Documents

Late accounts that draw on the Hebrew alphanumerical system and Arabic numerals.

العلامات

• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account (FGP)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts on recto and verso in Judaeo-Arabic, very neat and rich in details, but faded. There are likely joins. Dating: ca. 11th century. In line …

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العلامات

• al-mahdiyya

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Intriguing medieval multifragment in which at least two documents are fused together. One document on the verso is likely the lower portion of Jewish legal document of which only a witness signature has survived: ..

العلامات

• multifragment

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Document date

689 Hijrī (14 January 1290–3 January 1291 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom.

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragmentary letter (draft?) with many lacunae, 8 lines. Many glorifying phrases: "...

العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

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Primary language

Arabic

First five lines of a letter in Arabic script from a parent to his son, including basmala and words of prayers. Separate text on verso, also in Arabic script. Verso: Commercial letter starting with a basmala addressed to Muḥammad b. (?)

العلامات

• dimme

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Unidentified text in Arabic script

العلامات

• arabic

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Primary language

Arabic

Written on the back of a section of a letter (PGPID 35781).

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العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Part of a letter in Arabic script, probably regarding a commercial account.

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العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Magical recipe written in Arabic and Hebrew. The Arabic script reads "ṣifa kāghaḍa (=kāghadh) saḥiḥa wa-hiya lā tataghayyar wa-taṣnaʿ minhā mā shiʾt" on verso. Part …

العلامات

• arabic script
• late heb
• magic

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Document date

Ṣafar 436 Hijrī (11 October 1040–8 November 1040 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy …

العلامات

• dimme
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal register
• pinholes
• tax

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a letter mainly in Arabic script, with the name Abū l-Ḥasan Sar Shalom partially written in Hebrew script.

العلامات

• bialphabetic

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None

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

None

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

None

العلامات

• arabic literary
• medical

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Document date

1356 Seleucid (27 August 1044–13 September 1045 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment from the middle of a legal document. In Hebrew. Hand of Yefet b. David b.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Note addressed to Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Seder. In Hebrew, in a crude hand. Asking him to send something, and not too late.

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Document date

middle decade of Iyyar 1452 Seleucid (20 April 1141–29 April 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. […] Yosef b. Avon, Yosef ha-Levi b. [...]

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book
• to edit

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 17th or early 18th century. Mention is made (ll. 17, 21, 25) of The Nazir Joseph ha-Levi (d. 1713), an emissary from Hebron who settled in Cairo and served as the head of its court.

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العلامات

• late heb
• late ja

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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Document date

1 Heshvan 5561 Anno Mundi (20 October 1800 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to 90 silver muayyadis, from Sulṭāna the widow of Yosef Mizraḥī.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ben na'im
• investment

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Either one letter with both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic components or two different letters. In the main, Judaeo-Arabic text, the writer greets al-Ḥakīm and Shaykh al-Makīn (sic) and his wife and Faḍl and the community and the neighbors, and reports that ʿAfīf sends regards. The text of the letter is quite faded but mostly has to do with silver coins (al-fulūs alladhī qult lī ʿalayhum) and the arrival and departure (?)

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العلامات

• arabic script
• boat
• jujar

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Primary language

Hebrew

The mention of sums in Ottoman silver guruş suggest that the dating of this document is 18th- or 19th-century (no earlier than 1690 CE when this coinage first entered production).

العلامات

• 'adda
• betrothal
• contante
• late heb
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a late document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter. Mentions sesame and the price of 110 gurush per ardab. The mention of the Ottoman silver coin, minted post-1690, supports a dating estimate of 18th- or 19th-century.

العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the Square of the [Perfumers?]

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning valuable textile goods including a brocade (dībāj), Sitt al-Ahl, and the house of al-Qāḍī al-Muwaffaq. In the hand …

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 5584 Anno Mundi (25 August 1824–22 September 1824 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓuyan, Me'ir ben Naʿim, dated Aug/Sept 1824 CE (Elul 5584).

العلامات

• 19th c
• ben na'im
• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Very small fragment probably from a state document: الدولة النبوية . . . الارادة وكمال البيعة. Reused for Hebrew jottings.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, quite faded. Reports that someone went up from Alexandria and reported that the ship of Ibn [ʿA]mmār(?) […] On the back describes how the sender left Fusṭāṭ preoccupied on behalf of something to do with his maternal aunt's house in New Cairo, and a divorce or release.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

State document, two fragmentary lines in Arabic script. Not much is preserved but what remains reads as prayers and invocations.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

None

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"The three fragments known as JRL SERIES A 1053, JRL SERIES B 2699, and JRL SERIES B 2977 are from three copies of another invitation, printed in French, to the wedding of Mr.

العلامات

• 19th c
• french
• mosseri
• printed

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Document date

8 Iyar 5558 Anno Mundi (24 April 1798 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document from Cairo dated 24 April 1798 (8 Iyar 5558), stating that Me'ir ben Naʿim has invested 5500 muayyadis with the Karaites ("bnei miqra") Moshe Kagicha (?)

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العلامات

• 18th c
• ben na'im
• investment
• late heb
• late karaites

1 نسخ