Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal jottings. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Recto mentions possibly a female slave (though al-jāriya can also be an adjective), sending something, 'khidma,' 'al-mutafarriḍ,' and a price. Verso mentions a dwelling; the name [...] al-Talmid; Yiṣḥaq b. [...]; and Sitt al-Ahl bt.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a notable to whom Abu al-'Izz b. Imran owed about 60 dirhams proposes, as a charitable act, to let him work off his obligation. A copyist had been copying quires of the Torah for the letter-writer, but had left for Palestine. Knowing that Abu al-'Izz has a good handwriting, the writer now wants to have him discharge his debt by taking over the project. He asks the Nagid to order him to do so, at a rate of at least two quires per week. (Information from Goitein's index cards and from Cohen)

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العلامات

• scribes
• scroll

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document from the high court of the nasi (David b. Daniel) recording testimony of Yefet b. Levi (?) b. Menashshe, acting as power of attorney for his wife, Banāt bt. […] Verso: parts of one or two other letters, unrelated to the document on recto. ENA 4010.31 and T-S 20.162 are from the same case.

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العلامات

• partnership
• tyre

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108) to his son Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 193, 467, and Goitein's index cards.)

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العلامات

• arabic address
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

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. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 193, and Goitein's index cards)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal query sent to Maimonides along with his autograph responsum. […] Verso: Draft of a long dirge in Hebrew, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, upon the death of three prominent members of the Jewish community: the rabbis Shemuel, Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq. […] Shemuel is Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi, who died in 1203. (Information in part from Amir Ashur's Fragments of the Month, April 2011, November 2016.)

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العلامات

• autograph
• maimonides
• moshe b. levi
• responsa
• responsum

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b.

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العلامات

• shelomo b. yehuda

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Aharon, a man of some learning. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. The sender petitions the addressee for financial help and for an appeal through the addressee to the council of elders to arrange a public collection for him. He describes himself as 'naked and bare with nothing upon me and nothing beneath' and having three children and a wife. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 90, 531.) Possibly in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides (d.1355).

العلامات

• petition
• private

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Either a letter describing a legal issue, or a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions terms such as iʿtiqāl (arrest) and tarsīm (usually payment for house arrest).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical recipe for a lead-based collyrium (shiyāf abār), including lead, scoria or gold filings, antimony, lead (ie, Venetian) ceruse, Arabic gum and Egyptian opium.

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

16 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1245 Hijrī (8 June 1830 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic, from a state official within Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration detailing a variety of transactions involving individuals with the title Effendi. Dated 16 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1245 AH (1830 CE). Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha is referenced indirectly at least once in the letter (l. 8: efendīna wālī al-niʿam) where his title appears in connection with a kethüda who was in the Pasha's service. The letter sender is listed as: Muḥammad Maʾmūr Qism Rābʿi, a high-ranking official in the provincial administration.

العلامات

• 19th c
• state

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. […] Abūn conveys a detailed tale of a serious falling-out with another merchant and urges Nahray not to associate with him. Abūn describes his reclusive lifestyle in Jerusalem (v25–30) and mentions in passing that he fell sick (r7–8).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mention
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Legal document. Bottom part only. Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about the value of the delayed dower measured according to 'the weight of the Bedouins' (? […] Moshe ha-Ḥazzan; Suhayl b. Mevasser. The qiyyum mentions [..]l b. Aharon; Meshullam b. [...]; Shemarya b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic that mention a wide array of potable and other items such as meat, bread, beans, soap, mastic[?] […] The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this document as 18th/early 19th-century. Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r).

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• list
• mastic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unusual document containing meeting minutes relating to the business dealings of someone whose name is too faded to read (r2). […] ." (2) Meeting with Zekharya ha-Sofer: regarding copies and blank notebooks and exhorting him to fulfill prior instructions ("and let there be no third party other than God") and to bind the book that had been left with him[…] . (6) Mentions Shemuʾel the son of the brother of al-Rav; the rest is too damaged to read

العلامات

• account
• business
• private

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Binyamin Castro to a business partner. […] Shoshan (ll. 2–3), a merchant of Alexandria who had dealings with Venetian merchants and consuls (ll. 4–5). […] But he is prepared to renew the partnership with the apotropos Yaʿaqov ha-Levi. There is further discussion of business in khiyār (purging cassia?)

