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Inferred date

1132–1132 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,3 (ח13). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. […] Dating: 1132 CE. This short letter was sent by Abū Zikrī Kohen, the merchant's clerk in Fustat, to Ḥalfon shortly after he left for Qūṣ, on the way to the east. […] The small sums of a few tens of dinars mentioned are probably leftovers from larger transactions.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"The family had been in the Mediterranean port for two months at the time of the writing of the letter, kept there by illness. […] {"Send me a response before I no longer have a response or need a further letter. […] I cannot write a letter and send it but that my heart melts. . . .

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العلامات

• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• disability
• disability: hearing
• disability: speaking
• (+ 14 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a complete and well-preserved letter, which is rare in the Yefet corpus. Goitein's note card points out that Yefet and Peraḥya are the two brothers of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi Ibn al-Qaṭāʾīf and that the brothers also had at least two sisters.

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Riḍā, it seems in Fustat, to his wife's brother Meʾir, perhaps in Damīra or at least nearby in the Rīf. […] But there are enough unusual features (format, language) of the letter that it could plausibly be 5151 AM = 1390 CE. […] He thanks the addressee for his letter of condolence, though in a backhanded sort of way ("I knew that you would not have honored me with a letter if this calamity had not occurred to me").

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العلامات

• condolence
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. […] Mentions someone called Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma. Abū l-Ḥasan is to meet with Yūsuf al-Ṭawwāf in Cairo, who owes something (two dinars?) […] Mentions a certain Faḍāʾil, and possibly the term ṣināʿa or al-ṣināʿatayn.

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العلامات

• daman
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The remaining content is quite vague. Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions from the addressee. Also mentions "the congregation" (al-jamāʿa). On verso there is unidentified Arabic text (possibly medical or poetry).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment, 20 lines, well preserved. The writer at the beginning of the lettermentions a sale that did not reap any profits (lam yūlij minhā ḥabba wāḥida) and describes his anguish and shame over it (lines 2-4). He then mentions the arrival of a letter on 11th Rabīʿ al-Ākhar and the news of the addressee’s safety joyed him but the affairs that he described saddened him. […] The writer in the last few lines expresses his desire for prompt correspondence from Abī Ghālib either through his messenger or through ʿAbd Allah and assures frequent communication regarding affairs from his side.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, in Ramle, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. […] For the legal term rassam, see Med Soc II, 372 and 609, n. 46." […] Information from CUDL and Goitein, Med Soc V, 534–535.

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العلامات

• al-tustari
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: waja'
• ramla
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a patient reports to his physician, describing his illness and asking for a prescription. Full translation by Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, 105. "I[n Your name, O] M[erciful]. […] For three days more [the call of] nature has not come to me. Fever, headache, weakness, and shaking do not leaveme all day long.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consilia
• illness: physician
• illness: rich description
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū ʿAlī. The sender says that "all the doc[tors] prescribed [...] for me... and after that they prescribed me the iṭr[īfal]...." On verso, assuming this is still the same letter, he complains of his old age and frailty (or perhaps poverty).

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physicians
• illness: prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment addressed to a communal leader, a ḥaver. […] Hillel’s late brother, Menaḥem, is also mentioned. Greetings are sent to ‘his community, his friends and the elders of his court’ (זקני בית דין).

العلامات

• appeal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment (lower right corner). Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves a man named Namir known as al-Ḥakham(?) al-Ṣabbāgh. Also mentions someone's father; two people's paternal aunt; someone known as Farrāsh

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter with introduction in Hebrew mentioning Rabbenu Netanʾel (presumably either the addressee or his father). Mentions commodities such as pepper; prior to that mentions 'the prescription for the seeds of the hiera (אליארג)."

العلامات

• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Mentions flax. Merits further examination.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Medical prescription mentioninglemon, sugar, almonds, rose, lily, chicory, licorice, coriander.

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العلامات

• prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya.

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العلامات

• ghulam

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, probably relating to a marriage, mentioning a menora and dinars.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a mercantileletter. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions a certain Ḥasāna.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning communal controversy and politics. Mentions an apostate to Islam (al-posheaʿ), the community of Ṣahrajt, a ban of excommunication, a Jew who drank with the sender, someone who intended to denounce (יגמז) something to the government, a group of people referred to as "these pigs," and someone who asked the addressee for a "kitāb ʿināya" (some kind of letter of recommendation or document or support?)[…] Abū Saʿīd Khallūf b. al-Ashqar is mentioned (also mentioned in the transcription for PGPID 4214, shelfmark currently unknown).

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العلامات

• drinking
• feud
• pigs

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Recto may be a deathbed will. […] Verso may or may not be related. Mentions: 3 witnesses; a man named Kalev(?); a man named Shemuel; 'the other one is Ḥasana, called [...]'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yeshua from Alexandria, to Yosef b. […] Writes that there is a large amount of merchants and of merchandise that are about to be shipped. Also mentions the prices in Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #187) VMR.

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العلامات

• ibn awkal
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a merchant addressed at least in part to his mother ('wa-yā ummī'). […] He complains about the wretched quality of his food and drink and sleep and how 'nobody suffers what I suffer from [long]ing.' He mentions the towns of Minya and Qūṣ and repeatedly mentions the price of wheat and bread.

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العلامات

• bread
• complaint
• mother
• wheat

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude, large-lettered hand and very unusual spellings Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. […] Khalaf (who has a brother called Sulaymān), giving various business instructions. Mentions commodities such as lapis lazuli (lāzuward) and musk. Mentions people such as Abū Isḥāq b. Khabūr, Abū Yaʿqūb b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic related to silk, jewelry, "crimson rope/thread/ribbon," and other items. Many of the entries mention the weight of items. Dated in the month of Tevet in the upper entry of the recto, but the year is not fully legible in line 2: 5[.]43 or 5[.]41 AM. […] Cairo or, possibly, Egypt is mentioned at least twice (מצר) in the entries. A certain Yaʿaqov Ṭāwīl is mentioned in the second entry of the right column.

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العلامات

• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several fragments of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The middle pieces (T-S NS 342.21 + T-S NS 342.16) are definite joins, and the upper and lower pieces (T-S NS 342.22 and T-S NS 342.20 respectively are probably joins. Mentions oil for Dammūh; a mirror or a woman; Yosef Ibn al-Lādhiqī(?)

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. […] IV,27.2, T-S 8J24.17, ENA NS 68.11, and possibly T-S 8J10.16). Verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to Abū ʿImrān (presumably the same paternal uncle mentioned on recto). Possibly also from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, but more specimens of his Arabic handwriting need to be collected.

1 نسخ

Document date

1 Av 1448 Seleucid (21 July 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer's own wife never conceived except with medication. [Recto 8-9:] The writer was unable to cure Avraham, "the little beggar from Akko," who died and left his son an orphan. […] Shemuel the Longobardian merchant, worth altogether 200 dinars. [Recto 17-21:] The writer explains that his own letters may have never arrived because he used to send valuable materia medica with them, including mulberry concentrate (rubb tūt), ribes (rībās), barberries (barbārīs), agrimony (ghāfit) leaves and extract (previously translated as Gentiana), and absinthe (afsintīn). […] [Verso 1-4:] If the recipient really does join him, he should bring the medical books that the writer left behind. Regardless, he is hoping to obtain some medical books from the loot of Aleppo and Damascus.

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العلامات

• byzantium
• crusades
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: death
• (+ 11 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1525–1575 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The reason is that ʿAlī Numayr al-Rashīdī arrived last week with a letter for the governor (sanjak), informing him that his ship had been commandeered in Messina, even after he had received a promise of safe passage (al-amān). […] All this is known because a ship arrived in Alexandria with 20 Messinan prisoners, who recounted that the ship was taken in Syracuse, not Messina. […] The writer then transitions into business matters, mentioning intelligence he has received in a letter from Messer Giacomo and in a letter to someone named Aran.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• consul
• florence
• italian words
• piracy
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "You have leftme to die in this grief. A person would think that there is no more care (iftiqād) between you and me. You have lit an inextinguishable fire in my heart. As for... your shop, he said he won't pay a penny until your letter arrives. As for the turban, it came out to 45 dirhams for Bishāra the ghulām of al-ʿArīf...."

1 نسخ

Draft of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in the Maghreb. Around 1046. Seems like the letter is addressed to the Tāhartī Family. Mentions several of his relatives and a few ships. […] (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, pp. 722-723) VMR On the recto of the join is a different business letter.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• draft
• nahray b. nissim

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter addressed to Nahray b. Nissim. Verso: Draft of a letter from Nahray b. […] Dating: ca. 1046 CE. Seems like the letter is addressed to someone in the Tāhartī family. Mentions relatives and ships. Also mentions a visit of Nahray to Alexandria, the status of selling silk, and the arrival of Ibn Basak (Maṣliaḥ b.

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العلامات

• draft

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (dated documents 1150–81). Names mentioned: Barakāt b. Abū l-Banīn and Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī. Signed by Menahem b. Berakhot, Yaʿaqov b. Yosef ha-Kohen, and Mevorakh b.

العلامات

• mevorakh b. natan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a release. Someone, possibly an orphan, agrees to release his paternal uncle from any claims. Mentions a sum of either 39 7/8 or 69 7/8 or 89 7/8 dinars left in an inheritance. Mentions a certain al-Ṣayrafī at the bottom.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Official letter in Arabic script. The sender received a letter from ʿAlī b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Aysar delivered by the ghulām of one of the Baghdādī merchants. Mentions someone who is traveling to ʿIrāq.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). The postscript and margin are written in larger letters and lighter ink. Contains the phrases "[May God] guide the perplexity"; greetings to various people; "I met with ... may God prolong his life ... al-Shaykh Abi ... and all who met with him..."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر