Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include Mufaḍḍal b. Hillel, Mufaḍḍal al-Naqūsh, Saʿīd b. Shemuel and his son, Manṣūr b. Hiba, Muḥāssan al-Tabāk, Būnṣar Ibn al-Ḥūsh, Sūlīm b. Yosef, [..]m b. Sanīṭ, Yaʿaqov al-Maghribī and Surūr al-Khurasānī. (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Probably a legal document involving the perfumer (ʿaṭṭār) Ṭāhir b. Maḥfuẓ al-Yahūdī and another individual. The text contains several dual participles. […] Verso: Deed of sale which also involves Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, who is identified as al-ʿAṭṭār bi-l-ḥawānīt bi-l-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa.

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Primary language

Arabic

The layout of the address is quite confusing: to Alexandria, to Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, to the shop of Abū [...], to be given to Abū l-Khayr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī al-Miṣrī. But then it says "ʿAṭiyya b. Bunyām from his brother Abū ʿAlī." Mentions: 17 dinars, "his brother Abū Saʿīd," Abū ʿAlī, depositing something with Abū Naṣr.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

635 Hijrī (24 August 1237–13 August 1238 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Draft of a legal declaration in which Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz b. ʿImrān the Jew swears on the head of the sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil that he will not practice the trade of physician (lā ataṣarraf fī ṣināʿat al-ṭabāʾiʿī) without a license (illā bi-tazkiya). […] On verso there is a passage from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’) in Arabic script, along with grammatical exercises in Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• physicians
• physicians: regulation

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Document date

Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid (April 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya. Testator: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār al-Iskandarānī, the wife of Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī al-Tājir. […] "This remarkable deathbed declaration, on the one hand, shows the cosmopolitan character of Fustat: the daughter of a druggist called 'the Alexandrian' was married there to a merchant 'from Aleppo.' […] Sitt al-Ahl also intends for the daughter of her brother Abū l-Surūr to marry her son Mūsā.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• marital strife
• slaves
• will

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Letter from Shelomo b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barki, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. […] Regarding several services he did for his brother in law: purchasing of wheat and collecting rent for hoses Musa has in Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #645) VMR

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Document date

Thursday, 21 Tammuz 1453 Seleucid (16 July 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 21 Tammuz 1453 Seleucid = 16 July 1142 CE. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya), "at the seat (moshav = majlis) of the Nagid." Abū Zikrī al-Kohen sues a certain Mordechai for an alleged debt of 30 dinars. There follows a long cross-examination, mentioning Abū [...] Khallūf al-Neʾeman, Maghribī beds (? marāqid), and Alexandria.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves the moneychanger (al-shulḥani/al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmram b. ʿEzra, the head of the Alexandrian congregation, who makes a declaration in favor of somebody important (חבר בסנהדרין גדולה). […] The name Abū l-Ḥusayn also appears at upper left for some reason.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Bū Manṣūr Ibn al-Daqqāq, Ibn al-Muẓaffar, Bū l-Fakhr al-Ṭabīb, and Shelomo. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Given that the continuation of the letter (unknown to Ashtor) refers to the arrival of a fleet of ships at Abū Qīr, it is much more likely that the letter originated somewhere in Egypt, likely Alexandria. The dating should also be revisited; the al-Ghazālī mentioned is not necessarily Jānbirdī, and if it is him, the document could also date to his time serving under the Mamluk regime in Syria and Egypt in the early 16th century. The sender reports that he has previously sent two letters regarding "all that is happening in the city (al-madīna)." […] He also reports that "the fleet" (al-qatāʾiʿ, cf. T-S 13J19.29 (PGPID 5893)) arrived in Abū Qīr but the sultan did not allow them to pass.

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العلامات

• consul
• france
• qata`i'
• tarsim

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Primary language

Arabic

Address of a letter in Arabic script sent to Alexandria, to al-Muʿallim Dāʾūd al-ʿĀmil(?). The letter itself is not preserved.

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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) with his autograph responsa (r. 1205-1237 CE as Rayyis al-Yahūd and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE): (I) concerning a man from Alexandria, married with children, who took an enslaved woman and lives with her as his concubine in the Fayyūm, abandoning his family in Alexandria. […] The answer: It is forbidden for a man to live alone with an enslaved woman, and if he does so, he should be excommunicated by name until he removes her from his home.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Uses an unusual variant of a blessing formula: khallada allāh suʿudahā (rather than saʿdahā). Mentions al-shaykh al-ajall Abū l-Fakhr; wood and honey; a request probably having to do with taxes; the superintendent (al-mushrif) is al-sayyid Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid ibn Surrī whose brother is the head (ṣāḥib) of the Dīwān al-Hilālī. […] can write to his brother (Abū l-l-ʿAlāʾ?) to take care of this poor community. . . .”

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter (possibly a copy, as it is blank on verso and is set out more like a page of text than a letter) sending greetings to ‘ha-Sar ha-Niḵbad ha-Rav ha-Muv[h]aq [...] Moses’. Also refers to ‘Moses Sar ha-Alef’. (Information from CUDL.) NB: A previous description on PGP said "Letter to Abu al-'Ala and Abu 'Aja, written in Hebrew. The address on verso is in Judaeo-Arabic and contains instructions concerning personal matters and about the delivery of the letter." However, there is no address on verso, so this description (together with the transcription for verso) must belong to a different fragment. PGP also previously listed a transcription for the erroneous verso: לשיך אבו אלעלא ואגא פציצא בעד ארסאל האדא אלכתאב ננפדה מע מן נערף.

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Document date

12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 Hijrī (4 May 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. […] Written in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Amount: one-half dīnār. Written under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the auspicious, rightly-guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) under the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār, his deputy (3) in the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in Cairo (according to the address, which also specifies "to al-Bāṭiliyya, under the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ) of the house of Muʿizz al-Dawla"). […] He may be particularly disconsolate about having to pray alone. He urges the family members to respond quickly with their news and the news of who is alive and who is dead and news of a certain Murhaf ('and spare me nothing').

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العلامات

• inqita'
• nablus
• prisoners

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Some specific names, such as Yiṣḥaq b. al-Sharaf (i.e. Sharaf al-Dawla, 'The Honor of the Government') also found in T-S K15.62. […] Goitein thinks this may have been a collection taken up at a wedding; he evidently reads 'al-hatan al-Muwaffaq' in line 14 (his line 7). But see below; al-h could stand for al-hazzan (Cohen).

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (also Greek/Coptic numerals). Mentions a debt owed by Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (also the name of a well known chancery scribe in the 13th century, conceivably the person intended here).

العلامات

• bialphabetic

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Document date

1057 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. ʿEli ha- Kohen al-Fāsī, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] In the handwriting of Salmān b. Hārūn. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī Kohen al-Fāsī writes of his intention to come to Fustat and meet with Abū ʿAbdallah (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ) to see if he had kept his goods safe for him, and asks to send him his greetings. Contains information about movement of ships and goods. The situation in Alexandria is not good and merchants that were supposed to arrive there did not.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: recovery
• movement of ships

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating to the reign of al-Ẓāhir (1021–36). A letter of gratitude for the sender's patron(s) who aided him in obtaining a decree/rescript renewing his appointment in a certain position. Mentions Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Qāsim ("his waliyy and khādim") who brought a mighty decree (sijill muʿaẓẓam) from the caliph (min al-ḥaḍra al-muṭahhara), apparently renewing the sender's appointment "in carrying on my service these districts" (bi-l-jary ʿalā rasmī fī khidmatī bi-hādhihi al-aʿmāl) "and informed me of the benefaction of my masters...." The sender blesses the addressee that he be "in the shadow/protection" (bi-ẓill) of al-Ḥākim (God's peace be upon him / salām Allāhʿalayhi).

العلامات

• al-hakim
• fatimid

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov b. Lanjū (al-Mahdiyya) to Nahray b. Nissim (Alexandria). Ca. 1062. […] Mentions Abū Sa‘īd (Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī), al-Kohen (Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen Fāsī), and Ibrahīm b. al-Iskandrānī (Avraham b.

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العلامات

• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sulaymān concerning the textile business, particularly an order for a Tustari robe or cloth (al-thawb al-Dasturi) and 'large cut pieces'. The qāḍī Abū al-Faraj, Abū Naṣr b. Shaʿīd (?), Abū al-Surur, Abū al-Maʿalī, and Abū Saʿd are mentioned, along with the town of Bilbays.

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العلامات

• business
• coptic numerals

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Musa ha-Sfaqusi from Alexandria probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1068. […] The writer returned from Sicily to Alexandria and deals with business matters and buying goods. Also mentions the situation in Sicily. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 4, pp. 477-483, #753) VMR

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العلامات

• 11th c
• avraham b. farah
• nahray b. nissim
• salama b. musa
• sicily
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Legal document mentioning that a man in Fustat is prepared to pay 1000 dirhams for two and one-half out of twenty-four shares of a well-known house in Alexandria. The fragment contains also instructions to a scribe. The transaction summarized is preceded by another one in which Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Mufaddal al-Marawihi buys a Nubian maidservant.

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• 13th c
• bill of sale
• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

on behalf of the cantor and 10 on behalf of Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Iskāf; a second paragraph states ‘all of the yarn to Ibn al-Laḥm’ (= al-Laḥḥām?). Verso mentions payments made by "our father." Also mentioned are quantities of commodities, dinars and dates.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The third patient has an unspecified perforation "like that of the patient whom you were treating." Abu Zikri also requests that Abu 'Ali send him a black-lead ophthalmic from his own stock, since all the ophthalmics Abu 'Ali's father had sent were ineffective. […] He alludes to a potion that Abu Zikri is already familiar with, and suggests that the patient may benefit from smelling myrtle, water lily, or dates. […] Goitein's index cards. Alan Elbaum 11/2019. Technical terminology follows Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Brill: Boston, 2007.

العلامات

• physician

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Document date

Rajab 1089 Hijrī (19 August 1678–17 September 1678 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in multiple entries, possibly as Rajab 1089 AH: אפ׳׳ט, with the aleph marking 1000 (1678 CE). This digit may be non-alphanumerical, however, and requires further research because the paleography could also be eighteenth-century or, less likely, sixteenth-century. […] מנקעדין, multazim of the district al-שבכאניין under wilayet al-Sharqiyya; -Badr-dīn al-Samlawī müteferriqa in the Diwān Miṣr, multazim of the district Minyat מעלה and others under wilayet al-Sharqiyya; -Qāsim ibn ʿAbdallah(?) […] , multazim of the district שנכאב and others under wilayet al-Gīziyya; -Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] ibn Aḥmad al-Rashdī müteferriqa of the Diwān Miṣr, multazim of [... i]khrāj Jazīrat al-Khaḍara; -Iskender ibn ʿAbdallah müteferriqa, former kāshif and multazim of wilayet al-Sharqiyya; -Yosef ibn Ibrahīm and the ..(?)

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