Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

For the shipping of a commodity (al-bunduq?) from Alexandria (al-thaghr) to Fustat.

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2

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

466 Hijrī (16 November 1034–4 November 1035 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ.

العلامات

• dimme
• glyph

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities with Mubārak al-Ḥalabī and urges that their names be registered in the dīwān, dīwān al-Ṣināʿa, and Dār al-Wakāla.

العلامات

• aodeh
• dimme
• trade

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Farah b. Yosef Qabisi in Alexandria to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Naja al-Dimashqi ('Ulla ha-Levi b.

العلامات

• 11th c
• alexandria
• commodities

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. […] , ships of the amīr, the ship of ּḤusayn al-Lakkī (?), the ship of Yaḥyā b. al-Sāḥilī, and the ship of Ḥassūn.

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3

العلامات

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Related to the Qodesh? Mentions: al-ṭāḥūn; the brother of ʿIwaḍ; al-Midādī; al-Ḥazzan; bayt Nuṣayr; Mufliḥ al-Jazzār; Dhurrī; al-Iskandarāniyya; Mufliḥ; Abū Surūr; building expenses (nāshūsh, ṣāniʿ, mismār).

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and shops, probably for tax purposes. Mentions the elder al-Hod, al-Raṣuy, Abū l-Munā, Abū Naṣr b. Maʿānī, Ibn al-Makīn, Ibn al-Maqdisī, and al-Rashīd Shemuʾel (spelled שמול).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter addressed to al-Kohen [...] Abū l-Bayān. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. Refers to legal queries and/or responsa (fatāwa) and possibly medical collyria (ashyāf). Also mentions 'al-mawlā al-rashīd.' (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing a squabble between a person claimed to be Qaraite and a local Rabbanite. Shabbetay al-Rūmī was knocking on the door of Yosef al-Rūmī early one morning. Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Wazzān was at the gate of the alley, knocking and shouting out to Shabbetay, "Hey, Ananite (עאנאני), go to the guard of the alley (al-darrāb) and let him open the alley for Abū Thābit who needs to attend a circumcision. […] The addressee is asked to meet with "al-ḥaḍra al-rayyisiyya" (probably the head of the Jews) and determine if Shabbetay needs to be brought before the Jewish court.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in Rashīd, to Yom Ṭov al-Buḥayrī (it seems her son-in-law) and his wife Esther (it seems her daughter), in Fustat/Cairo. […] She seems to use masculine verb endings when addressing each one of the two; she opens with "salām allāh taʿālā ʿalā a[l]-ṣihr(?) al-ʿazīz wa-ʿalāal-bint al-ʿazīza Esther min ummik" and there is no clear alternative to eading ṣihr, which can mean son-in-law as well as brother-in-law; but she also writes "greet your mother-in-law" (with masculine verb ending), a statement that has to be addressed to her own child.

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العلامات

• jariya
• late ja
• slaves
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38) twice (r6, r22); a ṣāḥib al-dīwān (v4–5); 1000 gold dinars (v10); Ḥusām al-Dīn and Amīn al-Dīn (v13–14); Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān who has someone's agent whipped (v16–17); Ṣadīq b. […] Seems to primarily deal with Mecca (r5, r18, r25, v6–7, v15), including multiple allusions to unjust and/or irreligious rulers. May also mention the city of Medina (r18) in a section where it seems that both Medina and Mecca are personified (r18: فلما سمعت المدينة المحروسة, r24–25: فلما سمعت مكة). […] There is a later Rangstreit between Mecca and Medina in BNF MS Arabe 1667, 190v-200v, in which the dispute is mediated by Sayf al-Dīn Yalbughā (d. 1366). Merits further examination.

العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The year is difficult to read, maybe 520 AH which would be 1126 CE. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAṭāʾ and transporting something to do with the government (الاىىان(؟) al-sulṭāniyya) to the shore of the Nile or the sea (ilā sāḥil al-baḥr). […] Probably related to verso, as it mentions the same term الاىىان. Headed by an ʿalāma (من وثق بالله...). Instructing someone to ship something somewhere, mentioning the bustān of Fakhr al-Mulk and how it must not be delayed. Also something about not charging heavy brokerage fees (al-juʿl al-thaqīl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may be the daughter of Karima al-Wuḥsha, as Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham (potentially the daughter of Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn) is described as the granddaughter of al-Wuḥsha (see T-S 13J1.21 (PGPID 926), dated 1150 CE).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Genealogical list of Fustat families, beginning with the Nānū family. Also mentions Abū l-Maʿālī ʿOvadya b. ʿUlla "the Nagid of the land of Israel and Judah," for whom the Geniza also preserves an investiture of appointment as Jewish communal leader in Damascus, Syria, and al-Salṭ from the son of Saladin, al-Malik al-Afḍal: T-S Ar.38.93 (PGPID 9436).

العلامات

• genealogy
• memorial list

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Moshe ha-Kohen to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, care of Abū l-ʿIzz in the market of the goldsmiths (sūq al-ṣāgha) in Fusṭāṭ. Mainly in Arabic script, with names, titles, and blessings given in Hebrew characters in the midst of the Arabic text. Moshe reports that al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Sadīd b. al-Tilmīdh and his son al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq (שמ צורו again in Hebrew characters) arrived and informed him that the addressee had left [...], and this was very distressing.

العلامات

• bialphabetic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

550 Kharājī (1156–1157 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property of the office of the noble lady of al-Āmir in the "Muḥawwil chamber" (al-majlis al-muḥawwil was a chamber in the qaṣr al-baḥr, which in turn was a component of al-qaṣr al-kabīr, the great palace complex of the Fatimid caliphs).

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العلامات

• account
• damin
• dimme
• farming
• fiscal
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

25 Shawwāl 480 Hijrī (23 January 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Munajjā Bahūr b. […] Baḥāsh (the Christian clerk). Witnessed by Yaḥyā b. al-[…], al-Ḥusaynī, and Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū ʿUbaydallāh. […] Also mentions al-Thābit b. Ḥasan.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• gift

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragments of 6 lines are preserved, wide space between them. Refers to al-Shaykh al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn (maybe al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī?), a sum of money and a dīwān (ikhrājuhu min al-dīwān al-maʿmūr bi-mablagh kāna...), and possibly someone's days of living in Tripoli (ayyām al-maqām fī ...

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the address. Written in a mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Judaeo-Arabic. […] Mentions someone called Sayf al-Dawla al-[...] al-Juyūshī; a profit of 8 3/4 dinars; and "the small ship" (al-qārib al-ṣaghīr), which Aodeh suggests is the ship of the ruler of Tyre Ibn Abī ʿAqīl, but does not explain why.

العلامات

• aodeh

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshu'a b. Ismāʿīl al-Mahmuri, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions the safe arrival of (probably) relatives to Fustat; a female slave who was sold in Alexandria, and instructions for the coming winter dealing mostly with wheat and oil.

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3

العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Includes many fiscal-related terminologies, "al-dīwān al-maʿmūr", "min al-ḥisāb", "[D]īwān al-istikhrāj", and "māl al-najm".

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abi l-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Mentions details about changing coins and business between the two of them. Also mentions money that was sent to Alexandria to Yisrael b.Natan (Sahlun), Nahray's cousin.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• coin

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing mainly with business matters and also raising money for the capitation tax. Mentions many people including: Ṭāhir al-Simsār; Hiba al-Bilbaysī; Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen. Regards to al-Sadīd and to Abū l-Thanā' and his wife. Shelomo has been suffering an attack of ophthalmia and only wrote this letter with great effort.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: ramad
• ramad
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

6 Rabīʿ II 1238 Hijrī (21 December 1822 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State receipt/order of payment issued by the "khazīnat anwāl al-ḥarīr", a branch of the state-run silk monopoly under Meḥmed ʿĀlī Pasha's administration. Date: 6 Rabīʿ II 1238 AH (1822 CE). Location: Alexandria. Begins with "ʿAmmā yuḍāfu bi-ḥisāb warath(waraqat?)"... and then "al-qāḍī". The two state officials subsequebtky mentioned are the ṣarrāf, Mūsa Naʿīm al-yahūdī, and the overseer (nāẓir), ʿUmr Agha.

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananʾel, probably in the town of al-Ṣaffayn. Dealing with various business transactions. There was also a market named al-Ṣaffayn in Fustat; in this case the address would likely have been written "to Fustat, to al-Ṣaffayn," but there are some examples of addresses that list only the name of a location within a city, e.g., T-S 6J4.20 (PGPID 17099). (Information from Stephanie Luescher, Moshe Yagur, and Alan Elbaum.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Containing an official order; probably a copy of a decree/sijill, but also written in an elegant script. Stating that Manṣūr b. Sahl, one of the secretaries/scribes employed in the military administration (al-kuttāb al-mustakhdamīn fī dīwān al-juyūsh al-manṣūra) will be reassigned to a different government employment (khidma).

العلامات

• copy
• decree
• military
• scribes

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition in which the sender reports that a certain person (dhāt al-shakhṣ) had not come down from the citadel (al-qalʿa), and the ruler and Jamāl al-Dīn were busy with the arrival of Ibn al-Jawz (or perhaps Ibn al-Jawzī). […] Yehuda has gone out to the shop, and the payments for alimonies (presumably orphans staying with the writer) were incomplete, and he asks for relief.

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العلامات

• citadel
• informal note

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Record of a donation. Faraḥ b. Natan b. ʿAllūn donates a newly erected olive oil press with a mill wheel of Ḥawrānī stone. Boundaries include: a street leading to the market of Banū Wāʾil (on the Nile, SW of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ); also mentions the church of St. Sergius (kanīsat Bū Sarja), al-Ḥadīd lane, and "the two rows" (al-Ṣaffayn).

العلامات

• church
• endowment
• press

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Opens with greetings for Shemuʾel, Menashshe, and Yosef; on verso it is addressed to Yosef b. Shemuʾel al-Jibālī (cf. T-S 13J24.27 (PGPID 17041)); there is also a note at 90 degrees to the address mentioning al-muʿallim Shelomo. The letter contains many greetings and discusses the capitation tax (al-jāliya) and a deposit (wadīʿa) and possibly a court case (al-ḥukm).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from a woman to her brother Ḥusayn, the ghulām of Rashīd al-Dawla. In Arabic script. The sender may be complaining about the character of a woman (al-qubḥ alladhī kāna khulquhā), but this is unclear, or khalfahā. She mentions something happening to an ass (al-ḥimāra), perhaps it perished, and hence she no longer has an animal (mā lī bahīma). Mentions a period of time and rent. On verso there are also jottings in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• letter
• women's

1 نسخ

Document date

17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid (19 April 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid = 19 April 1229 CE. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. Elʿazar. A woman appoints her father Mūsā to sue her husband (Tamīm?) for money that he owes her. The name Abū l-ʿAlāʾalso appears. The addendum on verso, from the same date, attests that Tamīm hands over all the items to his wife.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر