid, formerly partners in an unspecified industry, likely to have been in minting as both of the partners bear the same by-name al-Sabbāk (metal-caster) and Berakhot’s father is called al-Mūrid (supplier of metal to the mint). […] Conversely, when Berakhot releases Shela, he retains claims for neither "a commenda (muḍāraba), nor a loan, nor a commenda (qirāḍ), nor a demand for rent nor [for leasing …]", all clauses which are absent from Shela’s release of Berakhot.

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العلامات

• commenda
• commodities
• mint
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The document itself is extremely faded and nearly imposible to read from the digital image.

العلامات

• late heb
• ze'evi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL) 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