Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Contains a basmala, and an ʿalāma (الحمد لله حمدا يرضيه). Mentions "al-dīwān" and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh al-khāmis.......arbaʿ miya(?)".

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

On recto refers to "... (Dīwān al-?)aḥbās bi-l-Baḥriyya fa-baʿatha warāhu min...." On verso refers to something pertaining to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of receivers of alms containing rare names, women and foreigners. The Hebrew alef evidently stands for ūqiyya, ounce. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 462, App.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 5589 Anno Mundi (30 August 1829–27 September 1829 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥayyim Mosseri and Yosef al-[...] b. [...]. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5589 AM = August/September 1829 CE. The document is mostly in Hebrew but is about al-ḥūjjah (the deed?) for al-vīlah (the house?) […] Interestingly the deed is referred to as "the legal deed that is registered in the jāmiʿ al-ḥākimī." Signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Verso: Accounts for 19 Elul 5589.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• 19th c
• mosseri

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso preserves the left half of the address in Arabic script (min Marwān b. Saʿīd al-Muqaddasī, al-Fusṭāṭ, yaṣil dār al-ṣarf in shāʾ allāh amāna amāna) and underneath probably the name of the courier Hibatallāh b.

العلامات

• arabic address

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

537 Hijrī (27 July 1142–15 July 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

There are two registrations marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-muʿīn al-dāʾim', praise be to God who is the steadfast supporter, and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh waḥdahu karīm niʿamuhu', praise be to God who is one, generous are his benefactions.

العلامات

• dimme
• jaliya
• jizya
• pinholes
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. […] The letter is written on the other side of a different letter that Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī wrote around 10 years earlier. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #376) VMR Join: Moshe Gil

Related People

1

Related Places

2

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• flax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone called Faraj b. ʿAlī, who may have been persecuted by merchants (mā jarā ʿalayhi min al-shidda... dhālika min al-tujjār...).

Related People

3

Related Places

2

العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ

Mentions several of his relatives and a few ships. Also mentions a visit of Nahray to Alexandria, the status of selling silk, and the arrival of Ibn Basak (Masliah b.

Related People

1

Related Places

5

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• al-tahirti
• draft
• nahray b. nissim

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of mourning in various special cases. when the deceased is the father of a bride; if he was executed by the court; if he committed suicide; if he rejected rabbinic authority (al-madhhab al-rabbānīyya, sunanuhum) (in this case there is no mourning, but rather celebration); if he has no one to mourn for him; and how there is no mourning on shabbat (verso). Also on verso are several lines in Judaeo-Arabic giving formulaic opening phrases for a letter.

العلامات

• mourning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Menashshe b. Moshe (of Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya?) to a judge (in Fustat?). In Judaeo-arabic. Concerning a power of attorney for which 1 dinar was paid, and the belongings of Abū Saʿd b. ʿAllūn the Qaraite kātib. The sender hints that he may be forced to file a complaint with the Nagid. Possibly connected with T-S 20.187. Also mentions Salāma and Abū Baḥr(?) Yona b. Ishāq.

العلامات

• legal query

1 مناقشة

Document date

1335-10-14 Seleucid (24 June 1024 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Aharon Ibn Asqawī ha-Levi. Wife: Muʿtazza bt. ʿAllūn b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Written and signed by the cantor David b. Shekhanya. Also witnessed by Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn. No documentation of receipt on verso.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dense jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. All of these appear to be a mixture of religiously and erotically inflected panegyric, addressing "the king of the world, the caliph of creation, Righteous son of Perfect," etc., but presumably not the actual caliph, as the references to wine and union would seem out of line. […] Kāmil could be a reference to al-ʿĀdil II (regent 1232–38, reigned 1238–40). There are also some (nonsense?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions people such as al-Qādī Abū l-Ṭāhir; Umm ʿImād; al-Faqīh (or maybe bayt al-faqīh); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; and Abū l-Maḥāsin.

Related Documents

1

Primary language

Arabic

Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī gave me as a gift (bi-matana) one-third of all that his father, God's mercy be upon him, left him, and the half house where I live and the two shops, and I desire that everyone who knows this and does not say it to the court (fī bayt dīn) be excommunicated...."

العلامات

• inheritance

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown merchant from Alexandria, early 11th century. The writer might be from the Taharti family, maybe Yishaq b. […] He writes about prices and details about 15 ships that are on their way from the Maghreb to Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #139) VMR

Related Places

3

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a mother, in Fustat, to her son Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Abzārī, in al-Mahdiyya. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] or simply out of distress?). See also T-S 8J13.22 (PGPID 1893).

Related People

2

Related Places

2

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a promissory note (ḥujja) for the value of half of [...], namely 45 dinars; the next line also mentions the word "debt" (al-dayn). There is then a request of some sort (...yajʿal lahū...) and the word "condition (al-sharṭ/lil-sharṭ).

Related Documents

1

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions relatives and ships. Also mentions a visit of Nahray to Alexandria, the status of selling silk, and the arrival of Ibn Basak (Maṣliaḥ b.

Related People

1

Related Places

4

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• draft

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo, the ḥaver) and Abū l-Faraj Hiba (b. Ṣemaḥ), in al-Ramla. The sender is identified by both Goitein and Gil on the basis of handwriting; the addressees are identified by Gil. The sender urges the recipients to influence the chief qāḍī in al-Ramla, Abū l-Maʿālī, to give appropriate instructions to the qāḍī of Jerusalem, al-Tīzī, regarding a problem in Jerusalem of unclear nature. Mentions several other names, including Abū l-Munajjā Muslim, Abū Ghālib, the agent (wakīl) Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Ṣūfī. (Information mainly from Gil and from Goitein's index card.)

Related People

1

Related Places

2

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥusayn Ṣedaqa b. Nissim al-Mukallifī (אלמכלפי ?) in Alexandria. The letter is written on a fragment torn from a large chancery document; only the beginnings of two Arabic lines remain‌ (الى بيع مدىىن(؟) . . . […] Apart from urging the addressee to respond and reassure him, the writer also informs him that ״אערצת אלסרר״ (?) but it didn't come to anything (or gain any money?).

العلامات

• chancery
• nar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[isti]frāgh min kull budd allāh yajʿal al-ʿāqiba...); 20 dirhams; and something he needs. Concludes with petition-like phrases of deference and asking for help. Join: Alan Elbaum. Verso: Probably the response from Abū Naṣr, stating that the order has arrived, and he was distressed at the news, and probably that he will act on it. Verso also contains several words in Arabic script from an earlier state document, see separate record (PGPID 35377)

Related People

1

Related Documents

2

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

List in Hebrew, primarily in the first-person preterite of what someone has given "נתתי" to someone else (perhaps paid). A few of the entries also mention that some of these transfers are outgoing "from Miṣrayīm"– Cairo, Fustat, or Egypt. Other entries mention what has been transfer "by ship" and "בשקדריי" (a location? Shkodër in Albania). For another instance of this cryptic term "שקדריי" see T-S AS 210.78 (PGPID 38144). This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where accounts also mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the qāḍī Amīn al-Dawla Abū ʿAlī; a request that the addressee put in a good word for the bearer of this letter, Abū ʿAlī Ibn Qaṭāʾīf, who has never purchased goods from government bureaus (dīwān) or public auctions (ḥalqa) (והו מא ישתרי שי מן אלדיואן ולא מן חלקה ולא לה אסם בשרא חואיג מן דיואן) but who is being persecuted by the police (al-rajjāla) on account of his unemployment. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

Related People

1

العلامات

• diwan
• police
• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from a certain Bū l-Fatḥ "al-Malikī al-Kāmilī" to a distinguished physician. […] The sender may be identical with the Fatḥ al-Dīn who is known to have served as a supervisor of physicians under al-Malik al-Kāmil; see T-S AS 146.164 (PGPID 29072).

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer requests that the addressee give the five dirhams nuqra that al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm had deposited with him to to the bearer of the letter. Abū l-Ḥasan had already sent to the writer all the dinars owed him and in the accompanying letter mentioned that he had given five dirhams nuqra to the addressee of the present letter. […] There are a few surviving words in Arabic script, probably the address; the first two appear to read 'bayt al-qāḍī.' Information in part from FGP.

العلامات

• pesiqa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13 Shaʿbān 534 Hijrī (3 April 1140 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the issuing of a decree (khurūj al-tawqīʿ al-ʿālī) dated (muʾarrakhan) 13 Shaʿbān 534 AH (= 3 April 1140 CE.) concerning the iqṭāʿ probably of the administrators on behalf of the Armenian foreigners (ʾarman al-ʿajam). On verso: A note addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kātib asking/ordering him to investigate the situation of the Jawājira (= the people from Jūjar?)

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal

1 نسخ