Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Bū l-Maḥāsin, in Alexandria, to his mother Sitt Ghazāl bt. Abū ʿUmar, in Fustat. […] (Goitein suggested based on T-S K6.149 that this man may have been an orphan or his father unknown, since he is only identified by his mother's name; however in T-S AS 155.271 we learn that his deceased father was Abū ʿAlī.) He may also be the addressee of Moss. VII,159.2 + CUL Or.1080 J99 (PGPID 8883) dating to 1181 CE. […] He did travel comfortably, however, on the crowded boat during the trip, which took almost a week, arriving in Alexandria on Thursday evening.

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• nar

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 17 Av 4837 Anno Mundi (9 August 1077 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: August 9, 1077. Location: Alexandria. This release document, written in the Alexandria rabbinical court, concerns a partnership between Yosef b. […] The partners also absolve each other from all oaths, including the ḥerem setam or "anonymous ban" (imposed by the Geonim as the "oath of partners" to prevent malfeasance). […] Mevasser, are well-known members of the rabbinical court of Alexandria at the end of the eleventh century. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 131.)

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العلامات

• alexandria
• muslim court
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to Abū l-Ḥasan, in Aleppo. In Arabic script. The writer reports that his brother Ismāʿīl arrived in Acre, and they traveled together to Damascus, where they spent the holidays in the house of Hilāl. If they hear good news from Aleppo, they will travel to Aleppo, but until now the news from Aleppo has been bad (lines 7 and 13), and they are thriving in Damascus. The distance between Damascus and Aleppo is 20 days' travel. Mentions Ibn Mufaḍḍal.

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العلامات

• aodeh

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

2 February 1063–2 February 1063 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, to Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Mentions Abū Ibrāhīm (Isḥāq) b. Khalaf, who had written to tell al-Tāhartī that he had sent a pouch containing 500 rubāʿiyya (quarter-dinars) in Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ's ship (r, II. 10–11); also mentions details of maritime transport to and from the Maghreb, a ship accident, and the security and government situation in Sicily, whereas by contrast al-Mahdiyya under Tamīm b. […] Also mentions details about a shipment in the sea from and to the Maghreb.

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العلامات

• al-taharti
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a letter or petition which the addressee had written to the amīr Nāṣir al-Dawla (active ca. 1062–72). The sender reports that he first sought to achieve reconciliation in the communal dispute without handing over this letter to the amīr, but was ultimately forced to do so. […] to enter the synagogue (which had been closed?). Someone called Ibn al-Dayyan (the son of the judge) is fomenting conflict throughout all this. This letter could allude to a communal strife resulting in the closure of a synagogue, probably in Alexandria, where Nāṣir al-Dawla ephemerally became the de facto ruler during the Shidda al-ʿUẓmā in al-Mustanṣir's time (1062–72).

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العلامات

• shidda

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh), in Fustat. The sender reports imposing an excommunication on the day Hoshaʿna on whoever owes money to Ibn al-Ḥijāziyya and whoever took receipts or official documents or went to the government and "caused them damage." As for the power of attorney appointing Ibn al-Ḥulaybī as an agent, the sender is involved in a legal dispute with him before Sayyidnā al-Nasi. […] This is only delayed because Sayyidnā has gone to Damascus. This is also why the legal queyr from al-Shaykh al-Zajjāj has not yet been answered.

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العلامات

• eli b. ezekiel
• eli b. hayyim
• jerusalem

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday 11 Kislev 1362 Seleucid (28 November 1050 CE)

Hilāl b. Jābir al-Levi, wife of Abū Yiṣḥaq b. … b. Neḥemya). Naḥum agrees that he will not sell his share of the house to the apothecary Yosef al-Kohen. Also mentions the house of the community leader Abū ʿAli Ḥasan al-Baghdādī. […] (Informationf rom CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card, where he makes not of other legal deeds signed by the same witnesses.

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Ḥujayj, Abū Naṣr Ibn Ṣaghīr and Dosā b. al-Lādhiqī. Other names (some quite unusual) include: the Nasis Abū l-Ṭayyib and Abū l-Ḥasan; Ibn Furāt; Ibn Naḥum; Ibn Zaffān; Ibn Azhar; the sons of ʿAllān; Ibn Abū Ṭarbaq(?); Ibn Shuʿayb; Ibn Warmāj(?); Ibn Natan; Ibn al-ʿIjla; Ibn al-ʿIjl; Abū l-Khayr b. Khayṭ(?) al-Barrāda(?); the sons of al-Bahūdī; Ibn al-Papa; Ibn al-Arjawānī; Ibn al-Baghal ("son of the mule").

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Business letter in Arabic script containing an order for lac and pepper. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Ṣārifī, Masʿūd, and ʿAbd al-Karīm. Also requests that the addressee collect a payment from the nākhudā Abū ʿAbdallāh (probably Abū ʿAbdallāh b. […] The sender is Abū l-Khayr b. al-Ḥasan al-Isrāʾīlī, possibly in Yemen, and the addressee is probably Avraham ben Yiju (ابراهيم بن سرور بن ايشوا), possibly in India.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• ib-addenda
• ib3

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which the sender asks the addressee to check if the merchants of Barqa (al-Barqiyyīn) arriving in Alexandria are bringing him a letter from his brother. The addressee is also asked to go to Bū l-Fawāris and sort out an issue regarding debts.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting resembles that of Avraham Maimonides. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Najīb; al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab; Abū l-Ḥasan; al-Kohen Abū l-Faraj; Yosef; Abū l-Munajjā; Abū l-Karam.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probably internal correspondence, mentioning multiple amirs (all called [...] al-Dawla). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "al-mulaṭṭaf" meaning a decree from the caliph (al-Maqrīzī, al-Iṭṭiʿāẓ, vol.2, pg. 153).

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Document date

Tuesday, 11 Iyyar 1502 Seleucid (7 May 1191 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony regarding Mubāraka, a freed female slave formerly belonging to Abū l-Faraj b. Hilāl al-Miṣrī, whom he betrothed to a kohen, Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh al-Bardārī. Location: Aleppo. Dated: Tuesday, 11 Iyyar 1502 Seleucid = 7 May 1191 CE.

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العلامات

• aleppo
• freed
• slave
• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Nagid and iṣlāḥ al-umūr and al-ḥāḍirīn... ilā l-ghā'ibīn.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

List of accounts that records alphanumerical monetary figures in connection with one "Shemuel al-Ashqar / שמואל אלאשקר" on the 19th of the month Shaʿbān, however, the year is not included in the recto's heading (l.1r). […] Further down on the recto and floating apart from any clear line, the marker "abū tāqaʿ / אבותאקע" also appears as a reference likely to the Austrian silver thaler. […] On line three of the verso a synagogue is also mentioned but it is unclear if the term is used generally or in connection with a specific location.

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العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

10 Marḥeshvan Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Page from a letter sent by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham from Alexandria to Ḥalfon b. Netanel in Cairo on the Alexandria; 10 of Marcheshvan (= October 23, 1140). The letter includes a report on the social uproar caused by Yehuda ha-Levi’s visit in Alexandria when everybody was eager to invite him. The letter contains a request for Ḥalfon to come to Alexandria to settle the disputes caused by Yehuda ha-Levi’s presence in the city. The letter also refers to business matters arising from the India trade, in which both the addressee and the writer were involved.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• (+ 5 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1169–1180 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. […] There are also a few draft lines of some phrases contained in the petition that appears on verso, and a list of figures in the marginalia. (Information from Khan and from Sacha Stern) See also T-S Misc.28.191 (PGPID 23409).

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العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat Allāh b. Abū [...] confirming that he has received all the money owed. The story somehow involves Zayn's wife Sitt al-Kull bt. Abū ʿImrān b. Yūsuf, and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ aka Qaṣr al-Rūm, and [...] b. Salāma al-Sukkarī.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dawud reports that the Qaraites all went to Cairo. He expresses concern for the judge Menahem. The letter also mentions David al-Amani, rent and government taxes and the wife of al-Nezer. The letter is to be carried by Ibn al-Tabib.

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العلامات

• tax

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including Alṭbughāal-ʿUthmānī / الطبغا العثماني, whom al-Maqrīzī mentions in Kitāb al-Sulūk under Jumādā II 799 AH = March 1397 CE. The chronicles also mention an الطنبغا, not immediately clear if this is the same amīr.

العلامات

• dimme
• mamluk
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions purchasing coal and cleaning something (אלבורה?) and digging a hole. Also mentions names such as Ibn Isḥāq and Sāliḥ b. […] ENA NS 77.296: "For expenses of the foundry (al-masbak): the cleaning of these two stones and the moving of the brick, 1 1/4 dirham. Also 3/4" Join: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The tone is aggrieved; he complains about Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen and mashāyikh al-balad who get together to drink in the evenings. The writer wishes to get through to "Rabbenu," but he has not been allowed access, and he is ashamed to appear before al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, the brother-in-law of Rabbenu, and Yūsuf b. al-Tilmīdh.

العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• jaliya

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List (fragment) of recipients of charity, mentioning someone who "lives in the golden stone" [this cannot be the correct translation] and also an orphan Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. The phrase may also be a reference to monetary payment "in cash" with gold coinage (coll. hajar=cash). […] Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably all from the same register: ENA NS 77.33 (PGPID 4553) ENA NS 77.93 (PGPID 4561) ENA NS 77.208 (PGPID 4545)

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Alms list in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly women, children, and/or sick people. JRL SERIES A 293 mentions the sister of Abū l-Faraj b. al-Munajjim; al-ʿAkkāwiyya; the ḥazzab Ibn Sabrī/Sabra; the neighbor of Abū l-Faraj [al-]Dimyāṭī; the wife of the ḥazzan of Shubrā; and many more. JRL SERIES B 2497 mentions Umm al-Ṣibyān the acquaintance of [...]; Abū Hilāl al-Bānyāsī the acquaintance of Azhar; the old, sick woman [in] the house of Ibn [...]; the orphans of Faraḥ.

العلامات

• illness

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Document date

1542 Seleucid (1230–1231 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments of a legal document concerning the rent for a property located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. The lessor is al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. The lessee (al-mustaʾjir) is Ibn Wahbān. […] The rent is 25 dirhams a month, which comes out to 2100 dirhams over the period of the 7-year lease. There will also be a new storey constructed overlooking the Nile.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the mother of Abū Zikrī, Umm Abū Zikrī (אם אבו זכרי), who is also mother of the referenced Abū al-Barakat and wife of the judge Eliyyahu (per the address), in which the writer expresses thanks for the information she provided about the writer’s wife and children. The letter also mentions that Abū Zikrī came during the holiday of Purim and Abū al-Barakat read the scroll of Esther for the holiday.

العلامات

• abu zikri
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sughmār, probably in Alexandria, to his son, David, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. […] He mentions several negative events that happened probably in the Maghreb. Also describes how his son lost trading goods as silk. He also complains about his illness (r6). Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 4, pp. 1-4, #609.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• arabic address
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Gershon (a French scholar appointed by the Nagid Avraham Maimonides to be one of the three judges of the Jewish community in Alexandria), probably written to the Nagid. In Hebrew. Complaining about one of his fellow judges, whose name is not preserved, and seeking confirmation of his position from the local non-Jewish authorities. Also mentions the third judge, Eliyya, with whom he is pleased, and Ṭahīr, an elder of the community. (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

1 مناقشة

Document date

8 Jumādā II 907 Hijrī (19 December 1501 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of whom is Yūsuf b. Manṣūr b. Manṣūr b. al-Yahūdī. The amount mentioned is 15 nisfs, aka Mamūk silver muʾayyadī. Also mentions Levantine cheese (al-jibn al-shāmī).

العلامات

• dimme

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Each section lists the expenses for a specified day, or maybe the allowances disbursed to the people mentioned. The top entries on both recto and verso are entitled "al-mustakhraj", while the bottom ones are "al-kharaj". There are at least two state officials mentioned: Qayyim al-Dawla and ʿAfīf al-Dawla. Contains the cipher "لى", probably signifying "adda", since the basmala is already written on the document.

العلامات

• cipher

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر