Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by a traveler-businessman to Abū l-Munā al-Yahūdī al-Sharābī, in the al-Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat, to be delivered to his brother's son Abū ʿAlī, specifying items that he had sent and how to sell them.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria by Zikrī b. Ḥananʾel to ʿArūs b. Yosef in Fustat. It is a copy of a previous letter informing the recipient that the writer had already 'ascended' to al-Mahdiyya and was expecting to receive instructions as to whether or not he should carry the merchandise with him.

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2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

People include: Abū l-ʿAlā'; the Amir Bayraq Najā(?) (bayraq seems to be a Turkic word for a battle standard); Ibn Bāzil; ʿAllūn b. [...]; al-Anṣārī al-Bazzāz; Sulaymān b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Both the Arabic and Hebrew poems are headed with "basīṭa." The Hebrew poem is also headed with the name of the melody (ʿalā X) and then "fī nuskhat mawlāyyā al-ḥazan."

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Yaḥyā, the Christian bath attendant (al-ḥammāmī) from two people: ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāris [...] and [...] b. Abū l-Qāsim al-[…] (ll. 4–5). Dating: ca. 11th century CE. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

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3

العلامات

• bath

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Shawwāl 622 Hijrī (6 October 1225–3 November 1225 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: Shawwāl 622 AH, which is October/November 1225 CE (if read correctly). Mentions al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38). The phrase 'al-mablagh al-mustakhraj' repeats at least twice.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1036–1094 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also used as a prison).

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العلامات

• arsenal
• petition
• prison

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names mentioned: Yosef, Abū Yūnus, Abū Birr, the sister of Mūsā, al-Ḥājj Ḥusām and a wālī, Muḥammad al-Qāḍī, Yaʿqūb, Fakhr al-Dīn, Umm ʿUmar. Many of the entries are headed "alladhī ḥaṭṭa fulān." AA/ASE

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the calendar controversy: that the Four Gates, a Babylonian algorithm, are inadequate because they do not cover all the days of the week, and that festivals should not be excessively postponed, as the Babylonians did in the years of the contro versy. It also rejects the Palestinian addition of 641 parts to the midday calendar limits.

العلامات

• calendar
• controversy

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The muqirr seems to be called al-Sharīf al-Mahdawī (i.e., from al-Mahdiyya), and his name is followed by blessings for longevity. […] In the upper margin, upside down, the phrase "aqarra al-sharīf" is jotted again. Join: Adiel Breuer.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Headings include "the collection of Cairo" (jibāyat al-Qāhira) and "what was collected on the holiday." Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Ibn al-Jalājilī, Ibn Ḥayy, Rashīd, Nuṣayr, al-Ṣafiyy, and Abū l-ʿIzz.

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العلامات

• account
• business
• coptic numerals
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Sahl; his paternal aunt Sitt al-Kull bt. [...] known as Manṣūr; Farjiyya bt. Yiṣḥaq (called al-wāhiba, "the giver"?); Abū l-Maʿālī; and Avraham b. Ḥalfon, also known as Ibn Abū Salāma. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAmmār a share in a property. The location (Qaṣr al-Rūm/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ) and characteristics are described. Mentions a mill (al-ṭāḥūna) and the market of the wool merchants (sūq al-ṣawwāfīn).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions people such as Bū ʿImrān al-Ṣayrafī; Bū Manṣūr; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāniyāl; al-Kohen; al-ḍarīr (the blind); Ṭāhir al-[...]; Bū l-Ḥasan b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A few first names open certain entries on the recto and verso: ʿAbbās and Barukh and Ibrahīm. Also mentions the terms "ḥakīm" (could also be a name) and "qāʿa."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4 Shaʿbān 566 Hijrī (12 April 1171 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The tarjama refers to the sender as from "al-dīwān al-shamsī al-saʿīd"—potentially a bureaucrat in the service of Shams al-Dīn Turanshah (Saladin's brother).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ hādhihi al-taqāwī). Also mentions peasants (fallāḥīn), and maybe Amīr al-Muslimīn.

العلامات

• dimme
• taqawi
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Ends of 7 lines. Penultimate line: al-jāriya bi-l-dīwān al-Farkhī. Last line: al-mutawallī ʿimārat rubāʿ dīwān al-khāṣa.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names mentioned: a physician (al-ṭabīb) known as Ibn al-Tinnīsī, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

18 Adar 4949 Anno Mundi (9 March 1189 CE)

Court record concerning a divorce. Location: Aleppo. Dated: 18 Adar 4949 AM (1189 CE). The husband, from Fustat but now in Aleppo, divorced his wife who had remained in the Egyptian capital.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is also an Abū l-Bayān referred to as mawlāy al-rayyis multiple times over the course of the letter as someone closely associated with the addressee but who is in the sender's location. […] It would also be right at the start of Mevorakh's first tenure as head of the Jews (when he was known as Rayyis, not yet Nagid). […] The sender has conveyed the addressee's greetings to Dhakhīrat al-Mulk and Sharaf al-Dawla, who greet him back and kiss his hand.

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العلامات

• business
• hisba
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Awkal in Fustat (Gil) or from Ifrīqiya by 'Allush b. Yeshuʿa to Ismaʿil b. Avraham in Egypt (Ben-Sasson). […] The letter mentions the difficulty of transporting goods due to difficult times and praises the business acumen of Yehuda, who sought help from the government (sulṭān) with the transport of goods (ḥattā waffaqa Allahu Yehuda saʾla l-sulṭān fī ḥiml"). Also mentions several shipwrecks and the writer's preoccupation with a barge that hadn't yet reached the port of Alexandria.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fasting
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

19 Tishrei 5575 Anno Mundi (3 October 1814 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Partnership agreement. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 19 Tishrei 5575 AM, which is 3 October 1814 CE. Between Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi from Istanbul ["Costa"] who pitched in 10,000 gerushim, Yiṣḥaq de Curiel from Cairo who pitched in 17,500 gerushim, Avraham Cesana & Company from Alexandria, who pitched in 17,5000 gerushim, and Eliyyahu Ayilion (possibly a variant of "Ayalon") from Cairo, who pitched in 1,500 gerushim, yielding a total capital fund of 46,500 gerushim (it specifies "Egyptian gerushim"). The partners agree to maintain business/partnership ties between the three cities Istanbul, Alexandria, and Cairo for three years with the possibility of an extension.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• cesana
• de curiel
• istanbul
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions dealings with the amīrs Shibl al-Dawla (see F 1908.44i (PGPID 5270)) and Nāhiḍ al-Dawla (see T-S AS 118.190 (PGPID 18733) and T-S NS 306.171 (PGPID 25172)). […] The sender complains that he is persecuted in this way more than anyone else, and the previous year he also had great trouble getting reimbursed for merchandise that was stolen from him. […] On verso, he asks the addressee to speak to the wālī (ḥaḍrat al-wilāya) on his behalf.

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العلامات

• amir
• fallah

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the second page mentions Bū l-Fatḥ al-Ḥalabī. Umm [...]; her brother; "not her brother and not her cousin"; "everyone who comes up from the people of Ṣanāfīr" (a town near Qalyūb); "tell him that there is no building(?) […] Continues in this vein complaining about this woman and how "everyone is laughing at us" (al-ālam yaḍḥakū ʿalaynā); asks the addressee to send Umm Surūr; mentions going to the nāʾib of Ṣanāfīr; and refers to a mount missing an ear and a tail (maṭiyyatī maqṭūʿat al-udhn maslūbat al-dhanb).

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العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probably from Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghribī al-Tūnisī (upper right of recto). […] On verso, he mentions [...] b. Muḥammad al-Shāṭir on two occasions (l. 1v, 17v); he gives prices for pepper and ginger; mentions the return from the ḥajj (al-nuzūl baʿd al-ḥajj); and mentions saffron.

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العلامات

• hajj
• ib-addenda
• jedda
• lead
• mercury
• (+ 3 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1101–1130 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 CE). In Arabic script. […] Manṣūr asks for a rescript (tawqīʿ) to be written on the back of his petition instructing the judge of al-Maḥalla to register the house enclosure as his property. He also asks for a copy for his own records. Information from Khan's edition.

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العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• pinholes

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Document date

27 Dhū l-Qaʿda 569 Hijrī (29 June 1174 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Lessee: Tamīm b. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī who lives in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn. Lessor: the former agent/administrator of the properties of the Qodesh (wakīl al-aḥbās al-mawqūfa ʿalā ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) Bayān b.

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العلامات

• to edit
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

When they reached the second chapter (איכה יעיב באפו), the writer tried to pull up a chair to see better, which caused a scuffle involving Ibn al-Maghribī and Ḥayyūn and Makārim b. al-[...]. Two more people are mentioned later on: [...] al-Qāhirī and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Someone said, "You don't know how to recite! […] On verso, there are many greetings: to the venerable father, to the mother Sitt R[ayḥān?], al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū Zikrī and the ṣaghīra. The writer may be Shelomo b.

العلامات

• dispute
• shelomo b. eliyyahu?
• synagogue service

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

He wants the couple to send a letter at the next opportunity. Also mentioned is a debt and ‘the time that the river rises’, probably a reference to the flooding of the Nile. A number of different names are mentioned: Elijah’s sister is Sitt al-Rūmī (שטירומי); also mentioned are Irini (אריני), Leon (לאון) and his wife Sitt al-Bayt (שטילבית), another son-in-law Kalev, a wife Mershini (מרשיני, vocalised) and a son Shemarya.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to a certain Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer of this letter, named Yaʿaqov, who serves as a proxy for two notables—al-shaykh al-Asʿad and al-shaykh al-Thiqa—whatever amount of money he requires. Maimonides will compensate the addressee. Who was this al-shaykh al-Thiqa? During Maimonides’ lifetime, two people bearing this title are known.

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العلامات

• maimonides autograph

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender, a newcomer in Fustat from Yemen, describes himself as 'a pigeon whose wings have been clipped' (line 1), writes to his brother in Alexandria concerning his trouble having to live on a half or a quarter dirham a day, and also relating family news. […] This suggests the letter was folded when the ink was still wet or was folded for many years in the Geniza, causing the ink to transfer. The reverse side also features mirror text, which seems to be the continuation of this letter.

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العلامات

• disability
• disability: vision
• ib5
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 3 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Original use: Letter or petition in Arabic script, mentioning the caliph, witnesses, a document (wathīqa), and a legal or political conflict. The Arabic hand also seems in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (c/f. CUL Or. 1080 J7, could also be in the same Arabic hand on T-S AS 149.39). The sender/petitioner is a tax farmer (ḍāmin) and requests to look into his affair "al-inʿām ʿalayya bi l-naḍr (=l-naẓr) fī amrī." He mentions reporting something directly to the caliph "wa-ashuftu ḥāluhu ilā l-ḥaḍra."

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العلامات

• petition
• responsum
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1391 Seleucid (31 August 1079–16 September 1080 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly the inventory of a coppersmith who possessed also the three parts of the Bible. Mentions the Iraqi synagogue. […] Yiṣḥaq, [...] the trader Pinḥas b. Elʿazar Ibn al-Shofeṭ, and Nahray he-Ḥaver (who may sign somewhere). […] ENA NS 13.3 (PGPID 36025) is probably also realated. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a Naib of Alexandria in the days of Saladin reports to the Nagid of Alexandria of two cases he took care of. […] He was then dragged around Qamra, a Jewish quarter of Alexandria, while the wali's messengers announced his crimes against religion to the public.The second the matter of two brothers who pressured, through threats and blackmail, the previous fiance of one of them not to engage to someone else.

العلامات

• communal
• wali

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, from an anonymous correspondent in Alexandria. Mentions the gaʾon (raʾs al-mathība) Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen with fancy Fatimid titles. […] Shemarya, but lived a century later, so this is impossible. The hand is also different from the other hands Rustow has identified as belonging to Efrayim (see The Lost Archive, 498n49, which identifies Halper 354, T-S NS 320.45, Bodl. MS heb. d 66/83, CUL Or. 1080 J7, T-S 10J6.6, T-S 13J36.14, and T-S AS152.236 + T-S AS 152.269 as all being in Efrayim b. Shemarya's Arabic hand).

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العلامات

• aodeh
• ib5
• india book

4 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. She seems to be appealing for redress against a Christian tax farmer named Abū l-Fakhr and an intricate network of his family members, including his son, his brother Abū Saʿīd, Abū Saʿīd's wife, and possibly also 2 women (slaves?) named Aqrān and ʿAlam. They are behaving in a high-handed way in the hoarding of money, saying things that shouldn't be said, and something involving timber. Concludes with a lengthy curse on anybody who comes into possession of this petition and fails to convey it to al-ʿĀdil and apprise him of its contents. Ed. Tamer el-Leithy, Marina Rustow and Naïm Vanthieghem (December 2016).

العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• women

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

A nearly identical version may be found in Quṭb al-Surūr fī Awṣāf al-Khumūr by al-Raqīq al-Qayrawānī (d. 1034), citing Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, citing Yūnus al-Kātib (http://islamport.com/w/adb/Web/672/37.htm).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Fiscal document with at least three distinct sections. 1) The main text block concerns ships, requisitioning, ḍummān, and the officials charged with transporting crops from al-Nastarāwiyya to Tinnīs. Similar themes to T-S Ar.40.37 (PGPID 8264). Headed "accounts" (aḥsiba). 2) At lower left: "ʿamālat al-miʿṣarat al-qaṣab..."—the official allowance for the sugarcane press for (the amīr X) al-Mulk. […] The second is in the name of al-Muwaffaq [...]. 4) A later scribe evidently folded the page in half and used the left side of recto for private accounts, now in fainter ink and ina non-fiscal hand.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5 Muḥarram 592 Hijrī (10 December 1195 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to a someone with the titles Khalīl Amīr al-Muʾminīn and ʿIzz al-Dīn (both typical of viziers, though the latter might be this person's specific laqab). […] He then describes how the funds are being distributed, including distributions for the pilgrims or those who have completed the Ḥajj (al-ḥājjūn) from among the scholars (al-fuqahāʾ) and the poor (al-fuqarāʾ), and how all the recipients thank and praise the addressee day and night.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

middle third of Rabiʿ I 545 Hijrī (8 July 1150–17 July 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Ḥunaykh; ʿIwāḍ b. Miṣbāḥ; ʿAzzāz(?) al-Iskandarānī; Hārūn Ibn Muyassar(?); Nuṣayr; Khulayf Ibn al-Miṣrī; al-Kohen Abū l-Barakāt; Barakāt b. Muyassar; 'the deserving public from the dyers of Damsīs' (אלציבור אלמסתחק ענד צבאגין דמסיס); Hārūn al-Kohen; Yaʿaqov b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To be sent to the Muṣāṣa neighborhood, to the shop of [...] al-[...] al-Yahūdī. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender reports that he has opened a shop with "the physician" (al-ḥakīm), where they will work together for a period of 1 year, from Sukkot to Sukkot. […] There is also some issue involving a silk girdle (zunnār ḥarīr) and an oath.

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العلامات

• conflict
• physician
• turbans
• zunnar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Ḍiyāʾ bt. Yūsuf al-Qamrī (or possibly "bayt Yūsuf al-Qamrī" = his wife) to her relative Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūnal-Firnās (=ʿEli b. […] She states that she must pay the jailer several dirhams every day, which she cannot afford, and suggests that Mevorakh will be able to secure the release of her son simply by writing a note (ruqʿa) to the Alexandrian qāḍī. (Mark Cohen, Jewish Self-government in Medieval Egypt, Princeton University Press, 1980, 113, 260, 261; S.

العلامات

• communal
• petition
• prison
• women's letters

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة