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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"I have been waiting all year for a letter from you to learn your news. The fuyūj came, and I did not see a letter. […] Goitein, and later Krakowski, used this letter to illustrate the intense affective bonds between brother and sister, as well as the notion of fasting as an intercession for a loved one who is sick (Goitein, Med Soc V, p. 97). […] (I swear) by these lines that when Passover came I had not even a farthing’s worth of chard, nor even a dirham; instead I cut a nettle from the ruins and cooked it. . . . My brother, help me with some portion of this debt engulfing me—do not abandon me and do not forsake me."

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العلامات

• 11th c
• fasting
• food
• heartsickness
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based on handwriting and typical content.) Levi has sent Moshe the materia medica which he had ordered. […] to ride the donkey into town if it is more than 6 handbreadths (6 ashbār = ~1.4 meters), and not to bother if it is less than 6 handbreadths.

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العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• menstrual purity
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of legal document(s) or letter describing a legal case. Mentions Abū l-Karam(?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Moshe ben Hini ‘the lesser’, mentioning business affairs and people including Abraham Leon (c. 17th century).

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• ben hini

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter or 2 letters. The handwriting is different between recto and verso, which suggests that one might be the response to the other. […] He mentions Sulaymān and Abū l-Ḥasan and Yosef and Abū Saʿīd. […] Mentions a woman and some codices and perhaps paper (if כאגץ is an alternate spelling of كاغذ).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower left part). In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems familiar. ". . . betroth her and take her, and let him not be absent for a week or. . . tell me what should be done, for I am perplexed. . ." Regards to: mawlāy al-levi and his brother-in-law beḥir ha-kohanim; Abū Isḥāq and his brothers; Abū l-Makārim; Abū l-Faḍl Rosh ha-Medabbrim; Abū l-Makārim b.

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العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: letter from Elʿazar b. [...] addressing someone whose name has not been preserved. […] הוא כבוד גדולת קדושת. Mentions the Rosh ha-Qehilla. The business of the letter is introduced by אודיע לאדונינו ויקירנו כי. The writer refers to people ‘who don't know their right from their left’, and mentions his cousin Yaḥyā. Presumably the writer is asking for help, but the details are not preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. […] Letter 3 identifies strongly with Babylonia, and draws so heavily on local Babylonian traditions, including testimonies from older members of the academies. […] Letter 3 is famed for its account of a meeting that allegedly took place, many years before the controversy, between Palestinians and Babylonians, at which the Babylonians learnt the secret of the calendar calculation (fol. 5r:21-5v12).

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العلامات

• calendar
• controversy

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic between family members. Interesting orthography: אלשעאר for אלצגאר. Mentions "the water in the khalīj (canal)."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly a fragment of a mercantileletter in Arabic script. Mentions something done "by the captain of a ship" (ʿalā yad rayyis markab).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman named Simḥa; Sutayta; the addressee;s mother; and the addressee's brother-in-law Menaḥem.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions "I, Yefet" and a sum of "an eighth of the total" and a certain quantity of dinars.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions powers of attorney (wakālāt).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment containing legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentioning Yiṣḥāq b. Moshe and 27 dinars.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; the group of the qāḍī [...]; and Nahray.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. […] Mentions Baqāʾ. Mentions a radda (a garment alternately identified as "scarf" or "turban"). Mentions Cairo. (Information in part from CUDL)

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of a pair of letters written by Umm Sitt al-Nās to family members when she had been thrown out of her husband's and mother-in-law's house. […] The present letter is addressed to Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Sabra, whom Goitein identified as her maternal uncle and as Mevorakh b. […] The least she did was that she said to me: 'Go away and become like your notorious mother.'"

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mostly legalese.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter by Ṣadoq ha-Levi b. Levi to Abraham b. Mevasser (11th c.).

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is a letter from Muḥammad, the Messenger of Allah to Ḥanina and the people of Khaybar and Maqnā and their progeny as long as the heavens are above the earth, peace. […] This is a present from me for you. The family of the house of the Messenger of Allah as well as the Muslims are charged to fulfill all that is in this letter. […] ʿAlī, the son of Abū Ṭālib, wrote it with his writing, whilst the Messenger of Allah dictated to him letter for letter, Friday, the 3rd of Ramaḍān, in the year five of the Hijra.

العلامات

• khaybar

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to Ulla ha-Levi b. […] Concerns trade in saffron and other spices, and in silk, and lists prices. Mentions some details about ships. The writer mentions a third partner.

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العلامات

• commodities
• prices
• saffron
• ships
• silk
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. […] Refers repeatedly to excommunicating certain people; also mentions a fatwā related to the excommunication. The sender has enclosed a testimony and a validation (qiyyum) with this letter. Mentions people such as Barakāt, Shemuel, Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭar, and [...] b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Business letter, fragment, from Yaʿaqov Levi to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew. Goods mentioned include: alkali (הקלי) in line 6, and coral in line 8. The writer mentions his trip to Friuli (NE Italy) in line 9. Currencies: peraḥim.

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العلامات

• alkali
• coral
• friuli
• late heb
• perahim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

middle decade of Elul 1437 Seleucid (September 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ENA 4011.16a (upper fragment): Legal document or communal accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Very faded. There are at least two distinct entries. The first mentions a sum collected from Sālim al-Khādim. The second mentions the heqdesh and is dated: middle decade of Elul 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī ("the gallnut merchant") al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. […] The addressee is known from several other letters. The writer calls him "my son." The writer also refers to "my house in Shubrā [=Shubrā Damsīs]." Mentions Khalaf in al-Maḥalla. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• arabic address

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Hārūn Ibn Shamārī (appears also in ENA 3616.21 (PGPID 12064)); collecting something from someone; a certain Ḥalfon; and the people who appointed someone an agent (muwakkilīka).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a letter, in Arabic script. Mentions Saturday and "Mawlāya al-Shaykh". […] Verso - an official looking letter of correspondence in a different hand, in Arabic script. Merits further examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe, in Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Abū ʿAli b. al-Dimyāṭī to his brother Abu Saʿīd b. […] Netanel). The writer mentions the silk trade, describes his joy when he learned that Ḥalfon recovered after taking a medicine, and invites him to visit him in Fustat.

العلامات

• halfon b. netanel
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• illness
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Letter from an unknown writer to the brothers Mevorakh b. […] recommending a man bringing merchandise in which the sender of the letter has great interest.

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العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Part of a very poorly preserved letter in Hebrew, mentioning Yaʿaqov he-Ḥasid, Menashshe b. […] There are a few words in Arabic script int he upper left margin. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's attached notes.)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Yeshuʿa and instructions about taking a medicinal syrup. […] Underneath there is the respectful opening of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (in the hand of Shelomo b.

العلامات

• order
• syrup

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av 1446 Seleucid (13 July 1135–11 August 1135 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document dated Av 1446 of the Seleucid Era (= 1135 CE) (though the digit "6" is not perfectly clear) in the town [..]דמ (possibly Damascus, Dammūh, Damīra, Damsis or Damietta). Mentions the name Menashshe, with signatures by Yefet b. […] Ṭoviyya (or rather probably ʿŪlla b. Ṭoviya) ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

511 Hijrī (5 May 1117–23 April 1118 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Description from T-S AS 148.47: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions a will (אלצואה אלמדכורה); Abū l-Barakāt; Yaʿqūb al-Lebdī; 50 dinars which he received from Zayn b. […] Description from T-S 10J15.22: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

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العلامات

• civet
• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة