Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Anaṭoli and al-Dayyān al-Maskil (identified by Friedman as Shemuel ha-Levi b. Saadya), both deceased at the time the list was written.

العلامات

• booklist

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1456 Seleucid (22 August 1145–19 September 1145 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Unfinished. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver? Dated: Elul 1456 Seleucid = August/September 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] Involves a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. Mūsā known as Ibn al-Uʿayẓim(?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nissim b. ʿAṭiyya, in al-Mahdiyya.

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1

العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Menashshe b. Moshe to Rabbi Eli b. Mevorakh, probably sent from Sicily to Egypt. The writer orders some clothing and mentions Abu al-Bishr and the Nagid, probably referring to the Sicilian Nagid Zakkar b. 'Ammar. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

May 1069–May 1069 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yַūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī in Alexandria to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. […] The letter contains details about goods Faraḥ b. Yַūsuf had sent to Yehuda b. Menashshe, as well as two references (verso, lines 5 and 7) to Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. […] The letter mentions that had appointed as nagid of the Jews of Palermo Zakkār b. ʿAmmār, brother of Ḥayyim, the wakīl of the Sicilian merchants in Egypt.

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العلامات

• ibn al-ba'ba'

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

and addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣā'igh in the market of the goldsmiths in Fusṭāṭ.

العلامات

• condolence
• dictated
• ghuzz
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 10 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

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العلامات

• polemic
• popular literature

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions sums in dirhams and mithqāl. Reused for a literary text in Judeo-Arabic on recto and verso.

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العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

A strongly worded letter by the head of a yeshiva to Yakhin ha-Levi b. Mevorakh demanding assistance for its cantor.

العلامات

• communal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Suhayl, in an unknown location, to his wife Umm Wuhayb and to his son, in Fustat. He asks in the most urgent terms …

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1

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: furqa
• illness: khutta
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• popular literature

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: One line in a relatively small and faded chancery hand interspersed with Hebrew text. May mention 'dīwān'. Reused for Hebrew script on recto and …

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document, in chancery hand, one isolated line which may read as "العبد المجتهد(؟) باذن الله مشروحا". Reused for an 11th-century letter in Hebrew script. …

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya, gaʾon of Jerusalem, as identified by the titles “our Nasi, our Gaon.” […] The verso contains a copy of a letter mentioning the Babylonian and Palestinian synagogues, Shemuel of Tahort, Efrayim ha-Ḥaver, and Abū Katib b. Abraham. (Jacob Mann, The Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimids1:81–82, 2:217–18).

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العلامات

• famine
• jewish community

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List, extensive and valuable but damaged, of donors of wheat to the poor. Most give only 1 wayba (about 4 gallons, weighing about 25 pounds), …

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

24 Nisan 4780 Anno Mundi (21 April 1020 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very important legal document consisting of two depositions held in the synagogue of Syracuse, dealing with a lawsuit against Eliyyahu b. al-Harrar, who was accused of taking a share of the estate of Nahum b.

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1

4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• calendar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1446 Seleucid (12 August 1135–9 September 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerns Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his wife ("amḍā la-hā al-taṣarruf fī jamīʿihā"). […] Dated: Elul 1446 Seleucid = August/September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, Natan b. Shelomo, and Avraham b.

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3

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd Ibn ʿAwkal. The first part of the letter is missing. The writer is in Fustat and writes about debt collection. (Information …

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1

العلامات

• aodeh

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter In Hebrew, with many errors and phonetic spellings. The writer calls the addressee 'the Sar.' Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. The letter concerns the …

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3

العلامات

• apostate
• late heb
• mining
• salt
• sinai

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …

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العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; Yaḥyā al-Quḍāʿī; Saʿīd al-Ḥāsir; Saʿīd al-[...]; al-DQL(?); Yaḥyā b. Shemuel; his son; Saʿīd b. Moshe; his son David; Pinḥas; Manṣūr; al-Qibālī(?)[…] ; his son Yeshuʿa; Sālim; Saʿīd b. Yaḥyā; his son; Saʿīd al-Kohen; Yiṣḥaq al-Kohen; Yosef al-Dhamārī; Yosef b.

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1

العلامات

• yemen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

24 Av 2044 Seleucid (5 August 1733 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Currency: gurush. Signed: Menaḥem b. Ḥayyim; Saʿadya b. Avraham. There is a note on verso with more names.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• yemen

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of Yaḥyā Ḥajabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian …

العلامات

• numismatic dating
• yemen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Literary text in Hebrew. "Belonging to Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿadya al-Manbijī (אלמנבגי)." This man appears also in Bodl. […] Underneath: "The scribe/writer is Shabbat b. Elʿazar ha-Melammed from the city of Ṣahrajt.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in Qayrawān, to a benefactor, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The beginning is missing. Her children have nothing …

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1

العلامات

• appeal
• charity
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: ear
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Only one of the witness signatures (Mūsā b. [...]) is preserved, with an additional note at the bottom.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Poem by Yosef Abitur, sent to the community of Andalusia from the place of his exile.

العلامات

• poem

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic script. Possibly the draft of an iqrār or other legal deed. Written on (or reused for?) a page of magical instructions in …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

10 Nisan 1549 Seleucid (27 March 1238 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Bottom part only, unclear if any of the content is salvageable. Underneath, at 180 degrees, there is a jotting of the beginning of …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

العلامات

• account

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 1470 Seleucid (16 August 1159–13 September 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document, like others of its type, shows that matters of marriage were monitored by the community and that the court kept a systematic record of such matters. Signed by Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq and Natan b. Shemuel. Section (II): At the bottom of the page, written upside down, a short registration of marriage. Groom: Elʿazar b. Mevorakh. Bride: Sitt al-Banāt bt. David. Marriage payments: 3 + 5. Section (III): On verso, another short registration of marriage. Groom: Sālim b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer). Marriage payments: 1 + 5.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

None

العلامات

• charity
• circumcision
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From line 6 onward, written in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from Goitein's notes.)

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1

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

1 نسخ

None

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that the ṣāḥib al-ʿasl (owner of the honey) arrived but the writer managed to get rid of him by making a vow and saying something about his brother. Regards from Ṣadaq b. al-Ṭāqī, Abū Naṣr, Faḍā'il, and Ḥasūn.

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2

العلامات

• honey

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A bashful pauper informs the judge Rabbi Eliyyahu b. Zechariah who was in charge of public charity, that he had not eaten anything for two days and that he dared to address the judge only because he was in a state of extreme need.

العلامات

• communal
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1132–1148 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note (with a legal purpose) in the hand of Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef Kohen (active ca. 1132–1148) addressed to a judge called 'Rabbenu ha-Rav.' […] Abū Zikrī reports that as he was passing by the hospital (māristān) he saw a young man (al-ṣabiyy) delivering a court summons in the hand of al-Nezer (=Natan b. Shemuel, fl. 1128–1164) to his legal rival Abū Saʿīd b.

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2

العلامات

• courts
• hospital
• maristan
• summons

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a woman named Qamr, in Jerusalem, to her brother Moshe Farikh (פריך), in Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Likely early 17th century, based on A. David's …

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2

العلامات

• late heb
• late jerusalem
• women's letters

1 نسخ

Document date

24 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,55 (ח60). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It *may* be in the handwriting of Abū l-Bayān Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, and Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Bayān who appears in line 2 *may* be his son. […] , Abū Saʿīd al-Ṭabīb, and Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Riḍā.

العلامات

• booklist
• colic
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With responsa from Moshe Maimonides, Sason ha-Dayyan, and Shelomob. Natan. There is another legal query with responsum on verso.

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1

العلامات

• legal query
• responsa

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Megillat Miṣrayim, composed by Shemuel ha-Shelishi b. Hoshaʿna during the reign of the caliph al-Ḥākim in 1012 CE.

العلامات

• megillat misrayim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)

Deed of gift to an engaged woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128/29 CE.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

3 نسخ

Document date

Shevaṭ 5307 Anno Mundi (23 December 1546–21 January 1547 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The case involves the payment of the ketubba for Esther, the widow of Moshe Castro, and a debt that the late Moshe was owed by the well-known merchant Avraham b. Shānjī, also dead. The story begins in Jerusalem when the widow demanded payment from Shemuel b.

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العلامات

• castro
• radbaz

1 نسخ