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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

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Upper fragment: Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] About a sum of dinars which Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (here called Sar ha-Sarim) had sent for Shela but which did not arrive. […] If Abū Sahl is delayed, Mevorakh should be informed. (Information from Frenkel.)

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Account for Nisan and Iyyar 1493 sel. ca. 1182. The usual items for accounts from Abu'l-Bayan are included in this one. There are 22 apartments …

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• 12th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

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Inferred date

1240–1240 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounting of the qodesh, ca. 1240. A double leaf, torn into two parts, this document contains a main record of current revenues from rent, but some expenditures and other pecuniary operations are also listed.

العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• coptic numerals
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew addressed to a certain Shemuel, who is a business partner of the sender. […] The addressee is asked to send a letter explaining "clearly but in hints" the details of their business partnership. […] There are several additional fragments in the hand of the same scribe (identified by Oded Zinger): JRL Series B 3311 (PGPID 5213), Moss. II,150 (PGPID 26708), and Moss. VII,143.2 (PGPID 27025). The JRL document is addressed to the sister's husband (also confusingly named Shemuel) and refers to some of the same content as the present letter: "I remind you to keep the contract. . . of my partner Shemuel . . . ."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Memorandum by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. […] (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #272) The verso left, in Arabic script, remains unedited. VMR Note that what Udovitch as translated as "cheque" is suftaja and should rather be translated as "letter of credit."

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العلامات

• informal note
• memorandum
• suftaja

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to Abū l-Ḥasan, in Aleppo. […] The distance between Damascus and Aleppo is 20 days' travel. Mentions Ibn Mufaḍḍal. The next three lines have to do with the honey that the writer had deposited with Abū l-Ḥasan. […] (Information from Ṣabīḥ ʿAodeh, "Eleventh Century Arabic Letters of Jewish Merchants from the Cairo Geniza" (PhD diss., Tel Aviv University, 1992.)

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العلامات

• aodeh

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document containing an acknowledgment by a creditor, Khalaf b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sason was unjustly taken by the local judge and her late husband's creditors. In the letter, the widow appeals to the Nagid, Mevorakh b. […] The widow mentions this and adds that she also made an appeal to the same Muslim qadi. See Goitein, Med. Soc. 3:257-8).

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العلامات

• bribe

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Document date

[14]36 Seleucid (11 September 1124–30 August 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. […] Concerning a release granted by a creditor to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Dating: mentions [14]36 Seleucid = 1124/25 CE.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• ib7

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew by the muqaddam (head) of the community of Minyat Zifta, announcing that he had excommunicated a debtor according to an instruction by the Nagid. The Nagid had previously arranged for the debtor to repay part of what was owed to his creditors, but he reneged on his agreement and an excommunication was about to be enacted against him as per the Nagid’s instructions. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 465 and CUDL)

العلامات

• 14th c
• communal
• excommunication
• muqaddam

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Document date

526 Hijrī (23 November 1131–11 November 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book II, 20: Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Aden, 1132.

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• ib2
• india book
• mangalore

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Document date

1551 Seleucid (1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Per Goitein, a document at shelfmark T-S NS J215 (PGPID 26372) describes the eventual sale of the factory discussed in this document. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 23-25) Verso has a legal query in Arabic script (PGPID 39482).

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• ibn yiju
• india book
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter starts with two biblical quotations (line 2, Prov. 3:26, line 3, Dt. 7:15). […] He supplies the addressee with a potential excuse by saying that he is very worried on account of his eye illness, and became still more worried when the messenger Raḥmān b. Ḥaydara returned with no news. […] If you hear anything from our lord ʿAlam al-Dīn, write to me." Apparently moving on to the matter of grain that has yet to be "released" (already mentioned earlier in the letter), "The judge Jalāl al-Dīn, the fiscal adminstrator (ṣāḥib al-dīwān), has arrived and seen the situation for himself.

العلامات

• business
• christians
• complaints
• faqih
• fasting
• (+ 9 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Business letter stating that Umm Bayān, who is dragged to court every day by her creditors, opened her husband’s storage crate and sold items from it in order to pay off some of her debts. Mentions Iraqi raw silk traded in Alexandria, and concludes with well-wishes to Abu Kathir Efrayim along with his wife and son. […] Avraham. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:103, 417; 3:246, 480; Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital disputes according to documents of the Cairo Geniza, 52.)

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العلامات

• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The saffron sold for 50 and 51...." Further down, mentions the mint (Dār al-Ḍarb) and gold. Verso mentions a young woman (al-ṣabiyya). […] A third possibility which Goitein does not mention—it may refer to the Muʾminī dinars minted by ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, the founder of the Almohad dynasty, and this exchange rate of 52.67:100 would be plausible based on information from Ibn Jubayr (e.g. https://shamela.ws/book/11203/26). If this is the correct reading, the letter probably dates to around the second half of the 12th century.

العلامات

• to edit
• trade

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Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

On the other hand, the author, or at least the calligrapher, may have stripped out the practical guide- lines from one or more of these better-known, more elaborate works.

العلامات

• islamic
• learning
• ottoman turkish
• primer
• turkish literary

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India Book III, 23. Detailed accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in India. Dating: 1132–39, 1145–49.

العلامات

• account
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book

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Legal document. Debt contract. Date not preserved. The names of debtor and creditor are very effaced. The sum of money is given in Kāmilī dirhams, but the amount is not preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

3 Rajab 1248 Hijrī (26 November 1832 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated 3 Rajab [12]48 AH = 26 November 1832 CE. […] The addressee is not explicitly identified; he appears to be an authority in either the Jewish or Islamic community. The letter seems to be a complaint and an appeal for assistance against the behaviors (apparently wage theft) of al-Muʿallim Nissim and al-Muʿallim Bekhor (or potentially Baḥur, if بخور is an error for بحور). The sender repeatedly emphasizes his poverty, although the large sums of money he refers to (1000s and 10000s of a silver denomination, likely medins) suggest that this may be rhetorical or relative poverty.

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العلامات

• hakham bashi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1039–1039 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda over the gaʾonate in Palestine. The letter drafts on both recto and verso are about that conflict and the question of the loyalties of the community of Qayrawān. […] Both Gil and Cohen assume that additional leaders of the Fustat community were planning to sign the letter. This letter covers some of the same ground as the letter on verso; we additionally learn that the support that Natan b.

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العلامات

• communal
• daniel b. 'azarya
• gaonate
• gaonic conflict
• nagid

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Document date

Shawwal 1239 Hijrī (30 May 1824–27 June 1824 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, Av[raham] Israʾel, Moshe Argel, ʿAbdalraḥmān Abu-Hīf, ʿAlī al-Salāmī, Salmūn al-Rodslī, Alī Maʿarūf, Muḥ[ammad] Ẓaẓa [11? Shawwāl] Mishmish Mesīkha, Moshe Argel, Faṭīma, Giyān Maʿarūf, Yosef Iskāfī, ʿUthmān Ahga, Aḥmad Menāklī [13 Shawwāl] Yosef Iskāfī, Ḥasan [14 Shawwāl] Rakha(?)[…] , Musṭafa al-Nedūrī, Yosef Saba, Khālīl al-Kabajī (Kapacı) JRL C 148, verso [26 Shawwāl, verso] Nīqol min Katano (de Cattano?)[…] Ḥajj Muḥ[ammad] Shahāyib, ʿAlī Shaykh al-ʿAqādīn, Mishmish Mesīkha, Salmūn al-Rosālī, Aṣlān ʿAbdīn, Avraham Israel, David Barakha, [29 Shawwāl] Ṣāliḥ ʿAbdīn, al-Rashīdī, Yosef Iskāfī [29 Shawwāl contd.]

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• 19th c
• alexandria
• silk

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew from the community of Kiev on behalf of Yaʿaqov ben R. […] He had been seized by Christian creditors (goyim) of his brother, who had been killed by brigands. […] Dated to the 10th century (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 348 and from Golb and Pritsak)

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a letter to a judge. The sender reports that a certain Abū l-Ḥasan settled in Bilbays and owed 200 nuqra dirhams to 5 Muslim creditors. He left his wife and children in Bilbays, came here (Fustat?)[…] At the top of the page some works of Hayya Gaʾon are mentioned, which have been loaned to Sayyidnā al-Nasi.

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• bilbays

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in Fustat, to her son Abū l-Maḥāsin, in Funduq al-Qamra, Alexandria. […] If my night visions are distressing to me, how [much the worse] if I should see them while awake." […] The instructions should be delivered either to Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn to the shop of al-Kohen al-Siqillī, or to al-Sūq al-Kabir, to the shop of Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī. See Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 224–25, 260. VMR. ASE.

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العلامات

• book trade
• dictated
• disability
• disability: vision
• dreams
• (+ 10 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda b. […] When I saw them, my soul almost leftme and I went pale (? akhadhatnī ṣufra). I said to myself, perhaps they have news [of you]. . . . […] The remainder of the letter deals with business matters. The writer is much older than his brother.

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العلامات

• emotion
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: critical
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Document date

507 Hijrī (18 June 1113–6 June 1114 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for a repayment of a debt. The creditor received half of the 9 dinars (in the six month installment), in the form 18.5 wariq dirhams. […] Reused on recto for part of a medical work in Judaeo-Arabic on lice (qaml) and delousing.

العلامات

• receipt

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Document date

Iyyar 1457 Seleucid (15 April 1146–13 May 1146 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document was written after the payment of the debt that is the subject of CUL Or.1080 J284 (ח88, PGPID 9130), a letter from Abū ʿUmar Saʿdān b. Thābit Levi Baghdādī (Seʿadya ha-Levi b. […] Here the creditor is given his Hebrew name: (Abū ʿUmar) Seʿadya ha-Levi b. […] The witnesses describe in detail the price that Shemuel received for the silk, both for the bulk of it and for the portion that was of a higher quality. Following the creditor's acknowledgement of having received the balance of the debt, the witnesses state that Shemuel received an excellent price for the silk, at least 1 dinar/raṭl more than a broker would have fetched.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Blurton and Reynolds (2022), 26). Murhaf was also a known bibliophile with a large library, and the ex libris here appears to match the examples from other works belonging to him.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book III, 28: Account by Avraham Ibn Yiju of Indian products sold for another merchant, Aden, ca. 1141-44.

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العلامات

• account
• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book
• trade

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Document date

1172 Hijrī (4 September 1758–24 August 1759 CE)

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

ʿĀşık ʿÖmer was unquestionably a mystic, although whether he belonged to a Sufi order is less clear. He had inclinations toward both the Mevlevī and the Bektāshī orders (Ergun 1936, 7, 76, 77; Karasoy and Yavuz 2015, 623; Gülmez 2015). […] The object of af- fection is one Meḥmed Shah, who may be a Sufi master but could also be the Ottoman sultan Meḥmed IV (r. 1058–99 AH/1648–87 CE), the first emperor under whom ʿĀşık ʿÖmer saw military service.... […] In that case, the scribe may have been copying down poems recited to him, perhaps from memory, by Yaḥyā Çavuş or some other interlocutor.

العلامات

• 18th c
• ottoman turkish
• poetry

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." […] ʿIwāḍ had taken a strict oath not to travel without his creditors' consent—but of course he has done just that. […] Yehoshuaʿ emphasizes that the creditor is a good man, so his word can be believed; plus, he took a mighty oath that he is not playing a trick.

العلامات

• motto

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Letter from Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Faraj, possibly in Ṣahrajt, to Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿAllūn b. […] In Arabic script. There are at least two other letters with the same sender and same addressee: ENA 2465.8–9 (PGPID 34049) and T-S 13J13.2 (PGPID 944). […] He makes statements of loyalty to the addressee (anā tilmīdhuh wa-mansūb ilayhi).

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• circumcision
• dimme

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Document date

16 Av 1262 Seleucid (22 July 951 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Legal document. Karaite court record in Judaeo-Persian from 951 CE signed by [...] b. […] Padāwī (פדאוי) and Saʿīd ha-Le[vi]. "The present document derives, like the legal deed from Ahwāz of 1020, from the Cairo Geniza. […] Leslie, Abr-Nahrain, VIII, 1969, pp. 1—35) as a postposition with a genitive effect.

العلامات

• karaite

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically the pledges (usually made in a synagogue) for a particular week. The writer describes that his children have died of hunger and that he has been hiding from a creditor and is confined to the house “like a woman,” thus unable to earn money through work.

العلامات

• poverty

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Document date

22 Shevaṭ 1576 Seleucid (9 February 1265 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Addendum to the legal deed on recto. Location: Fustat. Dated: 22 Shevaṭ 1576 Seleucid = 9 February 1265 CE. […] Yeḥiel, also signed by Efrayim b. Shemuel ha-melammed. In which the creditor, Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Maḥāsin, transfers to his wife Saʿdiyya bt. […] Above, there are two records of payments received: on the right, a payment of 75 dirhams (written by Yehuda), and on the left, a payment of 50 dirhams (written by David, according to Goitein's index card none other than the Nagid David I Maimonides).

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• immanuel b. yehiel

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter by a gaon (copy). The original letter was from the early 11th century.

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Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "T-S AS 178.88 gives voice to Salmūn himself, who petitions a high official, possibly the governor of Egypt, to take action against rapacious ‘kāshifs’ men’ who steal the sheep and other provisions that form part of the māl-i mīrī, the money and provisions that Egypt delivered to the imperial palace every year. […] The followers of this kāshif and other Nile Delta kāshifs are surely the ‘kāshifs’ men’ against whom Salmūn rails. In fact, this annual ritual may have given the Buḥayra kāshif’s men the perfect opportunity to pilfer and damage the provisions intended for the palace."

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