العلامات

• castro

1 نسخ

Document date

Elul 7th 1425 Seleucid (11 August 1114 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. […] The document was written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and sealed by the rabbinic court on the day of Abū Yaʿqūb’s death, including Yiṣḥaq b. […] (Information in part from Goitein, Mediterranean Society 5:168-70, 549, 533; and Goitein’s index cards) EMS/MR

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العلامات

• estate
• halfon b. menashshe
• slaves

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿUmar b. Hilāl to Abū l-Faraj b. Ibrāhīm, in Alexandria. […] He went to the 'rayyis' and threatened to complain to the government (sulṭān). May refer to 'the letter of the women' (kitāb al-nisā). Mentions the judge Menaḥem, who also 'went out of his mind.' Mentions other people including Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muqaddasī (appears also in Bodl.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef, in Qayrawān, to Ismāʿīl b. […] Nissim, who was supposed to conduct business on Abū Zikrī's behalf in Egypt. Abū Zikrī mentions the honors (including a dove-colored mule and robes of honor) bestowed upon him and upon the addressee's brother by "the Illustrious Lady" (al-Sayyida al-Jalīla), i.e., Umm Mallāl, the aunt of the Zīrid sultan al-Muʿizz b. […] (Information from Gil, Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 190, 560, and Goitein's attached translation in Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders.)

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2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard times and is ashamed and unable to speak for himself. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 198-199, 563) On verso is a piyyut for the qaddish starting with עזרי מעים ייי and אודה לאל חי, followed by three lines in Arabic script.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• piyyut
• recommendation

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Upper fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. […] Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters, including dealings in cinnabar (zunjufr).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Detailed accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with at least one word in Judaeo-Arabic (al-Kohen). Mentions 'al-maṭbakh' several times - the sugar factory? Mentions many names.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Family letter in Hebrew. Late. Opens with blessings against "all the evil diseases of Egypt" (Deut. 7:15); then greetings from various women in the family. Unclear if any of the substance of the message is preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Tells the addressee to sell indigo, and mentions 100 pounds of soap. Also mentions a sum of 200 dinars. Also tells the addressee to put the gold in a safe place.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Abū Sahl Natan b. Yaʿaqov. Mentions the addressee's troubles with the capitation tax (?

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not a lot of content remains. Dating: ca. 11th century. Might mention Tinnīs and customs (mukūs). Abū Isḥāq and Abū l-Bishr are mentioned in the greetings section.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Legal document. Small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions [...] b. ha-Talmid (ZL) and a sum of 20 dinars.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138 CE). Refers to 'the settlement between them with the mediation of the elders,' so might be about a marital dispute.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Mevorakh Ibn Alqāsh to Mevorakh b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from a son to his mother. Nadiv b. Saʿadya is mentioned, as are greetings to family members such as Abū l-Wafā, Abū l-Faḍl, Makārim, and Barakāt.

العلامات

• to edit

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Badly rubbed and faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sending something to Alexandria and inquires about the price of שרב (wine? medicinal syrups?). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Leaves, on vellum, from a medical notebook with notes of names of simples, apparently in no particular order. P3 recto mentions a certain Abū l-Ḵayr al-Ṭabīb.. Arabic, in various handwritings (FGP)

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). The subject matter is obscure. The writer writes, "I have witnesses for that, and before me. . . . until today, and they said he would not pay it to me. . . ."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Memorial lists, mentioning Netanʾel ha-Levi and [Abū] l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Fāḍil b. [...].

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 (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No details preserved. Mentions the parties "striving in this" (mujtahidīn fī dhālik), so maybe a partnership agreement.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر