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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has tested his son several times and found that he cannot sing (fa-lam ajidhu yaʿrifu yulaḥḥin wa-lā ʿindahu khabar min al-laḥn) and that he can hardly even read (wa-lā yuḥsin yatahajjā ḥarf wa-lā ʿindahu khabar min al-hijā' ra'san). […] "For the most important thing for me is a beautiful and correct melody and pronunciation (al-laḥn al-malīḥ al-ṣaḥīḥ wa-l-hijāya). Do not allow him to mingle with youths or walk with youths in the street." […] He must be prepared to recite them in front of al-Shaykh al-Kabīr. No bibliography. ASE

العلامات

• beardless young men
• cantorship
• education

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin the cantor, in Fustat. […] Rudimentary hand and phonetic spellings throughout, including the use of the alif-lam ligature as a lam-alif. Dating: First quarter of the 13th century. […] The economy is bad in Alexandria and prices are high (bread is five dirhams).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: khutta
• illness: marad
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya(!) to his mother in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] with its tail cut off—this journey was not like that journey"). He conveys greetings also to his own wife whom he calls ṣāḥibat al-bayt. […] It may be a toponym referring to one of the villages called Qubayba near Jerusalem, especially if this is the same man called al-Muqaddasī/al-Maqdisī in T-S 6J4.12. The feminine ending remains unexplained; maybe it is actually a plural (equivalent to al-Qubaybiyyīn) indicating both his father's origin and his own origin?

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العلامات

• business
• family

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Document date

Kislev 1430 Seleucid (17 November 1118–16 December 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā, in which he undertakes to settle her in her own domicile. […] The details of this new agreement were negotiated between Abū l-Ḥasan and Sitt al-Nasab’s paternal uncle, Abū ʿAlī. Dated: Kislev 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. […] Mevorakh. The same couple also appear in T-S 13J2.20, dated 1445/1134.

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العلامات

• family drama
• patrilocal residence
• register

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Rajab 925 Hijrī (29 June 1519 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The faṣl on the lefthand side of verso was issued by the qāḍī Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Santāwī al-Shāfiʿī the judge "in the city of Bilbays and its district and surrounds in al-Sharqiyya." […] Witesses: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb; Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣārī The faṣl on the righthand side of verso was issued by the chief qadi court in Cairo "al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī" (l. 3v).

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العلامات

• dyer
• hujja
• ottoman state

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf, in Alexandria, to family members, probably in Fustat. The letter is addressed to the shop of Abū [...] al-ʿAṭṭār. […] This is corroborated by the mention of Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Amshāṭī (see Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, pp. 103–04). […] He lived there for two and a half years, where it seems he developed a new illness and also suffered from "the illness you know about."

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• constantinople
• ib-addenda
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 7 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A courier arrived from Alexandria but did not bring any letter from the addressee's father. […] A galley (shīnī) arrived from Mazara to Alexandria at the end of Ḥeshvan. On verso goes on to discuss business matters with Ibn Muʾmil, Abū l-Ṭāhir the broker (simsār). Nahray has sent with the captain of the ship of al-Sharīf many letters, and with Ibn Nasṭās letters from Zekharya Ibn al-Ashqar, including a letter from Abū ʿImrān Mūsā from his brother.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Inferred date

1800–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating is early 19th-century based on the letter recipients mentioned in the heading, Ḥayyīm and Avraham Cesana, who are known from a wide variety of other fragments and resided in Alexandria. Saʿadīa Pinto is also mentioned in the body of the letter.

العلامات

• 19th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Melammed Tamīm(?). Telling him to ask (yataqaḍḍā ilā) Maḥāsin al-Ṭabīb to attend the court case (muḥākama) of Abū l-Majd al-Ḥazzan (probably Meir b.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• meir b. yakhin

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Primary language

Arabic

Not a lot of context can be gleaned from the preserved text but it indicates to an agricultural issue (zarʿ), speculatively about honey harvest (ishtiyār). Also mentions al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Primary language

Ladino

In one of the entries toward the upper edge of the fragment the adjective or surname "Mughrabi" also appears. On occasions the word "corto / "קורטו is also in use in labeling specific entries.

العلامات

• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning marriage to a female slave. See also T-S G2.59 (PGPID 5543). This may be an earlier draft of that document. On verso there are piyyuṭim, also in the hand of Avraham ben Yiju. (Information from Yagur's edition, in his dissertation, # 18)

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib3

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, probably a waqf or a will. Big ʿalāma beginning with a ḥamdala in the upper left corner, and probably three testimonies at the bottom. Mentions what was for ʿAzīz should be continued (mā-kān li l-ʿazīz l-jārī) and also a numismatics reference "Ashraf al-Sulṭānī".

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Ali b. Hillel, the cantor, in which the writer describes departing to the house of Abu al-Faraj and an exchange with a ‘Christian scribe.' He sends well wishes to Sitt al-Husn and her children. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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Letter from Avraham b. Faraḥ from Alexandria, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding shipping fabrics and sending dinars to Fustat for exchange. Also mentions other shipments of goods, including of crocus.

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Fragment of a letter from Yusuf b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions dinars that should be exchanged, and that several letters for Nahray arrived in Alexandria from Tripoli after 25 days.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment in which Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay 15 dirhams to the bearer, who is a plasterer (jabbās). The sum is also written in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals at the top. There is also a note in Arabic script on verso, unclear if/how related.

العلامات

• cheque
• order of payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū [...], the mint (dār al-ḍarb), Damascus, Alexandria, reaching the city/fortress (thaghr) of the sulṭān Sayf [...]; Abū l-Munā Ibn al-Dumyāṭī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions nutmeg; litharge; al-Ḥalabī: ʿAbd al-Salām (עבד אסלאם); Ibn al-Maṣmūdī(?); Ibn al-Dayyān. Requires further examination.

العلامات

• pepper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in Fustat, to her son Abū l-Maḥāsin, in Funduq al-Qamra, Alexandria. Dictated to Abū Manṣūr. Likely belongs with T-S 10J19.26 (PGPID 2938) and T-S AS 155.271 (PGPID 17921), in which case the writer of this letter is Sitt Ghazāl bt. […] She has been having nightmares and insomnia, and fears that if he does not return quickly, she will be completely blind by the time he returns. (It is also possible that the phrase "yatlaf baṣarī" refers to death instead of going blind; compare "wafāt ʿaynak" in T-S 10J12.14.) […] The instructions should be delivered either to Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn to the shop of al-Kohen al-Siqillī, or to al-Sūq al-Kabir, to the shop of Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī.

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العلامات

• book trade
• dictated
• disability
• disability: vision
• dreams
• (+ 10 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAzarya, based on the mention of Ḥusām al-Dawla (as in Daniel b. ʿAzarya's letters T-S 13J8.8 and T-S 10J20.8 + T-S 10J5.22; however, Aodeh also acknowledges that other traders mention Ḥusām al-Dawla, as in T-S 10J15.19). […] Fol. 1v: Letter to a qāḍī titled Muʿtamid al-Dawla wa-Ḥisnuhā. Aodeh identifies him as Qirwāsh b. al-Muqallad of Mosul, but this seems far-fetched. […] A new letter begins in l. 8, with blessings for Ḥusām al-Dawla. There is a draft of a different letter to Ḥusām al-Dawla with a nearly identical opening to this one in T-S Ar.40.107 (PGPID 21023).

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العلامات

• aodeh

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

VII,51.1 (PGPID 16085) for a similar case.) There are also Arabic-script section headers for each boundary (al-ḥadd al-awwal... al-ḥadd al-thānī wa-huwa al-baḥrī... etc.). […] (The hand of the scribe may also be known.) (2) Record of debt between the trader (al-tājir) Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] (3) Something involving Ṣāʿid b. Abū ʿAlī and Hilāl and Karīm the sons of Sibāʿ al-ʿAṭṭār

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• island
• women's property

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Pen trials, mentions al-amīr al-ajall ʿIzz al-Dīn. Needs examination.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Only the basmala and a couple other words are preserved. The recto was also used for alphabetical practice, there may be two different hands representing an instructor's model handwriting and the alphabetical letters rendered by a student.

العلامات

• learning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

562 Hijrī (28 October 1166–16 October 1167 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise be to God who is One and He alone is the truth.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• dimme
• pinholes
• tax
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently putting in a good word for an orphaned youth (al-ṣabiyy al-yetom) who is poor and owes the capitation tax. There are also several mentions of "the elders in a partnership" (with the addressee?).

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The sender is Jewish as he swears by the Torah (bi-ḥaqq al-Tawrāh). On verso there are fragments of two lines of Arabic in a different hand (... min al-wilāya... [...] b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-[...]).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mubarak ha-Levi b. Yosef to Alexandria concerning business matters. The writer calculates how much he has paid the addressee and how much of the account between them remains. The addressee is also ordered to borrow ten dirhams from a third person for trading purposes.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what he performed (wa-ijābat al-ʿabd bi-mā tamaththaltuhū), although the pronouns here are tricky.

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العلامات

• petition

1 نسخ

Document date

20 Ramaḍān 632 Hijrī (8 June 1235 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

According to the verso, the property was bought by the judge ʿImād al-Dīn from al-Ḥājj b. Yūsuf who acted as an agent on behalf of al-Sitt Ḥabībat Ḥanūn. […] The document on the recto was probably drafted at the court of the chief judge in Cairo, Sharaf al-Dīn b. ʿAyn al-Dawla (d. 639/1242). (YU, AP)

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Document date

8 September 1051 CE

Letter from Khallūf b. Mūsā Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, in al-Mahdiyya (Gil) or Qayrawān (Goldberg), to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī in Fustat. Dating (Gil): September 8, 1051. […] The goods are mainly flax, spices (pepper and others), and textiles. Also mentions a Jewish sailor. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #581) VMR

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2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1473 Seleucid (15 June 1162–13 July 1162 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal deed in which Ibn Bū l-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Shelishi and Ibn al-Kirmānī divide a government post (khidma) and salary (jāri) between them. Dated: Tammuz 1473 Seleucid = June/July 1162 CE. See also description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).

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Document date

1 Adar 1539 Seleucid (9 February 1228 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer advises the addressee to resort to the intervention of the mothers and wives of certain 'righteous gentiles': Umm Ibrāhīm and her son; the amir Najm al-Dīn; the wife of Jamāl al-Dīn "who was in the wilāya (=iqṭāʿ?)" of Mubāriz al-Dīn and represented him "in the gate of the Sultan"; and Sitt Masʿūd. He also asks the addressee to inquire about ophthalmics (ashyāfāt).

العلامات

• amir
• ophthalmic
• wilaya

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045–96. Yiṣḥaq arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday 6 Tevet and found that the markets were slow (kāsira). […] He asks the recipient to act with regard to a ḥerem setam (Med Soc II, 602, n. 40). Mentions al-Mahdiyya. Yiṣḥaq's son Simḥa greets Nahray's son Abū Saʿd.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• nisaburi
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ladino

On the recto the ingredients and recepticles include "asucar/sugar" (l.10r) and "vasya de laton" (l.14r), also written as "vasya de alaton" (l.12r), which could indicate a container made of a copper-zinc alloy whose yellow-gold color points to the word's etymology in Turkish "altın/gold" (information from the Diccionario de la lengua española – Real Academia Española).

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العلامات

• ladino literary
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر