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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

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

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

Verso is filled with notations of payments toward the rent of a house (unrated al-bayt) by 'al-shaykh al-muʿallim [...]' written in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. It also mentions ورق and dates in the margin (wa-thālith, wa-arbaʿa, wa-khāmis).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

These mention Ibn Ghulayb; Ibn Saʿadya; Ibn al-Dhahabī. One of the pages contains Arabic accounting in an elegant hand. Mentions: al-Rāsila(?); the rent of an animal; al-ḥazzān; the camel (driver, presumably) Sualyamān; cotton; soap; the officer of estates (rājil al-mawārīth). And sums including 47, 21, and 70 or 90 dirhams from Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

Document date

First decade of Nisan 1436 Seleucid (7 March 1125–16 March 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

appoints David b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Ibn al-Ṣafaṭ (? אלצפט), who is also referred to as a guardian (אפטרופא). […] Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi appears also in Bodl. MS heb. b 12/17.

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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 language

Arabic

Letter addressed to al-shaykh Abū l-[...] al-Yahūdī in Fustat. From his family members (maybe a brother?) […] They urge him to come as fast as he can, because the girl (al-ṣaghīra, spelled السغيرة) is sick, with terrible boil(s) or skin lesion(s) (ṭalaʿa ʿalayhā ḥabb ʿaẓīm), and she cries day and night calling for the addressee. Mentions Yehuda Ibn al-Sofer (ابن السوفار). Mentions the addressee's mother.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions meeting yesterday with al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, who reported that he had met with al-Zakiyy, who refused to speak; this has been reported to Sayyidnā; mentions Abū Naṣr; al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy.

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

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

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

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

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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العلامات

• deathbed will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Bū Manṣūr to ʿAmram (aka Bū ʿImrān) ha-Talmid, c/o al-Shaykh al-Nafīs. The addressee may be the brother-in-law of the writer (the address includes the word صهر). […] Many names are mentioned, including the officials titled 'mushārif al-balad' and the amīr ʿAlāal-Dīn (who rebuked the sender for his delay), and the women Sitt Nadd, Sitt Kāfūr, Sitt Ghuṣn, Sitt Suʿūd, Sitt al-Naṣr, Sitt Zaynihim, and Maymūna.

العلامات

• arabic address
• yadill hirati

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 18 Adar 1409 Seleucid (22 February 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hillel, involving the proceeds of a partnership in oil sold in al-Mahdiyya, with addenda concerning the same matter in smaller script and in a cruder hand on verso. The top margin on recto mentions Bishāra and Abū l-ʿAlā, both from Aleppo, and Ibn Majjān Abū l-Surūr b. […] T-S 8J4.15 is a court record from Av of the same year, concerned with the dealings of the Aleppan trader Solomon b. Hillel. (Information from Goitein's hand list and CUDL.)

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العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

5–10 Adar II 1535 Seleucid (27 February 1224–3 March 1224 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the teacher Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, probably in Alexandria, to the banker (al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ṭāhir Yoshiyyahu b. Daniʾel b. Adonim Ibn al-Quḍāʿī, probably in Fustat. Dated: 5–10 Adar II 1535 Seleucid = February/March 1224 CE. The distinguished addressee may be an in-law of Yehuda. The letter consists almost entirely of family news and gossip, with many specifics about marriages, births, and deaths, with a large section about Bū l-Bayān and his intelligent and wealthy bride who brought a dowry worth 400 dinars, "the likes of which we haven't seen in years."

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Berekhya, representative of the Jerusalem yeshiva in the Maghreb, sending greetings to Nathan ‘Head of the Congregations’, and also to his son Abraham (who would later become the first Nagid in the Maghreb), and also Ṣaliḥ b. […] It urges action to be taken by the Jewish communities in the Maghreb regarding a collection for the Jerusalem yeshiva and Joseph Ibn ʿAwkal’s stewardship of the funds. There is also mention of a legal claim involving Abraham b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions items including an herb or hashish (ḥashīsha), a chest, indigo, silk, a ḥawwāla, something from al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the Dīwān (unclear if this refers to an official's bureau or a volume of poetry, probably the former) of al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the Dīwān of al-Jahmī (or al-Jathmī), the Dīwān of al-Ṣārim, an armor bearer (אלסלח דאר = al-silaḥdār), something for a fishmonger (sammāk), and the amīr Jandār.

العلامات

• account
• hashish
• mamluk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1499–1499 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Legal agreement regarding the Rabbanite Jewish communal pious endowment of Cairo (al-Qāhira al-Maḥrūsa) and Old Cairo/Fustat (Miṣr al-ʿAtīqa). […] Natan the Rabbanite Jew appoints ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa al-Sabbāk the Rabbanite Jew and Saʿīd b. Ṣadaqa b. Muhadhdhab al-Mutaṭabbib the Rabbanite Jew as his representatives/delegates for an official communal position related to the waqf of the Jews of Cairo (al-Qāhira al-Maḥrūsa) and Fustat (Miṣr al-ʿAtīqa).

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• old cairo
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209). Also signed by Moshe b. Elʿazar. Husband: Abū l-Barakāt al-Bilbaysī. Wife: Sitt al-Dār. Verso is blank.

العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter was sent to Yaaqov he-haver b. Yosef Av bet din in Aleppo from Meir ha-Kohen b. Pinhas, 11th century. Published in Miriam Frenkel's MA thesis on Aleppo.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to someone titled Raʾs al-Kull (=Rosh Kalla). Mentions a woman who was connected to a certain kind of man (wa-kānat muttaṣila bi-rajul ḍā[...]...). Also mentions Riḍā al-Ṭabīb (the physician).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Lieberman catalog (cited in FGP) connects this shelfmark with ENA 3571.2, but the two shelfmarks are not related. There was also a previous PGP description that said that verso includes a qedusha for Purim, but that must also be referring to a different shelfmark.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abu al-Faraj, son of Daniel the teacher, in the “habs Bunan” neighborhood. The writer describes that the wife of his son is asking for a divorce, framed as the result of her husband’s mistreatment; also mentions Abu ‘Ali. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law, 140) EMS

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العلامات

• divorce

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, probably to Barhūn b. Isḥāq, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer mentions details concerning goods from the Maghreb and expresses concern about the unfolding state of affairs there.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

403 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

"Account of the revenue extracted from government estates (ḍiyāʿ al-sulṭāniyya)...mablagh …… fī l-ṣināʿa al-sulṭāniyya bi-nāḥiyat …… al-sana 403 al-kharājiyya...."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. ʿAyyāsh buys goods in Alexandria for Nahray. The goods are being sent in six ships in the Nile to Fustat.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document recounting long passages of oral speech, mentioning a faqīh, a qāḍī, someone getting beaten, the mutwallī al-maʿūna in New Cairo, the mutawallī al-dīwān, a certain Maḥfūẓ, the amīr Ẓahīr al-[Dīn?], and Kanīsat al-Shāmiyyīn. (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts noting money received from al-Kohen Farajallāh and the daughter of Abba mari (probably "my father"). Also mentions al-Shākirī and his son. The total sums of money are written too, as 2,574 on recto and 1,265 on verso.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Involves the qāḍī Abū […] al-Fārisī, and the Judaeo-Arabic note on verso describes it as ‘the ruqʿa of al-Fārisī’ then mentions brazilwood and sums of money. On verso there is also a rubbed out earlier Arabic document, probably unrelated.

العلامات

• commercial receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a report. Mentions al-Sayyid al-Ajal al-Isfihsālār. "...wa-shawqahu ilā naẓrihi... yuwaffiq maqāṣidak wa-yujrī fī... al-majlis... muḥtāj ilayhi...."

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, as the latest work mentioned is Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara by Moshe Ibn ʿEzra (d. 1138 or 1139). (Information from Allony.) See also Goitein's index card.

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العلامات

• booklist

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

25 Rajab 807 Hijrī (27 January 1405 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions 12 dinars to be paid every month. Also mentions the possibility of a court summons (iḥḍār) in the event of payment failure, or it could also mean the delivery of the payment.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Moshe congratulates his brother Bū Isḥāq on the fertility of his livestock but wants him to prepare the honey and flour and prepare a cake named ʿaṣīda that Moshe will enjoy when he comes on Sunday. Al-Shaykh al-Yesod also congratulates Bū Isḥāq and adds, cryptically, "May the end turn out well, and God willing we will see from it what was seen from the female donkey of our master al-Ḥāfiẓ." […] He invites his brother Abū l-Ḥasan (Yedutun) to come out and spend Shabbat with him in Qalyūb, and they will return together to Fustat on Sunday. He also mentions silver, a donkey that has given birth, and a turban (radda).

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He explains all of his deductions when the king questions him. […] The document is written across two pages; the second also contains a Hebrew piyyut prefaced by "Yeshaʿyahu b. […] The name Yehuda b. Peraḥya also appears on the final page. ASE.

العلامات

• popular literature
• slaves

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he met with ʿAbd al-Karīm and that they 'parted ways in peace.' The addressee is to take the 'awrāq and ḥujaj' from Ibrāhīm and give them to ʿAbd al-Karīm. […] Also, the Nagid learned that the synagogue was without a cantor for Minha and Maariv of Shabbat. The cantors Faraj Allāh and ʿAbd al-Karīm are to report to the addressee and declare a ban of excommunication against themselves (!)

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العلامات

• 14th c
• excommunication
• marital dispute
• yehoshua maimonides

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