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Primary language

Hebrew

Abū [...] and a woman are involved, gold coins, and a payment. Unclear if any of the specifics are preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter sent to ha-Talmid ha-Baḥur Nissim Agostaro (אגושתארו) in Alexandria from his father Shelomo Agostaro, including a warning that he should not come to Cairo before the epidemic has finished, because every day one or two people die. There are greetings to many people, among them Mordechai, Esther, Shabbetay and Shemuʾel.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• late

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Mentions ships, shipment of dates, coins and trades, as well as family matters. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #396) VMR

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العلامات

• coin
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The remaining content entirely consists of sentences addressed to a woman. "You will die on your bed, and an illness of the heart will overcome you, and also the bite of a dog and the kick of a riding beast. . . ."

العلامات

• curse

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1037–1037 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo. Early: 25 silver coins, Late: 20 dinars. Only the beginning of the dowry list survives.

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العلامات

• betrothal
• karaite

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1 June 1054–1 June 1054 CE

Also mentions details about storing goods and some details about coins. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #347) VMR

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العلامات

• coin
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer sends the recipient good wishes on Hanukka, congratulates him on his wife's deliverance (meaning that she did not die nor was she harmed in childbirth) and wishes him that God may give him a male descendant.

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العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: A woman complaining to the Nagid Mevorakh about her inefficient brother-in-law who was unable to secure her children's estate from his partner, expresses the apprehension that the latter too might die, and getting something out of orphans for other orphans was next to impossible.

العلامات

• communal
• nar
• orphans
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Around 1065. Detailed the coins that were in a coin packet. Verso: Details about several dinar amounts, as well as the name b. al-Majani.

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العلامات

• account
• coin
• dinar
• lading
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and al-ʿAzīzī coins. The price of Farajiyya's dowry is listed as 81.5 dinars.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A man makes financial arrangements for a woman (presumably his wife) in the event that he should die. If she remarries, she will lose her rights.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Currency: grossos (גרושש), a generic term for non-Ottoman silver coins. The letter mentions various business matters and people including Shelomo b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The letter deals with shipments of goods and coins. The writer asks Nahray to take care of two Muslims that are delivering this letter.

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العلامات

• coin
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa. The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment as no earlier than 1425 CE, when this form of coinage was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay.

العلامات

• ashrafi
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late account of sorts, using western Arabic numerals: "What was collected from the mother: first, ashrafiyya coins: 3; second. . . . " The mention of ashrafi coinage makes it possible to estimate the dating of this fragment as 1425 CE or later– the year in which it was first minted by Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay.

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in this period, worth "somewhat more than one third of the Fatimid dinar" according to Goitein).

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham Ibn Sighmar; the ship of Abū Abdallāh (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ); the demand for Byzantine coins; and the passing of the Jewish judge of Palermo Maṣliaḥ b.

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العلامات

• byzantine coins
• coins
• commodities
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

26 Shevat 1339 Seleucid (26 January 1028 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Early: 5 dinars plus 50 silver coins. Late: 35. Detailed dowry list, totaling 61.5 dinars.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• dowry
• jerusalem
• ketubba
• marriage
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "You have left me to die in this grief. A person would think that there is no more care (iftiqād) between you and me.

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar, the daughter of her sister, from all obligations with regard to her estate, whether she should die immediately or live a long time. Possibly a form of declaring a person as sole heir against claims of the testator's brothers and sisters.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The currencies are Ẓāhiriyya dirhams (r. 1021–36 CE) and Nizāriyya dinars (these are the coins of al-ʿAzīz Billāh, aka Abū Manṣūr Nizār, r. 975–96 CE).

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العلامات

• numismatic dating

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The document may derive from the Jewish community in Sicily as it refers to Sicilian tari coins (טריים). Mentions Moses al-Ghadāmasī (אלגדאמסי, i.e. from Ghadāmis in Libya), Yehuda b.

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Document date

23 Adar I 1475 Seleucid (18 February 1164 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The images on FGP and the University of Heidelberg Library website are difficult to read and might seem like photostats, but I'm told they are digital images of the originals.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

Hebrew

Complaining that the addressee has not fulfilled his vow to give Yosef sum of money in gold; Yosef has only received 10 silver coins. "What is my sin, that you have not fulfilled your vow?"

العلامات

• appeal

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1707–1850 CE

Accounts related to various coinage types such as dirham, fiḍḍa, and gold zingirli (here spelled as "גנזרלי"). The latter helps date this fragment as no earlier than 1707 CE when gold zingirli coins first began to appear in wide circulation within the Ottoman empire (Pamuk, A Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire, 174).

العلامات

• 18th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

He approves that he received coins but he cannot weigh them because he does not have a scale.

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العلامات

• coin
• flax
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Protect my master in any case, for I am sick, and I don't know if I will die or if he will die while we are separated, going to the grave with terrible grief (?

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is seriously ill (marīḍ ʿalā khuṭṭa) and may die at any moment. If they do not return, they will regret it when regret will not do them any good.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: furqa
• illness: khutta
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter discusses commercial matters (i.e., exchanging checks and coins) and the departure of ships containing goods to Sicily. […] (Information in part from Gil and Ben Sasson) For the nizārī dinar, see https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/1-nizari-dinar-and-ahiri-dirham-11th-century-ce.

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العلامات

• coin
• ship
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday, 16 Iyyar 1359 Seleucid (3 May 1048 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Menaḥem al-Shaʿʿālī who appears in AIU VII.E.55) owes him 8.5 gold coins and 1 qirat. The story also involves Efrayim b.

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Document date

Friday, 14 Adar II 5518 Anno Mundi (24 March 1758 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The marriage gifts total 600 gold maḥ(būb) coins, with an exchange rate ratio listed as 1 maḥbūb: 110 medin in line 9.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣāliḥ from his son Ṣāliḥ, containing many orders, such as for Iraqian purple; brazilwood for a quarter of a dinar; combs; mirwads; pepper; sarcocolla (ʿanzarūt); verdigris (zinjār); "marāzībī" tutty (according to the review by Theo Loinaz, this commodity is discussed on pp. 368-9 of Fabian Käs (2010), Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakologie); ammoniac (kalakh); and many more.

العلامات

• materia medica
• trade
• tutty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The case involves a numnber of coins, some of which are round and some of which are 'pieces.'

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1500–1800 CE

List of alphanumerical "expenses / מצרופ" where the Ottoman silver "guruş / גרוש" may be in use but is also possible that "גרוש" is a shorthand for European silver coins. The "guruş/kuruş" was minted in the Ottoman empire perhaps as early as 1690CE but did not reach wider circulation until 1703CE (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

العلامات

• list
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu Zikri is terribly worried that he will die before seeing his father again, and he begs his father to forgive his offenses.

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العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: enemies
• illness: hidden
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة