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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (right half of recto, left half of verso) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 270-272, 585.) There are Hebrew alphabet and Arabic jottings in the margins.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi
• saffron
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of recto). Discusses business affairs, one of them involving a fur garment (farw). Mentions Abū l-Surur (their brother Peraḥya?). (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (original use): Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is missing, so this sender/recipient identification requires further explanation. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Armenian bole, Abū ʿImrān, Marāzībī tutty, and greetings to various people.

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العلامات

• betrothal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4890 Anno Mundi (16 September 1129–5 September 1130 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter, probably. Dated 4890 from the creation and 1441 of the Seleucid Era (= 1130 CE); at the end of the letter important Jewish biblical figures are listed, such as Adam, Seth, Methusela, David, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, etc., and up to the Messiah (both Mashiaḥ b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning the city of Maḥalla al-Kubrā; Abū l-Ḥasan; and Abū l-Munā Tiqva ha-Levi (possibly the same as the one mentioned in T-S 12.683 and Bodl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions a woman and her father Munajjā (possibly related to Bodl. […] Dating: 1127–38 CE, as the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon is mentioned (r. 1127–39).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Netanʾel ha-Shulḥani (the moneychanger), in Fustat, to Ṣadoq b. Levi ha-Levi, president of the court. Dating: ca. 1030, according to Gil. Mentions Abū Isḥāq Araham b. Mevasser Segol ha-Qahal and Yoshiyyahu al-Ḥaver.

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2

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letters. Copies. The first letter is in Judaeo-Arabic, from the Shāmiyyīn to the Miṣriyyīn. […] Dating: Probably no earlier than 15th century. The second letter gives a detailed explanation of the intercalation of the calendar and the observation of the aviv (barley crop), meaning that the writers are probably Qaraite. The first letter indeed mentions דת בני מקרא (line 17). Needs further examination.

العلامات

• aviv
• qaraites

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. Avraham ha-Levi from all obligations. Signed by Araḥ b. Shelomo, Merayhot b. Meshullam and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem. The document is written by by Avraham b. […] Shabbetay, Elʿazar b. Yosef ha-Levi and Yosef b. Avraham ha-Levi. On verso there are rhymed wishes including citations from Psalms 115:12 and Malachi 3:16.

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Small and much damaged fragment from a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). There are mirror imprints of another legal document in Aramaic on both verso and recto, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; much of the text is legible, but few or no specifics of the case.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid (31 January 1110 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB VI, 19. Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). […] The hand is probably that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also sends his regards. The letter opens with a strong rebuke for failing to write and goes on to mention the arrival of merchandise/gifts, and greetings to and from various people.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The notables whose employees are mentioned (Dosa, Ibn Sughmār, Ibn ʿAwkal [son of the merchant Yosef], Bahūdī, Ibn Ḥirbish) were active around 1040. […] Note: 3 kinds of shoemakers in a single list: iskāf, ḥadhdhāʾ, kharrāz (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 422 n81; p. 440, App. 4-5.)

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العلامات

• charity
• jewish community

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from David b. Daniel to a parnas (leader of the Jewish community). […] Instructing the addressee to obtain from Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo b. Mevorakh 60 wariq (low-quality) dirhams and to pay them to the divorcee of Abū l-Baqāʾ Shemuel.

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Distribution of 23 jukhaniyyas to thirteen women, seven men, and three persons defined as 'acquaintance of' or 'the house of.' […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 456, App. B 64 [dated 1100-1150])

العلامات

• charity
• clothing
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions Bunyām al-Parnas.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment (top) of a letter to [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Levi ‘Av Bet Din of the House of Meeting (שלבית הועד).'

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably an 11th-century mercantileletter. Mentions [D]āʾūd Ibn Sughmār and [...] b. Hārūn. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? […] Warns someone about paying something and may mention the Gaon or at least someone important (hadrat adonenu).

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1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to his son Farah, Fustat. […] This would be an unusual use of "lā ḥīla," since usually the writer means to say, "nothing can be done [except trust in God]." […] On verso in line 2, he mentions the arrival of some letters ḍabāratan, in a bundle or a file, possibly one pierced and loosely bound with string (on which see this short lecture by Marina Rustow https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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العلامات

• 11th c
• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• famine
• idbara binding
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Letter from Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī. Around 1057. […] Mentions the year ד'תתט"ו but the letter is later than that. Mentions big changes in the Dinar rate vs. the dirham.

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3

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. […] Mercantileletter concerning the trade in commodities such as pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd and traders from al-Andalus. Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713).

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed continuation of the letter on recto, in which the writer recalls his meeting with the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva as well as other historical events.

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Semah of Ramla to Efrayim b. […] Shemarya was active. Mentions someone called Faraj b. ʿAlī, who may have been persecuted by merchants (mā jarā ʿalayhi min al-shidda... dhālika min al-tujjār...).

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from 'the representative' (al-Nāʾib), in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid, presumably in Fustat. […] He reports on previous correspondence and messengers ([...] al-Ḥalabī, Ṭāhir, and ʿAbd al-Baqī) and confirms receipt of the Nagid's letter and orders. He says he will obey immediately. He may mention Tinnīs (Ḥanes) and someone titled Nāṣir al-Dawla.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a legal document mentioning [...] b. Menashshe and Shelomo and [...] b. Faraḥ and sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a legal document mentioning Abū l-Khayr Shelomo b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment (upper part). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Involves the glazier (zajjāj) Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Meshullam/Muslim/Musallam. Also involves [Abū l-]Faḍl al-ʿAsqalānī, a son named Ḥalfon, and a sum of dinars.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition Judaeo-Arabic. The sender may be complaining about his poor salary as a communal official; mentions 10 dinars; the community of Egyptians or people of Fustat (Miṣriyyīn), and "they established for me a negligible amount. . . and not a salary (rātib) that suffices. . . please letme know what arises. . . ." On verso alphabet writing exercises.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, probably, though the layout is literary. Might be a literary text conveying the text of a letter. […] Dating: likely 15th century, based on the mention of the nuṣf fiḍḍa (first coined in 1415). […] disputes, illnesses, and medical treatment. Merits further examination. ASE

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: rich description
• illness: treatment
• marital conflict
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter(s). Dating: late 18th or early 19th century. Most of the fragment contains literary-seeming Hebrew text, but this is followed by a note with regards to various family members signed by David ha-Levi ʿAjamī and another note signed by the well-known merchantMeir ben Naʿim, whose wife has just had a baby boy.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). Mentions "all that my son left" (when he died?)

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• ib6
• india book unedited

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE) involving a freedwoman (המשוחררת) named Ikhtiṣār, who is mentioned in Appendix 1 of Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt.

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2

العلامات

• freedwoman
• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic sent by Nissim Meshish to [Mercado] Karo and [Shimʿon] Franses, in Cairo.

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العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

Geṭ ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. […] The widow is named Mufaddā bt. Menashshe ha-Levi. Her late husband is Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi, and the brother who performs the ḥaliṣa is Moshe b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi.

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العلامات

• halisa

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions the faqīh Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maghribī al-Anṣārī; mentions a funduq. Seems to be discussing a legal issue. Needs further examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a legal deed, probably a bill of release. Mentioning the inheritance of Abū ʿImrān. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)..

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Name mentioned: [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1800–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps an unsent draft. Dating is early 19th-century based on the letter recipients mentioned in the heading, Ḥayyīm and Avraham Cesana, who are known from a wide variety of other fragments and resided in Alexandria. Saʿadīa Pinto is also mentioned in the body of the letter. MCD.

العلامات

• 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Narrow strip from the left side of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1434 Seleucid = 1122/23 CE. Disposing of the estate of the late Ḥassūn. Mentions Abū Saʿīd; Abū ʿAlī; Ṣedaqa; and it seems the raising of an orphan daughter (ויתולא תרביתהא).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

12 November 1141 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was written in the 12th of November 1141. […] In addition: "I and every human being in the house was ill for forty days. I have not left the house. . . . Your letter arrived in which you asked me to deliver the bales of silk to Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Bahgdadī al-Laffāt. […] See Goitein's note card #27107, and Med Soc V, 103.

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العلامات

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

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة