Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in which the writer discusses a visit to the qadi and business matters; mentions Ibn Abu al-‘Aysh.

العلامات

• business
• oil
• perfume

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Document date

Monday, 26 Nisan 4765 Anno Mundi (9 April 1005 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 26 Nisan 4765 AM = 1316 Seleucid = 9 April 1005 CE.

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Nissim who is about to travel to Būṣīr to buy flax. Discusses various family matters. The writer mentions his plans to write to Abū Naṣr Ḥesed b.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• al-tustari
• flax

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Document date

24 Elul 4997 Anno Mundi (15 September 1237 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter concerns textiles and asks the addressee to give 26 dirhams to R. Ḥananel (the father-in-law of Avraham Maimonides [d. 1237], who is also referred to in the document as 'our lord').

العلامات

• 4800
• dating tricks
• maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some commodity was deposited with a distinguished man (rajul jalīl al-qadr), "and when he opened it for the buyer and it came out in this shape, he was embarrassed... and I was embarrassed even more... He said, 'I will not buy this from you(?), this is only fit for the Jews'...

العلامات

• sicily

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She should pay 5 to Abū ʿAlī and buy 10 dirhams of wheat (qamḥ) for the children.

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العلامات

• family
• grain
• meat
• prices

1 مناقشة

Document date

29 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeḥezqel has been looking for a certain textile (al-ḥasīniya) on Ḥalfon's behalf, and had not found it in Fusṭāṭ. He was about to buy an inferior item from someone who, however, had just increased his price by 1.5 dīnārs; Yeḥezqel thought Ḥalfon could buy this item anyway in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥus[ayn?], a payment of 26 of something, and ʿIwāḍ. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Nathan, asking him visit and to stay with the writer over the Sabbath should he arrive by then.

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العلامات

• 13th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from a son to his remarried father, conveying family news and expressing regret that his father's previous wife is giving him trouble. The writer is suffering from an ailment of the ear: "If my ear were not bound, I would have come to visit you." (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 271, 273.)

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: ear
• illness: recovered
• personal
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 12th century, as the latest author mentioned is Yehuda ha-Levi (d. 1141).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Deed of sale for a house. A woman purchases a house for 30 dinars adjacent to the saqīfa of Yazid the perfumer. Location: Fustat. Dating: …

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Document date

Monday, 7 Jumādā I 1243 Hijrī (26 November 1827 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: Monday, 7 Jumādā I 1243 AH = 26 November 1827 CE. May involve Mūsā Naʿīm al-Ṣarrāf (=Moshe ben Naʿim).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

26 April 1791 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions testimonies and a "father" (ḥaḍrat al-ab al-muḥtaram). Dated: 26 April 1791 CE (٢٦ شهر ابريلس ١٧٩١). (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"By the milk with which we were nursed and by the womb that bore us. . . do not let your father cut me off because of what I said to him. You yourself should buy the paper from him. . . the copyist. . . exert (tajdahid = tajtahid) yourself for me." […] Description from T-S 8J15.28: Letter from an Alexandrian trader who is on a journey, possibly in the Persian Gulf, to a family member. The writer wants to visit Baghdad and Ezekiel’s tomb before returning home, and mentions people including Manṣūr and Sālim.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• ib6
• india book
• mysterious sign

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel in which he suggests to the recipient that he buy from him a book and defer the payment of 12 dirhams and that the recipient hold onto a codex of the Book of Isaiah as collateral until he pays up the balance.

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Primary language

Arabic

The list is written in Arabic characters and contains 26 items. Four of the compounds have the added notation that the sums owed by their tenants have been paid.

العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• hikr
• qodesh
• waqf

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Document date

26 Sivan 5632 Anno Mundi (2 July 1872 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Western Arabic numerals are in use with one entry on the recto dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. This dated entry also mentions S[eñor] Yiṣḥaq Menashshe and lists a variety of coinage types such as "old one ducats / דוקאדו ישן אונו" and "new ducats / דוקאדוס מואיבוס". Given the dating of the fragment, the latter coinage designation is likely not a reference to Venetian gold ducats, however, the "old one ducats" may refer to pre-1797 currency from Venice. Another coinage label takes form in "Mahmudi / מאחמודי" which is reference to money minted under the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ladino
• list
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 13 Sivan 1335 Seleucid (1024 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, the booklist is unlikely to be much later, since the latest author mentioned is Shemuel b. Ḥofni (d. 1013).

العلامات

• booklist

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

JRL SERIES B 3087 has what seem to be nonsense rhymes in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic ("they will excommunicate ʿAzīz | he will eat the coins (al-fulūs) | and Saʿīd the poor man | is imprisoned (maḥbūs)").

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العلامات

• bizarre
• purple ink

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 11 Heshvan 1437 Seleucid (10 October 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿīd has received 10 dinars from Abū ʿAlī al-Jubaylī, 7 1/8 in gold coins (ʿayn) and 3 in silver (wariq dirhams). Dated: Sunday, 11 Heshvan 1437 Seleucid = 10 October 1125 CE. […] It is not clear why Natan would have written אתלי instead of the expected אתמ; since this was only a month into the new decade, maybe he hadn't yet broken the habit of starting his dates with אתל.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Polite letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender explains that he had been reluctant to visit the addressee, as he surmised that his 'brother' Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe (cf. Halper 383) was visiting, and he was not on speaking terms with the latter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

No one was harsher than the secretary of the head of police (wālī) in Damietta, who supervises the inheritances. I sent him 10 gold coins with Abū l-ʿAlā' Muslim." The next line is tricky and involves something called "kutub al-sulṭān." […] There follows another obscure passage: perhaps the writer obtained a loan of 30 gold coins from the amir that he needed for a bribe (shaḥadtu bihā, the same verb used during the beating).

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العلامات

• amirs
• damietta
• dar al-imara
• hujra
• inheritance
• (+ 6 المزيد)

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Document date

Monday, 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid (10 November 1091 CE)

Incomplete and unsigned. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE. Seller: Meshullam b. […] T-S 20.30 and the cluster of related documents). Buyer: Moshe b. Ghālib ha-Kohen. Slave: a woman named Kitmān, born into slavery (muwallada).

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العلامات

• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham takes care of the storage house rented by Yosef in Alexandria. He asks Yosef to buy him ink and pens in Fustat. (Information from Gil)

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• ink
• material culture
• pearls
• silk
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

13 Iyyar 126[.] Seleucid (14 April 949–4 May 958 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Bill of gift, in which a house in Qaṣr al-Šamʿ is given by [Isaa]c b. Abraham to his daughter Sittāna, the wife of Mevasser …

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العلامات

• alchemy

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Document date

1361 Seleucid (1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The dying man says that his Sabbath robe and Sabbath mantle are good enough and there is no need to buynew 'shrouds'. Dated Adar 1361/ February 1050.

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العلامات

• will

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Inferred date

1101–1101 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender asks the recipient to buy for him good quality corals. He mentions sending dīnārs with Dāwūd Ibn Sughmār with which the recipient is to buy corals.

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العلامات

• hinge
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib1
• india book
• trade

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Overall the list totaled 26 dinar. (Information from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean society)

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Inferred date

1147–1147 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning transactions conducted in Jurbattan in betel nut, cardamom, coins, and copper and lead. Listing travel provisions (zād) including wheat, lārī rice, local rice, oil, honey, and clarified butter.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib3

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Replying to a letter where the leader expressed his intention to visit the congregation. The sender mentions that the scholar Meʾir b. Barukh of France had commended the Nasi to the local community, and that all the scholars would be there to meet the visitor. (Information from CUDL)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• mosul nasis

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Their mother is going to pay a visit to Sitt 'Abid, Sitt Aqran, while their father is going to pay a visit to Abu ‘Ali and al-As‘ad (family members of ‘Imrān’s wife?)

العلامات

• circumcision
• yedutun ha-levi

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Document date

10 Shevat 1402 Seleucid (2 January 1091 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court archive describing a working woman (an unraveler of silk) from Tyre, Lebanon who possessed a house and was able to pay a bill of twelve dinars over the course of several years, yet claimed in court to be bankrupt and too poor to even buy bread; dated 1091. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:128, 430; 2:602; 5:88, 530) EMS

العلامات

• bankruptcy
• silk

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

received word suddenly that the amir is coming for some work tomorrow, which alarmed him because he has not prepared for such a visit. "By my life, if he comes, we will move our אסבת (hides?

العلامات

• amir
• chickens
• hospitality

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He tells the recipient what pharmaceutical goods to buy him with the money that he has probably sent with the messenger as well as whatever money the kerchief fetches: mercury; labdanum; shells of mahaleb (?)....

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document is not dated, but Frenkel suggests it may connect to the turmoil in Alexandria in 1141, during Yehuda ha-Levi's visit to the city. (Information from Frenkel, doc. #61 and Goitein, Med.

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