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Just below the heading there are three columns that are each labeled with terms for coinage types, listed here in order of clarity: "ʿatīq", "jadīd", and "būndūqī" (l.4r). While the first two labels may indicate a variety of possible monetary types– for example "jadīd" may be a copper or gold coin of Ottoman Egypt also attested in T-S AS 204.214 – "būndūqī" is most likely a reference to Venetian gold ducats or their imitations that were minted under the Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates.

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العلامات

• list

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Inferred date

1425–1600 CE

Given that gold sharifi coinage is in use, the fragment was drawn up post-1425 CE. […] All of these terms "weight / וזן", "value / קאים", and "price / סער" appear throughout the verso and on occasion verbal constructions with the root "צרפ / صرف" (l. 8r, 16r) appear that imply value calculations perhaps into "silver / פצה[?]" coinage (l. 13r). All of these figures are expressed alphanumerically.

العلامات

• list
• numismatic dating

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Document date

21 Shevat 5492 Anno Mundi (17 February 1732 CE)

On the recto, a variety of Ottoman coinage types are mentioned such as funduqli, medin, and cinzirli.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• alpalas
• ladino
• list
• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Its amount in weighed coin [...] dinars, half of that being 25 dinars.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the recto quantities of coinage in Ottoman cedid are listed as well as goods such as wax and eggs.

العلامات

• late ja
• list
• muhtasib

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Inferred date

1808–1900 CE

Accounts related to various coinage types such as gold mahmudiye and kuruş thaqīl (heavy kuruş).

العلامات

• 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter describes the troubles the writer encountered from a capitation tax official on his travels in a Nile boat and saying he had arrived safely in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• boat
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two folios from a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem. Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of Olives. Also includes many Christian sites. Goes on to describe Bethlehem and Betar but the details are difficult to read due to damage.

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العلامات

• guide
• pilgrim
• travels

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering monk,' Abu Najah, and to hide in the western desert for years. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 46, 119, 268, 277, 280, 316, 320, 482; II, 588, 359; III, 246, 243, 249.)

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العلامات

• estrangement
• ib6
• india book
• merchant
• outburst
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1400–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The currency of the monetary values may be implied by "fiḍḍa" (perhaps the late-Mamlūk and early Ottoman medin) but this usage could also refer more broadly to an unnamed type of silver coinage that was in use for these payments. MCD.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• qadi

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Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right border of the page: Amato (אמאטו), Meyuḥas (מיוחס), and "the Judge" (אלחכים) in Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The date might be identifiable based on the years in which Kislev coincided with al-Muḥarram. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For I want someone who will buy from the silk weavers (al-qazzāzīn), and if a silk weaver comes into possession of something that cannot be believed, he will purchase it for himself."

العلامات

• textiles

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1415–1600 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The mention of this specific coinage type makes it possible to estimate the dating as post-1415 CE, likely fifteenth or sixteenth-century based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• ketubba
• numismatic dating

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this year under Sultan Ahmed III).

العلامات

• engagement
• ladino
• numismatic dating
• shiddukhin

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Inferred date

1525–1575 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer then transitions into business matters, mentioning intelligence he has received in a letter from Messer Giacomo and in a letter to someone named Aran. The addressees are to buy as much pepper as they can, for the ships coming from Livorno and Messina are not expected to have much. […] The writer concludes by urging the addressees to act quickly, and to remember to buy up lots of fresh ginger and flax. Information mostly from Avraham David's edition and notes.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• consul
• florence
• italian words
• piracy
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1112 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The signature confirms that the title ha-Nagid was the official one." Dating: 1100-1112 CE, based on Mevorakh's years of service (1112-1126) and Ḥalfon b.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender may be complaining about his poor salary as a communal official; mentions 10 dinars; the community of Egyptians or people of Fustat (Miṣriyyīn), and "they established for me a negligible amount. . . and not a salary (rātib) that suffices. . .

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Inferred date

1425–1700 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use is the gold ashrafi. In terms of dating, mention of ashrafi is helpful because it was not minted until 1425CE and factoring in the script of this fragment it may have been recorded in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 60).

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• list
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 1791 Seleucid (16 September 1479–4 September 1480 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The hand is very close to that of the clerk who wrote many of the letters of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355); perhaps a coincidence, or perhaps he had a long life. [RR and MCD]

العلامات

• 14th c
• betrothal

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …

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العلامات

• dimme

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Shemuel Ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon concerning a trial that took place in Ramla ca. 1030 (per Gil). Dating: ca. 1025–1051 …

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العلامات

• communal
• feud

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record of an adoption in which a man 'sells' his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a …

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short letter written and sent from Alexandria by Musa b. Abu al-Hayy to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, dealing with a shipment of robes and …

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051), in Ramle, to his son Abū Isḥāq Avraham, in Tyre or Damascus (Shelomo does not know …

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العلامات

• childbirth
• funduq
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

List in Hebrew of payments received following the common formula "עו[ד] לקחתי ומשה" (also received by Moshe and me) with each line mentioning a quantity of coinage in peraḥīm, medin, and perhaps other types.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1500–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The surname Ibn Shanjī commonly appears in fragments from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a timespan that coincides with the likely paleographical dating of this fragment.

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العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• list

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase may also be a reference to monetary payment "in cash" with gold coinage (coll. hajar=cash). In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1788–1825 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The monetary sums are expressed in silver "פצה" coinage. Many partners in trade are listed such as: Avraham Yaʿabeṣ, Ḥajj Ḥasan Miʾmar[?]

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• fgp stub
• polisa
• silk

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Although the year is unclear, the usage of silver kuruş indicated by the "ق" at the top of the numerical columns assists in the dating of the document as no earlier than 1703CE (when the coinage began to appear in wide circulation: Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

العلامات

• 18th c

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Document date

Adar I 5593 Anno Mundi (20 February 1833–20 March 1833 CE)

The monetary figures are in eastern Arabic numerals that span two columns, one indicated by "ق" for silver kuruş and then another silver coinage listed generically as "פצה". The same list format appears on the verso, although a key word in the heading is "מקבוץ" which indicates incoming payments "received" or "obtained".

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal

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Document date

Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 Anno Mundi (8 January 1090 CE)

Yosef a silk merchant of Damietta, to claim 67 dinars of Fustat coinage and standard weight from Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen of Alexandria.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ladino

(Information from CUDL) There are three columns, from right to left that list: the detail of the transaction, the quantity of the monetary sum, and the coinage type– which appears throughout as the silver medin abbreviated as "מאי".

العلامات

• account
• ladino

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Document date

last third of Shevaṭ 1471 Seleucid (31 January 1160–9 February 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document does not specify any initial partnership stipulations in terms of losses, but the court seems to have ruled that Abū l-Ḥasan was liable for one-third of the losses of 26 dinars (eight and two-thirds dinars). Having already repaid 40 dinars, he still owes seven and two-thirds dinars.

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العلامات

• business
• commenda
• lawsuit
• wheat

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة