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Document date

491 Hijrī (9 December 1097–27 November 1098 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Conveys praises and blessings for the addressee and for the caliph and the prophet Muḥammad and ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. Mentions فخر الملك سعد الدولة تاج المع[الى] Fakhr al-Mulk Saʿd al-Dawla Tāj al-Maʿ[ālī].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

One part of it (verso) looks literary, with pen trials and doodles underneath. There is also a string of titles addressing someone (al-qurashī . . . al-ajall); preceded by "in this book" (في هذا الكتاب) and followed by "may God have mercy on whoever reads it" (رحم الله من قراه), then ṣalwala and ḥamdala; beneath this there are some drawings; and above this there is what looks like a signature in Arabic script ([...] the son of Ḥaydar the brother of the in-law of al-Ḥamawī Aḥmad [...].).

العلامات

• drawing

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo Tilimsānī, acting as a custodian (apotropos) releases a certain Yosef b. ʿAmram known as Ibn al-Fituri (? אלפיתורי) in some commercial transaction. Aharon and Nuʿmān are also mentioned. Location: maybe Alexandria. The three fragments do not actually join but they are clearly related to the same case, and perhaps part from the same document.

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• alexandria
• hillel b. eli
• quittance

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Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) […] A person identified as Abu al-Ḥasan al-Hud appears in T-S 10J6.3. Recto contains business letter.

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• ib-addenda
• ib5
• order of payment

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Document date

5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1030 Hijrī (21 September 1621 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the distinguished judge Muṣṭafā Effendi. Involves Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm b. Aḥmad al-Azharī(?) al-Sukkarī(?) and a certain Dāʾūd. May refer to "jamāʿat al-gharb" (the Maghribī Jewish community?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People named include ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maḥlāwī and ʿAbd al-Qadīr. The writer asks the addressee that when he comes from Fusṭāṭ he should bring letters from the children of Yiṣḥaq b. […] He then may give his address: Rubʿ al-Ḥamzāwī, the alley of the Karaites.

العلامات

• 16th c
• karaite
• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Madlūb(?) al-Maqdisī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr, in the square of the perfumers, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with very rudimentary spellings. The letter also speaks about Avraham al-Maqdisī in the third person. Mentions various business transactions and people such as ʿArafāt al-Baḥrī, the addressee's neighbor, Yehuda b. Yeshuʿa, and Ḥasan.

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العلامات

• trade

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Letter from Eli b. Yosef, from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1055. […] The writer asks the addressee to take care of an inheritance of his relative, Avraham al-Safakusi, who has two sons – Abu al-Faraj and Ishaq.

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Eliyyahu. In which Abū l-Ghayth al-Sabbāk ("the caster") and his son Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarīrī renounce a claim on two pieces of cloth worth two dinars which belong to Sitt al-Milāḥ, the wife of Sulaymān and divorcee of Abū Saʿīd, as described in her ketubba and left to her by her husband. Also mentions [...] b. Ṣedaqa and Abū Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index cards)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a trip of the addressee and a third person, and mentioning 80 dirhams in the possession of someone else and the arrival and news of yet another person. Mentions staying in al-Maḥalla Wednesday night; meeting with Makīn b. Mukhtār, who reported his intention to travel and that 80 jars of his wine had turned to vinegar; also mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd; and good quality wheat.

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العلامات

• trade
• vinegar
• wine

1 نسخ

Document date

4992 Anno Mundi (30 August 1231–15 September 1232 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM = 1231/32 CE. Verso: different document, dealing with matters between the siblings Elʿazar and Sitt al-Maʿānī concerning a house. […] (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card and attached transcription.)

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Document date

1154–1161 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions sprinkler bottles (qumqum) for rose water brought by the qāḍī Najm al-Dīn, and ‘pure’ (ṭahor) cheese sent from Alexandria to Aden. […] Mentions the Franks and the ruler al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ (=Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk, the Fatimid vizier from 1154–61).

العلامات

• ib7
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and will send. Meanwhile he asked al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā to pay for him 30 to al-Makīn. Also mentions trouble with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-ʿAnbarī.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to another Nasi (al-Rayyis al-Dā'ūdī), with blessings for his son Abū l-Ḥasan. […] It seems that the sender is asking the addressee to convey condolences on his behalf to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, to Abū Isḥāq and his sons, to the dear brother Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṭabīb and his mother Sitt ʿArīb(?)

العلامات

• condolence
• nasis

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Begins, "mā yaqūlū al-sāda al-aʾimma...." Concerns a Jewish(?) widow who has minor children and received alimony from the estate of the orphans(?) […] The legal query seems directed to a Fatimid official because of the beginning, "al-sādāt al-Aʾimma" which is typically the beginning of an Ismaʿīlī legal query.

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Primary language

Arabic

Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the district of Minyat Khalaf. The land for the iqṭāʿ formerly belonged to the amīr Muʾnis ʿAlī b. Jawl al-Mihrānī and, after he decamped, to Sayf al-Islām. Khuyalāʾ is asking for a decree that would allow him and Abū l-Jaysh to enter these lands. On verso is a Hebrew liturgical text.

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العلامات

• petition

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen in Yemen (diyār al-Yaman), and presumably his estate. Mentions the local ruler (sulṭān tilka l-diyār). On verso, there is a document with list of names, such as Yefet, ʿAllūn and [...] Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer). (Information in part from CUDL.) See also PER H 21 + Moss. VII,39 (PGPID 7024).

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• ib-addenda
• ib6
• yemen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Kurma bt. ʿAyyāsh al-ʿIblānī; her sister Diyār the wife of Bāqī; and someone's mother [...] bt. Yosef known as Ibn al-Shīrajī al-ʿAkkawī. The middle section describes the content of the legal document (mentions a house and a sum of dinars, but the details are difficult to decipher). At the bottom a list of the witnesses: al-Meʿulle Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shofeṭ; [...] Menaḥem Ibn Qaṭāʾīf.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably from the teacher Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to the cantor Abū l-Majd Meʾir b. […] is partially visible in the body of the letter, and in the address he is called "[...] החזנים ועוזם" and "al-yahūdī al-Iskandarānī.") Mentions a certain Ibrāhīm.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he has sent some items with al-Thiqa (l. 11) and wishes to know if they have arrived and how they are priced. He also wants to know if there is an ambergris (ʿanbar) in Alexandria.

العلامات

• ambergris

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: list of names in Judaeo-Arabic such as Qurrat al-ʿAyn, ʿUthmān Dhū l-Nūrayn ("the possessor of two lights," an epithet for ʿUthmān b. […] These are probably "the ten to whom Paradise was promised" (al-ʿashara al-mubashsharūn"), in which case the third line may read (Ṭalḥa) b. ʿUbayd Allāh and (Abū ʿUbayda Ibn al-)Jarrāḥ. Verso: list in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The preserved text establishes the genealogy of Ismaʿīlī Imāms from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to al-Mustanṣir with their full names and seeks intercession on their behalf. It also lists other names and places and provides historical details about them. […] The text in the center is a tradition related by Prophet Muḥammad on the Mahdī, parts of the text match a text from "Biḥār al-Anwār (http://surl.li/zlpcqk)". YU/AE.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Ḥamza before the Abbasid caliph al-Manṣūr (فقال مظلوم امير المؤمنين فقال المنصور من ظلمك...). Versions of the story may be found in Abū Hayyān al-Tawḥīdī's Kitāb al-Baṣāʾir wa-l-Dhakhāʾir (https://shamela.ws/book/26423/1991) and al-Tadhkira al-Ḥamdūniyya (https://shamela.ws/book/10646/500).

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī, Sicily, to Nissim b. ʿAyyāsh, Fustat. […] Mentions a shipment of shelled almonds and lāsīn silk sent from Sicily in the ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ and its distribution to its owners in Fustat. Also mentions selling pepper that was sent to Sicily.

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العلامات

• almonds
• commodities
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• pepper
• silk

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

6 Ṣafar 498 Hijrī (28 October 1104 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 6 Ṣafar 498 AH (= 1104 CE). Witnessed by Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlīal-Anṣārī and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew

Mysterious text with alternating lines of Hebrew script (mostly Aramaic, it seems) and Arabic script, many or all of which are glosses on the former. Mentions some random Arabic words, eg. parts of a bird: al-ḥawṣala, al-qānisa. Could be a magical text.

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• glossary

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Some phrases: ʿabd... imtathalahā... al-marākib bi-ḥaml al-[...] al-madkhūr... al-sulṭāniyya

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1590–1606 CE

Avraham Skandari, probably in Cairo, to his son, probably in Alexandria. The date is the 2nd of Adar I, probably 1590 but could also be 1606, depending on whether the yod and vav are to be read in ישֿוןֿ.

العلامات

• 16th c
• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Horizontal strip from the middle of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. "Al-Parnas al-Kohen went to Bilbays two years ago and lived there and made a living with what God provided, until . . . his living. . . al-ḥaver al-meʿulle. . ."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning commodities such as spikenard (sunbul) and cardamom (al-hāl al-qāqullī), and moringa (al-bān). Mentions Jamāl al-Dīn Abū l-Jāj[...] and ʿAbdallāh b.

العلامات

• ib-candidate

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Farah, Alexandria, to Abu Ishaq Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Fustat, dealing with shipments of goods, ca. 1053 (Gil). Mentions the qarib belonging to Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ (recto, margin). (Information from Gil)

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العلامات

• ibn al-ba'ba'
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from from Sibāʿ b. Ḥasan al-Ḥalabī, probably in Fustat, to Hibatallāh b. Menaḥem al-Jubaylī, in Alexandria. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Isḥāq and items lost at sea or in the Nile (fī l-baḥr). Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand, mentioning rose and al-Lāwī al-Qābisī.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment (bottom part only). The name ʿAllūn b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīlī al-[...] appears in the last line of the body. One of the witness statements is by ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿĀṣim. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

A few words in Arabic script: "... al-wārid ʿalayhi fī maʿnā al-[...]...."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Alexandria. […] Nahray is sending goods to the Maghreb and selling goods that he receives from Barhūn and vice versa, Barhūn sells goods in the Maghreb and sends goods to Egypt. They both also buy goods. The writer mentions a business collaboration with Abu Naṣr Ḥesed ha-Tustari and a partnership with Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in trading gems.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

Rabi al-Awwal 617 Hijrī (4 May 1220 CE)

Peraḥyah owes Berakhot 480 dirhams, to be returned by the end of the month of Sivan, "which corresponds to Rabīʿ al-Awwal 617 - May 1220. As a surety, Peraḥyah mortages "the two thirds of the two shops, and the upper story above them, the other third owned by Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Naṣrānī al-Zayyāt, in the Darb al-Mamṣūṣa". Netan'el b. Berakhot signs along the judge. In a post-note, made on the 29th of Iyyar of that year (4.5.1220 CE), Peraḥyah adds 20 dirhams to the loan, making the debt a round 500 dirhams. -- see Goitein Nachlass material

العلامات

• 13th c
• judge eliyyahu

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Document date

middle decade of Tammuz 1477 Seleucid (12 June 1166–21 June 1166 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deathbed declaration of Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abī ʿUmar known as Ibn al-Aqtaʿ. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. […] Moshe ha-Levi. The court asks Sayyid al-Ahl if he is owed any money by Abū ʿUmar b. Abū Saʿd al-Iskandarānī, and he answers that no one owes him anything.

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• deathbed will

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