Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mercantile accounts. Several entries are headed "Dār al-[...]."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Greek/Coptic Numerals

Tables consisting entirely of Coptic numerals, significance unclear.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Enigmatic fragment, in part due to idiosyncratic spelling in Judaeo-Arabic.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Join with ENA NS 83.212?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Related to ENA NS 83.300?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Hebrew poetry. Many or all verses end with הנשמה לך.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

Minute fragment, two words from the end of a legal deed.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Beginning with a date in Jumādā I and ending with a signature.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Karaite enactment on the gifts permitted to give in happy occasions and mourning.

العلامات

• karaite

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1543-08 Seleucid (May 1232 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Interestingly, the court merely forbids future use of sacred objects of collateral, but does not enjoin the congregation officers to restore or place the sacred objects already taken. […] They would have been unable to enter into any business or personal arrangements with members of the community, would be formally cursed, might have property confiscated, and might even have been subjected to corporal punishment. The public announcement of the ban would have been necessary in order to ensure its enforcement, and was likely very effective.

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Document date

7 Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (5 March 1683 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #14) Ketubba entry, with less abbreviation of formulae than is normally the case for documents of this type that were entered into the same court register.

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Document date

1 Iyyar 5443 Anno Mundi (27 April 1683 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated 1 Iyyar 5443 AM, which is 1683 CE. (Document #41) Engagement agreement between the prospective bride and groom: Ḥanūna bt. […] The bride's grandmother Najma and a certain Yaʿaqov Saragosi act on her behalf in the engagement proceedings (her father is already deceased) in transferring dowry items and monies.

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Document date

17 Rajab 602 Hijrī (27 February 1206 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio with accounts, maybe communal. One of the entries is dated: Thursday night, 17 Rajab 602 AH = 27 February 1206 CE. […] The other pages contain mainly entries in Arabic script, mentioning ʿAbd al-Wahhāb; Ishāq; Ṣāliḥ; and Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAṭṭār;

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal hand, curvilinear lines and some words are stacked at the end. Perhaps the document was written by a lower official. Contains: basmala; al-ʿabd; and mentions "al-khassa" a financial account and "man talaba dhalika min," both towards the end of the document. Many numbers and the verb "addada" (x2) in the middle section.

العلامات

• dimme
• financial
• fiscal document
• iqta'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5343 Anno Mundi (17 September 1582–16 September 1583 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The owner of the ledger mentions being in Alexandria in the year 1583 CE (Iyyar 5343) in the middle portion of the verso and in the same entry mentions "Ibrāhīm Basha" which may constitute a reference to a state official. […] One half of the recto is severely discolored and the other includes a wide array of daily financial entries where "jadid" (or "cedid" in Ott. Turkish) coinage may be in use (l. 3r).

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العلامات

• 16th c
• alexandria
• late ja
• ledger

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there are magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand for ensuring the separation (bāb furqa) of two people for all time.

العلامات

• decree

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

3 Nisan 5326 Anno Mundi (23 March 1566 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The latter party is one of the presiding judges who appears in many of this court register's entries and he also appears as a party in the following entry #95 (PGPID 41602).

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Inferred date

1560–1560 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Undated, but likely c. 1560 CE based on the dates in neighboring entries from the court register. Yehuda ha-dayyān ha-Rofe b. […] The payment structure factors in Yehuda's maintenance/upkeep costs for the property. In a later entry of the same court register he is listed as one of the residents of the communal qodesh: PGPID 41042 ll. 15-16.

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Inferred date

1560–1560 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Undated, but likely c. 1560 CE based on the dates in neighboring entries from the court register. Shemuʾel Berakha appears before the court in Dār Simḥa Synagogue to make a rental payment on his property, which is held in the communal qodesh. […] On the next page of the court register he is listed as one of the residents of the communal qodesh: PGPID 41042 ll. 2-3. Much of this entry has been crossed out. MCD.

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Document date

Shevat 5323 Anno Mundi (26 December 1562–24 January 1563 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov ha-Levi ha-Somekh al-Qudsī involving a Rabbanite Jew, Salāma al-Rabbān, for 340 niṣf fiḍḍa (medin) owed as rental payments for a house in the Karaite communal qodesh/pious endowment (waqf). Shimʿon and Salāma had set up some kind of loan related to the sum and now Shimʿon agrees to repay the balance owed to the Karaite pious endowment in monthly payments.

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Document date

12 Nisan 5322 Anno Mundi (18 March 1562 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated 12 Nisan [5322] AM (1562 CE), based on the year mentioned in the preceding entry on f. 10v. Avraham b. Yehuda al-Ḥakīm appears before a communal judge (Shemuʾel ha-dayyan) in the home of Shelomo Fayruz regarding his services in weighing beef. The kosher meat provisions and weighing standards are arranged as part of the communal qodesh. The preceding entry in the court register deals with communal pricing standards on the sale of lamb and raw/grilled meat (PGPID 41052).

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Document date

18 Elul 5324 Anno Mundi (26 August 1564 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated 18 Elul 5324 AM (1564), a substantial chronological leap from the other entry on folio 33v (1566 CE). Communal charity agreement in which ʿAbd al-Raḥim b. David ha-Ḥazzan Fayrūz agrees to make monetary contributions to the pious endowment that are earmarked based on him receiving the synagogue honors of three years ʿaliyot for Torah readings.

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العلامات

• torah scroll

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