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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. 15 dirhams are credited to Abū l-Surūr.

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين

Document date

14 Jumādā II 559 Hijrī (9 May 1164 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Marriage contract between Riḍwān b. ʿAṭiyya and Bint Muṭṭalib in front of the qāḍī ʿImād al-Dawla Abū l-Faḍāʾil al-Ḥasan b. al-Khiyār b. ʿAlī, judge …

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العلامات

• muslim marriage contract

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering monk,' Abu Najah, and to hide in the western desert for years. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 46, 119, 268, 277, 280, 316, 320, 482; II, 588, 359; III, 246, 243, 249.) […] The lettermentions the location, Santariyya (l. 17r), which could be a reference to the Siwa Oasis based on the term placename itself, but contextually may refer to some part of the desert region surrounding the oasis.

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العلامات

• estrangement
• ib6
• india book
• merchant
• outburst
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso: Two distinct text blocks in Arabic script. (1) The names of the months of the Coptic calendar. (2) Accounts, recording credits and debits and mentioning a paternal aunt and her son. Gil understands these as the private accounts of one of Nehemya’s sons, mentioning the name of two sons, Yoshiyyahu and Avraham.

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العلامات

• dimme

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1169–1180 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The petitioner complains about the tax collectors, who forced him to leave his family and job and to work for them, and asks for the issuing of a rescript that would allow him to go back to his town and family. […] Also on verso is a work on calendar reckoning mentioning the maḥzorim, the moladot and the different kinds of Hebrew year; names of the months of the year in the Julian(!) calendar and the numbers of their days are written vertically on the leaf. The column on the far right on the verso is a list of calendar-related values in Coptic alphanumerals, numbered 1-19 for each year of the Jewish calendar cycle number 260, then ten values for 10, 20 etc. cycles until 100 cycles; then ten values for 100, 200, until 1000 cycles; and finally ten values for 1000, 2000, until 10,000 cycles, a calculation for 190,000 years ahead.

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العلامات

• calendar
• coptic numerals
• petition
• saladin
• tawqi'
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Lease of a date plantation owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1150 CE and, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when the scribe/judge Natan b. Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver. A deed of lease is drawn up by the court, by which a plantation of date palms is taken over for cultivation by a certain Hiba. […] (Information from CUDL and Gil, Documents, pp. 262 #50)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• lease
• qodesh
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

5008-5010 Anno Mundi (1247–1250 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: calendar for the year 5008 of the Era of Creation (= 1247-1248 CE), year 11 of the 19-year cycle 264. The calendar is dated according to the Era of Creation, the Seleucid Era, the Era of the Destruction of the Second Temple, the Era of the Exodus and position of the year in the 19-year and the Sabbatical cycles. The calendar mentions the intercalation, length of the variable months, the calendrical type of the year, moladot of all months, days of the week of beginnings of months, days of the week and dates of festivals and fasts, the date and time of the tequfot, as well as the time when prayers for rain begin.

العلامات

• calendar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a lovely hand; the same scribe seems to have reused numerous Arabic-script documents for literary/liturgical text (see Joins Suggestions). […] The letter opens with a quotation from Jeremiah 17:7. […] F 1908.44i (PGPID 5270) r24) or deliberate misspelling of masjid; al-Maqrīzī and other chroniclers mention a Masjid al-Rudaynī at the site that later became the Cairo Citadel.

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العلامات

• coins
• drowning
• geography
• mint
• nile
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Document date

Ṣafar 1247 Hijrī (12 July 1831–9 August 1831 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The accounts list a wide array of locations within region of al-Gharbīyya, such as: (right side, recto) Mīt Qallīn (l. 19), al-Bakātūsh (l. 21), al-Manshilīn (ll. 20, 22), Maḥallat Diyāy (l. 24), Kafr al-Jazaʾir (l. 26), Ṣarwa (l. 29), al-Ṣāfīyya (l. 31). The other locations in this list are likely in the near vicinity of this cluster of towns but will require further research because some may be archaic placenames that do not appear on current maps.

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• 19th c

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Forgeries of deeds and discobedience to court rulings aso mentioned. Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• communal
• polygyny

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower part of a letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). […] He describes his great distress (poverty, dependents, fear from the tax collectors); emphasizes his loyalty to the addressee and that he prays for him every Shabbat after praying for the souls of the late 'adonenu' and his ancestors. […] He quotes Isaiah 65:1 in reference to himself (mistakenly attributing the verse to Jeremiah), "I gave access to them that asked not for me, I was at hand to them that sought me not; I said: 'Behold me, behold me', unto a nation that was not called by my name."

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العلامات

• tax

1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar I–Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (7 February 1693–6 April 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq Portugez and Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿacov Meṣlīḥ. Left side of recto (Document #4): Psaq dīn involving a partnership dispute between Yiṣḥaq ʿImmanuʾel and Shemuʾel Salmūn(?). […] Part of the ketubba and full dowry list continues on the right side of the verso with a vast array of items/clothing adorned with gold, silver, gemstones, and furs. Left side of verso: (Document #6) Incomplete inheritance document following the death of someone only listed with the first name Yisraʾel, but possibly the same Yisraʾel ha-Kohen who is mentioned in entry 7. […] , and Yosef (Natan's father-in-law). (#7) An investment partnership between Mordekhay and Aharon, sons of the deceased Yisraʾel ha-Kohen, with the other partners: Natan Ben-Efrayim, Yaʿaqov ha-Levi, and Moshe ha-Kohen. MCD.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Middle part of a long letter concerning the rent of one-fourth of a house belonging to a woman. The sender explains that it is not worthwhile going to court, as it would only lead to fines and financial ruin, and the 'ruler' (Heb. shaliṭ, corresponding to Arabic qāḍī? […] Potentially the same handwriting as T-S 12.417, JRL SERIES B 2601, and/or ENA NS 2.40. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

العلامات

• hamas
• rent
• slave

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th century. […] Refers to a group of people traveling (יסירו ויטלעו קאצ[דין); that they had obtained a rescript for/against the Ṣāḥib al-Sayyāra (could refer to the head of a specific caravan, but see T-S K25.32 (PGPID 34397) for the government post Mutawallī al-Sayyāra); that the rescript confirmed their rights to continue as before (מקר בידיהם באן יגרו עלי מא קד גרת בה עאדתהם ולא יגדד עליהם מא לם יעהדוה); and strengthening the hand of the sender of this letter (ואעזאז אלעבד אלממלוך ואלשד עלי ידה). When the nāẓir Abū l-Munā arrived in Damīra, the sender and the group/community went to him and registered a complaint against a certain Ibrāhīm, saying, "there is no good or honor in this, that a Jew should oppose the honoring of our master the noble Rayyis" (וקאל לא כיר לה ולא כראמה [פי] אן יעארץ יהודי אכראם למולי אלריס אלגליל). […] The next sentence is somewhat difficult, but the sender seems to be justifying his actions and taking credit for reporting Ibrāhīm to the government. He now asks the addressee (אלחצרה אלעאליה) to write to Abū l-Munā the nāẓir in order to thank him and convey the gratitude of the sender and the community.

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• conflict
• police

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Five leaves of an account book. Mostly daily entries of a money dealer. […] Each customer was listed on a separate sheet showing his weekly debit and credit. The second account shows a heavy overdraft. […] One is surprised to find great merchants such as Nahray b. Nissim and Barhūn Tāhartī or members of the Exchange confiding their money to such a poor man.

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العلامات

• banking

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1594–1689 CE

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Letter in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: 1594–1689 CE, based on the legible numerals 10[..] […] Aḥmed’s letter addresses the above-mentioned customs tax farmer, whom the author calls ‘Çavuş Bey efendim ḥażretleri’. […] At the heart of the letter-writer’s complaint against Ḥusām Reʾīs is the timely shipment to Istanbul of the māl-i mīrī, for which the customs directors of the Mediterranean ports bore a disproportionate share of responsibility.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Shemuel b. Shelomo ha-Levi to a notary. He asks the addressee to draw up a contract for Abū [...], and mentions a weekly payment of 10 dirhams starting on the 22nd of Sivan. In the margin רב אלדין (= rabb al-dayn = the creditor). (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious items of textile merchandise (aʿlāq) which he had received in Damascus. He will pay off the debt in a single payment as soon as the seller/creditor arrives in Fustat. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Weiss's edition.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from communal leaders, in Alexandria, to the judge Shemuel, in Fustat. […] Dating: Unclear; likely early 13th century, based on handwriting and Goitein's identification of the judge Shemuel as the same one mentioned in T-S 10J16.6. Regarding a woman in Alexandria with a sick daughter, whose husband had fled his creditor and gone to the capital. The letter says that she had been deserted for a long time, that she had to maintain herself and her little girl, to pay rent, and on top of this, was sued in court by the creditor of her husband.

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العلامات

• aguna
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,71 (ח87). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥalfon. Alexandria; probably about 1143-1145.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Adar II 1543 Seleucid (23 February 1232–22 March 1232 CE)

Legal document. Court record. Dating: 1232 CE. Record of three tannery partners, Rāḍī ha-Kohen, Mufaḍḍal ha-Kohen, and Ṭāhir, who worked in Minyat Ziftā. […] Prior litigation on the same matter in an Islamic court led to a ruling requiring Rāḍī to pay Mufaḍḍal 1.5 dinars each month. […] (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 264)

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• 13th c
• coin
• minyat zifta

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

49[.] Hijrī (19 December 1096–1 September 1106 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. The ends of four lines are preserved. […] Mentions a date of 49[.] AH = 1096–1106 CE as part of the repayment terms. The creditor is probably [...] al-Muqaddasī (l. 3).

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account for Elul 1494 and Tishri 1495 sel. ca. 1183. This document contains the last part of the expenditures for Elul. Then additional revenue from …

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• shemuel b. saadya
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Goitein's translation (Med Soc III, p. 457 n. 12): "My lady, Sitt Ṣalaf visited me and reported to me what you have said to her. Now, my lady, I have children; so if you deem fit that he (or: it) should be left in my engagement agreement (or: possession), it is fine with me; but if you transfer him (or: it) for me to someone else, you would do me a great favor. […] There is also a Sitt Ṣalaf greeted in T-S NS 264.99.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Ḥisday ha-Nasi (a Qaraite communal leader) concerning a husband who wishes to divorce the wife he had been coerced into marrying in Alexandria. […] If his request is refused, he threatens to flee the country and leave her an ʿaguna. Shelomo is probably not writing on his own behalf, as it is unlikely that he would consult a Qaraite Nasi for a legal opinion. […] (Information from CUDL and Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents of the Cairo Geniza, 87, 149, 180, 220, 260.) EMS. ASE.

العلامات

• aguna
• appeal
• divorce
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 7 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid (8 September 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,68 (ח74). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. […] He also informs Ḥalfon that Yehuda ha-Levi is on the ship that has just arrived in Alexandria. (Information in part from Gil and Fleischer "Yehuda Ha-Levi and his circle", pp: 420–26). VMR/ASE

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An account from Sicily listing 63 ox hides from Syracuse and 76 buck skins. The sums are mentioned in rubaiyat (quarters of dinars). Dated to the mid 11th century. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 111; Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, p. 69, and Ben-Sasson, Yehudei Sitzilya, p. 337)

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العلامات

• account
• sicily
• skins

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

September 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,68a (ח75). Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. […] Dating: after mid-September 1140 CE. In which ha-Levimentions the exaggerated honors the Jews of Alexandria bestowed on him, especially Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. […] In the continuation, he responds to Ḥalfon’s "depression and sadness of heart," which is also mentioned in IV, 92. Yehuda ha-Levi explains that this is a natural response to Ḥalfon's grief over the death of his brother ʿEli.

العلامات

• ib4
• india book

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a merchant in Alexandria to a business associate in Fustat, advising him to dispose of goods costing a large amount of money and, “This letter of mine is your proof in court.” The writer also notes he received a loan of 80 dinars from a compatriot and asks that all consignments to himself should be turned over to his creditor. Eleventh century. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 1:254, 291, 464, 272; 2:337, 601) EMS

العلامات

• 11th c
• merchant
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

middle third of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid (3 May 1156–12 May 1156 CE)

On a Saturday, a dying man, Salim al-Halabi, a dyer was visited by friends, among them a creditor, who reminded him of a sum of 16 dinars and 4 qirats still owed to him. Salim assured him that he would get his money, but wished to discuss the matter after the Sabbath. When the creditor replied that he was unable to return, Salim reiterated his pledge, and his son, who was present, confirmed that he was ready to pay his father's debt, even if it was twice as high. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 135, 543)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon had business relationships with both parties, and the price of the paper will be credited toward Yiṣḥaq b. ʿOvadya's account with Ḥalfon. […] Previously thought to be a letter from Yehuda ha-Levi. See also: E.N. Adler, uncatalogued, no. 40, ed. Goitein, "Autographs of Yehuda Hallevi", Tarbiz 25 (1956), pp. 407 SH [10-23-87] (P) Letter from Yehuda Ha-Levi to Halfon b. Nathaneel, 12th century.

العلامات

• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Document date

Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid (17 December 1126–14 January 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses to the declaration are ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Araḥ Ibn Kokhav (or Kawkab), and the judge is ʿEli b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. A certain Ṣedaqa is a creditor of the dying man. In the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid = December 1126/January 1127 CE.

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العلامات

• deathbed will
• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

27 Tammuz 1472 Seleucid (23 July 1161 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 27 Tammuz 1472 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. […] testifies that she received 10 dinars collected on her behalf by by a well-known tājir, or big merchant, Abū l-Maʿālī b. Bū l-Ḥasan b. Asad. The contributions: 2 dinars from the Nagid Netanel ha-Levi; 2 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī of al-Maḥalla; 1 dinar from Abū Naṣr; 1 dinar from Bū l-Faraj al-Ṣūrī; 2 dinars from Sālim al-Parnas Ibn al-Jubaylī; and 2 dinars from Ṣāf(ī) the ghulām/slave/business agent of the tājir on the very day on which the document was written. "The participation of the slave seems to indicate that the dead merchant had been connected with his master by partnership or otherwise.

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العلامات

• ghulam
• slaves
• testimony
• widows

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to a judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] He complains that after he had paid 10 dinars according to the judge's decision, his creditors wanted to receive (or received) the rest with interest. Mentions an encounter in the "small guardhouse" (מחרץ for מחרס/maḥras).

العلامات

• interest

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة