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Sivan 1496 Seleucid (3 May 1185–1 June 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(b) Record of marriage conditions. Dated: Sivan 1496 Seleucid (May 1185 CE). Groom: Abū l-Barakāt b. Musallam al-Ṭabīb. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAlam bt.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid (7 June 1183 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid, which is 1183 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Ghulayb b. Ṣadaqa al-Bilbaysī claims that Abū ʿImrān b. […] Signed: Shemuel ha-Levi b. Menashshe; Elʿazar. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Nisan 1497 – Tishrei 1498 Seleucid (1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. […] Total = 85. (3) Taqwīm for the marriage between Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-Shammāʿ and Sitt al-Thanā' bt. Abū l-Makārim אלתווזי. […] Total = 48. (4) Taqwīm for the marriage between Munajjā b. Hiba al-Ṭabīb and Ḥasab bt. Abū ʿUmar. Dated: Tishrei 1498 Seleucid, which is 1186 CE.

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العلامات

• dowry
• marriage
• slaves
• taqwim

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Document date

1498 Seleucid (1186–1187 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(1) Taqwīm (dowry list) for the marriage between Hiba b. Faḍā'il al-Ḥazzān and Riḍā bt. Tamīm al-Parnas. […] (2) Taqwīm (dowry list) for the marriage between Maʿālī b. Naṭīrā and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Makārim al-Parnas. […] (3) Taqwīm (dowry list) for the marriage between Abū Manṣūr b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Dhahabī and Sitt al-Karam bt.

العلامات

• dowry
• taqwim

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Document date

13 Tishrei 1496 Seleucid (20 September 1184 CE)

Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …

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العلامات

• engagement

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Document date

18 Tevet 1496 Seleucid (24 December 1184 CE)

An engagement agreement from the 18th of Tevet. The marriage is set a month and four months afterward. The bride is represented by her father, …

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• engagement

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Document date

Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid (8 January 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid, which is January 1185 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū Naṣr b. Abū l-Khayr claims to have given to the female broker Sitt al-Dalāl bt. […] She claimed to him that they would fetch only 7.5 dinars and obtained permission to sell them to her own son Abū l-Maḥāsin b. Yefet for this price, taking 1/3 dinar as brokerage.

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Document date

17 February 1417–17 March 1417 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Colophon. Scribe: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Mard[īnī?]. Location: Tel Yaʿqūb, "under the rule of Yūsuf b.

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• colophon
• mardin
• molad adam

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Genealogical list of Shemuel b. Hananiah's family.

العلامات

• genealogy

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The physician Menahem writes to his colleague, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, about happenings when he traveled to the village Ṭanān (in the Qalyubiyya district near …

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Report on a compound dedicated to the Qodesh ca. after 1127. A fragment of a report, or memorandum, about the compound known as Dar Naqa …

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a report on measures taken to save pious foundations from the rapacity of the finance minister, known as 'the Monk'' (active 1127-1129). (Information …

العلامات

• communal

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. Addressed to a certain Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. Mentions Bū l-Khayr. May belong together with the preceding fragments.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Repeatedly mentions shahr al-aʿyād (presumably Tishrei), al-faṭīr (Passover), and al-ʿanṣara (Shavuʿot). Mentions Abū ʿAlī b. Isḥāq. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Genealogical list of Shemuel b. Ḥananya's family.

العلامات

• genealogy

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Document date

Monday, 5 Tammuz 1369 Seleucid (29 June 1058 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Monday 5 Tamuz 1369 Seleucid = 29 June 1058 CE. Husband: Khalaf b. Shelomo. Wife: Nasāba bt. ʿAmmār. Scribed and signed by Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. […] Also signed by Ṭoviyya b. Hillel. Verso not photographed here.

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العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Scribe: Natan ha-Kohen b. Yeshuʿa b. Yaʿaqov b. Yeshuʿa b. Yosef b. Peraḥya b.

العلامات

• colophon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names mentioned are Natan b. Ṣadaqa ha-Zaqen ha-Ḥasid and [...] b. Daniel ha-Levi.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

Date missing. Husband: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Wife: Nasāba bt. Natan(?).

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العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av [148]5 Seleucid (1 July 1174–30 July 1174 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Natan (active 1150–81) Husband: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Salāma. Wife: Ḥusn bt. Abū l-Yumn. Signed: Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya. The attestation on verso that the wife received the get is signed by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya and Mevorakh b. Natan.

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العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Opens with an ornate "al-izza lillāhi taʿālā." Addressed to al-amīr al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍāʾil. The letter gives instructions concerning business matters and …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script. Remnants of bookbinding on the right side. Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic.The writer congratulates the recipient on his recent marriage and mentions …

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shām; 20 nuqra dirhams; dār sayyidinā in Fustat, and various people's names. Dating: probably late 12th or …

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Letter from Meir (b. Yakhin) to a certain Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.

العلامات

• arabic address
• letter norms

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly addressed to 'the dear brother al-Kohen Hadar ha-Soḥerim." Dating: Early 13th century. The writer mentions things that were lost during this …

العلامات

• education
• secret

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Upper part of a legal document. Dated Thursday, 1 Adar II, but the year is not given. Sitt al-ʿAlāʾ, the wife of Abū l-Fakhr al-Kohen, …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of of a legal document in which Sitt al-ʿIzz bt. Yeshaʿyahu b. Yefet appoints 'Amat al-Qādir' Sitt al-Milāḥ Turfa as her representative with regard to her share in the house in the al-Muṣāṣa quarter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew

The names of the tribes of Israel transcribed into a cipher based on the alphabetic equivalents of Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• cipher

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Order from al-Shaykh al-Makīn of endive seed (bizr hindibāʾ), purslane seed (bizr rijla), unripe dates (busr), and sugar. (Information in part from Goitein's index …

العلامات

• order

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Literary work on the calendar, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Bodl. MS heb. f 102/36 and Bodl.

العلامات

• calendar
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

العلامات

• booklist

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1200–1300 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

A property "known by Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ" is known from an Arabic legal deed from 1209 (PGPID 40229). Avraham b. Shelomob. Sa'adya "known as Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ" is the groom in PGPID 2240 from 1292CE. The current memorial list is headed by Sa'adya and his sons, amongst them Shelomo.

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• memorial

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Dated: 14[.]7 Seleucid, probably 1407 Seleucid, which is 1095/96 CE. Signed by Ghālib b. Ḥalfon in massive letters.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Title page of al-Ḥāwī by David b. Seʿadya al-Ger ("the convert"). See David Sklare, ר' דוד בן סעדיה אלגר וחיבורו אלחאוי, Teʿuda 14, pp. 103–23.

العلامات

• convert

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified Torah scholar. Dating: Likely 11th century. The writer mentions the city of Fez and people who have become affluent and are …

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العلامات

• children
• education
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children

1 نسخ

None

العلامات

• arabic script
• coptic alphanumeral
• jabi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter probably from Yedutun ha-Levi, in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb. (Identification is tentative, based on handwriting and typical phrases and names.)

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العلامات

• apricots
• gratitude
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• calendar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13 Shevat 1442 Seleucid (13 January 1131 CE)

Dated: Tuesday, 13 Shevat 1442 Seleucid, which is 1131 CE. Husband: Ḥalfon b. [...].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation for charity for the judge Avraham b. Yosef. The addressee is on a boat and about to set out for a voyage.

العلامات

• ib7
• india book
• recommendation

2 نسخين

None

العلامات

• funerals
• heqdesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

27 Kislev 1471 Seleucid (9 December 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Tuesday night, 27 Kislev 1471 = 9 December 1159 CE. The blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī receives from Abū l-Makārim the collector (jābī) for the compound 10 dirhams that were due to her for Elul and Tishrei of 1159 CE. Signed: Nissim b. Shelomo; Simḥa b. [...]. The money was handed over by Tiqva b.

العلامات

• disability
• disability: vision
• register

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