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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Elishaʿ to a notable titled Rabbenu Moshe Av Bet Din (הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק . . . […] The identity of the recipient is discussed in Friedman and Goitein, India Book IV1, 92, n219, where Friedman observes that Maimonides famously rejected the titles "Rosh Yeshiva" and "Av Bet Din" as "mere names of flattery" (פטומי שמא בעלמא, a reference to Bava Meṣiʿa 66a). […] The last few lines of the letter are mostly torn away. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a legal query addressed to a legal authority referred to as 'our lord and gaon' discussing the marriage of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. […] Connected with this incident the letter writer also refers to the Qaraites (?) and someone described as an apostate ('meshummad').

العلامات

• draft

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed letter sent by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq Av, written in between the lines and on the remaining blank spaces of a letter he had received from another man (see also T-S NS J171), asking for assistance. This is a letter of appeal on his behalf, and it suggests that the man was a physician out of work. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 577, 578)

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العلامات

• communal

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Inferred date

1066–1138 CE

India Book (IB) I, 31a. Legal document: testimony about the will of Yosef Lebdi. […] Eli (fl. 1066-1108 CE), records that before leaving for his last journey, Lebdi made the will. Friedman identifies the scribe as Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138) and dates the fragment to the beginning of the 12th century.

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العلامات

• ib1
• india book
• inheritance
• lebdi
• testimony

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic accompanying a dispatch of five dinars and instructions to the addressee on how to spend it. The sender complains that someone stole his turban. "If you saw me, you would not know me, on account of what that godless coward (al-qalīl al-dīn al-qalīl al-muruwwa) did to me, Ibn Khulayf swore in the name of God and lied, by God I'll let him have it as soon as I get to Fustat...." There is a postscript at 180 degrees. Mentions the town of Fuwwa. On verso there is a Hebrew prayer, probably for Simḥat Tora.

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments from the bottom of a very large legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). […] The case involves Abū l-Ḥasan Mevorakh and the heirs of Abū l-Faraj al-J[ubaylī?] […] The validation is signed by Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen ha-Meʿulle. AA. ASE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bitter letter by a public officer complaining about his lot. […] Goitein's translation of ll. 6–14: "I am most miserable. Some envy me, others despise me; others, again, are hostile. […] God is my witness, would I know any profitable occupation bringing two dinars a month, I would not have touched the service of the Jews. Now, letters have their pitfalls; so please excuse me for writing this.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. Maghribī hand. Dating: ca. 11th century. Mentions "not fearing anyone" (laysa khawf min aḥad). Merits further examination.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two tiny legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). The upper fragment mentions someone's wife, Sitt al-[...]. The lower fragment mentions ʿAsqalān.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and mentioning the broker Banin.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• arabic script
• druggist
• ghulam
• materia medica
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a notebook with drafts (of a letter) and accounts. Mentions Ḥayyā [Yaḥyā] ha-Kohen ha-Melammed and Abū l-Ḥasan and measures such as qirrāṭ.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1172–1204 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. […] Shemarya the cantor arrived with a letter from Pinḥas for the sender. The bottom of the letter is torn off here. The margin mentions that Maimonides has sent something (presumably a letter to Pinḥas).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter sent to a Nasi, possibly named Yishay, possibly in Acre. […] He was very sick one night and the camel drivers stole all of his possessions and left him naked. Now, "even here they do not believe me because they have not seen my letter/document, because it was lost." He asks the addressee to write a new letter explaining "how you saw me in Acre." He promises that he will never forgive the men who wronged him.

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العلامات

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. […] He also sends regards to Bū l-Yusr. Verso: letter from Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe, with a detailed list of transactions he had conducted on behalf of the recipient. […] The margin contains a plea not to cut off the expenses provided to the addressee's niece or cousin. It also mentions Ṣāfī, the ghulam who sometimes shuttled letters and commercial goods for the family membersletters between Qalyub and Fustat (hence no need for addresses).

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from ʿOvadya to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; asks the addressee to help al-Shaykh al-Rashīd in some legal dispute on behalf of the writer, because that would save the writer the trouble of traveling and the exhaustion; mentions Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Shelomo and R. Shemuel ha-Dayyān (perhaps Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi, who served in Maimonides's court in Fustat, and appears in documents ranging between 1165–1203).

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Primary language

Hebrew

The letter T-S AS 145.81 + T-S 13J23.18 (dating to ca. 1063 CE) mentions Maymūn b. […] I.77.) This is a Hebrew letter of congratulations and blessings. Mentions Ḥayyim ‘the honoured elder.' (Information from CUDL, Goitein's index card, and Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 4:359.) EMS. ASE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Last leaf of a letter from a woman to Sitt Khuṣrawān. […] On the reverse side a male person addresses another male leaving the country. The same scribe wrote both sides; the hand is notable for large, beautiful letters and the substitution of shin for sin. The names Menashshe and Zayn are mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• women's letters

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] If ʿArūs proves to be lying, then he will be considered accursed and will not earn merit (? יכון בכלל ארור לא יזכר). In the upper left corner there are two names pertaining to a different document: Meshullam ha-Kohen b. […] Lists goods such as pepper, bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr), a large and heavy ruby (ḥajar yāqūt kabīr thaqīl), silver, coral, a thawb. Mentions an Abū Saʿd as well. Aodeh dates it to ca. 1030 based on the appearance of an Avraham ha-Levi b.

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العلامات

• account
• aodeh
• gems
• hinge
• receipt
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār and his young daughter releasing their in-law Abū l-Faḍl Menashshe al-Raffāʾ ("the darner") from claims.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Avraham referring to a visit of the addressee to the sender and mentioning lodging for travelers on the top floor of a synagogue. The letter ends with a religious formula in Hebrew including a quote from the Bible. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 76)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a court notebook containing a legal record (or records) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Mentions the daughter of Ibn Qudayra (cf.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning a certain Mevorakh. (Information from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Medical recipes in Arabic script. Mentions opium at least twice.

العلامات

• opium

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Letter from Meir (b. Yakhin) to a certain Ḥalfon. […] Dating: Early 13th century. Meir asks for the money that belongs to the shop and for a list of what should be bought. […] Ḥalfon has also gone back and fixed the titles from Meir'sletter. In lieu of "his slave Meir" he writes "rather, his master" and in lieu of "the master Ḥalfon" he writes "his slave."

العلامات

• arabic address
• letter norms

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon (r. 1127–1139 CE). […] Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138). Also signed by Natan b. […] Halakhic question concerning a possible excommunication over a legal dispute. Mentions a reclamation document (ורקה אלדעאוי), al-Kohen Abū l-Faraj, al-Melammed Sayyid al-Kull the cantor and Ṣadaqa.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness: treatment
• legal query

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter on the topic of friendship between two educated young men. […] For things between you and me have not been like this before. Of all the young men who have been with you, not one of them has mentioned a word you might have said about me, which saddened my heart. So, as soon as you have read this letter, send me one, telling me how you are. And Peace."

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العلامات

• personal

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Inferred date

2 February 1063–2 February 1063 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, to Yeshuaʿ b. […] Dated end of Shevaṭ; Gil notes that the same events are discussed in T-S 16.163, which is dated 8 Elul and mentions the year 453H, and so dates this letter to February 2, 1063. […] Mentions that Mahdiyya is secure. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #372) VMR

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العلامات

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

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Document date

1 Sivan 1423 Seleucid (28 May 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviya had received a letter from the Nagid Mevorakh before his death and took it with him to the Rīf, where he stayed for five months. […] He also tells him to pray for Moshe Nagid b. Mevorakh. Ṭoviya writes, "Buy me an Aleppo izār (a large wrap or coat) in which I can pray all the time," probably referring to an inexpensive piece of Syrian cotton (Med Soc I, 196). […] He sends regards to his brothers Yaḥya and Meir, and to Avraham Pe'er ha-Qahal, and to Mevasser b.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
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An account list by Nahray b. Nissim, mentioning consignments from Būṣīr via Fustat. Bifolium from an account book (daftar) (LB)

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العلامات

• nahray

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and Muʿizziyya (Cairo).

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mulqa
• illness: prostrated

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a letter, probably. Mentioning the ingredients (ḥawāʾij) for a medicinal powder (dharūr) and then proceeding to give a recipe/prescription (wa-hādhihī ṣifatuh) for it. Mentions Abū l-Surūr (verso, margin).

العلامات

• prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The opening of a letter, from a Gaʾon, to Meshullam and Yiṣḥaq, sons of Yehoshuaʿ. There is Arabic text on verso, probably the address, mentioning Abū l-Munajjā and Jerusalem. (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions 33.5 of something; "I opened my bundle"; the measure qinṭār; and Ibn al-Iskandaranī.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 Anno Mundi (25 January 1807 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

They contribute 600,000 medins. (2) Merkado Karo, Avraham b. Menaḥem ha-Levi Jarbūʿa, and Ḥayyim Nuṣayrī. They contribute 900,000 medins. (3) Shimʿon Frances, Khalīfa Pinto, Yaʿaqov Bibas, and Meir ben Naʿim. They contribute 900,000 medins. The total capital is 2.4 million medins. The duration of the partnership is 12 months.

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العلامات

• bibas
• cesana
• frances
• karo
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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